Luke Cooper

Luke Cooper is the founding general partner and managing director at Latimer Ventures, an enterprise- focused venture capital firm dedicated to helping Black and Hispanic founders build and exit the next RedHat, Datadog, or Tableau. Luke spends most of his time fundraising and nurturing a strong pipeline of early-stage enterprise SaaS companies.

His focus is primarily on data-related applications, cybersecurity, and cloud/infrastructure-related companies. He is always looking for new investment opportunities and keen to meet passionate technology entrepreneurs with great ideas for building new enterprise companies. Typically, he gets involved when companies have a handful of customers and $500,000 of annual recurring revenue, identifying this as the stage where he can be most helpful.

He is also the host of a podcast channel, #SayItInTheRoom, tackling a different aspect of leadership, culture, and strategy in each episode, helping entrepreneurs and everyday people remove the biases impeding their growth.

Luke currently serves as the President's Distinguished Scholar at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. He has previously been a member of the Maryland TEDCO Board of Directors and was the Entrepreneur in Residence at Georgetown University. Luke holds a JD from Syracuse University, an MBA from Babson College, an M&A Certificate from the University of Chicago, and a BA from Adelphi University.