Who We Are | DTCP

Innovation is in our DNA

We believe that the convergence of communication networks and devices with the internet is creating more wealth, disrupting more businesses, and unleashing more innovation than any force in the history of technology.

With a rich heritage of German engineering, we understand investment and innovation as a dynamic yet structured process.

Our Team

We connect people, capital, and ideas, to accelerate innovation and provide value to our portfolio companies, our limited partners, and the connected world.

Jack Young

Partner, Head of Venture Capital

Guy Horowitz

Partner

Lance Matthews

Principal, Venture Capital

Christopher Heberlein

Analyst, Venture Capital

Jack Young

Partner, Head of Venture Capital

Jack is a Partner and the Head of Venture Capital at DTCP. He serves as a Board Member / Observer at: Aryaka, Dynamic Signal, NS1, Heap, and Skorpios, and is responsible for the investment in Auth0 on behalf of DTCP.

Prior to joining DTCP, he was the Managing Director of Qualcomm Ventures North America and General Partner at dRx Capital – a joint Novartis and Qualcomm investment company. He made investments in: Airstrip, AliveCor, Doctor On Demand, Jana, Omada, Visage, and Welltok.

His investment exits included: BlueJeans (acquired by Verizon), ClearCare (acquired by Battery), goBalto (acquired by Oracle), Telcare (acquired by BioTelemetry), Validity (acquired by Synaptics), Fitbit (NYSE: FIT), and Fastly (NYSE: FSLY)

Earlier in his career, he held leadership positions at ZTE (USA), Nokia, 3Com, GDC, and Nortel. Jack earned a MSEE from University of Calgary and an MBA from McGill University.

Guy Horowitz

Partner

Guy is a Partner at DTCP in the Venture Capital team in Silicon Valley. Guy led DTCP's investments in Replay Technologies (acquired by Intel), FireGlass (acquired by Symantec), and Dynamic Yield (acquired by McDonald’s). He also led DTCP’s investments in SafeBreach, Morphisec, AppsFlyer, and PerimeterX and represents it as board member/observer.

Guy joined DTCP in 2015 from Deutsche Telekom where he served as Vice President Partnering and Venturing and established DT’s partnering office in Israel in 2012. Before joining DT, Guy was a Principal with Gemini Ventures, one of Israel's early stage pioneers. While at Gemini, Guy worked closely with portfolio companies both as an investor and as a full-time executive. From 2007-2008 he headed the marketing strategy at Modu Mobile, and from 2010-2012 he was VP Marketing of TaKaDu, a smart-networks innovator. He also served as Chairman of the Smart Water Networks Forum. Prior to that, he helped establish Microsoft’s R&D center in Israel as Director of Marketing. Before joining Gemini, Guy headed mobile products in Commtouch (Nasdaq: CYRN) and product management in Followap (acquired by Neustar).

Guy holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics and an MBA from the Haifa University in Israel, and had a Merage Fellowship from the Paul Merage Business School, UC Irvine.

Lance Matthews

Principal, Venture Capital

Lance is Principal at DTCP in the Venture Capital team.

He joined DTCP from Touchdown Ventures, a SF based Corporate Venture firm, where he worked on company sourcing, investment analysis and diligence, and portfolio management. Prior to that, he spent time at Illuminate Ventures, a seed stage Enterprise Saas firm and at Twitter holding a position in the finance department.

Lance holds an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, a Master’s degree in History from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and graduated Summa Cum Laude from CSU Fresno.

Christopher Heberlein

Analyst, Venture Capital

Christopher is an Analyst at DTCP in the Venture Capital team.

Prior to joining DTCP, he was an Investment Banking Analyst at Raymond James in Munich and founded an online tutoring company. He serves as a Board Member/Observer at Pinger, ShareThis, and Tarana on behalf of DTCP

Christopher holds an M.Sc. in Finance from ESADE Business School.