Bill founded FirstMile Ventures in 2010. After building and investing in companies, primarily along the coasts, he began to notice more and more investment opportunities in his backyard in Colorado that were struggling to find capital.
Prior to his investing career, he was the CTO and co-founder of StorageNetworks, a Boston-based pioneer of the Infrastructure as a Service model before "the cloud" existed. He also co-founded solid state disk company CERAM and co-founded nonvolatile Ferroelectric RAM start-up Krysalis which was acquired by National Semiconductor. He also had a successful run as a storage systems sales executive.
As the Chairman and CEO of X-IO technologies, Bill has led a transformation of the company that has leveraged the company's unique intellectual property in storage technology to build the Axellio edge computing node that will handle high performance workloads where cloud resources are not responsive enough.
Prior to founding FirstMile, Bill was an active angel investor.
Bill grew up outside of Chicago and studied chemistry at the University of Illinois. He began his career as a semiconductor process engineer at Philips Signetics. He holds 12 U.S. patents covering inventions in integrated circuit fabrication, integrated circuit memory design, and data storage systems design.
Prior to his investing career, he was the CTO and co-founder of StorageNetworks, a Boston-based pioneer of the Infrastructure as a Service model before "the cloud" existed. He also co-founded solid state disk company CERAM and co-founded nonvolatile Ferroelectric RAM start-up Krysalis which was acquired by National Semiconductor. He also had a successful run as a storage systems sales executive.
As the Chairman and CEO of X-IO technologies, Bill has led a transformation of the company that has leveraged the company's unique intellectual property in storage technology to build the Axellio edge computing node that will handle high performance workloads where cloud resources are not responsive enough.
Prior to founding FirstMile, Bill was an active angel investor.
Bill grew up outside of Chicago and studied chemistry at the University of Illinois. He began his career as a semiconductor process engineer at Philips Signetics. He holds 12 U.S. patents covering inventions in integrated circuit fabrication, integrated circuit memory design, and data storage systems design.
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FirstMile is a VC firm that has an exclusive focus on seed and is only investing on companies that has raised <$1.5M in capital.
They are not thematic investors, looking for companies that fit their view of where the world is headed. Instead, they build their investment thesis around a strong founding team that has their own unique and compelling vision for their market.
They are not thematic investors, looking for companies that fit their view of where the world is headed. Instead, they build their investment thesis around a strong founding team that has their own unique and compelling vision for their market.
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