Katherine Przygode
Managing Partner at Venusberg Ventures
Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder and Managing Partner
2024 - Current
Venusberg Venture’s investment thesis is focused on B2B SaaS and AI enabled startups building the next generation of enterprise software. Investments include: Mission Cloud Services, North.cloud, Giftpack.ai, ARwall, Double A Labs, iCardio.
Board Advisor
2024
Board Advisor for North.cloud an AI powered cloud cost optimization platform helping customers reduce their AWS cloud spend.
Humanless cloud optimization.
Raised $2,600,000.00 from Looking Glass Capital, Uncommon Denominator, Alpaca VC, Tenzing.vc and Everywhere Ventures.
Board Advisor
2023
Board Advisor for Capturely the leading remote headshot company. Capturely provides corporate headshots remotely via a smartphone app that connects employees with professional photographers.
Angel Investor
2021
* Co-chair of Pre-Screening Committee * Member Fund Committee * Member Executive Committee Investments include: Holoclara, Atraverse, Alleviate, Amsel Medical, Aurenar, Berri Organics, Fuego, GeerGarage, IpourIT, Karma Biotechnologies, KneeVoice, Octagon Therapeutics, Neosoma, PreFix, Ready, Set, Food!, RealSeq Biosciences, Rotender, Tympanogen, Z-Polymers.
Member
2023
Athena is the leading Executive Learning Community that accelerates leadership advancement to the C-suite, the CEO's office, and the boardroom through a unique model of modern business leadership education and a powerful network.
Partner
2023 - 2024
Newport is a unique national business advisory firm that offers experienced based client-centric solutions that help CEOs and owners of middle market companies grow, de-risk and realize their company's value.
Board Advisor
2019 - 2023
Parquantix is a technology consulting firm for companies with deployments on amazon web services.
Management Consultant
2019 - 2023
After founding a business and exiting it to Private Equity, I decided to take a much needed vacation to focus on myself and family. In between I helped startup founders define their business models, go-to-market strategies, and advised them on investor pitches.
President, Media & Entertainment
2018 - 2019
Responsible for expanding Mission's Media & Entertainment book of business while shepherding a smooth transition of Stratalux's customers and employees to Mission.
Board Member
2018 - 2019
Mission Cloud is a cloud managed services and consulting provider, offering cloud services, AI solutions, and software for AWS customers.
Raised $15,000,000.00 from Great Hill Partners.
CEO & Founder
2010 - 2018
CEO and Founder of Stratalux, one of the first AWS Consulting Partners and leading cloud based Managed Services Providers. Stratalux specialized in cloud migrations, Serverless Software Development, configuration management solutions, infrastructure automation, and Managed Services utilizing DevOps best practices. Stratalux customers included: Dreamwork Animation, Lifelock, Red Digital Cinema, Active Network, Carl’s Jr., Toyota Financial Services, New Voice Media, Top Golf Media, Vungle, One Kings Lane among others. In 2018 I exited Stratalux to Great Hill Partners a leading private equity firm. Stratalux is now happily part of Mission Cloud Services.
Chairwoman of the Board
2010 - 2018