Phil Bronner
Ardent Venture Partners
Phil Bronner is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Ardent Venture Partners, an early-stage venture fund investing in AI-native applications, vertical SaaS, and B2B fintech. He serves on the boards of Verituity, ExecOnline, OneMain Financial (NYSE: OMF), and Incentivio and is an investor in companies including Givebutter, Method Financial, Roe AI, and Drillbit.
Before Ardent, Phil founded Summer League Ventures (SLV), investing in companies like Morning Consult, Ordway Labs, and Gather.ai. Prior to SLV, he was a General Partner at Novak Biddle Venture Partners, where he led 16 investments totaling over $100 million, including 2U (Nasdaq: TWOU), Infoblox (acquired by Vista Equity), SolidFire (NetApp), and AddThis (Oracle).
Phil also founded Quad Learning, a venture-backed startup acquired by Wellspring Higher Education. Earlier, he was a Management Consultant at McKinsey & Co. and a Software Engineer at IBM.
He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon, a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Law, and an MBA from the Wharton School.
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