Welcome to PunchUP Ventures
We partner with entrepreneurs from the very early days to establish solid financial operations and business acumen.
About Us
PunchUP Ventures is the niche, early-stage venture fund that strategically targets and propels start-up companies to scale efficiently and responsibly.
As a sector agnostic venture fund, we are built around the core pillars of balance fit of market opportunity, clear investment strategy and team composition.
Frank Mastronuzzi
Frank Mastronuzzi has been working with start-ups in an outsourced CFO and Accounting Services capacity for more than 15 years. Over 7 years ago, Frank founded Punch Financial with the vision and intention of helping start-ups and founders with their accounting and finance operations. To date, Punch Financial start-ups have raised over $500MM in venture capital. Some of Punch’s clients include Honey, Boulevard, WaveXR, Lootcrate, and many others.
In addition to Punch, Frank has been a business mentor for some of the most coveted start-up accelerators in venture capital. Prior to the creation of Punch, Frank worked in various high level roles at Deloitte, Motorola, Match.com, Prezi and many other start-ups.
Frank graduated from Texas McCombs School of Business in Austin, TX (MBA) and the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (B.S., Accounting). He presently resides in Los Angeles, CA with his spouse and two dogs (Lola and Luca) with regular trips to the San Francisco Bay Area to meet with clients and build his network.
Jay Fragus
Jay Fragus is a transactional attorney and start-up entrepreneur and consultant for a broad range of companies, who has a strong passion for venture. As a Managing Partner at PunchUP Ventures, he is excited to partner with companies and their founders to help propel their efficient scaling and growth.
For the last decade before PunchUP, Jay primarily focused on building his consulting firm, Represent LLC, where he served as President, and worked on a variety of projects in the tech, sports and entertainment spaces, while also offering business development and strategy services to a broad range of start-up companies.
Prior to 2013, Jay worked in more of a traditional legal capacity focusing on high level transaction work at both a boutique, entertainment law firm in Beverly Hills, CA and an AmLaw 100 firm in Century City.
Jay graduated from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles (J.D.) and the University of California, Berkeley (B.A.). While he makes frequent trips to Los Angeles and Beverly Hills for business, he currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with his spouse and their two boys.
Mission
As we believe founders are the essential components and driving forces of innovation, we look to invest in financially-sound companies in order to fuel growth and provide consultation so that these amazing companies can scale and achieve future fundraising goals - hitting their next milestone investment.
