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Mar 2025
Gridware is a technology company focused on protecting and enhancing the electrical grid. We pioneered a groundbreaking new class of grid management called active grid response (AGR), focused on monitoring the electrical, physical, and environmental aspects of the grid that affect reliability and safety. Gridware’s advanced active grid response platform uses high-precision mechanical sensors to detect potential issues early, enabling proactive maintenance and fault mitigation. This comprehensive approach helps improve safety, reduce outages, and ensure the grid operates efficiently. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is backed by climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors. For more information, please visit www.Gridware.io.
Board Member
Oct 2024
Pace is the agentic workforce for insurance. Pace’s AI agents navigate internal apps, reason across documents and make phone calls to automate tasks traditionally handled by business process outsourcers (BPOs). Pace works with leading insurers to handle mission-critical insurance operations like submission intake, policy servicing, claims handling and data entry. For more information, please visit withpace.com
Board Member
Aug 2024
Onboard customers through configurable, high-converting branded experiences that accelerate credit approvals, unlock revenue, and reduce fraud.
Nuvo replaces manual forms with AI-powered application flows, real-time business and principal identity verification, and embedded credit insights—enabling confident decisions that protect and grow your business.
Designed for complex trade partnerships, Nuvo is the B2B commerce platform trusted and preferred by 50,000 businesses.
Board Member
Sep 2023
Listen is an autonomous market researcher that makes research simple and fast. Share your business question, and our AI handles everything - designing the studies, finding the right participants, moderating interviews, and analyzing responses. Whether youre testing products or exploring new markets, Listen is a skilled researcher that works 24/7, delivering insights in hours instead of weeks. Listen is trusted by Google, Microsoft, SKIMS, Nestlé and hundreds of enterprises to unlock customer understanding at scale.
Board Member
Apr 2019
Nearly every company in the world runs on custom software, and we believe the future lies in being a force multiplier for developers. Retool unifies the ease of visual programming with the power of code, abstracting away the tedious and repetitive tasks of development. With Retool, you ship better apps and move your business forward—all in less time. Thousands of teams at companies like Amazon, DoorDash, Peloton, and Brex power their businesses and growth with Retool.
Get started for free today, visit retool.com
Board Member
Dec 2017
Front is the modern customer service platform that helps companies delight their customers, engage their teams, and build stronger businesses. We’ve reimagined the help desk for real-time team collaboration across every customer communication channel, then powered it up with AI and automation to resolve issues and help teams work faster. Customers get exceptional service whether they’re looking for a simple, instant answer, or personalized help on their most complex issues — and you get the analytics and insights your business needs to optimize your customer experience. Over 8,500 businesses of all shapes and sizes, from ClickUp to Branch Insurance, Echo Global Logistics to Reed & Mackay rely on Front to deliver game-changing service that wins and retains customers for life.
Board Member
Mar 2017
Zūm has reimagined student transportation— managing every vehicle, driver, passenger, parent, and ride on a single platform. We’re growing fast and looking for super-smart folks motivated to fix the nations largest mass transportation system and make a real difference for students, schools, drivers, parents and caregivers.
If fixing an antiquated system hidden in plain sight excites you, drop us a note at apply@ridezum.com today.
Board Member
Jun 2016
Domino powers model-driven business for the world’s most advanced enterprises, including over 20% of the Fortune 100. Our Enterprise MLOps platform speeds up the development and deployment of data science work while increasing collaboration and governance, to scale data science into a competitive advantage.
Our platform enables thousands of data scientists to develop better medicines, grow more productive crops, adapt risk models to major economic shifts, build better cars, improve customer support, or simply recommend the best purchase to make at the right time.
Domino is backed by leading venture capital firms: Sequoia Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Coatue Management, Dell Technologies Capital, Highland Capital Partners, In-Q-Tel, and Zetta Venture Partners.
Board Member
Oct 2014
Thanx is the leading loyalty and guest engagement platform to grow restaurant customer lifetime value in the digital era - without relying on expensive discounts
How can we help your brand grow customer LTV better than anyone else? thanx.com/why-thanx
Board Member
Nov 2013
We believe technology is a powerful lever to make education equitable for all and the fastest way to improve educational outcomes now.
Clever is on a mission to unlock new ways to learn for all students. More than 75% of U.S. K-12 schools now use Clever to simplify access and improve engagement with digital learning. With our free platform for schools and a network of leading application providers, we’re committed to advancing educational equity. Clever has offices in San Francisco, CA and Durham, NC but you can visit us at clever.com anytime or follow us on Twitter @Clever.
Together, we’re solving extremely challenging problems that the education system has been facing for decades. It’s important that we also enjoy the journey. At Clever, we create a space for purposeful collaboration and plenty of fun. Our Culture Tenets encourage every person on our team to learn, grow, and create change at work.
We go to work every day striving to improve education for millions of kids. Join us!
Board Member
May 2013
We’re Thumbtack, a technology company helping millions of people confidently care for and improve their homes. Through our platform, homeowners get personalized guidance on what projects to do, when to do them, and who to hire from our community of 300,000 local service businesses.
Every day in every county of the U.S., people turn to Thumbtack to complete small fixes, routine maintenance, and major improvements. With over 12 million 5-star projects and counting, we help homeowners and home professionals accomplish more.
