Eric Noeth joined Advent in 2019 and is a Managing Director in Palo Alto. He focuses on investments in the technology sector. Eric has advised on 17 investments during his career, 11 while at Advent.
Prior to joining Advent, Eric was a Principal on TPG’s technology investment team in San Francisco, having originally joined in 2009. Before that, he worked in the Media & Communications group at Morgan Stanley. Eric was also Co-Founder and CEO of Drop Inc, a mobile technology provider, before selling its intellectual property to Snapchat.
Eric received a BS, with honors, from Indiana University.
How do you identify interesting companies in your sector/sub-sector of focus?
At Advent, we focus on a core set of sub-sectors where we have deep pattern recognition and a unique perspective on the market. Across regions, we also foster sourcing cells to follow pockets of the market and track companies that we think are doing interesting things – and we follow them over time. From there, we leverage our world class roster of Operating Partners to help evaluate where companies are innovating in an ecosystem.
How do you partner with management teams?
We start by seeking alignment with management teams, entrepreneurs, and founders during the due diligence process. From there, we work in partnership with leadership to provide the resources and expertise necessary to help achieve our collective goals.
What about your job inspires and drives you?
The feeling of enabling growth and disruption, and building something unique, cuts through everything we do at Advent. Every single day, we have the opportunity to go out and talk to interesting, engaging people driving innovation around the world: we’re in a very fortunate place. When I look back on an average work week, it is always full of engaging conversations and new connections. That’s the part of the job I enjoy the most.
