WE ARE ENTREPENEURS.WE ARE ON A MISSION TO FIND, FUND, AND SCALE REMARKABLE EARLY STAGE COMPANIES.WE ARE Z9 VENTURES.
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Z9 VENTURES IS A HANDS-ON, EARLY-STAGE VENTURE FUND AND COMPANY BUILDER. WE PROVIDE EXCEPTIONAL ENTREPRENEURS WITH A COMBINATION OF INTELLECTUAL, NETWORK, AND INVESTMENT CAPITAL. WE EMPOWER THEM TO LAUNCH INNOVATIVE, CATEGORY-SHAPING CONSUMER BRANDS.
WE EXIST TO HELP TRANSFORM VALIDATED CONCEPTS INTO SCALABLE BUSINESSES.
THE DARING LEAD THE EXTRAORDINARY.
INVESTMENT BELIEFS
1
WE INVEST IN GREAT PEOPLE:
ENTREPRENEURS, FOUNDERS, AND THEIR TEAMS.
2
WE INVEST IN AREAS WE KNOW INTIMATELY.
CURRENTLY: CONSUMER-FACING BRANDS AND
THE ON-DEMAND ECONOMY.
3
WE INVEST IN EARLY-STAGE,
CATEGORY-SHAPING COMPANIES.
4
WE INVEST IN BUILDING BRANDS PEOPLE WILL
LOVE AND ENGAGE.
5
WE INVEST WHERE WE CAN ACCELERATE
GROWTH GLOBALLY.
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WE INVEST WITH OUR EXPERTISE, CAPITAL,
AND CONNECTIONS.
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WE ONLY INVEST WHEN WE SEE A SCALEABLE PATH.
MEET THE FOUNDER
BENZION ABOUD
FOUNDER/MANAGING PARTNER
Successful businesses, profitable partnerships, game-changing technology. Aboud’s latest endeavor is z9 Ventures, which will ultimately enable Benzion to leverage his 20 years of experience and do what he does best: grow businesses.
A life-long entrepreneur, his businesses have evolved over the years. Benzion opened his first business – a wireless phone store – while still in college in New Jersey. He grew this one store to over 120 stores and in 2002, sold them to AT&T Wireless. In 2004, Benny created Elephant Group, Inc. which grew to become DISH Network’s largest seller of satellite television. The company topped sales of over 300,000 new customers by 2006 before diversifying beyond satellite TV and into cable, telephone companies, and home security businesses.
QologyDirect is a direct-to-consumer marketing company which generates 10 million calls per year. This company owns over 20 websites that serve as marketing arms for many large Fortune 100 companies, including www.buyatt.com and www.buyverizon.com, among others.
BENZION ABOUD
FOUNDER/MANAGING PARTNER
Successful businesses, profitable partnerships, game-changing technology. Aboud’s latest endeavor is z9 Ventures, which will ultimately enable Benzion to leverage his 20 years of experience and do what he does best: grow businesses.
A life-long entrepreneur, his businesses have evolved over the years. Benzion opened his first business – a wireless phone store – while still in college in New Jersey. He grew this one store to over 120 stores and in 2002, sold them to AT&T Wireless. In 2004, Benny created Elephant Group, Inc. which grew to become DISH Network’s largest seller of satellite television. The company topped sales of over 300,000 new customers by 2006 before diversifying beyond satellite TV and into cable, telephone companies, and home security businesses.
QologyDirect is a direct-to-consumer marketing company which generates 10 million calls per year. This company owns over 20 websites that serve as marketing arms for many large Fortune 100 companies, including www.buyatt.com and www.buyverizon.com, among others.
A team defined by excellence
A powerful team of leadership & experience.
DERRICK MOORE
CFO
WAYNE WALTON
CRO / PARTNER
BIOGRAPHY
Derrick Moore has over twenty years of high-level accounting and finance experience in entrepreneurial organizations across varying industries (direct marketing, e-commerce, hospitality, healthcare, etc.).
He is passionate about helping companies get to the next level of achievement through dependable accounting discipline and proactive financial support. Derrick has an undergraduate degree in Finance from Tulane University and an MBA from the University of Miami with a concentration in Corporate Finance and
E-Commerce.
PORTFOLIO COMPANIES
SEE SOME EXAMPLES OF OUR INVESTMENT BELOW.
WE INVEST
IN
GREAT PEOPLE
Z9 VENTURES HEADQUARTERS
Located in the heart of Wynwood Miami, our collaborative building features massive floor-to-ceiling windows inside a refined urban designed space.We offer our portfolio companies residency in this inspiring shared workspace. Our open design is ideal for the cross-pollination and validation of ideas, mentor and advisor work-sessions and the innovations created by like-minded entrepreneurs working together.