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Board Member
2017
Reach is a social platform focused on helping people to improve existing friendships and create new ones. Friends build supportive relationships and improve their mental health by completing goals and achieving new status levels together. The company was founded to bring people closer together through technology and data. We believe that honest and authentic communication among equals is the only antidote to a social world poisoned by the insecurity of likes and follows. Reach is a San Francisco-based, VC-backed startup run by engineers, friends, and dreamers.
Board Member
2016
Healthcare is unreasonably complex and costly. At Carrum Health, we’re applying a common sense approach to simplify the payment model and produce greater value for employers and their employees. We do so by directly connecting progressive self-insured employers to top-quality regional healthcare providers through the industry’s first comprehensive bundled payment solution. Our innovative platform reimagines how care is paid for and delivered, improving the value of health benefits for employers and their members.
Carrum’s solution is a “win” for all parties, a rarity in healthcare:
- Employers achieve significant cost savings and predictability without risk or hassle.
- Members receive top-quality care and a concierge experience for zero out-of-pocket costs so they can focus on recovery instead of medical bills.
- Providers gain streamlined administration allowing them to do what they do best – deliver expert care.
For more information about Carrum Health, please contact info@carrumhealth.com.
Board Member
2012
Splice Machine helps businesses see around corners by making it fast and easy to deploy AI applications. Our machine learning solutions predict outcomes in real time, enabling better decisions in the moment for industrial, financial, and healthcare companies. Splice Machine's cutting-edge MLOps capabilities, including the only single-engine Feature Store, powers machine learning at scale. Companies can easily grow from a few models to thousands of models in production to proactively improve business impact.
Board Member
2011
Since launching the Ticketfly platform in San Francisco over a decade ago, the Ticketfly team has been reimagining the live event experience for music promoters and fans. Ticketfly's powerful ticketing, digital marketing, and analytics software has helped promoters drive ticket sales, streamline operations, and increase revenue per attendee, while its consumer tools made it easy for fans to find and purchase tickets to great events across North America. In June of 2017, Ticketfly was acquired by Eventbrite from Pandora and today, the great work 'Flyers did on behalf of the independent live music industry continues with even more intensity in the music division at Eventbrite. Check out what music career opportunities there are for you at www.eventbritecareers.com.
Board Member
2010
HealthTap is a tech-enabled virtual physician practice delivering accessible and cost-effective primary care with partners nationwide.
We partner with health plans, health systems, IDNs, accountable care organizations (ACOs), at-risk providers, and employers to provide extremely cost-effective, quality virtual primary care in all 50 states with attractive fee-for-service or value-based care arrangements.
Our proprietary and engaging platform integrates seamlessly into existing patient workflows, EMRs, and care channels. Patients served can choose and see the same doctor over time as well as enjoy same day/week appointments, fast doctor responses by text from their dedicated doctor, and 365-day urgent care with median wait time less than 1 minute.
For more info, visit healthtap.com/partnerships/
Board Member
2008
Sequenta was acquired by Adaptive Biotechnologies (ow.ly/L8mCX) in January 2015. Visit adaptivebiotech.com or https://www.linkedin.com/company/adaptive-biotechnologies-corp- for the latest company news.
Sequenta was a venture-backed biotechnology company dedicated to improving patient care in diseases mediated by immune cells through the discovery and development of novel clinical diagnostics. The company, located in South San Francisco, was founded in 2008.
Board Member
2008
Rocket Fuel is now a part of Sizmek.
