Our Team

Focus

Matt joined Crosslink in 2016 and focuses on venture investments in enterprise and industrial IT infrastructure, security and plausible science fiction.

Experience

Matt is an entrepreneur and investor with over two decades of successful general management and venture investing experience. Matt carries a strong track record of investing in leading edge technology companies including Verodin (FEYE), CloudShield (SAIC), Narus (Boeing) and ArcSight (HP). He was also a founding investor and Chair of the Board of MeshNetworks (Motorola).

Prior to joining Crosslink, Matt was a Venture Partner with Paladin Capital. He was also the CEO and Co-Founder of Strategic Social Holdings (acquired by Constellis Group). In addition, Matt was a Co-Founder and President of MILCOM Technologies where he led the acquisition and commercialization of over $2B of R&D used to create over ten product companies. He also works with government and private sector leaders in the areas of innovation, information operations and cyber security.

Prior to his business career, Matt served in the U.S. Army with a distinguished record as an Infantry officer and Ranger in the 10th Mountain Division. In his spare time, Matt is a rabid baseball fan and board member of The Honor Foundation, helping Special Operations Veterans transition to the private sector.

Portfolio Companies

Inpher, Enview, Yotascale, GoExpedi, Descartes Labs, Akua, ZeroNorth, Bolster, Aliro Quantum, Tread, X-Bow Launch Systems

Select Prior Investments

People Media (IAC)*, MeshNetworks (MOT)*, CloudShield (SAIC)*, Narus (BOE)*, ArcSight (ARST/HP)*, Bugcrowd*, Anomali*, Verodin (FEYE)

Education

BSFS, Georgetown University

MBA, Harvard Business School

* Investments made prior to joining Crosslink

Focus

Phil joined Crosslink in 2014 and focuses on investments in enterprise applications, infrastructure, vertical software, and frontier technology.

Experience

Phil brings over a decade of experience as a technology investor with deep sector expertise within enterprise and vertical software (AI, cloud, developer tools, SaaS, security). He is passionate about serving as a partner with early-stage founding teams, with an eye towards helping strong technical teams build category-defining companies. At Crosslink, Phil’s investments include Armory, Descartes Labs, Iron Ox, Molekule, Verodin (FEYE), Weave, and Yotascale, among other companies.

Prior to Crosslink, Phil was an investor with NYC-based venture capital firm Tenfore Holdings, with early investments in Optoro and Trulioo during his tenure. Before beginning his venture capital career, Phil wrote and published research on the technology sector at Credit Suisse and RBC, where he covered companies such as Google, Amazon, LinkedIn, eBay, Priceline, Yelp, and many others.

Outside of work, Phil is a dedicated surfer, skier, and drummer in the local SF music scene, all of which have taken a back seat to his newest role as a father.

Portfolio Companies

Armory, BetterUp, Descartes Labs, Enview, Inscribe, Iron Ox, Jargon, Overjet, MarketDial, Molekule, PreNav, Vectice, Weave, YotaScale

Select Prior Investments

Bonfire (GTYH), Flo (FBHS), Verodin (FEYE)

Education

BA, Economics, University of Pennsylvania

Focus

Caroline joined Crosslink in 2018 and focuses on venture investments in enterprise applications, financial technology, marketplaces, and logistics.

Experience

Prior to Crosslink, Caroline worked in analytics at Lyft, supporting operational and strategic initiatives for the company’s rental program. Caroline previously worked in management consulting at The Parthenon Group and Parthenon-EY, where she worked with private equity and corporate clients in the technology, diversified industrials, and consumer sectors.

Outside of work, Caroline spends her time skiing, biking and backpacking through California. She is an amateur improv comedy student and aspirational reclaimed wood furniture maker.

Portfolio Companies

Arturo, Cleary, Clyde, Coa, Tread, Vectice, Yardstik

Education

BA, Amherst College

Focus

Tom is the Managing Partner of At One Ventures, which is focused on helping humanity become a net positive to nature via investments in world-class ventures that seek to reboot the industrial economy. For 3 years, he worked as part of the Crosslink team to diligence deep-tech investments in hardware, software, and the physical sciences. He continues to support Crosslink on deals whose success hinge on radical technical breakthroughs.

