Osman Kent – His lifetime contributions to technology
Osman’s journey with entrepreneurship started in 1983 when he co-founded BenchMark Technologies Ltd, debuting the first real-time DOS machine that featured high resolution graphics.
BenchMark was subsequently acquired by Du Pont corporation in 1983 and Osman continued to serve as Vice-President, overseeing the firm’s chip business. He continued to steer the company towards investing its resources and R&D into 3D technology.
The Fund is focused on investing primarily at the expansion capital and growth equity stages in companies that have started to scale in revenues with a proven business model with evidence of market uptake and customer adoption. Atlantic Bridge has developed a unique and differentiated strategy which focuses on specific technology themes and the implementation of the “Atlantic Bridge Model” for scaling companies internationally. The “Bridge Model” accelerates the scale up of technology companies in the US and Chinese markets. This approach is highly differentiated and has delivered strong performance results to date.
The team has a thirty year operating history working together in technology as entrepreneurs and investors with over $7 billion in exits, having raised four successful technology funds.
Atlantic Bridge
Venture Partner
Osman Kent Strategic Advisor Osman is a serial technology and media entrepreneur best known as the founder and CEO of 3Dlabs - at one time one of the fastest growing NASDAQ companies in Silicon Valley. 3Dlabs is a fabless chip company whose products were used in the making of films like the Titanic and The Matrix and helped pioneer the 3D graphics revolution on the PC.
Atlantic Bridge Capital is a Global Technology Fund with over $500 million of assets under management across six Funds, investing in technology companies in Europe, the US, The Middle East and China. We have offices and staff based in London, Dublin, Silicon Valley, Beijing & Muscat.
The Fund is focused on investing primarily at the expansion capital and growth equity stages in companies that have started to scale in revenues with a proven business model with evidence of market uptake and customer adoption. Atlantic Bridge has developed a unique and differentiated strategy which focuses on specific technology themes and the implementation of the “Atlantic Bridge Model” for scaling companies internationally. The “Bridge Model” accelerates the scale up of technology companies in the US and Chinese markets. This approach is highly differentiated and has delivered strong performance results to date.
The team has a thirty year operating history working together in technology as entrepreneurs and investors with over $7 billion in exits, having raised four successful technology funds.
Startup Grind
Director
Birmingham Enterprise Community
Chapter Ambassador Birmingham
View Profile