Heidi Roizen: 10 Lessons Learned about Venture Capital

Heidi Roizen’s talk at Business of Software 2009.


Heidi Roizen
Heidi Roizen

Heidi Roizen

Heidi Roizen is a venture capitalist, corporate director, Stanford lecturer, recovering entrepreneur and Mom. She co-founded software company T/Maker and served as its CEO for over a decade until its acquisition by Deluxe Corporation. After a stint as VP of Worldwide Developer Relations at Apple, Heidi became a venture capitalist, and is now a partner at Silicon Valley-based Threshold Ventures. She is also currently a corporate director for public companies DMGT (LSE:DMGT) and Invitation Homes (NYSE:INVH) and private companies Planet, Upside Foods, Lumity and Polarr.  Roizen co-leads the Threshold Venture Fellows program in the engineering department at Stanford University (where she also earned my undergrad and MBA degrees) and serves on the Advisory Councils of Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and Stanford Technology Ventures.

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