Gerald Risk – Startup Investor Profile

Mr. Gerald Risk is a Founder, serves as Partner, and Chief Executive Officer at TTCER Partners. He serves as an Advisory Committee Member at Top Corner Capital. He serves as an Investor at TTCER Partners. He is an Investor at The Atlas Group. He serves as an Advisor and Investor at Collins Family Ventures. He also serves as an Advisor at Alter Global. He served as a Partner at Rail Fence Capital. He also served as a Vice-Chairman at Asurion. He also serves as a Limited Partner at Fiduciam Capital. He also served as Investor & Advisor at Albaron Partners. He also served as an Individual Partner at Charlson Capital Partners. He also serves as an Investor and Advisor at Cedar Lake. He also served as a Limited Partner at Principia Capital. He served as an Advisor at Ainge Advisory. The world’s largest provider of technology protection services, partnering with the world’s top companies and brands to serve over 200 million customers globally. He also served as an Investor and Advisor at Glass Lake Capital. He served as an Advisor at Castle Capital. Before serving as Vice Chairman, he served as Asurion’s President from 2009 to 2013 and Asurion’s Chief Financial Officer for the 10 years prior to that. Before joining Asurion, he helped a wide variety of clients, from Fortune 500 firms to early-stage start-ups, execute their strategic and financial plans as an investment banker with Goldman, Sachs & Co. in San Francisco, Hong Kong, and New York. He has also worked for Hambrecht and Quist and the private investment arm of Toronto Dominion Capital. He is an active mentor of entrepreneurial leaders in the for-profit and non-profit worlds. In this capacity, he currently serves on the Board of Directors of Sunrun (provider of home solar installation and services), Carillon Assisted Living (provider of assisted living services in the Southeast), HealthCPA (provider of medical expense management services for consumers), and QMC Telecom (cell tower operator in Brazil). He holds an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar and where he served as a case writer for Jack McDonald, the Stanford Investors Professor of Finance. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce with honors from Queen’s University in Canada where he was on the Dean’s List.

Location: Nashville, TN

Country: Canada

Investment Regions: EU, NA

Investment Stages: pre-seed, seed

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AI Reasoning: Found a 2024 proxy statement (April 29, 2024) showing Gerald Risk was a director/partner and active with Sunrun as of that filing. The most recent verifiable activity tied to an investment/board role is April 29, 2024 for Sunrun. Calculating time since that activity to the evaluation date gives about 18 months, which falls into the 12-6 months ago range. The startup/company invested: Sunrun. Therefore the appropriate classification is ‘active’.

Low Activity – Only known angel investments more than 12 months ago.

Active – Known angel investments between the last 12 and 6 months.

Very Active – Known angel investments in the last 6 months.