Ari Newman

Ari Newman is a Co-Founder and Managing Director at Massive.vc, a multi-stage venture firm dedicated to providing engaged and empathetic capital to category-leading tech companies in the Deep Tech, Fintech, SaaS and ClimateTech markets. He is also a Partner at The Fund Rockies, a pre-seed and seed-stage fund focused on the Rocky Mountain region. Ari is a Board Director at Line Financial, PBC. Previously, Ari was a Partner with Techstars Ventures where he had the opportunity to work with hundreds of early-stage companies. Ari has served on the boards of the Rocky Mountain Venture Capital Association, Distil Networks, GreatHorn, Smart Vision Labs, RescueTime and others. Before focusing on investing full time, Ari spent 15 years as an entrepreneur and operator, learning along the way through both success and failure. He's old-school Techstars alumni, co-founding Filtrbox in 2007 and then selling the business to Jive Software. Ari is a product and business strategy nerd at heart and loves working with Founders on the hardest problems. He is a terrible blogger.