Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Eric Carlborg is a General Partner at August Capital since 2010. Eric focuses on investing in later stage growth companies to provide capital for growth, acquisitions, recapitalizations and shareholder liquidity. Eric has broad investing, transaction and operating experience in private and public growth companies.

Immediately, prior to joining August Capital, Eric was a Partner at Continental Investors where he invested in ecommerce and software companies; and financial technology and service companies.

Eric's transaction experience includes several years of investment banking at Merrill Lynch & Co including the position of Co-Head of Technology Investment Banking.

Eric also served as an Executive in Residence at Golden Gate Capital.

Previously. Eric was Chief Financial Officer at Einstein Noah Bagel Corporation (ENBC) during the company’s initial public offering, Chief Financial Officer at Authorize.Net which was acquired by Go2Net (GNET) and Chief Financial Officer at Provide Commerce (PRVD) which was acquired by Liberty Media Interactive (LINTA).

Eric received a B.A. degree in Economics from the University of Illinois and MBA from the University of Chicago.

Eric currently serves as a Member of the Board of Directors at Blue Nile (NILE), Dydacomp, Integral Ad Science, PubMatic, SnagAJob, and Zulily (ZU).

Eric's current and past investments includes Bodybuilding.com (acquired by Liberty Media Interactive), CarHop, Veritec, TradingScreen, HighTower and Seaside National Bank.