I am a VC. I have been for 19 years. I help people start and build technology companies. I do it in NYC, which isn't the easiest place to build technology companies, but its getting better.
I love my work. I am the Managing Partner of two venture capital firms, Flatiron Partners and Union Square Ventures.
I also am a husband and a father of 3 kids. I do that in NYC too. And it isn't the easiest place to raise a family either. But it's getting better too. I love my family more than my work.
I also love music, art, yoga, biking, skiing, and golf. That's a lot of interests for a guy who works 70 hours a week and loves his family. But I manage to make it work.
alarm:clock and our sister site alarm:clock euro cover the business of technology startups. Each weekday, we profile privately-held technology ventures. We analyze the business models and tell you how these companies fit in to the technology landscape. You’ll also find ongoing news and updates about the companies we cover – and about the technology industry at large.
Our editors are old hacks who worked at Red Herring and The Industry Standard back when client/server software and virtual reality were all the rage. We covered the bubble and then belched it out. We’ve even started our own companies in the past, we’ve raised money, we’ve seen the madness.
With offices in Zürich, New York and San Francisco, alarm:clock covers: Internet, wireless, hardware, and software companies. We get dirt from our moles on the pitch at the Grasshopper-Club Zürich, at parties off Wall Street and biking past the office parks along Highway 101, but we welcome new moles .
Ed Sim is a founding member and Managing Director of Dawntreader Ventures which was established in 1998. With $250mm under management, Dawntreader Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm collaborating with entrepreneurs to build the next generation of software, Internet, and digital media companies. Ed's private equity career began in 1996 with Prospect Street Ventures, a New York-based venture capital firm, where he worked on software and technology investments like 24/7 Real Media (Nasdaq: TFSM). Prior to joining Prospect Street, Ed worked with J.P. Morgan's Structured Derivatives Group on the development of a real-time trading application for global asset allocation. Ed graduated from Harvard College with a degree in economics and holds the CFA designation.
Ed currently serves as a director of Gizmo5, Deepnines Technologies, Greenplum, netForensics, and Answers Corporation (Nasdaq: ANSW). Ed is a former director of Moreover Technologies (acquired by Verisign, Nasdaq: VRSN). Expertcity/GoToMyPC (acquired by Citrix, Nasdaq: CTXS), LivePerson (Nasdaq: LPSN) and Flashbase (acquired by Doubleclick, Nasdaq: DCLK).
Brad has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur for over 20 years. Prior to co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to that, founded Intensity Ventures, a company that helped launch and operate software companies and later became a venture affiliate of the predecessor to Mobius Venture Capital.
Brad currently serves on the board of directors of Gist, Gnip, Oblong, Standing Cloud, and Zynga for Foundry Group. Previously, Brad served as chief technology officer of AmeriData Technologies. AmeriData acquired Feld Technologies, a firm he founded in 1987 that specialized in custom software applications. Brad had grown Feld Technologies into one of Boston’s leading software consulting firms prior to the acquisition. He also directed the diversification into software consulting at AmeriData, a $1.5 billion publicly-traded company which was acquired by GE Capital in 1995.
In addition to his investing efforts, Brad has been active with several non-profit organizations and currently is chairman of the National Center for Women & Information Technology and co-chairman of the Colorado Governor’s Innovation Council. Brad is a nationally recognized speaker on the topics of venture capital investing and entrepreneurship and writes widely read and well respected blogs at www.feld.com and www.askthevc.com.
Notable companies that Brad has invested in and/or sat on the boards of include Abuzz (acq. NYT), Anyday.com (acq. PALM), Critical Path (CPTH), Cyanea (acq. IBM), Dante Group (acq. WEBM), DataPower (acq. IBM), FeedBurner (acq. by GOOG), Feld Group (acq. by EDS), Harmonix (acq. VIA), NetGenesis (IPO), ServiceMagic (acq. IACI), and ServiceMetrics (acq. EXDS).
Brad holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Management Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Brad is also an avid art collector and long-distance runner. He has completed fourteen marathons as part of his mission to run a marathon in each of the 50 states.
My name is Jeff Nolan and I write Venture Chronicles. What started, in 2002, as a simple initiative to understand this thing called “blogs” that I kept hearing about has evolved into something much more significant.
Along the way to becoming a bona fide blogger I started to understand the implications of user generated content. At the time I was a venture capitalist for SAP, the enterprise software company, and in my travels in the enterprise software market it became evident that blogging would be a powerful communication channel for enterprises to use, and a powerful information collection mechanism for bottom up corporate intelligence. Combined with search technology, social networking software, and wikis, I was witnessing the inception of an entirely new generation of knowledge management software.
David is a General Partner at August Capital where he invests in early stage software, infrastructure and Internet related companies. Prior to joining August Capital, David was a corporate and licensing attorney who represented and advised numerous Internet and enterprise software startups. David works with or has worked with such companies as Yahoo, Six Apart, Evite, Tickle, PayCycle, Ofoto, When.com, WhoWhere?, DoneRight and Sonique.
David has taught Computer Music at Stanford, legal writing at Harvard Law School and teaches Intellectual Property and Business at Stanford's Graduate School of Business.
David has written for the Journal of Law and Business, The Harvard Journal of Law and Technology and was a founding editor of and frequent contributor to Actual Malice, Stanford's short-lived satire magazine.
David's musings on life can be found on SaysMe, his personal blog. He is also a contributor to the TEDblog.
Welcome to the CVCA - Capital Rants! CVCA - Canada’s Venture Capital & Private Equity Association, with over 1600 members, represents the majority of venture capital and private equity companies in Canada. As a result of last year’s annual conference themed “The Face of Change,” we decided to start a blog to share various personal reflections on risk capital experiences. In this big world, risk capital plays a huge role. So, we carefully select top bloggers willing to share a little insight with us on their own experiences. We hope you enjoy reading through all of the VC and PE stories, and please take a moment to leave a comment with your favorite blogger’s post. To learn more about CVCA and our upcoming activities, please visit our website at http://www.cvca.ca.
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