Tom Cole

General Partner at CatchLight Capital Partners

📍 Palo Alto, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 20 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2007𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United States
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2006
Since 2003, Photobucket has been safeguarding memories through our online backup cloud storage services. Millions of customers count on us to protect and preserve their most precious memories. It’s our number one priority, and why we put customers first in everything we do. However, there’s more to Photobucket than just photo storage: We bring the digital universe together Photobucket helps people consolidate their photos and videos from different social platforms into one easy-to-use app. We expand the customer’s community What’s the point in making memories if people can’t share them? Photobucket lets people text, email and post their favorite moments, passions and places with everyone on both iOS and Android devices. We safeguard memories Every picture and video people take today is a memory they’ll treasure tomorrow. Photobucket uses compression-free storage to future-proof memories and preserve every pixel without any loss of quality over time. We protect our planet too Photobucket has been safeguarding memories for nearly 20 years. Today, over 70 million customers trust us to protect over 17 billion images and videos worldwide, all while maintaining a carbon-neutral footprint.
Experience · 7 entries
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Founder (1)
2025
Venture Partner
Mar 2025
CatchLight Capital Partners is a venture fund focused on cross-border investment opportunities in tech startups. One of our specialties is to restructure companies cap tables in order to avoid any geopolitically induced compliance issues.
2020
Co-Founder & CFO
Apr 2020
We give DTC brands superpowers to compete in today’s competitive ecommerce environment.
2018
Venture Partner
2018
Translink Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Palo Alto with $1B under management, and investing out of its fifth fund. The fund’s mission is to partner with US entrepreneurs, and add value by leveraging the firm’s proprietary insights and connections to strategic Asian partners. The team is led by investors and operators, all of whom have managed successful US venture practices for large Asian strategics such as Foxconn, Hikari Tsushin, SoftBank, and UMC.
2015
Managing Partner
2015
Hone Capital is the U.S. arm of CSC Group, one of the largest and most successful private equity and venture capital firms in China. Hone Capital was established in 2015 and has invested over $100MM in early to growth stage startups in the technology sector, using our proprietary data-driven intelligence platform and our network of deep relationships with syndicate leads, sector experts, and VC firms.
2007
Angel Investor / Advisor
Angel Investor / Startup Advisor
2007
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