Blake Modersitzki

BIO

I m fortunate enough to spend my time doing something I love Investing in technology start-ups. My path to venture is not typical or predictable--unless you think moving sprinkler pipe in an alfalfa field lofting hay bales and shoveling manure prepares you for software investing. I grew up on farm in Bancroft Idaho. My father was an old-school entrepreneur a farmer the kind of guy who knows that if you come in from the fields without dirty hands you re probably doing it wrong. He wore overalls to work and had a firmer grip on wheat and grain futures than the floor trades. His father ran a furniture and carpentry startup and learned a few tricks from his father who ran a fleet of fishing vessels on the Baltic Sea in East Prussia. I ve spent my entire career in the software business doing everything from selling to marketing to MA and eventually venture investing. I also enjoy sort of running marathons with my family and a few of my partners at Pelion. And I enjoy an old fashioned doughnut or two now and again which is why I sort of enjoy marathons. And I managed to graduate in the top ten of my class from North Gem High in Bancroft Idaho there were twenty-one of us and have an economics degree from BYU where my graduating class was much bigger.