Visiting Experts: Paul Sethi, W'01, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, 2048 Ventures & Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Trajectory Capital Partners

March 16, 2023 at 1:00pm - 4:30pm
Tangen Hall
IN-PERSON
Paul Sethi is co-founder and Managing Partner of Trajectory Capital Partners, a hybrid VC/PE fund, focused on minority and control investments in venture-stage and corporate divestitures. He is also Managing Partner of 3SE Holdings, focused on fund investments in the Web3 sector; and Venture Partner of Punja Global, focused on AI/Web3 early-stage investments. In 2019, Paul co-founded 2048 Ventures, a pre-seed tech venture fund, where he is Managing Partner of the inaugural fund.

From 2010 to 2018, Paul was CEO of Redbooks, a leading sales intelligence platform focused on the marketing and advertising industry, used by thousands of professionals globally, where he scaled the team, tech and product offerings and sold the company to a PE platform for 10x+ return. In 2014, he co-founded Robuzz, an AI/NLP platform providing real-time alerts, and deployed the technology via APIs into marketing and information services enterprises, and sold the company in 2022. Earlier in his career, Paul was a Partner/Analyst in public equities, focused on the tech sector.

He is early investor in 50+ companies with 8 unicorns, including Flexport, SeatGeek and Notion, and in companies acquired by Airbnb, Amazon, Blackstone, Facebook, Motorola, Pinterest, Twitter and Uber. He is also limited partner of many venture funds, including Union Square Ventures, Lowercase Capital, Lowercarbon Capital, Boldstart Ventures, Eniac Ventures, Multicoin Capital and CoinFund.

Paul received honors degrees from both Columbia and UPenn (Wharton). He also serves as mentor to Techstars and ERA programs and an advisor to OpenFortune and Transfix.

Paul attended the Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania for undergrad and has an MBA from Columbia Business School.

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