Mark Kendall
Investment Partners play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Maryland 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 Maryland Investment Partners
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Ron Gula
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Frequently sought out by media such as the New York Times, Bloomberg and Forbes, Ron Gula is one of the leading cybersecurity thinkers in th…
Jason Palmer
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Jason Palmer is a General Partner at New Markets Venture Partners with twenty years of experience as an education technology entrepreneur, e…
David Zaslav
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
David Zaslav is the President, Chief Executive Officer and a Member of the Board of Directors at Discovery Communications LLC. since 2007. A…
Bruce A. Peacock
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Bruce Peacock joined Ophthotech in September 2010 as the Chief Business Officer. Bruce Peacock brings a wealth of business development and l…
Andy Slavitt
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Andy Slavitt is the Principal Deputy Administrator for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). As Principal Deputy Administr…
Ashton Newhall
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ashton Newhall – General Partner & Co-Founder @ Greenspring Associates
Frank A. Bonsal, Jr.
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Mr. Bonsal has been an active advisor to Outcome Capital since its inception in 1998. Mr. Bonsal is a Co-Founder and General Partner at New …
Paul Palmieri
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Paul Palmieri plays a dual role of investor and advisor to seed and venture stage companies. He serves as both a General Partner of Grit Cap…
Hunter Somerville
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Hunter is a Senior Associate at Greenspring Associates where he assists in the due diligence for both fund and direct investments as well as…
Michael Rubin
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Founder and CEO, Northpond Ventures Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Sands Capital Ventures
Raj Date
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Raj Date, 47, is the founder of Fenway Summer LLC, a hybrid advisory and venture investment firm focused on innovation in highly regulated i…
Ron Laufer
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ron started his career as a physician and entrepreneur, before moving into venture capital. He was a co-founder of Lilly Ventures, the v…
Alex Kinnier
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Alex Kinnier is the Board Director at Solum Inc. Alex Kinnier is the Senior Vice President of Product Management at Opower. Alex Kinni…
Robert Nye
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Robert Nye is a General Partner at JMI Management Inc. Robert joined JMI in 2005 and is based in Baltimore, Maryland. Robert’s primary areas…
Sean Ellis
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Sean Ellis is the CEO of GrowthHackers, a company that provides software and resources to help businesses drive sustainable growth. Pri…
Paul Silber
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Paul Silber is the Founding Member and Executive Committee Member of Blu Venture Investors. Launched and grew In Vitro Technologies, Inc. fo…
Frank Bonsal III
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Frank Bonsal III is a pioneer in the field of education technology and investment. He has 25 years of experience advancing efficacy, innovat…
Jim Lim
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Jim Lim – Managing Partner @ Greenspring Associates
John Avirett
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
John Avirett – General Partner @ Greenspring Associates
Andrew Davis
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Andrew Davis is an investment analyst in the U.S. Equity Division of T. Rowe Price, covering airlines, railroads, and trucking companies. He…
Tim Krongard
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Tim joined QuestMark as Chief Financial Officer when the company was founded in 1998. Through the end of 2005, he managed all internal finan…
Alan Tu
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Alan Tu currently works as Portfolio Manager, Global Technology Fund at T. Rowe Price.
Harry Gruner
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Harry Gruner co-founded JMI Equity, a growth equity firm focused on investing in software, internet, business services and healthcare IT com…
Jonathan Perl
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Mr. Perl is a General Partner at Boulder Ventures and has more than 12 years of investing experience, focused primarily on early-stage infor…
Jeffrey Cherry
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
As a CEO, hedge fund manager, designer, entrepreneur, educator, mentor and consultant Jeff has a diverse and unique career spanning more tha…
Bradford Woloson
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Bradford Woloson
Ziad Bakri
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ziad Bakri – Vice President @ T. Rowe Price
Benjamin Schapiro
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
In 1966, Ben began his career in investment banking at Robert Garrett & Sons, which merged into Alex. Brown & Sons in 1974. Throughout h…
Seth Shuldiner
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Seth is a Co-Founder and Partner at SaaS Ventures. Previously, Seth managed the University of Maryland’s angel investor group, Dingman Ang…
Christopher College
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Christopher College is an experienced venture capital professional with deep expertise in structuring, negotiating, and executing transactio…
Lauren Morton
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Lauren Morton
Benjamin Jealous
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Benjamin Todd Jealous is the former president and CEO of the NAACP. He stepped down from his post at the end of 2013. Ben has been a leader …
Corey Shull
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Corey helped establish T. Rowe Price’s earlier-stage consumer internet investment efforts.
David Warnock
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
David is a Senior Partner of Camden Partners and co-founded the firm in 1995. He has over 25 years of investment experience and focuses on i…
Alex Acree
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Alex brings to Fenway Summer Ventures significant experience advising financial institutions and investment funds and holding senior leaders…
Don Hebb
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Don is the Chairman and Founding Partner of ABS Capital Partners. His investment interests and experience span the business services, health…
Jacob Vogelstein
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jacob Vogelstein is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Catalio Capital Management, LP.
Jason Tagler
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Mr. Tagler is a Partner and Managing Member of Camden Partners and joined the firm in 2005. He focuses on growth equity and growth buyout in…
Robert Lord
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Robert began his career designing and managing analytical systems for the world’s most successful hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates. Rob…
Jit Sinha
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jit Sinha co-founded Resolve Growth Partners in 2018. Prior to Resolve, Jit spent 10 years executing growth equity investments as a General …
Diane Harvey
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed, Venture
Investor and advisor to Karim Harvey CEO & Founder of 133T.
