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Rick Kimball
Rick Kimball is a Founding General Partner at TCV (Technology Crossover Ventures), the growth-equity firm he co-founded with Jay Hoag in 1995. Over four decades as a technology investor, he backed category-defining companies including Netflix, GoDaddy, Spotify, and eHarmony. Before TCV, he spent more than a decade at Montgomery Securities as a Managing Director covering telecommunications and data communications. He has appeared multiple times on the Forbes Midas List as one of the top technology investors in the world, and currently serves on the UC San Francisco Board of Trustees and the Ohana Foundation board.
Dave Strohm
Dave Strohm is one of Silicon Valley's longest-tenured venture investors, joining Greylock Partners in 1980 and opening the firm's West Coast office in 1983. Over four decades, he has been an early or founding investor in more than 30 companies - more than a dozen of which went public - spanning enterprise software, cybersecurity, infrastructure, and e-commerce. His most storied bets include DoubleClick (sold to Google), SuccessFactors (sold to SAP), Internet Security Systems (sold to IBM), OpenDNS (sold to Cisco), Mentor Graphics (sold to Siemens), and Ascend Communications. He served as Chairman of SuccessFactors for nearly a decade and as Lead Independent Director of EMC Corporation for twelve years. Today he serves as Venture Partner at Greylock and Special Advisor at 83North, with active board positions at Oportun, ASAPP, MATRIXX Software, RichRelevance, and Bounty Jobs.