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Jonathan Klein (brother), co-founder and CEO of Getty Images; [1] Martin Klein Robin Klein (born December 1947 [ 2 ] ) is a British entrepreneur and investor. He was until 2015 a venture partner at Index Ventures and co-founder of The Accelerator Group, an advisor and investor in early-stage companies. [ 3 ]
In 2006, he joined venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners as its first consumer specialist partner. [8] At that time, Lightspeed it was a small firm specializing in tech startups that were largely unknown outside of Silicon Valley. [9] He noticed that startups that were used predominantly by young women were the most successful.
In 2024, he appeared at #15 on the Midas List of the world's best venture capital investors [24] and at #2 on the list of seed investors. [25] He was listed at #5 on the Seed List and #11 on the Midas List of Top Tech Investors. [26] [27] [22] Frankel was appointed to the board of directors of Rand Merchant Investment Holdings in 2018.
He then joined Crosspoint Venture Partners, in Woodside, California, where he became a partner in 1999. [6] In 2000 he formed Impact Venture Partners, a $100mm early stage venture capital firm, in New York City. [6] [7] Dell joined Austin Ventures as a venture partner in 2009. Dell joined Goldman Sachs as a partner in 2018.
The firm was an early backer of AppHarvest, a Kentucky-based indoor tomato-grower, the only board Vance served on as a venture capitalist, per Axios' Dan Primack. (AppHarvest went bankrupt in 2023 ...
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Charlotte Page, a 24-year-old venture capitalist based primarily in Florida. It has been edited for length and clarity.
Lonsdale co-founded the venture capital firm Formation 8 in 2011, and another called 8VC in 2015. Lonsdale has been outspoken about politics, and is an active Republican donor and fundraiser. He founded the conservative Cicero Institute think tank, and co-founded the private University of Austin .
The title of his blog, Above the Crowd, and the book eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists that profiles the Benchmark team, both reference his height; the subtitle of eBoys is “The true story of the six tall men who backed eBay, Webvan, and other billion-dollar start-ups." [35]