Randall Lucas
Entrepreneur in Residence Voyager Capital
Currently: Helping Voyager Capital look at the best early stage B2B companies in the Pacific Northwest, and serving our portfolio companies as they go from product-market fit to scaling execution.
Previously:
- Built the premier source of risk data on the building industry in the Northwest, at Simple Verity.
- Was employee #1 and head of finance for a startup specialty finance company, Lighter Capital (formerly RevenueLoan).
- Advised (and learned from) CEOs and executives at the board level across a range of (early) company stages.
- Helped invest and manage $420M AUM at Voyager Capital, a traditional VC focusing on early stage IT.
- Started a "dorm-room dot-com," led it to profitability, and sold it.
Specialties: Machine learning in applied fintech domains; applying sparse and non-traditional data to financial, credit, and risk decisions.
Private equity (venture capital) deal sourcing; investment diligence and negotiation; writing term sheets; closing of equity, debt, revenue-based, and convertible rounds.
Financial modeling and analysis; complex private company capital structures; private company valuation.
Startup company formation (incorporation and seed funding); new product marketing / positioning; new product development (management and launch). Web software (from OS to JS), databases, agile languages.