Investments & Board Seats
These lists are as accurate as possible, but startups tend to change their structure, status and even names over time. Happy to receive updates/corrections from anyone involved!
* publicly traded companies
Investments plus Board Seats
Health Investments (many using AI)
4D Healthware
Abridge.ai
Alden Scientific
Applied Proteomics
Big Health
Brainify
Cherish Health
Circadia
Circadian-OS
*Clover Health
Crohnology
Devoted Health
Eligible
Epernicus/Trial Networks
Function Health (through acquisition of Ezra)
Genomera
GeriJoy
Hawthorne Effect
HealthEngage
Health Loop
HealthRally
HealthTap
*Hinge Health (through acquisition of Enso Relief)
Ilara Health (Africa)
Keas
*LB Pharma
Litmus Health
Lucidify
Medesk (Russia → UK)
*MedicalAlgorithmics (Poland)
Medivo
Nanowear
Neurogeneces
NextSense
New Life Solution (through acquisition of MeQuilibrium)
Nuna Health
Nurture Health
*Omada Health
OpenWater
Patients Know Best (UK)
Praava Health (Bangladesh)
Rasello (Tanzania)
Resilient Networks Systems
Shotsy
Solera
Startup Health (started as Organized Wisdom)
Supportiv
Syllable
Tocagen
Turbine
Valkee (Finland)
Tech/AI Investments
AdKeeper
*Alphabet (formerly Google)
Amicus
*Block (formerly Square)
*Bloom Energy
Cognitive Match
Crowdbooster
Daivergent
Devpost
*EPAM
ESAI.ai
*Eventbrite
Factual
Fancy
Flattr
Fluidinfo
GoodData
GOQII
*Grasshopper Bancorp
GridPoint / 21st Century Utilities
Ji Grahak Mobility Solutions
Knack
LeDunia (Kenya)
Linkstorm
Linqia
Litmus Health
Localized
Nomanini
Oradian (Croatia)
PressReader (Canada)
RallyPoint
School Loop
Skygrid
Sojo Studios
Sparked
Technorati
Trusted ID
*Uber (via acquisition of Social Bicycles)
*UIPath
You.com
Zedo
Zeta
*Zillow
Other: Aerospace/Logistics/IRL Investments
Agritecture
Icon Aircraft (acquired)
Item.farm
LensDetect
Makhers Studio
*Voyager Holdings (via acquisition of NanoRacks)
Space Adventures
*SpaceX
Trella
WorldView
ZeroG
Current Nonprofit Boards
Charity Navigator
ExpandED Schools
IT History Society
Sustainable Media Center (advisory board)
The Commons Project (chair)
Past Boards and Investments (selected)
Board Seats (past)
23andMe (left before SPAC/IPO, ultimately acquired by founder)
Eventful.com (acquired by CBS)
Evernote (acquired by Bending Spoons)
IBS Group (transferred my role to Swiss subsidiary Luxoft, left when acquired by DXC Technology)
Medscape (now owned by WebMD)
Meetup Inc. (acquired by WeWork; now owned by Bending Spoons)
Proofpoint (met my own term limits)
Voxiva (acquired by Welltok)
WPP Group (exceeded term limits, served 2000-2014)
XCOR Aerospace (filed for bankruptcy)
Yandex (resigned early 2022) and its non-Russian successor Nebius (NBIS) (2023-2024)
Closed Investments (Selected)
Airship Ventures (RIP)
Brightmail (acquired by Symantec)
Boxbe (acquired by eDataSource)
del.icio.us (acquired by Yahoo!)
Dopplr (acquired by Nokia)
Dotomi (acquired by ValueClick)
Dulance (acquired by Google)
Facebook (IPO; sold mostly to fund Wellville)
Fathom Technology (acquired by EPAM)
Flickr (acquired by Yahoo!)
Flourish Labs (dissolved)
Graphisoft (acquired by Nemetschek)
Jana (closed)
Kurbo (acquired)
LinkedIn (acquired by Microsoft)
Mashery (acquired)
Medico (acquired by Everyday Health)
Medspace (now part of WebMD)
Medstory (acquired by Microsoft)
MeQuilibrium (acquired)
MetaCarta (acquired by Nokia)
Nest Health (dissolved)
Netbeans (acquired by Sun Micro)
Nickels (dissolved)
ParaGraph International (acquired by Silicon Graphics)
Payperks (closed)
Plazes (acquired by Nokia)
Postini (acquired by Google)
Powerset (acquired by Microsoft)
RealTravel (acquired by Uptake)
Sugarwork (acquired by DECIDR)
Vizu (acquired by Nielsen)
Nonprofit Boards (past)
Electronic Frontier Foundation (chair)
Eurasia Foundation
ICANN (founding chair 1998-2000)
Long Now Foundation
National Endowment for Democracy
Personal Genome Foundation
StopBadware.org
Sunlight Foundation
TRUSTe
WorldQuant University
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