Damir Perge

Co-Founder

 

Mr. Perge is the founder of entrepreneurdex, a startup studio using complexity science to launch and fund startups. He ran a VC fund in Silicon Valley, focused on investing into the seed and early stages of the startup cycle. Mr. Perge directly invested and managed a portfolio of 28 startups in diverse sectors: high-tech, manufacturing, software, hardware, media, publishing, alternative energy and fintech. He was also founder and publisher of Futuredex—a U.S. financial magazine targeting private investors and entrepreneurs—which was bundled and distributed with Worth Magazine.  

 

He has experience in venture capital, high tech, finance, sports & entertainment, publishing, film production, alternative energy, natural resources, and manufacturing sectors. Produced two entrepreneur funding competitions in Silicon Valley called Match-A-Million. His latest books are Entrepreneur Myths: The Startup Reality, and Soccerpreneur (due to be published summer 2015).

 

Producer, creator and host of 60+ entrepreneur webisodes: Startup Unicorns: How to Build a Billion Dollar Startup Almost Overnight, Entreprenetics: The Psychology of the Entrepreneur Mind, Sun Tzu: The Art of War Applied to Business, The Secrets of the Startup Pitch and Lean Capitalist on damirperge.com

 

He played soccer on the U.S. Youth National Team. McDonald’s All-American. Mr. Perge attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas on a soccer scholarship, where he studied Mechanical Engineering.