Polaris Ventures

I joined Polaris in early 2002 from Macromedia. In addition to making traditional venture investments in companies such as Allurent and Meridio, I helped start or co-founded four companies Polaris invested in: 8th Ring, Archivas, Thing Labs and Veracode.

The strength of Polaris is rooted in its diversification strategy. The firm invests across industries, areas, geographies and stages. To do this well Polaris built a very diverse investment team. In my 7+ years at the firm, I had the pleasure of working with some extraordinary partners and great entrepreneurs. Doing both traditional investing as well as starting companies gave me a unique perspective of venture capital and entrepreneurship. This is how I developed my own approach to venture creation that eventually led to me starting FastIgnite.