Thomas Thurston | Venture Capital

VENTURE CAPITAL

DATA SCIENCE

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About Thomas

VENTURE CAPITAL

Senior Advisor and Chief Technologist at D ucera Partners, a boutique investment bank with specialities including venture capital and private capital solutions, corporate restructuring, M&A, complex transactions and liability management. Since its founding in 2015, Ducera has exceeded $750 billion in deal volume.

Partner and Chief Technology Officer of WR Hambrecht+Co, where Thomas helps lead the firm's venture capital, asset management and technology innovation efforts. For more than 50 years WR Hambrecht+Co and its predecessor, Hambrecht & Quist, have provided early growth capital to more than 500 companies including Apple, Amazon and Google.

Founder of Growth Science Ventures, a venture capital firm that uses AI to identify early-stage disruptive startups.

Thomas has served on the Board of Directors for multiple private, publicly-held and nonprofit organizations.

DATA SCIENCE

Thomas and his data science team built Quannix, an AI platform that provides unique insights into startups and other private businesses that disclose little or no public data about their financial or commercial status. Since 2008, Quannix has helped guide billions of dollars in venture capital, innovation, M&A and related growth initiatives.

Formerly, he used data science to guide growth investments at Intel and led a joint R&D effort at the Harvard Business School with Professor Clayton Christensen to develop quantitative predictive models for early stage innovation. He also helped found a business in the high performance computing industry that was acquired.

Growing up in Honduras, Bolivia, India, Nepal and Indonesia, Thomas believes innovation decisions are a critical, but poorly understood, key to improving social wellbeing worldwide.