Simon Yencken

Founder & CEO @ Fanplayr | Customer Data I Behavioral Data I Non-Executive Board Member

📍 Menlo Park, California, United States🔄 Updated September 2026💼 18 investments📅 30 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2019𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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18
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5
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5
Mid stage
1
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Portfolio

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Dec 2018
Dokio is a high-performance marketing solution engineered for CMOs who need to scale creatives, accelerate campaigns, and empower frontline teams to drive national and hyper-local marketing. But we also solve a critical risk that traditional platforms completely miss. From digital advertising and social media to in-store point-of-sale and print collateral, Dokio’s Just-In-Time technology guarantees that the latest, approved content is exactly what lands in front of the customer. Headquartered in Australia, Dokio is trusted by global insurance providers, FSI, national franchise networks, automotive brands, and healthcare ecosystems.
Investor
Jun 2018
Matrak offers end-to-end supply chain visibility for your team. A global construction tracking software, Matrak was designed specifically to support and simplify the complexities of moving materials from manufacture to install and anywhere in between. Matrak allows users to track complex material interactions and manage operations from a single source of truth, offering a global Network that helps us build better, together.
mid stageConstruction
Investor
Dec 2013
Moda Operandi was founded in 2010 out of the idea to empower people through exceptional fashion design. As a former Vogue editor, Moda co-founder Lauren Santo Domingo noticed a disconnect between the bold, expressive fashion from the runways and what she saw in stores. Then, she saw an opportunity. Today, it is our mission to make it easy for fashion designers to grow their business and consumers to realize their personal style. Moda is the only place in the world where fashion designers can sell their most creative work, including less commercial and one-of-a-kind pieces to a global audience of fashion-engaged consumers who want to shop them. The Moda Operandi platform carries hundreds of brands and designers across women’s, men’s, fine jewelry, and home. Moda has over 400 employees globally, ships to 125 countries, and has raised nearly $300 million in funding from top-tier investors. Join us as we build the world’s leading e-commerce platform for fashion discovery.
Board Member
Jul 2008
On December 17th, 2017 – Oracle entered into an agreement with Aconex Limited. Aconex’s cloud-based project collaboration tools, in conjunction with the Oracle Construction and Engineering Cloud, will provide a comprehensive solution for construction project management and delivery. Connecting teams across projects, Aconex software offers automatically-constructed audit trails and private workspaces for each participating company. Designed for quick deployment, the Aconex cloud platform combines speed and flexibility to meet the specific needs of each client. As a comprehensive solution, Aconex software shares data and processes throughout the project life cycle, easily transitioning during new phases and handovers while offering a secure cloud environment.
Investor
2008
Redbubble is a marketplace of over 750,000 independent artists - - a global community of creatives making everyday products weirdly meaningful for millions of passionate fans and customers. Our teams in Australia, the United States and Germany work hard to make sure their art is discovered, purchased, appreciated, and shared everywhere. No matter what you do in the Bubble, you can feel good knowing that you make it possible for creative people to connect with other creative people through designs they love and monetise their profession and life-long passions. We value open-minded, open-hearted teams, who reflect a diversity of experience, identity and perspective. Our differences make us smarter, and inclusive working cultures are healthy cultures. We work hard to sustain a culture of belonging that promotes, advances and celebrates diverse identities and voices. We are committed to building a workforce that reflects the artist and customer communities that we serve. Bringing more creativity into the world takes all the crayons in the box, and we’re excited to hear from you!
Board Member
Oct 2003
Razor Risk was created in response to the complex issues surrounding risk management. The designers recognized then that, to proactively measure and manage risk, it was necessary to determine the total exposure of a financial institution across all of its global activities. Since then, Razor has helped transform the way Banks, Hedge Funds, Brokers, CCPs and Stock Exchanges, measure their risk and manage their capital.
Investor
Oct 2003
Razor Risk was created in response to the complex issues surrounding risk management. The designers recognized then that, to proactively measure and manage risk, it was necessary to determine the total exposure of a financial institution across all of its global activities. Since then, Razor has helped transform the way Banks, Hedge Funds, Brokers, CCPs and Stock Exchanges, measure their risk and manage their capital.
Investor
2001
