Author's Profile

Justin Burden

Senior Managing Director, Industry Ventures

Justin concentrates on originating, valuing, and managing secondary investment opportunities in later-stage, venture-backed companies and venture capital funds. As a member of the Industry Ventures Secondary and Tech Buyout Funds investment committee, he is actively involved in fundraising and LP relationship management.

Since joining in 2004, Justin has sourced and led the acquisition of over seventy-five secondary transactions in secondary directs and limited partnership interests. These transactions include purchasing corporate venture capital funds, hedge fund investments, restructuring limited partnership interests, acquiring portfolios of limited partnership interests, purchasing founders’ equity interests, and structuring special situation investments with General Partners and Limited Partners.

Previously, he worked at GE Equity in San Francisco, the VC arm of the General Electric Company, where he sourced, structured, and managed investments in the technology, consumer, media, and telecom sectors. Prior to GE Equity, Justin worked at Wells Fargo’s high-yield fund purchasing debt securities in buyout transactions.

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