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I'm a passionate Entrepreneur & Operator
Managing Partner & Co-founder of 2048 Ventures, an early-stage venture fund focused on technology-differentiated Companies, backed by 50+ notable technology company founders,senior executives and venture capitalists. Prior to founding 2048, Paul was the CEO of Redbooks, a leading sales intelligence platform focused on the marketing and advertising industry. He acquired Redbooks from LexisNexis in 2010 and, during his 7-year tenure as the CEO, scaled the team, technology and product offering and, in 2018, successfully sold the company to List Partners, LLC, a Northlane Capital Partners platform. He also co-founded Robuzz, a machine learning and natural language processing platform providing real-time news alerts, and deployed the technology via APIs into publishing, marketing and information services enterprises. Earlier in his career, Mr. Sethi was a Partner / Analyst at Iroquois Capital Management, a public equities fund focused on small and micro-cap investments in diversified technology companies. As an investor, Paul has served as an early backer of multiple high-profile technology companies, including Flexport, Transfix, SeatGeek, LearnVest, Enigma and Zinier, and in companies acquired by Airbnb, Amazon, Blackstone, Chegg, Discovery, Facebook, Marketo, Motorola, Pinterest, Randstad, Twitter, Uber and Wish. He is also a limited partner of numerous high-profile funds, including Union Square Ventures, SV Angel, Lowercase Capital, Boldstart Ventures, Eniac Ventures, Cowboy Ventures, Bullpen Capital, Inspired Capital, MetaProp and Casa Verde.
Peter Bordes
I'm a passionate Entrepreneur & Operator
A lifetime entrepreneur, CEO, founder, investor, mentor, and Board member. Obsessed with the infinite realm of possibility in the digital transformation of the world driven by disruptive innovation in big data, artificial intelligence, fintech, cybersecurity, blockchain, digital media & advertising.Peter is the founder of Trajectory Ventures, and Trajectory Capital, a micro PE investment fund. He also was the CEO of Trajectory Capitals SPAC TrajectoryALPHA (NYSE: TCOA). A special purpose acquisition company focused on acquiring technology companies.Prior to Trajectory, he was CEO of Kubient (NASDAQ: KBNT), a cloud-based advertising marketplace with artificial intelligence ad fraud prevention. Peter led the company from private thru IPO in August 2020, and then served as a member of the board of directors.He was also previously the founder and CEO of MediaTrust, a performance marketing ad exchange, where he helped lead the company through its early stages, to being the 9th fastest growing company in the United States by Inc. 500.Peter currently serves on the board of directors of Beasley Broadcast Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: BBGI) where he Chairs the digital transformation committee. He joined the board following the sale of Greater Media's radio division for $240 million, where he served on the Board of Directors.Peter is a co-founder, and managing director of TruVest, an impact real-estate investment, development, and technology company. He also is an investor and serves on the board of directors of Fraud.net, an artificial intelligence-powered cloud-based fraud prevention infrastructure platform. Serves on the board of BeeLine, Vanta Leagues, MainBloq, MediaJel, and is the Vice Chair of Ocearch.As an investor, Peter has backed 100+ disruptive technology companies in all stages of their life cycle such as TripleLift, where Trajectory invested in the pre-seed round, and is now the fastest growing 4th largest global adtech platform. LocalMind which was acquired by Airbnb before the IPO. ThinkRealtime's Series Seed, which was acquired by Dealer.com. Location data marketing leader NinthDecimal, acquired by InMarket, and is an investor in rapidly growing disruptors in fintech, e-commerce and others such as AlphaSense, LightMatter, Airhouse, Kapital, Stoke Space, Odys Aviation, Machina Labs, Yummy, Synctera, Uala, Monarch Tractor, Bowery Farms, Narrative.io, Karfene, Upfort, and Crayon.
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