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Porter Ontko

Investor at Ericsson Ventures

San Francisco, California

Overview 

Porter Ontko is a Venture Capital Associate at Ericsson Ventures in San Francisco, California, with a background in financial analysis at Goldman Sachs and experience in strategic partnerships at Funding Circle US. He specializes in investing in start-up ventures across various sectors, including AI, digital health, and enterprise, at different stages such as Series A and Series B.

Work Experience 

  • Venture Capital Associate

    2022 - Current

  • Investor

    2023

D-Matrix is a computing platform that targets artificial intelligence inferencing workloads in the datacenter.

Raised $154,000,000.00 from Industry Ventures, Nautilus Venture Partners, M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund, Playground Global, Lam Capital, Temasek Holdings, TGC Square, Cortes capital, Marlan Holding and Ericsson Ventures.

  • Investor

    2022

  • Investor

    2022

  • Investor

    2022

Hydrolix is a data management company that specializes in providing solutions for storing, managing, and analyzing large-scale data.

Raised $65,000,000.00 from Oregon Venture Fund, Wing Venture Capital, S3 Ventures, AV8 Ventures and Nava Ventures.

  • Investor

    2023

Nubis Communications is a startup providing services to the electrical and electronic manufacturing industries.

Raised $40,000,000.00 from TDK Ventures, Ericsson Ventures, Comerica - Technology & Life Sciences, Weili Dai, imec.xpand, Sehat Sutardja, Matrix and LaunchCapital.

  • Financial Analyst

    2018 - 2021

Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.

  • Head Of Business Development (start-up)

    2017 - 2017

    •Sourced partnerships with multiple Fortune 500 companies including Gamefly, Flashbike, and Frey. •Generated tens of thousands of dollars in sponsored rewards from college-centric subscription companies. •Allocated 100k venture capital budget (Y Combinator) across marketing, sales, and engineering sectors

College Pulse is a polling platform designed to aggregate and share student public opinion on college campuses.

Raised $1,620,000.00 from Madrona, GSV Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Conversion Capital and Y Combinator.

  • Strategic Partnerships Analyst

    2017 - 2017

    • Created referral partner scoring template using Excel VBA in order to source optimal partner leads in accordance with Funding Circle’s risk profile. Currently used as a best practice for all incoming referral partner leads. • Attended series of in-house SQL classes in order to analyze information from data warehouse and track loan trends throughout company’s history. • Prepare presentation decks for strategic partnership meetings in order to find mutually beneficial relationships across business lines.

  • Wealth Management Intern

    2017 - 2017

    • Engineer multi-tier fee structuring template on Excel to be used by entire Chicago PCR market as a best practice for client presentations • Originate thorough Private Banking market analysis comparing a number of metrics including loans, deposits, per dollar revenue AUM, net interest income per PB/FTE, deposit/loan CAGR, etc. • Create summary analysis, highlighting areas of inefficiency and how USB can increase revenues through credit alterations • Develop analytical and quantitative skills by assessing clients’ personal financial statements and tax returns in order to identify optimal liquidity and appropriate collateral • Review line-of-credit indenture to determine reimbursement liability for variable rate demand notes (VRDNS)

U.S. Bank Freight Payment is a freight audit & payment firm letting shippers & carriers manage freight payment & audit for transportation.

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