Bill Lee

Bill is an angel investor and some of his recent investments include Tesla Motors (nasdaq: TSLA), Posterous, Tweetdeck (acquired by Twitter), Kelkea (acquired by Trend Micro), and Zaarly.

Website: http://www.backtoreality.com
San Francisco, California, United States
Accredited investor
Member since December 12, 2011

i'm a silicon valley angel. i like playing guitar, surfing, and skateboarding as well :) Quote_down

About

Investor interests

Type of investor	Angel
Typical investment size	$250k - $500k
Typical investments in a year	5
Categories of interest	Clean technology Consumer Internet (B2C) Fashion Mobile ambient awareness Social media
Credentials	Accredited Investor, Qualified Purchaser

Activity

Exits

M&A

Posterous, Undisclosed
Kelkea, Undisclosed, Source: http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3512831/Trend+Micro+Acquires+Kelkea.htm
Posterous, Undisclosed, Source: http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/03/12/twitter-has-acquired-shortform-blogging-company-posterous/
Cherry, Undisclosed, Source: http://vator.tv/news/2013-03-26-lyft-buys-cherry-will-launch-in-seattle-next-month

IPO

Tesla Motors, Source: http://money.cnn.com/2010/06/29/technology/tesla_ipo/index.htm

I am a(n):

Investor

Full bio

Bill Lee was CEO and co-founder of Remarq, a Benchmark Capital-backed collaboration company. At Remarq, Bill guided the company in its development of a complete end-to-end Internet messaging and collaboration platform. Before its acquisition by Critical Path in March 2000 for $265 million, the company developed high-volume messaging platforms for sites such as eBay, Sun, Novell, and Amazon.

Bill is an angel investor and some of his recent investments include Tesla Motors (nasdaq: TSLA), Posterous, Tweetdeck (acquired by Twitter), Kelkea (acquired by Trend Micro), Peel, Social Concepts, Playhaven (advisory board member), Appmakr (advisory board member) and Zaarly. He is also on the advisory board of i/o ventures (http://www.ventures.io) -- a San Francisco early stage startup program that focuses heavily on mentorship.

Bill also graduated Beta Gamma Sigma from UC Berkeley with a B.S. in accounting/finance and received a JD/MBA from UCLA. He enjoys playing guitar, surfing, and hanging out at his hotel in the Dominican Republic (http://www.extremehotels.com). He is also on twitter (@westcoastbill) and maintains a blog at http://www.backtoreality.com.

Angel investments and exits

Yammer (acquired by Salesforce, $1B)
SpaceX (funded)
Tesla Motors (Tesla Motors)
Tweetdeck (acquired by Twitter, $40M)