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Kurt Schmidt

Managing Director at Duke Capital Partners

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Area

Overview 

Kurt Schmidt is the Managing Director at Duke Capital Partners and Duke Innovation Fund, with a strong background in entrepreneurship, strategic partnerships, and mergers & acquisitions. Notable highlights of his career include founding Forest Creek Ventures and serving as Chief Strategy Officer at Clearwire, acquired by Sprint.

Work Experience 

  • Managing Director

    2019 - Current

Duke Capital Partners supports the duke entrepreneurial community with an angel investing platform and co investment fund.

  • Venture Partner

    2018

  • Chairman, President, Executive Committee

    2015

    Triangle Angel Partners (TAP) is a committed angel fund that includes an experienced group of angel investors who invest their time, analysis and money into early stage companies in the high tech and life sciences industries. Our members are executives, successful entrepreneurs and professional investors.

Triangle Angel Partners invests time, analysis, and money into early life cycle companies in the high-tech and life sciences industries.

  • Founder, Managing Director

    2007

  • Strategic Advisor

    2011

An ecosystem of software & hardware vendors, integrators and solution providers focused on adoption of NFV and SDN-based solutions.

  • Founder & CEO

    2017

    Making waves in non-fitness focused ultra-wearable technology with major vendors & partners on board. Stay tuned and watch this space.

  • Founder & CEO, Board of Directors

    2015 - 2017

  • Chief Strategy Office

    2007 - 2010

  • Executive-In-Residence

    2007 - 2009

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