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Chris Neumann

General Partner at Panache Ventures

Vancouver, British Columbia

Education

Work Experience

  • General Partner

    2021

  • Associate

    2018

    Associate for CDL-Vancouver (Prime Stream), CDL-Montreal (Artificial Intelligence Stream) and CDL-Atlantic (Prime Stream)

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.

  • 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