Owen Davis

General Partner at Contour Venture Partners

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Biography

Owen Davis is a General Partner at Contour Venture Partners. His firm bio states he was "Managing Director of NYC Seed" from 2008 to 2016 and founded the NYC Seedstart accelerator. Earlier he founded the online marketing firm Thinking Media, co-founded the wireless and location-based services company Sonata in 1999, and co-founded Petal Computing. He holds patents in Internet methods and technologies, wrote 'Instant Java Applets' for Ziff-Davis Press, is an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School and Columbia Law School and was previously an adjunct engineering professor at New York University. He was an original member and board member of the World Wide Web Artists Consortium. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a bachelor's degree from Brown University. The team page does not tie specific portfolio companies to him, so none are recorded.

Education

Previous Experience

Career Timeline

1999
Co-founds Sonata, a wireless and location-based services company.
2008
Becomes Managing Director of NYC Seed, a role held to 2016, and founds the NYC Seedstart accelerator.

Sources & References

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