Vontu

Mike co-founded Vontu with Joseph Ansanelli, bringing strong technical leadership to the company based on numerous successes building industrial strength software solutions to address emerging markets. Mike served as Vice President of Engineering, Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of... Products at Kana, Inc. where he founded the engineering team in 1997. During his tenure, he grew the team to 150 developers, helped support over 1000 customers and oversaw development of products generating more than $200M in revenue. His team had two patents granted and won multiple industry awards. Before joining Kana, Mike was the founding engineer at I/PRO, a successful internet media startup acquired by Engage, Corp. in 1999. He was previously an analyst at Goldman, Sachs & Co., where he built equity derivative trading and analytic solutions. Mike received a B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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Dave joined the firm in May 1997. Prior to joining Benchmark, Dave founded Ramsey/Beirne Associates, the leader in senior management, high-impact... search for information technology companies. In his more than 10 years at Ramsey/Beirne, Dave was CEO of the firm and developed a nationwide reputation for recruiting high-profile executives. Investments: 1-800-Flowers, Inc., Blazent, Galyan's Trading Company , Kana , NorthStar, Securify, Vivecon, Vontu and Webvan. Education:  BS from Bryant College, 1985.
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Ray joined Venrock in 1988 and after nearly 20 years and over 40 investments, his passion for building companies continues. His venture capital... career has its roots at Yankee Atomic Electric as a nuclear engineer, at Sun Microsystems and with two failed startups. An engineer at heart with a keen insight into product markets, Ray loves to tinker with technology. In addition to venture capital, he serves on the Board of Trustees of the Texas A&M Foundation, where he chairs the investment committee. Ray also serves on the Visiting Committee of the MIT Nuclear Science and Engineering Department. Ray currently serves on the board of Check Point Software and the boards of current investments: a la Mobile, Inc., Imaginova Corp., Imperva, Inc., Jadoo Power Systems, PGP Corporation, RedSeal Systems, Transonic Combustion, Inc., Vernier Networks, and Vontu, Inc. Ray’s previous investments include: Check Point Software Technologies , Digex, Inc. , DoubleClick, Inc. , Fogdog Sports, Inc. , Haystack Labs , P-Cube, Inc. , Pedestal Software , Qpass, Inc. , Spyglass , UCA/Softbank, USInternetworking, Inc. , and WholeSecurity .
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Robert Frick has served as a director of Vontu since its founding. Bob previously served as the Vice Chairman of the Board, Chief Financial Officer... and head of the World Banking Group for Bank of America, as Managing Director of BankAmerica International, and as President of Bank of America's venture capital subsidiary. Now retired, he previously served as a director of Connectify, Inc. from its founding to acquisition by KANA and currently serves on the boards of directors for five private companies. Bob holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering and an M.B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.
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