Bob Geiman
Co-Founder, Co-CEO Cava Studio
EIR, Summit Partners
Member, G20 Ventures
Founder, Digisure
EIR, Warburg Pincus
Founder and CEO, Confirm(Acquired by Facebook)
Former CEO & Founder, EveryScreen Media (merged with MD6 to form Distillery 2015)
General Partner, Polaris Venture Partners
Management team, MCK Communications(startup thru IPO)
Served on 13 private company boards and numerous public/private advisory boards
Invested $300m across 25 companies
Bob Geiman is Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Cava Studio and a Managing Partner of CavaCapital, a venture capital firm building valuable technology and consumer lifestyle businesses and investing in visionary entrepreneurs. While at Cava, Bob was the Founder and CEO of Confirm, a leader in mobile document and identity authentication sold to Facebook in 2018. Prior to Confirm, Bob founded and served as CEO of EveryScreen Media, a mobile advertising and technology company (acquired by Dstillery in 2013).EveryScreen Media, Confirm were both launched as Cava Studio projects in 2011 and 2015 respectively.
Bob has over 25 years of investing and senior leadership experience as a venture and growth equity investor. In addition to Cava, Bob serves as an Entrepreneur in Residence with Summit Partners, a large private equity firm, where he focused on digital transaction enablement, and an Advisory Board member of G20 Ventures, a venture capital firm that focuses on making Series A investments in enterprise software companies. Previously, Bob served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Warburg Pincus, focused on companies in the mobile and artificial intelligence sectors. In addition, he was a General Partner at Polaris Venture Partners for 8 years, where he made numerous early-stage and later-stage investments in the mobile and media sectors. Bob also launched the firm’s proactive sourcing strategy, hiring and managing a team of eight associates who were proactively sourcing investments. Bob started his career as an associate at Summit Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm, where he focused on making investments in technology businesses. He currently serves on the advisory boards of numerous Internet and digital media startups in Boston and New York City. Bob has served on dozen of Boards and Advisory Boards of technology companies.
Earlier in his career, Bob served in various product, business development, and strategy roles at Envoy Networks (wireless communications components) and helped sell that company to Texas Instruments in 2001. Prior to Envoy, Bob was a member of the management team of MCK Communications (VoIP-based communications software and hardware) that grew MCK from an unprofitable, 25-person company with $5 million in revenue to a 290-person public company with $60 million in revenue and significant cash flow and profitability.
Bob holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A. from Dartmouth College.