Sizmek is the largest independent buy-side advertising platform that creates impressions that inspire. In the digital world, creating impressions that inspire is vital to building meaningful, long-lasting relationships with your customers. Sizmek provides powerful, integrated solutions that enable data, creative, and media to work together for optimal campaign performance across the entire customer journey. Our AI-driven decisioning engine can identify robust insights within data across the five key dimensions of predictive marketing—campaigns, consumers, context, creative, and cost. We bring all the elements of our clients’ media plans together in one place to gain better understanding for more meaningful relationships, make every moment of interaction matter, and drive more value across the entire plan. Sizmek operates its platform in more than 70 countries, with local offices in many countries providing award-winning service throughout the Americas, EMEA, and APAC, and connecting more than 20,000 advertisers and 3,600 agencies to audiences around the world
Board Member
2007
Visible Measures is the leader in social video measurement and activation. Long considered the most trusted source for data and insights on video content advertising, Visible Measures provides an end-to-end solution for capturing consumer attention programmatically through video and native media. Visible Measures works with hundreds of global brands, agencies, trading desks, and publisher clients, which include Procter & Gamble, Unilever, Nestle, VivaKi and Conde Nast. Visit us online at www.visiblemeasures.com or follow us on Twitter @Visiblemeasures.
Board Member
2007
RainDance Technologies is making complex genetics simple. The company’s ultra-sensitive genomic tools enable research of novel non-invasive liquid biopsy applications that should result in more accurate, reliable, cost-effective, and early detection of cancer and other inherited and infectious diseases. Major research institutions and laboratories around the world rely on the performance of RainDance systems. Based outside Boston, Massachusetts, the company supports customers using RainDrop® Digital PCR, as well as the ThunderStorm® and ThunderBolts™ Next-Generation Sequencing Enrichment Systems through its international sales and service operations, as well as a global network of distributors and commercial service providers. Both technology platforms have been recognized by The Scientist as Top 10 Innovations with the RainDrop System winning the award in 2014 and the ThunderStorm System winning the award in 2011.
Board Member
2005
At Adamas, our mission and vision are clear: deliver innovative medicines that reduce the burden of neurological diseases on patients, caregivers, and society. We are a fully-integrated company focused on growing a portfolio of therapies to address a range of neurological diseases.
Board Member
2004
At PacBio, we’re devoted to empowering you. Pioneering the future through biology takes vision. You have to look beyond the status quo to what’s possible.
We know your vision can reveal the full potential of the genome, advance human health and the health of our planet. And that is why your vision and pursuit are at the very center of what our company does — our product design, our customer support model, our partnerships, and even our identity.
We create the world’s most advanced sequencing systems to provide you the most complete and accurate view of genomes, transcriptomes, and epigenomes. Our founders invented a new way to study the synthesis and regulation of DNA, RNA, and proteins. Driven by a desire to advance human health, we’re harnessing advances in biochemistry, optics, nanofabrication, and more.
We are passionate about developing products that empower scientists to explore the full spectrum of genetic variation in any organism — from unraveling the mystery of rare diseases to improving the world’s food supply. With world-class service and support, we keep your research progressing so you can focus on finding answers.
We encourage you to see the whole picture — and consider us the partner you trust to see it too.
Board Member
2004
As of January 1, 2014, Verinata Health has become part of the Reproductive and Genetic Health business unit under the Illumina parent company. As such, the Verinata Health name has changed to Illumina.
The realignment of Verinata Health’s business under the Illumina brand name is part of a larger strategy to deliver comprehensive and integrated solutions to our customers serving the reproductive and genetic health market. This realignment will allow the company to more effectively focus their efforts on providing targeted products and services to meet the current and emerging needs of our community.
Illumina is already the established leader in the development and commercialization of core sequencing technologies that are fueling the delivery of most non-invasive prenatal tests, and Illumina is committed to expanding its portfolio of offerings in the reproductive and genetic health area.
Rest assured that while the name and look of some of the business components may change to Illumina, the underlying verifi® prenatal test services remains the same.
Board Member
2002
AudienceScience is the world's first Advertising Automation solution delivering simplicity, effectiveness and accountability at scale for global advertisers and agencies.
The AudienceScience® Helios technology integrates the numerous siloed tools used to drive digital ad impressions and end actions into a single solution which enables a marketer to maximize the performance of every advertising dollar.
