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Wildcat Venture Partners

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Wildcat Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in early stage technology companies.

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01.01.2015

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Private

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Founded in 2015 by Bill Ericson, Bruce Cleveland, Bryan Stolle, and Katherine Barr, Wildcat Venture Partners has a portfolio that includes companies such as Aceable, Amplero, C3.ai, Clover Health, GreenFig, LeaseLock, Obo, Ritual, Tuition.io, Vlocity, what3words, and Zebit. The firm is known for its deep domain expertise and entrepreneurial experience, and typically invests in rounds with 5-6 participants. They often invest in startups with valuations over $1 billion and have a higher rate of exits compared to other organizations.
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Bill Ericson
Bill Ericson

Bill Ericson

Bill Ericson is a Founding Partner at Wildcat where he focuses on investments in artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and enterprise software as a service (SaaS) as enablers of digital health, vertical apps, and enterprise and consumer communications. His specific areas of interest include improving the digital health ecosystem to deliver better, more efficient, healthcare, and the role data and machine intelligence can play in virtualizing processes in the healthcare market. Concurrently, he is a Managing Partner of Mohr Davidow Ventures, where he started his venture career. The son of a Foreign Service officer, Bill grew up as a citizen of the world, living in England, Iceland, Korea and Japan, and learned to speak Japanese. Bill’s career role model is Bill Davidow, founder of Mohr Davidow Ventures, for his extraordinary humanity and remarkable business insights. In his spare time, Bill can be found playing electric guitar (wishing he could play like Derek Trucks), and cheering on the Golden State Warriors. Bill has worked with technology entrepreneurs for his entire career, which spans more than two decades. Trained in economics and law, Bill is keenly interested in how technology, social media and big data is transforming society and human interactions. In this light, Bill has contributed to a new curriculum on digital ethics for the Kennedy School of Ethics at his alma mater, Georgetown University. A former attorney, he was an early partner and founder of the Seattle office of Venture Law Group before joining Mohr Davidow Ventures, where he began his venture capital career. Bill received his B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University School of Foreign Service and a J.D. from Northwestern University School of Law.

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Katherine Barr
Katherine Barr

Katherine Barr

Katherine Barr was a Founding Partner at Wildcat where she focused on investments in workforce automation, consumer platforms, digital marketplaces and retail and e-commerce innovation that leveraged predictive analytics, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML) and/or robotics to disrupt large markets. From an early age, Katherine was entrepreneurial and inquisitive. Whether it was starting a residential painting company in college or working on a ranch with 80 cowboys, Katherine followed her own path to pursue her dreams. Early in her career, Katherine worked on the Nagano Winter Olympics Committee where she immersed herself in Japanese business culture. It was a training ground for her skills in negotiation, problem solving and team building. Katherine is a founding board and charter member, as well as former co-chair of the C100, the leading Canadian technology entrepreneur association in North America, and is a member of the Advisory Council on Economic Growth for Canada’s Minister of Finance. She served as an advisor for the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL) West, which supports innovators in their creation of high-growth companies and was an Emmy Noether Council Member at the Perimeter Institute, one of the world’s leading institutes of theoretical physics. Katherine began her venture capital career at Mohr Davidow Ventures. Prior to her investing career, Katherine was a senior negotiator at Vantage Partners (Harvard Negotiation Project-founded) for global technology companies, such as IBM, Cisco, Applied Materials and HP, on their deals with customers, partners and service providers. She also served as a senior product manager at HSA (a communications startup) and a senior marketing manager at ACCESS (a global software solutions provider for mobile devices). Katherine received a B.A. from McGill University, and completed an M.A. and the M.S. core curriculum in Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University.

