James Schwab

Strategic Advisor, Investor and Mentor

📍 New York City Metropolitan Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2019
VC🌍 United States
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Advisor and Investor
2019
DIGIDAYS BEST CONTENT MARKETING PLATFORM 2024 Curacity is on a mission to make it easier for hotels to acquire new, higher-value guests. Our network of 40+ travel and lifestyle media brands enables us to reach millions of potential guests with content designed to inspire them to book stays with our hotel customers. Our ability to facilitate brand-building content, drive incremental revenue, and save hotels time uniquely benefits the hotels marketing, revenue management, and corporate leadership functions. And Curacity is paid for on performance, resulting in a fully measurable 10-20x ROI.
Investor
2019
Big Picture Beef produces delicious 100% grass-fed beef in a way that benefits the soil, the cattle, the consumers, the Northeast rural economy, and the local and global environment.
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2020
Venture Partner
Jan 2020
Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator (ERA) is New York City’s leading technology accelerator and early-stage venture capital fund. It has invested in 375+ start-ups since launching in 2011. Our alumni companies, who come from all over the world, are already playing leading roles in the evolution of virtually every major global industry. To date, ERA alumni companies have raised more than $2 billion in capital and collectively exceed $10 billion in market capitalization. ERA runs two four-month sessions per year one each in the winter and summer. We invest $150,000 on a post-money SAFE in return for 6% of each company selected. In addition to this financial investment, our companies are immersed in our mentor-driven program. We also provide free office space, free hosting credits with several major cloud providers, and additional benefits through our legal, finance, accounting, and other business-service partners.
2019
Advisor and Investor
2019
DIGIDAYS BEST CONTENT MARKETING PLATFORM 2024 Curacity is on a mission to make it easier for hotels to acquire new, higher-value guests. Our network of 40+ travel and lifestyle media brands enables us to reach millions of potential guests with content designed to inspire them to book stays with our hotel customers. Our ability to facilitate brand-building content, drive incremental revenue, and save hotels time uniquely benefits the hotels marketing, revenue management, and corporate leadership functions. And Curacity is paid for on performance, resulting in a fully measurable 10-20x ROI.
Investor
2019
Big Picture Beef produces delicious 100% grass-fed beef in a way that benefits the soil, the cattle, the consumers, the Northeast rural economy, and the local and global environment.
2001
Partner
Oct 2001
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP is a premier firm of more than 1,000 lawyers with diverse backgrounds, personalities, ideas and interests who provide innovative and effective solutions to our clients’ most complex legal and business challenges. The firm represents many of the world’s largest and most important public and private corporations, asset managers and financial institutions, as well as clients in need of pro bono assistance.
1996
Partner
Jan 1996
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP is a premier firm of more than 1,000 lawyers with diverse backgrounds, personalities, ideas and interests who provide innovative and effective solutions to our clients’ most complex legal and business challenges. The firm represents many of the world’s largest and most important public and private corporations, asset managers and financial institutions, as well as clients in need of pro bono assistance.