Bruce Luehrs

Bruce Luehrs is a partner with Emerald Stage2 Ventures, a Pennsylvania-based early-stage venture fund focused on capital-efficient information technology companies primarily in the technology-enabled services area. He has been a banker, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist for the past 25 years and is well known in the Philadelphia area, having served as a past Chairman of the Greater Philadelphia Venture Group (now the MAC Alliance) and as an active member of the Mid Atlantic Venture Conference Steering Committee and the Association for Corporate Growth.

Previously General Partner of the Edison Venture Fund, he championed numerous investments in the Mid-Atlantic region including Gain Capital, Virtual Edge (recently sold to ADP), Fiberlink, and Innaphase (successfully sold to Thermo Electron in 2004). Over the past 8 years, Bruce has championed investments in 14 companies totaling over $60 million.