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Bruce Taragin

Managing Director at Blumberg Capital

New York, New York

Overview 

Bruce Taragin is the Managing Director at Blumberg Capital, specializing in early and growth-stage venture capital investments. He has served on the board of several successful companies, including Braze and Yotpo, and has made impactful investments in companies like WorkJam and Medigate. Taragin holds an MBA from Fordham Gabelli School of Business and a JD from Fordham University School of Law, and has a strong track record of investing in innovative startups across various sectors, such as cybersecurity and e-commerce.

Work Experience 

  • Managing Director

    1998 - Current

    Blumberg Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that partners with passionate entrepreneurs to innovate and build successful technology companies. The firm specializes in leading Seed and Series A rounds collaborating with angel investors, other venture capital firms and strategic partners. The Blumberg Capital team are active investors and board members – operating as an extension of the entrepreneurs' network. Blumberg Capital is headquartered in San Francisco with team members in Tel Aviv and New York. For more information, please visit blumbergcapital.com.

Blumberg Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm.

  • Board Member

    2011

    Mobile marketing automation for Global 2000 brands

Braze is a customer engagement platform that enables customer-centric interactions between brands and consumers.

Raised $175,100,000.00 from Snowflake.

  • Board Observer

    2009

    Real time ad verification across web and mobile for Global 2000

DoubleVerify is a software platform that specializes in digital media verification and advertising technology.

Raised $957,625,000.00 from Providence Equity Partners.

  • Board Observer

    2014

    Yotpo's eCommerce marketing platform offers the most advanced solutions for customer reviews, visual marketing, loyalty, referrals, and SMS marketing.

Yotpo is an e-commerce marketing platform.

Raised $436,000,000.00 from Shopify.

  • Board Member

    2017

    A Lease to Own Platform

Katapult is an omnichannel point-of-sale payment platform for retailers and consumers.

Raised $436,040,000.00 from Tiger Global Management and Neuberger Berman.

  • Board Member

    2017

    Healthcare IoMT Security

Medigate owns and operates a medical device security platform that protects all connected medical devices on health care provider networks.

Raised $50,350,000.00 from Maor Investments, Blumberg Capital, U.S. Venture Partners, Partech and YL Ventures.

  • Board Member

    2017

    mobile first employee engagement solution

  • Board Member

    2015

    Biometric authentication for financial services and the enterprise.

  • Board Member

    2018

    Agile development for Machine Learning

  • Board Member

    2016

    Software Quality Intelligence Platform

Sealights provides software testing, quality analytics, and assurance to it's business clients.

Raised $49,600,000.00 from Red Dot Capital Partners, Translink Capital, Cisco Investments, Shasta Ventures, Wipro Ventures, Deutsche Bank, TLV Partners and Blumberg Capital.

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