About
Valerie Syme began her career in Washington, DC writing for a political news service but moved to Business Development (and Corporate Development over time) based on a strong interest in business and absolutely no interest at all in continuing to wait tables at night. Reuters took her to NYC where she worked on some of the earliest deals in online news distribution. She headed to San Francisco in ‘97 to run Business Development for Individual Inc. and quickly got involved in the tech start-up community and has been at it ever since. She was VP of Business Development for CompareNet which was purchased by Microsoft in ’99. After spending four years with Microsoft, she co-founded Tribe (sold to Cisco). Over the last 10+ years she has been executive at, consulted to and/or advised more than a dozen start-up companies including ZING (acquired by Dell), Lyve (acquired by Seagate), TopSpin (acquired by Beats Electronics), StepUp Commerce (acquired by Intuit), Aggregate Knowledge
Position in the VCSift Database
- • 2 investors at Pacific Arc Investments are tracked.
- • 2,531 investors hold the Partner role in VCSift. Valerie Syme is one of them.
- • 2,641 investors are based in Los Angeles, California, United States.
Data sourced from 410,343 investor profiles. Updated July 2026.
Investment Focus
- Location
- Los Angeles, US
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