Joshua Resnick Overview

  • Primary Position
  • Co-Founder & Gen...

  • Primary Industry
  • B2B

  • Med. Deal Size

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Joshua Resnick General Information

Biography

Mr. Joshua Resnick is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Pure Imagination Brands. Mr. Resnick is an Angel Investor. He is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at OpenSky Ventures. Mr. Resnick co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer at Sugarfina. He served as Chief Executive Officer & Board Member at Sugarfina. He serves as President & Founder at Pandemic Studios. He also serves as Board Member at Payoff.com. Previously, he founded and served as Chief Executive Officer at nProgress. Over the past nine years, he and his partners have built Pandemic into a company of over 300 highly skilled programmers, designers, and artists working on a wide variety of high-profile titles for consoles and PCs at their offices in California and Australia. his creativity, strong business background, and professional approach have formed the foundation for what has become one of the largest and most stable independent developers in the world. Before founding Pandemic, he spent four years at Activision, serving as Producer on the 1995 mega-hit Mechwarrior 2', as Director of the RTS favorite Dark Reign' and later as Director of Production for the Strategy Division of Activision's internal studio. He earned his M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1993, and his B.A. from Pomona College in 1989. He also serves as Advisor at Cloud3PL.

Contact Information

Primary Position
Co-Founder & General Partner, Pure Imagination Brands
Education
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), MBA (Master of Business Administration)
Pomona College, BA (Bachelor of Arts)
Gender
Male
Total Investments
Exits
Email
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Address
  • 2219 Main Street
  • Suite 165
  • Santa Monica, CA 90405
  • United States

Joshua Resnick Positions (2)

Firm name Firm type Title Location Industry Since
OpenSky Ventures Investor Co-Founder & General Partner Los Angeles, CA Venture Capital
Pure Imagination Brands Investor Co-Founder & General Partner Santa Monica, CA Angel Group

Joshua Resnick Lead Partner on Deals (3)

Joshua Resnick has been the lead partner on 3 deals. Their latest deal was with Uprising, a food products company. The deal was made for on 05-Jan-2021.

Company Deal Date Deal Type Deal Size Deal Status Industry Location
Uprising 05-Jan-2021 Early Stage VC (Series A) Completed Food Products New Richmond, OH
Vantage Point (Education and Training Services) 16-Aug-2018 Completed Education and Training Services (B2B) Covina, CA
GameSalad 09-Mar-2011 Completed Software Development Applications Austin, TX

Joshua Resnick Network (67)

Board Members (24)

Name Company Representing Location From
Jim Lane Happy Money Self Torrance, CA
Paul Braude Happy Money Self Torrance, CA
Happy Money Anthemis Torrance, CA
Happy Money Self Torrance, CA
Happy Money Happy Money Torrance, CA

Portfolio Executives (42)

Name Company Role Deal date Location
Kate Schumacher Uprising Co-Founder 05-Jan-2021 New Richmond, OH
William Schumacher III Uprising Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer President & Board Member 05-Jan-2021 New Richmond, OH
Uprising Co-Founder & Chief Brand Officer 05-Jan-2021 New Richmond, OH
Vantage Point (Education and Training Services) Advisor 16-Aug-2018 Covina, CA
Vantage Point (Education and Training Services) Advisor 16-Aug-2018 Covina, CA

Fund Team Members (1)

Name Investor Fund Fund Location
OpenSky Ventures Los Angeles, CA

Joshua Resnick Affiliated Funds (1)

Fund Investor Fund Type Status Vintage Size Dry Powder IRR IRR Quartile
OpenSky Ventures Fund I OpenSky Ventures Venture Capital - Early Stage Open

Joshua Resnick Advisory Roles (1)

Firm name Firm type Title Location Industry Since
Cloud3PL Company Advisor Dover, DE Business/Productivity Software

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