Bob Frankenberg

Owner NetVentures, Board Member Magnite

📍 Napa, California, United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 12 investments📅 29 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2014
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Apr 2014
We’re Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI), the world’s largest independent sell-side advertising company. Publishers use our technology to monetize their content across all screens and formats including CTV, online video, display, and audio. The worlds leading agencies and brands trust our platform to access brand-safe, high-quality ad inventory and execute billions of advertising transactions each month. In April 2021 we acquired SpotX to further enhance our CTV business and better help our clients in this rapidly growing market. Anchored in sunny Los Angeles, bustling New York City, mile high Denver, historic London, and down under in Sydney, Magnite has offices across North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC.
Board Member
2011
To do your job well, you need to capitalize on your data, all the time. But how can you make the right decisions when you're swimming in giant data lakes, whitewater flows of streaming data are coming at you, and you can only get insight one drop at a time? SQLstream solves the problem by bringing your business and all your data in one interactive streaming analytics platform. With SQLstream, you can make the best decisions when they are needed most, because we empower you to: • analyze all your data (structured and unstructured, in motion and at rest), • continuously (on-the-fly, while the systems are running), and • in real time (with millisecond latency). Our customers include IoT & Smart Cities, Telecom, Oil & Gas, Government, Cybersecurity, and cloud services. We partner across the landscape with companies like Oracle, Google, Cloudera, Teradata and more. And we pride ourselves on attracting the most capable and diverse talent in the industry.
Board Member
Aug 2008
Sundance Institute is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the discovery and development of independent artists and audiences. Through its programs, the Institute seeks to discover, support, and inspire independent film and theatre artists from the United States and around the world, and to introduce audiences to their new work.
Board Member
Jan 2000
Nuance Communications is a technology pioneer with market leadership in conversational, ambient, and generative AI. A full-service partner trusted by 77 percent of U.S. hospitals and more than 75 percent of the Fortune 100 companies worldwide, Nuance creates intuitive solutions that amplify peoples ability to help others. Nuance is a Microsoft company.
Board Member
Apr 1999
Thank you for your continued interest in National Semiconductor and Texas Instruments. We have formed one page, and hope you will join us at www.linkedin.com/company/texas-instruments. --------------------------------- Texas Instruments (TI) is a global analog and digital semiconductor IC design and manufacturing company. In addition to analog technologies, digital signal processing (DSP) and microcontroller (MCU) semiconductors, TI designs and manufactures semiconductor solutions for analog and digital embedded, application processing, and Education Technology. --------------------------------- National Semiconductor is a leader in power management technology. Known for its easy-to-use analog integrated circuits and world-class supply chain, National's high-performance analog products enable its customers' systems to be more energy efficient. Headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., National reported sales of $1.42 billion for fiscal 2010, which ended May 30, 2010. A world leader in power management, National Semiconductor has a strong heritage in creating energy-efficient integrated circuits. System designers can create electronic systems that consume less power, extend battery life and generate less heat
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2014
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Apr 2014
We’re Magnite (NASDAQ: MGNI), the world’s largest independent sell-side advertising company. Publishers use our technology to monetize their content across all screens and formats including CTV, online video, display, and audio. The worlds leading agencies and brands trust our platform to access brand-safe, high-quality ad inventory and execute billions of advertising transactions each month. In April 2021 we acquired SpotX to further enhance our CTV business and better help our clients in this rapidly growing market. Anchored in sunny Los Angeles, bustling New York City, mile high Denver, historic London, and down under in Sydney, Magnite has offices across North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC.
The Rubicon Project
Board Member
Apr 2014
2013
Board Member
Oct 2013
Plantronics and Polycom are now Poly. Our comprehensive set of smart endpoints for unified collaboration span personal and group communication systems, with a full range of headsets, desk and conference phones, and video collaboration solutions. Our cloud software and services provide advanced management, analytics, and insights that drive first-rate business decisions. Poly is the global communications company that powers authentic human connection and collaboration. Face to face, we sift and sort millions of verbal and non-verbal cues to glean meaning. Poly is finding new ways to inject these cues into audio and video communication to replicate the face to face experience. To build intimacy. To break walls and span distance. To nurture the simplicity and beauty of human connection. One to one, one to many, many to many. We are seeking the right talent to join us on this powerful journey to connect humans, not just things. Visit www.poly.com to learn more.
2011
Wave Systems
Board Member
Oct 2011
Board Member
2011
To do your job well, you need to capitalize on your data, all the time. But how can you make the right decisions when you're swimming in giant data lakes, whitewater flows of streaming data are coming at you, and you can only get insight one drop at a time? SQLstream solves the problem by bringing your business and all your data in one interactive streaming analytics platform. With SQLstream, you can make the best decisions when they are needed most, because we empower you to: • analyze all your data (structured and unstructured, in motion and at rest), • continuously (on-the-fly, while the systems are running), and • in real time (with millisecond latency). Our customers include IoT & Smart Cities, Telecom, Oil & Gas, Government, Cybersecurity, and cloud services. We partner across the landscape with companies like Oracle, Google, Cloudera, Teradata and more. And we pride ourselves on attracting the most capable and diverse talent in the industry.
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