Chris Neumann
General Partner at Panache Ventures
Vancouver, British Columbia
Invests in
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Min Investment:
$250,000.00Max Investment:
$1,500,000.00Target Investment:
$750,000.00
Education
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Work Experience
2021
General Partner
2021
Visiting Lecturer
2020
Associate
2018
Associate for CDL-Vancouver (Prime Stream), CDL-Montreal (Artificial Intelligence Stream) and CDL-Atlantic (Prime Stream)
Advisor
2020
2018 - 2021
CEO and Founder
2018 - 2021
Created the first platform to help international startups more effectively raise Silicon Valley capital, resulting in over US $100M raised from US VCs by participating companies. Commonwealth Ventures was acquired by Panache Ventures in Sept. 2021.
2016 - 2020
Advisory Board Member
2016 - 2020
Member of the Advisory Board for Simon Fraser University's Master's in Big Data program
2017 - 2018
EIR / Venture Partner
2017 - 2018
Developed and launched the 500 Startups Data Track, a specialized accelerator program focused on innovative big data, machine learning and AI companies. Led investments in data-related companies for the 500 Startups accelerator globally.
2011 - 2015
Chief Product Officer and Founder
2015 - 2015
DataHero was acquired by Cloudability in December 2015.
CEO and Founder
2011 - 2015
2006 - 2011
Director of Business Development
2010 - 2011
Aster Data was acquired by Teradata in March 2011.
Director of Sales and Technology Operations
2009 - 2011
Director of Professional Services
2009 - 2009
Engineering Manager
2008 - 2008
Member of Technical Staff
2006 - 2008
2004 - 2006
Senior Software Engineer
2004 - 2006