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Bill Trenchard

Partner at First Round Capital

United States

Skills

Mergers
Product Management
Recruiting
Entrepreneurship
Venture Capital
Cloud Computing
Business Formation
Business Development
Marketing
Start-ups
Strategic Partnerships
Acquisitions
Venture Financing
Angel Investing
Sales

Work Experience

  • Partner

    2012

    I am a generalist and have invested across b2b + consumer companies including hardware, SaaS, Fintech, Health, and Climate tech. Some of my investments: Looker, Flexport, Verkada, Sift, Omni, Together AI, Superhuman, Legion, Airbase, Crossbeam, Pine Park Health, Ossium, Promise, Labelbox, Last Energy, Sprig, Maven, Cocoon, Remora Carbon + many others...

Self

2001

  • Angel Investor

    2001

    Investments Include: Ginkgo Bioworks, Finch Therapeutics, Moat, MileIQ, NextRoll, Step, Honor, Everlane, Newfront Insurance, Topsy, LendingClub, Gyft, IronPort, Powerset, Xoopit, Tapulous, Slide, Chegg

2000 - 2021

  • Co-Founder & Board Member

    2000 - 2021

  • CEO / Chairman

    2003 - 2008

    World's leading virtual call center company. CEO for 4 years then recruited new CEO, Maynard Webb, in December 2006

2012 - 2019

  • Board Member

    2012 - 2019

    Our mission at Looker is to inspire everyone to embrace their curiosity, dig deeper and keep asking questions.

2009 - 2013

  • Board Member

    2009 - 2013

2009 - 2012

  • Founder Partner

    2009 - 2012

    Founder Collective is seed stage capital fund built by a collection of successful entrepreneurs including David Frankel, Eric Paley, Chris Dixon, Caterina Fake, Micah Rosenbloom and Zach Klein. My investments include (among others): Uber, ThredUp, Stackmob, Moat, Pocket, Proven, HomeRun, Gigwalk

HomeRun

2010 - 2011

  • Board Member

    2010 - 2011

    Founding team member and board member of HomeRun, sold to Rearden Commerce in September 2011.

CallCast, Inc.

2001 - 2003

  • Co-Founder and CEO

    2001 - 2003

    CallCast built an innovative voice over IP (VoIP) software platform that could handle almost any type of phone interaction. Elements of this platform still power LiveOps today.

1999 - 2000

  • Managing Director

    1999 - 2000

  • MSN Group

    1999 - 1999