George C. Kenney
Managing Director @ Shepherd Ventures
George C. Kenney is a seed investor at Shepherd Ventures focused on Banking and FinTech. George Kenney, a Managing Director and co-founder of Shepherd Ventures, has a strong technical background combined with extensive Wall Street and financial industry experience. George has been a successful manager in rapid growth environments, turning around struggling operations and developing and mentoring high technology companies. Hespecializes in information systems, semiconductors, components and networking, and pioneered optical recording technology.Before forming Shepherd Ventures, George was CTO and Partner at Nicholas-Applegate, a money management firm in San Diego, where he directed the technology infrastructure expansion necessary to grow the company from a local presence to a network of international locations. Prior to Nicholas-Applegate, George was CTO and Managing Director at Kidder Peabody in New York City. Previously he held top information technology positions at Swiss Bank, Salomon Brothers and the American Stock Exchange. As Director of Research for North American Philips and co-founder of Digital Measurements Corp., George obtained numerous US and foreign patents.George holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia University, an MSEE from Stanford University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Additionally, he attended the Optics Program at Londons Imperial College and is a graduate of Harvard Universitys Industrial Management Program. A noted technology futurist, George has been a keynote speaker at financial conferences on The Future of Technology. He has served as a Trustee for the San Diego Museum of Art and as pro-bono Chairman of the museum's Investment Committee. He has also served on the Board of Governors of the National Association of Small Business Investment Companies and is currently a board member of several technology companies.
- Total investments:
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Industries George C. Kenney invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Banking 1 (100%)
- FinTech 1 (100%)
- Financial Services 1 (100%)
- Information Technology 1 (100%)
Investments
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Mirador
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Mirador is the leading front-end small business lending platform supporting established lenders with borrower acquisition, digital application, decisioning, and borrower communication. Mirador leverages a streamlined, delightful user experience to create profitability and efficiencies in the lending process, giving traditional lenders the edge theyneed to compete. Mirador’s core lending platform can be supplemented with two modules that support highly prequalified lead generation and a second look program, enabling lenders to implement or expand a fully functioning small business loan program with a single trusted partner. Through the implementation of Mirador’s core platform, lenders have seen a 69% increase in efficiency in the small business lending process and an average reduction of $1550 in the cost to originate a loan, supporting greater profitability in the small business lending business unit. Mirador supports small business lending products including term loans, collateralized loans, SBA guaranteed loans, commercial real estate, and quick decision or docless loans, from $1k-$20M+. | $2.7M / Seed / Nov 24, 2014 |
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About Shepherd Ventures
Shepherd Ventures was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in San Diego, part of Southern California's Tech Coast, with easy access to other technology centers throughout the region. The four original Managing Directors of Shepherd Ventures were George Kenney, Peter Fisher, Tom Siegel and Richard Kuntz. The region has vibrant high technologyand life sciences industries, is underserved by the venture capital community, and offers compelling investment opportunities.Shepherd Ventures focus is on information technology and life sciences companies characterized by passionate and experienced management teams, compelling value propositions and extraordinary upside potential. They concentrate on companies located in Southern California and the Southwest, particularly San Diego, where they believe there is a significant shortage of venture capital. Their objective is to generate significant capital appreciation through a balanced portfolio of first and later stage equity investments in carefully selected, wisely shepherded growth companies.First stage companies are those with products that incorporate a disruptive technology, that are (or are about to be) commercially released, and that are capable of creating a valuable new paradigm in their category. In particular, Shepherd Ventures look for companies with completed products, where sales channels have been defined, and when possible, validated by a purchase order or letter of intent from a bona fide customer. Companies should exhibit a sustainable competitive advantage that will drive them to market or sector dominance and a credible path to profitability. Investments in these companies may be part of the first or second round of institutional capital. Seed stage opportunities will generally not be considered.Later stage companies are those that either have received prior rounds of venture capital, or have achieved growth and operational maturity without venture funding. These companies would be established technology companies with existing revenue and proven management teams. They likely will have profitable products, brand identity, market traction, and satisfied customers.The Shepherd Ventures Managing Directors, Venture Partners and Advisors are industry leaders who have extensive experience operating, guiding and investing in first and later stage information technology and life sciences companies.Shepherd Ventures takes pride in its people. They have a dynamic team of experienced professionals who hold diverse, yet extremely relevant backgrounds. The Shepherd team is disciplined, committed, capable, and always eager to assist Shepherd Ventures companies in any area they need to succeed. While Shepherd Ventures structure and lead most of the investments they make, they recognize the value of partnering to help entrepreneurs execute and build world class businesses.
Shepherd Ventures Contacts
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Fred Lawrence
Venture Partner
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George C. Kenney
Managing Director
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Olga Kitsakos
Operations Partner
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Richard P. Kuntz
Managing Director
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What does George C. Kenney invest in?
George C. Kenney invests primarily in Banking, FinTech and Financial Services startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did George C. Kenney last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for George C. Kenney closed in Nov 2014. Shizune tracks 1 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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