Xavier Parkmond

Investor at LightShed Ventures

📍 United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Jul 2023
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Portfolio

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Board Member
Jul 2023
Boomerang reconnects people with their lost items 🪃💙 #FoundOnBoomerang
Investor
Sep 2021
LightShed Ventures is an early stage venture fund focused on private companies in the Technology, Media, Telecom and Consumer sectors. It was founded by the Principals of the leading TMT equity research firm, LightShed Partners (www.lightshedtmt.com). We invest in opportunities created by technological disruption. The LightShed platform is a unique flywheel comprised of 3 units (Research, Media, Ventures) that all compliment and feed into one another. • Research - Our industry leading research has led to a vast Rolodex of C-suite and operating execs from industry behemoths to early stage start-ups. We leverage this network to unlock access at the highest level for our startups so they can achieve their business objectives. • Media - Our research, press visibility, social media reach and podcasts creates a powerful megaphone to shine a light on companies to industry executives, press and potential investors • Ventures – We provide capital to support our founders through multiple financing rounds. Our understanding of the TMT and consumer sectors make us an informed partner for entrepreneurs to help them navigate the landscape going forward.
Investor
2020
Aldrich Capital Partners (“ACP”) is a middle-market private equity firm investing in promising enterprises in the United States. Aldrich Capital Partners primarily focuses on investments in technology sectors such as healthcare IT, internet, software and financial services technologies.  ACP was formed by experienced investors and operators who are successful entrepreneurs in their own right. The firm was started with the philosophy of “being the entrepreneurs behind the entrepreneur”, ….helping private, entrepreneur-run companies attain their growth objectives by tapping into the resources, knowledgebase and network of relationships of the ACP organization, a team that has been responsible for over $1 Billion in technology investments over the past decade.  Companies in which the ACP Principals have invested have successfully completed Initial Public Offerings (“IPO”) and have had numerous investments be successfully acquired by large corporations. We have a successful track record of working with owner-operators and entrepreneurs to build companies for the long-run and then help them realize their liquidity objectives when they are ready.  ACPs principals are investors and operators who bring their experience to bear from the strategic investment level down through active support of portfolio companies at the operational and business planning level. ACPs leadership and advisors bring many decades of experience executing transactions in sectors such as business services, software & cloud-services, FinTech, healthcare IT and internet.  ACP is headquartered in the Washington D.C. metro area, with additional offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and a research center in Hyderabad, India.
Experience · 3 entries
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Investments (3)
Board (1)
2023
Board Member
Jul 2023
Boomerang reconnects people with their lost items 🪃💙 #FoundOnBoomerang
2021
Investor
Sep 2021
LightShed Ventures is an early stage venture fund focused on private companies in the Technology, Media, Telecom and Consumer sectors. It was founded by the Principals of the leading TMT equity research firm, LightShed Partners (www.lightshedtmt.com). We invest in opportunities created by technological disruption. The LightShed platform is a unique flywheel comprised of 3 units (Research, Media, Ventures) that all compliment and feed into one another. • Research - Our industry leading research has led to a vast Rolodex of C-suite and operating execs from industry behemoths to early stage start-ups. We leverage this network to unlock access at the highest level for our startups so they can achieve their business objectives. • Media - Our research, press visibility, social media reach and podcasts creates a powerful megaphone to shine a light on companies to industry executives, press and potential investors • Ventures – We provide capital to support our founders through multiple financing rounds. Our understanding of the TMT and consumer sectors make us an informed partner for entrepreneurs to help them navigate the landscape going forward.
2020
Investor
2020
Aldrich Capital Partners (“ACP”) is a middle-market private equity firm investing in promising enterprises in the United States. Aldrich Capital Partners primarily focuses on investments in technology sectors such as healthcare IT, internet, software and financial services technologies.  ACP was formed by experienced investors and operators who are successful entrepreneurs in their own right. The firm was started with the philosophy of “being the entrepreneurs behind the entrepreneur”, ….helping private, entrepreneur-run companies attain their growth objectives by tapping into the resources, knowledgebase and network of relationships of the ACP organization, a team that has been responsible for over $1 Billion in technology investments over the past decade.  Companies in which the ACP Principals have invested have successfully completed Initial Public Offerings (“IPO”) and have had numerous investments be successfully acquired by large corporations. We have a successful track record of working with owner-operators and entrepreneurs to build companies for the long-run and then help them realize their liquidity objectives when they are ready.  ACPs principals are investors and operators who bring their experience to bear from the strategic investment level down through active support of portfolio companies at the operational and business planning level. ACPs leadership and advisors bring many decades of experience executing transactions in sectors such as business services, software & cloud-services, FinTech, healthcare IT and internet.  ACP is headquartered in the Washington D.C. metro area, with additional offices in the San Francisco Bay Area and a research center in Hyderabad, India.
Investment activity
2020–2023 · 3 investments
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