Richard Robinson

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Principal at Thornfield Ventures | ex-Tesla

Thornfield Ventures
San Francisco, CA · PT (UTC-8)
10+ years experience
University of Michigan
English
Investing
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Overview

I invest in consumer at Thornfield Ventures, usually at pre-seed and seed. Previously an operator for 10 years before investing. Sit on 6 boards. Before that: Tesla and Wells Fargo. Open-source contributor on weekends.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in consumer
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
  • Questions about consumer
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  • Fund-of-funds solicitations
  • Unpaid work or spec projects
  • Crypto token projects

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InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 2 months

Writing $500k cheques into Series A consumer in the Nordics

Cheque size
$500k
Stages
Series A
Sectors
Consumer
Geographies
Europe
Lead or follow
Co-lead
Decision time
One meeting and a partner call
How I help
Fundraising strategy for the next round

Usually the first cheque in. Decisions within 1 weeks.

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Experience

  1. Principal
    May 2024 - Present
    Thornfield Ventures · 2 yr 5 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Led or co-led 11 investments, 6 of them now at Series B or later.
    • Backed 11 founders at pre-seed and seed.
  2. Sales Development Representative
    Jul 2021 - May 2024
    Tesla · 2 yr 10 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Closed 126% of quota two years running.
  3. Enterprise Account Executive
    Jan 2020 - Jul 2021
    Wells Fargo · 1 yr 6 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Signed 28 channel partners that now source 20% of pipeline.
    • Shortened the enterprise sales cycle from 8 months to 4.
  4. Senior Account Executive
    Jan 2018 - Jan 2020
    Intel · 2 yr · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Signed 18 channel partners that now source 31% of pipeline.
    • Built the channel team from 3 to 19 reps.
  5. Enterprise Account Executive
    Sep 2016 - Dec 2017
    Boston Consulting Group · 1 yr 3 mo · Full-time · San Francisco, CA
    • Opened 11 new logos over $2 million ACV in the region.

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Education

  1. University of Michigan
    BSE, Economics
    2011 - 2015

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