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Jonathon Triest

Managing Partner at Ludlow Ventures

Detroit, Michigan

Overview 

Jonathon Triest is the Managing Partner at Ludlow Ventures in Detroit, Michigan, where he specializes in venture capital and investments. He has successfully invested in a range of companies, including StockX in Series B funding and Honey in Seed funding, demonstrating his expertise in supporting and growing start-ups.

Work Experience 

  • Seed Investor

    2018 - Current

Boulevard is a business management platform developed to help streamline the operations of appointment-based businesses.

Raised $108,000,000.00 from Point72 Ventures, BoxGroup, VMG Partners, Index Ventures, Toba Capital and Bonfire Ventures.

  • Managing Partner

    2009

    Jonathon Triest is the Managing Partner of Ludlow Ventures.

  • Seed Investor

    2014

Honey is a shopping platform that provides access to exclusive savings, deals, rewards, and discovery.

Raised $31,800,000.00 from Citi Ventures.

  • Seed Investor

    2016

StockX is an online marketplace to buy and sell limited edition and high demand sneakers.

Raised $690,000,000.00 from Dragoneer Investment Group, Altimeter Capital, Whale Rock Capital Management, Tiger Global Management, Altimeter Capital, Hedosophia and Sands Capital Ventures.

  • Seed Investor

    2020

Backbone offers a mobile gaming controller that is cloud-gaming and remote-play compatible, allowing people to play games from anywhere.

Raised $40,000,000.00 from Index Ventures, Electric Feel Ventures, Patrick Spence, Sean Combs, Jason Citron, Richard Post Malone, Kevin Hart, Sound Ventures, Nico Wittenborn and Nick Fajt.

  • Seed Investor

    2019

Flex enables people to pay bills on a schedule that fits their personal finances.

Raised $5,800,000.00 from Matrix, Camber Creek and Coatue.

  • Seed Investor

    2021

Captions is an AI-powered creative studio developing a video creation and editing platform for content creation.

Raised $100,000,000.00 from Index Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Adobe Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia Capital, Jared Leto and HubSpot Ventures.

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