Kristofer Martin
Venture Professional
Kristofer Martin
Venture Professional
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Board Observer
2024 - 2024
Seed investor (Will Ventures).
Board Observer, Founding Member
2022 - 2024
Board observer and seed investor (Will Ventures), founding member, team captain.
Principal | Seed, Series A
2021 - 2024
Senior Investor | Focus on Seed and Series A sports, media and entertainment, and health technology startups building marketplaces and SaaS products. Will Ventures is a research-driven, early-stage venture capital firm. We deploy capital using a thematic, high-conviction, and concentrated portfolio construction strategy. Our team of competitors helps entrepreneurs leverage the power of human will to capitalize on sizable market opportunities and scale their visions against the odds.
Associate | Growth, Fund-of-Funds
2019 - 2021
Investor | Sourced and analyzed investment opportunities in venture capital funds as well as mid- and late-stage technology startups. Explored investment themes, built financial models, synthesized quarterly fund report information, wrote investment memos, edited media contributions, and managed workflow databases. TrueBridge Capital Partners is a venture capital investment firm founded by Edwin Poston and Mel Williams in 2007 that manages more than $4 billion in total assets. TrueBridge invests in early-stage, seed, and micro-VC fund managers — focused on the information technology space — and directly in growth-stage technology startups. TrueBridge is the data partner behind Forbes’ Midas List and Next Billion Dollar Startups, and is a regular venture-focused contributor on Forbes’ platform.
Senior Associate | Corporate Analytics
2018 - 2019
Consultant | Advised investor relations officers and corporate development teams on institutional investor targeting, situational analytics (M&A activity, dividend issuance, comparable company and transaction analyses etc.), and public equity fund positioning. Leveraged proprietary data management and analytics software to provide recurring and ad-hoc content and insight-based solutions. Produced peer ownership analyses, investor meeting prioritization reports, portfolio analytics studies, global landscape targeting presentations, and situational projects for our clients in the Technology and Communication Services sectors. Joined Ipreo — a PE-backed financial software and services company owned by Blackstone and Goldman Sachs — just before the acquisition by IHS Markit closed in August 2018 for $1.86 billion. IHS Markit is now being acquired by S&P Global for $34B (announced Nov 2020, expected to close in Q1 of 2022).
Associate | Cross-Asset Listed Derivatives
2017 - 2018
Sales Trader – Advised institutional and corporate clients on global cross-asset futures and options trading strategies, executed those strategies, sold quantitative derivatives content, and provided macroeconomic and technical analyses.
Analyst | Cross-Asset Listed Derivatives
2015 - 2017
Junior Sales Trader – Futures/Listed Derivatives trading desk of the Institutional Equity division.
Analyst | US Rates & Listed Derivatives
2014 - 2015
Junior Sales Trader – Sold and executed financial futures and options products and strategies as an agent to institutional clients; also cross-sold US Treasury securities as a part of the US Rates group of the Fixed Income division. Provided coverage encompassing listed interest rate derivative trading strategies, execution, macroeconomic research, and general market color.
Summer Analyst | Sales & Trading
2013 - 2013
Intern – Rotated through US Rates, Foreign Exchange, and Energy Derivatives sales & trading groups of the Fixed Income and Commodities divisions.
Business Administrative Assistant | Legal Studies & Business Ethics
2012 - 2013
Performed business projects and tasks for the Legal Studies & Business Ethics department. Generated various deliverables using MS Office Suite applications to organize conference activities, manage financial statements, and perform qualitative and quantitative analysis for the Business Administrator of the department.