Mark Kendall
Investment Partners play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Ohio Investment Partners. We have tried to select a variety of different types of investors across a variety of niches.
This list is designed to show off the investors with exceptional track records, industry experience and a unique understanding of the ecosystem.
Top Ohio Investment Partners
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Chris Olsen
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Chris Olsen is the founder of Drive Capital based in Columbus Ohio. Previous to that Chris Olsen was a venture capitalist at [Sequoia Capita…
Morris Wheeler
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Morris Wheeler began his career on Wall Street after studying Economics and Computer Science at The University of Massachusetts at Amherst, …
Mark Kvamme
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Mark Kvamme is currently a Co-founder and partner for Drive Capital
Jennifer Keiser Neundorfer
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Seed
Jen is an operator turned investor who has backed over 50 early stage startups. As Partner and Cofounder of Flashstarts, an early stage vent…
Bill Baumel
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Bill is a seasoned venture capitalist who spent 20+ years working in Silicon Valley before returning to his home state to start the Ohio Inn…
Molly Bonakdarpour
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Growing up on the east coast and moving between the big cities – D.C., Boston, and New York – I figured I would remain within spitting dista…
Andrey Yashunsky
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Prytek UK Managing Partner, Head of Prytek UK; Founder and CEO in Global Fintech Solutions, investment fund and technologies distributor pla…
Alexandra Sukin
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Alexandra Sukin
Elizabeth Edwards
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Elizabeth Edwards is a founder and General Partner of H Venture Partners, an early stage venture and private equity fund that invests in con…
Dave Knox
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Dave Knox
Nick Solaro
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Nick Solaro is a venture capitalist, mobile industry executive, and entrepreneur. Nick is currently a partner at Drive Capital, a technol…
John Hopper
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
John currently serves as the managing director of Link·age Ventures, Inc., and as chief investment officer of the Ziegler Link-age Longevity…
Kyle Schlotman
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Kyle Schlotman was an original investor with Connetic but came on as a Founding Partner when he realized he wanted to shift his career back …
J.B. Kropp
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
JB Kropp is Advisor at Ahalogy.
Scott Shane
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Scott Shane is a managing partner at Comeback Capital.
Rob McDonald
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Seed
Rob McDonald
Thom Ruhe
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Thom is President and CEO of NC IDEA. He is an entrepreneur, investor, mentor and works with entrepreneurs, governments, universities and NG…
Gina Drosos
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Virginia “Gina” C. Drosos has over 25 years executive leadership experience in the consumer goods and personal care industries. As President…
Lindsay Karas
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Stencel, as the Chief Operating Office and Fund Manager for Launch NY. Since joining Launch NY in August 2016, Lindsay has led the growth of…
Bill Trainor
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Bill Trainor is a co-founder of both Mutual Capital Partners and Access Ventures Fund. Until starting Access Ventures, Bill was Senior Vice …
Carter McNabb
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Carter McNabb joined River Cities Capital Funds in 1999 and leads the firm’s healthcare investing practice with concentration on medical dev…
Frederic Mayerson
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Frederic Mayerson – Chairman & Managing General Partner @ The Walnut Group
Ryan Helon
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ryan J. Helon serves as Senior Vice President, Investments at TechColumbus, Investment Arm. Mr. Helon serves as Managing Director at Nationw…
Wayne Embree
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Wayne ensures that our Venture Development and Investment teams have everything they need to help entrepreneurs build great companies. After…
Tim Schigel
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Tim Schigel is the Managing Partner of Refinery Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm. Tim previously served as Fund Manager for Cin…
Candice Matthews
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Candice Matthews is the Executive Director at Hillman Accelerator.
Darshan Vyas
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Darshan Vyas – Cofounder and Chief Growth Officer @ LOUD Capital
Anu Vora
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
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Patrick Henshaw
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Patrick Henshaw is the Investor / Board Member of KOYA Innovations Inc.
Loyal Wilson
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Loyal Wilson – Managing Partner @ Primus Venture Partners
Tom Walker
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Tom Walker has been the Chief Executive Officer of TechColumbus, Inc. since May 2012. Tom Walker served as the Chief Executive Officer a…
Bob Wiggins
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
A serial entrepreneur and venture capitalist, Bob brings precisely the right experience know-how to help entrepreneurs and emerging high-gro…
Rich Langdale
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Rich is a seasoned entrepreneur and investor. In 1986, while attending The Ohio State University, Rich Langdale founded Digital Storage, Inc…
Rob Heimann
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Rob Heimann
Parker MacDonell
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Parker MacDonell – Managing Director @ Rev1 Ventures
Victor Thorne
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Victor Thorne – Managing Director & Co-Founder @ Broadline Capital
Todd Gardner
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Todd Gardner is the founder and CEO of SaaS Capital. Through two decades of venture investing, lending, and software deployment, Todd recog…
TJ Dembinski
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
My entire life, I’ve played on small sports teams and found deep meaning from them. I loved the way each of my teammates had their role, how…
Calvin Cooper
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Calvin is the CEO and Co-Founder of Rhove. Previously, he worked with NCT Ventures as a Venture Partner where he led investments in SafeChai…
Bill Frank
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Bill is a seasoned entrepreneur, pragmatic technology leader, and investor. After completing his military career, he applied his experience…
Michael Butler
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Michael joined NCT as a Venture Partner on June 1, 2009. Michael joined NCT from Nationwide Fund Distributors, LLC where he served as Pr…
Dov Rosenberg
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Dov started his career as a software engineer, but now enjoys helping to build products and companies by identifying solutions outside the o…
Christopher McCleary
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Chris founded and served as CEO of Evergreen Assurance, which recently completed a merger with MessageOne, a complementary company in the di…
Karen Spilizewski
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Karen Spilizewski joined RiverVest® in January 2008 as a vice president. She is also a vice president of BioEnterprise Corporation in Clevel…
Peter Kleinhenz
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Peter Kleinhenz is a Venture Partner at Fletcher Spaght Ventures. He has been actively involved in technology-based businesses as an entrepr…
Jeff Hamilton
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jeff Hamilton is the president of Nestlé Foods Division and the former president of Nestlé Prepared Foods Division. Jeff has a MBA in N…
Joe Lee
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Joe Lee is a Partner at The Riverside Company.
