Ross Kimbel, former head of co-working space provider WeWork’s startup services arm, has joined Silicon Road Ventures, a US-based venture capital fund focused on early-stage startups in commerce and retail technology.
Silicon Road hired Kimbel as a managing director and partner last month. He had been head of WeWork Labs from August 2019 to January this year, after co-founding Be Curious Partners, another early stage VC fund, in August 2017.
Be Curious was spun out of children’s toy producer Kids II, where Kimbel had been vice-president of its New Ventures business unit since December 2016.
Kimbel had previously been global director for innovation and entrepreneurship at Coca-Cola Founders, an early-stage investment arm of the eponymous soft drink producer.
