Chip Meakem is co-founder and Board Partner of Tribeca Venture Partners. He has been building and investing in New York technology companies since 1996 and co-founded TVP in 2011.
Chip’s experience includes operating roles at companies that became part of 24/7 Media and N2K, and venture investing at Kodiak Venture Partners and DFJ Gotham before TVP. Across his career, he has worked with founders in advertising technology, enterprise software and other markets shaped by new technology.
As Board Partner, Chip continues to support selected existing TVP investments and their founders. His role builds on the relationships and company-building experience developed over the firm’s history.
Chip holds a BA from Cornell University, where he played varsity basketball, and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
five Things
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My summer job in high school and college was mucking stalls and cutting pastures on a horse farm.
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I love fishing in all its forms including my favorite, ice fishing.
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My wife says I’m a pretty good, though horribly repetitive shower singer.
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My career stats from Cornell Basketball are not impressive.
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I coached every youth sports team my three kids ever played.
Investments
- 1Huddle
- Ampjar Exited
- AppNexus ACQ: AT&T
- Backtrace ACQ: SAUCE LABS
- BetterCloud ACQ: CoreStack
- HUMAN
- Clypd ACQ: AT&T
- Emergent Payments
- Eponym Exited
- Firstleaf
- Forever
- Gather AI
- Hive
- Jornaya ACQ: Verisk
- L1ght Exited
- Maxwell Health ACQ: SUN LIFE
- Mount
- Nifty Thrifty Exited
- Nimble TV ACQ: SYNACOR
- PebblePost
- Quantum Circuits ACQ: D-WAVE
- Spiffy
- Swivel
- Table22
- Tentrr Exited
- Toggle
- Virsec
- Wonder
