Ablorde Ashigbi
Advisor at Immersed [Techstars '17]
Greater Chicago Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder / CEO
2017 - Current
We're a startup with a vision to equalize opportunity by enabling you to build stronger professional relationships. Our platform identifies the right connections for you to focus on, works with you to strengthen those relationships over time, and helps you activate your network when you need it.
4Degrees is an AI-enabled relationship management and intelligence software company.
Raised $1,550,000.00 from Northwestern Mutual Black Founder Accelerator, gener8tor, Harlem Capital, Connetic Ventures, Chicago Early Growth Ventures (CEGV), Unpopular Ventures, Techstars, Right Side Capital Management and Pritzker Group Venture Capital.
Advisor
2017
We immerse distributed teams into the same VR workplace to maximize productivity.
Raised $12,075,000.00 from Fireroad Ventures and Joshua Y. Lee.
Global Shaper
2015
Senior Associate
2014 - 2017
Pritzker Group Venture Capital, formerly New World Ventures, helps entrepreneurs build market-leading technology companies at every stage of their growth. Since our founding in 1996, our firm has worked side-by-side with entrepreneurs at more than 100 companies, building partnerships based on trust and integrity. Our proprietary capital structure allows for tremendous flexibility, and our experienced team of investment professionals and entrepreneurs offers companies a vast network of strategic relationships and guidance. Exits in recent years include Fleetmatics (NYSE: FLTX), SinglePlatform (acquired by Constant Contact), Zinch (acquired by Chegg), Playdom (acquired by Disney), LeftHand Networks (acquired by Hewlett-Packard), and TicketsNow (acquired by Ticketmaster).
Pritzker Group Venture Capital is a trusted partner helping entrepreneurs build market-leading technology companies
Investor
2015 - 2017
Augury provides machine health diagnostics designed to help reduce downtime and increase supply chain resilience.
Raised $294,000,000.00 from Munich Re Ventures, Insight Partners, Lerer Hippeau, Baker Hughes, Eclipse Ventures, Qumra Capital, Qualcomm Ventures and SE Ventures.
Investor
2015 - 2017
G2 operates a software marketplace for business organizations to research, buy, and manage their software and services.
Raised $257,572,384.00 from Permira, HubSpot Ventures, Accel, LinkedIn, Auren Hoffman, Salesforce Ventures, IVP, Emergence and Thomas Lehrman.
Investor
2015 - 2017
Hightower is the commercial leasing management platform that helps brokers and owners to manage their end-to-end leasing workflow.
Raised $21,660,000.00 from Aaron Levie, William Rudin, Newmark and Jaws Ventures.
Senior Associate Consultant
2013 - 2014
Associate Consultant
2011 - 2013
Business Fellow
2014 - 2014
Extern, Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership
2014 - 2014
Education
A.B.
2007 - 2011