To stay current on Revere, please join the Revere Data LinkedIn group at www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=3270591. We hope to see you there! Revere gives investors a competitive advantage with its patented industry classification system and company relationships database. Revere provides clients with the ability to track how a dollar flows through the economy through detailed customer and supplier relationships and to compare more than 1,100 sectors within the US and global economy in-depth. With this foundation, additional critical characteristics such as product portfolios and pipelines, key business relationships, sources of revenue by product or geography, and important events can be integrated to enhance the discovery process, ideally leading to well-constructed portfolios and profitable investment decisions. Additional analytic tools are available to supplement the data and provide quantitative measures of complex information. Revere’s software, data feed, analytic tools and index products offer users unprecedented visibility into the capital markets. With these insights, clients are better able to identify and capitalize on companies and sectors. For updates on what Revere Data uncovers, join our LinkedIn group and follow us on Seeking Alpha, Twitter and Facebook. Revere is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Boston, Washington, DC, and Youngstown, Ohio.
Investor
2000
On December 17th, 2017 – Oracle entered into an agreement with Aconex Limited. Aconex’s cloud-based project collaboration tools, in conjunction with the Oracle Construction and Engineering Cloud, will provide a comprehensive solution for construction project management and delivery. Connecting teams across projects, Aconex software offers automatically-constructed audit trails and private workspaces for each participating company. Designed for quick deployment, the Aconex cloud platform combines speed and flexibility to meet the specific needs of each client. As a comprehensive solution, Aconex software shares data and processes throughout the project life cycle, easily transitioning during new phases and handovers while offering a secure cloud environment.
Investor
2000
Glow Networks, Inc. is a leading provider of end-to-end networking solutions for wireless, wireline and optical networks to telecom OEMs and service providers in the U.S. and Mexico. Glow Networks’ key service offerings include field support, network design, installation and integration, remote integration and validation services.
CEO, Tibco Finance, Board member Tibco Software
1996
TIBCO, a business unit of Cloud Software Group, has helped global enterprises solve their most complex business challenges for more than 25 years. The TIBCO Platform delivers industrial-strength solutions that meet the highest performance, throughput, reliability, and scalability needs while offering the widest range of technology and deployment options to deliver real-time data where its needed most. Learn how TIBCO solves its customers mission-critical software needs at www.tibco.com.
Experience · 22 entries
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Founder (2)
Board (5)
2019
Board Member
Aug 2019
Damstra Technology is a global leader in enterprise protection software. Our Enterprise Protection Platform (EPP) integrates an extensive range of modules and products that allows organisations to mitigate and reduce unforeseen and unnecessary business risks around people, workplace, assets, and information. Integral to the Damstra EPP, Damstra's Workforce Management, Learning Management, and Connected worker solutions combine to ensure Prepared People. For Safe Workplaces, Damstra's Access Control, Digital Forms, and Safety solutions are utilised. Assets are Connected into operations, through integrated Asset Management enabling asset mobilisation and offerings in RFID and IOT.
2018
Investor
Dec 2018
Dokio is a high-performance marketing solution engineered for CMOs who need to scale creatives, accelerate campaigns, and empower frontline teams to drive national and hyper-local marketing. But we also solve a critical risk that traditional platforms completely miss. From digital advertising and social media to in-store point-of-sale and print collateral, Dokio’s Just-In-Time technology guarantees that the latest, approved content is exactly what lands in front of the customer. Headquartered in Australia, Dokio is trusted by global insurance providers, FSI, national franchise networks, automotive brands, and healthcare ecosystems.
Investor
Jun 2018
Matrak offers end-to-end supply chain visibility for your team. A global construction tracking software, Matrak was designed specifically to support and simplify the complexities of moving materials from manufacture to install and anywhere in between. Matrak allows users to track complex material interactions and manage operations from a single source of truth, offering a global Network that helps us build better, together.
mid stageConstruction
2013
Investor
Dec 2013
Moda Operandi was founded in 2010 out of the idea to empower people through exceptional fashion design. As a former Vogue editor, Moda co-founder Lauren Santo Domingo noticed a disconnect between the bold, expressive fashion from the runways and what she saw in stores. Then, she saw an opportunity. Today, it is our mission to make it easy for fashion designers to grow their business and consumers to realize their personal style. Moda is the only place in the world where fashion designers can sell their most creative work, including less commercial and one-of-a-kind pieces to a global audience of fashion-engaged consumers who want to shop them. The Moda Operandi platform carries hundreds of brands and designers across women’s, men’s, fine jewelry, and home. Moda has over 400 employees globally, ships to 125 countries, and has raised nearly $300 million in funding from top-tier investors. Join us as we build the world’s leading e-commerce platform for fashion discovery.
Founder & CEO
Dec 2013
Fanplayr is a global leader in e-commerce and websites behavioral data, using machine learning and AI to enable businesses to increase conversion rates and revenue, collect more leads, and retarget visitors with personalized recommendations during and after the shopping experience. Fanplayr is headquartered in Palo Alto, California with offices in New York, Buenos Aires, Mexico, Milan, London, Amsterdam, Melbourne and Tokyo.
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