Ari Newman is a Co-Founder and Managing Director at Massive.vc, a multi-stage venture firm dedicated to providing engaged and empathetic capital to category-leading tech companies in the Deep Tech, Fintech, SaaS and ClimateTech markets. He is also a Partner at The Fund Rockies, a pre-seed fund focused on investing in the Rocky Mountain region. Ari is currently a Board Director at Line Financial. Previously, Ari was a Partner at Techstars Ventures where he invested in over 100 early-sage companies. Prior to his investing career, Ari spent 15 years as a founder, entrepreneur and operator, learning along the way through both success and failure. He co-founded JustOn.com (sold to Novell), co-founded Filtrbox in 2007 (member of the 1st Techstars class) and then sold the business to Jive Software before going full-circle and joining the Techstars team. Ari is a product and business strategy nerd at heart and loves working with Founders on the hardest problems.