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Ryan Gembala is listed as Managing Partner & Founder @ Pathbreaker Ventures at Pathbreaker Ventures, based in San Francisco, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Ryan Gembala.
Ryan Gembala previously worked as Managing Partner & Founder at Pathbreaker Ventures and Investor at Exia Labs. Ryan Gembala holds Mba, Finance And Entrepreneurship from The University Of Chicago Booth School Of Business.
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Ryan is a pre-seed and seed stage technology investor & founder of Pathbreaker Ventures, one of the first deep tech funds in Silicon Valley. He focuses on solving complex global problems through full stack, hardware/software systems. In 2023, Ryan was named one of the Top 100 Seed Investors by Business Insider.Prior to starting Pathbreaker, Ryan was a deal lead on the corporate development team at Meta (Facebook) where he worked with product and engineering leadership to develop M&A strategy and execute acquisitions. His focus @ Meta was emerging technologies: AI/ML, Computer Vision, VR/AR, and novel hardware. Acquisitions he worked on include Oculus, PrivateCore, LiveRail, Teehan Lax, and NimbleVR.Prior to Facebook, Ryan worked in both investing and operating roles at Azure Capital, an early stage venture capital firm with $750 million under management. In addition to series A & B investing, he worked within portfolio companies @ Telly (video discovery) and @ Convercent (enterprise compliance SAAS, acquired by OneTrust) as VP of Partnerships & Business Development.Ryan started his career as a social entrepreneur, co-founding H.E.R.O. for Children, the first non-profit to focus on quality of life care for children affected by HIV/AIDS. Ryan built HERO to $1 million in revenue and 2,000 volunteers. Ryan earned his MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business where he focused on finance, entrepreneurship, and early stage technology investing. While in business school, he and his team won the International Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) out of 56 MBA programs.Ryan was born in the manufacturing town of Michigan City, Indiana, and he grew up in Atlanta, Georgia.
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San Francisco, US
Pathbreaker partners with specialized founders who pursue generational impact. We believe that emerging technologies can be used to rethink legacy work-flows, systems, and outputs. We invest in Angel, Pre-Seed, & Seed rounds of wildly ambitious new companies. You know exactly the future you want to build, and we'll work to help clear your path in its.
Mountain View, CA, US
Tenyx was acquired by Salesforce (NYSE: CRM) in September 2024.
San Francisco, California, US
Spiketrap was acquired by Reddit in September 2022.
Mountain View, California, US
Apprente was acquired by McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) in September 2019.
Menlo Park, CA, US
Helping to make the world more open and connected, I worked with product and engineering leaders to landscape technology ecosystems and execute acquisitions. Acquisitions worked on include Oculus, PrivateCore, LiveRail, Teehan Lax, and NimbleVR. My area of focus was emerging technologies -- artificial intelligence, machine learning, NLP, NLU, computer.
San Francisco, CA, US
Azure is an early stage consumer internet, software, and IT focused venture capital firm with more than $750 million under management based in San Francisco. Exits include the sale of Bill Me Later (acquired by Ebay), VMWare (acquired by EMC), and TripIt (acquired by Concur). At Azure I sourced and analyzed new investment opportunities in consumer, mobile.
Convercent is redefining governance, risk and compliance (GRC) by creating the first solution to bring values, policies, and compliance activities into one, fully integrated, easy-to-use cloud application. At Convercent, I negotiated, launched, and supported a strategic channel partnership with the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and established an internal.
Kuwait, Kuwait, KW
Telly is a social video network with 11M users whose discovery technology helps users find the best viral and premium content to watch. At Telly, I focused on corporate development (acquisitions of Frugalo and Cull.TV), technology partnerships (exclusive music technology deals), content partnerships with celebrities and brands (Korn, Monster Energy, Starz.
Kuwait, Kuwait, KW
As a board observer and investor, I attended all board meetings and assisted the co-founders with introductions to key hires, partners, and co-investors.
New York, NY, US
Open Road Media is the first 100% digital ebook publishing and marketing company led by Jane Friedman, publishing icon and former CEO of Harper Collins Publishers. Open Road publishes ebooks from legendary authors including William Styron, Pat Conroy, Jack Higgins, and Virginia Hamilton and has launched new e-stars like Mary Glickman. As a board observer.
Chicago, IL, US
Hyde Park Angels (HPA) is one of the top 5 largest seed and early stage angel networks in the U.S. I sourced and evaluated 75 deals in the consumer, digital media, mobile, and e-commerce spaces and led the process for HPA’s investment in ReTel Technologies (acquired by ShopperTrak). In addition, I managed 7 Associates and coordinated our deal flow pipeline.
Atlanta, GA, US
H.E.R.O. for Children is the only non-profit in the U.S. solely focused on improving the quality of life for children infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS. I co-founded and built H.E.R.O. to $1M in revenue, raised $2+ million from high net worth individuals, corporations, public/private foundations, and grassroots efforts, and led the development of.
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Ryan Gembala holds Mba, Finance And Entrepreneurship from The University Of Chicago Booth School Of Business.
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