Former Stanford Professor. Active Investor. Providing capital and advice to companies that have raised more than $70M in follow-on financing since 1999.
Founding investor in new companies that have raised more than $70M in follow-on financing. Most recently, seed-stage investor and adviser to BioImagene (spun out of UCLA in 2003, acquired in 2010 by Roche for $100 Million in cash), Stack Overflow (spun out of Fog Creek Software in 2010), Hadapt (spun out of Yale in 2011, acquired in 2014 by Teradata), and Judicata (spun out of Stanford in 2012).
Stanford Professor since 2006. Recognized in 2003 by Technology Review, MIT's Magazine of Innovation as "one of the top 100 innovators of the world" ("TR100 Award").
Describe the most impressive thing you've done.Graduate students, researchers and professors with promising technologies around the world. Specialize in active management to find product/market fit, financing and helping founders spin out seed-stage technology companies from universities and research laboratories.
Describe what you're looking for in a company.