Jeremy Ring
JEREMY RING
Co-Founder, Managing Partner
Jeremy is an accomplished business leader, former elected official and accomplished author. He was a 10-year Florida State Senator (2006-2016). Post the Florida Senate, he was the 2018 Democratic nominee for the Chief Financial Officer for Florida.
Jeremy is an internet pioneer, helping to develop one of the very first ever internet advertising campaigns for MCI Communications. At 24 years old he was brought on as the first sales hire for Yahoo. It was then he launched the New York office of the company out of his apartment. After relocating to Silicon Valley, Ring built and led the Sales Programs Division, working with hundreds of the Fortune 500 companies to ensure greatest return on their advertising campaigns. He was an instrumental part of the early team that helped Yahoo become a $120 Billion market cap behemoth that changed the world.
Post Yahoo, he was an Operating Partner for Chicago based Sterling Partners. In addition, Jeremy was a Venture Partner with Clearsky Ventures. Ring is the co-founder of Collegiate Images, a college sports licensing company, based in Fort Lauderdale, Fl, which was sold to XOS technologies.
As a State Senator, Jeremy founded the Florida Institute of Commercialization. Based at the University of Florida, the incubator launched 75 technology companies. In addition, legislation authored by Senator Ring, created the $1 billion Florida Growth Fund, a late stage growth fund that invests in Florida technologies companies. Governor Charlie Crist appointed Senator Ring Chairman of the Florida Commission on Bio-Technology Competitiveness and as a member of the Florida High Speed Rail Commission.
Jeremy authored the book "We Were Yahoo". (Post Hill Press, 2018) about the rise and fall of Yahoo. He has been featured in countless media venues such as Forbes, Business Week, Time, Newsweek, Fortune, CNN, Fox Business and USA Today.
He received his Bachelor of Science from Syracuse University and in currently matriculated at Harvard Business School General Management Program.
