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Alex Kolicich
Charter Member at The C100
San Francisco, California
Overview
Alex Kolicich is a Founding Partner at 8VC, with a background in trading, economics, and venture capital. Notable highlights include investing in companies like Hexagon Bio and Deliverr, and holding key roles at Formation 8 and Clarium Capital Management.
Work Experience
Founding Partner
2015 - Current
Partnering with optimistic entrepreneurs in healthcare, bio-tech, and software! Companies I support are: Deliverr (acq Shopify), Asana ($ASAN), Blend Labs ($BLND), Qualia, Hive.ai, Orca Bio, Addepar, Clearco (fka ClearBanc), Anduril, Indio (acq Applied Systems), Commure, AirByte, AI21 + more
8VC transform the technology infrastructure behind many industries.
Charter Member
2017
Advisor
2014
Blend is a digital lending platform that facilitates the entire lending process, from application to underwriting to closing.
Raised $815,000,000.00 from Haveli Investments.
Partner
2014 - 2015
Formation 8, a California-based technology investment firm, focuses on seed, early, and later stage venture investments.
Investor and Advisor
2014 - 2014
Led the investment at Mithril
AppDirect is a cloud-based software company that provides a platform for businesses to sell and manage their software subscriptions.
Raised $574,502,250.00 from Caisse de Depot et Placement du Quebec and Investissement Quebec.
Investor
2014 - 2014
Sourced and invested in Helion Energy while at Mithril Capital.
Helion Energy is a fusion power company developing the world's first fusion generators, enabling a future with unlimited clean energy.
Raised $612,759,986.00 from Nucor Corporation.
Board Observer
2013 - 2014
The world’s on-demand working capital platform, providing fast & flexible access to low-cost capital to nearly 2 million businesses.
Raised $537,700,000.00 from Vista Credit Partners, Third Point Ventures and Mubadala Capital Ventures.
Principal
2012 - 2014
- Worked as a member of the investment team - Helped to define internal deal processes and internal tracking systems - Involved in much of Mithril's sourcing, diligence (technical and financial), market research and thesis development - Led investment in AppDirect - Directly associated with investing/sourcing of Adimab, C2FO & Helion Energy - Also involved in the investments of Lookout and a non-public biotech investment - Ran hiring processes for both associates & interns
Mithril is a global technology investment firm investing in the technology, macroeconomics and finance sectors.
PM, Vice President, Research & Trading
2009 - 2012
- Worked closely with the Palantir Finance team to help create Palantir Finance - Worked on the quantitative trading team - Management of a $20mio discretionary Global Macro portfolio (rates, FX, commodities; Asia bias) - Research on general Macro themes and corresponding trade ideas - Trade execution for all asset classes - Worked on building quantitative trading systems for automated trading - Developed and validated statistical models for trading - Assisted in risk management system development and monitoring
Clarium Capital is a hedge fund that specializes in early stage ventures.
Advisor
2007 - 2010
Palantir Technologies is a software company that develops data analytics and data integration software solutions.
Raised $3,027,970,015.00 from ARK Investment Management and ARK Investment Management.
Education
Investments
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