Charles Songhurst

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Mr. Charles Songhurst serves as a Venture Partner at Acequia Capital. He serves as an Investment Partner at Nyca Partners. He is an Angel Investor. He serves Advisor at Aplo, 8VC, and Veratrak. He also serves as a Board Member at Beauhurst, CodeSignal, and Rigetti. He serves as an Advisor and Board Member at Bear Robotics. He previously served as a Board Member at Proteus Digital Health, Transit Capital, and SafeGraph. He also served as an Advisor at OpenGov, Legalist, and Mighty AI. He is the Founder and serves as a Partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies. He ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skype acquisition. Before running the corporate strategy, he was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry. He was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. He received a bachelor's degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.