LA

Luke Armour

Founder and Managing Partner at Chaac Ventures

Santa Monica, California

Skills

Venture Capital
Research
Public Speaking
Entrepreneurship
Economics
Financial Modeling
Fundraising
Financial Analysis
Strategy
Private Equity
Stata
Data Analysis
Investments
Valuation
Bloomberg
Analysis
Market Research
Statistics
Spanish
International Relations

Education

Work Experience

  • Founder and Managing Partner

    2015

    Seed and early-stage venture capital firm investing in and leveraging the growth of the Princeton tech and founder ecosystem. Early investors in companies like: Overtime, Finalis, Paladin, Astrocade, Basys.AI, Auxa Health, Delfi, Skyfront, Paladin, Vysioneer, Meridian, and many others.

  • Investor

    2023

    Meridian provides next-gen, AI-powered workflow tools to private investors. We supercharge an investment firm’s ability to raise capital, source deals and manage its positions. Our SaaS applications leverage our proprietary large language model, fine-tuned specifically for private equity investors.

  • Series Seed Lead, Board Member

    2023

    Vysioneer is a Cambridge, MA-based AI company that helps pharma and cancer research companies save critical time and money on clinical oncology trials, a huge, expensive pain point. The company is led by Princeton PhD, JT Lu, who was previously an AI/ML data scientist at Mass General Brigham Hospital in Boston: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jentanglu/

  • Pre seed and growth investor

    2017

    Overtime builds disruptive new sports leagues and IP aimed globally at the next generation of sports fans and athletes. Backed by a16z, Blackstone, Jeff Bezos, Liberty Media, Drake, Kevin Durant, and Trae Young. Over 6% of active NBA players have invested in Overtime. 85M+ global following of young sports fans around the world.

  • Series Seed Lead, Board Member

    2021

  • Advisor

    2019

    Founded in 2016, HomeWorks Trenton is a 501(c)(3) non-profit operating a free, after-school residential program for marginalized high school girls that provides academic and identity-driven leadership enrichment to supplement public schools and develop community leaders.

2013 - 2015

  • Investment Professional

    2013 - 2015

    Arrowroot Capital is a Los Angeles-based growth equity firm investing in Internet, software and technology-enabled services.

K1 Capital

2013 - 2013

  • Associate

    2013 - 2013

    K1 Capital is a Los Angeles-based private equity firm investing in high-growth software and technology-enabled companies across North America.

  • Student

    2009 - 2013

2012 - 2012

  • Private Equity Analyst

    2012 - 2012