Developed in partnership with the world’s largest CPG advertiser, AudienceScience technology uses cloud-based infrastructure and machine learning to process billions of transactions per minute in over 50 countries, including China. We execute behaviorally-targeted, fraud-free campaigns for marketers who are demanding efficiency and effectiveness to deliver maximum value to their shareholders.
Board Member
2001
The Sabrix name has been sunset and the application is now part of Thomson Reuters ONESOURCE Indirect Tax. ONESOURCE Indirect Tax delivers a consolidated approach to achieving sales & use tax and value-added tax compliance for companies of all sizes.
For more information on ONESOURCE Indirect Tax, please visit: https://tax.thomsonreuters.com/products/brands/onesource/indirect-tax/.
Board Member
2000
nLIGHT is a leading provider of high-power semiconductor and fiber lasers for industrial, microfabrication, and aerospace and defense applications. The company’s lasers are changing not only the way things are made but also the things that can be made. Headquartered in Vancouver, Wash., nLIGHT employs over 1,100 people with operations in the U.S., China, and Finland. Learn more about nLIGHT at www.nlight.net.
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2017
Board Member
2017
Reach is a social platform focused on helping people to improve existing friendships and create new ones. Friends build supportive relationships and improve their mental health by completing goals and achieving new status levels together. The company was founded to bring people closer together through technology and data. We believe that honest and authentic communication among equals is the only antidote to a social world poisoned by the insecurity of likes and follows. Reach is a San Francisco-based, VC-backed startup run by engineers, friends, and dreamers.
2016
Board Member
2016
Healthcare is unreasonably complex and costly. At Carrum Health, we’re applying a common sense approach to simplify the payment model and produce greater value for employers and their employees. We do so by directly connecting progressive self-insured employers to top-quality regional healthcare providers through the industry’s first comprehensive bundled payment solution. Our innovative platform reimagines how care is paid for and delivered, improving the value of health benefits for employers and their members.
Carrum’s solution is a “win” for all parties, a rarity in healthcare:
- Employers achieve significant cost savings and predictability without risk or hassle.
- Members receive top-quality care and a concierge experience for zero out-of-pocket costs so they can focus on recovery instead of medical bills.
- Providers gain streamlined administration allowing them to do what they do best – deliver expert care.
For more information about Carrum Health, please contact info@carrumhealth.com.
2014
Founding Partner
2014
Founded in 2015, Wildcat Venture Partners is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in early stage technology companies.
Wildcat seeks the wildcatters of the 21st century (tech entrepreneurs) who prospect, refine and monetize digital oil (data) to become the next market disruptors and category leaders.
We invest in B2B and B2B2C startups leveraging key technologies such as Machine Learning/AI, IoT, and Cloud & Mobility in the following markets: Digital Health, EdTech, Enterprise SaaS and FinTech.
The Wildcat team brings decades of entrepreneurial experience, venture experience, and deep domain expertise to help early stage companies effectively navigate through the Traction Gap® and go on to scale.
2012
Board Member
2012
Splice Machine helps businesses see around corners by making it fast and easy to deploy AI applications. Our machine learning solutions predict outcomes in real time, enabling better decisions in the moment for industrial, financial, and healthcare companies. Splice Machine's cutting-edge MLOps capabilities, including the only single-engine Feature Store, powers machine learning at scale. Companies can easily grow from a few models to thousands of models in production to proactively improve business impact.
2011
Board Member
2011
Since launching the Ticketfly platform in San Francisco over a decade ago, the Ticketfly team has been reimagining the live event experience for music promoters and fans. Ticketfly's powerful ticketing, digital marketing, and analytics software has helped promoters drive ticket sales, streamline operations, and increase revenue per attendee, while its consumer tools made it easy for fans to find and purchase tickets to great events across North America. In June of 2017, Ticketfly was acquired by Eventbrite from Pandora and today, the great work 'Flyers did on behalf of the independent live music industry continues with even more intensity in the music division at Eventbrite. Check out what music career opportunities there are for you at www.eventbritecareers.com.
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