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    Jon Belmonte

    Jon Belmonte

    Managing Director: Cursive Labs
    CEO, COO: Active Network (ACTV)
    Founder, Principal: Cedar Ridge Ventures
    Co-founder: LeagueLink
    BCG
    Kellogg
    Wharton

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    Experience
    Cursive Labs
    Exit
    Cursive Labs
    Founder, Managing Director 2014 - Present (about 12 years)
    Help drive the business, operations and strategy efforts at Cursive while overseeing the company's Growth phase.
    Active Network
    Exit
    Active Network
    CEO & Board Member; Chief Operating Officer 2000 - 2013 (over 13 years)
    Initiated process to refocus company on the most critical business verticals resulting in a more predictable and attractive long-term financial model. Drove buy-in of new... more capital allocation plan across company leadership team and board of directors.

    Led a very competitive private equity process that resulted in $1 billion sale of the company to Vista Equity Partners at $14.50 per share, a nearly 200% premium over the April 30 stock price of $5.00.
    Cedar Ridge Ventures
    Cedar Ridge Ventures
    Founder, Principal, Founder 2012 - 2014 (over 2 years)
    Created entity to build valuable early-stage, private technology companies through direct investments, as well as strategic and operational advising, leadership development... more and capital-raising.

    Cedar Ridge is aligned with great companies such as Green Kid Crafts (e-commerce), Deal Current (local digital advertising and commerce), Chatmeter (local search optimization) and Citybot (mobile travel).
    LeagueLink
    LeagueLink
    Founder, Co-Founder 1999 - 2000 (about 1 year)
    Co-founded company focused on providing advanced web-based tools to sports leagues and clubs. Product offering included online registration, web publishing tools, online scheduling... more and communication tools.

    Hired and managed team, primarily focusing on sales, marketing, support, business development and general operations. Grew team to 50 employees.

    Raised $1.9M of equity funding prior to negotiating merger with 2 related companies to help form Active Network.
    Boston Consulting Group
    Boston Consulting Group
    Consultant 1997 (about 1 month)
    Provided strategic and operational consulting to CEOs and board directors of leading global companies.

    Project work included new product strategy, predictive economic/financial... more modeling, business plan development, market segmentation, market sizing, competitive assessment, operational improvement and licensing joint venture development.

    Selected to co-manage internal thought leadership effort analyzing economics of Internet commerce.
    Founder
    Cursive Labs, Cedar Ridge Ventures, LeagueLink, Spoutable
    Employee
    Pritzker Group Venture Capital, Active Network, Boston Consulting Group, Spoutable
    Investor
     
    Incubator
     
    Advisor
    Citybot, EvoNexus, Startup Leadership Program, Deal Current Network, Teamvibe
    Attorney
     
    Board Member
    Cursive Labs, Citybot, Deal Current Network
    Mentor
     
    Member
     
    Acquired
     
     
    Projects
    BumbleCast
    BumbleCast is an affiliate network for the things that you do.  The platform helps events a) grow in an ROI-focused cash efficient manner and b) monetize… · More their participant database without giving up any control or do much work. Great, innovative business model; unparalleled in-house market expertise. Entering beta in December 2014.
    Josh Schlesser
    Grant Bostrom
    Ryan Bettencourt
    Evan Witte
    With Evan Witte, Ryan Bettencourt, Grant Bostrom, Josh Schlesser
    Spoutable
    Spoutable is an online advertising technology platform that helps curious people discover where to go next once they have decide to leave a website. Valuable… · More traffic for advertisers and valuable/non-intrusive inventory for publishers. Publishers enable the platform by adding a single line of code to their website. Spoutable has entered beta phase.
    Grant Bostrom
    Evan Witte
    Josh Schlesser
    Ryan Bettencourt
    With Ryan Bettencourt, Josh Schlesser, Evan Witte, Grant Bostrom
     
    Education
     
    About
    Achievements

    Technology executive with experience building and leading companies from start-up through public company and private equity stages. Experienced building SaaS, digital advertising, software, e-commerce and consumer media businesses.

    Strong track record of attracting, developing and retaining great teams. Able to drive change and results through a blend of passion and objectivity.

    Athlete and sports enthusiast; husband and dad.

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Locations
    San Diego
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