Our services.
Reverb Advisors provides operational guidance and fundraising advisory to cyber security and data science companies.
Throughout our careers, our team has raised over $300mm in investment capital and closed more than $6 billion in M&A transactions. We've built and sold 6 companies ourselves and invested in dozens more. We leverage our operational expertise and relationships to help companies realize value from the technology they've created. Whether the objective is raising capital to accelerate growth or finding a strategic buyer, we help our companies achieve their goals.
While we try to help as many companies as possible, we only work with a select few companies at a time. We feel it's important to ensure that we devote our full effort and attention to help each of our companies succeed.
Meet our team.
Chris Lynch
Partner & Founder
Chris Lynch is a co-founder and Partner at Reverb Advisors. Prior to Reverb he co-founded Accomplice, a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies. Chris backs entrepreneurs building companies based on disruptive enterprise technology and is most often the founding investor. He is also co-founder of Hack Reduce, a non-profit that is driving Boston’s big data ecosystem, Hack Secure, a non-profit shaping the cyber security community across the U.S. and is an advisor and mentor to dozens of entrepreneurs and startups.
Before joining Accomplice, Chris held CEO and leadership roles at tech startups where during his career he raised over $130M in capital and returned more than $6B to his investors. Chris was CEO of Vertica (acquired by HP) and Acopia Networks (acquired by F5 Networks); and held executive leadership positions at Arrowpoint Communications (IPO, then acquired by Cisco), Prominet (acquired by Lucent) and Wellfleet Communications (acquired by Bay Networks).
Chris is an avid supporter of the St. Baldrick’s foundation. He first became involved with St. Baldrick’s more than four years ago when he launched the first annual Hack Reduce Tech Tackles Cancer event. Since then, the event has raised more than $1M to help fund pediatric cancer research.
Chris earned his MBA from the McCallum Graduate School of Business at Bentley University and his bachelor’s degree in business management from Suffolk University. He received an honorary doctor of commercial science degree from Bentley University. Chris was born in Yonkers, New York and currently resides outside Boston with his wife and five children.
Wilson D'Souza
Managing Partner
Wilson D'Souza is a strategic executive leader with a strong background in business operations, product-led growth, and technology. He has a proven track record of success in both startups and global corporations. He is skilled at building customer-centric organizations and has experience leading high-performing teams across multiple business domains and industries. He is also an expert in cybersecurity and risk management.
He co-founded Akoya, a company that transformed how consumer financial data is shared and accessed. In this role, he was responsible for all product development, engineering, security, marketing, design, and client success. Akoya has close to ~90% of all consumer banking/brokerage/retirement accounts available on the network.
Prior to Akoya, he held several leadership positions at Fidelity Investments, including CTO of Fidelity Wealth Technologies, SVP of Personal Investing Distribution and SVP of Enterprise Infrastructure. He also served as the Director of Infrastructure Software Development & Architecture at MIT. Prior to MIT, he held multiple leadership roles at Merrill Lynch, PepsiCo International, Emirates Airlines besides others.
He is currently a Senior Founding Connection Science Fellow at MIT Connection Science/Media Lab and a Board Member at Global Emergency Relief, Recovery and Reconstruction (GER3). He is also an advisor to Monetize360, NokNok Labs and TrustCloud.
He received his bachelor’s degree in engineering from Karnataka University in India.
Larry Aidem
Managing Partner
Larry Aidem is Managing Partner at Reverb Advisors.
Aidem joined Reverb in 2018 from Fandor, the largest independent movie streaming service in the U.S. where, for 3 1/2 years, he served as President & CEO.
Aidem has extensive global experience in the successful development and operation of entertainment networks & platforms. Prior to Fandor, he held senior positions at HBO/Time Warner, Viacom, Showtime/CBS, and spent 10 years as President & CEO of Sundance Channel LLC. Since the successful sale of Sundance to Cablevision for $500M in 2008, Aidem’s focus has been digital, specifically in the form of direct to consumer, over-the-top (OTT) content delivery. Prior to Fandor, Aidem served as Co-Founder, President & CEO of IconicTV a creator & co-owner of premium digital channels including Jay Z’s LIFE+TIMES and Skrillex/Diplo/A-Trak’s EDM Channel, POTATO, all funded by Google/YouTube. Aidem is also a member of the Supervisory Board of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE, one of the largest broadcasters in Europe.
Cort Johnson
Partner & Founder
Cort Johnson is co-founder and partner of Reverb Advisors.
Prior to Reverb, Cort co-founded Komand. Komand is a security orchestration and automation platform that gives security teams the power to quickly automate and streamline security operations, with no need for code. The company was bought by Rapid7 in 2017.
Prior to Komand, Cort was a venture partner with Accomplice (formerly Atlas Venture), an early stage venture capital firm, where he invested in seed stage cyber security and data science companies. While at Accomplice, Cort co-founded and still runs Hack Secure, a syndicate of the top cyber security minds investing in the next generation of cyber security companies.
Prior to joining Accomplice, Cort was managing partner and co-founder of Terrible Labs. Terrible Labs was a leading developer of custom enterprise software solutions for Fortune 1,000 companies. Cort grew the company over 4 years, delivering over 50 custom software products. Terrible Labs was bought by Autodesk in 2014.
Cort initially got involved in the technology startup community founding DartBoston, an organization focused on enabling early stage entrepreneurs to found and grow technology companies. DartBoston hosted hundreds of events, connecting thousands of people and helped launch many early stage startups including Crashlytics which sold to Twitter for over $100mm in 2013.
Cort earned a BS in Economics and Finance from Bentley University.
