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Luke Armour

Managing Partner at Chaac Ventures

Santa Monica, California

Overview 

Luke Armour is the Founder and Managing Partner at Chaac Ventures in Santa Monica, California, specializing in venture capital investments in sectors like Entertainment & Sports and AI. With a background in private equity and financial analysis, he has successfully invested in companies like Overtime and Play Piper, contributing to their growth and success.

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.

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