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Lo Toney

Lo Toney

Founding Managing Partner at Plexo Capital

San Francisco, California, United StatesVenture Capital & Private Equity
Company
Plexo Capital
Title
Founding Managing Partner
Seniority
Partner
Department
C Suite
Location
San Francisco, California, United States
Industry
Venture Capital & Private Equity

About

Lo is the Founding Managing Partner of Plexo Capital, which is an institutional investment firm he incubated and spun out from GV (Google Ventures). Plexo Capital invests in emerging seed-stage VCs and invests directly into companies sourced from the portfolios of VCs where Plexo Capital has an investment. Investors in Plexo Capital include Alphabet (holding company of Google), Intel Capital, Cisco Investment, the Royal Bank of Canada, Kapor Capital, the Hampton University Endowment (Cambridge Associates client) and the Ford Foundation. Prior to founding Plexo Capital, Lo was a Partner on the investing team at GV where he focused on marketplaces, mobile and consumer products. Before GV, Lo was a Partner with Comcast Ventures where he led the Catalyst Fund and worked with the main fund where he focused on mobile messaging and marketplaces. He also worked with Zynga as the GM of Zynga Poker with full P+L responsibility for Zynga’s largest franchise at that time. During his leadership, we…

Experience

Founding Managing Partner

Plexo Capital · San Francisco Bay Area

Present

Founding Managing Partner of Plexo Capital, which is an institutional investment firm incubated and spun out from GV (Google Ventures). Plexo Capital invests in emerging seed-stage VCs led by diverse teams and invests directly into companies sourced from the portfolios of VCs where Plexo Capital has an investment.

Advisor

GV · San Francisco Bay Area

Present

Partner

GV (formerly known as Google Ventures) · San Francisco Bay Area

Partner on the investing team focused on: - Marketplaces - Mobile Consumer - Digital Media - Gaming + eSports - Mobile Enterprise

Mentor

MuckerLab · Santa Monica, CA

Present

Mentor and advise exciting new companies and entrepreneurs

Partner, Catalyst Fund

Comcast Ventures · San Francisco Bay Area

Comcast Ventures is the venture capital unit of Comcast NBC Universal. The Catalyst Fund invests in seed stage companies led by entrepreneurs of color.

Member of the Board of Directors

iPass · Redwood Shores, CA

iPass (Nasdaq: IPAS) provides its customers with the world's largest commercial Wi-Fi network, with over 18 million hotspots in airports, hotels, airplanes and public areas in more than 120 countries across the globe.

Ceo

LearnStreet · Palo Alto, CA

CEO of learn to code site.

Studio Gm

Zynga

Studio General Manager with full P+L: YoVille + Poker/Casino; GM Mobile Publishing

Member, Advisory Board

Mpire/AdXpose (acquired by comScore)

Served on Advisory Board for a consumer internet company funded by Ignition Partners and Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ). Provided advice on corporate strategy, business development and product development.

Vp Product and Marketing

Cake Financial (acquired by E*TRADE)

Responsible for all product + marketing for the company.

Member, Advisory Board

ShopFlick (acquired by Sugar Inc./PopSugar)

Served on Advisory Board for a consumer internet company funded by Venrock. Provided advice on corporate strategy, business development and product development.

Education

University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of Business

MBA, Entrepreneurship, Management of Technology

Hampton University

BS, Business

Stanford Law School - Directors College

Directors College, Premier executive education program for directors and senior executives of publicly traded firms.

Bishop O'Dowd High School

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