Paul Gruenberg, Co-Founder
For over 35 years, Paul has been building financial, intellectual and human capital. He’s a hands-on investor and street-level entrepreneur who knows how to finance, operate, scale and exit a burgeoning enterprise. Paul is experienced in running early-stage companies. He founded both Video News International and Videovation and managed their success from startup to their sales to The New York Times and QSP/Reader’s Digest, respectively.
Paul created Plum Holdings, a $28M early stage fund concentrating on high growth media companies. Plum provided “smart” private equity capital for companies that created, aggregated, distributed, marketed and licensed high-quality content - news, information, data and entertainment.
Paul’s fund management experience began in 1981 when he managed a $100 million offshore private equity vehicle, working directly with William Donaldson (former Chairman of the SEC and the NY Stock Exchange as well as founder of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette). Paul has also structured and negotiated private placement transactions with Rockefeller & Co. for a broad spectrum of venture investments. He managed capital expansion across a host of industries for The Ford Foundation. And he has worked with Morgens, Waterfall & Vintiadis, a NYC‐based hedge fund investing in undervalued assets and later stage private placements.
Paul has been honored to be a director at Yale School of Management, MIT Enterprise Forum, NYT Video News International, Reader’s Digest/Videovation, R.D. Percy & Co, Cypress Films, Fuel Tech, Bronx Frontier, Intellifit, Epraisals, Bridges, and Z University.
A graduate of Lake Forest College and Yale School of Management (MBA), Paul is a Series 356 Porsche fanatic who has painstakingly restored and raced 1600 GS plain bearing Carreras.