


Robinson III &
James
Robinson IV
When RRE Ventures was new, in 1994, so was the commercial Internet. The firm easily commandeeredrre.comas its web address and became a fixture in New York City’s venture capital community, which at the time was not nearly in the same league as Boston and Silicon Valley. But New York had something those locales didn’t: a concentration of large corporations, including financial industry giants, with growing appetites for innovation. And RRE hadJames Robinson III, who retired as chairman and CEO of American Express Co. in 1993 and could both open doors to the Fortune 500 and arrange introductions to technology entrepreneurs with whom he was getting acquainted as an angel investor. Robinson, whose 80th birthday is November 19, raised the investment stakes with RRE, which he, as general partner, co-founded with two managing partners: his sonJames Robinson IVand Stuart Ellman. James IV and Ellman, now 53 and 49, respectively, were Harvard Business School classmates who started a company that developed a touch-screen ordering system for stadiums that was ten years ahead of its time. Their timing as leaders of RRE’s nine-member investment team has vastly improved. The portfolio is a diversified set of technology, media and consumer plays, including such fintech disrupters as online lender OnDeck Capital, financial management service NerdWallet and a host of Bitcoin/blockchain investments, directly and through a relationship with Digital Currency Group (seeBarry Silbert, No. 13). RRE has also invested in Ellman’s specialty of robotics (Jibo) and in space (Spaceflight Industries and Spire Global). “Most everything we look at has a 20-year gestation — we’re even seeing that in digital currency,” says James IV, underscoring the long view and patient perspective informing the firm’s more than $1.5 billion in investments. “If all you do is chase what’s hot, you’ll go wrong.” His father admits to pooh-poohing cryptocurrency, then “doing a 180,” in part thanks to Adam Ludwin, who worked at RRE from 2010 until early 2014. Ludwin co-founded Chain, a blockchain start-up now working closely with, among others, Nasdaq and First Data Corp., a company James III acquired while at American Express. RRE backed Ludwin early, and in September, James III joined Chain’s board.
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2.Jane Gladstone
Evercore Partners
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3.Matthew Harris
Bain Capital Ventures
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4.Steven McLaughlin
Financial Technology Partners
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5.Jonathan Korngold
General Atlantic
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6.Richard Garman &
Brad Bernstein
FTV Capital
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7.艾米Nauiokas &肖恩公园
Anthemis Group
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8.Thomas Jessop
Goldman Sachs Group
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9.Meyer (Micky) Malka
Ribbit Capital
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10.Hans Morris
Nyca Partners
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11.Maria Gotsch
Partnership Fund for New York City
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12.Marc Andreessen
Andreessen Horowitz
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13.Barry Silbert
Digital Currency Group
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14.Jay Reinemann
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria
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15.Mariano Belinky
Santander InnoVentures
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16.François Robinet
AXA Strategic Ventures
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17.Vanessa Colella
Citi Ventures
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18.Alan Freudenstein & Gregory Grimaldi
Credit Suisse
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19.Justin Brownhill & Neil DeSena
SenaHill Partners
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20.Rodger Voorhies
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
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21.Michael Schlein
Accion International
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22.Kenneth Marlin
Marlin & Associates
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23.Rumi Morales
CME Ventures
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24.Mark Beeston
Illuminate Financial Management
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25.Vladislav Solodkiy
Life.SREDA
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26.Fabian Vandenreydt
Innotribe SWIFT
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27.Derek White
Barclays
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28.Alex Batlin
UBS
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29.Jeffrey Greenberg
& Vincenzo La Ruffa
Aquiline Capital Partners
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30.P. Howard Edelstein
REDI Holdings
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31.Nektarios Liolios
Startupbootcamp FinTech
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32.Roy Bahat
Bloomberg Beta
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33.Andrew McCormack
Valar合资企业
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34.Lawrence Wintermeyer
Innovate Finance
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35.Janos Barberis
FinTech Hong Kong
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