We invest our operators, not just capital.
Boardroom Venture Partners is a founder-friendly venture capital firm. We invest operators first: experienced CEOs, CROs, CTOs, and CISOs work alongside founders and leadership teams to accelerate businesses. We get to know the company by helping build it, then make a separate decision about investing capital. BVP already makes financial investments; operator involvement does not guarantee capital. Commercial terms are discussed privately.
1. Select the company. Evaluate where BVP can add meaningful value and decide whether to invest its operators’ time.
2. Invest operators. Work alongside founders to help accelerate the business and understand it from the inside.
3. Decide on capital. Once we know the company well, make a separate financial investment decision informed by firsthand experience.
Many venture relationships begin with capital. BVP begins with practical contribution and firsthand understanding. We are selective about where our operators can help and work with leadership as peers.
These are areas where operators help accelerate a business, not a catalog of purchasable services. The work and its impact depend on each company.
Help turn AI ambition into practical deployment, a prioritized roadmap, and internal capability. BVP operators have completed more than thirty real AI deployments in the last 18 months.
Help leadership prepare its investor narrative, pitch materials, investor targeting, and fundraising process. This work is distinct from any decision by BVP to invest capital.
Work alongside leadership on scalable sales processes, customer acquisition, ideal customer profiles, and growth.
Identify and develop relationships that can strengthen distribution, credibility, and market access.
Help build leadership teams and boards through composition planning, recruiting, vetting, and governance.
Experienced thought partnership for founders and CEOs navigating decisions, leadership transitions, and executive team development.
BVP is a complementary venture investor that starts with an operator investment decision. We welcome introductions to founders where our operators can help accelerate a portfolio company. Working together builds the understanding behind a separate financial investment decision. There is no promise of co-investment, shared diligence, or access to company information.
BVP evaluates where investing operators can help PE-backed leadership teams accelerate through AI, go-to-market, partnerships, and leadership. Operators work alongside management on the priorities behind the value-creation plan. A PE-backed relationship does not automatically lead to financial investment.
Advisory boards help founders accelerate through experienced perspectives, relationships, and leadership support. BVP’s two-phase model covers formation—design, sourcing, selection, and onboarding—and ongoing operation, including meetings, calls, introductions, action tracking, reporting, and board refresh. Board participation does not guarantee capital investment.
BVP Edge is an enterprise membership program connecting corporate AI leaders with the ecosystem between Palo Alto and downtown San Francisco. It is separate from BVP’s operator and capital investment decisions, not an investment pipeline.
Membership includes a resident BVP partner, five startup advisory seats, weekly intelligence every Monday, one or two strategic offsites per year, and a peer cohort. Each resident partner has a maximum of eight members and provides a thirty-minute monthly call with an open line between calls. Onboarding begins with a thirty-minute introduction; the first intelligence feed and partner call follow within two weeks of membership beginning. No public pricing is provided.
Experienced operators and post-exit founders work alongside leadership teams and bring operating perspective to investment decisions.
- David Norris — General Partner. Roles: Interim CEO, Fractional CXO, Board Member, Advisor. LinkedIn
- Frank Rodorigo — General Partner. Roles: Interim CEO, Fractional CGO, Board Member, Advisor. LinkedIn
- Dr. Andy Wagner — General Partner. Roles: Fractional CMO, Board Member. LinkedIn
- Tony Karrer — Venture Partner. Roles: Fractional CTO, Advisor. LinkedIn
- Marc England — Venture Partner. Roles: Executive Recruiting, Advisory Boards. LinkedIn
- Kelly Markey — Venture Partner. Roles: Fractional CISO, Advisor. LinkedIn
- Christopher Ciano — Venture Partner. Roles: Board Member, Strategic Advisor. LinkedIn
- Marc Feder — Venture Partner. Roles: Fractional CMO, Advisor. LinkedIn
- Mayrav Saar — Venture Partner. Roles: Fractional CMO, Brand Content. LinkedIn
- Chris Tarr — Venture Partner. Roles: Board Member, Advisor. LinkedIn
- Giles Goodwin — Venture Partner. Roles: Interim CEO, Fractional CTO. LinkedIn
- Patty Riskind — Venture Partner. Roles: Fractional CXO, Board Member. LinkedIn
- Steve Parsons — Venture Partner. Roles: Board Member, Advisor.
- Kingshuk Chatterjee — Venture Partner. Roles: Fractional CTO, Advisor.
- Sean Duffy — Managing Director. Roles: Head of BVP Edge.
- Shaung Liu — Venture Partner. Roles: Fractional CTO, Board Member, Advisor.
- David Clee — Venture Partner. Roles: Interim CEO, Fractional CXO, Board Member, Advisor. LinkedIn
- Email: info@boardroomvp.com
- Website: https://boardroomvp.com
Founders, leadership teams, boards, and VC and PE investment partners can start a confidential conversation about operator investment, investment partnerships, advisory boards, or BVP Edge membership.
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