Bob Williams

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Venture Partner at Canaan Partners @ Arms Cyber
Bob Williams's Location
Menlo Park, California, United States, United States
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About Bob Williams

Bob brings the entrepreneur's perspective to the venture business. He is a veteran of five start-ups and his track record as an entrepreneur includes 3 IPOs and 1 acquisition. Among the more notable companies Bob helped to build as an operating executive were Ingres, Verity, and NetManage -- all three of which had successful IPOs.Subsequent to his operational roles in startups, Bob spent 10 years with Bay Partners where he made over 20 venture investments, raised four funds and grew capital under management from $140M to $1B. At EMC Ventures Bob focused on Security investments and enterprise infrastructure for both datacenter and cloud. His successful deal exits include Weblogic (NASDAQ: BEAS), SonicWall (NASDAQ: SNWL), PlaceWare (NASDAQ: MSFT), Nanogram Devices (NYSE: GB), NetScaler (NASDAQ: CTXS), NeoPhotonics (NYSE: NPTN), Tealeaf (NYSE: IBM), ZenPrise (NASDAQ: CTXS), Zscaler (NASDAQ: ZS) and Twistlock (NYSE: PANW).Bob has also been an Adjunct Professor at Carnegie Mellon University's Silicon Valley Campus, teaching Software Development and Entrepreneurship in the graduate computer science program. He has an undergraduate degree with Honors from Dartmouth College, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He enjoys skiing, cycling, tennis and speaks fluent French and German.

