Ed Pope

Ed is a succesful entreprenure who founded, and built to global scale several tech enameled companies in different doctors. After some successful exits, Ed took a multi year hiatus to explore roles in Foreign Dilpomacy. He reengaged in business as an investor, board member and mentor to high promise entreprenures and early stage companies. Ed co-founded Exponential Partners with Pat Wilkison in early 2015. Pat has also had a successful career as tech global multi-billion dollar business builder. EP's Co-founders have started and built several businesses in a number of tech industries from zero up to hundreds of millions, and in some cases billions, of revenue in size. Exponential Partners is the Grand Opus of Ed's career and he is devoted, with Pat as well as Exponential's global fabric of investor partners to finding the very best technologies in the world, with the most talented and passionate teams involved. Exponential Partners looks to invest $2 - $30 million in Pre-Series A and Series A rounds as well as bring the "Exponential Effect" to hyper accelerate growth. Ed has an MBA the University of Chicago and is a graduate alumni of Harvard Business School. Addtionally, he has done course work in Artificial Intelligence at MIT. In his spare time, Ed enjoys Mountain Bike Racing (ultra distance), boxing, dance, and new medical technologies that advance human capabilities beyond the current "known". Ed lives in California with his family.