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Indicator Ventures

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Indicator Ventures invests in software that makes work, life, and wealth-building easier and more accessible.

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founded date

01.01.2014

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IPO status

Private

Description

The Boston-based venture capital firm, founded in 2013, focuses on investing in seed-stage and early-stage companies across a range of sectors, including business products, consumer products, SaaS, cybersecurity, big data, gaming, and artificial intelligence. With over 50 investments to-date across two successful funds, Indicator Ventures prioritizes companies building software infrastructure to remove everyday friction points and ensure user accessibility in the world's largest industries. The firm operates as a lean and collaborative team of investors, seeking out extraordinary founders and investing in technology that simplifies and streamlines daily life.
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Baiyin Murphy
Baiyin Murphy

Baiyin Murphy

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Ben Luntz
Ben Luntz

Ben Luntz

Having spent over a decade in experiential marketing, branded entertainment, digital marketing and social media, advising, and operating various early-stage businesses, Ben brings invaluable expertise to Indicator Ventures’ portfolio companies as well as helping inform and structure Indicators’ investment philosophy and protocol. Upon graduating from UVM, Ben began his career at Clear Channel Entertainment (now Live Nation) where he built and ran branded entertainment programs for Fortune 100 companies. From there, he joined Tenth Street Entertainment, where he ran a team of 20 and executed corporate partnerships and licensing deals to support and advance artists’ careers, images and business interests. Ben left Tenth Street to co-found Apex Exposure, one of the first pure-play social media agencies, later acquired by Big Fuel/Publics. At Big Fuel Ben was responsible for managing global marketing campaigns for GM, Samsung, and Starwood Resorts, among others. Throughout his career, Ben has helped a number of successful start-ups as a founder, advisor, investor and mentor. Ben is originally from the Greater Boston area, lived in New York City for over a decade, and now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He’s highly engaged in the entrepreneurial community as well as several causes that are personally important to him. He serves as a mentor at Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator in NYC and is on the Board of Experience Camps, an organization supporting young people who have experienced the loss of a parent and/or sibling. Ben also serves as a Board Member at Brainscape and Inkshares.

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Geoffrey Bernstein
Geoffrey Bernstein

Geoffrey Bernstein

Geoff is Co-Founder and General Partner at Indicator Ventures, an early-stage venture firm focused on investments in accessibility and infrastructure across enterprise software, digital health and fintech. Prior to founding Indicator Ventures, Geoff was a research associate and member of the Investment Committee at HighVista Strategies, a Boston-based hedge fund with $5B in assets under management. Geoff was responsible for sourcing and analyzing investment opportunities across multiple sectors and asset classes, focusing primarily on illiquid investments including real estate, infrastructure, private equity and venture capital. Geoff was also responsible for analyzing and presenting portfolio construction and performance to clients, which included family offices, foundations, pensions, endowments and sovereign wealth funds. He also assisted with valuations and fund operations roles as part of a lean team. Before moving to the buy-side, Geoff spent four years in Leveraged Finance and Debt Capital Markets at Jefferies & Company in Los Angeles, New York and London, where he worked on underwriting and syndication of over $10B in high yield bonds and leveraged loans for businesses across all industries. Geoff grew up in the Greater Boston area where he lives with his wife Taylor and their son Dustin. He's a graduate of Brown University, where he graduated *magna cum laude* with a major in Economics and a minor in Applied Mathematics. He's extremely passionate about healthcare accessibility and innovation, education and the Boston community, and currently serve as a Trustee and member of the Finance Committee and Corporate Leadership Council for the Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston where he's been involved for over 15 years, first as a volunteer. Additionally he serve as a Trustee and member of the Finance Committee at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

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count Of Investments

3

Geoffrey Bernstein

Jonathan Struhl
Jonathan Struhl

Jonathan Struhl

Jonathan is a co-founder and managing partner at Indicator Ventures, an early-stage venture fund focused on opportunities across the digital landscape. We identify and assess key indicators that lead us to align with the most promising entrepreneurs early on. We form true partnerships with our portfolio companies and we work to provide meaningful value. We do this drawing from our own domain expertise and an incredibly impressive network of entrepreneurs, executives, and corporate partners.

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Employee Profiles
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David Feldman

David Feldman

Junior Associate

Birago Jones

Birago Jones

Venture Partner

Daniel Lieberman

Daniel Lieberman

Venture Partner

Greg Isenberg

Greg Isenberg

Venture Partner

Ben Luntz

Ben Luntz

Co-Founder & Partner Emeritus

Geoffrey Bernstein

Geoffrey Bernstein

Co-Founder & General Partner

Jonathan Struhl

Jonathan Struhl

Co-Founder & General Partner

Baiyin Murphy

Baiyin Murphy

General Partner

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