Bill Bryant

BIO

William Bill Bryant has had early involvement in 25 leading enterprise consumer software and Internet companies serving as founder senior exec investor BOD member. These companies have collectively reached 8.5B in value. Bill is currently a GP w Threshold Ventures fka DFJ serving on the BODs of Chef Remitly Yellowbrick Xealth and Pro.com. Past DFJ investments include Ping Identity Z2Live Varolii Azuqua Reflect. He is an advisor to Socrata Winshuttle Liquid Planner Limeade. Other Investments Swype Varolii Banzai Observa Contour Vizify Thumb Cascadia Capital mInfo SensorsinMotion ACL Bonanzle Banyan Branch Clipboard. Previously Bill was Partner w Atlas Ventures where he originated its investment in Isilon. Prior to Atlas Bill co-founded Qpass acquired by Amdocs serving as CEO later Chmn. In mid 90s he co-founded Netbot acquired by Excite 1st comparison shopping agent Jango 1st metasearch engine MetaCrawler serving as President. In early 90s he was founding VP of WW Sales Mktg at Visio Microsoft. Bill was an early investorBOD member in 15 cos that were acquired or went public Swype Nuance Mpire comScore Loudeye Nokia AEI Music Liberty Media Shelfari Amazon Delve Limelight Jabber Cisco Viafone Extended Systems Teamplate Captaris Exstatic Software Xchange Applications Throw Excite Singing Fish ThomsonAOL NearMe HandsOn Mobile WebRelevance Medio Shelfari Amazon. In addition Bill consulted extensively to Microsoft Real Networks Getty Images Corbis. Early in his career he held VP MktgGM roles for Micrografx Software Publishing Traveling Software. Other recent BODs Intrinsyc. Senior sales marketing biz dev roles at four leading software companies Visio Micrografx Software Publishing Traveling SW. Consultant to Microsoft Getty Images and Real Networks. Experienced BOD member mentor capitalist and advisor.