Welcoming Lewis Burik to TechNexus Venture Collaborative

Lewis Burik joins TechNexus as an Analyst focusing on strategy and venturing. A Chicago native, Burik is excited to join a firm that partners with both entrepreneurs and entrenched corporations to advance venture-enabled growth.

Lewis Burik joins TechNexus Venture Collaborative as an Analyst focusing on strategy and venturing. As a Chicago native, he’s excited to not only be back in his hometown but to join a company that partners with both entrepreneurs and entrenched corporations with a mission to advance venture-enabled growth initiatives. We took a moment to chat about his background, what he’s looking forward to, and more. Read our full conversation below. Josue Ortiz: Tell me about your background? How did you get to where you are today? Lewis Burik: I am a born and bred Chicagoan. I grew up in Old Town and graduated from St. Ignatius before heading to Stanford to study Management Science and Engineering. I also joined the football team. It’s at Stanford where I fell in love with the idea of tech entrepreneurship. What a sliver of magic to witness my peers and alums identify problems of consequence and breathe life into entirely new businesses (or industries) to solve them. I was lucky to spend a few years after Stanford as an investment banking analyst in San Francisco, advising high-growth tech companies as they contemplated capital raises, mergers/acquisitions, and other strategic initiatives. I’m even more excited to be joining the TechNexus team now to partner with both entrepreneurs and entrenched corporations alike with a mission to advance venture-enabled growth initiatives. JO: Why were you interested in joining TechNexus Venture Collaborative? LB: TechNexus’s unique value proposition, serving both ventures and corporations , is a game-changer in the venture ecosystem. As a highly active investor with core strategic focus areas, I’m confident that TechNexus can be a much more additive venture shareholder as opposed to the venture capitalist next door. Ideating, executing, and accelerating venture-enabled growth initiatives with corporate partners is a unique, challenging, and rewarding problem set as well. Plus, the opportunity to come home to Chicago made this a slam dunk! J

By Multiple Authors at TechNexus Venture Collaborative