Porter Ontko
Investor at Ericsson Ventures
San Francisco, California
Overview
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.