Mr Lauren DeLuca

KANDO id: 1049741

Bio

Lauren co-founded and served as Managing Partner of Oxford Intelligence Partners, a FinTech company serving Fortune 500 Investor Relations Officers until its 2015 sale to Q4, a Toronto-based strategic acquirer. Lauren was also a founding partner of Victory Networks, a low-latency trading infrastructure provider that sold to QuantHouse in 2017. Additionally, Lauren founded two proprietary trading firms, Sumo Capital and Budo Holdings, before successfully exiting in 2017, and served as RIVSDirector from founding through exit. Lauren has been an active early-stage investor since 2012, both as an individual and as a member of IrishAngels and serves as a mentor at startup accelerators 43North and Founders Institute. Lauren earned his BA from Notre Dame and his MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Business.


Career


Motivate Venture Capital - founder

Venture capital firm that invests in pre-seed and seed-stage companies across the US and Canada.

Education