Avi Goldberg
Partner at GreatPoint Ventures
Avi Goldberg
Partner at GreatPoint Ventures
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2022 - Current
GreatPoint Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing between $250k and $20m into Seed, A, and B rounds.
Strategic Advisor
2022
Founder and Board Advisor at Dispatch (Vista Equity portfolio company)
2020
Founder and CEO
2013 - 2020
Dispatch is the operating system that empowers modern service experiences for the world’s largest service brands.
Raised $18,100,000.00 from Vista Equity Partners and GrandBanks Capital.
Co-Founder, Investor & Board Member
2019
Lev Inc offers financial services, specializing in lending and capital management solutions.
Strategic Advisor
2021
Whetstone AI provides architectural, strategic, and implementation services to technology organizations of all sizes, focused on big data, AI, and automation. We help companies avoid the hype of AI and instead adopt a holistic data strategy involving both long-term IP and data asset creation as well as tactical, continuous value delivery through targeted data & AI applications.
Investor
2019
Assembly OSM delivers architecturally distinctive high-rise buildings through their innovative building systems.
Raised $38,000,000.00 from Stratus Ventures, RSE Ventures, Karman Ventures (fka Moving Capital), Gaingels, Manta Ray Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, Jefferies Financial Group, Tectonic Capital, Atento Capital and Signia Venture Partners.
Strategic Advisor
2020
Co-Founder and Board Member
2005 - 2016
Zafgen is an innovative, capital efficient company dedicated to addressing unmet needs of severely obese patients by bringing beloranib, a first-in-class novel medicine, to market.
Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer
2005 - 2013
GreatPoint Energy is commercializing new catalytic technology to convert cheap abundant coal into clean natural gas. Secured $260M in equity and $700M in debt and debt guarantees from Wanxiang Holdings, Peabody Energy, Dow Chemical, CitiGroup, Suncor, AES, Kleiner Perkins, Khosla, ATV, DFJ. Selected by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top 10 cleantech companies in the U.S. in 2011
GreatPoint Energy is a technology-driven natural resources company.
Raised $562,000,000.00 from Wanxiang America.
Co-Founder
2002 - 2012
A specialized venture development firm focusing on seed-stage commercialization of exciting, new technologies. GPV invests in "big picture" opportunities that have the potential to lead innovation and transform markets. GPV has been active in a broad spectrum of investment sectors including biotech, energy, cleantech, telecommunications, material science and semiconductors and believes that a "market first" investment philosophy holds true across industries. Portfolio Includes: Sirtris - Raised $166M in venture capital. Acquired by GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) for $720M in June 2008 Coskata - is a biology-based renewable energy company Altarock - develops and commercializes geothermal technology to produce clean, renewable power. Oasys Water - developed a suite of proprietary water treatment products to address the growing, global water crisis.
GreatPoint Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing between $250k and $20m into Seed, A, and B rounds.
Education
BA
1994 - 1998