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.ย 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. ย 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 Stanfordโ€™s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and Stanford Technology Ventures.

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