John Taysom is a Co-Founder and serves as Board Member at Privitar. He also serves as Advisor at Communitas Capital Partners. He was a Board Member of Partnerize. He was a Board Member of Digimarc and TIBCO. To date, seventeen of his investments have achieved an IPO. He acquired the Fund in an MBO in 2002. Now London-based with a seed portfolio of thirty US and UK start-ups