About
Staffan has been an entrepreneur and technologist for 20 years. Staffan comes to Vesbridge from SPVC, where he had been a Venture Partner since 2000. Prior to joining SPVC, Staffan was with RealNetworks as a special consultant following their acquisition of his company, Vivo Software. Staffan founded Vivo Software in 1992 and served as its first CEO and later as chairman until the company was acquired by RealNetworks in 1998. Before founding Vivo, Staffan spent seven years at PictureTel, where his roles included Director of Research and Director of International Sales. While at PictureTel, Staffan invented HVQ, enabling PictureTel to achieve prominence in group videoconferencing. Staffan also served as the CEO at GeoVantage. Staffan holds 12 patents around video compression and is especially active with seed-stage start-ups.
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 421 investors hold the Venture Partner role in VCSift. Staffan Ericsson is one of them.
- • 25 investors are based in Brookline, Massachusetts, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
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- Location
- Brookline, US
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