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Bob Greene is a co-founder of Contour Venture Partners and has been a venture capitalist since the late 1980's. He has invested in all stages of venture capital across several industry sectors.
Prior to launching Contour, Bob was one of the three managing partners of Flatiron Partners. Located in New York City, Flatiron was a leading venture capital firm focused on the information technology sector. The firm backed over 50 companies with over $500 million of venture capital. Bob has also been an active private investor, where he has invested his own capital in emerging technology companies in the northeast United States.
Before joining Flatiron full time in 1999, Bob was a General Partner at Chase Capital Partners (also known as JPMorgan Partners). Bob joined Chase Capital in 1994 when it was known as Chemical Venture Partners. In the
ensuing five years he started, built and led Chase Capital's Technology and Internet practice. Some of Bob's notable investments during his career include:
Acurian, Agamatrix, Exit41, FundQuest, GeoCities, Kinkos.com, LeeAnn Chin, Muer Restaurant Group, Multex, Resonate, SeamlessWeb, SwapDrive, Stamps.com, and Vindigo.
Bob started his venture capital career in 1988 with Prudential Equity Investors as a generalist investor. Prior to this, he was a banker for five years with First Boston and Fleet Financial.
Bob is the President of the Venture Investors Association of New York and has been on the VIANY Board since 1994. Bob has been a guest lecturer at The MIT Sloan School of Management since 2000, and served for five years on the Undergraduate Financial Aid Committee of the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania.
Bob received a B.S. from the Wharton School of Business and an M.B.A. from The MIT Sloan School of Management. | 