Investor profile
Luke Cooper
Accelerator, Government-backed, Venture capital & Founding Managing Partner at Latimer Ventures, Distinguished Scholar at University System of Maryland, General Partner at Preface Ventures
Luke Cooper works as a General Partner at Preface Ventures. The firm's known portfolio counts 13 companies.
Is Luke Cooper a fit for your startup?
Paste your website. AI checks the fit and scores every other investor too.
Investment focus
- Focus
- APIAnalyticsBIPOC-focusedCloud InfrastructureComputer VisionCybersecurityDataDevOpsDeveloper APIsDeveloper ToolsEnterprise SaaSIT InfrastructureInformation ServicesMachine LearningResearch GrantsSecurityUniversity-Backed
Contacts
Affiliated funds' portfolios
Founding Managing Partner at Latimer Ventures, whose known portfolio counts 3 companies
- AISquared
- Acclinate
- Pienso
Distinguished Scholar at University System of Maryland, whose known portfolio counts 5 companies
- FiscalNote
- ARMR Systems
- Code&Play
- Harpoon Medical
- Kestrel
General Partner at Preface Ventures, whose known portfolio counts 13 companies
- Velocity
- Knock
- Feroot Security
- BackChannel
- Nilus
- Mutuus
- Benji
- dope.security
- Barndoor AI
- ContextQA
- IP Copilot
- Opnova
- and 1 more
Investor Profile
The listing covers sectors AI, Education, Hardware and Healthcare, and focus areas API, Analytics, BIPOC-focused and Cloud Infrastructure. Startups operating in these areas may find Luke Cooper relevant.
Preface Ventures appears in Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A rounds across its known deals.
The firm portfolio and the focus above give founders context on whether Luke Cooper matches their raise.
Colleagues
David Sandrowitz
Associate Director, NSF I-Corps Hub: Mid-Atlantic
Vienna, United States
Toni Alejandria
Principal
New York, United States
Michael Pratt
Strategic Advisor
Washington, United States
Farooq Abbasi
General Partner
New York, United States
Mitchell Kleinhandler
Member of the Investment Committee
New York, United States
Alana Sierra Mann
Venture Partner
Los Angeles, United States
Daniel Qu
Investor (LP)
London, United Kingdom
Frequently asked questions
Who is Luke Cooper?
Luke Cooper is an accelerator partner and government-backed investor based in Baltimore, Maryland, United States, listed as General Partner at Preface Ventures. The known portfolio of that firm counts 13 companies. That portfolio belongs to the firm, not to Luke Cooper personally.
What does Luke Cooper invest in?
Listed sectors include AI, Education, Hardware and Healthcare; listed focus areas include API, Analytics, BIPOC-focused and Cloud Infrastructure. Those tags come from the portfolios of the firms this profile is attached to, so they read as a record of what has been backed rather than a stated preference for what comes next.
What stage does Luke Cooper invest at?
Preface Ventures appears in Pre-Seed, Seed and Series A rounds across its known deals, and Luke Cooper is listed there as General Partner. Stage is the strongest single filter when you build a target list: an investor with no record at your stage rarely starts with you.
Which firm is Luke Cooper listed at?
Luke Cooper is listed as General Partner at Preface Ventures. 7 other people in the database share a firm with Luke Cooper.
How do I contact Luke Cooper?
An email address and a LinkedIn page are on file for Luke Cooper. The address stays masked on this page and is readable inside RaiseHunt after you create an account. The database holds no phone number for this profile.
Skip the browsing. Let AI find your ideal investors in one minute.
Paste your startup website and AI picks your best-fit investors out of 135,000+ profiles.
Data: RaiseHunt investor dataset · Snapshot 5 September 2026 · How this data is built · Report a correction or request removal