HubSpot is a privately held company funded by investments from General Catalyst Partners and several Boston angel investors. Read the press release announcing the HubSpot venture capital financing.
Brian Halligan, CEO & Founder, HubSpot
For Brian's bio, see the HubSpot Management page.
Dharmesh Shah, Chief Software Architect & Founder, HubSpot
For Dharmesh's bio, see the HubSpot Management page.
Larry Bohn, Managing Director, General Catalyst Partners
As a Managing Director of General Catalyst Partners, Larry invests in both new and existing technology businesses. Areas of special interest include: open source, information technology; systems; and software on-demand and business models.
Prior to joining General Catalyst, Larry served in leading roles at NetGenesis, a market leading software and analytic solutions provider; PC DOCS, Inc., a leading developer of document management software for enterprise networks; and Interleaf, Inc., a top provider of electronic publishing solutions.
An acknowledged thought leader, Larry has spoken at leading industry events and has been a guest lecturer at Harvard, Stanford, and the Amos Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. He was also a founder and the first president of OASIS, the industry consortium promoting XML adoption. Larry is an honors graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and holds a masters of arts degree in Linguistics from Clark University. See Larry Bohn's bio on the General Catalyst website. General Catalyst provided $5 million in VC funding in 2007.
David Skok, General Partner, Matrix Partners
David Skok joined Matrix Partners as a General Partner in May 2001. He has a wealth of experience running companies, starting his first company in 1977 at the age of 22. Since then David has founded a total of four separate companies and performed one turn around - three of these companies went public. He joined Matrix from SilverStream Software, which he founded in June 1996. Prior to its 2002 acquisition by Novell, SilverStream was a public company that had reached a revenue run rate in excess of $100m, with approximately 800 employees and offices in more than 20 countries around the world.
David's work as a value added investor is best known for helping JBoss take their Open Source business to a successful exit with their sale to Red Hat, and for helping both AppIQ and Tabblo from their inception to their sale to HP. David serves on the boards of Digium (makers of the very popular Asterisk Open Source PBX/telephony software), Diligent Technologies, OpenSpan, SolidWorks, VideoIQ, and Virtual Iron Software.
In addition to his broad focus on enterprise software, David has specific focus on the areas of Open Source software, Software as a Service, and utility computing products for the data center. He holds a BSc Honours Degree in Computer Science from the University of Sussex, England. See David Skok's bio on the Matrix Partners website. Matrix Partners provided $12 million in VC funding in 2008.
Andrew Payne
Andrew is an experienced executive, inventor, and entrepreneur, with over 15 years experience building software businesses. He's an investor in several early stage startups, and a co-founder/adviser for Lab256.
Previously, Andrew was a principal at Computational Biology Corporation (CBC), which was acquired by Agilent in 2004. Before CBC, he was Founder, President and CEO of Revenio, a venture-funded eMarketing software company he founded in 1999.
Prior to Revenio, he was a co-founder and the VP of Technology at Open Market, a pioneering developer of Internet commerce application software. He built the company's development infrastructure and was a co-inventor of the company's commerce architecture and technologies. He also helped bring the company through a series of financings, including a public stock offering in 1996.
He has an electrical engineering degree with distinction from Cornell University and holds 7 patents. See Andrew's detailed bio.
Gail Goodman, President & CEO, Constant Contact
Gail is founding member and CEO of Constant Contact, a leading provider of on-demand email marketing and online surveys for small organizations. Under her leadership, Constant Contact has grown its customer base to more than 164,000 worldwide. Gail is a seasoned executive with experience in software-as-a-service, software product management and marketing and has served in senior management roles at Open Market, Progress Software Corporation, Dun & Bradstreet Corporation Software, and Bain & Co.
Gail is a frequent speaker at industry events and is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors at Constant Contact, member of the board of trustees and executive officer of the Massachusetts Technology Leadership Council, and a member of the Board of Directors of the ESPC (Email Sender and Provider Coalition). See Gail Goodman’s full bio.
Special Advisors to the Board
David Meerman Scott
David is an award-winning online thought leadership and viral marketing strategist. The marketing programs he has developed are responsible for selling over one billion dollars in products and services worldwide. He is a frequent speaker at corporate events and industry conferences, and is the author of the best-selling marketing book, The New Rules of Marketing and PR.
For most of his career, David worked in the online news business. He was VP of Marketing at NewsEdge Corporation and held executive positions in an electronic information division of Knight-Ridder, at the time one of the world's largest newspaper companies. He has also held positions at an e-commerce company, a Wall Street bond-trading desk, and an economic consultancy. He is an instructor for the Pragmatic Marketing seminar based on the ideas in his book, which helps technology companies become market-driven through the use of online strategies.
A graduate of Kenyon College, David has lived in New York, Tokyo, Boston, and Hong Kong and has presented at hundreds of industry conferences and events in over 20 countries on four continents. He can found online at www.davidmeermanscott.com or on his blog at www.webinknow.com. For more information on David Meerman Scott, see his full bio or his Wikipedia entry.
George Bell, Special Venture Partner, General Catalyst Partners
As Special Venture Partner at General Catalyst Partners, George focuses on investment opportunities in new media, interactive marketing and digital-driven disruptions of traditional consumer behavior.
George has been involved in the creation and growth of consumer businesses for 25 years. Before General Catalyst, he held leading roles at Upromise, the country's largest college savings service, and Excite@Home, bringing together the Excite portal with the @Home cable broadband platform. Larry founded The Outdoor Life Network (now Versus Network), a specialty cable channel reaching 40+MM homes and served as SVP Times Mirror Magazines, where he oversaw eight special interest magazines.
George has won four national Emmy Awards as a producer and writer of adventure, wildlife and vanishing culture documentaries for ABC, Discovery Channel, and National Geographic. He has also won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award both in Northern California and New England; been featured in TIME, Fortune, Forbes and Business Week; has appeared regularly on CNBC as both guest and co-host; and spoken extensively on new media, convergence, and leadership. George holds a BA from Harvard College. See George Bell's bio on the General Catalyst website.