Pascal Levensohn

Pascal joined Dolby Family Ventures, L.P. in 2014 after advising the Dolby family on its direct technology investment portfolio since 2012. He is the founder and Managing Partner of Levensohn Venture Partners LLC (LVP) and the CEO of Levensohn Global LLC (LG). Pascal has over 39 years of business experience: 37 years as a professional investor and fund manager and 25 years of experience as a Silicon Valley venture capitalist. With his partners at Dolby Family Ventures, Pascal currently manages over 50 early stage portfolio company investments in sectors ranging from Augmented Reality and Aerospace to Materials Sciences and Biotech.

Through LG, Pascal advises a select group of multi-generational family offices on governance, direct technology investments, and philanthropy.

He is currently the Chairman of the Board of ShotSpotter, Inc. (NASDAQ:SSTI), Chairman of the board of NativeWaves GmbH (Salzburg, Austria), Vice Chairman of the board of Authentic Vision GmbH (Salzburg, Austria), a director of Mixed Dimensions, Inc., a director of GenomSys, SA (Lausanne, Switzerland), and a director of Cure Network Dolby Acceleration Partners LLC (CNDAP). He has served as board chairman, audit committee chairman, compensation committee chairman, and board secretary for venture-backed companies since 1996 and first served as a public company director in 1993. An expert on corporate governance, since 1999 he has published three widely read white papers on this topic.

He is currently a Senior Strategic Advisor to Silicon Castles GmbH (Salzburg, Austria), where his responsibilities include teaching governance best practices to European entrepreneurs as a member of the faculty of the Startup Executive Academy (since 2016).

Pascal is a former director of the National Venture Capital Association (2007-2011). He is a former faculty member of the Kauffman Fellows Program Center for Venture Education (2006-2017) where he taught the Corporate Governance module. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former Trustee of the American Academy in Berlin.

Pascal holds an AB in Government, cum laude, from Harvard University. He is a former co-chairman of the Socrates Society Forum of the Aspen Institute (2007-2009), and a former Chairman of the San Francisco Jewish Community Federation’s Business Leadership Council (2007-2008).