Roger Lang

Roger Lang’s Biography

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Roger Lang is a successful entrepreneur, investor and executive, with over 40 years of experience founding and leading companies in technology, telecommunications and sustainable agriculture.

Roger is the Co-founder & General Partner of BCP Ventures. With a focus on food systems, sustainable energy and smart infrastructure, BCP invests in companies that are working to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges, including food security, emissions reduction and resource consumption. Roger leads BCP's deal sourcing, as well as fundraising and entrepreneur coaching activities. He serves on the Board and is responsible for the firm's investments in Caban Systems, Ryp Labs, AquaPrawnics and Unique Wire.

Prior to founding BCP, Roger served as the Founder & CEO of Infinity Financial Technology, an enterprise software derivatives platform. Under his tenure, he led the business from its founding to a successful IPO on NASDAQ. Following the IPO, he led Infinity through a successful acquisition by Sungard. Prior to Infinity, Roger founded CAT-S, a financial technology platform, which... Roger Lang is a successful entrepreneur, investor and executive, with over 40 years of experience founding and leading companies in technology, telecommunications and sustainable agriculture.

Roger is the Co-founder & General Partner of BCP Ventures. With a focus on food systems, sustainable energy and smart infrastructure, BCP invests in companies that are working to solve some of the world’s most pressing challenges, including food security, emissions reduction and resource consumption. Roger leads BCP's deal sourcing, as well as fundraising and entrepreneur coaching activities. He serves on the Board and is responsible for the firm's investments in Caban Systems, Ryp Labs, AquaPrawnics and Unique Wire.

Prior to founding BCP, Roger served as the Founder & CEO of Infinity Financial Technology, an enterprise software derivatives platform. Under his tenure, he led the business from its founding to a successful IPO on NASDAQ. Following the IPO, he led Infinity through a successful acquisition by Sungard. Prior to Infinity, Roger founded CAT-S, a financial technology platform, which also completed a successful NASDAQ IPO.

After his success as technology entrepreneur, Roger dedicated time to conservation and environmental philanthropy, while continuing to focus on Silicon Valley innovation. For 12 years, he owned and led Sun Ranch in Montana. During this time, he launched the world's first Conservation Beef Company with the Nature Conservancy, led the first eco lodge in the northern hemisphere and developed a market-driven conservation approach that included sustainable ranching, lodging and real estate development.

While pursuing conservation initiatives, Roger continued to invest and found technology companies, including rural telecom company Cutthroat Communications, and numerous technology companies and funds, such as Securant Technology and DailyPay. Lang is also a Co-Founder & Board Director at AI platform, Predicta and spirits brand, Eyland Spirits. moreless

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Entrepreneurs Brynne Kennedy and Roger Lang announce new venture capital fund

Serial entrepreneurs Brynne Kennedy and Roger Lang announced the completion of their first venture capital fund, BCP Blitz, a $40M+ fund that invests in cutting-edge technologies that reinvent foundational industries for decarbonization and decentralization.

Roger Lang’s Background

BCP Ventures

Co-Founder & General Partner

Sep 2021 - Present

New York, NY, USA

BCP Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in transformational technologies reinventing foundational industries. Its investments focus on food systems, sustainable energy and smart infrastructure.

Predicta

Co-Founder & Investor

Jan 2015 - Present

Bozeman, MT, USA

Predicta is an AI-based automated competitive market intelligence SaaS company. Its Automated Market Intelligence (AMI) puts diagrammed data at clients' fingertips, helping them unlock critical consumer patterns and develop insights that give them an advantage over the competition.

Lang Studios LLC

Founder & Managing Member

1998 - Present

San Francisco, CA, USA

Lang Studios illuminates the possibilities of modern business with talent and access to capital for entrepreneurs.

Cutthroat Communications

Founder & Chairman

Oct 2000 - Jan 2013

Bozeman, MT, USA

Cutthroat Communications was a rural broadband and telecommunications provider of private managed networks for businesses and communications carriers. The company was sold to Blackfoot Telecommunications 2013.

Sun Ranch

Owner & Operator

1998 - 2010

Bozeman, MT, USA

As the owner of Sun Ranch, Roger Lang initiated significant conservation programs, including co-founding the first North American eco-lodge, the award-winning Papoose Creek Lodge, later named the Lodge at Sun Ranch.

Infinity Financial Technology

Founder & CEO

1989 - 1999

New York, NY, USA

Infinity was a leading developer of analytical/enterprise software for derivatives trading and corresponding risk management and back office processing.

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Board Positions

Caban Systems

Board member

Burlingame, CA, USA

Caban delivers modern infrastructure solutions to its customers, while substantially reducing operational expenses and increasing uptime.

AquaPrawnics

Board member

Noxon, MT, USA

AquaPrawnics produces fresh, superior quality, sustainable local US-farmed shrimp with 100% traceability grown in closed indoor system farms.