Experience

Tom was one of the founding members of Google X, where he worked on self-driving cars, Google Glass, Project Loon, and other revolutionary tech, and helped to scale that team from 8 to 250. His formal training is in physics and electrical engineering and has worked in both scientific and engineering research on autonomous robotics, massively parallel compute architectures, medical imaging, astrophysical equipment design, nanosecond-level control systems, and is a named inventor on 75 patents. He also worked in commercial production environments at Microsoft, Yahoo and Google, and held senior leadership positions managing large P+Ls that drove significant innovation efforts at these organizations.

Tom is based in SF and part of the year in Hawaii.

Focus

Eric joined Crosslink in 2010 and focuses on Internet, software, cloud infrastructure, and frontier tech companies. He leads the Crosslink Capital venture program and is also co-founder and president of alpha —the entrepreneurial networking club for more than 2,000 Founders, CEOs, and Entrepreneurs.

Experience

Eric brings over 30 years of experience as a successful entrepreneur and venture capital investor. Prior to Crosslink, Eric was a General Partner at Bay Partners focusing on early stage investments, some of which include Opsource (NTT), Invensense (INVN), Mulesoft (MULE) and Dropcam (GOOG). Eric’s startup experience includes co-founding the Internet server software company WebSpective (INKT), and co-founding TelASIC Communications (MTI).

In addition, his operating experience includes business development at Mainspring (IBM) and at MILCOM (Military Commercial Technologies) where he focused on finding and commercializing next generation technologies out of the military, aerospace and Defense Labs.

Eric is an active surfer, sailor, programmer, chef and all around family man. He is an advisor to SustainableSurf, SaveTheWaves, and an active supporter of the Navy Seal Foundation.

Portfolio Companies

Datastax, Aizon, Comparably, Descartes Labs, Feedback Loop, Molekule, Kinetic, Armory, Phil, Iron Ox, Yardstick

Select Prior Investments

Postmates (acquired by Uber), Bleacher Report (acquired by TWX), ServiceMax (acquired by GE), Coupa (COUP), Verodin (FEYE), True & Co. (acquired by Calvin Klein/PVH), 500friends (acquired by Merkle), Vungle (acquired by Blackstone), Marin Software (MRIN), Visual.ly (acquired by ScribbleLive), BuildingConnected (ADSK), Flo (acquired by FBHS), Opsource (NTT)*, Invensense (INVN)*, Dropcam (GOOG)*, and Mulesoft (MULE)*

Education

BA, Dartmouth College

MBA, Harvard Business School

* Investments made prior to joining Crosslink

Focus

Gabby joined Crosslink in 2013 and focuses on investments in marketplaces, enterprise applications, consumer technology and digital health.

Experience

At Crosslink, Gabby has been closely involved with investments such as Alpha, BuildingConnected, Casper, GoExpedi, and Hungryroot, among others. In 2016, Gabby left Crosslink to pursue her MBA at the Harvard Business School. While at Harvard, Gabby spent time at Pinterest working on the sales operations and strategy team.

Prior to joining Crosslink, Gabby was a consultant at Ernst & Young in New York, where she worked in the valuation analysis and pricing group. Gabby also has prior experience at Nuveen Investments in Chicago and at Envestnet in New York.

Gabby lives in San Francisco with her husband, Tom. Outside of work, Gabby is an avid skier, foodie, and Soul Cyclist.

Portfolio companies

Hungryroot, Kinetic, Wave Meditation, Roofr, GoExpedi, Aliro, Envizzo, Feedback Loop, Fatherly, Phil, PowerToFly, Rebag, Tread, Coa

Select Prior Investments

BuildingConnected (ADSK), Casper (CSPR), Flo (FBHS), Postmates (UBER)

Education

BS, Lehigh University

MS, University of Michigan

MBA, Harvard Business School

Focus

Jim is a member of Crosslink’s venture team, focusing on investments in financial technology, enterprise and SMB software/SaaS, internet enabled business and consumer services, and digital media and media enabling technologies.

