BUILDING VALUE IN THE NORTHWEST SINCE 1998

Our Team

Pioneer Venture Partners, LLC is a venture fund dedicated to investment in early stage technology platforms since the late 1990’s. The funds principals have over 70 years of operating, financing and venture business experience. The fund focuses primarily on early stage investment with technology entrepreneurs spanning a variety of industries.

Kirby McDonald

Investment Partner and Co-Founder

Kirby is an Investment Partner and Co-founder of Pioneer Venture Partners. Kirby founded McDonald Industries, a major distributor of construction and mining machinery in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska, in 1970. In 1979, he founded Peak Oilfield Service Company which provided oil field support in Prudhoe Bay Alaska, then America's largest oilfield. In 1984 he was a founding partner in Sundance Cruises, which provided cruise ship operations in the West Coast, Mexico and the Caribbean. In 1987, Kirby purchased and became CEO and principal shareholder for Universal Services a provider of remote site logistical support services, principally to oil and gas companies and mining and military operations worldwide. When the company was sold to Sodexo SA in 2000, it had operations in 44 countries on 900 sites. In 1989, Kirby became a partner in Pacific Detroit Diesel, a supplier of Detroit diesel engines and related products in the Pacific Northwest and Alaska. Kirby also served on the Boards of Providence Health and Services, the fourth largest regional healthcare system in the US, Global Voyages Group, Vubiquity, and Prepared Response. Kirby is a lifelong resident of the Pacific Northwest and graduated from the University of Washington in International Business and Finance.

Kirby McDonald

Investment Partner and Co-Founder

Pete Bryant

Investment Partner and Co-Founder

Pete is a co-founder of Pioneer Venture Partners and has been a Managing Partner since 1998. Currently, Pete is the CEO and Board Member of Steller, a travel storytelling platform focused on building a new user experience for the modern traveler. Previously, Pete served as Executive Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategic Business Development at Vubiquity, a Pioneer portfolio company, where he led all aspects of VUBIQUITY’s mergers and acquisitions, strategic investments and partnerships, and other related transactions. He brings over 20 years of digital media leadership, having invested in and operated successful entertainment service businesses in the linear, on demand and digital media markets. Prior to VUBIQUITY, Pete was EVP Corporate Development for Broadstream Communications (a market leading IPTV content aggregator that was acquired by Avail Media), where he was responsible for mergers and acquisitions and strategic partnerships for the company, including key relationships such as Intelsat, Cisco, Microsoft, Motorola, Fujitsu-Siemens, Samsung, Alcatel-Lucent and Humax. While at Broadstream, Pete was instrumental in the launch of over 200 channels of content through their satellite-based IPTVConnect™ service, the industry’s first and most comprehensive IPTV content distribution platform. Pete is also a Board Advisor to Evergreens Salads and Binary Fountain. Pete was also an advisor to Stellar One, an Interactive Television software business involved with many early iTV global deployments including the launch of Bell Atlantic’s Stargazer service in 1994. Pete attended Washington State University, where he majored in Communications with an emphasis on Advertising. He currently lives in Bellevue with his wife Tobey and their three grown children and is active in skiing, golf, fishing, and lacrosse.

Pete Bryant

Investment Partner and Co-Founder

Ben Goux

Investment Partner and CFO

Ben Goux is an Investment Partner at Pioneer Venture Partners. Ben has served extensively on the Boards of Avalara (ticker: AVLR) and Binary Fountain, serving as Audit and Compensation Committee Chair for both. Ben has also served in various capacities to the Boards of Steller, Evergreens, Vubiquity, Prepared Response and Avail Media. Ben currently serves as Chairman for Stellar Global Holdings. Ben has served as an operating CFO for many organizations and prior to those positions, served in an audit capacity with Coopers and Lybrand. Ben previously earned his CPA license, and is a graduate of the Foster Business School at the University of Washington. Ben enjoys sailing, multiple outdoor sports, traveling and time with his family of five.

Ben Goux

Investment Partner and CFO

Tobey Bryant

Investment Partner

Tobey has been a Managing Partner with Pioneer Venture Partners since 1998 working with early-stage technology companies in the Seattle region. Tobey currently serves as a Board member to Evergreens and is CEO of Accumatic, a technology platform which automates back-end office accounting for the auto dealership vertical. Tobey has been involved with numerous entrepreneurial and educational organizations since graduating from Whitman College in 1994. She formerly was CEO for Prepared Response prior to its sale to Venuetize which culminated in a sale to Everi Holdings (EVRI) in 2022. In addition to her responsibilities with Pioneer, she has been pivotal in supporting local school initiatives as Chair of Bellevue Quality Schools managing the effort to get public approval for two levy’s and one bond in 2014, totaling over $750 million that will continue to support and grow the areas of teaching, technology, facilities, fields, and curriculum in the Bellevue School District. She currently lives in Bellevue with her husband Pete and their three grown children and is active in tennis, golf, skiing, hiking and the outdoors.

Tobey Bryant

Investment Partner

Paige Brown

Chief Financial Officer

Paige Brown is CFO of KMAC Services. She was formally the CFO of Stellar Holdings for 17 years, and previous to that position, a member of the senior financial teams at AT&T Wireless and Penford Corporation. A CPA in the state of Washington, Paige began her career as an auditor for Ernst & Young. She is a graduate of the Foster Business School at the University of Washington with a concentration in Accounting. A Pac NW native, Paige enjoys adventures abroad and locally with her husband and twin teenage daughters, as well as hiking, trail running, and barre.

Paige Brown

Chief Financial Officer

WHO WE WORK WITH

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