Team

Our Team

The Rittenhouse Ventures investment team supports emerging-growth companies from funding to exit, bringing expertise in fundraising strategy, business operations, technical development, and sector domain knowledge.

OVER 50 YEARS
collective team investing experience

Capital Providers
for the region
SINCE 1985

Investments in
OVER 40 COMPANIES
in the last 15 years

OVER 50 YEARS
collective team
investing experience

Capital Providers
for the Region
SINCE 1985

Investments in
OVER 40 COMPANIES
in the last 15 years

Click on each team member for more information.

Saul Richter

Managing Partner

Bruce Luehrs

Managing Partner

Steve Holstad

Chief Financial Officer

Justin Hanley

Analyst

Britton Murdoch

Fund Principal

Saul Richter

Saul is a co-founder of Rittenhouse Ventures and has been active within the technology community for twenty-five years as a venture capitalist, start-up entrepreneur, and technologist. Saul has a strong background in software development and systems administration, and has been investing in the healthcare technology space for over fifteen years. Saul has a passion for emerging technologies, and enjoys supporting entrepreneurs throughout a company’s growth process.

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Piano
Inpensa
Workplace Dynamics
GSI Health
Take the Interview
Halfpenny Technologies
Maverick Network Solutions
Click Equations
Concerro

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Himalaya Capital
Lucent Technologies’ New Ventures Group
Zapper Technologies

Education

MBA – Columbia Business School, Columbia University
BA, Economics – Columbia University

Bruce Luehrs

Bruce is the Co-Founder of Rittenhouse Ventures. He was a General Partner of the Edison Venture Fund from 1998 to 2006, prior to managing Rittenhouse Ventures.

As a banker, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist, Bruce brings 30 years of experience in financing technology companies across the greater Philadelphia area. He has been an active member of regional investment community, as the past Chairman of the Greater Philadelphia Venture Group (now MAC Alliance) and as a member of professional organizations in venture capital and corporate growth.

Bruce’s extensive investment experience in software for healthcare, pharma, and financial services makes him an ideal strategic partner for entrepreneurs.

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Vida Diagnostics
Kynectiv
Tabula Rasa Healthcare
Miria Systems
Core Solutions
Gain Capital
Virtual Edge
Fiberlink
Octagon Research
InnaPhase
Cadien

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Edison Venture Funds
Penn Valley Capital
PNC Equity Management
Fidelity Bank

Education

MBA – Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
BA, Economics – Duke University

Steve Holstad

Steve is the CFO for Rittenhouse Ventures, while serving as the Managing Director for Strattech Partners, LLC, based in Devon, PA, which was founded in 2000 as a business consulting and venture capital firm. Over the past 15 years, Steve has been the acting CFO for a number of venture-backed firms in the Philadelphia region. Steve has nearly 30 years of finance and operational experience across companies in commercial banking, energy, chemical, and venture-backed technology.

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Strattech Partners, LLC
City Line Motors, LLC
Atlantic Richfield (ARCO)
ARCO Chemical
Huntington Bancshares

Education

MBA – University of Michigan
BA, Economics – Duke University

Justin Hanley

Justin is an analyst for Rittenhouse Ventures.

With over 10 years of finance and operational experience, Justin has a passion for innovation and early-stage investing.

From 2011 to 2015, Justin served as an associate for the Mid-Atlantic Angel Group, a Philadelphia-based angel group who provides equity capital to seed and early-stage, technology-based, high-growth companies across the mid-Atlantic region.

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Mid-Atlantic Angel Group
SEI Investments

Education

BA, Management – West Chester University

Britton Murdoch

Britt has over 25 years of experience as a senior financial executive for numerous venture-backed technology and public growth companies across the Philadelphia region.

Britt has served as the CFO or Board Director of Fiberlink, Internet Capital Group, Airgas, and V-Span. Britt is Chairman of the Board at the Bryn Mawr Trust Company, and he was a Trustee for Thomas Jefferson University from 2006 through mid- 2016.

Britt is also the Founder and Managing Director for Strattech Partners, LLC, a business consultancy firm that develops growth-stage companies. Britt holds an MBA from New York University and a BS from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.