Primary Job Title CEO Primary Organization Avventura Partners
Location Laguna Niguel, California, United States Regions Greater Los Angeles Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male Also Known As Stuart, Stuart Frost
Investor Type Investment Partner Investor Stage Early Stage Venture
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Stuart Frost is a highly successful, serial high-tech entrepreneur with more than 30 years' experience as a Founder/CEO. He's working as the Founder and CEO at Avventura LLC, which he founded in January of 2018. Additionally, he cofounded Swarm Engineering in November of 2016, where he's currently serving as Chairman.
Previously in his career, Stuart Frost has myriad experience working in startups. He was General Manager of Strategy for the Database Systems Group of Microsoft for two years following the acquisition of DATAllegro in August of 2008. Stuart founded DATAllegro in June of 2003 and was its Chief Executive Officer through to the acquisition. He was also Chairman at several different organizations, including Predixon Software, GenieDB, Cirro, SourceThought, Ubix.io, Sentrian, Inc., an MAANA.
Prior to the DATAllegro exit, Stuart Frost was Founder and Chief Executive Officer of SELECT Software Tools. Founding SELECT in 1988, he led the company through rapid growth and expansion including a very successful IPO in 1996.
Stuart began working for himself in 1984 and founded his first business in 1988. In the 32 years since, he’s founded, managed, or operated 31 different startups. Stuart relies on his unique ability to identify a market need, “connect the dots,” and determine how the application of a particular technology can create a viable solution. Currently in his career, Stuart is the CEO of Avventura Partners LLC and the Chairman and Cofounder of Swarm Engineering.
As an entrepreneur, Stuart Frost’s favorite aspect of his career is the ability to share his experience with entrepreneurs across the globe who are brilliant and highly-motivated but are struggling with a lot of the old familiar challenges that startups can fall into. With more than 30 years of experience under his belt, Stuart is not only familiar with these challenges, but he has also developed some best-practices and solutions for dealing with them. He wants to share his expertise and insight with other entrepreneurs who are hitting roadblocks and obstacles and help them develop strategies and solutions for themselves.