A Few Things with Jim Barrood

#46 Investor Chat: David Horowitz - A Few Things - 52 Min


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We discussed a number of things including:

1. How the Corporate Venture Capital sector has weathered the pandemic

2. The outlook in CVC sector in short and medium term

3. Advice for entrepreneurs and innovators in these disruptive times

4. His experience relating to the invention and launch of a new board game

5. Answers to your questions

David is the Founder and CEO of Touchdown Ventures. Touchdown partners with leading corporations to manage their venture capital funds. Current Touchdown partners include Kellogg, T-Mobile, ScottsMiracleGro, TEGNA, Allegion, Avery Dennison, Colorcon, among many others. Prior to starting Touchdown Ventures, David was a founding partner and Managing Director at Comcast Ventures for nearly 15 years.

David joined Comcast Ventures in 2000 as one of the first employees of the venture capital group. David also helped start and was a partner at Genacast Ventures, a seed stage venture capital fund affiliated with Comcast Ventures. Prior to Comcast Ventures, David worked in investment banking at Bear Stearns. David also started South Jersey Tech Collective, a networking group of entrepreneurs and investors in South Jersey. David graduated with a Bachelor of Business Administration with highest honors from the University of Michigan.

David is also the inventor and publisher of Frequent Flyer, a new family board game which is available at www.frequentflyergame.com.

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A Few Things with Jim BarroodBy James Barrood

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