{"id":23833,"date":"2020-06-11T15:11:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T15:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/06\/11\/jon-cholak-joins-adit-ventures-as-managing-director\/"},"modified":"2020-06-11T15:11:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-11T15:11:00","slug":"jon-cholak-joins-adit-ventures-as-managing-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/11\/jon-cholak-joins-adit-ventures-as-managing-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Jon Cholak Joins Adit Ventures as Managing Director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4000-logo-70.png\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1\">\n<p>Seasoned venture investor and software professional&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-person\">Jon Cholak<\/span>&nbsp;has joined Adit Ventures, a leading, family-office owned, venture capital investment firm, as Managing Director, Portfolio Manager. Jon will work with Adit in launching a new early stage venture platform, to complement existing Adit offerings. &nbsp;Mr. Cholak will be based out of&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-location\">Austin, Texas<\/span>. Please visit&nbsp;www.aditventures.com&nbsp;for further information. &#8220;Adit Ventures is pleased to have a professional of Jon&#8217;s caliber, intelligence, and professionalism join our firm. He brings in-depth experience at Intel, management consulting experience plus a top-decile performance record to Adit&#8217;s team of 8 professionals.&#8221;&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-person\">Said Eric Munson<\/span>, Founder &amp; CIO of Adit Ventures. &#8220;Jon&#8217;s institutional top-decile performance record, combined with Adit Ventures existing top-quartile results, gives investors a choice of alternative investment options across the entire landscape&#8221; Munson added.&nbsp; Mr.&nbsp; Cholak will also serve as a member of Adit&#8217;s Investment, Research &amp; Valuation Committees, as well as leading Adit Genesis, the early-stage research &amp; technology investment platform within Adit. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1\">\n<div class=\"gallery inline-carousel\">\n<div class=\"gallery-carousel-main\">\n<div class=\"gallery-cell\">\n<figure>\n<div class=\"image lightbox-item \" data-src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1179085\/Adit_Ventures_JC_Headshot.jpg?p=publish\" data-asset-type=\"photo\" data-tweet-text=\"(PRNewsfoto\/Adit Ventures)\" data-asset-label=\"Head-shot\" data-twitter-share-url=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1179085\/Adit_Ventures_JC_Headshot.jpg?p=twitter\" data-facebook-share-text=\"(PRNewsfoto\/Adit Ventures)\" data-facebook-share-url=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1179085\/Adit_Ventures_JC_Headshot.jpg?p=facebook\" data-linkedin-text=\"(PRNewsfoto\/Adit Ventures)\" data-linkedin-share-url=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1179085\/Adit_Ventures_JC_Headshot.jpg?p=linkedin\" data-social-source=\"PR Newswire\" data-download-url=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1179085\/Adit_Ventures_JC_Headshot.jpg?p=publish\" data-sub-html=\"(PRNewsfoto\/Adit Ventures)\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img-responsive carousel-item\" title=\"(PRNewsfoto\/Adit Ventures)\" src=\"https:\/\/mma.prnewswire.com\/media\/1179085\/Adit_Ventures_JC_Headshot.jpg?p=publish&amp;w=950\" alt=\"(PRNewsfoto\/Adit Ventures)\" \/><\/div><figcaption>(PRNewsfoto\/Adit Ventures)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1\">\n<p>Mr. Cholak has deployed over&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-money\">$90M<\/span>&nbsp;in early stage capital across 15+ companies, with multiple successful exits.&nbsp; Mr. Cholak has held numerous board roles with his portfolio companies and has served as a speaker at numerous industry engagements and as a startup mentor at various accelerator programs.&nbsp; Mr. Cholak started his career at Deloitte Consulting where he managed large scale custom software development projects in the health and human services sector.&nbsp; During his career, Mr. Cholak has held various technology and investment positions at Bank of America, Deloitte Consulting, Intel, and USAA.&nbsp; He holds a B.S. from&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-org\">New York University<\/span>&nbsp;and an MBA from The&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-org\">University of Texas<\/span>&nbsp;at Austin.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-10 col-sm-offset-1\">\n<p><strong>About Adit Ventures<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Adit Ventures is a family-office owned Venture Capital Investment advisor with 9 professionals, identifying&nbsp; companies with strong business fundamentals, investing alongside long-term secular themes, such as AI\/ML, Big data, Cloud, Cybersecurity, Defense, Digital Healthcare, Fintech, IoT, &nbsp;focused on companies driving today&#8217;s market and tomorrow&#8217;s economy, Current sectors of interest include AI &amp; Machine Learning, Big Data, Cybersecurity, Defense, Educational Technology, FinTech, Health Tech, IoT, Life Sciences, Media, Shared Economy and Space.<\/p>\n<p>An &#8220;Adit&#8221; is an entrance to a mine, serving as an acronym for Adit&#8217;s services, providing Access, Diligence, Insight and works with Trusted partners across&nbsp;<span class=\"xn-location\">the United States<\/span>&nbsp;and around the world. &nbsp;Adit&#8217;s investment objective is 3x return of capital within a 3-5-year time frame. Adit invests via a global network of relationships cultivated over their 120 years of principal investing experience. Adit seeks to capitalize on long-term secular trends in the global economy where we see dynamic growth, &nbsp;opportunities for long term capital appreciation and to make a positive impact on the world by improving quality of life, while generating a robust return on our invested capital in alignment with investors principles. Portfolio companies include Airbnb, Cohesity, Decision Sciences, ESME Learning, Flexport, Klarna, Netskope, Palantir, SpaceX and Turo among others. Adit&#8217;s invested in some of the world&#8217;s leading companies with exits in GoPro, Spotify, Snap and Lyft. Please visit&nbsp;www.aditventures.com&nbsp;for further information.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact:<br class=\"dnr\" \/><\/strong><span class=\"xn-person\">Julie Klugman<\/span><br class=\"dnr\" \/>info@adit.vc&nbsp;<br class=\"dnr\" \/>www.aditventures.com<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aditventures.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.aditventures.com<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>Julie Klugman<br \/>\ninfo@adit.vc<br \/>\nwww.aditventures.com<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/cybersecurity-newswire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cybersecurity Newswire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Julie Klugman<br \/>\ninfo@adit.vc\u00a0<br \/>\nwww.aditventures.com<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"233\" height=\"24\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4000-logo-70.png\" alt=\"\">Seasoned venture investor and software professional&nbsp;Jon Cholak&nbsp;has joined Adit Ventures, a leading, family-office owned, venture capital investment firm, as Managing Director, Portfolio Manager. Jon will work with Adit in launching a new early stage venture platform, to complement existing Adit offerings. &nbsp;Mr. Cholak will be based out of&nbsp;Austin, Texas. Please visit&nbsp;www.aditventures.com&nbsp;for further information. &ldquo;Adit Ventures &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/06\/11\/jon-cholak-joins-adit-ventures-as-managing-director\/\">Continue reading <span>Jon Cholak Joins Adit Ventures as Managing Director<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/11\/jon-cholak-joins-adit-ventures-as-managing-director\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybersecurity-newswire","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jon Cholak Joins Adit Ventures as Managing Director - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/06\/11\/jon-cholak-joins-adit-ventures-as-managing-director\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jon Cholak Joins Adit Ventures as Managing Director - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Seasoned venture investor and software professional&nbsp;Jon Cholak&nbsp;has joined Adit Ventures, a leading, family-office owned, venture capital investment firm, as Managing Director, Portfolio Manager. 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