John Berton

Outsourced General Counsel – Corporate & Transactional Law / Former Big Firm Attorney (Goldman Sachs & Cleary Gottlieb)

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 1 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2014
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General Counsel & Investor
2014
Founded in 2014, Tribeca ESP is a FinTech-focused venture group. Our network of entrepreneurs and business leaders have domain expertise in institutional finance, technology, and deep science. With 70 limited partners, we have the collective experience and perspective that touches virtually every facet of the institutional finance landscape. We leverage our network to make informed investment decisions and to assist the companies in which we invest. We primarily focus on pre-A and A opportunities, though we have the ability to go earlier or later. Generally, we prefer to see revenue and referenceable clients before we invest. Since 2014, weve proven our value to our portfolio companies in a wide variety of ways, which has led to fantastic results. Weve made over 50 investments, have had many exits, and two IPOs. Most importantly, we are nice people who love to help our portfolio companies thrive!
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2014
General Counsel & Investor
2014
Founded in 2014, Tribeca ESP is a FinTech-focused venture group. Our network of entrepreneurs and business leaders have domain expertise in institutional finance, technology, and deep science. With 70 limited partners, we have the collective experience and perspective that touches virtually every facet of the institutional finance landscape. We leverage our network to make informed investment decisions and to assist the companies in which we invest. We primarily focus on pre-A and A opportunities, though we have the ability to go earlier or later. Generally, we prefer to see revenue and referenceable clients before we invest. Since 2014, weve proven our value to our portfolio companies in a wide variety of ways, which has led to fantastic results. Weve made over 50 investments, have had many exits, and two IPOs. Most importantly, we are nice people who love to help our portfolio companies thrive!
2011
Principal
2011
Outsourced General Counsel for Corporate and Transactional Legal Services
early stageLaw Practice
1997
Associate General Counsel
1997
We aspire to be the world’s most exceptional financial institution, united by our shared values of partnership, client service, integrity, and excellence. Operating at the center of capital markets, we act as one firm, mobilizing our people, capital, and ideas to deliver superior results across our clients’ most complex challenges. For 157 years, Goldman Sachs has delivered world-class execution on a global scale across our leading Global Banking & Markets and Asset & Wealth Management businesses. Apprenticeship is central to our culture, with hands-on coaching and access to leaders who bring decades of experience and expertise. With office locations around the world, we offer a broad range of career opportunities to those who insist on excellence and thrive on performance. Find our Social Media Disclosures here: gs.com/social-media-disclosures
1993
Associate
1993
Cleary Gottlieb is a leading international law firm, with 16 offices located in major financial centers around the world, that has helped shape the globalization of the legal profession for more than 75 years. Our worldwide practice has a proven track record for innovation and providing work of the highest quality to meet the needs of our domestic and international clients. Cleary offers a collegial working environment that fosters the professional and personal growth of our lawyers and staff. We seek candidates who are confident in their abilities and creative in their thinking to best serve the changing needs of our clients. We place a premium on openness, diversity, individuality and collegiality, and look for candidates who do so as well. Content on this page may include attorney advertising.