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Gil Kliman
Gil Kliman

Gil Kliman

Gil joined InterWest in 1996. As a leader of InterWest’s Healthcare investment team, he invests in a broad array of healthcare opportunities, with a special interest in ophthalmology, digital health, and AI/robotics. Gil pioneered InterWest’s highly successful ophthalmology franchise. He was an early investor in Avedro, Glaukos, LenSx, and IntraLase, category-creating ophthalmic companies that became standard-of-care for eye surgery around the world. As a successful digital health investor, Gil built this important franchise for InterWest over the last twenty years through multiple companies. He led the Series A of Epocrates, the industry-leading first mobile application for physicians, serving on the board through its 2011 IPO, and was the founding institutional investor in Doximity, helping to build it into the leading physician social network engaging over 70% of U.S. physicians with over one million total users. He is a board member of Doximity, Glaukos (NYSE: GKOS), and a former board member and lead investor in Avedro (NASDAQ: AVDR, acquired by Glaukos), Epocrates (EPOC, acquired by Athenahealth), LenSx Lasers (acquired by Alcon), IntraLase (NASDAQ: ILSE, acquired by AMO), Neuronetics (NASDAQ: STIM), Restoration Robotics (NASDAQ: VERO, acquired by Venus Concept), and GoCheck. Gil also serves as an independent board member of STAAR Surgical (NASDAQ: STAA), Centricity Vision and Orbis International, a global not-for-profit organization focused on preventing blindness. He is also a Co-Founder and Program Director of Eyecelerator, an ophthalmology innovation conference supported by a joint venture of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery. Previously, he helped to launch the Ophthalmology Innovation Summit (OIS), an ophthalmology business conference where he was an Advisor and Founding Co-Chairman from 2009 to 2019. A former practicing ophthalmologist, Gil completed an ophthalmology residency at Wills Eye Hospital and a retina fellowship at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary as a Heed Foundation fellow. He has a BA from Harvard University, an MD from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Stanford University.

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Bryan Stolle
Bryan Stolle

Bryan Stolle

Bryan Stolle is a Founding Partner at Wildcat where he focuses on investments in FinTech, EdTech, quant marketing, and technology that addresses elder care. His specific areas of interest include software as a service (SaaS) and platforms that enable alternative credit, payments and insurance, as well as those that support the posy K-12 educational market and the growing elder care market. Concurrently, he is a General Partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures, which he joined in 2007. Growing up under two generations of self-made businessmen, Bryan’s work ethic and entrepreneurial spirit is deeply rooted in his youth. As a teen, he competitively raced motocross, taking on jobs delivering newspapers and making pizzas to support his racing passion. His early love of athletics has led him to view his role in venture capital as more of a coach or mentor to entrepreneurs who are embarking on a journey he’s also taken. When not at work, Bryan is a sports fan, cheering on his teams: the Texas Longhorns, Golden State Warriors and San Francisco Giants. A serial entrepreneur, Bryan created more than $1 billion in realized liquidity for his investors as a founder. He oversaw the creation, go-to-market and market growth of product and service offerings that have achieved more than $2 billion in revenues, and has raised more than $1 billion in venture, public market and investment management capital. As founder and CEO of Agile Software (formerly, NASDAQ: AGIL), Bryan led the creation of a new category now called product lifecycle management (PLM). He led the company through a public offering and secondary offering that raised over $500 million. He executed on almost two dozen private and public M&A transactions, and steered a major strategy shift that led to the eventual acquisition of the company by Oracle. Bryan sits on the advisory boards of University of Texas McCombs School of Business, The UT-Austin Texas Venture Labs and the Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business. Bryan received a B.A. in Business Administration and an M.B.A. from the University of Texas at Austin.

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Melissa Ferrito

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Jennifer Trzepacz

Jennifer Trzepacz

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Geoffrey Moore

Geoffrey Moore

Venture Partner

Gil Kliman

Gil Kliman

General Partner - Emeritus

Amanda Maestri

Amanda Maestri

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Bryan Stolle

Bryan Stolle

Founding Partner

Bill Ericson

Bill Ericson

Founding Partner

Bryan Stolle

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