Marc Meyer Email and Phone Number
Advisor-Coach, Independent Board Member, Technology Executive, Investor, Educator at
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Berkeley SkyDeck
Marc Meyer's Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States, United States
About Marc Meyer
As a versatile leader in the tech industry, I've embraced roles as an Executive Advisor & Coach, VC, CEO, CTO, and SVP of Product and Engineering over the past decade.My journey includes advising and coaching hundreds of companies, investing in over 100 ventures, and founding 6 startups with 4 exits and 1 IPO. My expertise encompasses retail-tech, ad-tech, social collaboration, licensing, fin-tech, databases, security, and venture. I've honed my skills at world-class research labs and expanded my knowledge as a lecturer and researcher on databases, UX, computer languages, graphics, computer vision, and operating systems at renowned universities.I'm passionate about sharing insights on startup and coaching challenges through my Substack, Art of the Start (https://artofthestart.substack.com).My accomplishments include leading Converge Retail to re-engage retail customers with digital experiences, advising and investing in diverse startups at Persefon Ventures, running Product and Strategy at BuzzLogic/Twelvefold Media, and developing BlogRovR at Activeweave. I've also held significant roles at UC Berkeley's SkyDeck accelerator as Advisor Council Chair, Key Advisor, Board of Trustees, and overseeing the SkyDeck Angel Network and Advisor LevelUp programs.I lead the Francisco Park Conservancy, a non-profit which raised $30 million, built a 4 acre park, and gifted it to the City of San Francisco.I'm fortunate to have had the chance to architect the world's first digital trading floor at Fidelity as principal architect at Tibco, and befriend and learn from industry luminaries such as Peter Deutsch, Bill Joy, Eric Schmidt, Randy Katz, Eric Allman, and Michael Stonebraker at UC Berkeley and Xerox PARC where I worked on the development of Smalltalk-80 and the Ingres RDBMS. Also of having had teh chance to sail across the Pacific on a 40-foot sailboat in 2011.Specialties: Leadership & Management, Entrepreneurship, Startups, Legal and Patent Matters, M&A, Collaboration, Product Management and Engineering, Distributed and Scalable Systems, and Algorithms.
Marc Meyer's Current Company Details
Berkeley Skydeck
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Advisor-Coach, Independent Board Member, Technology Executive, Investor, Educator
Marc Meyer Work Experience Details
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Advisor Council Chair; Key Advisor; Board Of Trustees; Selection, Host Advisor Level Up SeriesBerkeley Skydeck Oct 2018 - PresentBerkeley, Ca, UsI help find and select companies to fund or incubate, advise our portfolio companies and SkyDeck itself.I Chair the Advisor Council, leveraging our 350 SkyAdvisor Network toimprove operations, scaling, educational efforts, and quality of the SkyDeck program and funds. I advise startups, and teach startup fundamentals and strategy.
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President And Chairman Of The BoardFrancisco Park Conservancy Mar 2022 - PresentSan Francisco, California, UsFrancisco Park is a new park built by FPC on the site of the old Francisco Reservoir with $28 million of private, community originated funding for construction and maintenance in perpetuity. It was gifted to the SF Department of Recreation and Parks on 4/26/2022 for the benefit of all. -
Board MemberFrancisco Park Conservancy Nov 2021 - Mar 2022San Francisco, California, UsFrancisco Park is a new park built by FPC on the site of the old Francisco Reservoir with $28 million of private, community originated funding for construction and maintenance in perpetuity. It was gifted to the SF Department of Recreation and Parks on 4/26/2022 for the benefit of all.
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Strategic AdvisorLeadsales May 2022 - PresentQuerétaro, Querétaro, Mx -
Member Selection CommiteeHarvard Business School Alumni Angels Of Northern California Jan 2018 - PresentI find and evaluate companies to present the HBS Angel membership.
