Day 5/100 — Adam Quinton, Founder and CEO, Lucas Point Ventures

Who’s Adam Quinton?

Adam Quinton in an Adjunct Professor and member of the Management and Gender & Public Policy Faculties at Columbia University, as well as Faculty advisor to the SIPA Women in Leadership student group. He is currently a finals judge for the Cartier Women’s Initative Awards and has been mentor for the 92Y “Women in Power”Program since its inception in 2016.

Although currently not actively investing, as the Founder/CEO of Lucas Point Ventures, Adam Quinton has invested in and advised 15 early stage companies with a focus on diverse management teams. His investments include The Muse, Glassbreakers, Venuebook, Pinks and Greens, Snaps, Rapt Media, Hire an Esquire and Validately. Adam is on the Board of Pinks and Greens and serve as an Advisor to a number of companies as well as Chicago based techweek. He was previously a Managing Director of Bank of America Merill Lynch.

In 2014 he was named by AlleyWatch one of “25 Angel Investors in New York You Need to Know” and also one the “100 NYC Tech Influencers You Need to Know”. In 2015 Adam was featured in Tech.co as “One of 8 VCs Making Waves” and in 2016 was named as one of “26 great people spearheading change in tech investment” by Silicon Republic.