Founder
Brooklyn Bridge Ventures
For 20 years, Charlie has been a mainstay in the New York City startup and innovation community–starting as the first analyst at Union Square Ventures after working in the General Motors pension fund’s venture capital and private equity group. He went on to help First Round Capital open up their NYC office in 2009 and in 2012, he started Brooklyn Bridge Ventures–the first venture capital fund based in Brooklyn– and funded over 100 local startup companies including Hungryroot, Petal Card, Brigit, Shortcut, Radformation, and Imagen, while also building a reputation for being the most accessible early-stage investor in New York.
Brooklyn Bridge Ventures made its final investment in early 2023, resulting in a portfolio where 40% of the companies were female-founded, 30% have a BIPOC founder and 9% have a Black founder, reflecting the diversity of the city’s entrepreneurial workforce and the firm’s dedication to inclusivity.
Charlie is one of only a dozen individuals named to Business Insider’s 100 Most Influential People in NY Tech five times or more and has been featured on City & State’s Tech Power 50.
He has spoken at SXSW and Techcrunch Disrupt and has taught entrepreneurship and various other business and technology courses at Fordham University and NYU-Poly. He is also on the leadership committee of Tech:NYC, an industry group representing New York City’s technology industry with government, civic institutions, in business, and in the media.
You can find his writing at www.thisisgoingtobebig.com since 2004.
