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Juan Abundes

Venture Partner at Koro Capital

San Francisco Bay Area

Overview 

Juan Abundes is a VC investor based in the San Francisco Bay Area, with a background in biochemistry and an MBA from the University of the Pacific. He has held roles at notable firms like Tribe Capital and Soma Capital, specializing in investments across various sectors including insurance, healthcare IT, consumer internet, and fintech. Abundes has excelled in venture capital, with significant experience in pre-seed, seed, and Series A investments, and has built a strong track record of strategic planning, leadership, and team building within the industry.

Work Experience 

  • Building Something New / Investing

    2022 - Current

  • Venture Advisor

    2022

Tribe Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on capturing a perpetual edge in venture and crypto using data science.

  • 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)

Soma Capital is venture capital fund that focuses on investing in software to automate the world across all sectors and geographies.

  • Venture Partner

    2023

  • Venture Partner

    2021

Adapt Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm backing audacious founders with bold visions.

  • Venture Scout

    2020

  • Investor

    2021 - 2022

Better Tomorrow Ventures (BTV) is an early stage fintech focused fund that leads rounds in pre-seed and seed-stage companies.

  • 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.

ManchesterStory Group is an early-to-growth stage venture capital firm focused on InsurTech, FinTech, and HealthTech sector.

  • 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.

Impact Venture Capital invests in early stage IT startups, with a focus on TMT, Civic Tech, Cyber Security, FinTech, and Data Analytics.

  • 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.

VSP Vision Care activates the full power of care by consciously reinvesting in greater vision, health, and opportunities for all.

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