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Strategic AdvisorAppa Health Nov 2021 - PresentOakland, Ca, Us -
Strategic Advisor3Dmetal Fabrication May 2021 - PresentMumbai, Maharashtra, In3dMetal develops and commercializes an innovative metal printing technology for high quality, production ready parts produced at industrial scales and speeds. -
Strategic AdvisorExperify May 2021 - PresentZürich, Zürich, Ch -
AdvisorSquishy Robotics Oct 2018 - PresentBerkeley, California, UsSquishy's Tensegrity robots can be safely dropped from any height and move over landscapes ravaged by disaster sending back site information to emergency responders to minimize risk to them, coordinate interventions, and save lives. -
InvestorUser Interviews Jun 2021 - PresentNew York, Ny, Us -
InvestorAssure Sep 2019 - PresentAssure specializes in special purpose vehicles(SPVs)/Synidcate and fund administration for the private investment market
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Strategic AdvisorSocialtrait Dec 2022 - Dec 2023San Francisco, California, Us -
Strategic AdvisorPaidiem Jun 2021 - Dec 2023Toronto, On, Ca -
Strategic AdvisorEfemarai Jun 2021 - Dec 2023Berkeley, Us -
Strategic AdvisorPublica.La Dec 2020 - Dec 2023Publica is Shopify for Publishers and Content Creators, allowing them to create and service their own online bookstores. -
Strategic AdvisorBlings.Io Mar 2020 - Dec 2023New York , New York , UsBlings powers personalized interactive videos built to scale for e-commerce and marketing. -
AdvisorNetris Aug 2019 - Dec 2023Santa Clara, California, UsXcloud's (now Netris') SAAS network switching management and control software provides simple scaling for open-source and proprietary, on-prem and hybrid cloud configured, data-center network operations. -
Strategic AdvisorOntopical Jan 2023 - May 2023Calgary, Alberta, Ca -
Investor And Strategic Advisor4D Sight Mar 2020 - Jun 2022San Francisco, California, Us4D Sight is a deep video monetization platform, enabling a new paradigm of native and context-aware monetization for live videos. Getting huge traction in Major League Sports and E-sports multicasting. -
AdvisorBrightflow Ai Mar 2020 - Mar 2021Berkeley, Ca, UsSelf driving finance: Simple analysis, actionable advice. -
Advisor, Company Acquired By OnetrustDocuvision.Ai Feb 2019 - Mar 2021Docuvision uses AI to help enterprises redact information from unstructured documents, track and comply with privacy regulation, and understand what sensitive information they store.
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AdvisorWavelength Jun 2019 - Oct 2020Dublin, California, UsADAS and DMS solution provider. -
AdvisorAppearme Aug 2019 - Apr 2020Glendale, California, UsThe leading platform and marketplace for appearance and deposition attorneys. -
AdvisorUpswot Jul 2019 - Mar 2020Charlotte, North Carolina, UsUpswot's service allows Lending and Insurance Institutions to consensually collect data from SMB's social media accounts and internal systems to create better underwriting models and performance. -
AdvisorTelos.Ai Nov 2018 - Aug 2019Berkeley, Ca, UsTelos enables users to quickly find, share, and build knowledge creation documents with one interface that leverages the brain’s natural cognitive functions. -
Venture PartnerMighty Capital Oct 2017 - Mar 2018San Francisco, California, UsMighty Capital focuses on Series A, B, & C funding for Bay Area based companies which have achieved product-market fit. At Mighty, I'm focusing on opportunities in technology and market disruptors in Consumer, Fintech, Enterprise, Retail, Infrastructure, and Tools and Collaboration. -
Ceo & CtoConverge Retail (June20, Inc.) Sep 2014 - Oct 2017Hayward, Ca, UsJune20 is the world’s most advanced platform for creation, delivery, and management of digital experiences into bricks and mortar retail, delivering into physical stores the best parts of shopping online under retailer and brand control. The future of bricks and mortar includes digital interactions on a variety of devices, including customers’ own phones. June20 is creating the operating system for retailers and brands to deliver and guide customers' shopping journeys across all of them. -
Investor And AdvisorBoxbee Mar 2013 - Jun 2017New York, Ny, Us -
Managing DirectorPersefon Ventures Mar 2009 - Sep 2014Persefon is a seed-stage investor in consumer, fashion tech, fintech, gaming, enterprise, collaboration and tools. -
Investor And Advisor99Dresses May 2012 - Jun 2014
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InvestorFocal Point Energy, Inc. Mar 2011 - Jun 2014San Diego, Ca, Us -
AdvisorPanoptus Oct 2012 - Jul 2013PanOptus is developing machine learning systems for vision, scene categorization, and video analysis and synopsis developed by Professor Eric Xing at his lab at CMU to consumer and enterprise markets under Eric's direction.The PanOptus vision eventually came to life as Pettum, which has raised almost $100M.
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InvestorCrowdmob Inc. Feb 2011 - Feb 2013
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Board Of AdvisorsBizeebee Llc Jul 2010 - Dec 2010Palo Alto, Ca, UsBizeeBee is a customer management and payment solution for SMBs. -
Board MemberBetwyx Feb 2009 - Jun 2010Betwyx was a mobile and web application spanning and unifying individual's social networks. As a hub, it was a center for collection, distribution and discovery of ones relations across social networks, chat, and email. Its goal was to also allow discovery and coalescing of identities across the disparate properties to be viewed and interacted with in a single place.
