Eric Hixon

Silicon Valley Veteran and Associate at Creative Destruction Lab

📍 Greater Toronto Area Metropolitan Area, Canada🔄 Updated October 2026💼 10 investments📅 33 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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10
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Board Member
Jun 2022
Hixon Properties Incorporated is a privately held real estate investment company based in San Antonio, Texas. Since HPI’s establishment in 1975, we have been in the business of acquiring, developing, and managing properties that range from downtown luxury hotels to suburban self-storage facilities.
Seed Investor
Feb 2019
Zed is an embedded FX and cross border payments platform. Major Zed highlights include: - Global reach (200+ countries) - Extensive currency coverage (150+ currencies) - Speed of delivery (for example, same day or next day wires) - Most competitive FX rates - Ease of technical integration (Single API) - Consolidated reporting
Investor and General Partner
Sep 2017
Mighty Capital is the VC firm that leverages the Product Alpha Effect, a data-backed way to produce outliers by reading product signals from a 600,000-product-leader network. Founded in 2018 by SC Moatti, a product visionary and former Meta product leader, and Jennifer Vancini, an idea-to-IPO veteran of tech investing, we bring a differentiated edge to venture. Through Moatti’s 600,000-strong Products That Count network of product leaders, we see trends before others do, giving us a proprietary advantage in sourcing, diligence, and post-investment value creation. Our early-stage B2B tech portfolio speaks for itself: 1 in 5 companies is a category leader like Amplitude (NASDAQ:AMPL), Groq, and Netskope (NASDAQ:NTSK). Founders consistently call us the most value-add investor on their cap table, and use our global product ecosystem as a marketplace to accelerate time to revenue, scale, and exit. Anchored by GCM Grosvenor, we’re deploying Fund III with both prior funds in top decile DPI and TVPI, $20B+ in value created, and 6 IPOs to date. Learn more at Mighty.Capital.
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Jun 2012
Breezy is reinventing printing for the 21st century. For 30 years, we've seen amazing progress in every other aspect of IT -- yet printing remains stuck in the past. We're here to change that, with a vendor-agnostic platform that works with every printer from every manufacturer. Breezy has received multiple awards, including a "Cool Vendor"​ designation from Gartner, 4.5 stars from Buyers'​ Lab, and 1st place in multiple startup competitions. We can solve your printing problems!
Investor
Mar 2012
ThisLife protects and organizes your photos and videos in the cloud. All your photos and videos are gathered (from your hard drive, your phone, your social services, your photo sites) and organized into your private archive in the cloud. ThisLife allows you to search your private archive to find just the photos or videos you are looking for from your collection of 40,000+ moments. Find. Share. Enjoy. ThisLife manages and organizes your photos. We do the work so you don't have to.
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2022
Board Member
Jun 2022
Hixon Properties Incorporated is a privately held real estate investment company based in San Antonio, Texas. Since HPI’s establishment in 1975, we have been in the business of acquiring, developing, and managing properties that range from downtown luxury hotels to suburban self-storage facilities.
2019
Board Member
Sep 2019
The Sterling Hall School is an independent school for 300 boys from Junior Kindergarten to Grade 8. We provide a nurturing environment that both challenges and supports boys as they develop in mind, body, and spirit. Our Dynamic, research-based curriculum is tailored to the way boys learn best. Hands-on, inquiry-based learning combines with strong character education and small classes, resulting in students who are well-equipped to succeed in their secondary and post-secondary education, as well as in their life beyond school.
Seed Investor
Feb 2019
Zed is an embedded FX and cross border payments platform. Major Zed highlights include: - Global reach (200+ countries) - Extensive currency coverage (150+ currencies) - Speed of delivery (for example, same day or next day wires) - Most competitive FX rates - Ease of technical integration (Single API) - Consolidated reporting
2017
Associate
Oct 2017
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) is a nonprofit organization that delivers an objectives-based program for massively scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies. The nine-month program employs an objectives-based mentoring process to enhance the performance of technical founders who learn from the insights of experienced entrepreneurs, with the goal of maximizing equity-value creation. Founded by Professor Ajay Agrawal in 2012 at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, the program has expanded and now has 11 sites across six countries: Toronto, Vancouver, Calgary, Montreal, Halifax, Paris, Madison, Seattle, Estonia, Berlin, and Melbourne. The program combines 5 elements to help companies transition from science projects to scalable and financeable companies: - An emphasis on objective-setting, helping companies focus on what’s most important to their business - Focused mentorship from experienced entrepreneurs who have founded, led, and sold significant tech companies - Technical advice from world-leading scientists, engineers, and economists - Hands-on support from top business students, who embed within the company to provide business support - Opportunities to raise capital, including angels and VCs from Europe and North America The successful commercialization of cutting-edge science and technology achieved through the program has led to the creation of over CAD $35 billion in equity value.
Investor and General Partner
Sep 2017
Mighty Capital is the VC firm that leverages the Product Alpha Effect, a data-backed way to produce outliers by reading product signals from a 600,000-product-leader network. Founded in 2018 by SC Moatti, a product visionary and former Meta product leader, and Jennifer Vancini, an idea-to-IPO veteran of tech investing, we bring a differentiated edge to venture. Through Moatti’s 600,000-strong Products That Count network of product leaders, we see trends before others do, giving us a proprietary advantage in sourcing, diligence, and post-investment value creation. Our early-stage B2B tech portfolio speaks for itself: 1 in 5 companies is a category leader like Amplitude (NASDAQ:AMPL), Groq, and Netskope (NASDAQ:NTSK). Founders consistently call us the most value-add investor on their cap table, and use our global product ecosystem as a marketplace to accelerate time to revenue, scale, and exit. Anchored by GCM Grosvenor, we’re deploying Fund III with both prior funds in top decile DPI and TVPI, $20B+ in value created, and 6 IPOs to date. Learn more at Mighty.Capital.
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