Juan Abundes

Building Something New / Investing

2022 - Current

Venture Advisor

2022

Venture Partner

2022

VC Investor

2017 - 2022

Soma Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests globally across consumer, enterprise, and healthcare sectors. Soma Capital was an early investor in companies like Cruise, Rappi, Embarktrucks, Atrium, and Lambda School, with a combined valuation of over $27B across all portfolio companies. Soma Capital brings a deep network of Fortune 500 CEOs, and in sports and entertainment through its Managing Partner's ownership involvement with the Sacramento Kings (NBA basketball)

Venture Partner

2023

Venture Partner

2021

Venture Scout

2020

Investor

2021 - 2022

Venture Capital Investor

2016 - 2017

ManchesterStory Group is a venture capital firm partnering with market-leading companies. Decades of experience with high-growth companies means ManchesterStory has significant expertise identifying exceptional management teams with the vision and capacity to identify major problems and effectively scale their business, and we regularly invest with teams that have achieved early revenue generation. Focused on early to growth-stage companies across the United States, ManchesterStory seeks to generate superior returns by connecting exceptional entrepreneurs to strategic capital and relationships.

Venture Capital Fellow

2015 - 2017

Impact Venture Capital is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests alongside corporate venture groups and top tier investors in seed-stage technology startups with a strong focus on enterprise and artificial intelligence applied to cybersecurity, robotics, drones, autonomous vehicles, digital health, and other fast-growing industry sectors.

MBA Summer Intern

2016 - 2016

Investigated, scoped and defined efficiency improvements in the operations department for VSP. Performed due diligence, competitive analysis on revenue projections on multiple company projects. Recommended projects and strategies to C-level executives.