John Frankel (financier)

John F. Frankel (born January 1961), more commonly known as John Frankel, is a British venture capitalist, author and speaker.[1] Frankel is the founding partner at ff Venture Capital, a New York-based, seed stage investment firm.

John Frankel
BornJanuary 1961 (age 6162)
EducationOxford University
OccupationVenture capitalist/Investor
Employerff Venture Capital
Known forventure capital
Websitewww.ffvc.com/team/john-frankel/

Early life and education

John was born in January 1961 and grew up in London, England. He earned a Master of Arts from New College, Oxford where he studied Mathematics, Philosophy and Logic.

Career

John Frankel started his career in London in 1982 working at Arthur Andersen as a Chartered Accountant. There he worked in the audit and insolvency division. He then worked at Goldman Sachs for the next 21 years in a variety of roles including financial management, technology development, and reengineering.[2][3] He established Goldman’s Cayman offshore administration business, their London global custody business, and reengineered their global prime brokerage business. He began angel investing in 1999.[2] In 2008 he founded Ff Venture Capital in New York City.[4]

Frankel has been an early investor and a director of many notable technology startups since 2008 including Parse.ly, UniKey, Klout, ThinkNear, Livefyre, Voxy, Centzy, Kohort, Phone.com, ThinkNear, Indiegogo, Plated, 500px, iClearpath, Contently and HowAboutWe.[5][6] He invested in UniKey Technologies after hearing about the founder's appearance on the television show Shark Tank.[7]

He was also one of the earliest investors in Quigo Technologies, which was purchased by AOL in December 2007[8] and in Cornerstone OnDemand which had a successful IPO in March 2011.

John Frankel is a frequent author and speaker both on television and at conferences and events.[9][10][11][12][13][14] He also serves as a Mentor with the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator program.[15] John Frankel is a Fellow Chartered Accountant of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

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