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Azure
Accelerator Mentor:
Brad
Feld
Managing Director,
Foundry Group
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Brad has been an early stage investor and
entrepreneur for over twenty years. Prior to
co-founding
Foundry
Group,
he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and, prior to
that, founded Intensity Ventures, a company that
helped launch and operate software companies. Brad
is also a co-founder of
TechStars.
Brad currently serves on the board of directors of
BigDoor
Media,
Cheezburger
Networks,
Fitbit,
Gnip,
MakerBot
Oblong,
Orbotix,
and
Standing
Cloud
for Foundry Group. Previously, Brad served as chief
technology officer of AmeriData Technologies.
AmeriData acquired Feld Technologies, a firm he
founded in 1987 that specialized in custom software
applications. Brad had grown Feld Technologies into
one of Boston's leading software consulting firms
prior to the acquisition. He also directed the
diversification into software consulting at
AmeriData, a $1.5 billion publicly-traded company
which was acquired by GE Capital in 1995.
In addition to his investing efforts, Brad has been
active with several non-profit organizations and
currently is chair of the
National
Center for Women & Information Technology,
co-chair of
Startup
Colorado,
and on the board of
Startup
Weekend.
Brad is a nationally recognized speaker on the
topics of venture capital investing and
entrepreneurship and writes the widely read blogs
Feld Thoughts
and
Ask
the VC.
Notable companies that Brad has invested in and/or
sat on the boards of include Abuzz (acq. NYT),
Anyday.com (acq. PALM), Critical Path (CPTH), Cyanea
(acq. IBM), Dante Group (acq. WEBM), DataPower (acq.
IBM), FeedBurner (acq. by GOOG), Feld Group (acq. by
EDS), Gist (acq. by RIM), Harmonix (acq. VIA),
NetGenesis (IPO), ServiceMagic (acq. IACI),
ServiceMetrics (acq. EXDS), and Zynga (ZNGA).
Brad holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science
degrees in Management Science from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology. Brad is also an avid art
collector and long-distance runner. He has completed
21 marathons as part of his mission to run a
marathon in each of the fifty states.
