Our Team

As a pio­neer and lead­ing play­er in impact invest­ing, DBL has helped to reveal the pow­er of ven­ture cap­i­tal to pro­mote social change and envi­ron­men­tal improve­ment. In this con­text, Nan­cy …
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Ira Ehren­preis is Founder and Man­ag­ing Part­ner of DBL Part­ners. Ira is a rec­og­nized leader in the ven­ture cap­i­tal indus­try, hav­ing served on the Board, Exec­u­tive Com­mit­tee, and as Annu­al …
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Mark Perutz is a Part­ner at DBL Part­ners. Pre­vi­ous­ly he was an invest­ment pro­fes­sion­al at JPMor­gan help­ing to man­age the Bay Area Equi­ty Fund from 2003 through the spin-out of …
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Becky sup­ports DBL Part­ners fund admin­is­tra­tion and man­age­ment. In addi­tion to her role with DBL, she also con­sults for Stan­dish Man­age­ment as a Direc­tor, pro­vid­ing sim­i­lar ser­vices to oth­er ven­ture …
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Paula Uni­acke is Direc­tor of Impact at DBL Part­ners, which she joined in Jan­u­ary 2022. Pre­vi­ous­ly, Paula was Senior Pro­gram Offi­cer at The Asia Foun­da­tion, an inter­na­tion­al non­govern­men­tal orga­ni­za­tion, where …
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Jake Har­ris is a Prin­ci­pal at DBL Part­ners, which he joined in 2018. Pri­or to DBL, Jake was a Ven­ture Part­ner at Con­trary Cap­i­tal a decen­tral­ized uni­ver­si­­ty-focused ven­ture firm.  Pre­vi­ous­ly, …
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Vin­nie Caru­so is an Asso­ciate at DBL Part­ners, which he joined in 2019. Pre­vi­ous­ly, Vin­nie was an envi­ron­men­tal strat­e­gy con­sul­tant at CEA Con­sult­ing, where he worked with foun­da­tions, devel­op­ment banks, …
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Cyn­thia Ringo was for­mer­ly a Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of Van­tage­Point Ven­ture Part­ners from 2002 to 2008 where she was Group Leader of the Com­mu­ni­ca­tions, Sys­tems, Inter­net and Media Prac­tice. Ms. Ringo …
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Car­ol is the Chief Admin­is­tra­tive Offi­cer at DBL Part­ners. Pre­vi­ous­ly Car­ol was the Fund Man­ag­er for DBL Investors for the Bay Area Equi­ty Fund and DBL Equi­ty Fund, and before …
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