Background
Fox grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he started his first business at the age of 15.
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Fox grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he started his first business at the age of 15.
He graduated from The Pennsylvania State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in economics.
In 1994, Fox joined venture capital firm Safeguard Scientifics Incorporated. and in 1995 established the company"s San Francisco office. In 1996, Fox, along with fellow Safeguard executive Walter Buckley, founded Internet Capital Group (National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation: ICGE) with strategic investors including International Business Machines Corporation and General Electric. While at International Crisis Group he led several investments including Matchlogic, Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology Technologies and TRADEX. Fox also was Chairman of International Crisis Group Asia, a Hong Kong listed company that was sold to Hutchinson-Whampoa.
International Crisis Group’s market capitalization peaked in March 2000 at over $50 billion after going public in August 1999.
Fox"s experience as an investor and operator with International Crisis Group during 2000 and 2001, a period in which the company paired its portfolio and operations, impacted his view on risk management and determined his current approach to private equity investing. In 2003, Fox founded Stripes Group, a Manhattan-based private equity firm that makes growth-stage minority and majority investments in profitable internet, software-as-a-service, technology-enabled services and branded consumer products companies.
Stripes Group portfolio companies include Perimeter eSecurity, Epic Advertising, NetQuote and SmartWool. In 2009, Stripes Group invested $13 million into MyWebGrocer, a company that manages websites for grocery chains while selling advertising to consumer packaged goods companies that is based in Winooski, Vermont. Its products include the Ookisa hair care line, TriClear acne treatment, OnLingo language learning CDs, and the Internet CareerKit.
A10 Capital maintains a $100 million fund to provide loans to buyers of troubled office, industrial, retail and multi-family real estate assets.