Experience

Jim joined Crosslink in 2002, bringing 20 years of technology investment banking, M&A, capital markets and management experience to the firm. At Crosslink, Jim has led investments in four companies which grew to achieve multi-billion market cap exits through IPOs—Omniture (NASDAQ: OMTR, IPO 2006, acquired by Adobe 2009 for $1.8B), Ancestry.com (NASDAQ: ACOM, IPO 2009, acquired by Permira Advisors 2012 for $1.6B), Pandora (NYSE: P, IPO 2011, average market cap at Crosslink’s venture fund exit of $5.5B), and Coupa (NASDAQ: COUP, IPO 2016, market cap of $18.6B as of June 30, 2020). Jim’s current lead investments include an additional two companies that have grown to billion dollar plus valuations: Personal Capital ($1B acquisition by Empower Financial announced on June 29, 2020), and Chime (most recent financing in December 2019 at a $5.75B valuation).

Jim’s experience prior to Crosslink included Global Head of Technology Investment Banking at UBS, where he built a powerful global technology investment banking practice from scratch; President and Chief Operating Officer at Volpe Brown Whelan & Company, where he ran all aspects of the firm’s investment banking and brokerage operations and led the firm to record growth in revenue and market share prior to its acquisition by Prudential Securities; and Head of Technology Investment Banking at Robertson Stephens & Company, where he built the technology investment banking team into a leadership position in the industry.

Jim also serves as the Executive Director of the Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth.

Current Portfolio Companies

Chime, Reltio, Gain Credit, Zebit, Bank Novo, Devon Way

Selected Prior Investments

Coupa (IPO NASDAQ: COUP), Pandora (IPO NYSE: P, acquired by Sirius XM, NASDAQ: SIRI), Personal Capital (acquired by Empower), Omniture (IPO NASDAQ: OMTR), Ancestry.com (IPO NASDAQ, ACOM acquired by Permira Advisors, acquired by SilverLake Partners), Zoosk (acquired by Spark Networks, NYSE: LOV), NWP Services (acquired by RealPage, NASDAQ: RP), Marketworks (acquired by ChannelAdvisor, NYSE: ECOM), Set Media (acquired by Conversant, NASDAQ: CNVR, acquired by Alliance Data Systems, NYSE: ADS)

Education

AB, Chemistry, Dartmouth College

JD, MBA, Stanford University

Focus

Joseph joined Crosslink in 2016 and focuses on investments in fintech, commerce, consumer and marketplaces.

Experience

Joseph has been operating and investing in technology companies for over a decade. Prior to joining Crosslink, Joseph was an investor with Crosscut Ventures, LA’s leading early-stage venture firm. At Crosscut Ventures, Joseph co-led investments in Conversion Logic, Datascience (acquired by Oracle), Hellotech, Reaction Commerce, Streamlabs (acquired by Logitech) and Starmaker (acquired by Starfruit). An avid gamer, Joseph was among the first institutional investors in Esports and co-launched immortals.gg, one of the largest Esports franchises in the country, where he still serves as an advisor.

Prior to his investing career Joseph worked in corporate development at Intuit leading acquisitions across various sectors including payments, vertical SaaS, marketplaces, and payroll. While at Intuit Joseph also held roles in product management, finance and business development.

Outside of work Joseph is an avid traveler, foodie, and karaoke enthusiast.

Portfolio Companies

Chime, Zebit, Prosper, Bank Novo, Wave Meditation, Brace.ai, Step Mobile, Roofr, Great Jones, Comparably, AutoFi, HitRecord, WeRecover, Fairclaims, Huckleberry, Nav, Fountain, Clyde, Arturo

Education

B.S. Finance and Economics, California Polytechnic SLO

Focus

Nate joined the Crosslink team in 2020 and focuses on venture investments in enterprise software as well as advising portfolio companies. He is also currently working on a new company in the automotive space.

