Taylor Davidson is a Senior Associate at kbs+ Ventures, the thematic early-stage venture investment arm of the advertising agency kbs+. He is an advisor to a range of early-stage ventures and a mentor with Launch Pad Ignition, a New Orleans-based TechStars accelerator. Over 6,000 entrepreneurs have downloaded one of his Excel template financial models for startups.
He is also a professional photographer, focusing on business and event photography through his agency Narratively. Clients and features have included Clinton Global Initiative, The Economist, CNN, The Rockefeller Foundation, PSFK, Mashable, The New York Observer and many others. In his personal work, he focuses on landscapes and cityscapes and explores how humans create, shape, and live in their environment. Taylor is often noted as one of the top travel photographers on the web. He supports the Young Photographers Alliance and the International Center of Photography.
He loves creating things, traveling, baseball statistics, and whisky. The two most popular things he has ever written on the web are about how to fail in business and how to pack for a nomadic life, two things he would rather not be known for.
Taylor was born in Virginia, lived in the Bahamas and England when he was young, and graduated from the University of Virginia with a BA in Economics and the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University with an MBA in Finance. New Orleans, LA owns a part of his soul, but he currently lives in New York, NY.