Primary Job Title Founding Partner, Managing Partner Primary Organization 
Texas Ventures
Location Houston, Texas, United States Regions Greater Houston Area, Southern US Gender Male
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Scott Crist is managing partner of Texas Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm targeting emerging growth and technology companies.
Prior to that he was a managing director for Garage Technology Ventures, based in Silicon Valley.
Mr. Crist has an extensive background as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, having founded and
profitably grown two technology companies to revenues of over $100 million each during the last decade.
He was a founder and CEO of Telscape International (NASDAQ), a communications company focused on certain emerging markets around the world.
Prior to that, he served as President and CEO for Matrix Telecom, which Inc. Magazine once ranked 7th on its list of the 500 fastest growing private companies in the U.S.
Earlier in his career, he worked for Trammell Crow Group, IBM and Booz-Allen Hamilton.
Mr. Crist has an Master of Business Administration from the Kellogg School at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from NC State University.
He is a winner of the Entrepreneur of the Year Award by CNN/ NASDAQ/ Ernst & Young, and currently sits on the boards of several companies.
He is on the Alumni Advisory boards for the Kellogg Graduate School at Northwestern, and has taught entrepreneurship at the Rice University’s Jones School for the past 10 years.
