Kenneth Pelowski
Founder and Managing Partner @ Pinnacle Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Kenneth Pelowski is a Series C investor at Pinnacle Ventures in San Francisco focused on Gaming and Mobile. Kenneth Pelowski is the Board Member at Cobalt Technologies Inc. Ken founded Pinnacle Ventures while working at Redpoint Ventures. Prior to Redpoint, Ken founded and was Chairman of the Board of Currenex, which was acquired by State Street for $560 million.Prior to Currenex, Ken was Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and aBoard member of GetThere (a Brentwood Venture Capital/USVP portfolio company), where he led its IPO as well as its $750 million acquisition by Sabre. Prior to joining GetThere, Ken was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Preview Travel (a Kleiner Perkins portfolio company), which acquired and changed its name to Travelocity. Ken led Preview’s IPO.Before joining Preview Travel, Ken was a Corporate Vice President and Executive Committee Member at General Instruments and at Quantum Corporation where he was responsible for corporate strategy and business development. Previously, he held senior management positions in sales and marketing at Sun Microsystems and Intel. He currently is a board member on several privately held companies and nonprofit organizations. He received a BSE in electrical engineering. An MBA from the University of Michigan.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
Last updated:
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Industries Kenneth Pelowski invests in
Stages Kenneth Pelowski invests in
Countries Kenneth Pelowski invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Gaming 1 (17%)
- Mobile 1 (17%)
- Biofuel 1 (17%)
- Internet 1 (17%)
- Software 1 (17%)
Stage
- Series C 2 (33%)
- Series D 2 (33%)
- Funding Round 1 (17%)
Investments
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Cobalt Technologies
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Cobalt Technologies develops technologies that focuses and designed for biofuels. Cobalt is pioneering science that makes possible a new generation of fuels that burn cleaner, are more cost-effective and have a smaller environmental impact. It was founded in 2005 and headquartered in Mountain View, California. | $5M / Oct 01, 2012 | |
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Cobalt Technologies
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Cobalt Technologies develops technologies that focuses and designed for biofuels. Cobalt is pioneering science that makes possible a new generation of fuels that burn cleaner, are more cost-effective and have a smaller environmental impact. It was founded in 2005 and headquartered in Mountain View, California. | Apr 01, 2012 | |
Kabam
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Kabam, an entertainment company, develops free-to-play games for mobile devices and Web platforms. It offers traditional, social, strategy, action, arcade, sports, and role-playing games. Holly Liu, Kevin Chou, Mike Li, and Wayne Chan founded Watercooler on October 28, 2006 that became Kabam in August 2010, with its headquarters in San Franciscoin California. It has additional offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles in California, Vancouver in Canada, Austin in Texas, Beijing in China, London in United Kingdom, and Berlin in Germany. | $85M / Series D / May 26, 2011 | |
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Cobalt Technologies
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Cobalt Technologies develops technologies that focuses and designed for biofuels. Cobalt is pioneering science that makes possible a new generation of fuels that burn cleaner, are more cost-effective and have a smaller environmental impact. It was founded in 2005 and headquartered in Mountain View, California. | Series D / May 02, 2011 | |
WiChorus
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Wichorus, Inc. develops platforms for 4G networks. The company’s SmartCore platforms enable operators to deploy WiMAX and LTE networks with service and subscriber management, content management, and network optimizations, as well as to monetize the Internet. It also offers solutions for WiMAX networks, including an Intelligent ASN gateway, whichaggregates subscriber and control traffic from base stations within an access network; Home Agent, an anchor point for subscribers, providing roaming with QoS capabilities to optimize their mobile experience; and mobile Internet gateway, a solution that offers various functions for the WiMAX core on a single platform. In addition, the company provides element management system that facilitates service providers with various tools required to centrally configure, monitor, and manage WiChorus-powered wireless networks. Further, it offers a subscriber-aware, content-aware, and wireless-aware platform that offers management and control of services.The company was founded in 2005 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. As of December 1, 2009, Wichorus, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Tellabs Inc. | $18M / Series C / Nov 04, 2008 | |
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Cobalt Technologies
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Cobalt Technologies develops technologies that focuses and designed for biofuels. Cobalt is pioneering science that makes possible a new generation of fuels that burn cleaner, are more cost-effective and have a smaller environmental impact. It was founded in 2005 and headquartered in Mountain View, California. | Series C / Oct 20, 2008 |
Co-Investors
About Pinnacle Ventures
Pinnacle Ventures is a private venture capital fund focused on providing debt and equity financing to early-stage companies across information technology, cleantech and healthcare. Pinnacle differentiates itself through the strength and diversity of its team, its creative and flexible financing alternatives and its unique approach to helping itsportfolio companies achieve success.
Pinnacle Ventures Contacts
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Donal D. Delaney
Chief Financial Officer
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Robert N. Savoie
Partner and COO
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Arun Ramamoorthy
General Partner
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Kenneth Pelowski
Founder and Managing Partner
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What does Kenneth Pelowski invest in?
Kenneth Pelowski invests primarily in Gaming, Mobile and Biofuel startups, most often at Series C and Series D stage. Most of the 6 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 Kenneth Pelowski last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Kenneth Pelowski closed in Oct 2012. Shizune tracks 6 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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