Andrew Romans

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Membership: Founding Member
Joined: March 2023
Company: 7BC Venture Capital and Rubicon Venture Capital
Title: General Partner, Author
Education: BA, Political Science, French and German Literature from University of Vermont, MBA, Finance, from Georgetown University
Social Media: LinkedIn

 

Professional Biography

I am an active VC investor, 3x published author on VC published in 5 languages, former professor of VC at Chapman University, one of California's oldest universities, and host of VC podcast Fireside with a VC. Based in Austin after 25 years in Silicon Valley, New York & London.

I’ve raised $48m+ for startups I founded by the age of 28 years old. I’m a General Partner at 7BC Venture Capital, General Partner, Rubicon Venture Capital (now fully deployed with 7BC currently investing in growth follow-on rounds of Rubicon portfolio companies).

Key differentiators: 1) a sizable network of angel LPs that are VC-backed founders in Silicon Valley, NYC, Austin, Seattle, LA, San Diego and across the US as well as London, Stockholm, Paris, Zurich, Japan, Singapore, Australia, Africa and across LatAm, footprint of active LPs across 6 continents ready to support our startups, 2) corporate network and expertise on CVC give us access to CEOs and c-suites of large corporates and conglomerates which enables us to add value to our startups, 3) track record in top 10% to 12.5% of US VC fund performance.

I have experience as a VC, founder and CEO of VC-backed tech ventures, biz dev and sales director, investment banker advising startups and VCs on fundraising and M&A, active angel investor & university professor. I’m also an author of two books on VC that are typically both in the top 10 on Amazon and my latest book is on blockchain, fintech and digitization of data-driven workflows. I’m an advisor to corporates and governments on VC, CVC and FinTech.

In addition to teaching a class on VC & entrepreneurship at Chapman University one of California’s oldest universities, I have lectured on VC at Stanford, Harvard, UC Berkeley, Santa Clara University, UC San Diego, Georgetown University, London Business School, Imperial College London, University of Bologna, Moscow State University, Tsinghua University Beijing & Shanghai University.

Fluent in French & German, conversant in Slovak, lived outside of the US for 15 years and travel to 15+ countries per year (pre-Covid).

My best advice to founders, VCs and members of the startup ecosystem to get ahead: spend 30% of your time doing favors for other people asking for nothing in return. The remaining 70% of your time will be a min 2x more effective giving you a 1.4x boost on your efforts.

Subscribe on Spotify iTunes and all platforms: anchor.fm/FiresideVC
Video podcast: https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewRomansVC/videos

 
 

Endorsements

Andrew is impressive! I first saw Andrew perform at an event in 2015, and since then I have been a big fan. When he gets his hands on the microphone at a venture capital (VC) event he is like a machine gun. Hot nuggets of heavy information fire from him at a very rapid rate. He is brilliant, and what he says is interesting to hear. His achievements speak for themselves, and he is on a fast track to even greater heights.

Linked in is more of a professional networking site than personal, but I think a personal story about Andrew would be helpful here. I recently asked him for a referral, and although it was a little outside of the VC wheelhouse he took time to draw from his deep resources and come up with three names for me. They were all excellent connections! My point to this story is that besides his mastery of the industry he has tremendous generosity, work ethic, judgement, and people skills.

Oh, and one more thing, my investments with Andrew (I am an LP, Limited Partner) seem to be doing very well.

I recommend Andrew.

- Larry Waldinger, Investor

I first met Andrew through a mutual investment in a startup — Partender.

I had heard from Partender how helpful Andrew had been. Shortly after, Rubicon wrote one of the first checks for Superhuman, and I then witnessed this for myself.

Andrew is very generous with his time. He's been able to introduce me to some key industry connections, as well as make introductions to other investors. The firm also has a selection of influential LPs, and they aren't shy about making those introductions either.

I would work with Rubicon again in a heartbeat. Definitely a firm to include in your seed round.

- Rahul Vohra, Founder and CEO

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