I'm an early-stage technology B2B venture capital investor, investing in enterprise-facing tech startups driving transformation in the Future of Industries with innovative new business models and typically a unique combination of technology and people.My current or prior investments include Flowspace, Pod Foods, Validere, Vungle (acquired by Blackstone), Payable (acquired by Stripe), Swing Education, Mashery (acquired by Intel), SOASTA (acquired by Akamai), Rafay Systems, AltoIRA, Netsil (acquired by Nutanix), Soha (acquired by Akamai), Skyward (acquired by Verizon) and more I am a co-founder and General Partner for Moment Ventures. We are investing from our Fund III, where we focus on first institutional financing rounds. Before Moment, I co-founded Formative Ventures, an early stage IT VC firm in Menlo Park, where I led investments in companies such as Mashery (Intel), SOASTA (Akamai) and Zyray Wireless (Broadcom). Prior to that, I was a start-up exec with companies including C-Cube Microsystems, SkyStream Networks and Motorola. Some of my non-profit activities include serving on the Board of Directors of the California Alumni Association serving the 500,000 alums of U.C. Berkeley, the Parent Executive Board for U.C. Irvine, the Advisory Board for the Diamante Scholars Program for Diablo Valley College, and numerous efforts supporting Menlo School.I studied Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at U.C. Berkeley, so a die hard fan who seems to derive all his enjoyment about the Bears during the offseason.Areas of interest: IT startups that are innovating in and across industry verticals such as logistics, transportation, education, healthcare, food, oil & gas and technology, among others. Geographic preference is US & Canada.