Narwhal Ventures
Looking for a Different Unicorn
About
Strange Beasts from Unlikely Places
Founders with Multiple Successful Exits - Turned Founder-First Investors. Focused on: Reusing Spaces & Growing Things; Distributed Work & Education; Decentralized Technology & Finance. Located smack between Churchill Downs and the University of Louisville with offices/event space in a historic bourbon bar named after a horse.
People
Founders with Repeat Exits Turned Founder-First Investors
Melanie Rosenthal
Partner at The 6ixth Event
EY Entrepreneur of the Year / Yale / Human Genome Project. Work featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, Forbes, Bloomberg, & US News / Named a CMS Innovator.
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Co-founder & CEO @ Sprigley [Acquired by Eliza, 2009]. Deal team @ Eliza [majority stake investment by Parthenon Capital, 2011]. Co-founder & CEO @ RowdMap, Inc. [Acquired by Cotiviti (COTV), 2017].
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3rd-Shift Factory Worker / College Basketball Player / Volunteer in Kazakhstan / Venture Capital at Socially Responsible Fund / High School Girls Basketball Color Commentary.
Josh Rosenthal, PhD
Partner at LongTail Ventures
EY Entrepreneur of the Year / Fulbright / PhD / Sorbonne’s Institute for Advanced Studies (EPHE) / Guest Lecturer @ Harvard, MIT, Hopkins, SXSW, etc. Work featured in Entrepreneur Magazine, Forbes, Bloomberg, & US News / Named a CMS Innovator.
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Co-founder & CSO @ Sprigley [Acquired by Eliza, 2009]. Deal team @ Eliza [majority stake investment by Parthenon Capital, 2011]. Co-founder & CSO @ RowdMap, Inc. [Acquired by Cotiviti (COTV), 2017].
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Served as Expert Advisor to OSTP, ONC, HHS, NCVHS, NCQA, Robert Wood Johnson, etc.
Interests
Select Friends & Investments
CoinFund
Cryptoassets & Blockchain
Cygnus-AI
AI Diagnostics
Gravie
Better Benefits for All
Greenfield Robotics
Healthy Planet, Healthy Food
Lawyaw
AI Document Automation
Multicoin Capital
Decentralized Investment
ParaFi Capital
Blockchain & DeFi
Vidatronic
Innovation to Power
Yes VC
Funding Great Companies
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