Bill Bryant

Past

• CEO at Mixxer Inc
• Venture Partner at Atlas Venture
• CEO and Chairman at Qpass Inc

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Bill Bryant’s Summary

William (Bill) Bryant has had early involvement in >25 leading SW/Internet/mobile cos, serving as a founder, senior executive, investor & BOD member. He is currently a Venture Partner with Draper Fisher Jurvetson, serving on the BODs of Mpire & OpsCode, both DFJ portfolio cos. Most recently he founded Mixxer, where as CEO he drove core product/mkt strategy, raised $20M, recruited a senior mgmt team and relaunched the service. Concurrently, Bill also co-founded Medio, a leader in mobile search, where he continues as Strategic Advisor.

Current Investments & Advisory BODs: Liquid Planner, Blist, WinShuttle, Limeade, Cascadia Capital, Swype, mInfo, Sensors in Motion, ACL, Pluggd/Delve, Conenza, QL2

Previously, Bill was Partner w/ Atlas Ventures, where he originated its investment in Isilon. Prior to Atlas, Bill was co-founder of Qpass (acquired by Amdocs), serving as CEO & later Chairman. In the mid 90s, he co-founded Netbot, acquired by Excite (1st comparison shopping agent, Jango; 1st metasearch engine, MetaCrawler), serving as President.

In the early 90s, he was founding VP of WW Sales & Mktg at Visio (Microsoft). Bill was an early investor and BOD member in 11 cos that were acquired or went public, including Loudeye (Nokia), AEI Music (Liberty Media), Shelfari (Amazon), 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. Earlier in his career, he held VP Mktg/GM roles for Micrografx, Software Publishing & Traveling Software. Other recent BODs include Intrinsyc & Jabber.

Bill is an investor in top tier venture funds, including DFJ, Atlas, Oak, Venrock, Integral, Polaris, Appian, Spectrum Equity, Insight, Partech, USVP, NeoCarta, ARCH, RRE and Openview. Advisory BODs for WTIA & UW Tech Transfer