Apr 16, 2024
The Department of Entrepreneurship and the John W. Altman Institute for Entrepreneurship are excited to introduce newly elected RedHawk Ventures Executive Team members for 2024-2025. Listed left-to-right and top-to-bottom, the executive team includes:
- Katherine McIntosh (Co-Managing Director, MU ’25 in Finance and Incoming U.S. Finance Intern at McDonald’s)
- Grace Galloway (Co-Managing Director, MU ’25 in Finance and Entrepreneurship and Financial Planning Analyst with CBTS)
- Ryan Mateyo (Director of Talent, MU ’26 in Honors Finance and Valuation Fellow at CincyTech)
- Matthew Brady (Director of Investment and Portfolio, MU ’27 in Finance and Entrepreneurship)
- Liam McAllister (Director of Communications, MU ’25 in Finance and Entrepreneurship)
Established in 1999, RedHawk Ventures, the John W. Altman Institute for Entrepreneurship’s $500,000 seed-stage venture investment fund, is one of the first undergraduate student-managed seed stage venture capital funds in the U.S. and today stands as one of a small group of venture capital funds in the nation run entirely by undergraduate students. RedHawk Ventures invests up to $25,000 into promising Miami University student- and alumni-founded startups and high-growth companies. Student investors manage deal flow and work closely with founders through the venture funding process, including investor pitch presentations, valuation and investment syndication, term sheet preparation, and post-funding management and growth.
The fund celebrated its first exit in 2020 when Chicago-based Digs, cofounded by Pat McLoughlin MU ’10 and Chad Johnson MU ’10, was acquired by Austin-based OJO. Its current portfolio includes Indianapolis-based The Fan’s Place (Rory Billing MU ’12, Co-Founder and CEO, and Connor Billing MU ’13, Co-Founder and COO), Houston-based PlaneAhead (Alex Malebranche, PMP MU ’15, Founder and CEO), Portland-based OROS Labs / Solarcore® (Michael Markesbery MU ’15, Co-founder and CEO, and Rithvik Venna MU ’15, Co-Founder and COO), LA-based Mad Rabbit (Oliver Zak MU ’19, Co-Founder and CEO, and Selom Agbitor MU ’19, Co-Founder and COO), Chicago-based Blip Energy (Dennis Kontorovich MU ’16, Co-Founder), and Pieces for Developers (Tsavo Knott MU ’18, Co-Founder and CEO, and Mack Myers MU ’16, Co-Founder and COO), among others.