Bio:

Andrew Romans is a successful, consistently top quartile performing VC, VC-backed entrepreneur and 3x author, former tech VC and M&A investment banker, CEO and General Partner of 7BC Venture Capital and previously the founder and General Partner of Rubicon Venture Capital. He is also the cofounder of Georgetown Angels and author of THE ENTREPRENEURIAL BIBLE TO VENTURE CAPITAL: Inside Secrets from the Leaders in the Startup Game, Masters of Corporate Venture Capitaland Masters of Blockchain, which have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Italian and Russian by major publishers. Romans also advises large corporations and governments on policies about Venture Capital and Corporate Venture Capital (CVC). Romans pioneered a new model of establishing Joint Venture VC funds in China, South East Asia and other parts to the globe to fund global expansion of VC-backed startups in partnership with government and other Limited Partner investors. Romans raised over $48m for tech startups he founded by the age of 28. Romans founded numerous startups and raised hundreds of millions of dollars in VC funding and led startups to exits. He is also a frequent guest speaker on MSNBC, CNBC, and ABC. 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.