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Salen Churi

General Partner at Trust Ventures

Austin, Texas

Invests in

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Founder and General Partner

    2017

    The obvious is not the inevitable: many of our greatest societal challenges (e.g. affordable housing, clean energy, healthcare access) can be solved with technology, but that technology is often trapped in political stasis. Trust Ventures is a venture capital fund built to invest in those technologies and help break that stasis.

  • Law Professor / Director of the Innovation Clinic

    2013 - 2018

    Teaching and writing on the intersection points of innovation and regulation, and supporting a range of high-growth startups across different industries in overcoming complex policy, legal, and regulatory challenges.

2013 - 2015

  • Associate Director of the Institute for Justice Clinic on Entrepreneurship

    2013 - 2015

    Helping low-income entrepreneurs overcome regulatory hurdles, including helping legalize street vending in the city of Chicago.

2013 - 2013

  • Associate

    2013 - 2013

2011 - 2013

  • Associate

    2011 - 2013

  • Judge Sandra S. Beckwith

    2009 - 2009