Ted Fike

Ted Fike is a Senior Managing Director at The Gores Group where he co-leads the venture and growth investment team. Prior to joining The Gores Group, Mr. Fike was a Partner at the SoftBank Vision Fund, leading growth technology investments in the consumer internet, enterprise software, agtech, logistics, and eCommerce sectors. While at SoftBank Mr. Fike helped to lead investments in Doordash, Rappi, GetYourGuide, Globality, Memphis Meats, Ordermark, and Plenty among others. Prior to SoftBank, Mr. Fike led strategy initiatives at Airbnb which acquired his previous fintech company, Tilt, where he was CFO. Before Tilt, Mr. Fike was a founding Principal of CapitalG, Google's growth equity investment arm. Earlier at Google, Ted was responsible for acquisitions and investments as part of the corporate development team as well as global client relationships within Google's sales organization. Prior to joining Google, Mr. Fike worked in strategy and operations at WebMD, credit investing at Bain Capital, and strategy consulting at The Boston Consulting Group. Ted graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Economics.