Rich Horvath

Richard Horvath is a finance and investment professional whose career spans public accounting, investment banking and family-office investing. Multiple aggregated career records show a consistent path: he began as a Senior Accountant at Deloitte & Touche, moved to Merrill Lynch as a Senior Financial Analyst, and then joined Mousse Partners Limited as a Director, where he worked on the firm's investment strategy across asset classes. He holds an MBA from NYU's Stern School of Business, with a concentration in accounting and finance.

Mousse Partners — the firm tied to the email and phone in the stub — is the New York–based investment office of Alain and Gérard Wertheimer, the brothers who own Chanel. Founded in 1991 by Charles Heilbronn (a Chanel executive and half-brother of the owners), the firm manages a large proprietary portfolio (reported at roughly US$90 billion AUM as of 2021) across private equity, venture capital, credit, real assets and public markets, with a team recruited from firms such as The Carlyle Group, GIC and Soros Fund Management. As a "Director" at Mousse, Horvath sat inside one of the most well-capitalized family offices investing in venture and growth deals.

Important accuracy note: Current sources (RocketReach, Trusted Insight, AlphaMaven and his LinkedIn) indicate Horvath has since moved to the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, where he is a Managing Director / Director of Private Capital Strategies on the endowment/investment side. In other words, the "Investment Analyst / Angel Investor" framing in the stub understates his seniority, and his Mousse Partners tenure may be a prior role rather than a current one. The `@moussepartners.com` contact should be treated with that caveat. Because public records don't give exact start/end years, I've avoided asserting specific dates.

• Invests as part of Mousse Partners' multi-asset family-office mandate, not as an independent angel — meaning capital is patient, long-duration and not tied to a fixed fund cycle.
• Stage: Opportunistic across seed → growth; the venture book leans Series B, with occasional seed checks (firm seed rounds average ~$6.7M in size per Tracxn). Precise personal check sizes are not publicly disclosed.
• Sectors: Generalist with visible weight in consumer/luxury, healthcare, fintech and technology, consistent with the Wertheimer/Chanel lens on brands and consumer businesses.
• Co-investment signal: Mousse frequently appears alongside top-tier VCs — NEA, Greylock, Kleiner Perkins, IVP and Cowboy Ventures (per Signal/NFX) — suggesting it comes in as a syndicate partner rather than a lead in early rounds.
• No publicly published personal investment thesis or writing by Horvath was found; the above is inferred from firm-level behavior and should be verified directly with him.