MEET THE CRV TEAM
Bill Tai
650.687.5600
Areas of greatest interest
Digital Media
Enabling Technology
Web Services
Prior Angel Investments
LoveMachine, LLC
Slimdevices
Tango.me
TVU Networks
Tweetdeck
VideoEgg
And other similarly cool companies
Track Record
Silicon Clocks—acq. by Silicon Labs (NASD:SLAB), 2010
Avvenu – acq. by Nokia (NYSE NOK), 2007
SlimDevices – acq. by Logitech (NASD LOGI), 2006
IPinfusion Inc. – acq. by ACCESS (TSE 4813), 2006
RLX Technologies – acq. by HP (NYSE HPQ), 2005
NCompass – acq. by Microsoft (NASD MSFT), 2001
ImGo – IPO 2001 via reverse merger (HKSE:0067)
Microtune – IPO 2000, (NASD TUNE)
iAsiaWorks Inc. – IPO 2000 (NASD IAWK)
Transmeta inc. – IPO 2000 (NASD TMTA)
ICWorks – acq. by Cypress (NYSE CY), 1999
Terayon – IPO 1998 (NASD TERN)
8x8, Inc. – IPO 1997, (NASD EGHT)
Award Software – IPO 1996 (NASD AWRD)
Rastergraphics – IPO 1996 (NASD RGFX)
Premisys Inc. – IPO 1995 (NASD PRMS)
Network Peripherals – IPO 1994 (NASD NPIX)
Centrum Inc. – acq. by 3Com (NASD COMS) 1994
Microchip – IPO 1993 (NASD MCHP)
Creative Technology – IPO 1992, (Nasdaq : CREAF)
Past Lives
Startup Investor since 1991
Founder, Chairman/CEO of iAsiaWorks (NASD: IAWK)
Startup funder & Chairman if IPinfusion (acquired by Access Corp)
Founder/President of Tradebeam (acquired by CDC Software)
What he does for fun
Kiteboarding on snow and water
USA Team Rider, Cabrinha Kiteboarding
Olympic Ambassador, International Kiteboarding Association (Rio de Janeiro, 2016)
Co-creator with Susi Mai of the MaiTai Kite Camp www.maitaisports.com
Joined CRV
2002Education
MBA, Harvard Graduate School of Business
BS, Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois
Current Projects
Updates
Blog
Links
Press
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02/01/2012
Documented@Davos: Randi Zuckerberg interviews Bill Tai more
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01/23/2012
CEOs Who Ride the Wind more
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12/07/2011
Forbes: Kiteboarding Techies Generate $7 Billion In Market Value more
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08/02/2011
CRV’s Bill Tai Presenting at VatorSplash SF in September more
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07/19/2011
Scribd Debuts Float, Netflix-Style Competitor To Pulse, Flipboard, Instapaper more
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07/15/2011
Scribd in NY Daily News story about citizen journalism after Mumbai attacks more
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06/11/2011
Soundtracking in Huffington Post: Soundtracking Lets You Measure Your Life In Songs more
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05/27/2011
Bill Tai on The Next Web: The future of conferences? The anti-conference: MaiTai 2011 more
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05/27/2011
Bill Tai on Forbes: Kiteboarding’s Serious Business In Silicon Valley more
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05/26/2011
Bill Tai on Forbes: Investment In Tweetdeck Starts On The Beach more
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01/27/2011
Stackmob on TechCrunch: StackMob Is ‘Heroku For Mobile’. And Proud Of It. And Potentially Just… more
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01/18/2011
Scribd on All Things Digital: Scribd Raises $13M More for Web Docs more
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01/17/2011
Forbes: Where Are The Techies? Snow Kiting! more
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11/12/2009
Bill Tai: The Kite Guy of Silicon Valley more
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06/09/2009
Silicon Clocks Completes $10.3M Series C Financing Led By Silicon Labs and Premier Venture Firms more
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06/02/2009
Forbes.com: Kiteboarding Techies more
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05/11/2009
Rosum Corporation Names Industry Veteran Brad Anderson to Serve as CEO more
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01/19/2009
Scribd in TechCrunch: Scribd Raises $9 Million So You Can Continue To View PDFs Online more
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06/16/2008
Silicon Valley quest: Wind over water more
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05/09/2008
CNET - Want a VC deal? Go fly a kiteboard more
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12/04/2007
Nokia acquires Avvenu for Mobile Access and Share Technologies more
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11/04/2007
Silicon Clocks raises $8M financing as Lux Capital joins existing investors Charles River, Formative, and… more
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04/27/2007
PodTech, Bill Tai of Charles River Ventures on Finding The Next Google more
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04/26/2007
PodTech, Bill Tai of Charles River Ventures: Is The VC Game Going To the Angels? more
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11/01/2006
Boston Globe- Charles River Ventures rolls out a seed-money program for Net start-ups more
Events
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08/05/2008
Join Bill Tai at Silicon Dragon - A Wake-up Call for the Valley where he will be moderating a panel (Palo Alto, CA)