Rob is the founder and Managing Partner of New Haven-based Elm Street Ventures, a seed and early stage venture capital firm in which Yale is the largest investor. Founded in 2006, ESV has invested in 21 companies to date, co-founding many of them. Rob served on the Operating Board of the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute from its inception in 2007 through its absorption by Tsai CITY in 2017 and is on the Investment Committee of the YEI Innovation Fund, which Elm Street manages. He has a BS in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University and an MPPM from the Yale School of Management, where he is an Executive Fellow and helps teach courses on entrepreneurship.
Rob serves as Chairman of P2 Science and is also a board member of SeeClickFix. He is Elm Street’s observer on the boards of Arvinas, Inc. and Device42; previously, he served as a board member of AxioMx, ShareGrove and Retail Optimization Inc. and served as an observer on the boards of Affomix, BioRelix, and Metagenomix. Prior to ESV, Rob ran an infrastructure business and helped found several start-ups. Earlier in his career, he was a venture capitalist with Rothschild Inc. and Investor AB.
Elm Street Ventures
Managing Partner
Rob is the founder and Managing Partner of New Haven-based Elm Street Ventures, a seed and early stage venture capital firm in which Yale is the largest investor. Founded in 2006, ESV has invested in 21 companies to date, co-founding many of them. Rob served on the Operating Board of the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute from its inception in 2007 through its absorption by Tsai CITY in 2017 and …
Rob is the founder and Managing Partner of New Haven-based Elm Street Ventures, a seed and early stage venture capital firm in which Yale is the largest investor. Founded in 2006, ESV has invested in 21 companies to date, co-founding many of them. Rob served on the Operating Board of the Yale Entrepreneurial Institute from its inception in 2007 through its absorption by Tsai CITY in 2017 and is on the Investment Committee of the YEI Innovation Fund, which Elm Street manages. He has a BS in Engineering and Applied Science from Yale University and an MPPM from the Yale School of Management, where he is an Executive Fellow and helps teach courses on entrepreneurship.
Rob serves as Chairman of P2 Science and is also a board member of SeeClickFix. He is Elm Street’s observer on the boards of Arvinas, Inc. and Device42; previously, he served as a board member of AxioMx, ShareGrove and Retail Optimization Inc. and served as an observer on the boards of Affomix, BioRelix, and Metagenomix. Prior to ESV, Rob ran an infrastructure business and helped found several start-ups. Earlier in his career, he was a venture capitalist with Rothschild Inc. and Investor AB.
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