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John Azubuike

Former Vice President at Owl Ventures

New York, New York

Writes $5M – $50M checks · typically $25M

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About

John Azubuike is an investor at Search Fund Accelerator. He has experience in early-stage venture capital and control private equity.

Experience

  1. Search Fund AcceleratorInvestorcurrent2025 — presentDenver, Colorado, United States
  2. Envision Health Technologies.IncCorporate Finance Consultantcurrent2025 — present
  3. Emko CapitalInvestor2024 — 2025Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  4. Pzena Investment ManagementFall Research Intern2023New York, New York, United States
  5. LLR PartnersSummer VP2023Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
  6. TrueLearnStrategy Intern2023Mooresville, North Carolina, United States
  7. Owl VenturesVice President2021 — 2022New York, New York, United States
  8. Owl VenturesSenior Associate2019 — 2021San Francisco Bay Area
  9. GeniallyBoard Observer2021 — 2022Córdoba, Andalusia, Spain
  10. Welcome TechnologiesBoard Observer2021 — 2022
  11. uLesson EducationBoard Observer2021 — 2022
  12. Interplay LearningBoard Observer2021 — 2022
  13. Amira LearningBoard Observer2019 — 2022
  14. RemindBoard Observer2019 — 2022
  15. Lingo LiveBoard Observer2019 — 2022
  16. Kuali, Inc.Board Observer2019 — 2022
  17. BenchPrepBoard Observer2019 — 2022
  18. LabsterBoard Observer2019 — 2022
  19. SecurlyBoard Observer2019 — 2021
  20. WhiteHat JrBoard Observer2019 — 2020
  21. DegreedBoard Observer2019 — 2020
  22. TCVInvestor2018 — 2019New York City Metropolitan Area
  23. KEC VenturesAssociate2017New York City Metropolitan Area
  24. KEC VenturesAnalyst2015 — 2017New York City Metropolitan Area
  25. The New York Stem Cell FoundationRobotics Engineer2014 — 2015New York City Metropolitan Area
  26. OC&C Strategy Consultants (now part of Oliver Wyman)Summer Associate Consultant2013Greater Boston
  27. Harvard College Research ProgramResearch Fellow2012Cambridge, MA
  28. Morgan Stanley Investment ManagementInvestment Management Summer Analyst2011New York, NY
  29. Harvard Whitesides LabResearcher2011Cambridge, MA

Skills & more

Principal InvestmentsLeveraged Buyouts (LBO)Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A)Research26Data Analysis23Statistics14Editing4Teaching2Cell Culture4Social Media4Molecular Biology3PCR1
+11 moreEconomicsSciencePublic SpeakingMatlabStataMicrosoft OfficeRLaTeXMicrosoft WordLanguages: German, IgboProgramming: C, HTML, PHP

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Who is John Azubuike?
John Azubuike is an investor at Search Fund Accelerator. He has experience in early-stage venture capital and control private equity.
What check size does John Azubuike write?
John Azubuike typically writes checks of $5M – $50M.
Where did John Azubuike go to school?
John Azubuike studied at The Wharton School (Master of Business Administration - MBA); Harvard University (Bachelor's degree, Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering); Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania (Master of Public Administration - MPA).

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