Mack Healy

Managing Partner at KdT Ventures

Mack Healy joined KdT as its second general partner and operating partner in March 2019. Originally from Northern California, Mack graduated from the University of California at Santa Barbara where he graduated magna cum laude and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society and the College of Letters and Science Honors Program. Following a year living in Buenos Aires, Mack enrolled at the University of Michigan Law School upon receipt of a Dean’s Scholarship. While at UMLS, Mack served as an associate editor of the Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review.

Mack’s career began in Silicon Valley at Fenwick & West, a leading technology and life science law firm. While there, Mack focused his practice on strategic counseling to all ranges of companies, from newly formed startup teams to publicly traded corporations and venture capital firms in a wide variety of corporate transactions, including venture capital financings, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, debt financings, and various forms of corporate reorganizations.

Mack subsequently moved to Austin, Texas to raise his family, where he continued his practice representing emerging companies and venture capital funds at Andrews Kurth and Shearman & Sterling LLP. Mack’s practice has matured into one in which he often found himself structuring

and negotiating all aspects of his clients’ financing transactions. Mack has advised on hundreds of venture financings from both sides of the table with total deal value far in excess of $1B.

Over the course of his career, Mack worked with and advised companies including Airbnb, Bonobos, Cisco Systems, DataBricks, Dell Technologies, Rent the Runway, Tastemade and WhatsApp.

Mack served as an integral part of each of KdT Ventures Fund I’s investments, serving as a member of the Fund’s Advisory Committee and as outside counsel responsible for negotiating the definitive documents.

Mack has recently been invited to guest lecture at the University of Michigan Law School and has previously served as a mentor to the University of Texas Venture Fellows through his time at Shearman & Sterling.

Over the last handful of years, Mack has made several successful angel investments including PathAI and Digital Onboarding.

In his down time, Mack likes to maximize the time spent with his wife and young daughter as well as coaching youth basketball at West Austin Youth Association.

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  • Managing Partner

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