Online Insights Landon Ainge Managing Director Geo Ventures [Video]

Landon Ainge is the Managing Director of Geo Ventures, a new Early Stage Venture fund that finds and invests in exceptional businesses.

About our Guest Investor: Landon Ainge is the Managing Director of Geo Ventures, a new Early Stage Venture fund that finds and invests in exceptional businesses between the coasts.

Landon has navigated such diverse industries and company life cycles where his experience and breadth of knowledge surprises anyone meeting him for the first time.

Landon has co-founded Gabb Wireless that is helping introduce technology to kids in a healthy way, which is currently doing $60M of revenue. Landon is the co-founder and chairman of Initiator.co which helps businesses navigate the lending solutions for free by giving them access to the private credit markets. He also is the Founder of Utah’s Premier Accredited investor network (TribeAngels).

Landon is known as an SPV expert – he completed 45 SPV’s investments in his first three years of investing in Venture Capital and currently advises and manages over 95 SPV’s. If you have any questions on structuring or managing SPV’s don’t hesitate to reach out. He is transitioning to the fund model because of his demonstrated experience investing.

Before entering the Venture Capital space or entrepreneurship, Landon managed the mobile application and mobile commerce of Overstock.com (now Bed Bath & Beyond) where he launched augmented reality and won the retail app of the year. Landon also worked in corporate development where he completed over 14 M&A transactions totaling $550M in acquisitions and post-acquisition integrations for private operating companies in the logistics space. Out of college, Landon started at Goldman Sachs where he helped to implement the compliance with the new Finra 2111 regulations within the bank. Mix in his obsession with basketball and his experience as a scout for the Atlanta Hawks and you start to see the breadth previously mentioned.

Business is Landon’s Rubik’s cube – it’s what he seems to do for fun.

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00:00 Introductions by our guest Landon Ainge and all attendees
25:00 Insights and Questions from the Audience
1:25:00 Wrap up and Information on Future Events