Jeff Clavier

Founder and Managing Partner

2004

Investing in 12 seed-stage startups per year, with a check size ranging $750K to $2M. Our core sectors are mobile/cloud saas, consumer services, connected devices, marketplaces and healthcare IT. These days we explore opportunities in AI, AR/VR, robotics and autonomous vehicles. Never hesitate to reach out!

Advisory Board Member

2005

Board Member

2015 - 2019

Board Member, Investor

2009 - 2016

Acquired by Twitch/Amazon!

Partner

2000 - 2004

Managed all RVC operations in the US, including portfolio management, sourcing deal flow, investing, relationships and business development. RVC, which is the spin out of the corporate venture arm of Reuters, was set up in 1994 and began investing the Greenhouse Fund in Palo Alto, California in 1995. In 1997, RVC expanded the focus of its operations to Europe, bringing its significant Silicon Valley experience to a market with relatively few venture capitalists focused on early stage information technology companies. Since inception, RVC I has invested $560 million in 82 companies, including Yahoo!, Verisign, Phone.com (now Openwave Systems), Digimarc, Infoseek, Orchestream, and Metamerge, amongst others. With 16 IPOs and 27 trade sales or other cash realisations, and a first fund that is 94% returned, RVC has one of the strongest track records in European venture capital.

Co-Producer

2000 - 2004

For 3 years, RVC has produced a technology conference, RVC SoftEdge. SoftEdge gathers the different components of the software innovation ecosystem, including entrepreneurs, thought leaders, leading technology columnists, CIOs, senior executives of established technology players and VCs. Its stated goal is also to provide a bridge between US and Europe/Israel software entrepreneurs. The last edition was successfully co-produced with Pulver.com (http://www.pulver.com/rvc2003).

Board Observer

2003 - 2004

Pathfire is the leading provider of digital media distribution and management solutions to the television, media and entertainment industries. We serve major broadcast networks, station groups, cable companies, syndicators, advertising agencies, stock footage houses and other leading media companies/content providers. The Pathfire platform—which includes a robust distribution network, flexible hardware solutions and innovative software applications—enables our customers to maximize efficiency, driving new revenue opportunities while reducing costs.

Board Observer

2001 - 2004

Tacit is the leading provider of Enterprise Collaboration Management solutions. Tacit's award-winning technology connects existing collaboration and communication systems and synchronizes collaboration activity across the enterprise. With Tacit, organizations can proactively guide and stimulate collaboration to meet business objectives by dynamically bringing the right people together at the right time, to interact in the right collaboration environment. The result is new levels of productivity, efficiency, and innovation for the entire organization.

Board Member

2000 - 2004

UltraDNS™ Corporation, the leading provider of Managed DNS Services, creates and powers technology solutions that enhance the reliability, scalability and performance of the world's largest and most highly available networks, including that of Microsoft, Oracle and the .org Top Level Domain root infrastructure. UltraDNS' technology and services have found wide adoption in the Fortune 1000 and enterprise customer segments. To date, UltraDNS has acquired over 7,500 customers and currently manages 5 million domains, which represents approximately 11% share of the global domain market.

Head of Development, Systems

1993 - 2000

After the acquisition of Effix by Reuters, I ran the the product development activities of a number of activities for the Group, including Risk Management, Desktop and Server products, Order Management,... Those groups were based in Paris, New-York, London and totalled over 250 people in 2000. Responsibilities covered development, support, documentation, development process, architecture, and liaison with sales, marketing, global accounts,...