Blake Armstrong

Blake leads Silicon Valley Bank's National Startup Banking Business Development team that serves pre-Series A founders. Blake was formerly a lender on SVB's Enterprise Software Growth team, responsible for driving transactions across SVB's enterprise software portfolio in Northern California.

Before moving to San Francisco to join SVB, Blake was a Venture Partner at The Family, a growth catalyst to early-stage European technology ventures based in Paris, France. Prior to The Family, he co-founded oNotes, a Harvard University technology spinout also based in Paris.

Blake began his career in social impact, first at Opportunity International, a global leader in microfinance. Blake left Opportunity International to move to Kigali, Rwanda to co-found Edify, a social enterprise that provides working capital to entrepreneurs in the developing world.

Blake earned his MBA from the University of Oxford in the U.K. and his BA in International Business Administration from Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, CA.

When he’s not working, you’ll likely find Blake in Truckee, CA. He’s probably hiking, chopping firewood, or listening to CCR on his back deck with a White Russian in-hand thinking about how that rug really did tie the room together.