Damir Perge | Co-Founder & CEO
Damir is co-founder of entrepreneurdex, an accelerator using complexity science to launch, grow and scale startups and growing companies. He is an entrepreneur, former Silicon Valley venture capitalist, author, producer, and complexity scientist. He is also the CEO and co-founder of FluidLytix, an intelligent water management company.
Damir ran a venture capital fund in Silicon Valley—investing in the seed and early stages of the startup cycle. As a venture capitalist, he raised more than $300 million for various companies and invested more than $50 million into 25 startups and early stage companies in the entertainment, publishing, media, sports, internet, enterprise and consumer software, hardware, financial services, manufacturing, and transportation sectors.
Damir’s 25 years experience in the high-tech industry includes management, sales and marketing, finance, distribution and logistics, operations, engineering, supply chain management and product development. He has worked with ventures in the technology, media and publishing, internet, enterprise software, entertainment, alternative energy, consumer products, hardware, communications, and manufacturing sectors. He’s author of Entrepreneur Myths: The Startup Reality (2012). His upcoming books include Fútbolpreneur: Football Methods, Strategies and Tactics Applied to Life and Business (2021) and Silicon Disrupted (2021). Damir was finalist for the 2020 Startup Innovator of the Year for D CEO and Dallas Innovates Magazine (owned by D Magazine) and voted as part of the Future 50 for North Texas.