Owen Davis
General Partner @ Contour Venture Partners
New York, United States
Owen Davis is a seed investor at Contour Venture Partners in New York focused on Software and Information Technology. Owen currently works as General Partner at Contour Venture Partners. He was the Managing Director of NYC Seed from 2008 until 2016. Owen is the author of various patents in Internet methods and technologies. He is also the author of the book Instant Java Applets, available from Ziff-Davis Press. He is an original member of the World Wide WebArtists Consortium and served on that group's original board. He was also an original member of the Board setting online advertising and media specifications and has served as Managing Director of the Wireless Advertising Association. Owen was named various times as one of the 100 Top Internet Executives in New York by The Silicon Alley Reporter and has also been named one of the 100 most influential people in Silicon Alley by Business Insider. He received his bachelor's degree from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He is also an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and has taught seminars at New York University in New York City and Abu Dhabi.
- Total investments:
- 5
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 80%
Last updated:
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Industries Owen Davis invests in
Stages Owen Davis invests in
Countries Owen Davis invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (60%)
- Information Technology 3 (60%)
- Developer Tools 2 (40%)
- DevOps 1 (20%)
- EdTech 1 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (80%)
- Series B 1 (20%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Full-Stack Ephemeral Environments on Every Pull Request | $2.3M / Seed / Oct 13, 2020 | ||
| Shipyard is an environment management platform. It creates ephemeral, on-demand copies of your app every time you open a PR. You can share these environments with SSO-enabled links, run E2E and unit tests against them, and integrate them into your CI/CD pipeline. With Shipyard, all you'll need to start deploying environments is a DockerCompose file. | $2.3M / Seed / Oct 13, 2020 | ||
| CourseHorse is a provider of a learning platform used to centralize the learning opportunities. Its platform partners with providers of Spanish lessons, cooking courses, yoga classes, and other classes to create a single destination for people seeking personal interest education that enables people to increase ease and confidence in discovering thepath to personal enrichment.It was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York. | $4M / Series B / Jan 13, 2016 | ||
| VAlign provides virtual IT services based on usage and cost transparency for the underlying infrastructure. | Seed / Sep 11, 2009 | ||
| Magnetic is a AI company with a marketing platform for enterprises, brands and agencies. Our ad solutions help marketers find, keep and bring back customers. These solutions are powered by our unique data including purchase intent data from more than 450,000 partner sites, shopping profiles of over 250 million individuals, and behavioral insightsacross a billion active devices.Headquartered in New York City, Magnetic also has offices in Los Angeles, Chicago, Ann Arbor, Boston, Atlanta and San Francisco. Additionally, Magnetic has offices in Europe and Canada. For more information please visit www.magnetic.com. | $1.3M / Seed / Mar 16, 2009 |
Co-Investors
About Contour Venture Partners
Contour Venture Partners invests in companies focused on information technology, and the application of innovative software solutions into the enterprise SaaS, vertical B2B SaaS and financial services sectors. The principals at Contour have a long and successful track record, having directly supported over 85 companies through numerous market cycles. We take great pride in the strong bonds we form with management teams, as this is a crucial ingredient to achieving long term milestones while also making the process engaging and enjoyable. We recognize it is the details and pursuit of flawless execution combined with the right long-term vision that makes a company great. We have the experience, intuition, judgment and industry expertise to ensure that the foundation is in place for management to build a great business with a sustainable competitive advantage.
Contour Venture Partners Contacts
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Bob Greene
Managing Partner & Co-Founder
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Matt Gorin
Managing Partner & Co-Founder
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Owen Davis
General Partner
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What does Owen Davis invest in?
Owen Davis invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Developer Tools startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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