Kyle Messman
Managing Partner at South Bay Ventures | Venture Partner at Fontinalis Capital Partners | Former CFO | Director
- Role
- Venture Partner at Fontinalis Partners
- Location
- Los Angeles, CA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kyle Messman
Experienced Chief Financial Officer and Angel Investor with two successful SaaS exits (Telogis and Velocify) to strategic public company acquirors for $1 Billion+ in total aggregate value. My finance background has been primarily working in Technology with focus on Enterprise Software. Bio:Kyle Messman is the Founder and Managing Partner of South Bay Ventures, a venture capital firm he founded in 2018 to make early-stage investments in cloud technology companies. He currently serves as a Venture Partner with Fontinalis Partners, LLC, a venture capital firm with $270 million of committed capital that invests in next-generation mobility. Kyle was a Financial Sponsor and Board Member (Audit Committee Chair) of Motion Acquisition Corp. which was SPAC targeting acquisitions in the enterprise software and mobility space which successfully merged with DocGo (NASDAQ: DCGO) in November 2021. He was formerly Chief Financial Officer of Velocify, Inc, a SaaS based sales acceleration platform acquired by Ellie Mae (NYSE: ELLI) for $128 million in November 2017. Prior to that, he was a lead angel and the only Chief Financial Officer of Telogis, a SaaS provider of fleet and mobile resource management solutions to large enterprises, until its acquisition by Verizon (NYSE: VZ) for $900 million in August 2016. He previously spent several years as an investment banker focused on mergers and financings in technology and business services. Additionally, Kyle serves on the Board of Directors of a number of privately held business.Kyle earned a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an M.B.A. in Finance from the Graziadio School of Business at Pepperdine University.
Experience
Venture Partner
Sep 2018 — Present
Fontinalis Partners is a venture capital firm with $270 million of committed capital that invests in next-generation mobility. Investment areas include autonomous vehicles, connected cars and fleets, supply chain & logistics, mobility services, and several others.
Education
Pepperdine Graziadio Business School
MBA, Finance
University of Pennsylvania
Bachelor of Science - BS
1994 — 1998
The Wharton School
BS Economics, Finance & Entrepreneurial Management
1994 — 1998
Skills
- Executive Management
- Investment Banking
- Strategic Financial Planning
- Corporate Development
- Financial Modeling
- Private Equity
- Portfolio Management
- Mergers
- Management
- Due Diligence
- Valuation
- Saas
- Investments
- Finance
- Strategy
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Planning
- Corporate Finance
- Software as a Service (Saas)
- M&a Experience
- Forecasting
- Venture Capital
- Mergers & Acquisitions
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