Paul Sethi VCard
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 VCard
I'm a passionate Entrepreneur & Operator
Prior to founding Trajectory Capital Peter was CEO of Kubient, Inc. (NASDAQ: KBNT), a cloud-based advertising marketplace with artificial intelligence-powered ad fraud prevention, and currently serves as a member of the board of directors. As the CEO, Peter led the company from private thru IPO in August 2020.He was also previously the founder and CEO of MediaTrust Inc., a performance marketing ad exchange, where he helped lead the company through its early stages and, in 2009, was named 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 the radio division of Greater Media (where he served on the Board), a cable, radio and newspaper conglomerate, for $240 million in July 2016.Peter is a co-founder and the managing director of TruVest, an impact real-estate investment, development, and technology company. A co-founder, investor, and Chairman of the Board of MainBloq, a digital asset trading technology platform. 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 Alfi, MediaJel and is the Vice Chair of Ocearch.As an investor, Peter has backed disruptive technology companies in all stages of their life cycle such as TripleLift, where invested in the pre-seed round, and is now the fastest growing 4th largest global adtech platform. LocalMind which was acquired by Airbnb. ThinkRealtime 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 Airhouse, Yummy, Synctera, Uala, Monarch Tractor, Bowery Farms, Narrative.io, AlphaSense, Karfene, MidChains and Crayon.
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Michael Frankel VCard
I'm passionate about Finance & Innovation
Michael has advised on or led over 60 M&A deals representing more than $15 billion in transaction value and more than 50 equity/debt deals representing more than $10 billion in transaction value. Since May 2015, he has been a Senior Vice President, Managing Director and Head of Deloitte New-venture Accelerator, where he leads the Portfolio Operations and Growth Strategy for a portfolio of growth technology businesses at Deloitte. Prior to Deloitte, He served as the CFO of 50onRED, an advertising technology company, and was the CFO of comiXology, a high-growth digital comics platform. At comiXology, Mr. Frankel built out the finance and product strategy teams, helped execute and close financings and helped structure comiXology’s sales process and terms of sale to Amazon in 2014. Michael was previously the Senior VP, Global Head of Business Development and M&A at LexisNexis. During his time at LexisNexis, Mr. Frankel completed 18 deals. Prior to LexisNexis, He was the Senior VP of Corporate Development & Strategy at Information Resources / Symphony Technology Group, LLC, completing three deals. Prior to Information Resources / Symphony Technology Group, LLC, He was VP of Business Development at G.E. Capital, where he was responsible for M&A, divestitures, equity investments, joint ventures and partnerships, helping execute four deals. Prior to G.E. Capital, He was VP and General Manager of Directory Services and VP of Corporate Development of Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN), where he led 20 deals. He was previously a VP in the Global Industries Group at Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and an M&A lawyer at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. During his time with both firms he completed over 40 deals, including advising multiple Fortune 100 clients on acquisition and equity/debt offerings. Michael served on the board of directors of Onvia, Inc. (NASDAQ: ONVI) as well as the boards of directors and advisory boards of several private growth technology companies.
Creative Marketing
Strategy + technology
Advancing disruptive innovation. AI.
About
Research & analysis are the foundations of everything else
For the 15 years, we wander freely in the realm of advertising and visual communication, we love simple phrases, clean patterns, straightforward concepts, abstractions, but as a rule of thumb, and we always construct solutions to each problem we encountered. Without any particular style, movement, dogma, or perspective, nothing excites than a problem to solve, and no challenge is ever hard enough.
Making at the crossroads of modernism and intellectual purity to craft meaningful ideas that endure. German award-winning designer raised in Austria & currently living in New York City.
Discover the market
Every thought, innovation or design is based on discovering.
Analysis of data
Innovation, analysis, optimisation and continuous improvement.