Deric Emry
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Deric Emry – Venture Partner @ Greenspring Associates
Frank Glover
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Frank is an Associate at Greenspring Associates where he is responsible for performing due diligence on fund, direct, and secondary investme…
Julia Klein
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Julia is a Vice President at March Capital and brings experience in venture and entrepreneurship to the firm. At Greenspring Associates, she…
Steve Schovee
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Steve Schovee – Managing Member @ Telecom Partners
Gil Crawford
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Gil Crawford is a co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer of MicroVest, investment advisor specializing in pro-poor financial institution…
Arti Santhanam
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Arti Santhanam
Martine Rothblatt
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Martine Rothblatt – Founder and CEO @ United Therapeutics
Peter Kiener
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Peter Kiener has deep experience in both biologics and immunotherapy, and is the former Chief Scientific Officer at Sucampo. Prior to joinin…
Hugh Evans
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Hugh Evans is an Additive Manufacturing Investor, Entrepreneur and Operator.
Russ Ray
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Russ Ray – Investment Committee @ Health Innovation Capital
Phil Clough
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Phil is a Managing General Partner at ABS Capital. He also oversees the firm’s business and tech-enabled services investment efforts. With e…
Robb Doub
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Robb joined New Markets Venture Partners as a General Partner in 2003. Robb is the lead administrative partner and serves as Board Director…
Mike Ward
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Mike has 16 years of experience in venture capital. He joined QuestMark Partners in 2004, became a Partner in 2006, and a General Partner in…
Jennifer K. Hsin
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Mrs. Hsin is the CFO at CNF Investments LLC where she is responsible for the financial management of the fund as well as actively sourcing, …
Vincent Prajka
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Vincent Prajka – Partner @ JMI Equity
Christopher J. Meyers
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Christopher Meyers is the Founder and Managing Partner of Hull Street Capital.
Michael Smith
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Michael Smith leads Constellation Technology Ventures (CTV), the venture capital investing arm of Exelon Corp., where he oversees CTV’s port…
Rob Runett
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Rob Runett – Vice President @ Motley Fool Ventures
Zixuan Pang
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Vice President at IDG Capital
Larry Contrella
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Larry Contrella – General Partner @ JMI Equity
Thomas Smith
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Tom has more than 20 years of experience in the venture capital business, spanning early- and expansion-stage venture investing, as well as …
Sean Eagle
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Sean Eagle joined American Capital in April 2001 and has been a member of the Bethesda buyouts team since then, focusing on investments in a…
Charles Newhall
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Charles Newhall is the founder and chairman emeritus at [Mid Atlantic Venture Association – MAVA](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/mi…
John Stobo
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
John Stobo John is a Managing General Partner at ABS Capital Partners, where he oversees health care investing efforts with a focus on healt…
Daniel Klein
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Daniel Klein is a President at Klein Enterprises.
Susan Ganz
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Suzy is Chairman and CEO of Lion Brothers, and is a passionate Entrepreneur, Board Director, Corporate Advisor and Public Sector leader. She…
Terrence (Terry) McDonough
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Terrence (Terry) McDonough
Vinzenz Ploerer
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Vinzenz Ploerer – President & CEO @ Brace Pharma
Sally Rockey
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Dr. Rockey is the Deputy Director for Extramural Research, leading extramural research activities at NIH. The Office of Extramural Research …
Songbae Lee
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Songbae Lee
Cal Wheaton
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Cal is a General Partner at ABS Capital where his primary focus is health care companies. Cal has over two decades of experience working clo…
David Wise
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
David Wise
Mike Leffer
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Early-stage technology investor and operator, experienced in sourcing opportunities, building networks, leading investments and managing por…
Jorge Acevedo
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Prior to his current role, Acevedo was senior vice president, Retail Strategy. In that role, he oversaw retail pricing, analytics, sales str…
Tim Johnson
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Tim Johnson – Partner @ BroadOak Capital Partners
Wayne Bryden
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Wayne Bryden
Cyndi Gula
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Cyndi Gula is a Managing Partner at Gula Tech Adventures which focuses on cyber technology, cyber policy, and recruiting more people to the …
Bill Snider
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Bill Snider – Partner @ BroadOak Capital Partners
Glenn Dixon
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Glenn S. Dixon served as Managing Director of Shawmut Capital Partners Inc. Prior to joining Shawmut, Mr. Dixon was a Principal of Fleet Equ…
Diane Bovenkamp
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Diane Bovenkamp
Maria Kozloski
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Maria Kozloski
Pradman Kaul
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Pradman P. Kaul is president of Hughes Network Systems, LLC (HUGHES), a wholly owned subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (NASDAQ: SATS). Hugh…
Michael Antone
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Michael Antone – Partner – Patent Attorney @ Grande Ventures
Hans Riemer
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Hans Riemer At-large Councilmember at Montgomery County Council.
Vikas Gupta
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Vikas Gupta is a Senior Vice President, Acquisitions and Developments at Omega Healthcare Investors.
Michael W. Smith
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Michael W. Smith is a Program Director at National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI).
Andrew Drake
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Andrew Drake
Tracy Kartye
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Tracy Kartye Director of Social Investments at Annie E. Casey Foundation.
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