Laurent Ohana, Managing Partner
Mr. Ohana is the managing partner of Parkview Ventures and has been investing in, advising, and operating technology and communications companies in the U.S., Europe, Israel and Asia, since the early 1990's.
Mr. Ohana began his career as a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson in 1987. In 1993, he founded one of the first interactive ad agencies in the US to create ads on CD-ROMs, online services and the Web. In 1994, he founded New Media Capital LLC and invested in New York startups Snickelways, CyberSites and MetaMatrix and the Silicon Valley-based LookSmart (pre-IPO). He also advised many start-ups and large international clients on digital business strategy, M&A and capital formation.
In 1999, he raised financing from three of the largest print publishers in the world (Hollinger in Canada, Fairfax in Australia, and Mondadori in Italy) and financial investors Milstein Brothers Capital, Pivotal Group and Capital Z Partners and effectuated one of the first "venture buyouts" by acquiring news aggregator and syndicator NewsAlert.com, which he ran as Chairman and CEO until its sale to ScreamingMedia in 2002. In 2004, he founded Parkview Ventures to invest in and work with early stage innovators developing disruptive business models and products, as well as to help small and medium sized technology companies with active investment and advice.
Mr. Ohana holds a B.A. in Economics from the University of California at Berkeley and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.