Chris Barbin

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📍 United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 10 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2026
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Feb 2026
Harbor is the preeminent provider of expert services across strategy, legal technology, operations, and intelligence. Our globally integrated team of 900 strategists, technologists, and specialists navigates alongside our clients – leading law firms, corporations, and their law departments – to provide essential resources and invaluable insights. Anchored in a rich heritage of deep knowledge, steadfast relationships, and mutual respect, our unwavering dedication lies in shaping the future of the legal industry, and fostering enduring partnerships within our community and ecosystem.
Board Member
Nov 2025
We build smart, modern commerce solutions that help enterprise brands move faster and stay ahead. By bringing together AI, data, and composable systems, we create experiences designed for collaboration between people and intelligent agents— helping our clients work more efficiently, adapt faster, and gain a long-term competitive edge.
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Sep 2025
Tribe AI is the AI delivery layer for the enterprise. We bridge the gap between frontier models and real-world applications with a platform + services model that gets AI use cases into production at scale.
Board Member
Oct 2024
BOT Consulting is the trusted GCC partner for high-growth tech companies. We help founders and leadership teams build, scale, and ultimately own Global Capability Centers that are engineered for speed, retention, and long-term value. We operate like a venture studio for GCCs. That means we don’t just deliver teams, we co-create capability. BOT brings together senior talent, a culture-first operating model, and our platform, Odyssey, to rapidly establish and scale Centers of Excellence across engineering, data, cloud, and customer-facing delivery. Our approach is designed for mid-market technology firms navigating growth, margin pressure, and talent scarcity. By investing early in shared infrastructure, governance, hiring playbooks, and delivery maturity, we reduce execution risk while accelerating time to impact. For every GCC we build, we work backward from a simple question: How does this become a $10M+ venture-scale operation within three years? That outcome-oriented mindset—focused on people, platform, and proof, shapes everything we build.
Board Member
Sep 2022
Black Diamond is the leading Digital Finance Transformation firm and OneStream Diamond Partner. Our services include Financial Transformation, Change Management, Process Automation, OneStream Solutions. We are a global partner operating in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia. As a single firm with truly global capability, Black Diamond is committed to meeting the combined needs of the CFO and Controller, as well as IT and Business Unit Leaders.
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Dec 2021
Zennify is a leading data engineering and customer experience consultancy for financial services and regulated industries. We make data your most valuable asset and help you build for whats next. We guarantee it.
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Sep 2021
Hakkoda, an IBM Company, is a modern data consultancy, helping companies harness cloud platforms and AI capabilities. Our global delivery team combines deep industry expertise, a focus on data innovation, and our own IP to drive results in complex organizations. Whether you’re looking to migrate to the cloud, modernize your technology stack from the bottom up, or monetize your data to unlock new revenue streams, it’s time to do new things in new ways. Data innovation journeys start with Hakkoda.
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Dec 2020
As a leading AI-powered managed identity services provider, we help today’s most innovative brands simplify complex security challenges, optimize access, and accelerate growth through tailored IAM solutions. Wherever you are on your identity journey, we are here to help you accomplish your goals.
Board Member
Jan 2017
SIP TEQUILA - ULTRA-PREMIUM TEQUILAS DELIVERED DIRECT TO YOUR DOOR At Sip Tequila we have set out to redefine the online tequila purchasing experience with the launch of siptequila.com, a direct-to-consumer (DTC) platform focused on bringing hand-curated, super-premium, and boutique tequilas to market in the U.S.
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2026
Board Member
Feb 2026
Harbor is the preeminent provider of expert services across strategy, legal technology, operations, and intelligence. Our globally integrated team of 900 strategists, technologists, and specialists navigates alongside our clients – leading law firms, corporations, and their law departments – to provide essential resources and invaluable insights. Anchored in a rich heritage of deep knowledge, steadfast relationships, and mutual respect, our unwavering dedication lies in shaping the future of the legal industry, and fostering enduring partnerships within our community and ecosystem.
2025
Board Member
Nov 2025
We build smart, modern commerce solutions that help enterprise brands move faster and stay ahead. By bringing together AI, data, and composable systems, we create experiences designed for collaboration between people and intelligent agents— helping our clients work more efficiently, adapt faster, and gain a long-term competitive edge.
Investor
Sep 2025
Tribe AI is the AI delivery layer for the enterprise. We bridge the gap between frontier models and real-world applications with a platform + services model that gets AI use cases into production at scale.
2024
Board Member
Oct 2024
BOT Consulting is the trusted GCC partner for high-growth tech companies. We help founders and leadership teams build, scale, and ultimately own Global Capability Centers that are engineered for speed, retention, and long-term value. We operate like a venture studio for GCCs. That means we don’t just deliver teams, we co-create capability. BOT brings together senior talent, a culture-first operating model, and our platform, Odyssey, to rapidly establish and scale Centers of Excellence across engineering, data, cloud, and customer-facing delivery. Our approach is designed for mid-market technology firms navigating growth, margin pressure, and talent scarcity. By investing early in shared infrastructure, governance, hiring playbooks, and delivery maturity, we reduce execution risk while accelerating time to impact. For every GCC we build, we work backward from a simple question: How does this become a $10M+ venture-scale operation within three years? That outcome-oriented mindset—focused on people, platform, and proof, shapes everything we build.
2022
Board Member
Sep 2022
Black Diamond is the leading Digital Finance Transformation firm and OneStream Diamond Partner. Our services include Financial Transformation, Change Management, Process Automation, OneStream Solutions. We are a global partner operating in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Australia. As a single firm with truly global capability, Black Diamond is committed to meeting the combined needs of the CFO and Controller, as well as IT and Business Unit Leaders.
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