Thumbtack was founded in 2008 and has raised more than $500 million from Sequoia Capital, Tiger Global Management, Javelin Venture Partners, Baillie Gifford, and CapitalG, among others.
Please be advised: Thumbtacks Recruiting team will only communicate with active candidates from Thumbtack LinkedIn verified accounts.
Board Member
Apr 2012
MindSnacks is top-tier venture-backed startup in the San Francisco Bay Area. We create mobile learning games for the iPhone, iPad, and soon, for Android devices.
We currently have 10 different subjects available in the iTunes App Store, including the Best Education App of the Year (App Rewind 2011) MindSnacks Spanish. Other subjects include US Geography, French, Italian, Portuguese, German, Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, SAT Vocab, and Kids' Vocab. Many other subjects soon to come!
Board Member
Apr 2012
At Qualtrics, we create software the world’s best brands use to deliver exceptional frontline experiences, build high-performing teams, and design products people love. But we are more than a platform—we are the creators and stewards of the Experience Management category serving over 19,000 clients globally. Building a category takes grit, determination, and a disdain for convention—but most of all it requires close-knit, high-functioning teams with an unwavering dedication to serving our customers. That’s where we come in.
Founded in 2002, our company has spent over 21 years working with the industries that impact you every day. From retail to government to healthcare, we’ve been on a mission to bring humanity, connection, and empathy back to business. It’s a mission that thousands of Qualtricians across the globe think is work worth doing.
Mission: At Qualtrics, our mission is to build technology that closes experience gaps.
Board Member
Sep 2011
AgilOne is a customer data platform for enterprise B2C companies. AgilOne's vision is to restore the personal relationships companies once had with customers before channel-specific marketing silos got in the way. Through a single view of customers across all channels, predictive models to understand customer behavior, and real-time APIs to orchestrate personalized experiences across all touch-points, AgilOne creates authentic omni-channel customer relationships that maximize lifetime value. The AgilOne Customer Data and Engagement Hub supports more than 150 brands worldwide, including TK Maxx, lululemon, JoAnn Stores and Tumi.
Board Member
Dec 2010
TuneIn, the world’s leading live audio service, brings together live radio, sports, news, music, podcasts, and audiobooks from around the globe.
With more than 75 million monthly active users, TuneIn is one of the most widely used audio platforms in the world. TuneIn broadcasts over 100k owned & operated and partner radio stations.
With premier distribution across 200 platforms and connected devices including Tesla and Alexa, TuneIn empowers listeners to hear what they love wherever they are, including exclusive commercial-free stations from the minds of folks like Garth Brooks.
TuneIn Premium subscribers get additional exclusive access to commercial-free news from top networks like CNN, Fox News Radio, MSNBC, and Bloomberg, as well as live, cant miss F1, MLB, NHL, and college sports.
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TuneIn does not require any form of payment or sensitive personal information during the recruitment process and all genuine interviews are conducted through Zoom. If you receive any suspicious communication, please do not hesitate to verify its authenticity by reaching out to us via TuneIn LinkedIn’s page.
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2025
Board Member
Mar 2025
Gridware is a technology company focused on protecting and enhancing the electrical grid. We pioneered a groundbreaking new class of grid management called active grid response (AGR), focused on monitoring the electrical, physical, and environmental aspects of the grid that affect reliability and safety. Gridware’s advanced active grid response platform uses high-precision mechanical sensors to detect potential issues early, enabling proactive maintenance and fault mitigation. This comprehensive approach helps improve safety, reduce outages, and ensure the grid operates efficiently. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and is backed by climate-tech and Silicon Valley investors. For more information, please visit www.Gridware.io.
2024
Board Member
Oct 2024
Pace is the agentic workforce for insurance. Pace’s AI agents navigate internal apps, reason across documents and make phone calls to automate tasks traditionally handled by business process outsourcers (BPOs). Pace works with leading insurers to handle mission-critical insurance operations like submission intake, policy servicing, claims handling and data entry. For more information, please visit withpace.com
Board Member
Aug 2024
Onboard customers through configurable, high-converting branded experiences that accelerate credit approvals, unlock revenue, and reduce fraud.
Nuvo replaces manual forms with AI-powered application flows, real-time business and principal identity verification, and embedded credit insights—enabling confident decisions that protect and grow your business.
Designed for complex trade partnerships, Nuvo is the B2B commerce platform trusted and preferred by 50,000 businesses.
2023
Board Member
Sep 2023
Listen is an autonomous market researcher that makes research simple and fast. Share your business question, and our AI handles everything - designing the studies, finding the right participants, moderating interviews, and analyzing responses. Whether youre testing products or exploring new markets, Listen is a skilled researcher that works 24/7, delivering insights in hours instead of weeks. Listen is trusted by Google, Microsoft, SKIMS, Nestlé and hundreds of enterprises to unlock customer understanding at scale.
2019
Board Member
Apr 2019
Nearly every company in the world runs on custom software, and we believe the future lies in being a force multiplier for developers. Retool unifies the ease of visual programming with the power of code, abstracting away the tedious and repetitive tasks of development. With Retool, you ship better apps and move your business forward—all in less time. Thousands of teams at companies like Amazon, DoorDash, Peloton, and Brex power their businesses and growth with Retool.
Get started for free today, visit retool.com
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