Heidi Roizen
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Heidi Roizen

Venture Partner, DFJ
www.heidiroizen.com
California, United States United states
Employee, Investor
Member since March 26, 2009
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I love working with great entrepreneurs. We're all lucky to be here. Life is good. Quote_down
About Heidi
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Type of investor Accelerator
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I am a(n):

Entrepreneur, Director, Teacher, Venture Capitalist, Mom

Companies I've founded or co-founded:

T/Maker

Startups I worked for:

T/Maker, 20 venture-backed startups

If you are an entrepreneur, why?

it is the most fun job in the world

Full bio

 

Heidi Roizen has spent her life immersed in the Silicon Valley ecosystem – as an 
entrepreneur, corporate executive, venture capitalist, educator and member of the boards of directors of private and public companies, trade associations and nonprofit institutions.  After receiving her undergraduate and MBA degrees from Stanford University, Heidi co-founded T/Maker Company (an early personal computer software company) in 1983, where she served as CEO from inception through its acquisition by Deluxe Corporation in 1994.  In 1996, Heidi joined Apple as Vice President of Worldwide Developer Relations.  
From there, Heidi entered the venture capital world, serving as a Managing Director for Mobius Venture Capital from 1999 to 2007.
Today, Heidi is a Venture Partner at leading global venture capital firm Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ).  She is also a Fenwick and West Entrepreneurship Educator in the Department of Engineering at Stanford University,
where she teaches the course Spirit of Entrepreneurship.  Heidi is a 
member of the board of directors of TiVo (NASDAQ:TIVO) and of Prysm, Inc.  and serves on the advisory boards of Springboard Enterprises and the National Center for Women in Information Technology.  She has an undergraduate and an MBA degree from Stanford.