Early-stage Venture Capital with a Focus on the Mobility Ecosystem
Our Approach
Instead of throwing money and executive-level recruits at a problem and hoping for the best, Stormbreaker provides tangible tools and a proven platform for Founder Success™
The Stormbreaker Founder Success™ Process:
We've designed a process that opens our network to founders, leverages our combined experience, and helps break down the most urgent barriers for our founders.
Intro
We kick off the process by getting to know one another, your company, and vision, along with how we work, and what you can expect from us.
Due Diligence
Then we move into our due diligence phase. We’ll introduce you to EOS(®) (the Entrepreneurial Operating System), the Stormbreaker Partnership, and dig into standard items like your Data Room and additional materials.
Investment
Expect 30 days from when we kick off the due diligence process to making a decision on an investment. We’ll finalize all terms, execute docs, wire funds and work with you to announce the investment.
Founder Orientation
Upon becoming a Stormbreaker Founder, we immediately introduce our network, our resources, and get to work.
The Founder Experience
Our Founder Experience consists of three distinct elements to help you get the most from our team: the EOS® Platform, Annual Stormbreaker Summit, and Quarterly check-ins. EOS is a complete system with simple, practical tools that help clarify vision, improve traction, and cultivate organizational health, resulting in improved capital efficiency and a platform for scale and growth.
Exit
Our founders remain Stormbreaker Founders for life with access to our entire ecosystem of resources, including an invitation to be a Limited Partner in future Stormbreaker Funds. Founders continue to participate in our Stormbreaker Summits and other events.
How We're Different
Experienced Operators
With 120+ years of wide-ranging experience, founders benefit from the fact that there’s nothing we haven’t seen
Significant Sector Advantage
We have an unfair sustainable competitive advantage in the mobility ecosystem, which encompasses consumer and industrial devices and sensors, transport, security, computing, AI and networking
Founder Success™ Platform
We are the only early-stage VC firm with a proprietary platform for Founder Success. This includes certified EOS® implementation, helping to clarify vision, improve traction and cultivate organizational health required for scale
Partnership/Investment Criteria
Check Sizes
$1M - $3M Initial. $1M - $2M Follow-On
Key Criteria
Capital Efficient, Pre-Seed through Series A, Post-Revenue with Repeatable Sales Motion
Business Model and Firmographics
Mobility Focused, Preference Toward Serial Founders, Massive Domain Knowledge, Eventual North American GTM
Key Founder Psychographics
Authenticity, Humility, Grit, Do a Lot with a Little
Niels Martin Brochner
CEO, Contractbook
Stormbreaker doesn’t care about vanity metrics or who you know. What matters to Stormbreaker are solid business fundamentals and drive. Have both, and they will support you with everything they’ve got.
Robert Hamblet
CEO, Teal Communications
Stormbreaker is a team of people who have "been there before". When they invested in us, we knew that they would be in it for the long haul and they have followed that up with serious commitment to assisting our company growth. For us it was a no-brainer when given the chance to work with their team.
Jesse DePinto
CEO, Frontdesk
Partnering with Stormbreaker was one of the most impactful decisions we made. Stormbreaker is not just an investor, they are a partner. Their extensive operator experience has been a significant asset to our growth. Throughout all the challenges and opportunities, they have never wavered in their eagerness to help us build a transformative company.
Niels Martin Brochner
CEO, Contractbook
Stormbreaker doesn’t care about vanity metrics or who you know. What matters to Stormbreaker are solid business fundamentals and drive. Have both, and they will support you with everything they’ve got.
Robert Hamblet
CEO, Teal Communications
Stormbreaker is a team of people who have "been there before". When they invested in us, we knew that they would be in it for the long haul and they have followed that up with serious commitment to assisting our company growth. For us it was a no-brainer when given the chance to work with their team.
Jesse DePinto
CEO, Frontdesk
Partnering with Stormbreaker was one of the most impactful decisions we made. Stormbreaker is not just an investor, they are a partner. Their extensive operator experience has been a significant asset to our growth. Throughout all the challenges and opportunities, they have never wavered in their eagerness to help us build a transformative company.
Our Team Features the Full Spectrum of Experience. We've Been Founders, Operators, Investors, and Limited Partners.
The Stormbreaker Team
Andy Funk
Partner
Andy is a serial entrepreneur and founder with multiple exits. He brings 25 years of experience as an operator and builder to each portfolio company. Always “sitting in the founder’s seat”, Andy helps to build companies from the ground up.
Most recently, Andy co-founded and served as CEO of OverWatchID, which sold to SailPoint Technologies Inc. (NYSE: SAIL) in 2019.
– Serial Entrepreneur with Multiple Exits
– 3X Founder
– Veteran Startup Advisor
– Active Angel Investor
Glenn Lurie
Partner
Glenn brings more than 30 years’ experience scaling and leading multi-billion-dollar businesses to the Stormbreaker portfolio. With extensive experience leading public companies, Glenn is skilled at growing innovative businesses within larger organizations and catapulting businesses and teams to their next phases of growth.
Most recently the President, CEO, and member of the Board of Directors of Synchronoss Technologies. Prior to Synchronoss, Glenn served as President and CEO of AT&T’s Mobility and Consumer Operations where he successfully grew AT&T into the nation’s leading wireless and consumer business.
– Former President, CEO, and Board Member of Synchronoss Technologies
– Former President and CEO of AT&T’s Mobility and Consumer Operations
– Board Member of Avis Budget Group, Pivotal Commware, Teal Communications, and Blue Link Wireless
– Veteran Startup Advisor
Mark Freed
Partner
Mark brings over 15 years of experience in the Oil & Gas sector to Stormbreaker, with deep experience in business development, finance, investor relations, and operations. He has served as both an entrepreneur and early-stage investor, with multiple successful exits.
