- Michael Moritz
Michael Moritz (born Cardiff, Wales, 1954) is a venture capitalist with Sequoia Capital in Menlo Park, California in the Silicon Valley, and a former member of the board of directors of Google inc. He was educated at Howardian High School, Cardiff before moving on to Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated as a Master of Arts in history. In 1978, he received a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. - Don Valentine
Donald T. "Don" Valentine is an influential venture capitalist who concentrates mainly on technology companies in the United States. He has been called the "grandfather of Silicon Valley venture capital". The Computer History Museum credited him as playing "a key role in the formation of a number of industries such as semiconductors, personal computers, personal computer software, digital entertainment and networking." - Timothy C. Draper
Timothy C. Draper Founder, Managing Director Draper Fisher Jurveston Timothy C. Draper is the Founder and a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. His original suggestion to use "viral marketing" in web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and YahooMail, and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique to hundreds of businesses. - Mike Markkula
Armas Clifford "Mike" Markkula Jr. (born 1942) is a legendary venture capitalist who provided early critical funding for Apple. After his stint there, he continued on to found Echelon Corporation, ACM Aviation, San Jose Jet Center and Rana Creek Habitat Restoration and to endow the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, where he now chairs the Board of Trustees. - Guy Kawasaki
Guy Kawasaki , who was Apple's software evangelist, is passionate about the idea that products and services reach critical mass 'because mere mortals spread the word for you.' He also has noted that the people who developed the original Macintosh didn't really have any idea of what people would do with the machine-and thus how its users would influence its development. We're wired to create patterns, but that doesn't mean the first patterns are necessarily useful. - David Sze
David joined Greylock in 2000. His areas of focus include: consumer internet, wireless data, broadband, systems management, security, and technology-assisted marketing services. Before coming to Greylock, David was SVP of Product Strategy at Excite and then Excite@Home. As an early employee at Excite, David also held roles as GM of Excite.com and VP of Content and Programming for the Excite Network. Before Excite, he was in product marketing and development at Electronic Arts and Crystal . . . - Bob Kagle
With over 20 years of venture capital investment experience, Bob is a veteran of the venture industry. Prior to Benchmark, Bob spent 12 years as a General Partner with Technology Venture Investors. Before TVI, Bob worked for the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) where he focused on issues of corporate strategy in industries ranging from retail distribution to high technology manufacturing. - John H. N. Fisher
John H. N. Fisher is a venture capitalist, best known for being a managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), with Timothy C. "Tim" Draper, and Steven "Steve" Jurvetson. He is also currently on the boards of companies CMI Marketing, Hands On Mobile (formerly MFORMA), Raydiance, Inc., Selectica, and Visto. He currently lives in San Francisco. - Brook Byers
Brook Byers is the brother of Stanford University Professor Tom Byers, and is a senior partner at Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers. He is currently on the Board of Directors of eight companies, most recently joining CardioDX, Genomic Health Incorporated, Five Prime Therapeutics, Pacific Biosciences, Inc. and XDx, Inc. Previously, he served on the Board of Directors of Idec Pharmaceuticals (Chairman), Athena Neurosciences (Chairman), Signal Pharmaceuticals, … - Suhas Patil
Dr. Suhas S. Patil, born 1944 in Jamshedpur,Jharkhand, India, is a Silicon Valley tycoon, venture capitalist and philanthropist. He founded the company Cirrus Logic which is recognized for creating the fabless business model of semiconductor companies. Cirrus Logic brought to fruition VLSI design methodology work Dr. Patil did at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and at the University of Utah. - Tim Draper
- William Quigley
William Quigley joined Clearstone in February 1999 and focuses on Clearstone's communications investments. - Mark Kvamme
Mark Kvamme , Sequoia Capital Mark Kvamme focuses on software and services investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 1999, Mark was Chairman of USWeb/CKS and Chairman and CEO of CKS Group prior to the merger with USWeb. Earlier in his career Mark was a Director of International Marketing for Wyse Technology, the President and CEO of International Solutions, and was a founding member of Apple France. - Bruce Cleveland
