Ryan Lee

Principal

2022 - Current

Source, perform due diligence, and assist in the underwriting for Comcast Ventures, a 20+ year old corporate venture capital fund supporting innovative companies, across the spectrum of consumer and enterprise. We write checks from $500K to $7.5M and are able to lead, co-lead, or follow on in seed through Series C investment rounds. I spend most of my time on healthcare, AI/ML, the future of work, climatetech, gaming, fintech, & proptech. Select Investment Experience: EvaBot - Series A Architect.io - Seed Selector - Series A Players Lounge - Series A Walrus - Series A2 Juno - Series A2 Hume AI - Series A Resemble AI - Series A (sourced) Trust & Will - Series B (sourced for our other investment arm, Forecast Labs) AI21 Labs - Series C HealthSnap - Series B (sourced) Glasswing Ventures III - Fund Investment (sourced)

Senior Associate

2021 - 2022

Board Observer

2024

Board Observer

2023

Board Observer

2022

Board Observer

2022

Advisory Board

2018

NUImpact is a student-led impact investing initiative at Northeastern University. We built a student led and managed fund with two goals in mind. To make impactful investments in the local Boston community and to provide an experiential learning experience for Northeastern students to gain hands on impact investing experience. I sit on the investment committee, alumni advisory board, and serve as the community and economic development industry advisor. I also usually teach two classes on sourcing and due diligence best practices every semester.

Investor

2020 - 2021

Sourced, fundraised, performed due diligence, and assisted in the underwriting for Advantage Capital, a $1+ billion multi-strategy impact investment fund. Highlights: Sourced and/or worked on our investments in MedRhythms, Opendorse, Hudl, mTrade, Pacha Soap, Fairlead Integrated, DHI Holdings, Cady Bag, TPG Plastics, LBU, Knoa Software, Advanced Enviro Systems, ModernMD, and Cleveland Rocks. Founding member of the sourcing team: developed scalable sourcing strategies, marketing initiatives, and operational processes that are now the established standards of the team. Led the thesis development, structure, capital deployment strategy, and fundraise of Empower the Change Fund, $200MM investment fund supporting racial equity alongside our Chief Investment Officer and Chief Impact Officer (the name I picked even stuck).

Investor

2016 - 2020

Strategy Consultant

2014 - 2015

Assisted in the preparation of strategy proposals for both Chinese and International clients across the telecommunication, media, technology, energy, financial services, and public industry sectors.

Investment Operations & Information Technology Risk Control Analyst

2013 - 2014

Evaluated and facilitated the documentation of business processes, associated risks, internal controls, and procedures throughout over 40 distinct functional business areas. The project resulted in a 12% reduction of trade/operational errors, audit exceptions, and business process inefficiencies.

Trade Support Specialist

2012 - 2012

Cleared trades and performed purchase and sale adjustments for customers and brokers.