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Drive Capital

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Drive Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in innovative technology, healthcare, and consumer companies in the Midwest.

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01.01.2012

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The firm partners with entrepreneurs who have ambitious goals and aims to build large, sustainable companies. It invests in a range of sectors including information technology, financial services, and mobile. Drive Capital was founded in 2012 and is based in Columbus, Ohio. The firm invests in seed-stage, early-stage, and later-stage companies across various industries such as cybersecurity, robotics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. Its mission is to help founders build the next generation of world-class companies in the Midwest United States.
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Mark Kvamme
Mark Kvamme

Mark Kvamme

Mark Kvamme is currently a Co-founder and partner for Drive Capital

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Mark Kvamme

Chris Olsen
Chris Olsen

Chris Olsen

Chris Olsen is the founder of Drive Capital based in Columbus Ohio. Previous to that Chris Olsen was a venture capitalist at [Sequoia Capital](/financial-organization/sequoia-capital). Chris focuses on growth stage energy, financial and technology companies. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2006, Chris worked at Technology Crossover Ventures where he was involved in private equity investments in the technology and financial services sectors and served as a board observer of eBags, Oak Pacific Interactive Corp, Whitepages.com, and Claria. Earlier, Chris was an investment banker with UBS Investment Bank where he worked on a variety of M&A, equity and debt transactions in the healthcare sector. Chris has a BA in Political Science from Yale University.(Source: [Sequoia Capital](http://www.sequoiacap.com/us/chris-olsen/))

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Sequoia Capital
Sequoia Capital

Chris Olsen

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Zunaira Arshad

Zunaira Arshad

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John Volquez

John Volquez

Partner

Markell Baldwin

Markell Baldwin

Partner

Brandon Mills

Brandon Mills

Director Of Engineering

Annie Lapides

Annie Lapides

Partner

TJ Dembinski

TJ Dembinski

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Molly Bonakdarpour

Molly Bonakdarpour

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Andy Jenks

Andy Jenks

Partner

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