Howie Diamond

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Biography

Mr. Howie Diamond is a Co-Founder & serves as Managing Partner at Alpha Bridge Ventures. Mr. Diamond serves as a Director Of Strategy at Immunity Project. He is the Founder and serves as Managing Director at Ranch Ventures. Previously he co-founded Lo-Fi Music and served as its Manager. He holds a BS degree from the University of Colorado. Howie works to identify and evaluate promising early-stage technology and consumer-centric companies. He conducts diligence on all potential investments as well as helps quarterback general operations and strategy for ABV. Howie delivers expertise in many facets of business while bringing a hard-core entrepreneurial perspective. After living his dream of managing and performing in a major label rock band, Howie founded and sold a music management/licensing company in Los Angeles called Lo-Fi Music. After that, he moved to San Francisco and began working closely with dozens of start-ups running business development for a Bay Area tech agency called Sparkart. Through this experience, he gained the confidence and expertise necessary to start his own early-stage venture fund called Ranch Ventures in Sept 2015. The ranch was born out of Howie's desire to create important change in the world and acts as a proxy for that change. Fund I is fully put to work with 20 companies in the portfolio and solving big problems across a wide range of sectors. Howie was previously on the founding team of a Y-Combinator-backed biotech startup called Immunity Project and is currently a mentor at 500 Startups and Runway Innovation Hub. He was a featured judge on Season 2 of Gimlet Media's thepitch.vc podcast. Howie lives and works in San Francisco, CA.