Bill Trenchard
Partner at First Round Capital
United States
Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$750,000.00Max Investment:
$4,000,000.00Target Investment:
$2,375,000.00
Skills
Education
Lists including Bill
Investments
Rillet
Total Funding: $14M
Ossium Health
Total Funding: $120M
Evergrow
Total Funding: $14M
Xclaim
Total Funding: $18M
EvolutionIQ
Total Funding: $31M
Verkada
Total Funding: $340M
Ownwell
Total Funding: $6M
Cascade
Total Funding: $5M
Crossbeam
Total Funding: $120M
Cocoon
Total Funding: $26M
Work Experience
2012
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...
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
2010 - 2011
Board Member
2010 - 2011
Founding team member and board member of HomeRun, sold to Rearden Commerce in September 2011.
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
1999 - 1999
MSN Group
1999 - 1999