Nueva Ventures' partners are engineers, MBAs, and Silicon Valley veterans.

Côme Laguë founded Nueva Ventures in 2005, as one of the first of the new genre of Silicon Valley venture capital firms meeting the needs of entrepreneurs who choose to launch their startups with less capital. For the past four years, Côme has managed Nueva Ventures’ first fund which made investments in 8 companies. His board involvement includes Collarity, Pharmacy TV Network, Rivalwatch, Validare and W&W Communications.

Prior to Nueva Ventures Côme was an entrepreneur for twelve years during which he co-founded two telecommunications startups in Africa in the wireless sector (Adesemi) and VoIP sector (CDR International), and was an early member of the executive teams of a consumer Internet (LearningBrands) and ultra-mobile computer (OQO) startup. He also spent two years as a strategy consultant with the Monitor Company.

Côme has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BEng from McGill University.

J. Neil Weintraut has been involved with Internet businesses dating back to its initial commercialization in 1994. Prior to joining Nueva Ventures in 2008, Neil co-founded and co-ran 21st Century Internet Venture Partners (21VC), a standard venture capital firm focusing on Internet businesses and produced five public-offerings and one significant acquisition out of 18 total investments. At 21VC Neil's investment and board involvement included CareerBuilder (OTC-CBDR and subsequently acquired by Knight-Ridder), AdForce (OTC-ADFC and subsequently acquired by CMGI), Nextance (acquired by Versata).

Prior to 21VC, Neil was an Internet Analyst at Hambrecht & Quist, underwriting Internet pioneers such as Checkpoint Software, cNet, Netscape, and UUNET Technologies. Neil was also an advisor to the International Olympic Committee on the application of the Internet to the Olympic Games. Neil is on the board of advisors of the MIT/Stanford Venture Lab. He worked as a design engineer at Daisy Systems, and IBM.

Neil has an MBA from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and a BSEE from Drexel University.