Luke Armour
Managing Partner at Chaac Ventures
Santa Monica, California
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and Managing Partner
2015 - Current
Seed and early-stage venture capital firm investing in and leveraging the growth of the Princeton tech and founder ecosystem. Early investors in companies like: Overtime, Finalis, Paladin, Astrocade, Basys.AI, Auxa Health, Delfi, Skyfront, Paladin, Vysioneer, Meridian, and many others.
Investor
2023
Meridian provides next-gen, AI-powered workflow tools to private investors. We supercharge an investment firm’s ability to raise capital, source deals and manage its positions. Our SaaS applications leverage our proprietary large language model, fine-tuned specifically for private equity investors.
Series Seed Lead, Board Member
2023
Vysioneer is a Cambridge, MA-based AI company that helps pharma and cancer research companies save critical time and money on clinical oncology trials, a huge, expensive pain point. The company is led by Princeton PhD, JT Lu, who was previously an AI/ML data scientist at Mass General Brigham Hospital in Boston: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jentanglu/
Vysioneer is an oncology AI company that enables pharma and clinicians to find the right treatment for tumors.
Raised $750,000.00.
Pre seed and growth investor
2017
Overtime builds disruptive new sports leagues and IP aimed globally at the next generation of sports fans and athletes. Backed by a16z, Blackstone, Jeff Bezos, Liberty Media, Drake, Kevin Durant, and Trae Young. Over 6% of active NBA players have invested in Overtime. 85M+ global following of young sports fans around the world.
Overtime is a sports network that produces several sports-focused series and short-form content for the next generation of sports fans.
Raised $215,070,000.00 from Liberty Media, Blackstone Group, Counterpoint Global, Winslow Capital, Bezos Expeditions and Sapphire Sport.
Series Seed Lead, Board Member
2021
Advisor
2019
Founded in 2016, HomeWorks Trenton is a 501(c)(3) non-profit operating a free, after-school residential program for marginalized high school girls that provides academic and identity-driven leadership enrichment to supplement public schools and develop community leaders.
HomeWorks Trenton offers academic and social-emotional enrichment programs to support public schools, empower women.
Investment Professional
2013 - 2015
Arrowroot Capital is a Los Angeles-based growth equity firm investing in Internet, software and technology-enabled services.
Arrowroot Capital Management focuses on growing, mature, and recurring revenue software businesses.
Associate
2013 - 2013
K1 Capital is a Los Angeles-based private equity firm investing in high-growth software and technology-enabled companies across North America.
Student
2009 - 2013
Private Equity Analyst
2012 - 2012
Brown Advisory is an independent investment management and strategic advisory firm.
Education
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)
2009 - 2013