Co-Founder & Board Member of Endeavor Global @ Endeavor is the world's leading organization for identifying and supporting high-impact entrepreneurs and their companies across the world, generating over 500,000 jobs since 1997 and $8 billion in revenue in 2015 alone. We have offices across Latin America, Southeast Asia, Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, Turkey, the Arab Middle East and parts of Africa, including Egypt and Morocco. In 2013, we've begun our expansion in the U.S., focusing on cities that need to scale job creation, innovation and entrepreneurship.
As Co-Founder, I personally established our first two offices and selected our first entrepreneurs in Chile and Argentina. In addition, I helped get Endeavor Jordan off the ground and as the gateway to Endeavor's Middle East expansion. Most recently, I spearheaded Endeavor's North America Launch beginning with Endeavor Miami. Miami's story and more background at:
http://miamiherald.typepad.com/the-starting-gate/2014/06/qa-peter-kellner-entrepreneur-investor-philanthropist-even-filmmaker-.html
Endeavor's rollout across the U.S. now includes Endeavor Detroit and Endeavor Louisville.
www.endeavor.org From 1996 to Present (19 years) Founder & Managing Partner @ One of the first global seed and early stage venture capitalists to invest in technology companies across five continents. Initial investment, in 1995, was Internet Securities, the first online financial securities site for the emerging markets (exit: sold to Euromoney in 1999). Other early stage investments have included seeding aQuantive in 1996 (exit: 2000 IPO, acquired by Microsoft in 2007); Americanas.com.br: in 2000 (exit: 2002 merger with Submarino); Baazee in 2001 (exit: acquired by eBay in 2004); Eachnet in 2001 (exit: acquired by eBay in 2003); AdChina in 2007 (exit: acquired by AliBaba in 2015); Color Kinetics in 1997 (exit: 2004 IPO and acquisition by Philips Electronics in 2007).
More recently, seed and early stage investments have included LearnVest (2009, acquired by Northwestern Mutual in 2015), Fiksu (2010), Seed investor in CAISGroup (2010), Simpli.fi (2010), Personifi (acquired by Collective Media); Led Series A of Rubicon Global (2012); Violin Memory (2009, IPO in 2013); Buuteeq (2010, acquired by Priceline in 2014); LiveRamp (2007, acquired by Acxiom in 2014); 15Five (2012); Seed investor (2010) and Led Series C of EcoSense Lighting (2014); Modern Meadow (2012); Humin (2013); Organovo (2012; exit: 2012 IPO); Athleta (2000, acquired by GAP in 2008); early (2012) and growth round of Compass (2014); Seed investor (2014) and led Series B of Market Realist (2015); Led Series A of Paradata.io (2015); Seed investor (2012) and led Series C of Restorando.com (2015)
Other investments include expansion round in Salesforce (2003; exit: 2004 IPO), growth round in Betable (2013); and growth (2013) and major expansion round of Dataminr (2015).
Selected portfolio at www.rglobal.com From 1995 to Present (20 years) Founder & Advisor @ As a Fulbright Scholar to Hungary after Princeton, I founded EMLA to support Hungary through its transition to a market-based economy. I modeled it on the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and mobilized Hungary's top scientists, economists, lawyers, and journalists, to engage in interdisciplinary reform to support a healthy populace and a strong free market. We helped draft the hazardous waste law of Bosnia; train judges and prosecutors as far as Belarus, and are regarded as one of most knowledgeable environmental NGOs in Central Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall. The English site is http://emla.hu/englishsite/index.shtml Original funding came from the Rockefellers Brothers Fund, and now from the EU, Norway and other, primarily European, facilities. From September 1992 to Present (23 years 4 months)
MBA @ Harvard Business School From 1995 to 2003 JD, Law @ Yale Law School From 1996 to 1999 BA, Woodrow Wilson School of Public & International Affairs @ Princeton University From 1987 to 1991 Peter Kellner is skilled in: Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital, Start-ups, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investments, Angel Investing, Emerging Markets, Strategy, Social Entrepreneurship, Private Equity, Business Strategy, Management, Corporate Development, Strategic Partnerships, Executive Management