The people behind Persistent Ventures

Shaun founded Persistent Ventures after a career building and operating B2B companies from the inside. As CEO and Chairman of nClouds, an AWS Premier cloud and DevOps services firm, he led the strategic acquisitions of Cloudnexa and Foghorn. Before that, he founded Teem, a workplace-experience SaaS platform that raised more than $20 million from Greycroft, Google Ventures, and GE, and was acquired by WeWork, where he became Chief Workplace Experience Officer.

At Persistent Ventures, Shaun leads sourcing, deal execution, and the long-term stewardship of every company the firm acquires. He started the firm with a conviction he has lived firsthand: “We believe in, and back persistent entrepreneurs who are creating significant value, usually by sheer force of will and determination. We’ve been there. We’ve done that. We know how hard it is, and we support those entrepreneurs who are making it happen.”

Dan is a serial founder and operator who has spent more than two decades building B2B software and services companies. He is the founder and CEO of Voze, a field-sales platform that helps industrial and distribution teams capture customer insight from the field. Earlier he co-founded Teem (formerly EventBoard), the workplace and meeting-room software company acquired by WeWork in 2018, and founded Neutron Interactive, a recruitment and education marketing firm named to the Inc. 500 twice.

Dan and Shaun have built companies together for years, most notably as co-founders of Teem, and Dan has been a partner in Persistent Ventures since its earliest days. At Persistent Ventures he brings an operator's instinct for product, go-to-market, and durable growth, along with the perspective of an active early-stage investor. He studied at Brigham Young University, and he shares the firm's conviction that the best B2B services businesses deserve owners who intend to keep and compound them for the long term.

Kyle brings a finance and investment background shaped by institutional transaction experience and founder-stage company building. He began his career as a financial institutions group analyst at Nomura, advising on bank, insurance, and REIT M&A across billion-dollar-plus transactions. He went on to found Bridge 4 Ventures, an advisory and investment firm focused on acquisitions, and serves as an Adjunct Professor of Entrepreneurial Analytics at BYU Marriott.

At Persistent Ventures, Kyle leads investment strategy, underwriting, and the disciplined capital allocation behind a buy-and-hold-forever model. He holds an MBA from BYU Marriott and a Master of Business Creation from the University of Utah.