Entrepreneur
San Francisco Bay Area
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- Founder at Greenr
- Vice President at Biomimicry Institute
- Co-founder at The Astrologer, Inc.
- Co-founder & Advisor at Musica Omnia
- Past
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- Board Member at Solar Sailor
- Co-founder at iCanvas.org
- VP and Co-Founder, Astrology.com at iVillage
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David Fox’s Summary
Over the past 32 years I’ve built three successful companies and provided seed funding to a dozen startups including three non-profits. I’m increasingly drawn to the emerging ‘green economy’ (I blog at: http://www.greenr.com)
My entrepreneurial career started around age 10 with a sizable backyard vegetable garden, although I waited till I was nearly 16 to start fulltime work - a family retail business that equipped local backpackers and international trekkers for their adventures.
Math was my favorite school subject (first kid in my grade with a pocket calculator) but it was almost a decade before I tapped that interest via a 128k Mac, so much so I founded a distribution business and wound up representing Adobe, Aldus, Radius, Supermac and others innovators in the desktop publishing and multimedia markets.
I sold out to partner in '92 to start an electronic software distribution business, but after finding limited VC interest in Australia I moved to San Francisco in '94 and founded an internet company which ultimately followed my wife's interest in astrology. We sold Astrology.net to iVillage in '99 and continued running the business through until Feb '03.
In 2004 my wife (and business partner) Kelli Fox suffered a near fatal allergic reaction and spent more than a year recovering - not quite what we had in mind when we "retired" a year earlier "to spend more time with family".
Politics caught my attention later in '04 and together with fellow entrepreneur Sunil Paul and a small team we launched icanvas.org to develop a communication tool to help better inform voters on the issues.
After her near-death experience, Kelli decided her life's work in astrology was not yet done and so The Astrologer, Inc. was born as a second-generation online astrology business in '05. Later that year I provided the seed funding for the Biomimicry Institute, an organization furthering the pioneering work of Time Magazine Environmental Hero, Janine Benyus.
David Fox’s Specialties:
My strongest skill is as a synthesist - connecting people, connecting the dots, thinking beyond conventional wisdom, deep research, warm outlook on life.
David Fox’s Experience
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Founder
Greenr
(Privately Held; Myself Only; Environmental Services industry)
December 2007 — Present (1 year 8 months)
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Vice President
Biomimicry Institute
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Renewables & Environment industry)
October 2005 — Present (3 years 10 months)
Biomimicry is the new science of innovation, inspired by nature. Its all about facilitating the transfer of ideas, designs, and strategies from biology to sustainable human systems design. Biomimicry principles are helping designers and manufacturers move beyond simply doing "less bad", to adaptive, restorative and regenerative design that is guided by billions of years of Mother Nature's R&D work! The Biomimicry Institute was founded by Janine Benyus, a Time Magazine 'Environmental Hero of 2007'. http://www.biomimicryinstitute.org
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Co-founder
The Astrologer, Inc.
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
March 2005 — Present (4 years 5 months)
Founded in 2005 by Kelli and David Fox, The Astrologer Inc. is a second-generation online astrology business.
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Co-founder & Advisor
Musica Omnia
(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Music industry)
June 2000 — Present (9 years 2 months)
Musica Omnia is a label conceived by musicians for musicians. Many of our board members and staff are also musicians. Our company takes seriously its commitment to bridge the gap between the professional musician, the experienced listener and that potentially limitless international community of new classical music aficionados.
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David Fox’s Interests:
surfing, media literacy, harpsichord and early/classical music, Italian supercars, electric/hybrids, alternative transport systems, feldenkrais (move, think and feel better), kirtan (chanting), PHEV, all things green.
David Fox’s Contact Settings
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