Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 4
Number of Founded Organizations 1
  • Investor Type  Investment Partner

Patrick Vlaskovits is an entrepreneur, mentor and author. He has founded two startups, serves as CEO of Superpowered and co-wrote The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development: A Cheat Sheet to The Four Steps to the Epiphany.

His writing on debunking the origin of Henry Ford’s “faster horses” has been featured on Harvard Business Review, The

Wall Street Journal blog and The Browser.

Patrick has spoken at tech conferences nationally, including SXSW Interactive (Austin, Texas), Michigan Lean Startup Conference, Lean Startup Machine San Francisco/Chicago/New York as well as internationally, The Turing Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland), Leancamp (multiple), SVC2LX (Lisbon, Portugal). He tweets at @pv and blogs vlaskovits.com. Patrick enjoys advising (Drumbi, Chromatik) and mentoring and serves as a mentor for the 500 Startups and for The Lean Startup Machine.

He organizes the Los Angeles Lean Startup Meetup which boasts almost 2,000 members. Previous speakers include Hiten Shah, Steve Blank, Eric Ries, Dave McClure, Jason Calacanis, Janice Fraser, Dave Binetti and Dan Martell. In past years, he also organized Twiistup, a well-attended tech/startup conference that celebrates the entrepreneurial and investment talent of the Los Angeles startup ecosystem.

Patrick holds a Master’s in Economics (emphases in finance and econometrics) from University of California, Santa Barbara.

When he has spare time, he can be found with his family usually on the beach or in the ocean either fishing, surfing or stand-up paddle surfing.

Number of Partner Investments 2
Announced Date  
Organization Name  
Investor Name  
Lead Investor  
Funding Round  
Money Raised  
May 8, 2013
Chromatik
500 Global
Series A - Chromatik
$5.7M
Nov 15, 2012
Chromatik
500 Global
Seed Round - Chromatik
$2M
Number of Current Jobs 1
Number of Past Jobs 2
Patrick Vlaskovits is the CEO and Cofounder at Superpowered Inc.. Additionally, Patrick Vlaskovits has had 2 past jobs including MD - LA at FounderDating.
Organization Name  
Title At Company  
Start Date  
End Date  
FounderDating
MD - LA
drumbi
Chief Marketing Officer
Number of Current Board & Advisor Roles 4
Patrick Vlaskovits holds 4 board and advisor roles including Mentor at K5 Ventures, Advisor at PaeDae, and Mentor at 500 Global.
Number of Events 2
Patrick Vlaskovits has participated in 2 events. They most recently attended, or will attend, Tech Open Air 2015 on Jul 15, 2015.
Number of News Articles 4
NewsFeb 27, 2017
NewsJan 25, 2015
The Next Web — The Next Web
NewsNov 14, 2013