Scott Armanini
Family Office Director, Strategic Investments at Ligo Partners Family Office
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Associate Director, Strategic Initiatives, UC Davis DataLab (datalab.ucdavis.edu)
2024 - Current
Investing in new business models, ventures and partnerships with corporations and government agencies that leverage UC Davis DataLab's expertise, consulting and training services in data science, informatics, visualization, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and quantum computing.
Family Office Director, Strategic Investments
2024
Ligo Partners is a single family office based between Miami and New York. We invest with our discrete and invitation-only consortium of like-minded investors into disruptive tech-focused deal flow sourced directly from family offices and top venture capital firms worldwide. Hence, 100% of our deal flow has a lead, is warmly referred, often proprietary and mostly off-market. In parallel, Ligo Partners family office invests in tech debt financings; tech secondaries and traditional roll-up strategies with a tech component Since 2022, Ligo Partners have deployed $620mm into 97 companies backed by tier-one investors; 8 investment funds anchored by tier-one sponsors - and successfully exited 10 venture-backed companies.
Investor, Maternal and Prenatal Health
2015
Series B (2024) led by Kapor Capital and Noshaq. FDA approved (Feb 2023, Jan 2024) and covered by insurance! Bloomlife uses AI, ML and Remote Patient Monitoring (RPM) of high risk pregnancies to improve birth outcomes – especially in underserved communities) Our investors include Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, 15th Rock Ventures, CAA Ventures, Kapor Capital, Lean Square, Noshaq, Plug and Play Ventures, RH Capital, Stardust Equity, and The Grove Foundation. Partnerships: PeriGen; Valley Perinatal Services https://perigen.com/perigen-bloomlife-partnership/ https://medtechinnovator.org/bloomlife-and-valley-perinatal-services-partner-to-transform-high-risk-maternal-care/ Co-Founded by Eric Dy (UCLA, Cornell) and Julien Penders (Boston University, University of Liege)
Women's health company redefining maternal care delivery to improve the health of women and babies.
Raised $29,029,458.00 from HAX and SOSV.
Venture Advisor
2019
1-Click, biometric-controlled, Account Sign-up / On-Boarding and Identity Management Backed by 1414 Ventures, Draper Associates, Franklin Templeton, Outliers Fund, Samsung NEXT Ventures, Tappan Hill Ventures, Wedbush Ventures. Co-Founded by Aidan (Stanford, Oxford) and Liam McCarty (Stanford).
1-Click Signup is to onboarding what 1-click checkout is to payments. It's the fastest way for users to signup for your service.
Raised $6,050,000.00 from Samsung NEXT’s Q Fund, Draper Associates, 1414 Ventures, Outliers Fund, Tappan Hill Ventures, Draper Associates, Tappan Hill Ventures, Hard Yaka and Wedbush Ventures.
Actor
2022
JLo's ATLAS (Netflix Original film). Stand-in for lead actor Simu Liu (Harlan Shepherd). Corporate clients include Boehringer Ingelheim, Samsung and Woolx Merino Wool.
Assistant Professor - Entrepreneurship & Product Innovation
2020
I have the honor and privilege of teaching Entrepreneurship and Disruptive Innovation (including Generative AI) to graduate students at my alma mater, USC. My faculty appointment is with the USC Jimmy Iovine & Andre (Dr. Dre) Young Academy for the Arts, Technology and Business of Innovation, taking startups from 0 to 1 using frameworks, techniques and tools including Exponential Thinking (Singularity U); Design Thinking (Stanford d.school); Human-Centered Design; Agile Development; Lean Startup and Lean LaunchPad (NSF i-Corps / NIH); Jobs-to-be-Done; Blue and Red Oceans; Business Model Canvas and Value Proposition Canvas; Models of Impact / Social Enterprises); Tri-Sector Innovation (combining resources from Non-Profits + Enterprises + Governments); and Big Ideas (Sustainability + Disruptive Technologies). And key considerations including venture fundraising; creating the company's culture; legal, operating and governance structures; product development and product marketing; business development; branding and marketing; social media strategy; sales and customer support; Customer Discovery; Solution / Market Fit; Product / Market Fit; Channels and Partnerships; Target Markets and Customers;; Pricing, Contracts and Terms; and Proofs of Concept, Pilots, Implementations, and deployments. Master of Science in Integrated Design, Business and Technology IDSN 525 (Business Essentials) IDSN 546 (Integrative Studio) IDSN 585 (Capstone Projects) IDSN 599 (Special Projects) Master of Science in Product Innovation PRIN 530 (Business Essentials) PRIN 531 (Product Venture Design and Foresight) PRIN 532 (Leading Product Enterprises) Bachelor of Science: Arts, Technology and the Business of Innovation ACAD 181 (Disruptive Innovation) ACAD 182 (Case Studies in Disruptive Innovation) ACAD 260 / MEDS 250 (Introduction to Healthcare Innovations / USC Keck School of Medicine) USC Marshall School of Business - Master of Business Administration (MBA) MOR 564 (Strategic Innovation)
Academic Senate
2021 - 2024
Representing part-time faculty on the University's Academic Senate.
Venture Advisor
2021 - 2024
Acquired (2024) by Ziplines Education. Clicked is an on-demand, active-learning career network offering world-class work simulations (83 NPS). Try-on new careers from IBM Cybersecurity and Salesforce. Earn certificates. Be ready-for-hire! Over 40,000 learners have embraced Clicked’s experiential learning approach, with 99% of students who completed the real-world simulation sprints feeling more confident in their skills and abilities at work. Founded by Jeff Sample (UC Berkeley Haas, CSU Sacramento).
CEO / Executive Director
2023 - 2024
Open Sourcee (2025). Frontida Health Records is an award-winning 501(c)(3) non-profit Electronic Health Records (EHR) software company enabling frontline health and refugee aid workers to make data-driven decisions that improve the quality of care provided to low-resource communities. We combine the power of Human-Centered Design and Low-Code Software to tailor Open Source solutions that meet the unique needs (culture, language, workflow, reporting, etc.) of each organization we serve. Founded at USC Viterbi's Global Challenges in Innovation program (aka "Lives, Not Grades"). PBS Emmy Award-winning documentary. https://uscglobalinnovation.com/ https://www.pbs.org/show/lives-not-grades/
Venture Advisor
2018 - 2024
Acquired (2024) by Corner Capital Ventures. An IBM Ventures portfolio company - and graduate of the IBM + Columbia University Blockchain Accelerator program - IPwe is The Global Marketplace for both selling and licensing high-value patents. Investors include Alpana Ventures, Out of Beta, and Red Hook Capital. AI, Machine Learning, Blockchain. Founded by Intellectual Property expert Eric Spangenberg.
Entrepreneur In Residence
2021 - 2022
EIR, through global brand and product studio Pilot44 (NetGuru 2024), working directly with P&G’s startup teams and coaches to rapidly commercialize new products through retail distribution and D2C channels. Consulted on product strategy and market entry initiatives for a world-class CPG company, focusing on Target Markets, Customer Discovery, and Competitor Analysis. • Collaborated with internal startup teams to explore emerging products and product categories, • driving growth and commercialization efforts. • Developed partnerships and channels to enhance product offerings and achieve Product/Market Fit
Noxell Corporation manufactures and markets perfumes, colognes, cosmetic, and toiletry products under CoverGirl brand name.