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Brian Kobus

Managing Partner at OMERS Ventures

Toronto, Ontario

Overview

Work Experience

  • Managing Partner & Head of Fund Operations

    2015 - Current

    OMERS Ventures is a North American, early-stage tech investor focused on helping our portfolio company founders succeed so their businesses profit and real people prosper. We have offices in Toronto, Palo Alto and New York, investing in technology companies in North America. Over my tenure at OMERS Ventures, I have spent time focused on investing as well as several different aspects of the firm, including managing OMERS Ventures platform team, fund operations and LP relationship management. My investment management experience at OMERS Ventures includes: Exited investments - D2L (Board Observer) – completed an IPO on the TSX in November 2021 - Embark (Investor) – began trading on the NASDAQ via a SPAC transaction in November 2021 - Leadsift (Board Member) – acquired by IDG Group in December 2021 - Manifold (Board Member) – acquired by Snyk in January 2021 - Nudge (Board Member) – acquired by Affinity in March 2020 Current portfolio companies - Jobber (Board Member) - Ranovus (Board Member) - Smile (Board Member) - Acerta (Board Member) - Alida (Board Member) - DuckDuckGo (Board Observer) - Hootsuite (Board Observer) - Vidyard (Board Observer) - Contentful (Investor) - Busbud (Investor) - Waabi (Investor)

  • Vice President, Corporate Development

    2014 - 2015

    ScribbleLive is the leading content marketing software platform that helps businesses grow and expand the top of the marketing funnel using big data. The all-in-one SaaS solution combines predictive analytics with content planning, creation, and distribution technologies to deliver optimized business results. In my role as Vice President, Technology Alliances, I was responsible for establishing and managing partnerships and/or integrations with partners including Facebook, Google, Twitter, LexisNexis, Marketo and Hootsuite.

  • Principal

    2006 - 2014

    Summerhill Venture Partners is an early-stage venture capital firm which invests in the areas of Digital Media, Wireless and Software & Services. My portfolio company investment management experience included: - Intellon (Board Observer) – completed an IPO on NASDAQ in December 2007 - Radian6 (Board Observer) – acquired by Saleforce.com in March 2011 - Sonian (Board Observer) – acquired by Barracuda Networks in November 2017 - ScribbleLive (Board Observer) – acquired by Rock Content in December 2019

  • Associate Director, Mergers & Acquisitions

    2002 - 2006

    Bell is Canada's largest communications company, providing a comprehensive and innovative suite of broadband communication services to residential and business customers in Canada.

  • Investment Banking Analyst

    2000 - 2002

    Morgan Stanley is a leading global financial services firm providing a wide range of investment banking, securities, investment management and wealth management services.

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