Patrick Montague
Founding Partner at etsaW Ventures
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
Venture Partner & Advisor
2019 - Current
Advise emerging venture funds, early stage investment vehicles, and startup founders, including on fund formation & strategy, investment sourcing, fundraising, portfolio company support, strategic corporate & business development: GFR Fund -- investment sourcing, fund strategy, and portfolio support for Seed and Series A stage venture fund focused on the future of digital entertainment. Enhance Holdings -- portfolio management, operations, and fundraising for new venture fund and startup studio building vertical marketplace businesses across MENA region, based in Dubai. Company Ventures -- fund formation and all elements of establishing venture capital practice affiliated with 1.1mm square foot multi-tenant tech campus in New York City. Other affiliations & engagements: Beckley Foundation (UK), Builders (NL), etsaW Ventures (UK), Learn Capital (US), New Lab (US), NextGen Venture Partners (US).
Founding Partner
2022
A venture studio focused on circular economy innovation.
Venture Partner
2019
GFR Fund is a San Francisco-based venture capital fund that invests across the AR/VR/MR market
Venture Partner
2019
VP & GM, Advisor
2015 - 2020
Betaworks engages in two core activities: building/deploying web services using our in-house product team and seed investing to create a network of companies benefiting our owned and operated properties. Betaworks has built products such as bit.ly, Chartbeat, Dots, Giphy, Poncho, and Tweetdeck and has invested in Anchor, Crowdtangle, IFTTT, Medium, Product Hunt, Tumblr, Twitter, URX, Venmo, among others. While at betaworks, I also launched our camp business: thematically-driven pre-seed/seed stage investment programs in which betaworks ventures invests in promising early-stage companies while leveraging the infrastructure of the betaworks studio to accelerate company growth. Examples include botcamp, voicecamp, and visioncamp.
Betaworks Ventures is a product-focused, seed-stage venture capital fund.
Raised $50,950,000.00 from Notable Capital and DG VENTURES.
MBA Associate
2014 - 2015
NYC focused Seed/Series A stage venture fund, member of DFJ Global Network.
Senior Fellow, VP
2014 - 2015
Highly competitive fellowship for graduate students in business, law, medicine, data science, and engineering. Worked with NYC-based technology startups and early stage venture capitalists, including Union Square Ventures, Thrive Capital, Greycroft Partners, Bessemer VP, Lerer Hippeau, ENIAC, Harry's, OfferPop, Shake, and IDEO.
A highly competitive leadership development program comprised of exceptional graduate students at top universities
MBA Associate
2014 - 2015
Emerging growth equity fund focused on software, internet, and technology services businesses, spun out from Investor Growth Capital.
PeakSpan Capital is a growth stage investment firm partnering exclusively with disruptive B2B software companies.
Future Angel
2014 - 2014
Part-time student associate driving investment sourcing and due diligence with top 10 most active angel investor syndicate.
Platform Partnerships
2012 - 2013
Through partnership, worked to build content library and drive monetization for TuneIn's directory of 100k live streams and 3mm+ on-demand audio programs reaching ~50mm monthly listeners each month. Also launched OpenMic, an experimental self-broadcasting and social audio product.
From live sports & local radio to news, music & podcasts, TuneIn is one of the most widely used streaming audio platforms in the world.
Raised $146,622,231.00 from Innovation Endeavors.
Education
MBA
2014 - 2015
Bachelor of Arts
2002 - 2006
semester in Barcelona, fall 2005
2005 - 2005