Andrew Perlman dropped out of college at 19 and went on to co-found nine venture-backed companies across semiconductors, telecom, natural resources, water, energy, and life sciences before becoming a full-time investor—an unusually prolific multi-sector founder background for a VC. As CEO of GreatPoint Energy, he led the company to set a record for the most capital ever raised in China by a U.S. venture-backed startup at the time, and he previously co-founded two pharmaceutical companies that listed on NASDAQ, giving him rare founder-level experience in both energy/industrial tech and biotech. Andrew Perlman dropped out of college at 19 and went on to co-found nine venture-backed companies across semiconductors, telecom, natural resources, water, energy, and life sciences before becoming a full-time investor—an unusually prolific multi-sector founder background for a VC. As CEO of GreatPoint Energy, he led the company to set a record for the most capital ever raised in China by a U.S. venture-backed startup at the time, and he previously co-founded two pharmaceutical companies that listed on NASDAQ, giving him rare founder-level experience in both energy/industrial tech and biotech.