Dale Richards

Dale Richards, Chief Executive Officer at Island 20 Ventures is an active investor based in Toronto, Ontario. This profile covers what Dale Richards backs, at which stage, and how founders can reach out in 2026.

Mr. Dale Richards serves as Chairman of the Advisory Board at RoZetta Technology. Mr. Richards serves as Board Member at Eagle Alpha. Mr. Richards serves as Managing Director at Island 20 Ventures. He is an Angel Investor. He serves as Board Advisor at SESAMm. He serves as Chairman of the Board at JamLabs Data Science. He serves as a Board Member at PathFactory. He serves as Chairman of the Advisory Board at RoZetta Technology. He served as Managing Partner, Chief Executive Officer & Board of Directors at LakeFront Data Consulting. He served as a Board Member at TickTrade Systems. He was a Board Member of Quandl. He served as a Strategist at First Derivatives. He was most recently head of enterprise business development with SunGard, responsible for the strategic lead on initiatives across the firm. He was Chief Data Officer and president of corporate Enterprise Data Management (EDM), leading SunGard's overall EDM strategy, a successful initiative established to launch SunGard's global integrated data management external approach and opportunities across the organization and in the market. He was a founding member of the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) council co-sponsored by IBM, BearingPoint and GoldenSource and with 30 financial members globally before SunGard acquired FAME Information Services, Inc. in 2004, he was President and CEO of FAME, a $50 million revenue Warbug Pincus-backed firm, where he restructured the company and launched a successful strategy to leverage its data management capabilities into the emerging reference data management market. As a result, FAME attained solid profitability, growth, and secured industry recognition by such respected venues as Waters magazine, which named FAME as the Top Global Data Management Solutions Vendor for 3 years in a row. Before FAME, he was the founder, President, and CEO of Benton Associates, Inc., a global software, consulting, and integration company he founded in 1992 and was acquired by FAME in 1998. Benton specialized in financial analytics and data management. Before founding Benton, he was Director of Business Development, Sales and Marketing at Algorithmics, Inc., and before that held senior account management and sales positions at Reuters Information Services. Before Reuters, he served as a senior product manager for Financial Times Interactive Data. He is currently on the board of directors of Coverity, a firm providing software solutions for commercial loan monitoring. He is also on the board of Diaphonics, a voice recognition solutions company focused on compliance in financial markets. He holds a BA (Honors) in Business from the University of Western Ontario (1983).

Notable investments

DatacticsReference Data Factory (RDF)HeadspaceReutersStrevusZelig AssociatesJamLabs Data ScienceTick Trade SystemsLookBookHQQuandlRoZetta TechnologySESAMm