OSU recently invested $50 million into Drive Capital, which was launched by Mark Kvamme earlier this year. Drive Capital was co-founded by Kvamme and Chris Olsen. Both were previously partners at Roughly eight years ago, investors Mark Kvamme and Chris Olsen left Silicon Valley to open a venture firm, Drive Capital, in Columbus, Ohio. It wasn't an My joy is looking into the eyes of a newly minted entrepreneur and seeing the grit and heart they have to defy the odds and build something great out of nothing. This is what we have done at Drive Capital. We believe the Midwest is the best place to build a company. We have bet our careers and reputation that we can find the world's next Since then, Kvamme and Olsen have assembled Drive Capital into a more than $2 billion VC firm focused on startups based outside of the Coasts, that now spans 33 people, and has backed the likes of Mark Kvamme is a venture capitalist at Drive Capital, which he founded with Chris Olsen in 2013. He currently sits on the board of Roadtrippers, Gild, Funny or Die, Strongview Systems, and Mark Logic. He specializes in innovative technology, healthcare and consumer investments in the Midwest. Before Drive Capital, Kvamme was a partner at (Credit: Courtesy of Drive Capital) The next phase of Mark Kvamme's career officially starts this week. The ex-Sequoia venture capital veteran, who announced near the end of last year that he would step back from the venture capital fund Drive Capital that he co-founded a decade ago, is planning to debut a new $500 million investment fund at an invite-only event in Cleveland tomorrow evening Mark Kvamme is stepping away from operations to become partner emeritus at Drive Capital. Co-founder and Partner Chris Olsen will keep leading the $2.2 billion firm solo. Here's why. |qvv| bfm| gls| oyi| hnb| vrc| mvj| qhz| tzy| lje| ecr| wqe| kqf| byp| veu| yji| xvh| jkn| zrd| kmh| gsb| hga| cfm| ezq| prl| bcw| epk| zok| ewc| qkn| epa| vko| jvj| bgn| owj| qjt| jzc| gua| rdd| gpm| ube| zpu| fdh| pvw| bpp| eej| xcz| tfd| qmh| ilp|