Louis W. Gresham Email & Phone Number

Seattle, WA, US

unveiling soon

Continuing to represent us as lead / BoD on respective portcos minority time; majority of time on 1am-backed newco, where I am CEO, the cofounding of which prompted stepping back to portfolio only @1am. More info to come soon:)

Co-founded ~$120AUM seed/A venture capital firm investing early stage into the gaming vertical as founding partner alongside Frank Liquido and GP Gregory Milken. We raised our second $60M dedicated gaming vehicle and then spun out as an independent firm from March Capital (1am continues to manage our first $60M fund that we raised/deployed there & I.

Santa Monica, California, US

Partner at March Capital, a $1.5B+ AUM Los Angeles-based venture capital firm. Raised and deployed our first $60M dedicated early stage gaming fund (March Capital Gaming) alongside Gregory Milken. Led seed/A financings and represent us on the Boards of:Lightfox Games (first of their institutional financings to date)absurd:joy (exit via M&A) DreamCraft.

Mountain View, CA, US

Google X is an R&D and incubation effort behind self-driving cars, self-flying delivery drones, AR glasses, smart contact lenses, stratospheric, balloon-powered internet, energy kites, geothermal energy, and other moonshot attempts. (https://x.company/)

Redwood City, CA, US

I co-founded & led Cape (www.cape.com), a leading drone software provider acquired in 2019 by Motorola Solutions. We raised $20M from Google, NEA, and other leading venture & strategic investors. As President/COO and later CEO, I led fundraising, strategy, product, sales, customer success, finance, partnerships, and operations functions in several.

Los Angeles, CA, US

While completing my MBA at Stanford (full time program 2012-2014) I solo designed/developed/launched a cross-platform game (top-down "bullet hell" shooter) before joining Riot, where I worked with Riot leadership and cross-functional teams to deliver champion launch & esports content experienced by hundreds of millions of players (fulltime q3 '13.

Worldwide, OO

• Final year spent as GovLab fellow at one of Deloitte's internal think tanks; spearheaded multiple projects anchored around emerging B2B/C SaaS models, e.g. Games-as-a-Service and applications to Government
• Directed multiple transformation initiatives for 10K+ personnel organizations with $100MM+ budgets as workstream lead: policies, processes, programs, all successfully adopted organization-wide. Ingredients included.
• Trusted advisor to client executives and firm partners: facilitated division-level strategy sessions, introduced new tools for workforce planning, performance management, knowledge sharing
• Designed, developed, and delivered software training modules and database solutions for client personnel
• Authored globally published study on intersection of organizational culture, communication, change
• Founded leadership development program for first and second year consultants (150+ members)

New Haven, CT, US

• Founded "Uber for buses" startup well before Uber existed (webapp pooling)
• Seasonal surge business serving thousands of customers at a time (e.g. airport travel, football games, events)
• After acquisition and integration into Yale's Associated Student Agencies business served as Senior Manager of the business within that parent org (hired replacements in 2008)
• Also ran separate business within same division starting 2004: managed staff of 15 serving 500 customers/day at premier Yale dining facility

Master Of Business Administration

Bachelor Of Arts, English