Jim Armstrong

Managing Director

2021 - Current

Focused exclusively on innovation and technology across retail and e commerce. Composite is also innovating on the existing venture capital business model, offering unprecedented transparency and liquidity investing into private tech companies that will be future market leaders.

Founding Partner

2014

March Capital makes venture capital investments in technology and innovation.

Managing Director

2002

Clearstone took a different approach to a tough business and the result has been remarkable returns in some important companies.

Investor, LP

2007

Great effort in SF to back startups. The Hit Forge was an early investor in Twitter and Uber. Nice work Naval Ravikant and Kevin Laws!

Launch CFO

2019 - 2024

Series A Lead Investor

2006 - 2022

Lead Series A at this Pasadena based marketplace company. A leader in its industry. Siemens announced in May it would buy Supplyframe for $700MM. Congratulations to founder and CEO Steve Flagg and team!! Congrats to co founders Kai Mildenberger and Rob Rodin. www.supplyframe.com

Series A Lead Investor

2014 - 2021

Bridg is a leading CDP used by retailers and product companies to get smart on their customers. Amit and team built a remarkable company. Acquired by Cardlytics in May 2021

Seed and Series A Lead Investor

2016 - 2021

Branch is the banking app on your phone for employees. Atif and team moved the company to Minneapolis to be closer to big employers. Proud to be involved with this Company and remarkable team. I was involved on the board in the early days and the Company is beginning to scale.

Series A Lead Investor

2009 - 2021

Lead Series A at this leader in Automotive Data. Sold to Vroom in January 2021. Congratulations. Founded by Naval Ravikant in SF but moved to Austin in 2012 where it recruited a top top team in data, tech stack and product! Congrats to John Price and all the ex Trilogy folks at CarStory!

Series A Investor

2010 - 2020

A dominant company in product testing. This investment was led by Anil Patel ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/anilppatel/ )when he was at Clearstone. Big shout out to Darrell Benatar, founder, for putting a great investor syndicate and team in place. This is now a leading company.