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Ed Engler is a remarkable teammate with 3 decades of experience in leading and investing in revolutionary software solutions. Ed's strong record of cultural leadership, disruptive innovations and focus on co-creating value for stakeholders inspires long-term sustainable results.
Having Ed on your team brings decades of learnings and proven methods to bear on your efforts. He'll collaborate with you on the best path forward, manage risk at all levels and work in the trenches with you along the way to generate real value. 
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51 Deals |
21 Operating Companies |
17 Exits |
Meet Ed
Deep experience translated into education and tools with a focus on your future
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Ed Engler is Managing Partner of 3 Points Rising and leads 3PR’s investment committee and CEO mentoring program. He and his extended advisory team will help you sort through the myriad of options at every step to focus on the most critical items, avoid wasting time and make the best decisions you can. He'll bring proven methods, partners and tools in the following areas in a timely and relevant manner:
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Together we'll create parallel OKRs and stage-based learning goals to ensure you and your team know what you need to know before you need to know it. Efficient assessments, customized coaching and agile methods ensure you make progress fast and don't lose valuable time to repeat work due to inexperience.
About Ed
Ed’s career started in 1986 as a systems software developer building a series of large-scale disruptive systems for companies big and small. As technology spread from specialist technology companies to every company, Ed focused on architecting and selling solutions to real problems, not just highly capable technology. He founded Summa Technologies in 1996 to deliver these solutions. Summa exploded onto the IT services scene, winning Pittsburgh's Fastest Growing Company in 2002, many Best Places To Work Awards, many accolades from employees, partners and clients and would be sold to CGI in 2017 in an all cash exit. During that time, Ed founded his first venture fund, Summa VentureWorks, in 2000 to invest in pre-seed B2B software companies building technology in strategic enterprise markets.
In the years since, Ed founded or co-founded 12 companies and became one of Pittsburgh most active investors. He has invested in over 50 companies through Summa VentureWorks, his second fund Pittsburgh Equity Partners and his personal portfolio. Pittsburgh Equity Partner's was a vintage 2009 fund that delivered top quartile results through exits in most of it's portfolio companies.
Ed’s experience in the operation and capitalization of companies makes him ideally suited to groom, select and back high potential companies to accelerate their growth. Ed now brings the richness of his experience to his family office 3 Points Rising to build the next generation of B2B software companies bringing disruptive value to the world.
Ed received his BS in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon in 1986 and completed the Entrepreneurial Management Program at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon in 2003. Ed was an Associate Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon where he taught Entrepreneurship to students from the CIT, INI and HCI schools from 2013-2017.
Ed’s career started in 1986 as a systems software developer building a series of large-scale disruptive systems for companies big and small. As technology spread from specialist technology companies to every company, Ed focused on architecting and selling solutions to real problems, not just highly capable technology. He founded Summa Technologies in 1996 to deliver these solutions. Summa exploded onto the IT services scene, winning Pittsburgh's Fastest Growing Company in 2002, many Best Places To Work Awards, many accolades from employees, partners and clients and would be sold to CGI in 2017 in an all cash exit. During that time, Ed founded his first venture fund, Summa VentureWorks, in 2000 to invest in pre-seed B2B software companies building technology in strategic enterprise markets.
In the years since, Ed founded or co-founded 12 companies and became one of Pittsburgh most active investors. He has invested in over 50 companies through Summa VentureWorks, his second fund Pittsburgh Equity Partners and his personal portfolio. Pittsburgh Equity Partner's was a vintage 2009 fund that delivered top quartile results through exits in most of it's portfolio companies.
Ed’s experience in the operation and capitalization of companies makes him ideally suited to groom, select and back high potential companies to accelerate their growth. Ed now brings the richness of his experience to his family office 3 Points Rising to build the next generation of B2B software companies bringing disruptive value to the world.
Ed received his BS in Applied Mathematics/Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon in 1986 and completed the Entrepreneurial Management Program at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon in 2003. Ed was an Associate Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon where he taught Entrepreneurship to students from the CIT, INI and HCI schools from 2013-2017.
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