Ben Dubin

Ben Dubin is a venture capital investor, technologist, and author who identifies and develops emerging technology sectors. As a Founding Partner of Asset Management Ventures from 2004 to 2014, he identified and developed the Health Science Technology sector — the intersection of information technology and life sciences — as a distinct investment thesis at a time when that combination was uncommon in the market. He continues this work today as Founding Partner of Health Gap Ventures, a venture capital investment platform focused on healthcare and health technology innovations addressing the health disparities that affect more than one third of all Americans.

A career technologist with more than 35 years of experience in engineering, software, and venture investing, Ben co-founded two technology companies in the early commercial UNIX era — Los Altos Technologies, an early commercial UNIX and Internet security software company, and Full Source Software, an early commercial applications business built on open source UNIX. He is a named inventor on a U.S. patent for data restoration techniques developed at Sun Microsystems.

Ben is the author of The Architect's Guide to Venture Capital, a six-volume, fifty-chapter treatise on venture capital practice and dispute resolution published by Silicon Arbitrage Press, written for founders, investors, legal professionals, and graduate business and law school students.

Ben holds dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he received the Dean's Award. He has been a Part-time Instructor in Entrepreneurship at Foothill College since 2004 and serves on the Board of Trustees of The Health Trust, the Board of the Harvard Business School Association of Northern California, and the Foothill-De Anza Foundation.