Bio
Jim is a parallel entrepreneur, angel investor, entrepreneurship educator, and a Lester Center Fellow for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. His private investment fund, Hornthal Investment Partners, has made investments in over 50 early stage companies. Jim is the co-founder and Chairman of Triporati, Zignal Labs, and LaunchPad Central. He sits on several boards, including KIND Snacks, Revinate, Via.com and One Voice. Jim has taught the Lean LaunchPad and I-Corps courses at UC Berkeley, Stanford, UCSF and Princeton, and is the author of the TED Book “A Haystack Full of Needles.” Jim earned a BA in Economics from Princeton University (Cum Laude), and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.Career
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M34 Capital Inc - founderInvestment company commercializing the most promising technologies seeded by federally funded research. |
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CMEA CapitalEmail: [email protected] |
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Atrium Capital Corp |
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Preview Travel Inc |
Education
Selected investments
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Genomic Health Inc | N/A | ||||
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TeeBeeDee Inc | Social network for people over 40. | N/A | |||
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Hipmunk Inc | Series A | ||||
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Megapath Inc | Provider of managed IP communications services in North America. | N/A | |||
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peerTransfer Corp | Provider of an online service that specializes in international money transfers and payments for educational institutions | Venture |