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Senior Vice President Of ProductBuzzlogic Apr 2008 - Feb 2009New York, Ny, UsI sold Activeweave, Inc. to BuzzLogic in 2008 to complement its business building tools to analyze influence in blogs, powering its ad network using conversation-specific influence to improve engagement and performance.At BuzzLogic I'm in charge of Product Roadmap, Strategy, and, together with the CTO, Architecture for our family of search, web analysis, and advertising solutions. -
CeoActiveweave, Inc. Jun 2005 - Apr 2008I co-founded Activeweave in mid-2005 to build a social capability for collaborative web-annotation. I was responsible for raising angel and venture money, co-created and wrote our patents, set product direction and architecture and all other aspects of getting the business off the ground.Activeweave created Stickis for social web annotation, and BlogRovR, which brings the bloggers you choose along with you as you browse the web, showing you in a just in time fashion what they have had to say about anywhere you browse the web. Activeweave was funded by a group of angels and VC's including Esther Dyson, and BlogRovR came to be used by over a million people and became one of the all time most used extensions for Firefox.We sold Activeweave to BuzzLogic in April, 2008.
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Owner And DirectorSoftware Design Studio 1992 - 2002Software Design Studio was a consultancy building custom software tools for a variety of clients, achieving over a million dollars a year in revenue and employing 7 people.I was responsible for marketing and selling our consulting services, and then served as key architect and principal implementor on most of them.SDS built custom software in the areas of Software Build and Configuration Management, Parallel Computing Operating Systems Infrastructure, Electronics Design Automation Database, and large-scale Software Licensing systems.
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Technical Director Common Licensing ProjectSynopsys 1998 - 2000Sunnyvale, California, UsReporting to the now CIO of Synopsys, I led a company wide standardization of licensing technologies and practices across Synopsys' lines of business. In addition to establishing and driving adoption of a unifying architecture and accompanying practices, I led a team of 15 implementors, as well as being the primary liaison with the 10 or so disparate acquisitions and divisions of Synopsys.The entire effort was an 80-man, 15 million dollar effort which spanned 3 years, and my responsibilities there included oversight of all aspects save for SAP integration. -
ConsultantSystems Science 1997 - 1998Systems Sciences, which was later acquired by Synopsys, built a variety of Electronics Design Automation tools. While there, I created the world's best performing signal database. The signal database, ISDB, was used to efficiently store and access the copious output obtained from chip simulations, allowing efficient navigation and visualization of the data.
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ResearcherInterval Research 1995 - 1996UsAt Interval Marc built the parallel-processor system architecture for Grenoble, a parallel vector based language modeled on CM-Star, used in stereo vision research.Grenoble was initially implemented on clusters of Sun workstations, and then in a subsequent phase Marc reimplemented the system to run on clusters of Windows machines. -
Dec Western Research And Software LabsDigital Equipment Corporation 1992 - 1994Houston, Texas, UsLed design and development of a Software Configuration Management and Build system for world-wide development of the Ultrix (DEC Unix) operating system. The CASE system we built was very similar but predated systems like ClearCase. -
Investor/Board MemberPinpoint Golf Media 1991 - 1992I was an investor and Board Member in Pinpoint Golf Media, which established a physical advertising and marketing network with presences in driving ranges and golf courts nation-wide.
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Principal ArchitectTibco Software 1988 - 1992Santa Clara, California, UsMarc was one of the founding members of Tibco, when it began as Teknekron Software Systems, and spent a year on Wall Street and half a year in Boston, architecting and leading implementation on Tibco's first products. He designed and led the implementation of Tibco's first commercially successful product, the world's first digital trading floor built for Fidelity Management. -
FounderMar Associates 1984 - 1988Mar Associates was a consulting firm started by Marc, which had operations in Palo Alto, California, and Pisa and Torina in Italy. Mar's clients included Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Systems and Management in Pisa, Olivetti in Pisa and Ivrea, and Olivetti Research in Cupertino.Mar built products in the areas of Office Automation, Windowing Systems, Security and Encryption, and Report Generation and Database tools.Mar was acquired in 1988 by LPS.
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ResearcherXerox Parc 1980 - 1983Palo Alto, California, UsI was a member of the Smalltalk-80 group under Adele Goldberg, working directly for L. Peter Deutsch. I did research in the areas of databases, computer languages, and graphical interfaces, and wrote my dissertation while at PARC on a Programming by Example approach to Personal Information Management. -
Research Assistant, Ingres ProjectUc Berkeley 1977 - 1980Berkeley, Ca, UsAs an undergraduate and grad, I learned my programming chops at Berkeley from Eric Schmidt (you know this one), Eric Allman (sendmail), Bob Epstein, and Bill Joy (Sun, Kleiner), as a researcher and developer in Michael Stonebraker's (Turing Award winner 2011) Ingres Relational Database Project. I developed an embedded query language for C, the view mechanism for Ingres, a compiled query processor for embedding into programing languages, and other systems' level functionality of the Ingres RDBMS.I also built the world's first visual editor for processing a RDBMS, and a report generation package for business use of databases.
Marc Meyer Education Details
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University Of California, BerkeleyComputer Science -
University Of California, BerkeleyComputer Science
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Marc Meyer attended University Of California, Berkeley, University Of California, Berkeley.
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