Type of investor | Angel |
Typical investment size | $250k - $500k |
Typical investments in a year | 5 |
Categories of interest | |
Credentials | Accredited Investor, Qualified Purchaser |
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
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Investor
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.
Angel investments and exits
Yammer (acquired by Salesforce, $1B)
SpaceX (funded)
Tesla Motors (Tesla Motors)
Tweetdeck (acquired by Twitter, $40M)