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Shasta Venture Capital

Menlo Park 2440 Sand Hill Road, Suite 300 Menlo Park, California 94025 Phone: (650) 543-1700

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 Background

We invest at an early stage, where we can help entrepreneurs the most—either the first or second round of a company’s fundraising. An initial investment ranges from $250,000 to $6 million. We can participate in follow-on rounds for a total investment per company of up to $12 million. We’re primarily interested in companies located in the western United States, but don’t rule out other geographies.

Key Contacts

- ROB CONEYBEER (Managing Director): Rob brings to Shasta Ventures deep experience in building semiconductor and networking companies. Prior to co-founding Shasta Ventures, he was a general partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA) where he led 15 investments in core infrastructure technologies spanning semiconductors, software and networking equipment.

Before joining NEA, Rob served as a lead integration and test engineer in the Astro Space division of Martin Marietta. While at Martin Marietta, Rob helped build the first EchoStar spacecraft—which is still in service today.

- TODD FRANCIS (Managing Director): Tod Francis has more than 20 years of experience working with marketing and consumer driven companies. Since 2004, Tod has been a managing director of Shasta Ventures where his investment focus is technology-enabled consumer companies. Some of his current investments include Logoworks, Flock, Turn and companies still operating in stealth mode. Prior to co-founding Shasta Ventures, Tod was a general partner at Trinity Ventures for ten years where he was involved with 16 companies serving the consumer and small business such as Blue Nile, FatBrain, LoopNet, NextCard, Wedding Channel and BabyCenter.

- RAVI MOHAN (Managing Director): Ravi has focused his entire career on the software business. Prior to co-founding Shasta Ventures, Ravi was a general partner at Battery Ventures where he led eight investments and served on the boards of 12 software and technology-enabled service companies.

Prior to joining Battery Ventures, Ravi built transaction-processing systems at Accenture, sold and implemented packaged software applications for Hyperion Software Corporation, and ran MIC, a software development firm based in India focused on business intelligence. Ravi also spent time at McKinsey & Company working with consumer packaged goods companies.



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