Greg Horowitt, Managing Director
Gregory Scott Horowitt
Founding Partner & Managing Director, T2 Venture Capital
Kauffman Fellow, Class XV
Co-Founder, Global CONNECT
Greg is the co-founder and Managing Director of T2 Venture Capital, a seed and early stage venture fund focused on high impact investments in the technology and healthcare sectors. He has led T2VC’s investments in AutoPoint Software (acquired by Service Repair Solutions), Biomatrica, and Somark Innovations. He is a Kauffman Fellow, a member of a selective program to groom leaders of the venture capital industry. He is an advisor, speaker, and consultant to organizations around the world including the World Bank, US State Department, OECD, USAID, Aspen Institute, and the National Academies of Science on topics of economic development, venture capital formation, and innovation policy.
Mr. Horowitt is also the co-founder of Global CONNECT, a think tank based at the University of California, San Diego, focused on the development and growth of innovation clusters worldwide. Under his leadership, Global CONNECT has grown to encompass one of the world’s largest networks of innovation hubs including more than 40 programs in 20 countries, all focused on accelerating global technology commercialization. Mr. Horowitt’s many media references include the New York Times, Forbes, Fortune, New Scientist, and Entrepreneur Magazine.
Greg was formerly the interim Managing Director of CONNECT, an organization which is generally credited with San Diego’s success as a technology leader and which helped launch over 300 companies that raised over $600 million in early-stage funding and achieved over $12 billion in market capitalization. Greg has personally been involved with and/or mentored more than 200 companies.
Prior to CONNECT, Greg’s life was as an entrepreneur and investor, having been involved with a number of Silicon Valley startups and venture capital. He served as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence for SK Global, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, and before that, he was the President and CEO of the Praetorian Group, a venture-backed enterprise software company providing e-business solutions to law enforcement and public safety agencies across the country. For nearly 20 years before that, he was with a Berkshire Hathaway company, Flying Cross by Fechheimer, where he finished his tenure as Vice President of Regional Sales
Greg currently serves as a board member of the CONNECT Foundation, and UC San Diego Entrepreneurship Challenge. He is an international judge for the IBM Global Entrepreneur program, an advisor to the UCSD Rady School of Management and serves on the investment committee for The Rady Venture Fund. He also serves as an advisor and mentor to the University of California’s Discovery Fellows Program; is a Senior Advisor to the Larta Institute; Industrial Advisory Board member, Life Sciences-IT Global Institute; and the past Chairman of Project Inform, one of the nation’s leading HIV treatment information and advocacy organizations.
Greg holds a degree in Biochemistry and minors in Economics and Music Performance from the University of California, San Diego.
