John Livingston

About John Livingston

Serial entrepreneur. Growth investor for early-stage start-ups. Love to work with up-and-coming CEOs. Connect with me if you are a technology company poised for growth in need of investment and mentorship. My team and I built Absolute Software (with a lot of help from a lot of amazing people) from nothing to almost one hundred million dollars in recurring sales revenue and approximately $40M in free cash flow. What an incredible ride! After Absolute, I began supporting other entrepreneurs in their ventures. My first investment was in Ben Moore’s company – Telmediq – supporting as both a mentor and an investor. We sold the company to K1, a prominent PE firm based in Los Angeles, 4 years later. Then I began working with Jake and Nat and the team over at FINN.ai. They did a terrific job building an ai-based Fin-tech company. Finn had a successful exit and sold to Glia and Insight Partners. Today I\'m supporting Skyfish’s drone platform that makes engineering grade 3D models of critical infrastructure through a process called photogrammetry. The resulting digital twin, or 3D model, is so precise you can measure the thickness of steel or use AI, for example, to find out a cotter pin is missing and no longer properly securing a bolt on a transmission tower and immediately dispatch a crew to remedy asap. There are a lot of exciting things going on in the American drone industry and I believe more opportunity than ever to build a drone, data, and service platform that disrupts the status quo. Happy Entrepreneuring! Cheers John

Experience

1. Executive Chairman

   Skyfish

   Sep 2014 — Present · Missoula, MT, US

Education

• St. George's School

  Graduation

  1970 — 1976

• University of Calgary

  MBA, Business & Technology

  1987 — 1989