Glen Bressner

Glen Bressner

Co-Founder and Managing Partner atActivate Venture PartnersNew York

Glen Bressner is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Activate Venture Partners, with over four decades of early-stage investing experience. He has held board roles and invested in companies including Tabula Rasa Healthcare and UltraCision, and earned degrees from Boston University and Babson College.

What Glen can write

Writes checks of$3M to $10M
Comes in atPre-seed, Seed, Series ACan lead the round
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Activate Venture Partners writes $3M to $10M checks, larger than 93% of firms in the atlas.

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Career

  1. Activate · Co-Founder and Managing Partner
    Now
  2. Alum-a-Lift · partner and director
  3. Innovative Aerosystems · Chairman of the Board
  4. Activate Venture Partners · Co-Founder and Managing Partner
    Now

Companies founded

ActivateLeader Lehigh ValleyThe Grete R. Bressner Performing Arts ScholarshipActivate Venture Partners

Investments named in public bios

Tabula Rasa HealthcareFSA StoreAccess HealthCareGainClickPayRentRights FlowIQE, plcVisual NetworksRavisentInnovative AerosystemsUltraCisionAnyTime AccessNatural InsightMicroE Systems

Focus

healthcaresoftwaredataindustrial technologyaviation

Education

Boston University, BSBA, cum laudeBabson College, MBA

Also at Activate Venture Partners

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Questions

Who is Glen Bressner?

Glen Bressner is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Activate Venture Partners, with over four decades of early-stage investing experience. He has held board roles and invested in companies including Tabula Rasa Healthcare and UltraCision, and earned degrees from Boston University and Babson College.

How much does Glen Bressner invest?

Glen Bressner invests through Activate Venture Partners, which writes checks of $3M to $10M at pre-seed, seed, series a.

How do I pitch Glen Bressner?

Email [email protected], the firm's inbox for founders, and name Glen in the subject. A warm intro from a founder Activate Venture Partners backed works better.

What did Glen Bressner do before Activate Venture Partners?

partner and director at Alum-a-Lift; Chairman of the Board at Innovative Aerosystems.

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