About
Bob Rees is an experienced venture capitalist with a 25-year track record of forming, incubating, funding, and growing successful young companies. His background also includes operating executive experience in sales, marketing, and strategic planning positions with two Fortune 500 companies (Mobil and Tenneco). As a Special Limited Partner of Woodside Fund from 1993 to 1999, Bob built a successful investment record including exits for Innova Corporation, Hotrail, and AccelGraphics. Bob and three of his Woodside Fund partners left the firm in 1999 to form Access Venture Partners, an affiliate of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. As a Managing Director of Access Venture Partners until 2004, Bob sourced technology deals in Texas, Colorado, and Oklahoma and syndicated these deals with top-tier venture capitalists in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. At Access, Bob led the firm's syndication of Dallas-based Cashworks, Inc. which was later sold to General Electric Card Services. Prior to his venture
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- • 4 investors at Startup Capital Ventures are tracked.
- • 626 investors hold the General Partner role in VCSift. Bob Rees is one of them.
- • 931 investors are based in Palo Alto, California, United States.
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