Founder & Managing Partner, Future Positive

Fred Blackford is Founder and Managing Partner of Future Positive, a multi-stage venture capital investment firm. Fred has led investments in Pinterest, Beyond Meat, NotCo, Belvo, Upside Foods, and Pachama among others. Fred serves as a board director of NotCo and Pachama. Previously Fred founded Swing Technologies, a San Francisco based imaging technology company, which was acquired by Microsoft in 2017. Fred graduated from the London School of Economics.