Don Thompson
InvestorPartner at Cleveland Avenue · Board director at Beyond Meat
Greater Chicago Area
Writes $1M – $10M checks
About
Don Thompson, a former McDonald's CEO who began as an electrical engineer and grew up in Chicago's Cabrini-Green, backs diverse founders with his wife Liz through love-centered, multi-decade relationship investing.
Contact· self-published, not guessed
Invests in
AgTechAI & Machine LearningDirect to ConsumerFoodTechRetail TechRobotics
Board director at Beyond Meat
Intro paths
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In turn, Don can intro founders to Beyond Meat's investors below.
Beyond Meat's investors · 19
Blue Horizon CorporationZurichCAVU Consumer PartnersSanta Monica · $1M – $30M checksCleveland AvenueChicago · $1M – $10M checksCollaborative FundNew York · $500K – $1M checksCPT CapitalLondonDns CapitalChicago · $25M – $100M checksEvolution VC PartnersNew YorkGreatPoint VenturesSan Francisco · $250K – $20M checksGroundForce CapitalVenice · $10M – $35M checksKleiner PerkinsMenlo Park · $500K – $15M checksLauder PartnersLos AltosMDT VenturesChicagoObvious VenturesSan Francisco · $250K – $6M checksPROOFArlingtonS2G InvestmentsChicago · $1M – $5M checksStray Dog CapitalLeawood · $100K – $1M checksStructural CapitalMenlo Park · $10M – $50M checksUnion Grove Venture PartnersChapel HillUnovis Asset ManagementSan Francisco
Co-founders at Beyond Meat
EB
Ethan BrownFounder & CEO
Experience
- Cleveland AvenueCEOcurrent2015 — present
Colleagues at Cleveland Avenue
Andy Zopp
Managing Partner at Cleveland Avenue
Evette Phillips Williams
Managing Director, Investor Relations & Chief of Staff at Cleveland Avenue
Harry Coaxum
Chief Operating Officer at Cleveland Avenue
Joseph Q. McCoy
President & General Counsel at Cleveland Avenue
Keith Kravcik
CIO at Cleveland Avenue
Lisa Merchant-Harrell
Chief Human Resources Officer at Cleveland Avenue
Liz Thompson
CEO, The CAFE Group at Cleveland Avenue
Mingu Lee
Managing Partner at Cleveland Avenue
Network5
Andrew Chen
General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
Anna Mason
Managing Partner at Ingeborg Investments
Elizabeth Weil
Founder & Partner at Scribble Ventures
Kelli N. Jones
Managing Partner at Sixty8 Capital
Laura Bordewieck Rippy
Board Director at Basecamp Fund
Investors connected to Don in public investor directories — a warm-intro map.
Frequently asked questions
- Who is Don Thompson?
- Don Thompson, a former McDonald's CEO who began as an electrical engineer and grew up in Chicago's Cabrini-Green, backs diverse founders with his wife Liz through love-centered, multi-decade relationship investing.
- Where does Don Thompson work?
- Don Thompson is Partner at Cleveland Avenue and Board director at Beyond Meat.
- What does Don Thompson invest in?
- Don Thompson invests in AgTech, AI & Machine Learning, Direct to Consumer, FoodTech, Retail Tech, Robotics.
- What check size does Don Thompson write?
- Don Thompson typically writes checks of $1M – $10M.
- Where did Don Thompson go to school?
- Don Thompson studied at Purdue University.
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