John Burke (True Ventures) at Startup Grind DC
John is a founder of True Ventures, with a passion in early stage investing and growing companies. True Ventures is led by General Partners John Burke along with Venture Partners Toni Schneider (CEO of Automattic), Tony Conrad (Founder of about.me and Sphere) and Om Malik (Founder of Giga Omni Media).
Companies in the True portfolio include about.me (acquired by AOL), Assistly (acquired by Salesforce), Automattic (creators of the popular blogging platform WordPress.com), Bloomspot, BrightRoll, Cetas (acquired by VMware), Fitbit, Milo (acquired by eBay), Socialcast (acquired by VMware), Syncplicity (acquired by EMC) and Typekit (acquired by Adobe).
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