Larry Gross
Managing Partner
Larry is a Co-Founder & Managing Partner with Structural Capital and has over 20 years of C-level management and operations experience in technology, media, biotech and IT. He built and managed companies with invested capital and M&A transaction value of over $2.1 billion, including best of class VC-backed companies with over $600 million in invested capital. Backers include Kleiner Perkins, Draper Fisher, Khosla Ventures, Vivendi/Universal, Knowledge Adventure, Idealab.
Larry was also Vice Chairman and Director of the technology incubator, Idealab, where he served as Director and COO of CarsDirect.com which later became Internet Brands (NASDAQ:INET). Hellman & Friedman ultimately purchased Internet Brands for $640 million in cash and then K.K.R. purchased Internet Brands for $1.1 billion from Hellman & Friedman.
Larry served as CEO & President of Knowledge Adventure and Davidson & Associates, which combined, had over 1,000 employees and more than $250 million in annual revenue before being acquired by Vivendi/Universal as part of an $800 million cash transaction.
Larry received his B.S. in Engineering & Applied Science from the California Institute of Technology (“Caltech”) and was a candidate for a M.S. in Electrical Engineering at Caltech when his entrepreneurial pursuits began.
Outside of Structural Capital, Larry spends his time playing basketball and hiking. He has trekked to Mt. Everest Base Camp and to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa.