SVASE VC Breakfast Club with Lars Leckie, Principal, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners Focus: January 29, 2009

SVASE VC Breakfast Club with Lars Leckie, Principal, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners Focus:

Start: 01/29/2009 - 8:00am
End: 01/29/2009 - 9:30am

Contact Info: Jai Kumar Email: [email protected]
Cell: 408-406-4693
URL:www.svase.org/?q=node/1985

Location: Hanson Bridgett LLP 425 Market Street, 26th Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105

VC Breakfast Club with Lars Leckie, Principal, Hummer Winblad Focus:

Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, www.humwin.com

Hummer Winblad Venture Partners was founded in 1989 as the first venture capital fund to invest exclusively in software companies. Through our history, we’ve had the opportunity to invest in the pioneers and leaders of several generations of software applications, architectures, delivery methods and business models.

We’ve helped entrepreneurs build companies in desktop software, embedded systems, client-server, distributed network computing, internet, and software as a service. Our earliest portfolio companies started shipping software on floppy disks and today we’re investors in pioneering companies in on-demand computing. We’ve seen everything from shrink-wrap licenses to enterprise-wide "big deals" to subscription pricing; from direct sales to highly-leveraged channel strategies.

In other words, because software is all we do, we bring tremendous value to highly talented people who want to build great software companies. We hope our website tells you a lot about us, but please feel free to contact any of us directly.

Lars Leckie, Principal, Hummer Winblad
Lars is a Principal at Hummer Winblad and has played a key role in the firm’s investments in Aria Systems (SaaS billing and customer management), vKernel (Virtualization Infrastructure) and an unannounced company in the storage virtualization market.

Prior to joining Hummer Winblad Venture Partners in 2006, Lars was involved in founding and operational roles at start-up companies. He was a co-founder of AutoFarm (now Novariant), a company focused on GPS and robotics. Lars was in charge of strategy, product marketing, business development and building the sales team across three continents. While Lars spends less time programming now, he started his technical career coding and hacking computer games. He is the holder of several US patents.

Lars is an avid sailor and a former member of the Canadian Sailing Team. He represented Canada sailing Snipes in the Pan American Games as well as other international events.

Official Website: http://www.svase.org/?q=node/1985