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Don is a founding member of Appian and serves on its investment committee. He currently represents Appian on the boards of Collective Intellect, IP Commerce, Oxlo Systems, Selero and Valen Technologies. He is responsible for Appian's investment in UnivaUD. Prior to its sale to Hewlett-Packard, he was responsible for Appian's investment in LeftHand Networks. Previously, Don served as a general partner of Centennial Ventures, a Denver-based firm specializing in telecom services and communications technologies, where he served as a board and investment team member for several IT/Communications companies, including HighGround Systems (acquired by Sun Microsystems), Raindance Communications (NASDAQ: RNDC, acquired by West Media), Ecrix (acquired by Exabyte/Tandberg), Verio (acquired by NTT) and Pluto Technologies (acquired by NASDAQ:Avid). Prior to his career in venture capital, Don was a design engineer with IBM’s Personal Computer Division in Boca Raton, Florida. Don is a founding boa
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- • 3 investors at Appian Ventures are tracked.
- • 1,801 investors hold the Managing Director role in VCSift. Don Parsons is one of them.
- • 711 investors are based in Denver, Colorado, United States.
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