George Zachary
650.687.5600
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Areas of greatest interest
Consumer Internet and infrastructure
Track Record
Andale - acquired by Vendio, 2006
Shutterfly - IPO 2006, (Nasdaq: SFLY)
Supertracks - acquired by Centerspan, 2001
Accrue Software - IPO 1999
Critical Path - IPO 1999, (OTC:CPTH)
Securify - acquired by Kroll-O’gara, 1999
Ovation Entertainment
Sandcastle - acquired by Adobe Systems
Telebot - acquired by Z-Tel
Past Lives
General Partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures
Led Nintendo 64 development at Silicon Graphics
Marketing Manager at virtual reality pioneer VPL Research and CATS Software
What he does for fun
Movies, wine, science, economics, biology
Joined CRV
2004
Education
Joint BS, MIT/MIT Sloan School
Current Projects
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Geni
Geni is a tool for understanding and staying in touch with your family. Geni lets you create a family tree through our fun simple interface. You can expand your tree by adding relatives’ email addresses. They will be invited to join your tree and can add other relatives. Your tree will continue to grow as relatives invite other relatives.Each family member has a profile which can be viewed by clicking their name in the tree. This helps family members learn more about each other and stay in touch. Family members can also share photos and work together to build profiles for common ancestors. Geni was founded by former executives and early employees of PayPal, Yahoo! Groups, Ebay, and Tribe. It is backed by venture capital firms Founders Fund and Charles River Ventures. Learn more at http://www.geni.com.
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Millenial Media
Millennial Media is the industry’s leading mobile media networks company—leveraging our quality advertising networks and extensive reach of the lucrative ‘millennial’ audience to define the mobile advertising industry.
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SocialMedia Networks
SocialMedia Networks is the leading provider of social platform services. It fuses together three core features—management, marketing, and monetization—into a comprehensive package that advertisers and developers can use to grow awareness, and grow their applications on social platforms. For more information, visit http://www.socialmedia.com.
01/30/2009
SocialMedia Raises $6 Million For Widget Ad Network more
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Twitter
Twitter is a social utility for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected. Time Magazine says, “Twitter is well on its way to becoming the next killer app,” while the New York Times says, “It’s one of the fastest-growing phenomena on the Internet.” Twitter is all about the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing? Find out more at http://www.twitter.com
09/28/2009
New York Times: Twitter Snags New Investment, Backers more
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Yammer, Inc.
Yammer is a tool for making companies and organizations more productive through the exchange of short frequent answers to one simple question: ‘What are you working on?’
Yammer was founded by former PayPal COO David O. Sacks and officially launched on September 8, 2008. Yammer’s management team includes seasoned industry veterans drawn from the ranks of PayPal, eBay, eGroups, Tribe, and other leaders in the software industry.
01/21/2009
Yammer in TechCrunch: Yammer Raises $5 Million For Workgroup Micro-Messaging more
09/12/2008
Yammer Takes Top Prize at TechCrunch50 more
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CloudShare
CloudShare is a quick and easy way to share copies of your complex IT environments, online, so you can collaborate with customers, partners, and colleagues – for Demos, Proofs-of-Concept, Training, or other enterprise applications – without wasting time copying gigabytes of software or shipping machines and people. Going beyond basic webinar or “virtual lab” offerings, CloudShare’s solutions enables users’ extended interaction in dedicated “hands on” production-grade replicas of their existing IT, delivered as cloud-based SaaS – while centrally monitoring and managing it all. Leading solutions providers have adopted CloudShare as their vendor of choice to extend access to their virtual infrastructure from the Enterprise to the Cloud.
12/11/2009
CloudShare Lands $10M in Series B Funding from Sequoia Capital,…more
Updates
Press
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12/11/2009
CloudShare Lands $10M in Series B Funding from Sequoia Capital, Gemini Capital, and Charles River… more
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09/28/2009
New York Times: Twitter Snags New Investment, Backers more
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06/09/2009
paidContent.org - Interview: George Zachary, Partner At Charles River Ventures, On The Google Effect In… more
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01/30/2009
SocialMedia Raises $6 Million For Widget Ad Network more
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01/21/2009
OneSeason.com Scores Series A Financing and Adds Depth to Roster more
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09/12/2008
Yammer Takes Top Prize at TechCrunch50 more
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12/29/2007
Wall Street Journal - VC’s New Math: Does Less = More? more
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11/14/2007
NewTeeVee - NTV Live Panel: Cash for Content? more
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11/01/2006
New York Times - Venture Firm Is Giving Loans a Try more
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02/03/2004
George Zachary Joins Charles River Ventures as Venture Partner more
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