Managing Partner & Co-Founder

Wireframe Ventures

Paul Straub is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Wireframe Ventures, where he invests in founders using technology to address massive opportunities in real-world themes like resource efficiency, personalized medicine, manufacturing and mobility.  He leads Wireframe’s investments in Full Harvest Technologies, Open Invest and LevelTen Energy.  Paul is also a General Partner at Claremont Creek Ventures and was previously an investor at Infinity Capital.  He has led or managed early investments in companies such as Renew Financial, Yerdle, Blue Pillar, Spruce Financial, Cyanea (acquired), Property Bridge (acquired), Lefora (acquired), and Root3 Technologies (acquired).

Apart from his investing career, Paul has worked in product and strategy roles at software companies like VERITAS and Red Hat.  He started his career during the late ‘90s as an investment banker at Montgomery Securities and Thomas Weisel Partners.  Paul holds an MBA from Duke University and a BS from the University of Virginia.