- Court Coursey
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Court Coursey Born March 14, 1972
Atlanta, GeorgiaOccupation Co-Founder & Managing Partner of TomorrowVentures, and Co-Founder of Rundell, Coursey & Company Website TomorrowVentures Court Coursey, 38, born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, is the Managing Partner of TomorrowVentures, which is an opportunistic investment firm with a focus toward seed and early-stage venture capital investments that develop innovative ideas that have the power to change the way people live, interact, and thrive. Coursey is a serial entrepreneur having founded his first business at 14 years old. He has built a number of successful companies over the past 20 years. In addition to his efforts with TomorrowVentures, Coursey supports a wide variety of philanthropic efforts by bringing his entrepreneurial expertise to the non-profit forum, which includes CitizenEffect.
Coursey currently resides in Palo Alto, California and Vail, Colorado.Contents
certifiedEmail.com
Among other prior ventures, in 1996, Coursey founded certifiedemail.com, an online service that allowed people to track the e-mails they send. In December 1998, certifiedemail.com was acquired by WebMD, Inc., the Internet's leading full‐service healthcare portal. On November 11, 1999, WebMD merged with Healtheon, Inc. in a transaction valued in excess of $8.0 billion.
Previous Ventures
Prior to launching certifedemail.com, Coursey founded his successful private aviation services business, TRUOC Aviation. Coursey founded TRUOC Aviation at age 19, focusing initially on aircraft brokerage services and later expanding into management and charter services. TRUOC Aviation has completed over $150.0 million in aircraft transaction since 1991.
Political Arena
In 1994, at the age of 22, Coursey took a leave of absence from TRUOC Aviation to manage the finance office for Guy Millner's first gubernatorial campaign in Georgia, raising over $6 million in a nine‐month period. Coursey also served on the finance committee for Lamar Alexander's Presidential bid in 1996. Since 1994, Coursey has raised in excess of $10.0 million for various political candidates.
He has also been a member of the Young Entrepreneurs' Organization, the world's premier[citation needed] organization of business professionals devoted to supporting young entrepreneurs in building companies and themselves. In addition, Coursey was a nominee for the "1998 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year" award.[citation needed]
Education
Coursey attended the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Film and television credits
Executive Producer
External links
Categories:- 1972 births
- American film producers
- People from Atlanta, Georgia
- Living people
- University of Colorado alumni
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