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Wasabi Ventures

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Wasabi Ventures accelerates early-stage tech companies and educates entrepreneurs through #WVAcademy.

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founded date

17.01.2003

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Private

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Founded in 2003, Wasabi Ventures is a VC firm based in Manchester, United States. It typically invests in rounds with 3-4 participants and focuses on startups in the SaaS and software fields. The fund has invested in successful startups like Adero, Datanomix, and invino. While the fund does not have a specific preference for the number of founders in a startup, it tends to invest in companies that are 4-5 years old. Wasabi Ventures has a track record of producing results in various business areas, including technology and development, sales, product marketing, fundraising, and business planning.
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Tom Kuegler
Tom Kuegler

Tom Kuegler

Tom “TK” Kuegler is the co-founder and general partner of Wasabi Ventures. Wasabi Ventures is an venture capital, incubator, and consulting firm that specializes in building and advising early stage technology companies. In the last 10 years, Wasabi Ventures has built, financed, and advised over 200 start-ups including some wildly successful ventures like Right Now Technologies, PBworks, Ustream, and Etherpad. In the 1990s, TK was the co-founder of two successful Internet startups, SNT and SpinBox. TK is the author of all three editions of the highly acclaimed book Web Advertising and Marketing. He has authored dozens of articles about the Internet and been published in leading publications like inc.com and ClickZ. TK spends a great deal of time lecturing at colleges, seminars, companies, and conferences about the corporate benefits of utilizing interactive technologies. He currently sits on the Board of Sponsors of Sellinger School of Business at Loyola University Maryland. He has presented at hundreds of events on a wide array of topics about economics, entrepreneurism, technology, and management.

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Wasabi Ventures

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Tom Kuegler

Chris Yeh
Chris Yeh

Chris Yeh

Chris Yeh was on the founding team of pioneering Internet companies such as United Online Services (Nasdaq: UNTD) and Merrill Lynch’s Intelligent Technologies Group. He has founded, advised, or invested in dozens of startups, including Ustream and PBworks. Chris is a much-quoted thought leader in the field of marketing and entrepreneurship; his research and publications have been incorporated into the Harvard Business School curriculum, while his projects have received press coverage in Fortune, the Financial Times, and the New York Times. He writes a popular blog on entrepreneurship and venture capital, Adventures in Capitalism and contributes to blogs such as TechCrunch and VentureBeat. Chris holds two degrees from Stanford University, and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was named a Baker Scholar (High Distinction). You can reach Chris by e-mail at [email protected] and follow him on Twitter or AngelList.

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Wasabi Ventures
Wasabi Ventures

count Of Investments

15

count Of Exists

8

Chris Yeh

Employee Profiles
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Spencer Connaughton

General partner

Ron Emrick

Ron Emrick

Director of Engineering Innovation

Steve Messa

Steve Messa

Portfolio Marketing Coordinator

Alex Hollis

Alex Hollis

Entrepreneur in Residence (EiR) Emeritus

Kendall Ryan

Director of Outreach

Jeka Kiselyov

Jeka Kiselyov

Engineering Management

Tom Kuegler

Tom Kuegler

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Chris Yeh

Chris Yeh

Co-Founder & Managing Partner

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