Kevin Laforce

Managing Director @ RedBird Capital Partners | MBA

📍 New York City Metropolitan Area, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 11 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2017
Angel investor🌍 United States
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Board Observer
Feb 2017
With over one million trained in VR, Strivr is transforming the employee journey through Immersive Learning. Incubated at Stanford, Strivr’s platform powers the creation, delivery, management, and measurement of VR-based learning to optimize workforce performance. With Strivr, enterprises gain unique learning and assessment data to measure training effectiveness, evaluate role potential, and predict learning outcomes at scale. From hiring to training and upskilling, Strivr is proud to partner with elite sports teams and Fortune 1000 companies to elevate performance through immersive experience.
Board Member
Apr 2015
On Location Experiences is a leader in premium experiential hospitality business, establishing a new industry standard to serve iconic rights holders with extensive experience in ticketing, curated hospitality, live event production and travel management in the worlds of sports and entertainment. On Location is a partner to over 150 rights holders including the NFL, NCAA, the PGA of America and the United States Tennis Association, and provides unrivaled official access for both corporate clients and fans looking for immersive experiences at marquee events including the Super Bowl, Pro Bowl, NFL Draft, NCAA Final Four, PGA of America events, numerous College Football Bowl Games and the Tennis Majors. On Location through CID Entertainment & Future Beat also partner with numerous artists and music festivals across genres, including Imagine Dragons, Metallica, Luke Bryan’s Crash My Playa, Electric Daisy Carnival, Migos, Post Malone, Iron Maiden, and J.Cole. On Location’s operations include: Anthony Travel, CID Entertainment, Future Beat, Kreate Inc, PrimeSport and Steve Furgal’s International Tennis Tours. On Location Experiences is part of the Endeavor network.
early stageEntertainment
Board Member
Apr 2015
Experience · 5 entries
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Investments (3)
Board (3)
2021
Managing Director
Jun 2021
RedBird Capital Partners is a private investment firm that builds high-growth companies with strategic capital solutions to founders and entrepreneurs. The firm currently manages approximately $10 billion in assets on behalf of a global group of blue chip institutional and family office investors. Founded in 2014 by Gerry Cardinale, RedBird integrates sophisticated private equity investing with a hands-on business building mandate that focuses on three core industry verticals – Sports, Media & Entertainment, and Financial Services. Throughout his 30-year investment career, Cardinale has partnered with founders and entrepreneurs to build some of the most iconic growth companies in their respective industries. For more information, please go to www.redbirdcap.com.
2017
Board Observer
Feb 2017
With over one million trained in VR, Strivr is transforming the employee journey through Immersive Learning. Incubated at Stanford, Strivr’s platform powers the creation, delivery, management, and measurement of VR-based learning to optimize workforce performance. With Strivr, enterprises gain unique learning and assessment data to measure training effectiveness, evaluate role potential, and predict learning outcomes at scale. From hiring to training and upskilling, Strivr is proud to partner with elite sports teams and Fortune 1000 companies to elevate performance through immersive experience.
2015
Board Member
Apr 2015
On Location Experiences is a leader in premium experiential hospitality business, establishing a new industry standard to serve iconic rights holders with extensive experience in ticketing, curated hospitality, live event production and travel management in the worlds of sports and entertainment. On Location is a partner to over 150 rights holders including the NFL, NCAA, the PGA of America and the United States Tennis Association, and provides unrivaled official access for both corporate clients and fans looking for immersive experiences at marquee events including the Super Bowl, Pro Bowl, NFL Draft, NCAA Final Four, PGA of America events, numerous College Football Bowl Games and the Tennis Majors. On Location through CID Entertainment & Future Beat also partner with numerous artists and music festivals across genres, including Imagine Dragons, Metallica, Luke Bryan’s Crash My Playa, Electric Daisy Carnival, Migos, Post Malone, Iron Maiden, and J.Cole. On Location’s operations include: Anthony Travel, CID Entertainment, Future Beat, Kreate Inc, PrimeSport and Steve Furgal’s International Tennis Tours. On Location Experiences is part of the Endeavor network.
early stageEntertainment
Board Member
Apr 2015
2004
Associate
Aug 2004
The Savoir Club brings together high-level executives for private knowledge-sharing events. These events provide an intimate and confidential setting for senior decision-makers to discuss pressing topics that affect them and their business. The Savoir Clubs specialized approach to knowledge-sharing enables event guests to identify business solutions, share insights and challenges, and gain awareness on new trends and technologies in their industry. The "invite only" nature of Savoir events ensures each discussion is kept relevant to all those who attend and provides guests with valuable networking opportunities, used to foster new b2b relationships. The Savoir Club hosts knowledge-sharing events across the world and works with a variety of sectors from Finance, to Information Technology, to Real Estate. If you are a company, you can host a Savoir event. If you are a decision-maker, you can attend. Either way, you can contact us for more information.
Investment activity
2015–2017 · 3 investments
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