About Me

Charles Curran
General Partner, Valhalla Partners
charles@valhallapartners.com

Charles has experience as a venture capital investor and an investment banker. He has invested in and advised a number of high quality technology and telecommunications companies.

Before joining Valhalla, Charles was a partner of Saturn Venture Partners in New York, NY. Saturn was formed in partnership with Telecom Italia and Ramius Capital Group. Structured as a $280 million early stage venture firm focused on communications infrastructure and software, Saturn is no longer investing in new companies. Charles led Saturn's enterprise technology investing efforts, including application software, infrastructure software, e-security, and storage.

Charles also worked as an associate with New Enterprise Associates in Reston, Virginia, working closely with Art Marks. Prior to NEA, Mr. Curran worked as a telecommunications and technology investment banker for Lazard Frères & Co. and DLJ Securities Corporation, advising clients on over $35 billion announced M&A and capital markets transactions.

Charles received a Masters in Business Administration from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics with Distinction from Stanford University.

At Valhalla, Charles works closely with LeftHand Networks, Scentric, Inc., and SEPATON, Inc. Charles invests across the IT and telecom spectrum with particular focus on storage, wireless and web 2.0. Charles is on the advisory committee of the Horn Group and works with several committees of the Northern Virginia Technology Council and Mid-Atlantic Venture Association.

Charles lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and son.