John Gannon
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
John Gannon is a General Partner of SunBridge Partners with an investment focus in aerospace and power.John co-founded SunBridge Partners an…
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
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Hardik Desai
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Hardik Desai assists early stage companies as they pursue capital while advising them through JumpStart’s investment process. Hardik has …
Marcia Fudge
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Congresswoman Marcia Fudge is a committed public servant who brings a hardworking, problem-solving spirit to Congress. She is dedicated to c…
Rem Harris
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Rem Harris is Chief Revenue Officer at Intelligent Mobile Support, Inc.
Jack Miner
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jack Miner serves as a Chief Investment Officer at TEDCO and Member, Business and Scientific Advisory Board at RedCrow.
Lacey Picazo
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Lacey Picazo
Amelia Gandara
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Amelia Gandara
Erik Ross
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Erik Ross – Head of Nationwide Ventures @ Nationwide Ventures
Parag Rathi
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Parag Rathi – Principal @ River Cities Capital
Will Indest
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Will Indest is a Managing Director of Draper Triangle Ventures. Director at Traycer, former Director at Cardiox. Former CEO of TechCol…
Dan Meek
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Dan assists entrepreneurs and partners with life science startups, technology spinouts, and licensing opportunities. With his extensive expe…
Wayne Wallace
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Wayne Wallace is a co-founder of Mutual Capital Partners. Previously, he worked in investment banking for both McDonald Investments and Nati…
Beth Mooney
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Beth Moone is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of KeyCorp (a bank holding company in Cleveland, Ohio) and has served in this capacity si…
Howell D. Mccullough
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Howell McCullough is the Senior Executive Vice President / CFO at Huntington Bancshares, Inc.
Eric Beck
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Beck is a seasoned healthcare executive who has been recruited to build new businesses and expand a pipeline of initiatives consistent with …
Imran Amjad Andrabi
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Imran Amjad Andrabi
Kevin Ramsier
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Kevin Ramsier is a Managing Partner of Sier Capital Partners.
Rick Tolin
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Rick Tolin is corporate senior vice president and president of Lubrizol Advanced Materials. Mr. Tolin joined the company in 1993 and has hel…
Matt Susz
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Matt Susz is a Senior Vice President & Chief Information Officer at Jo-Ann Fabric and Craft Stores.
John Rice
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
John Rice is founder at Airway Therapeutics.
Ron Landthorn
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ron serves as Venture Advisor to startup clients, bringing specific expertise in sales and business development. He also facilitates Rev1 La…
Jeffrey Kadlic
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jeffrey Kadlic – Director @ Heavy Equipment Colleges of America
Liz Todia
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Liz Todia – Analyst @ Mutual Capital Partners
Margaret Groh
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
An experienced scientist and entrepreneur, Meg identifies life science and medical device venture opportunities from Rev1 Innovation Partner…
Ron Hess
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ron Hess
John P. Sullivan
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
John P. Sullivan – Vice President, Strategy & Business Development @ Cardinal Health
Chris Welch
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Chris Welch – Director @ Primus Capital Partners
Peg Wyant
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Peg Wyant – Board of Directors @ WebWare Corporation
Jonathan Dick
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Private Equity
Jonathan Dick
David H Jacob
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
David H Jacob
Tara Noland
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Tara is excited to bring GreenLight to her favorite city (Cincinnati). Tara brings a wealth of nonprofit expertise and community knowledge t…
Floyd Loop
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Until his retirement in 2004, Floyd served the Cleveland Clinic Foundation for 35 years, holding leadership positions including Chief Execut…
Matt Beesley
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Prior to joining Align Capital Partners, Matt Beesley spent three years at Blue Point Capital Partners, a middle-market private equity firm …
Kate Sullivan
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Kate Sullivan – Chief Operating Officer @ Citi
Don Rettig
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
A versatile and energetic corporate responsibility leader with experience in the corporate, government and non-profit sectors. Exceptional a…
Kimberly McConville
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Kimberly McConville
Steve Rosen
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Steve Rosen is a co-CEO Resilience Capital Partners.
Yousuf Ahmad
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Yousuf Ahmad is a Managing Director of Assure Health.
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