Sergio Monsalve

Sergio brings to NVP extensive operational and venture capital experience from a wide range of business and consumer technology companies. Sergio is focused on early and growth investments in the digital media， mobile， and social areas. His current investments and board seats include BookRenter， Branchout， Motif Investing， myYearbook and a couple of stealth projects. Sergio was previously on the board of The DealMap （acquired by Google）. He is a board participant and is involved with Lending Club.

Sergio started his career at Morgan Stanley， where he advised several companies on mergers and acquisitions. Sergio was also a marketing and business development manager at Portal Software （now part of Oracle） which had a successful Initial Public Offering in 1999. Sergio was also the co-founder and first business development executive at Cymerc， which was a hosted SaaS solution for small and medium-sized businesses. Sergio successfully raised two rounds of venture financing and grew Cymerc from inception to more than $15 million in sales.