Experience

Nate spent the last 6 years leading & scaling sales teams at BuildingConnected. He was the first non-engineering hire and helped launch multiple product lines within the company, taking them from pre-revenue to multiple millions. He helped grow the team to over 250 people prior to the acquisition by Autodesk in 2019 for $275M.

Prior to BuildingConnected, Nate started a company in social commerce for action sports. He also worked in data center acquisitions and development at Digital Realty.

Nate lives in New York with his fiancé, Ellen. Outside of work he is an avid tennis player, surfer, foodie, and traveler.

Focus

Tobias joined Crosslink in 2021 and focuses on venture investments in enterprise applications, consumer technology, financial technology, and digital health.

Experience

Prior to joining Crosslink, Tobias was an associate in the Technology M&A Group at RBC, where he was involved in a variety of M&A transactions in sectors including enterprise software, financial technology, and internet. Tobias started his career in equity sales at Citigroup in San Francisco, after which he joined Apptimize at an early stage to help develop the company’s enterprise sales strategy.

Tobias lives in San Francisco with his wife, Allison, and son, Theodore. Outside of work, Tobias is an avid hockey player and golfer.

Education

University of Vermont

Focus

David joined Crosslink in 2011 and focuses on venture investments in software, financial technologies and digital media.

Experience

David brings more than 20 years of experience working with technology businesses as a venture capital investor and investment banker. Prior to joining Crosslink, David was a partner at 3i Ventures, a global private equity and venture capital firm. He also served as a senior officer in the technology practices at both Robertson Stephens and Piper Jaffray. Some of his prior investments included: BlueLithium (acquired by Yahoo!), Demand Media (DMD), Fotolog (acquired by Hi-Media), Omniture (OMTR; acquired by Adobe), Speakeasy (acquired by BestBuy) and Vonage (VG).

Portfolio Companies

AutoFi, Arturo, BetterUp, Brace, Chime, Enigma, Great Jones, MarketDial, OnCue, Clyde, Weave

Select Prior Investments

Bizo (acquired by LinkedIn), BuildingConnected (acquired by AutoDesk), Casper (CSPR), ServiceMax (acquired by GE), Vungle (acquired by Blackstone), BlueLithium (acquired by Yahoo!)*, Demand Media (DMD)*, Fotolog (acquired by Hi-Media)*, Omniture (OMTR; acquired by Adobe)*, Speakeasy (acquired by BestBuy)* and Vonage (VG)*

Education

BA, Dartmouth College

JD, Stanford University

* Investments made prior to joining Crosslink

Focus

McLain joined Crosslink in 2017 and focuses on Financial Technology, Digital Health, and Frontier Technology.

Experience

McLain has 12 years of experience working with early stage technology companies as an entrepreneur, leader and investor. Prior to Crosslink, McLain was an early employee at Currenex which was acquired by State Street Bank (STT) in 2007. After the acquisition, McLain worked in State Street’s e-Exchange group, which oversaw all financial technology-related innovations and initiatives within the bank.

While at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, McLain worked as a Summer Associate for SV Angel. McLain went on to run business development for Apparent, which developed innovative networking and control technologies photovoltaic systems. McLain was also at CircleUp where he worked in their fund strategy group—an internal growth equity fund that invested in early stage consumer and retail companies.

Outside of work, McLain co-founded and serves on the board of directors of MAC USA, the 501(c)3 arm of a family organization that helps children and adults with disabilities in developing countries.

Education

BSBA, Georgetown University

MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Focus

Michael is a Founding Partner of Crosslink Capital. He is the portfolio manager for the firm’s public and crossover funds.

Experience

Michael joined Robertson Stephens in 1983 where he served as director of research and equity analyst covering the semiconductor and software industries. He was involved with the first venture capital activities of Robertson, Stephens during the 1980s and led a number of venture capital investments. Prior to that, Michael was at Intel Corporation.

