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86th percentile
Pinnacle Ventures principal with 15 years backing tech from Crosslink to two exits
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Experience · 88th percentile
- Approximately 15 years of investing experience, starting as an Associate at Crosslink Capital in 2010.
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Investor score
- 82%Probability of being accurate (82%)Principal at Pinnacle Ventures, a recognized venture capital firm investing across early to late stage private technology companies.
- 80%Probability of being accurate (80%)Approximately 15 years of investing experience, starting as an Associate at Crosslink Capital in 2010.
- 78%Probability of being accurate (78%)Active fund manager as Principal at Pinnacle Ventures, deploying capital across three funds.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Portfolio company Bonobos was acquired (by Nordstrom) during his tenure at Pinnacle Ventures.
- 65%Probability of being accurate (65%)Portfolio company Lastline was acquired by VMware during his tenure at Pinnacle Ventures.
What you likely need
You're at an inflection point where your banking relationships and early investing track record could unlock a formal role in venture — but you need the right rooms to make that leap credible. Festival events that put you in front of emerging managers, Kleiner and Crosslink alumni, and high-growth AI/SaaS founders will accelerate both your investing ambitions and your venture banking pipeline. The highest-leverage gatherings for you are ones where your SVB-era relationships and Pinnacle exits (Bonobos, Lastline) are immediately legible as differentiated signal.
Would you attend these IRL Festival events?
We will tune and customize your Founder Festival experience to make sure you get invited to the events that would be most valuable to you.
- introsA Kleiner Perkins alumni dinner for former associates and summer tenures (2006–2012 cohort) to explore co-investment opportunities and venture partner arrangements
- introsA Crosslink Capital and Crosslink-adjacent emerging manager roundtable for former associates and analysts exploring scout, advisor, or GP roles at early-stage enterprise software funds
- fundraisingA tactical dinner for SVB and Stifel venture banking alumni who have launched or are actively building AngelList syndicates, focused on deal flow sourcing and LP syndicate mechanics
- introsA Brex–Stifel co-hosted happy hour for high-growth AI and SaaS founders actively using both spend management and venture debt, creating warm pipeline introductions for Ted's investing and banking work
- positioningA positioning dinner for venture debt and startup banking practitioners (SVB, Hercules, WesternTech alumni) who are building public profiles via newsletters or LinkedIn to share content strategies and audience-building tactics
- introsA roundtable for banking and operating professionals actively pursuing GP or Venture Partner roles at emerging enterprise software funds, where sourcing-edge stories and track record framing can be pressure-tested with active LPs in the room
- positioningA small workshop for pre-fund investors with verified exit track records (including Bonobos- and Lastline-era vintage deals) on how to document, verify, and publicly position exits to attract LP interest ahead of a first fund raise