Luke Sorenson
Partner @ Sorenson Capital
Salt Lake City, United States
Luke Sorenson is a Managing Director at Sorenson Capital Partners. Luke has had extensive experience in deal origination, due diligence, transaction processing, portfolio management, administrative operations, and portfolio and limited partner relationships. Luke has led or co-led numerous investments in this capacity for the firm and heads theaerospace and defense team, which has successfully invested in Atlas Aerospace, Vitron Manufacturing, LifePort, Aircraft Leasing Corp (“AL”), Custom Control Concepts (CCC), and Roberts Tool Company (RTC). He is actively involved in the firm’s portfolio, serving as Chairman at CCC and RTC, and as a director at Western States Lodging and Management. Luke is also an advocate for social investing and serves as a director at the Sorenson Impact Foundation, and serves on the investment committee of the University Venture Fund, a student-run venture fund affiliated with the University of Utah.Prior to Sorenson Capital, Luke served in a variety of industries and functions through the Sorenson Companies, including Sorenson Media (video compression software), Sorenson Communications (video relay services), and Sorenson Development (real estate development). Luke has also served as a director for Microject, a medical device company, and as an advisory board member for the University Venture Fund. Luke received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.S. in Accounting from Brigham Young University.
- Total investments:
- 3
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 100%
Last updated:
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Industries Luke Sorenson invests in
Stages Luke Sorenson invests in
Countries Luke Sorenson invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Aerospace 3 (100%)
- Manufacturing 3 (100%)
- Service Industry 2 (67%)
Investments
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Excel Manufacturing
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Excel Manufacturing, Inc. is a precision manufacturer of hydraulic actuators and control system components for aerospace and defense platforms. The company specializes in the complex machining required for high-wear, flight critical components including levers, pistons, cranks, shafts, slides and rod ends.Excel partnered with Sorenson Capitaland the RTC team to provide a successful exit for the retiring owner and to enable the rapid growth anticipated by Excel's existing employees and customers. | Private Equity / Jan 01, 2014 | |
Roberts Tool Company
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Based in Chatsworth, California, Roberts Tool Company is a privately-held company with a proud 50+ year history in precision aerospace manufacturing, and a reputation for achieving the impossible in terms of complex, high-tolerance, difficult-to-machine parts.Stable and professionally managed, Roberts Tool Company offers beginning to endsolutions for entire families of commercial and aerospace parts. From the procurement of raw materials to managing inventory to dramatically lowering costs, Roberts Tool Company reduces your supply chain risk and lead times-usually to days, not months. | Private Equity / Feb 08, 2013 | |
JWD Machine
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JWD Machine, Inc. is a growing manufacturer of metal and composite parts and assemblies for customers in the aerospace, defense and transportation industries. With over 33 years of experience, JWD has developed world-class skill in manufacturing high strength, high heat treat and complex components for critical structures.JWD operates numerousmulti-axis milling and turning centers in its production facility in Fife, Washington plus other equipment needed for quality control and operations. Internally or through its outsourced vendors, JWD provides cutting, turning, milling, jig boring, jig milling, honing, broaching and grinding ID/OD of bar stock, forgings and castings.JWD can produce the most exacting tolerance machined components. They are more than happy to provide turnkey parts complete through required processing, finishing, painting and assembly including detail components.Their focus on lean manufacturing strategies enables us to provide responsiveness to customer requirements that you will rarely find. They have taken this well beyond standard practices by designing their own proprietary work holding system for CNC milling centers. JWD’s patented Techni-Grip™ reduces tooling design requirements, standardizes your fixturing, and reduces set-up and change-over time while improving dimensional repeatability. Techni-Grip™ is such an advantageous tool that they have an entire department dedicated to its manufacture and sale at an international level to customers such as Boeing, Agilent Technologies and many others. | Private Equity / Jan 01, 2013 |
About Sorenson Capital
Sorenson Capital is a leading venture capital firm that invests in product-oriented early and growth-stage B2B software companies in the cybersecurity, application, developer tools & computing infrastructure, and analytics, ML, & AI sectors. Sorenson has over $1.6 billion of assets under management across its early and growth-stage funds.The firm supports entrepreneurs through every stage of their journey to accelerate revenue growth and further their product leadership position. Sorenson’s investments in product leaders include Amplitude, BambooHR, Bridgecrew, Couchbase, Fastly, Harness, and Socure. With offices in Lehi, Utah, and Palo Alto, California, Sorenson is proud to partner with entrepreneurs from coast to canyon. To learn more about Sorenson, please visit: https://www.sorensoncapital.com/.
Sorenson Capital Contacts
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Ken Elefant
Partner, Palo Alto VC Unit
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Fraser Bullock
Co-Founder & Partner
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Luke Sorenson
Partner
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Mark Ludwig
Partner
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Rob Rueckert
Partner
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What does Luke Sorenson invest in?
Luke Sorenson invests primarily in Aerospace, Manufacturing and Service Industry startups, most often at Private Equity stage. Most of the 3 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 Luke Sorenson last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Luke Sorenson closed in Jan 2014. Shizune tracks 3 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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