Andrew Romans

TWITTER: @RomansVentures | BLOG: http://rubicon.vc/blog | BOOK: http://amzn.com/0071830359 I NEVER check LinkedIn messages. General Partner and co-founder of Rubicon Venture Capital, an early stage VC fund with offices in San Francisco and New York City focused on backing consumer and enterprise technology companies in the internet, software and connected hardware verticals at Late Seed, Series A and B stages. We are backed by a diverse set of value added LP investors including accredited angels, family offices, corporates and institutional LPs located worldwide. We enable our LPs to co-invest with our fund via our sidecar funds at Seed, A and B financings. We continue to invest in our portfolio companies all the way to exit via our sidecar funds providing our LPs with access to select late stage investment opportunities. Based in Silicon Valley with 21 years experience as a founder and CEO of VC-backed tech ventures, an investment banker advising startups and VCs on fundraising and M&A and active angel investor. Author of two books on venture capital and advisor to corporates regarding their CVC programs. Relationships with other VCs going back to the mid 1990's with a balance of US, UK, EU and Israeli VCs, entrepreneurs and other ecosystem folks. Founder and President of The Global TeleExchange (The GTX), a venture-backed early VoIP and bandwidth trading company where I personally raised $25m from Lucent Technologies and an additional $18m from leading venture capital firms, built and managed a team of 90. Founder of The Founders Club, a VC equity exchange fund and broker of direct secondaries for growth stage firms. Began career in 1993 working in the UNIX computing industry and then became a telecom entrepreneur. Former Managing Director of EMEA at Sentito Networks (acquired by Verso Technologies). Managed enterprise software sales at Motive Communications (NASDAQ IPO) opening new markets in Europe. Multi-lingual, lived outside of the US for 15 years.