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Neil Callahan

Managing Partner at Pilot Growth Equity

New York, New York

Overview 

Neil Callahan is the Founder and Managing Partner at Pilot Growth Equity, specializing in growth equity. With a background in business strategy and technology planning, he has successfully invested in companies like Velocidi and Perthera at Series A stages, demonstrating a strong track record in strategic partnerships and entrepreneurship. Currently based in New York, Neil Callahan's career highlights include founding Pilot Growth Equity and serving on the boards of various companies, showcasing his expertise in growth capital and mergers while fostering strategic partnerships and investments in emerging sectors like SaaS and consumer health.

Work Experience 

  • Founder and Managing Partner

    2009 - Current

    Pilot Growth Equity is a technology growth equity firm with offices in San Francisco and New York. Pilot Growth invests in growth-stage technology companies that require capital and strategic resources to accelerate their growth. Founded by entrepreneurs, Pilot Growth provides its portfolio companies a combination of world class operating, company-building, and advisory expertise, as well as global access to private and public sector customers. Please visit us at www.pilotgrowth.com.

  • Board Member

    2024

Tailwind's mission is to make world-class marketing easy for everyone.

Raised $10,650,000.00 from Pilot Growth Equity.

  • Board Observer

    2022

    Kevel is a developer of ad-serving APIs to help developers build server-side ad platforms.

Kevel is a developer of ad-serving APIs to help developers build server-side ad platforms.

Raised $45,150,000.00 from dunnhumby Ventures, Triangle Tweener Fund and Triangle Tweener Fund.

  • Board Member

    2022

    The Modern Commerce Workspace™ designed for SMBs using QuickBooks to expand their ecommerce businesses and grow faster.

  • Board Member

    2018

    The Business of Better

  • Board Member

    2015 - 2024

    Our platform enables the world’s most important organizations to make technology decisions quickly and with confidence.

CB Insights is a market intelligence platform that predicts company health and strategy, investor performance, and technology trends.

Raised $11,650,000.00 from Pilot Growth Equity.

  • Board Member

    2016 - 2022

    A first-party audience solution for e-commerce marketers.

  • Board Member

    2016 - 2022

    Precision Oncology Insights and Analytics

Perthera is a biotechnology company that offers personalized cancer therapy services.

Raised $10,722,000.00 from Pilot Growth Equity.

  • Board Member

    2017 - 2020

    Stop managing events, start creating experiences with Bizzabo's Event Experience OS.

Bizzabo powers in-person, virtual, and hybrid experiences with the event experience OS.

Raised $194,500,000.00 from OurCrowd, Viola Growth, Next47 and Insight Partners.

  • President - Digital, Executive Vice President Corporate Development

    2007 - 2009

    Formerly mktg, Neil was a member of the executive team as the President of the Digital Business Unit and as the EVP of Business Development where he led M&A and strategic partnership initiatives. While at mktg (CoActive) Neil completed several acquisitions and expanded the client portfolio into the automotive, high tech, financial services and sports & apparel verticals. Neil also had P&L responsibility for the digital marketing software and services line of business.

Dentsu is a Japanese international advertising and public relations company that provides a wide range of services in the global business.

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