Andrew Montgomery
Partner at Collaborative Fund
Boise, Idaho
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2023 - Current
Backing entrepreneurs, businesses, and protocols pushing the world forward. Collaborative is a network of fund managers investing across asset classes, identifying and supporting companies that live at the intersection of for-profit & for-good.
Collaborative Fund is an investment fund that provides funding to companies based on creativity and collaborative consumption.
Vice President, Finance & Strategy
2020 - 2023
Vice President, Finance & Strategy at Lovevery leading a team focused on helping expand our stage-based information and play products to markets around the world. Our stage-based information and play products are designed by child development experts, and have won awards from TIME Magazine, Fast Company, Red Dot, and Parents' Choice. #263 on the 2022 Inc. Magazine list of the fastest growing companies in the US! 🚀 In 2021, Lovevery generated more than $100 million in subscription ARR, with recurring revenue growing by more than 100% year-on-year. Lovevery closed $100M in Series C lead by TCG with a valuation of $800M. Other investors include Maveron, GV (formerly Google Ventures), Reach Capital, Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Collaborative Fund, and Founder Collective.
Lovevery is an early learning platform that offers a stage-based system of information for parents and products for children.
Raised $125,967,047.00 from Mark Vadon, TCG, Reach Capital, SoGal Ventures, Steph Korey Goodwin, Google Ventures and Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
Corporate Development
2016 - 2020
Identified, evaluated, and negotiated acquisitions, investment and other strategic deals on behalf of Google and Alphabet primarily working with the Ads, Commerce, Payments, and Cloud product teams.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
2012 - 2020
Early stage seed investment fund delivering over 4x cash-on-cash return, with 60+ investments and a broad array of limited partners, including Sony Music and Conde Nast.
Mesa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on e-commerce, media, enterprise software, and mobile technologies.
Corporate Development
2016 - 2016
Zynga is a mobile game developer that creates and operates social games as live services played on the Internet.
Raised $2,318,550,786.00 from Kleiner Perkins, T. Rowe Price, Morgan Stanley and Fidelity.
Co-Founder (Acquired by Strayer Education, Inc.)
2012 - 2016
Vice President (Acquired by Houlihan Lokey)
2010 - 2013
Notable transactions included: Advisor to The Interpublic Group of Companies (IPG) on its sale of NAS Recruitment Communications to Stone Goff Partners; Advisor to Big Lead Sports on its sales to Gannett Co.; Advisor to MetroLeap Media on its sale to CBS Corporation; Advisor to Columbus Nova on its acquisition of Harmonix from Viacom; and Advisor to Blue Man Group on a minority investment from GF Capital Management
Associate
2008 - 2010
Analyst, Media & Telecom Investment Banking Division
2006 - 2008
The Rand Group is a San Francisco-based wealth management team led by Managing Director Daniella Rand.
Education
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
2002 - 2006