Andy has worn multiple hats throughout his career; Engineer, Founder, CEO, Investor, and has sat on multiple Boards as well as advises startups.Prior to Drive Capital Andy was Co-Founder and COO of Formation Data Systems, a venture backed startup in the next generation data center. Formation is a converged data platform rethinking the way storage is deployed for modern applications.Immediately prior to Formation Andy was an EIR at both Khosla Ventures(2012) and EMC Ventures(2011). Andy has had many operational roles including CEO of Autonomy Optimost, the Marketing Automation division at Autonomy and founder of 3 companies, including Formation.In 2002 Andy co-founded Discovery Mining, a widely recognized leader in Cloud Based electronic discovery. Discovery Mining won multiple awards, including #188 on the 2007 Inc 500 and #18 on the Silicon Valley Deloitte Fast 50. Discovery Mining was acquired by Interwoven in 2008. In 2001 Andy was one of the technical founders of Infinite Research, a online marketing analytics company, which merged with Compete in 2002 and later sold to WPP. Andy truly began his technology career at Alexa where he was an engineer building search based algorithms for the 7 petabyte web crawl. Alexa was acquired by Amazon.com and Andy worked within the research division involved with Amazon’s recommendation engine.
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Partner, GpDrive Capital Sep 2015 - PresentColumbus, Oh, Us -
DirectorVoxel51 Jan 2022 - PresentAnn Arbor, Michigan, Us -
InvestorKyro Digital Corp. Jan 2022 - PresentSan Francisco , California, Us -
DirectorDuality Robotics Dec 2021 - PresentSan Mateo, California, Us -
DirectorMeroxa Nov 2020 - PresentSan Francisco, Ca, Us -
DirectorStateless Nov 2018 - PresentBoulder, Colorado, Us -
DirectorBranch May 2018 - PresentMinneapolis, Minnesota, Us -
DirectorFinite State Nov 2017 - PresentColumbus, Ohio, Us -
DirectorImmuta Sep 2016 - PresentBoston, Massachusetts, Us -
Co-Founder, General PartnerStage One Capital Jul 2009 - PresentAustin, Tx, UsEarly stage and seed funding. Representative investments; Adaptly, Bonobos, Outreach, InfoChimps, RelateIQ, SeatGeek. -
DirectorMantium Sep 2021 - Apr 2024New Albany, Ohio, Us -
DirectorMolecula Dec 2020 - Feb 2024Austin, Texas, Us -
DirectorAscent Oct 2019 - Jan 2024Chicago, Illinois, UsAcquired HIG Capital -
Director (Acquired Firemon)Disruptops (A Firemon Company) Feb 2020 - Sep 2021Kansas City, Mo, Us -
Director (Acquired Lon:Vtc)Lightstream Apr 2018 - Apr 2021Chicago, Il, Us -
ObserverAftercode May 2017 - Nov 2019Minneapolis, Mn, Us -
Board Of DirectorsBottlenose Apr 2011 - Jul 2015Sherman Oaks, California, UsBoard of Directors at Bottlenose -
Co-Founder, CooFormation Data Systems Sep 2012 - Jun 2015Co-Founder and Board Member. Formation is disrupting the legacy storage industry with Formation ONE, a completely modern approach to data management and storing enterprise data. Engineering, Operations, Finance, G&A.
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Advisory Board MemberModulus Web Mar 2013 - Jun 2014Cincinnati, Oh, UsAcquired by Progress Software (NASD:PGRS) -
Board Of AdvisorsBrass Monkey, Inc Jul 2011 - Jan 2014Jamaica Plains, Ma, UsMerged with Infrared5 -
Entrepreneur In ResidenceKhosla Ventures Mar 2012 - Oct 2012Menlo Park, Ca, UsEIR working on Big Data -
Executive In Residence, Emc VenturesEmc Feb 2011 - Mar 2012Round Rock, Texas, UsFocused on Big Data, SaaS, and the Next Generation Data Center. Developed investment thesis, assisted M&A strategy, and goto market strategy related to Big Data. -
Ceo, Autonomy OptimostAutonomy Mar 2009 - Nov 2010Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, GbCEO responsible for the vision, strategy, revenue, and execution of Autonomy's Promote web optimization solutions post Interwoven acquisition. Autonomy was acquired by HP (NYSE:HPQ) in 2011 for $11B. -
Vice President EdiscoveryInterwoven Aug 2008 - Mar 2009San Jose, California, UsPost acquisition of Discovery Mining led integration, goto market and execution strategy for eDiscovery business at Interwoven. Interwoven was acquired by Autonomy(LON:AU) for $775M in March of 2009. -
Co-FounderDiscovery Mining Mar 2002 - Jul 2008UsCo-founder of Discovery Mining. Coded first version of the product, in charge of revenue and goto market strategy. 2007 Inc. 500 Ranked #188 2008 Silicon Valley Deloitte Fast 50 Ranked #182008 Deloitte Technology Fast 500 Ranked #1022008 Inc 5000 Ranked #759Discovery Mining was acquired by Interwoven(NASD:IWOV) in August of 2008. -
Software EngineerCompete, Inc. May 2001 - Mar 2002Boston, Ma, UsResearch Division(Infinite Research) from Alexa spun out and merged with Compete. Wrote the tools for data mining clickstream information and built the analytics platform. Compete was acquired by Taylor Nelson Sofres (LON:WPP) in 2008. -
Business Metrics EngineerAlexa Internet/Amazon.Com Mar 1999 - May 2001San Francisco, California, UsWeb Crawl and data mining the Alexa toolbar usage logs for clickstream analysis. Alexa was acquired by Amazon.com (NASD:AMZN) for $250M in 1999 -
Data Metrics AnalystProvidian Financial Aug 1998 - Mar 1999UsDeveloped analytic software to learn and target products to customer base.
Andy Jenks Education Details
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University Of UtahEconomics
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Andy Jenks attended University Of Utah.
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