John Garabedian

Partner at KB Partners, Sport-tech VC, Strategic Advisor, Corporate Board Director

📍 United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 3 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2021
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Board Member
Oct 2021
Alembic provides AI-powered marketing analytics for C-suite executives. Our near-real-time platform leverages cutting-edge mathematics, proprietary algorithms, and composite AI, forming an innovative solution unmatched in the marketplace. Organizations use it to model revenue outcomes, addressing the long-standing challenge of quantifying the impact of marketing on sales. Alembic is proud to work with enterprise companies, including NVIDIA, Texas A&M, and North Sails.
Advisor, Investor
Jun 2019
SentiLink, the leading provider of innovative identity and risk solutions, empowers institutions and individuals to transact confidently with one another by preventing synthetic fraud, identity theft, and emerging forms of first party fraud at the point of account application. Its solutions enable these secure transactions by leveraging a deep understanding of identity and risk, and are informed by machine learning models and insights from a team of top risk analysts. SentiLink proudly serves a broad array of financial institutions, from the largest U.S. banks to leading credit unions and fintech unicorns to help stop fraud at account opening and beyond. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company was founded in 2017 by Naftali Harris and Max Blumenfeld and it has raised $85M to date from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Craft Ventures, and NYCA Partners, among others.
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2021
Board Member
Oct 2021
Alembic provides AI-powered marketing analytics for C-suite executives. Our near-real-time platform leverages cutting-edge mathematics, proprietary algorithms, and composite AI, forming an innovative solution unmatched in the marketplace. Organizations use it to model revenue outcomes, addressing the long-standing challenge of quantifying the impact of marketing on sales. Alembic is proud to work with enterprise companies, including NVIDIA, Texas A&M, and North Sails.
General Partner and Investor
May 2021
KB Partners is a suburban Chicago based investment firm focused on early stage venture capital investments. KB’s principals take an active approach in helping to build dominant new enterprises by working in partnership with talented entrepreneurs and experienced managers. The firm is currently investing out of KB Partners Myriad Opportunity Fund, which invests in passionate innovators at the intersection of sports and technology.
2019
Advisor, Investor
Jun 2019
SentiLink, the leading provider of innovative identity and risk solutions, empowers institutions and individuals to transact confidently with one another by preventing synthetic fraud, identity theft, and emerging forms of first party fraud at the point of account application. Its solutions enable these secure transactions by leveraging a deep understanding of identity and risk, and are informed by machine learning models and insights from a team of top risk analysts. SentiLink proudly serves a broad array of financial institutions, from the largest U.S. banks to leading credit unions and fintech unicorns to help stop fraud at account opening and beyond. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company was founded in 2017 by Naftali Harris and Max Blumenfeld and it has raised $85M to date from investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Craft Ventures, and NYCA Partners, among others.
1997
Senior Partner and Managing Director
Sep 1997
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