Select Prior Investments

Abgenix (NASDAQ: ABGX), Ancestry.com (NASDAQ: ACOM), Blue Arc – acquired by Hitachi, Cirrus Logic (NASDAQ: CRUS), CBT Systems – acquired by SmartForce (NASDAQ: SMTF), Magma Design Automation (NASDAQ: LAVA), MemberWorks (NASDAQ: MBRS), OnDisplay – acquired by Vignette (NASDAQ: VIGN), Silicon Blue – acquired by Latice Semi, TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO), Cypress Semiconductor (NASDAQ: CY)*, Xilinx (NASDAQ: XLNX)*

Education

BS, Engineering, Northwestern University

MBA with honors, University of Michigan

Focus

Eric joined Crosslink in 2010 and focuses on Internet, software, cloud infrastructure, and frontier tech companies. He leads the Crosslink Capital venture program and is also co-founder and president of alpha —the entrepreneurial networking club for more than 2,000 Founders, CEOs, and Entrepreneurs.

Experience

Eric brings over 30 years of experience as a successful entrepreneur and venture capital investor. Prior to Crosslink, Eric was a General Partner at Bay Partners focusing on early stage investments, some of which include Opsource (NTT), Invensense (INVN), Mulesoft (MULE) and Dropcam (GOOG). Eric’s startup experience includes co-founding the Internet server software company WebSpective (INKT), and co-founding TelASIC Communications (MTI).

In addition, his operating experience includes business development at Mainspring (IBM) and at MILCOM (Military Commercial Technologies) where he focused on finding and commercializing next generation technologies out of the military, aerospace and Defense Labs.

Eric is an active surfer, sailor, programmer, chef and all around family man. He is an advisor to SustainableSurf, SaveTheWaves, and an active supporter of the Navy Seal Foundation.

Portfolio Companies

Datastax, Aizon, Comparably, Descartes Labs, Feedback Loop, Molekule, Kinetic, Armory, Phil, Iron Ox, Yardstick

Select Prior Investments

Postmates (acquired by Uber), Bleacher Report (acquired by TWX), ServiceMax (acquired by GE), Coupa (COUP), Verodin (FEYE), True & Co. (acquired by Calvin Klein/PVH), 500friends (acquired by Merkle), Vungle (acquired by Blackstone), Marin Software (MRIN), Visual.ly (acquired by ScribbleLive), BuildingConnected (ADSK), Flo (acquired by FBHS), Opsource (NTT)*, Invensense (INVN)*, Dropcam (GOOG)*, and Mulesoft (MULE)*

Education

BA, Dartmouth College

MBA, Harvard Business School

* Investments made prior to joining Crosslink

Focus

Lauren joined Crosslink in 2021 and leads community, sponsorship, corporate partnership, and events for the Alpha community.

Experience

Lauren brings 10 years of experience operating in marketing, business development, operations and communications roles for over five Silicon Valley startups and has held strategic roles contributing to early stage hyper growth. Working closely with founders throughout her tenure, Lauren has witnessed the full lifecycle entrepreneurial experience— from early “stealth” stage through strategic acquisition, to a hyper growth Series A-D, to a full wind down.

Outside of work, Lauren is an avid traveler, skier, hiker, and lover of the outdoors.

Education

BA, International Relations and Economics, University of California, Davis

Focus

Emily joined Crosslink in 2012 and focuses on curating membership, sponsorship and coordinating 40+ events per year for the Alpha community.

Experience

Prior to joining Crosslink, Emily was a preschool teacher at a private school in New York City. Previously, Emily was a Corporate Account Executive for AT&T Mobility in Atlanta.

Education

BA, Marketing, Xavier University

Focus

Allie joined Crosslink in 2017 and focuses on coordinating 40+ events per year for the Alpha community.

Experience

Prior to joining Crosslink, Allie was a Marketing and Operations Associate at Wind Point Partners, a private equity investment firm in Chicago.

