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Rothenberg Ventures
Company type
Private
Industry
Venture capital
Founded
2012
Founder
Mike Rothenberg
Headquarters
1062 Folsom Street San Francisco, California
,
USA
Rothenberg Ventures, known briefly as Frontier Technology Venture Capital, was an American venture capital firm based in San Francisco, California, and founded in 2012 by Mike Rothenberg. It invested in more than 100 companies, including Bustle, Robinhood, Revel Systems, and SpaceX, and focused its investments on virtual reality and other frontier technologies. As of January 2021, the firm's status with the California Franchise Tax Board is "forfeited".[1]
According to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Mike Rothenberg "orchestrated a years-long, massive fraud and posed a substantial risk of loss to investors, with $18.8 million misappropriated."[2] Mike Rothenberg resigned from the firm in October 2018[2] and agreed to be barred from the securities industry with a right to reapply after five years.[3]
On December 20, 2019, Judge Jon S. Tigar for the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ordered Mike Rothenberg to pay disgorgement of $18,776,800, prejudgment interest of $3,663,323, and a civil penalty of $9,000,000.[4]
In June 2020, Mike Rothenberg was arrested and charged with 23 federal felony charges, facing decades in prison if convicted.[5]
Judge Tigar split the 23 charges into two trials, one for charges 1-2 and the other for charges 3-23. The jury failed to reach a verdict in the first trial.[6] In the second trial, which ended in November 16, 2023, he was found guilty of 21 felony charges.[7][8] Judge Tigar scheduled Rothenberg’s sentencing hearing for March 1, 2024.[9]
^https://businesssearch.sos.ca.gov/
^ abLoizos, Connie (2019-08-03). "The SEC wants disgraced VC Mike Rothenberg to cough up more than $30 million". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2019-08-03.
^"Michael B. Rothenberg (Release No. LR-24714; Jan. 13, 2020)".
^"Former Silicon Valley venture fund manager hit with federal fraud charges". 28 June 2020.
^"'Party animal' venture capitalist who was parodied in HBO's 'Silicon Valley' faces a retrial for allegedly misappropriating $19 million". Fortune. April 7, 2023. Retrieved 2023-04-07.
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