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Antonio Key

VP - Investment Committee at Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Antonio Key is the General Partner at Sunset Ventures and a Kauffman Fellow from Class 28, with a background in financial modeling, valuation, leadership, and mergers & acquisitions. He has experience as a Director of Venture Investments at Samsung Next and as an Investment Banking Associate at Merrill Lynch, contributing to his expertise in private equity, venture capital, and corporate finance. Key's career highlights include co-founding Sunset Ventures and serving on the Investment Committee at Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs, showcasing his leadership in the investment space and his commitment to supporting early-stage startups in sectors like wellness & fitness, media/content, and fintech.

Work Experience 

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Sunset Ventures

  • Co-Founder and General Partner

    2022 - Current

    Sunset Ventures is an early-stage fund based in San Francisco and Los Angeles. Portfolio Companies: B2B: Kindo.AI, Yakoa, 1099policy.com, Packsmith, Glide, Thruline, The Grand, Kraftful AI (YC), EdVisorly, Starlight Charging (YC), Sync Labs (YC), Taiki (YC) B2C: Spill, DSTLRY, Favs, Kino, Fizz

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Kauffman Fellows

  • Kauffman Fellows (Class 28)

    2023

Co-investment VC firm supporting the mission of the Kauffman Fellows

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Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs

  • VP - Investment Committee

    2024

    SA&E is a community of Stanford alums who are active in the Silicon Valley startup ecosystem as investors or entrepreneurs. Through regular pitch meetings and social events, our members have access to unique funding and investment opportunities.

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Samsung Next

  • Director, Venture Investments

    2020 - 2022

    Conceptualized key business development and investment ideas for Samsung’s top innovation center, whose purpose was to identify transformative market trends, technologies and startups that can add meaningful software revenue to Samsung Investing out of a standalone $150M early-stage venture fund, focused on software and services, I helped execute 10+ venture capital investments for the fund, including: • Fintech: Bloom (YC), FloatMe • IoT: ZaiNar • Gaming/Media: Wonder Dynamics (acquired by Autodesk) Players' Lounge (YC), Ready Player Me • Blockchain: FlowCarbon, Genopets • Connected Health: Aviron Interactive (YC), Agape (YC), Zen (YC)

  • Principal, Corporate Development & Venture Investments

    2018 - 2020

  • Manager, Corporate Development

    2017 - 2018

Samsung NEXT invests in transformative seed-stage software and services startups.

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Merrill Lynch

  • Investment Banking Associate, M&A Group

    2015 - 2017

    Bulge bracket investment banker that provided M&A and financial advisory to large private equity firms and F500 companies, for buy-side and sell-side engagements. Supported $25B+ worth of M&A transactions across 8 executed deals. M&A experience across the following industries: • Technology (Enterprise SaaS & Semiconductors) • Health Care (Life Sciences & Animal Health) • Consumer (Food & Beverage) • Industrials (Aerospace & Agriculture) Notable transactions supported: • Ministry Brands (Fintech SaaS) receipt of +$1Bn investment from Insight Venture Partners • On Semiconductor $2.6Bn acquisition of Fairchild Semiconductor • Alaska Airlines $2.6Bn acquisition of Virgin America Airlines • Integra Lifesciences $1.045Bn acquisition of Codman Neuro from Johnson & Johnson • Integra Lifesciences $0.208Bn acquisition of Derma Sciences • Keurig Green Mountain's $13.9Bn sale to JAB Holdings • Clearlake Capital's $1.26Bn sale of Syncsort to Centerbridge Partners

The Rand Group is a San Francisco-based wealth management team led by Managing Director Daniella Rand.

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