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FounderLine's host, Joe Beninato, has started, advised and invested in dozens of startups. Each week, Joe and a guest entrepreneur or investor will share insights and advice with you LIVE. Call in, text or tweet your questions and learn how others have tackled similar issues. |
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JEFF CLAVIER
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Jean-Francois “Jeff” Clavier is the Founder and Managing Partner of SoftTech VC, one of the most established seed VC firms in Silicon Valley, having closed 150 investments since 2004. An early angel investor in Web 2.0, Jeff and his team have backed successful startups like Mint (Intuit), Kongregate (GameStop), Brightroll, Mashery (Intel), LiveRamp (Axciom), Milo (eBay), Wildfire (Google), Bleacher Report (Turner), Fitbit, Eventbrite, Sendgrid, Zefr, Coin, August, Hired, Poshmark and Vungle. The portfolio has also seen acquisitions by Groupon, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo and AOL. The firm is currently investing out of its $85M Fund IV, making 15 commitments of $500K to $1M+ per year in mobile services and infrastructure, vertical saas and cloud infrastructure, consumer services and devices, B2B/B2C marketplaces.
Born, raised and educated in France, Jeff graduated with a MS in Computer Science and a degree in Distributed Computing. He joined Effix, a financial services startup, as one of the initial developers while still at school and eventually led it as CTO. After 5 years, Reuters acquired the company and Jeff expanded his remit to several product and development organizations in Europe and the USA. In 2000, he moved to Silicon Valley as General Partner for RVC, the $450M venture fund affiliated with Reuters. |
upcoming guests
AUGUST 21, 2014
Heidi Roizen DFJ |
AUGUST 28, 2014
Ann Miura-Ko FLOODGATE |
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
Manu Kumar K9 Ventures |