Bruce Cleveland focuses on investments in the software and services sector with a focus on analytic applications and Software as a Service (SaaS). Cleveland serves on the Board of Directors of Cape Clear Software, Cloud9 Analytics, Edge Dynamics, Marketo and Right90. Prior to InterWest, Cleveland was one of the original members of the Siebel executive team. - Jeff Clavier
Business Angel and Venture Advisor with over 15 years of experience in the software industry. Most recently General Partner in charge of US operations for RVC, the manager of the Reuters Greenhouse Fund, the Corporate VC arm of Reuters. Before that was involved both as an entrepreneur and senior executive in Product Management and Development, Sales and Marketing, Account Management, Business Development and Strategic Relationships with large financial services clients and partners. . . . - Navin Chaddha
Navin Chaddha is a 3-time entrepreneur, executive and venture investor with a proven track record in growing startup companies to industry leadership and eventually successful exits. At Gabriel Venture Partners, Navin focuses on investments in the areas of Enterprise Software & Services, Infrastructure Software & Systems, and Business Process Outsourcing. Navin also spearheads Gabriel's international efforts with India. - Richard D. Harroch
- David Cowan
David joined Bessemer Venture Partners in 1992. He has since made 45 early-stage investments for Bessemer, including 19 that have gone public, and 18 that have been acquired by public companies. The first Forbes Midas List ranked David among the world's top 10 venture investors. - Arati Prabhakar
Arati Prabhakar joined U.S. Venture Partners in 2001 and is presently a partner with the firm. USVP is an active early-stage investor in a broad array of IT and healthcare startup companies. Arati's focus is fabless semiconductor and semiconductor manufacturing opportunities. She serves on the boards of Leadis Technology (NASDAQ: LDIS), Kleer, Piviotal Systems, Arradiance, SiBeam, and Kilopass. Arati started her career at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). - Wende Hutton
Wende Hutton joined Canaan Partners in 2004 as a Venture Partner in the healthcare sector focusing on medical devices and biotechnology. While at Canaan, Wende has played an instrumental role in the sales and marketing and recruiting strategies for many healthcare clients including Alsius, Northstar Neuroscience and ReVision Optics. - Mr. Ping Li
Ping joined Accel in 2004 and focuses primarily on information technology infrastructure (compute, networking, security and storage), as well as digital media solutions. He currently serves on the Board of Directors at BitTorrent, Mendocino Software, Mochi Media, Mu Security, and YuMe, and he is actively involved in Consentry, Imperva, and Oak Pacific Interactive. Ping was also responsible for Accel’s investment in Reactivity (acquired by Cisco). - David Feinleib
David invests in Internet-enabled companies at MDV. Prior to MDV, David ran a profitable online advertising business. He founded Centeris, a venture funded company providing interoperability software for mixed Windows and Linux environments. Before Centeris, David was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Ignition Partners. David holds a B.A. from Cornell University, and an MBA from the Stanford. - Susan Mason
Susan Mason came to ONSET Ventures in 1996 after holding positions in high technology engineering, marketing and business development. Susan most recently led a successful consulting practice, helping Fortune 100 corporations capitalize on emerging markets and technologies. - Patrick S. Chung
Patrick Chung (New Enterprise Associates) Patrick joined NEA in 2004 and became a Partner in 2007. Patrick focuses on venture growth equity, consumer, Internet, and mobile investments. He is a director of Loopt and Realtime Worlds, and is actively involved with 23andMe, Xoom and the firm's venture growth activities. - Ray Lane
Ray Lane is general partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Since joining KPCB in 2000, Ray has sponsored several of the firms investments aimed at improving enterprise productivity. He sits on the boards of privately-held companies Elance, Valdero, Metamatrix, Virsa, Visible Path and two other ventures, and serves on the boards of public companies Quest Software and SeeBeyond Technologies. - James Breyer
Jim is currently on the Board of Directors of Wal-Mart Stores, Inc (WMT), where he is the Lead / Presiding Independent Director, and Chairman of the Strategic Planning and Finance Committee. He also serves on the board of Marvel Entertainment (MVL), RealNetworks (RNWK... - Jon Feiber
Jon joined MDV in 1991 where his primary focus is networking and computing systems investments. In more than 10 years of venture investing he has identified and guided numerous entrepreneurs and played a significant role in growing category-leading companies. Jon launched his career at Amdahl where he served as a Senior Engineer. - Kevin Wasserstein