Bob Williams's Current Company Details
Arms Cyber

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Venture Partner at Canaan Partners
Bob Williams Work Experience Details
  • Arms Cyber
    Investor And Advisor
    Arms Cyber Nov 2024 - Present
    Fulton, Maryland, Us
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  • Canaan Partners
    Venture Partner
    Canaan Partners 2016 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
    Canaan Partners is a global tier one Venture Capital firm that has been investing in people with visionary ideas for over 30 years. I focus particularly on Security investments and Cloud Infrastructure. I invest side by side with Canaan on deals that I advise. Our focus is seed and early stage Series A or B companies.
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  • Truefort
    Investor And Advisor - Truefort
    Truefort Aug 2021 - Present
    Weehawken, New Jersey, Us
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  • Aireye
    Investor And Advisor
    Aireye Apr 2021 - Present
    Tel Aviv, Il
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  • Apisec.Ai
    Investor And Advisor
    Apisec.Ai 2019 - Present
    San Francisco, California, Us
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  • Perygee, Strike Ready, Anzenna, Conveyor, Binarly.
    Seed Stage Investor And Advisor
    Perygee, Strike Ready, Anzenna, Conveyor, Binarly. Jan 2021 - Present
    Seed Stage Investor and Advisor to a number of emerging early stage companies.
  • Join
    Investor And Advisor
    Join 2018 - Present
    Campbell, California, Us
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  • Dragos, Inc.
    Investor And Advisor
    Dragos, Inc. 2018 - Present
    Hanover, Maryland, Us
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  • Perimeterx
    Investor And Advisor
    Perimeterx 2017 - Present
    San Mateo, California, Us
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  • Zscaler
    Member Board Of Directors
    Zscaler 2013 - Oct 2016
    San Jose, California, Us
    ZScaler is the leading secure cloud gateway provider. IPO March 2018.
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  • Emc
    Managing Director, Emc Ventures
    Emc 2012 - Oct 2016
    Round Rock, Texas, Us
    EMC Ventures was the venture capital arm of EMC Corporation, now part of Dell. EMC invested in innovative startup and technology companies. Focus areas included security, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, big data, enterprise infrastructure platforms, storage and mobility. Investment stage interest ranged from Seed to M&A. My deep sector focus was security -- working closely with both RSA and the NSX and Security teams at VMWare.
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  • Twistlock
    Investor And Board Advisor
    Twistlock 2015 - Sep 2016
    Comprehensive Security Platform for Containers. Acquired by Palo Alto Networks, 2019.
  • Cyphort Inc
    Investor And Board Advisor
    Cyphort Inc 2014 - Sep 2016
    Santa Clara, California, Us
    Adaptive Threat Detection Platform. (Acquired by Juniper.)
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  • Netskope
    Investor And Board Advisor
    Netskope 2013 - Sep 2016
    Santa Clara, California, Us
    Leading Cloud Access Security Broker.
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  • Agari
    Investor And Board Advisor
    Agari 2012 - Sep 2016
    Software platform for email fraud, spam and anti-phishing protection. (Acquired by HelpSystems)
  • Brightpoint Security
    Investor And Board Advisor
    Brightpoint Security 2013 - Mar 2016
    San Mateo, California, Us
    Threat Intelligence sharing platform. (Acquired by ServiceNow.)
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  • Cloudlink Technologies
    Investor And Board Advisor
    Cloudlink Technologies 2013 - Jan 2015
    Ottawa, Ontario, Ca
    Secure encryption of multi-tenant storage and VMs. (Acquired by EMC)
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  • Carnegie Mellon University
    Adjunct Professor
    Carnegie Mellon University 2011 - 2015
    Pittsburgh, Pa, Us
    Graduate level adjunct professor: 'Real World Software Engineering for Entrepreneurs.'
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  • Saratoga Technology Ventures
    Vc / Angel Investor
    Saratoga Technology Ventures 2007 - 2011
    Private Equity early stage Angel / Seed investing and new company advisory, focused on innovations with a clear and differentiated value proposition.
  • Zenprise
    Board Of Directors
    Zenprise 2003 - Jan 2007
    Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us
    Seed and founding lead investor of this mobile device management software company. Acquired by Citrix in 2012.
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  • Tealeaf Technology
    Board Of Directors
    Tealeaf Technology 2001 - Jan 2007
    Atlanta, Georgia, Us
    Customer Experience Management software platform for eCommerce. Capture, store, analyze and report on all all web server clickstream traffic and user behavior. Acquired by IBM in 2012.
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  • Bay Partners
    General Partner
    Bay Partners 1997 - 2007
    San Francisco, Ca, Us
    Early stage Venture Capital Partnership. Raised four funds and migrated the investor base from private sources leveraged with SBIC funding to top tier institutional investors and a 15x increase in capital to over $1B under management. Personally invested in companies generating exits of over $3B in market capitalization.
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  • Sana Security
    Board Of Directors
    Sana Security Dec 2003 - Dec 2006
    Behavioral Security Software Company. Acquired by AVG Technologies.
  • Applied Identity
    Board Of Directors
    Applied Identity Jan 2003 - Dec 2006
    Network based Identity and Access Management platform providing Enterprise class computer Security. Acquired by Citrix.
  • Neoscale Systems
    Board Of Directors
    Neoscale Systems Dec 2000 - Dec 2006
    In-line data encryption platform and key-management system for both disk and tape. Acquired by nCipher.
  • Sonicwall
    Board Of Directors
    Sonicwall 1997 - 2006
    Milpitas, Ca, Us
    Sole venture investor in this leading Internet Firewall Appliance company. Recruited and developed the executive team and the Board of Directors. Guided strategy and execution during formative hyper-growth years. IPO in 1998. Member of Audit and Compensation Committees, Chair of Governance Committee.
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  • Nanogram Devices
    Board Of Directors
    Nanogram Devices 2003 - 2004
    Developer of battery technology based on nanomaterial synthesis for use in implantable cardiac defibrillators. Acquired by Greatbatch (NYSE: GB).
  • Netscaler
    Board Of Directors
    Netscaler 2001 - 2004
    Us
    Web acceleration and load balancing hardware platform driven by software running on standard commercial silicon. Acquired by Citrix.
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  • Neophotonics
    Board Of Directors
    Neophotonics 2000 - 2004
    San Jose, California, Us
    Photonic Integrated Circuits used in Optical Communications Networks. NeoPhotonics IPO in 2011 (NYSE: NPTN)
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  • Placeware
    Board Of Directors
    Placeware 1998 - 2002
    Kansas City, Mo, Us
    Web Conferencing Software and Service. Acquired by Microsoft.
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  • Weblogic
    Board Of Directors
    Weblogic 1997 - 1998
    Us
    Market defining Web Application Server Software. Acquired by BEA Systems and became the core of BEA business.
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  • Netmanage
    Vp Marketing & Business Development
    Netmanage 1993 - 1997
    Us
    Internet TCP/IP networking software and applications for Windows. Secured the dominance of the WINSOCK standard for TCP/IP, concluded partnerships with Microsoft and all of the foundational Internet carriers. Created the leading corporate and consumer 'Internet in a Box', and drove market capitalization to over $1.5B in the first internet IPO, a year and a half before Netscape in 1993.
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  • Verity
    Vp Marketing
    Verity Apr 1988 - 1993
    Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, Gb
    VP Marketing. AI based intelligent text retrieval software. Established the baseline marketing standards and approach for unstructured data management used by all subsequent information retrieval vendors. Built a marketing organization that successfully sold to both government intelligence agencies and commercial corporate customers. Conceived, sold, and closed OEM agreements with Lotus, DEC, HP, and Adobe that redefined Verity's long term business model. IPO 1995.
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  • Ingres
    Director Product Line Management
    Ingres 1985 - 1988
    Round Rock, Texas, Us
    SQL Relational Database Management Software and application development tools. Lead RDBMS market creation by Ingres and competitors Oracle, Informix and Sybase. Responsible for a team managing Mainframe, Minicomputer, Workstation, and PC platform product offerings. Initial Public Offering in 1988.
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  • General Atlantic Partners
    Venture Capital Associate
    General Atlantic Partners 1984 - 1984
    New York, Ny, Us
    Venture Capital Associate in New York between years at Stanford Business School. Executed venture investment opportunities in the software industry, including the first ever leveraged buyout of a public software firm.
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  • Ge
    International Sales & Marketing Manager, Geisco
    Ge 1979 - 1983
    Boston, Ma, Us
    G.E. Information Services Company (GEIS) acquired my startup, Mitrol, in 1979. Established Europe wide sales and support operations based in Cologne Germany and Brussels Belgium 1981-1983. Sold and implemented an automated scheduling system for the largest printing plant in Germany at Bertelsmann and similar systems for many of the industrial giants of Europe.
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  • Mitrol
    International Marketing Manager
    Mitrol 1978 - 1979
    Marketed and implemented custom timesharing and licensed IBM Mainframe software for MRP application development based on a CODASYL network model DBMS and a 4GL programming language. Spin out from technology originally conceived at M.I.T.

Bob Williams Skills

Venture Capital Start Ups Enterprise Software Strategy Venture Financing Cloud Computing Entrepreneurship Computer Security Strategic Partnerships Network Security Mergers And Acquisitions Product Marketing Saas Product Management E Commerce Software Development Private Equity Management German Security Virtualization French Marketing Sales Investments Ipo Mergers Data Center Enterprise Architecture Raising Venture Capital Fluent French Fluent German

Bob Williams Education Details

  • Stanford University Graduate School Of Business
    Stanford University Graduate School Of Business
    Finance & Marketing
  • Université Catholique De Louvain
    Université Catholique De Louvain
    Linguistics & International Business
  • Dartmouth College
    Dartmouth College
    A.B.

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