Christian Buckley

Partner @ Karmel Capital; Board Chair @ The Old Globe; Lecturer @ USD

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 8 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2025
VC🌍 United States
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Investor - Adviser - Board Member
Jan 2023
Freedom Flight Works innovates in the art and science of building great flying machines. Beginning with our highly capable Roadrunner™ Air & Ground Utility Vehicle, we are advancing next generation propulsion, autonomy, parafoil, and manufacturing technologies to solve some of the worlds most demanding logistical challenges. Freedom Flights team brings experience and creativity to making flight hardware and software that are high performing, robust, and economical.
Co-Founder - Adviser - Investor
Jan 2023
Rooted in decades of Finnish mobile expertise, KilpiTek provides industry leading end point and cloud management platforms for locking, unlocking, and securely managing and monitoring mobile and IoT devices. AI driven forensics and behavior monitoring reduce risk and accelerate growth.
Investor - Adviser
Jan 2018
TenantBase is a technology-enabled commercial real estate platform built to revolutionize the leasing process by connecting tenants looking for space with brokers needing to fill space. Tenants are empowered to own their space search supported by technology and local broker support to ensure they find a space they love, at a price thats right all in a timeframe that works for them. TenantBase offers a higher level of service to tenants seeking new office, industrial, flex, warehouse, retail, co-working, or medical space, while at the same time helping traditional brokers save time and provide innovative solutions to tenants in a more efficient way. More information is available at www.tenantbase.com.
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Experience · 14 entries
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2025
Board Member
Jan 2025
Plant With Purpose, a Christian development organization, reverses deforestation and poverty around the world by transforming the lives of the rural poor. For more than 40 years, Plant With Purpose has been a leader in linking international community development and environmental solutions, working with smallholder farmers in strategic areas where environmental degradation and poverty intersect. Plant With Purpose currently works in Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, Tanzania, Malawi, Ethiopia, and Thailand, employing an integrated methodology that combines environmental restoration, economic empowerment, and spiritual renewal. Activities include watershed restoration, reforestation, sustainable agriculture training, savings-and-loan groups, local leadership development, and supporting outreach efforts of the local Christian church. Our Vision: to break the vicious cycle of poverty and deforestation by transforming it into a victorious cycle of environmental restoration, economic empowerment, and spiritual renewal.
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2023
Board Observer
Jun 2023
Nixon is California’s iconic watch and accessories brand, born from action sports culture and always pushing the never been done. As a company we are creative, we are ambitious, we take risks. Above all, we want to build great product with the world’s youth as our audience. We collaborate with the best in the business: brands, athletes, retailers, causes. People who share our mindset and our belief that we can make an impact, one detail at a time. Stay connected: http://fb.com/nixon http://instagram.com/nixon https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbSyGhKWF6UJdLb_8GY-ffA http://twitter.com/nixon_now
Investor - Adviser - Board Member
Jan 2023
Freedom Flight Works innovates in the art and science of building great flying machines. Beginning with our highly capable Roadrunner™ Air & Ground Utility Vehicle, we are advancing next generation propulsion, autonomy, parafoil, and manufacturing technologies to solve some of the worlds most demanding logistical challenges. Freedom Flights team brings experience and creativity to making flight hardware and software that are high performing, robust, and economical.
Co-Founder - Adviser - Investor
Jan 2023
Rooted in decades of Finnish mobile expertise, KilpiTek provides industry leading end point and cloud management platforms for locking, unlocking, and securely managing and monitoring mobile and IoT devices. AI driven forensics and behavior monitoring reduce risk and accelerate growth.
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