Andrew Romans

Andrew Romans is a successful, consistently top decile performing VC having completed over 100 VC investments, a VC-backed entrepreneur, 4x author, university professor, host of podcast Fireside with a VC, former tech VC and M&A investment banker, General Partner of 7BC Venture Capital and previously the founder and General Partner of Rubicon Venture Capital. His books have been published by McGraw Hill in English as well as major publishers in Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Russian, and Arabic. Romans also advises large corporations and governments on policies about Venture Capital and Corporate Venture Capital (CVC). Romans raised over $48m for tech startups he founded by the age of 28. During his career as an entrepreneur Romans founded numerous startups and raised hundreds of millions of dollars in VC funding and led startups to exits. Romans was also a Managing Partner at Georgetown Venture Partners (GVP), a venture capital focused boutique investment bank active the US, UK, Nordics, Europe, and Israel as well as Georgetown Angels, an active angel group with offices in Silicon Valley and New York City. Romans was a General Partner at The Founders Club, a venture capital equity exchange fund and advisor on secondaries. He was a Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital at Chapman University. In addition to teaching a class on VC & entrepreneurship at Chapman University one of California’s oldest universities, he has lectured on VC at Stanford, Harvard, UC Berkeley, Santa Clara University, UC San Diego, Georgetown University, University of Toronto, London Business School, Imperial College London, Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, University of Bologna, Moscow State University, Tsinghua University Beijing, and Shanghai University. He is also a frequent guest speaker on MSNBC, CNBC, and ABC and has delivered keynotes at major conferences in over 20 countries across the US, Canada, Latin America, UK, Nordics, Western and Eastern Europe, the Arabic and Israeli Middle East, Japan, China, Taiwan, Singapore, and Indonesia.

Fluent in English, French and German he holds a BA from the University of Vermont, studied in Paris and Berlin at École Active Bilingue (now École Jeannine Manuel), Humboldt-Universität Zu Berlin and Freie Universität Berlin and an MBA in finance from Georgetown University, which he completed on scholarship.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/romans/.