Biography
Thatcher Bell is a visiting instructor at the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management. He also holds appointments at Cornell Tech as head of Startup Studio and investor-in-residence; and chair of the Board of Directors at NY Tech Alliance.
Throughout his career, Bell has worked with startups as an investor and operator. He co-founded CoVenture, a venture capital, specialty lending, and crypto asset trading firm. He was previously a managing director at Gotham Ventures, where he invested in a number of companies including SinglePlatform (sold to Constant Contact, NASDAQ: CTCT). Before joining Gotham, he was a senior analyst at North Hill Ventures, the venture capital affiliate of Capital One Financial, where he worked on the deal teams for the firm’s investments in DealerTrack (NASDAQ: TRAK) and Higher One (NYSE: ONE). Bell previously worked at two different start-ups, including enterprise software vendor OpenPages (acquired by IBM).
He holds a BS in engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Education
MBA The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, 2005 BS Cornell University, 1997