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Erik Benson

Erik has been an early-stage venture capitalist for the last 25 years. He currently represents Voyager on the board of directors of Carbon Robotics, Lighter Capital, SheerID, Shiftboard, Uplevel, and Videon.

Erik was originally responsible for Voyager's investments in:

  • Act-On Software (acquired: Banzai)
  • Anova Data (acquired: Ribbon Communications)
  • aQuantive (IPO)
  • Blue Box (acquired: IBM)
  • Covario (acquired: Dentsu)
  • CapitalStream (acquired: HCL Technologies)
  • Elemental Technologies (acquired: Amazon)
  • Kryptiq (acquired: Surescripts)
  • Lytics (acquired: ContentStack)
  • MakeTV (acquired: LTN Global)
  • Skyward (acquired: Verizon)
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Prior to joining Voyager in 1998, Erik was president of Mimix which developed motion capture software for the video game industry. He began his career in investment banking in NYC with Chemical Bank (now JP Morgan). Erik was born and raised on a crop farm in Skagit Valley, Washington, where he currently serves on the board of trustees of the Museum of Northwest Art. He has an MBA from Harvard and a BA from PLU.

Our Team