PB

Phil Black

Venture Capital Investor

San Francisco Bay Area

VC
Investor
Founder

Invests in

Stages:

Series A
Seed

  • Min Investment:

    $1,000,000.00

  • Max Investment:

    $50,000,000.00

  • Target Investment:

    $20,000,000.00

Skills

Mergers & Acquisitions
Business Modeling
Venture Capital
Board of Director experience
Start-ups
Angel Investing
Corporate Development
Entrepreneurship
Strategic Partnerships
Mentoring
Integrity
Investments
Early Stage Ventures
Public Speaking
Private Equity

Education

Investments

AccessPay

Series Unknown

Total Funding: $24M

Tiamat Sciences

Seed

Total Funding: $5M

Directus

Series A

Total Funding: $7M

Ernesta

Series A

Total Funding: $25M

Neoplants

Seed

Total Funding: $20M

ClayStack

Seed

Total Funding: $5M

Thistle Technolgies

Seed

Total Funding: $3M

GoalBased Investors

Seed

Total Funding: $3M

Orreco

Series A

Total Funding: $7M

Directly

Seed

Total Funding: $64M

Work Experience

True Ventures

2006

  • Co-Founder

    2006

    Earliest stage venture capital for technology companies. More info at: www.trueventures.com.

Inventables

2009

  • Board of Director

    2009

Kurtosys Systems

2006

  • Board of Director

    2006

    Board of Director for Kurtosys Systems, a financial technology vendor for the Asset Management industry

Automattic

2005

  • Board of Director

    2005

Blacksmith Capital

2003 - 2006

  • Co-Founder

    2003 - 2006

Synchronoss Technologies

2000 - 2004

  • Board of Director

    2000 - 2004

ABS Ventures

1999 - 2002

  • General Partner

    1999 - 2002

Telogy Networks

1997 - 1999

  • Board of Director

    1997 - 1999

    Embedded Voice Over IP software company.

Weiss, Peck & Greer Venture Partners

1995 - 1999

  • General Partner

    1995 - 1999

Summit Partners

1988 - 1994

  • Sr. Associate and Associate

    1988 - 1994