John Paul Milciunas

Bio

John Paul “JP” Milciunas has over 20 years of experience in working with early stage technology startups as both an investor and as an operator. JP is currently launching a new venture capital fund focused innovation at the intersection of technology and consumer goods. Prior he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Accelerator Ventures, an SF based early stage venture capital firm where he remains a Venture Advisor. He was also a Venture Partner at Bionic, where he worked with multi-national company innovation teams to help shape organic and inorganic venture programs and investment strategies. He is a four-time CEO, three of those times as a co-founder. He has lead founding and executive teams from Seed through Series D rounds of financing as well as successful exits. As an investor, JP has been making early stage investments since 1998. He started his career as an application test engineer at S1 Corporation, the company that created the world’s first Internet bank. From there he worked as a strategy consultant, as an associate at a venture capital firm, and for Yahoo! in their Strategy and Emerging Businesses Group. He studied Management, Finance, and Organizational Behavior at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Business Analytics at Harvard University.