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Phil joined Ridge Ventures (fka IDG Ventures USA) as a Managing Director in September 2006. He is currently a Member of the Board of Directors at Wave and was previously a General Partner at WaldenVC for 10 years where he primarily focused on early-stage investments in new media and information technology. Phil was responsible for WaldenVC investments in VitalStream (VSTH), Bamboo.com (IPIX), NIKU (NIKU), Sina.com (SINA), Adknowledge and People 3 (IT) and IDG Ventures investments in Funzio (GREE). Phil currently sits on the boards of Telltale Games, Phoenix Labs, Survata, Next Games, Fresh Planet, nWay, Free Range Games, and Espresa, and led investments in Super Bit Machine, Simply Hired, BandPage, GuideSpark, AlphaDraft, Plain Vanilla Games, and Freeform. Prior to WaldenVC, he worked as an investment banker in Robertson Stephens’ New Media and Information Technology Groups. At Robertson Stephens, Phil managed initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions assignments for CBT S
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- • 7 investors at Griffin Gaming Partners are tracked.
- • 26 investors hold the Managing Director & Co-founder role in VCSift. Phil Sanderson is one of them.
- • 7,285 investors are based in San Francisco, California, United States.
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