Josh Stein (born May 3, 1973) is an American businessman and venture capitalist. He is a managing partner at Threshold Ventures (formerly DFJ)[1] and was featured in the Forbes Midas List in 2013, 2014 and 2015 in recognition of his accomplishments as an investor.[2] He was also the recipient of the 2015 Deloitte Fast 500 Venture Capitalist of the Year award.[3] Stein holds board responsibilities at Box (company),[4] Chartbeat,[5] LaunchDarkley,[6] LendKey,[7] Lumity,[8] and Talkdesk[9]—and led Box’s first round of institutional investment.[10] He is also an investor in AngelList,[11] Doximity,[12] Front,[13] Loftium,[14] Periscope Data[15] acquired by Sisense,[16] and Rippling.[17]
Josh Stein | |
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| Occupation | Managing partner at Threshold Ventures |
| Website | https://threshold.vc |
Education and early career
editStein earned an M.B.A from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and his B.A. from Dartmouth College.[18] Prior to joining DFJ, Stein was a co-founder, director and chief strategy officer for ViaFone, a DFJ-backed startup that created of wireless enterprise applications. Stein previously held positions in product management at Microsoft and NetObjects, and was a management consultant in the San Francisco office of The Boston Consulting Group.[19] Stein is a graduate of the Kauffman Fellows Program.[20][21]
Draper Fisher Jurvetson
editStein joined Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) in 2004.[21] His previous investments include Redfin,[22] Twilio,[23] SugarCRM,[24] Swell (acquired by Apple),[25] Eventful (acquired by CBS Local),[26] GoodGuide (acquired by UL),[27] iList (acquired by IGN/News Corp),[citation needed] Polaris Wireless (strategic recapitalization),[28] Yammer (acquired by Microsoft),[29] and Yardbarker (acquired by Fox Sports Interactive).
Personal
editHe currently serves on the board of trustees of the Crystal Springs Uplands School[30] and the Stanford GSB Trust.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "Josh Stein | Threshold Ventures". threshold. 2019-11-01. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
- ^ "Josh Stein". Forbes. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
- ^ "DFJ's Josh Stein Named VC of the Year - DFJ - Medium". Medium. 2015-11-23. Retrieved 2015-11-23.
- ^ "Box's path to profit". Video.cnbc.com. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
- ^ "Chartbeat raises $9.5M round led by DFJ to help clients make the most of their real-time traffic | VentureBeat | News | by Sienrak". VentureBeat. 2012-04-16. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
- ^ "LaunchDarkly gets $8.7M to get access to the right features in front of right users | TechCrunch". techcrunch. 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2016-12-20.
- ^ "Lending-as-a-Service Platform LendKey Deploys $800M in Capital - NEW YORK, May 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/" (Press release). Prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
- ^ "Benefits software maker Lumity raises $19M - MobiHealthNews". MobiHealthNews. 2017-08-23. Retrieved 2017-08-23.
- ^ "The cloud call-center startup that has people talking". Fortune. 2015-06-09. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
- ^ TechCrunch (13 May 2012). "Box: The Path From Arrington's Backyard To A Billion Dollar Business".
- ^ "AngelList Raises $24 Million From Google Ventures, Kauffman Foundation". Forbes. 2013-09-23. Retrieved 2013-09-23.
- ^ "The Daily Startup: DFJ, T. Rowe Price Co-Lead $54M Series C For Doximity - Venture Capital Dispatch - WSJ". WSJ. 2014-04-29. Retrieved 2014-04-29.
- ^ "Front raises $66 million to replace Microsoft Outlook - TechCrunch". TechCrunch. 2018-01-24. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
- ^ "Startup Loftium gives home down payments to people who continually rent their house on Airbnb — Quartz". Quartz. 2017-09-19. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
- ^ "Periscope Data Raises $9.5M Led By DFJ To Build Its "Tableau For Data Scientists" - TechCrunch". TechCrunch. 2015-10-25. Retrieved 2015-10-25.
- ^ "Sisense acquires Periscope Data to build integrated data science and analytics solution - TechCrunch". TechCrunch. 2019-05-14. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
- ^ "Rippling raises $45M at $270M to be the biz app identity layer - TechCrunch". TechCrunch. 2019-04-03. Retrieved 2019-04-03.
- ^ "Midas List: More Liberal Arts-Trained Investors (Forbes) | Dartmouth Now". Now.dartmouth.edu. 2014-03-26. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
- ^ "Elevator Pitch: Josh Stein on helping lead DFJ into the future - San Jose Mercury News". Mercurynews.com. 2014-01-14. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
- ^ "Fellows Directory". Kauffman Fellows. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
- ^ a b "Elevator Pitch: Josh Stein on helping lead DFJ into the future". Silicon Valley. 2014-01-13. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
- ^ "Redfin Closes $12 Million Financing Led by Draper Fisher Jurvetson - Redfin Press Center". Redfin. 2017-07-18. Retrieved 2017-07-18.
- ^ "Twilio gets $70 mln in funding to bolster expansion plan - Reuters". Reuters. 2013-06-12. Retrieved 2013-06-12.
- ^ "SugarCRM Receives $5.75 Million in Series B Funding - CRM Software Reviews". CRMSoftwareReview. 2005-02-15. Retrieved 2005-02-15.
- ^ "Apple To Buy Swell For $30 Million, Per Report". TechCrunch. 2014-07-28. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
- ^ Freeman, Mike (2014-07-31). "San Diego's Eventful sold to CBS Local Media | SanDiegoUnionTribune.com". Utsandiego.com. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
- ^ Katie Fehrenbacher (2012-08-09). "Underwriters Lab acquires sustainable ranking site GoodGuide". Gigaom. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
- ^ "Polaris Wireless raises $10 million to pay back first investor - Silicon Valley Business Journal". Bizjournals.com. 2013-04-26. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
- ^ Wingfield, Evelyn M. Rusli and Nick (25 June 2012). "Microsoft to Buy Yammer for $1.2 Billion". DealBook. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
- ^ "Crystal Springs Uplands School ~ Board of Trustees". Csus.org. Retrieved 2015-07-18.