Press "Enter" to skip to content

Month: January 2025

Roger Ehrenberg: From IA Ventures to Eberg Capital – A Top Silicon Valley Investor Turns to Sports

Roger Ehrenberg
Eberg Capital

Roger Ehrenberg’s career spans three remarkable acts, each of which would be impressive on its own.  He founded IA Ventures, a seed-stage venture capital firm, in 2010.  IA Ventures invested in numerous successful startups, including Datadog, Digital Ocean, The Trade Desk, and Wise. His work with IA Ventures has earned him recognition as a three-time winner of the “Midas Award” – the coveted ranking of venture capitalists by Forbes.

Before founding IA Ventures, Roger spent 17 years on Wall Street at Citibank and Deutsche Bank, specializing in derivatives and quantitative trading, managing over $10 billion in investor assets at its peak

In 2021, Roger stepped back from day-to-day operations at IA Ventures to focus on Eberg Capital, which he founded with his two sons to invest in sports franchises, sports betting, media, and entertainment. Through Eberg Capital, he has made strategic investments in sports teams like the Miami Marlins, Real Salt Lake, and the Utah Royals, as well as in the Alpine Formula 1 Racing Team.

In this episode he discusses building IA Ventures as well as why he thinks sports is the next great investing opportunity.

Listen on Spotify or iTunes

Eberg Capital

8-Bit Capital

Comments closed

Mark Scianna: From Palantir Engineer to Venture Capitalist / Inside Palantir’s Early Days / VC Discovers Defense Tech

Mark Scianna, of Forward Deployed VC at Travis Air Force Base

Mark Scianna, the founder of venture firm “Forward Deployed,” which targets sectors like Defense, Energy, and A.I., was spotlighted as a ‘top emerging manager’ in 2022. Starting his journey as an engineer and an early investor at Palantir, Scianna offers an insider’s perspective in this episode, unraveling the enigma of Palantir’s inception and meteoric rise.

Scianna delves into what makes Palantir so unique, shedding light on how its unconventional management style has been a cornerstone of its success. He doesn’t shy away from the intense realities of being ‘forward deployed’—a term that for him meant being physically stationed in war zones to deploy Palantir’s groundbreaking solutions firsthand.

Scianna also talks about the newly popular trend of investing in ‘defense tech’ – and who should (or shouldn’t) be doing it.

Listen on: iTunes, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts

Links:

Forward Deployed

8-Bit Capital

Comments closed