Bill Bryant

Summary

William (Bill) Bryant has had early and instrumental involvement in >25 leading enterprise & consumer software and Internet companies, serving as a 6X founder, senior exec, BOD member, advisor, angel investor & venture investor. Companies have collectively reached >$12B in value. Prior to joining Threshold, Bill founded or co-founded six startups incl Visio, Netbot, Qpass and Medio. Bill is currently a GP w/ Threshold Ventures, serving on BODs of Remitly, Yellowbrick, and Xealth. Past investments include Ping Identity, Z2Live, Chef, Varolii, Azuqua, Reflect. He is a past advisor to Galvanize, Socrata, Winshuttle, Liquid Planner, Limeade.. Current angel investments include Pairtree, Banzai, Pictory and Proxi. LP in a dozen+ venture capital funds. and is on the investment committee for Atlantica Ventures. and A-N Partners Currently Investor in Residence @ Techstars. Other past exited Investments: Swype, Cascadia Capital, Jabber, Sensors in Motion, Contour, Vizify, Thumb, mInfo, ,Bonanza, Banyan Branch, Clipboard. Previously, Bill was Partner w/ Atlas Ventures, where he originated its investment in Isilon Systems. 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 investor/BOD 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 (Thomson/AOL), 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 Mktg/GM roles for Micrografx, Software Publishing & Traveling Software. Other recent BODs: Intrinsyc. Senior sales, mrktg & BD roles at leading software companies Visio, Micrografx, Software Publishing, Traveling SW. Consultant to Microsoft, Getty Images and Real Networks. Experienced BOD member, mentor capitalist and advisor. Married 40 years to a civic and community activist who is deeply involved in a half dozen non-profits. Four children. Have traveled to over 65 countries toward my goal of 100. Blackbelt in TaeKwonDo and a former high level soccer referee and coach.