Tom Lounibos is retiring after nearly 50 years as a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and, most recently, as a corporate investor.
Tom Lounibos, managing partner at Accenture’s venture capital investment group, is retiring after 48 years of working in Silicon Valley as a founder and investor.
Lounibos joined Accenture as an entrepreneur in residence at the global accounting and consulting firm in 2019. The following year he became global lead of Accenture Ventures, its corporate VC arm.
Lounibos founded and headed six software companies before entering corporate venture capital. He was most recently CEO and co-founder of SOASTA, a cloud-based digital testing software company, which was acquired by Akamai in 2017.
Before that, he was CEO of Dorado, a mortgage lending software startup, which was launched in 1999 and acquired by First American Corp, a provider of title insurance, in 2011.
Lounibos has led Accenture Ventures since 2020. He will remain an adviser to the group.
The ventures arm runs a $250m fund and has invested in more than 70 startups, which have market access to its Fortune Global 500 clients.
