About our Guest Investor: Glenn has over 20 years’ experience operating and running a variety of private, pre-IPO, and public technology companies. He has founded over a dozen startup ventures, resulting in three public offerings, nine exits, and billions in shareholder returns. His background includes expertise and projects in software, firmware, middleware, hardware, enterprise, SaaS, consumer goods, and Web and mobile applications.
Early in his career, he co-founded Mediaplex, one of the original online ad serving platforms. The Company went on to a successful IPO, with a valuation in excess of $4.5 Billion. It was later acquired and is now part of the ValueClick family of companies. Other notable exits include Intellicom – acquired by Softnet Systems; Jotter – acquired by Saflink; and SFLK – where he restructured the business and successfully relisted the Company on NASDAQ, where the valuation climbed from roughly $18M to over $425M.
In addition to his work in the areas of finance and operations, Mr. Argenbright has extensive experience in business development, marketing and distribution across many verticals. In commerce, he’s negotiated agreements with Walmart, K-Mart, Target, Price / Costco, Sam’s Club, Walgreen’s, Phar-Mor Drugs, Sav-On, Toys-R-Us, Kay-Bee Toys, and Shop at Home. In tech, he’s forged strategic partnerships with Apple, Microsoft, VISA, Unisys, and Accenture. In entertainment he’s worked with VIACOM, Sony / Tri-Star / Columbia Pictures, Walt Disney Company, and many others.
Glenn has appeared as a guest lecturer at numerous universities and startup events throughout the U.S. In addition, he’s been interviewed for both print and television, including Barron’s, Bloomberg, Business Week, CNBC, CNN, Entrepreneur, Forbes, Fox Business, Fox News, Inc. Magazine, Wired, and many others. His education includes a Law Degree from the University of San Diego, Advanced Studies and Certification on International Trade from Oxford University, Magdalen College, Oxford England, and degrees in Urban Planning and Political Science from the University of California, San Diego.
About Quake Capital: Quake Capital is an early-stage VC that oversees seven funds and 261 portfolio investments. We launched our first fund in 2017 in NYC, and we’ve since opened additional offices in Austin, Los Angeles and Europe (through a partnership with Deutsche Telekom). We strive to remove bias from our process, with a heavy focus on undervalued founders, markets, technologies and geographies. In fact, a 2021 study utilizing published CrunchBase data, found that Quake was the #1 supporter of diverse founders and teams (BetaBoom study of 3,400 global funds and accelerators). In terms of performance, this approach has served us well, placing us in the top 2% of all early-stage investment vehicles worldwide for exits, generating 2X+ returns across all funds, a 42% Internal Rate of Return on our current fund, and an incredible 92% (5-year) survival rate of our startups.
Note to attendees: We always keep the group small so that everyone has an opportunity to participate.
Events are hosted by Bonnie Halper and Josef Katz Josef helps early-stage startups with Go-To-Market Strategies, Growth Marketing, and Customer Acquisition.
