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Luke Cooper

General Partner

Baltimore, Maryland

Overview

Work Experience

  • Founding Managing Partner

    2022 - Current

    A hybrid VC firm with investment and strategic capabilities.

  • Investor & Advisor

    2024

    Latimer Ventures portfolio investment

  • Investor & Advisor

    2024

    Portfolio company of Latimer Ventures

  • Investor & Board Observer

    2023

    So you think your data science team is amazing? If your apps can’t use the things their models learn, it doesn’t matter! AI Squared makes it easy to integrate machine learning into your most important web-based applications.

  • Investor & Board Director

    2023

    Investor through Latimer Ventures and deeply engaged board Director

  • Distinguished Scholar

    2022

    Appointed by the President to serve as only the 2nd Distinguished Scholar (preceded by Norm Augustine, CEO of Lockheed Martin). Responsibilities include research, data analysis, speaking, and dialogue with institutional leaders, students, and stakeholders to create economic empowerment throughout West Baltimore, leveraging technology and UMB's 4th core value, Equity & Justice!

  • Board Trustee

    2019 - 2022

    Leading entrepreneurship efforts necessary to strengthen UMB’s role in improving the health and well-being of neighboring communities in West Baltimore.

  • Venture Partner

    2021

    Venture partner advising on portfolio company growth (founder introductions, new international markets/product), long-term value creation, startup workforce engagement, innovation, governance, compensation, and board recruitment/diversity.

  • Investor

    2022

    Investor in secondaries in Series C $140m financing (led by a16z growth and Coatue)

  • Investor

    2021

    Invested in pre-seed and seed rounds

  • Transition Committee Member

    2022 - 2023

    Worked to provide research, connections, and recommendations to further increase flow of capital to diverse managers seeking opportunity within the Maryland Pension System. Proud to support Comptroller Brooke Lierman — the first woman to hold the post and the first woman independently elected to a statewide state government position in Maryland history and and Governor Wes Moore - the first Black Governor in Maryland history.

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