SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Ingenio, LLC (“Ingenio”), a portfolio company of Alpine Investors (“Alpine”), announced today that it has raised $232 million...

Patrick McKenna of Comeback Capital Patrick McKennaThis article is a part of the “Navigating The 2023 VC Landscape,” which previously featured Miriam Rivera of Ulu Ventures. Click here to view the previous installment, and follow Brian Penick on Forbes.com for more expert interviews with top investors and entrepreneurs.For the next installment of this series, Brian Penick interviews Austin-based entrepreneur and investor Patrick McKenna of Comeback Capital and Facet Financial Planning. His journey began in Silicon Valley as a founding member of LiveOps, a technology for managing distributed workers, which he scaled to 20,000 workers before it was acquired. After launching and selling two more companies, Patrick co-founded Facet, a financial planning firm for the mass affluent with 13,000 clients and 260 employees that has raised $160 million in venture capital. Patrick now serves as Facet’s Executive Chairman and General Partner of Comeback Capital, a Cleveland-based VC firm with a thesis targeting entrepreneurs in historically underserved regions.Brian Penick: It’s obviously an interesting time, given everything happening in the market. Your investments focus on regionally specific founders–can you offer context on how you adopted this thesis?Patrick McKenna: There are a ton of smart people in Silicon Valley, but not all smart people are in the Valley