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| About Me | Co-founder and general partner for technology venture capital investor since 2000, investing in companies in web infrastructure and services. Prior experience includes 18 years in start-up exec sales and marketing operating roles with companies including C-Cube Microsystems, SkyStream Networks and Motorola. I specifically like to leverage my sales and marketing skills to work with start-ups that have the potential to become category makers in emerging market trends. Current interests are in cloud computing applications and web technologies that can lure big enterprises and brands into the ecosystem. Current board seats: Mashery, Marketocracy and SOASTA. Previous investments include: InnoCOMM Wireless (Acquired by National Semiconductor), Zyray Wireless (acquired by Broadcom) and Silicon Clocks (acquired by Silicon Labs) |
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| Summary | (actually, since 2000, but LinkedIn has a bug that won’t let you set the display order of positions) – Early-stage technology venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, CA. We invest in early-stage companies in the Western US across a broad range of technology sectors, including web infrastructure and services. |
| Specialties | early stage tech investing, marketing and sales - Areas of interest: web services, web infrastructure, cloud computing and applications, conversation economy, social networking technology, advertising infrastructure |
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| Websites | http://www.formative.com |
