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Juan Abundes

VC investor

San Francisco Bay Area

Invests in

  • Min Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $2,500,000.00

Work Experience

2022

  • Building Something New / Investing

    2022

  • Venture Advisor

    2022

  • Venture Partner

    2022

  • VC Investor

    2017 - 2022

    Soma Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests globally across consumer, enterprise, and healthcare sectors. Soma Capital was an early investor in companies like Cruise, Rappi, Embarktrucks, Atrium, and Lambda School, with a combined valuation of over $27B across all portfolio companies. Soma Capital brings a deep network of Fortune 500 CEOs, and in sports and entertainment through its Managing Partner's ownership involvement with the Sacramento Kings (NBA basketball)

  • Venture Partner

    2023

  • Venture Partner

    2021

  • Venture Scout

    2020

  • Investor

    2021 - 2022

2016 - 2017

  • Venture Capital Investor

    2016 - 2017

    ManchesterStory Group is a venture capital firm partnering with market-leading companies. Decades of experience with high-growth companies means ManchesterStory has significant expertise identifying exceptional management teams with the vision and capacity to identify major problems and effectively scale their business, and we regularly invest with teams that have achieved early revenue generation. Focused on early to growth-stage companies across the United States, ManchesterStory seeks to generate superior returns by connecting exceptional entrepreneurs to strategic capital and relationships.

  • Venture Capital Fellow

    2015 - 2017

    Impact Venture Capital is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests alongside corporate venture groups and top tier investors in seed-stage technology startups with a strong focus on enterprise and artificial intelligence applied to cybersecurity, robotics, drones, autonomous vehicles, digital health, and other fast-growing industry sectors.

2016 - 2016

  • MBA Summer Intern

    2016 - 2016

    Investigated, scoped and defined efficiency improvements in the operations department for VSP. Performed due diligence, competitive analysis on revenue projections on multiple company projects. Recommended projects and strategies to C-level executives.