Bill Veghte
Founder and Managing Partner, Athene Partners
Bill Veghte
Founder and Managing Partner, Athene Partners
Palo Alto, California
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2019 - Current
AthenePartners is a boutique advisory and investment partnership that works closely with founders and CEOs to accelerate growth and derisk execution in building the right software product, teams, partnerships, GTM and financial architecture. Because transforming and accelerating growth is hard. Because you have to move fast, NOW. Because strategy & execution are a complex lattice work of technology & GTM, people & process. Because experience matters. Because two minds are better than one. www.athenepartners.com
CEO Partner
2023
Veeam is the global leader in data protection and ransomware recovery. This AthenePartners engagement is focused on helping establish the right partnerships with Microsoft and others, the transition to SAAS, and the evolution of the GTM.
Veeam provides data resilience and data management solutions for cloud, virtual, and physical environments.
Raised $2,500,000,000.00 from TPG, Neuberger Berman and Temasek Holdings.
CEO Partner
2022
Nametag is the world's first identity verification platform designed to protect accounts from impersonators and AI generated deep fakes. This AthenePartner engagement is focused on building the right product, with the right value proposition, business model, GTM motion, partnerships and team to establish and accelerate the growth of Nametag.
Nametag is the first identity verification platform for secure account recovery
CEO Partner
2019
FingerMark is transforming how quick serve retail customers are served faster, more conveniently and safely with a unique SW platform. This AthenePartner engagement is focused on the sw product/platform definition, business model, business model, strategic partnerships and the capital raises to make it a market leader globally.
Executive Chairman
2021
IGEL provides the most secure end-point OS thousands of companies across Europe and North America. This AThenePartner engagement is focused on evolving the product, the partnerships, the team, and the resulting GTM to maximize growth in a rapidly changed end-user computing market.
CEO Partner, Board Member, Board Chair
2018
Mural is a leading visual collaboration sw platform. This AthenePartner engagement is focused on building the right product, team, business model, and partnerships to be a leading enterprise sw platform in this space. This business has grown from less then $1m in ARR to over $100m in ARR to date.
Mural is a collaborative intelligence company generating effective ideation, innovation, alignment, and team building.
Raised $192,275,000.00 from Tiger Global Management, Insight Partners and Gradient.
CEO Partner
2020 - 2024
From population genomics to high-throughput Covid-19 testing, to cancer and heart-disease Color is provide the sw, analytics and infrastructure to power large-scale health initiatives. This AthenePartner engagement focused on GTM, partnerships, and team. During this enagement Color revenue grew more then 10x to over $400m with positive cash flow.
Color is a healthcare delivery platform that offers cancer prevention, screening programs, and healthcare services for people.
Raised $482,000,000.00 from T. Rowe Price, General Catalyst, Kindred Ventures, WR Hambrecht, Viking Global Investors and Emerson Collective.
CEO Partner
2019 - 2023
Churchill Capital was established by the Klein Brothers to identify, advise, and IPO technology companies thru a variety of financial vehicles. This AthenePartner engagement was focused on diligence, and where appropriate, help the management team post-IPO. IPOs included Lucid Motors, MultiPlan, and Skillsoft.
CEO Partner & Board Member
2020 - 2023
(IPO-ed ) Multiplan is a leading technology & analytics driven processor of medical claims. L This AthenePartner engagement was focused the people and technology platform to unlock the unique value of this data.
CEO Partner & Board Member
2019 - 2022
Embroker is a market leader in radically simplifying business insurance for small businesses in the US. This AthenePartner engagement focused on helping build the right product, operating model, and team to accelerate the growth of this business.
Embroker helps growing businesses save time and find the best value on the right coverage.
Raised $142,400,000.00 from Bee Partners, HSCM Bermuda, FTV Capital, MassMutual Ventures, Tola Capital, Canaan Partners, Chaos Ventures and Gaingels.
Education
BA
1985 - 1990