Ryan Lee
Principal at Comcast Ventures
New York, New York
Overview
Work Experience
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
Comcast Ventures partners with extraordinary entrepreneurs building transformative consumer and enterprise companies.
Board Observer
2024
Board Observer
2023
Curbio helps realtors and their clients get homes ready for market or move-in fast.
Raised $126,000,000.00 from Cambridge Trust Company, Second Century Ventures and Camber Creek.
Board Observer
2022
The world’s first DevOps-as-a-Service platform. Automate deployments, service discovery, and network security all at once.
Raised $6,500,000.00 from Comcast Ventures, Marc W. Chenn, Jean Sini, Abstraction Capital, Spike Ventures, Chris Nguyen, JJ Fliegelman, Next Coast Ventures, NextGen Venture Partners and Alumni Ventures.
Board Observer
2022
Eva is helping businesses build authentic relationships with their clients by making it easy to send personalized gifts.
Raised $13,690,000.00 from Forefront Venture Partners, Founders Committee Ventures, Bloomberg Beta, Precursor Ventures, MPG Fund, Alumni Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank and Comcast Ventures.
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
Advantage Capital has invested over $3.8 billion in more than 800 portfolio companies and projects nationwide since 1992.
Raised $77,000,000.00 from Citi.
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.
MFS Intermediate Income Trust is a financial company that is a non-diversified, closed-end management investment company.
Trade Support Specialist
2012 - 2012
Cleared trades and performed purchase and sale adjustments for customers and brokers.