Ted Holzman is the Chief Financial Officer and Managing Director at Trousdale Ventures, combining traditional CFO expertise with front-line investing responsibilities in a way that's uncommon among early-stage venture capitalists. He maintains a deliberately low public profile while focusing on capital-intensive, technically complex businesses across hard-tech sectors like transportation, biotech, and digital health, with check sizes ranging from $100K to $10M that allow him to support companies from early rounds through larger financing stages.
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Space, CPG / D2C, Transportation, Climate, Health
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Pre-Seed - Series B+
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Trousdale Ventures operates as a family-office platform that has deployed over $300M in 18-24 months, backing dual-use space, defense, and industrial technologies under a "reindustrialization from earth to orbit" thesis while explicitly avoiding incremental improvements to focus only on "seemingly impossible challenges" and multi-decade "forever companies." The firm combines hard-tech investments with a personal wellness focus informed by founding partner Phillip Sarofim's cancer journey, seeking companies that materially improve health and sustainability while bringing hands-on industrial and global supply-chain expertise typically found in private equity rather than venture capital.
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