Education

BS, Rehabilitation Psychology, University of Wisconsin – Madison

Focus

McLain joined Crosslink in 2017 and focuses on Financial Technology, Digital Health, and Frontier Technology.

Experience

McLain has 12 years of experience working with early stage technology companies as an entrepreneur, leader and investor. Prior to Crosslink, McLain was an early employee at Currenex which was acquired by State Street Bank (STT) in 2007. After the acquisition, McLain worked in State Street’s e-Exchange group, which oversaw all financial technology-related innovations and initiatives within the bank.

While at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, McLain worked as a Summer Associate for SV Angel. McLain went on to run business development for Apparent, which developed innovative networking and control technologies photovoltaic systems. McLain was also at CircleUp where he worked in their fund strategy group—an internal growth equity fund that invested in early stage consumer and retail companies.

Outside of work, McLain co-founded and serves on the board of directors of MAC USA, the 501(c)3 arm of a family organization that helps children and adults with disabilities in developing countries.

Education

BSBA, Georgetown University

MBA, Stanford Graduate School of Business

Focus

Ashley joined Crosslink in 2012 and is responsible for quarterly closes, as well as creating financial statements and tax work papers.

Experience

Prior to joining Crosslink, Ashley worked for over six years at Citco Fund Services as an Account Manager specializing in multi-strategy hedge funds. In her years at Citco, Ashley acquired an in-depth knowledge of fund accounting across multiple asset classes as well the preparation of financial statements and investor allocations.

Education

BS, Economics, University of California, Davis

Focus

Randy joined Crosslink in 2007 as the hedge fund accountant and is responsible for the monthly close, portfolio reconciliations and trade processing.

Experience

Prior to joining Crosslink, Randy was the portfolio accountant for the Bechtel Trust at Thrift Retirement Plan. Randy also held accounting positions at Fremont Investment Group and Managers Funds.

Education

BA, Economics & Political Science, Pepperdine University

Focus

Joel joined Crosslink in 2011 in Marketing & Investor Relations.

Experience

Joel has over 25 years of experience in the investment business in various research, sales and portfolio management functions. Prior to joining Crosslink, Joel was a principal at Willow Creek Capital Management, a private investment firm in public securities. He was previously managing director in charge of product development at JMP Securities. Joel began his career at Robertson Stephens in San Francisco, where he worked both in research and institutional sales.

Education

BA, History, University of California, Berkeley

MBA, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania

Focus

Maureen joined Crosslink in 2005 and oversees all of Crosslink’s Operations, Financial activity, Performance reporting, Facilities and Human resources.

Experience

Maureen joined Crosslink as a venture fund accountant and became the Controller in 2008 and Chief Administrative Office in 2016. She has been a partner at the firm since 2013. In her years at Crosslink, Maureen has acquired in-depth knowledge of Crosslink’s public and private strategies and investors. Prior to joining Crosslink, Maureen was a finance associate with Wells Fargo.

Outside the office, you can find Maureen chasing after her two young daughters through the streets of San Francisco.

Education

BS, Economics, Sociology, Santa Clara University

Focus

Mihaly joined Crosslink in 2008 and currently oversees Crosslink’s Compliance, Legal and Information Technology activities, as well as assists with the oversight of the Finance and Operating activities, including financial reporting.

Experience

Mihaly brings over 13 years of public accounting experience to Crosslink. Prior to joining Crosslink, Mihaly was a senior manager in PricewaterhouseCoopers’ investment management group. He is a Chartered Accountant and a Certified Public Accountant.

Education

BCom (Hons) (Accounting), University of the Witwatersrand CA (SA); CPA (inactive)

Focus

Laura joined Crosslink in 2017 and is responsible for the analysis of portfolio performance and preparation of marketing and client service materials.

Experience

Prior to joining Crosslink, Laura spent five years at Schroder Investment Management in New York working in portfolio analysis and performance reporting. She also worked in Client Service at Lord Abbett & Co.

Education

BS, Finance, Villanova University