Experience

Ridge Ventures

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Managing Partner and Co-Founder

  • Sep 2006 - Present

  San Francisco Bay Area



Stanford University Graduate School of Business

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• GSB Trust Board Member. Chair, Venture Fund Group

  • Oct 2017 - Present

  San Francisco Bay Area



SafeGraph

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Member

  • Mar 2017 - Present

  San Francisco Bay Area



WorkTango Inc.

• United States
• Human Resources Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Member

  • Jan 2017 - Present

  Austin, Texas



Braze

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Investor

  • Jun 2013 - Present

  Greater New York City Area I was lucky to back Mark, Bill, and Jon in the Series A. Company went public (BRZE) in November 2021 at $9.6B market cap.



Uplift Inc.

• United States
• Financial Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Board Member

  • May 2013 - Present

  Sunnyvale, CA



ThirdLove

• United States
• Retail Apparel and Fashion
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Investor

  • Dec 2012 - Present

  San Francisco, California



Minted

• United States
• Internet Publishing
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Board Member

  • Aug 2008 - Present

  San Francisco Bay Area I met Mariam during her days running Eve.com. We got to know each other in subsequent years, I led the Series A in 2008, and was the only VC on the board until 2011. The company has grown much larger than any of us anticipated, and the best is yet to come.



Smartling

• United States
• Translation and Localization
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Board Member

  • Jun 2011 - Dec 2021

  Greater New York City Area



Fastly

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Investor and Board Observer

  • Sep 2014 - May 2019

  San Francisco Bay Area Early investor. Fastly went public (NYSE: FSLY) in mid-2019. By mid-2020 the market cap reached $14B



MindMeld, Inc

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Member

  • Jun 2011 - Jun 2017

  San Francisco Bay Area I seed funded brilliant repeat entrepreneur Tim Tuttle to apply AI to voice interfaces, before AI/ML was all the rage. I then led Series A and served as only outside board member. MindMeld was acquired by Cisco for $125M.



Krux Digital

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Board Member

  • Sep 2011 - Nov 2016

  San Francisco Bay Area I co-led Series A with Accel to back Tom Chavez and Vivek Vaidya in bringing "big data" to customer data management. The company grew from 1 paying customer at our investment to many tens of millions in revenue and was acquired by Salesforce.com for close to $1B



Vidible

• Board Member

  • Mar 2013 - Dec 2014

  San Francisco Bay Area I seed funded Tim and Michael and then co-led their Series A in 2013. The company grew revenues extremely fast and was acquired sooner than we planned, with a 350%+ IRR



Sprout Group

• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
• 1 - 100 Employee

• General Partner

  • Sep 1996 - Dec 2003



General Atlantic

• United States
• Financial Services
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Junior Associate

  • 1993 - 1994



Credit Suisse

• Switzerland
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Analyst

  • 1990 - 1993