Kevin Wasserstein , Versant Ventures Kevin Wasserstein specializes in investing and building early-stage medical device companies, and is actively involved with several of Versant's portfolio companies and affiliations, including: LipoSonix , NeoGuide Systems , Rox Medical, Second Sight Medica l and The Innovation Factory. - Tom Stephenson
- Jeffrey Rothschild
Jeff Rothschild has been active in the areas of storage management, system software, and networking since 1979. - David Stern
David Stern is a Venture Partner at Clearstone where he focuses on developing early stage investment opportunities at the intersection of consumer technology and media. ... David is a graduate of Cornell University and the University of San Diego School of Law. He sits as an advisor or board member of Clearstone portfolio companies SoonR, Rubicon Project and Spock Networks. - Mark Gorenberg
Mark Gorenberg Partner Hummer Winblad Venture Partners Mark has been a venture capitalist at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners since 1990, and has served as a board member for start-up and public software companies, including AdForce, HomeGrocer, NetDynamics and Scopus Technologies. Currently, he serves as a Director of Cenzic, Infopia, Lathian Systems, ontheFRONTIER, Omniture(NASDAQ: OMTR), Replay Solutions and Tizor Systems. - Venkat Mohan
Venkat Mohan , General Partner, Norwest Venture Partners Venkat Mohan joined Norwest Venture Partners in 2000 and brings more than 25 years of experience in company operations. His most recent investments and board seat appointments include The 41st Parameter, Clairmail, Global eXchange Services (GXS) and TimeBridge. Venkat was formerly a member of the board of directors of Crossweave (acquired by AmberPoint), and Softface (acquired by Ariba). - John Luongo
JOHN LUONGO | Venture Partner john@opuscapital.com John Luongo brings more than 30 years of chief executive and senior operating experience to Opus Capital. John was President, CEO and Chairman of Vantive Corporation, a Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners investment that went public prior to its acquisition by PeopleSoft (now Oracle Corporation). Previously, John was Senior Vice President of the International Division at Oracle, where he had worked since its early stages. - John Walecka
John Walecka , General Partner, Redpoint Ventures Mr. Walecka is a founding partner of Redpoint Ventures. Prior to founding Redpoint, Mr. Walecka was a general partner with Brentwood Venture Capital, a firm he joined in 1984. Mr. Walecka currently focuses on software infrastructure and security products in the enterprise as well as enabling products for the cable, consumer and broadband markets. - Jim Lussier
Jim, who joined Norwest Venture Partners in 2000, focuses on investments in software, services and consumer/Internet companies. He is a member of the board of directors of CollabNet, G2Switchworks, Hedgestreet, Mercora and OnVantage and is actively involved with Amberpoint. Jim was formerly a member of the board of directors of Acta Technology (acquired by Business Objects) and Escalate (acquired by GERS)and was actively involved in Arbortext (acquired by PTC) and Annuncio (acquired by . . . - Krishna 'Kittu' Kolluri
Krishna 'Kittu' Kolluri General Partner, NEA Krishna "Kittu" Kolluri Kittu joined NEA in 2006 as a General Partner and focuses on information technology investments. Prior to NEA, he served as the Executive Vice President and General Manager of Juniper Networks' Security Products Group. - Phil Schlein
Phil Schlein has more than forty years of experience in venture capital, retail and technology companies. As a partner in U.S. Venture Partners (USVP), Phil has advised young companies on strategy, recruiting and finance since 1985. Previous to joining USVP, Phil had a successful 28-year career as an operating executive with R.H. Macy. He served as President and CEO of Macy's California from 1974 to 1985, during which time it became the dominant department store in California. - Dixon R. Doll Jr
Dixon Doll Managing General Partner DCM - Doll Capital Management For more than 30 years, Dixon Doll has influenced and guided entrepreneurs, investors and executives. In recognition of his accomplishments in the communications and venture capital industries, Doll was named "one of the top 100 personalities involved in creating the information highway" by Upside Magazine and Micro Times. Since the early 1980s, Doll has been a telecom and Internet venture capital pioneer. - Barbara N. Lubash
Barbara N. Lubash Barbara N. Lubash - Managing Director, Versant Ventures. Barbara specializes in healthcare services and healthcare information technology investing. Prior to co-founding Versant Ventures, Barbara was a Venture Partner at Crosspoint Venture Partners. Barbara is the former President of Pacific Review Services, a division of PacificCare Health Systems, and was SVP of Private Healthcare Systems, a national PPO.
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