Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner,Angel

John Buttrick is a Partner at Union Square Ventures, which is based in New York. John joined USV in 2010. He manages the firm’s later stage fund, Union Square Ventures Opportunity Fund and led the firm’s investment in Lending Club. He also focuses on earlier stage investments in the financial sector.

John began his career as a lawyer and from 1985 to 2000 practiced corporate law at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York. He spent more than two years in the firm’s Paris office and became a partner in the firm’s mergers and acquisitions group in 1994. From 2000-2004, John was a partner at LiveWire Ventures, a private equity firm which acquired mid-sized enterprise software companies servicing the telecommunications, media and utilities industries.

From 2004-2010, John was involved in a number of start-up ventures as an investor, director, managing member and consultant.From 2003-2009 he served as a member of the board of directors of Agfa-Gevaert N.V., a public company headquartered in Belgium.

He is currently board chair of Environmental Advocates of New York and Hirondelle USA.

John majored in American Studies at Northwestern University and has a JD degree from Villanova University School of Law.