Unique Wire

Board member

McMinnville, OR, USA

Unique Wire empowers organizations with discrete digital forensics and reliable analysis, with a specialization in legal and corporate data extraction and analysis.

Predicta

Board member

Bozeman, MT, USA

Predicta is an AI-based automated competitive market intelligence SaaS company. Its Automated Market Intelligence (AMI) puts diagrammed data at clients' fingertips, helping them unlock critical consumer patterns and develop insights that give them an advantage over the competition.

Eyland Spirits

Board member

Jun 2017 - Present

Reykjavík, IS

The vision of Eyland Spirits is to create spirits that express the beauty and magic of Iceland. It is pleased to share the wonders of its native country with the world, one sip at a time.

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Previous Board Positions

Catalina Island Conservancy

Board of Directors

Mar 2012 - Jan 2021

Long Beach, CA, USA

Founded in 1972, the Catalina Island Conservancy is one of the oldest private land trusts in Southern California. Its mission is to be a responsible steward of the natural environment through a balance of conservation, education and recreation.

Pollinator Partnership

Chairman

2004 - 2015

San Francisco, CA, USA

Pollinator Partnership’s mission is to promote the health of pollinators, critical to food and ecosystems, through conservation, education and research. Among its signature initiatives are the NAPPC (North American Pollinator Protection Campaign), National Pollinator Week and the Ecoregional Planting Guides.

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Interviews

The Venture Capitalist’s View of Cybersecurity

Jun 2021

In this episode of Cybersecurity Unplugged, Roger Lang discusses the state of cybersecurity, the vital role of education in improving cybersecurity and, among other topics, how economic issues can lead to ecological issues.

Features

Betting the Ranch

2004

Stanford, CA, USA

This feature, published by Roger's alma mater, looks at his and his wife's recent purchase of Sun Ranch, the inspiration for the purchase and his conservation goals.

Charitable Interests

Anavo Farm

Board of Directors

Solvang, CA, USA

Located in California’s Central Coast wine country, Anavo Farm is a 6-acre farm dedicating to providing education and solutions to climate change, food security and farm animal welfare.

Sustainable Travel International

Board of Directors

Since 2002, Sustainable Travel International has been focused on promoting travel and tourism that leads to a healthier environment, greater economic opportunity, social justice and the protection of natural and cultural resources.

Business Interests

Mountain Journal

Board member

Oct 2019 - Present

Bozeman, MT, USA

Mountain Journal provides meaningful public-interest journalism at the intersection of people and nature in America's wildest, most iconic ecosystem

Press Releases

Caban Systems Raises $51M Series B to Accelerate Growth

Jan 2023

New York, NY, USA

Caban Systems, a leader in next-generation renewable energy solutions for critical infrastructure, has raised $51M to accelerate its global expansion strategy. The Series B round was led by investor BCP Ventures.

BCP Leads Seed Round in Elite Measurements

Nov 2022

New York, NY, USA

Elite Measurements sells patented hardware and software to oil and gas majors that helps them significantly reduce carbon emissions and reduce the time from “well to sale” improving their margins.

BCP Joins Ryp Labs Series A

Oct 2022

Ryp Labs sells biomimicry solutions that protect fruit and vegetables from pathological infections in an all-natural way. These solutions significantly reduce premature rotting from pathological infections and reduce food waste, one of BCP's focuses in its food systems investment vertical.

BCP Blitz Leads Seed Round in Pratexo

May 2022

BCP's investment in Pratexo correlates strongly with its focus on new sustainability and ROI-generating initiatives across smart cities, energy grids, agriculture, manufacturing and more.

BCP Blitz Leads Series A in Greyscale AI

May 2022

Greyscale AI is a startup that sells cutting-edge inspection systems for packaged consumer products. Its proprietary integrated hardware and software solutions scan at the speed of production lines using advanced AI and analytics to automatically identify packaging defects.

BCP Blitz Leads Seed Round in AquaPrawnics

May 2022

AquaPrawnics is a next-generation agriculture tech company that uses advanced aquaculture to transform seafood production. Its mission is to solve the issues of overfishing and ecosystem damage with vertical land-based indoor seafood farms.

10th Annual Compass Intelligence Awards in IoT, Mobile, and Emerging Tech Award Winners Announced

Apr 2022

New York, NY, USA

Pratexo was honored as the Emerging Edge Computing Company of the Year award. The 10th Annual 2022 CompassIntel Mobile, IoT, and Emerging Tech Awards Innovator Awards honors companies, vendors, and organizations demonstrating innovation, leadership, disruption, and excellence in the technology industry.

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Roger Lang’s Education

Stanford University

BS | Environmental Anthropology | Magna cum laude, Phi Betta Kappa

Stanford University

MA | Latin American Studies

Co-Founder & General Partner | BCP Ventures

Bozeman, MT

San Francisco, CA, USA

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