Mark is a Managing Member of Eastlake Terminal / ETLL Railcar Repair & Cleaning, and was recently a Senior Vice President at Sendero Midstream Partners.
– Active Angel Investor & Serial Founder
– SVP at Sendero Midstream ($600M Sale to Crestwood Midstream)
– SVP at Intensity Midstream (Sale to Energy Transfer Partners)
– GP and Division Head at High Sierra Energy ($660M Sale to NGL Energy Partners LP)
Said Mia
Managing Partner
Said brings years of experience as an investor and advisor to Stormbreaker’s portfolio companies. He saw the opportunity and the need in the ecosystem to combine the agility of a small fund with the deep bench and resources of a larger one. With Stormbreaker, Said is bringing “more” back to venture, back to partnerships.
– Veteran Startup Advisor
– Behind Several Top Tech IPOs & M&A Deals
– Seasoned TMT Investment Banker
– Former eCommerce Startup Founder
Allison Light
Venture Advisor
Allison Light brings over 15 years of experience in brand strategy, positioning, and go-market-strategy for B2B and B2C companies, across industries from FinTech to Healthcare, Climatech, and Longevity.
Allison founded Lightweight Consulting, working with venture funds, startups, and high-growth companies on brand, marketing and PR. Prior to becoming an independent consultant, Allison was a managing director at West Ventures, a marketing firm purpose-built to work with venture-backed startups around the world. She began her career at Goldman Sachs & Co. working in both Asset Backed Securities and Alternative Investment groups. After earning her MBA, Allison spent four years in Southeast Asia as a fellow of the Malaysia Blue Ocean Strategy Institute, focused on strategic initiatives to catalyze the country’s entrepreneurial ecosystem.
-Founder, Lightweight
-Managing Director, West Ventures
-Fellow, Blue Ocean Strategy Institute, Malaysia
-Analyst, Goldman Sachs & Co., New York
-M.B.A. Duke Fuqua School of Business
-B.A. Cultural Anthropology, Columbia University (Magna Cum Laude)
Bart Lorang
Venture Partner & EOS Implementer-in-Residence
Bart brings an enhanced sense of entrepreneurial empathy with 30+ years experience starting and scaling technology companies from 0 to over 500 people. He has both bootstrapped companies and raised over $100M in capital. He is the only Professional EOS Implementer(R) in the world focused on working with early-stage, VC-backed technology companies.
He was most recently the Founder & CEO of FullContact, an Identity Resolution SaaS company headquartered in Denver, with offices in Israel and India, as well as Contacts+, the world’s largest independent contact management platform. He previously co-founded v1.vc, a seed-stage venture capital firm and was the President of Dimension Technology Solutions.
– Professional EOS Implementer(R)
– Co-founder & CEO, FullContact
– Co-founder & CEO, Contacts+
– Co-founder, v1.vc
– 4x Founder (3 exits, 1 active)
Patrick Shutt
Venture Partner
A leader in the telecom, IoT and mobility, and adjacent software sectors for more than 25 years, Patrick brings a depth of experience and an extensive track record of success. Patrick has held strategic leadership positions including Founder, CEO, COO as well as President and Board Member of high profile and fast-growing technology companies, both public and privately held.
Patrick is currently Board Chairman, Founder & Managing Director of Durham & Black, a strategic advisory firm specializing in the tech/telecoms market.
-Co-founded Universal Access and grew the company to $144m in four years as CEO
-Grew private cloud and information technology company from $2m to $50m annual revenue
-Involved in over $800m in capital transactions
-Led IPO as CEO, raising $240m in equity and valuing the business at greater than $5b
Andy Funk
Glenn Lurie
Mark Freed
Said Mia
Allison Light
Bart Lorang
Patrick Shutt
Spotlight
Contractbook
Founder & CEO: Niels Martin Brochner
Contractbook is a contract lifecycle management platform that makes it straightforward to create, sign and store contracts. Modernizing contract management, the company aims to be the de-facto choice for the next generation of digital native SMEs who need an all-in-one solution for contract and agreement management.
Metadata
Founder & CEO: Gil Allouche
B2B marketers use Metadata’s Marketing OS to drive more revenue without all the manual and repetitive work. From running paid campaigns to personalizing web experiences to optimizing everything to revenue – Metadata automates all of this.
Teal
Founder & CEO: Robert Hamblet
Teal’s patented technology connects any device onto any data network worldwide. With more network operator agreements than any other connectivity provider, Teal gives businesses everywhere the flexibility and control to remotely switch between networks, ensuring the highest level of reliability and performance for any internet of things (IoT) deployment. Teal supports applications across many industries including mobility, robotics, drones, industrial IoT, healthcare, and private LTE/5G.
Frontdesk
Co-Founder & CEO: Jesse DePinto
Frontdesk powers short-term stays for modern dynamic living. Frontdesk offers accommodations designed to meet the contemporary needs of living, working, and traveling. Every Frontdesk stay is fully furnished and located in neighborhoods with vibrant communities, giving guests confidence, familiarity, and opportunities for exploration. Frontdesk has units across 150+ buildings in 35 top U.S. cities, making every stay a unique experience designed for the modern traveler.
Bright Security
CEO: Gadi Bashvitz
Bright Security is a developer-first Dynamic Application Security Testing Tool, also known as a DAST. Bright’s mission is to enable AppSec teams to provide the governance for securing APIs and WebApps while enabling developers to take ownership of the actual security testing and remediation work early in the SDLC. With Bright’s groundbreaking solution, there is no need for manual validation of security findings, removing costly and time consuming human bottlenecks that cripple rapid releases and drain dev team’s limited security resources.
