Buck Buckley
Buck Buckley is the Co-Founder and CIO of SEMCAP and former CEO of Actua Corporation, formerly ICG Corporation, a company that he co-founded along with Ken Fox. In 2017, Actua Corporation announced the sale of its majority-owned assets and that it would return 3x capital to shareholders. Early life and education Buckley grew up in Devon, Pennsylvania and attended Episcopal Academy through high school. He then attended University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science. While in college, Buckley starred on the North Carolina soccer team. He was First Team all ACC and All South for UNC. His coach, legendary Anson Dorrance recalled "He played with wonderful, physical, reckless abandon", leaving it all on the field. Currently Buckley and Cyrus Vandrevala co-founded Semcap in 2020. SEMCAP is a growth impact manager investing in companies at the forefront of seminal trends in three sectors-Healthcare, Education and Food & Nutrition. The company has made several investments, including NeuroFlow,SafeRide Health, Purely Elizabeth and Good Culture. Earlier in his career In 1988, Buckley joined Safeguard Scientifics, a venture capital firm. From 1991 to 1996, Buckley was the Vice President of Acquisitions at Safeguard. There, he oversaw