HubSpot is a privately held company funded by investments from General Catalyst Partners, Matrix Partners, Scale Venture Partners, Sequoia Capital, Google Ventures, Salesforce.com and several Boston angel investors. Read the Company Blog articles announcing the series A, series B, series C and series D HubSpot venture capital investments.
Brian Halligan, CEO & Founder, HubSpot
For Brian's bio, see the HubSpot Management page.
Dharmesh Shah, Chief Technology Officer & 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.
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 FanSnap.
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.
Michael Simon, President and CEO, LogMeIn
Michael is the founder and CEO of LogMeIn, a worldwide company that offers a suite of software products that give remote access to computers. He founded the company in 2003, and it has since become a publicly traded market leader with more than $100 million in annual revenue and nearly $1 billion market cap.
Prior to starting LogMeIn, Michael started the company Uproar, Inc., which provided online game shows and interactive games. It was acquired by Vivendi Universal Games, Inc. in March 2001.
Michael has a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame and an M.B.A. from Washington University St. Louis. See Michael Simon's bio on the LogMeIn website.
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.
Rob Theis, Managing Director, Scale Venture Partners
Rob Theis invests in technology infrastructure and applications companies at Scale Venture Partners. He currently serves on the boards of BrightRoll, HubSpot, Scale Computing and Tapulous (Acq: Disney). Prior to joining ScaleVP, Rob was General Partner with Doll Capital Management (DCM) and invested in leading companies, including JasperSoft, NeoPath Networks (Acq: Cisco), PGP Corporation (Acq: Symantec), Roamware and VanceInfo (NYSE: VIT).
Rob's investing career builds on his global experience driving technology startups' sales, marketing and partnership success. As executive vice president for New Era of Networks (NEON), Rob grew the company to IPO and to $200 Million revenues in 4 years. Prior to NEON, Rob spent 10 years in executive roles at Sun Microsystems, where he drove growth in a series of new strategic initiatives, including Sun's over Billion revenue business in the Financial Services Industry sector. Rob's previous experience includes launching Silicon Graphics' initial workstations and selling timesharing services for McDonnell Douglas (now Boeing). Rob was awarded the Honors Scholarship at the University of Pittsburgh, where he earned a B.A. degree in economics. In Rob's spare time, he is a Sheriff cliff/mountain rescue specialist, rescue diver and serves on the boards of University of Pittsburgh AA and Royal Bank of Canada investment committee.
Special Advisors to the Board
Jim Goetz
Jim Goetz is General Partner at Sequoia Capital. Jim’s current areas of interest include cloud, mobile, consumer and enterprise companies. He has helped create and grow a number of technology companies and product lines to market leading positions both as an entrepreneur and as an investor. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital, Jim served as a General Partner at Accel Partners. In 1996, he co-founded VitalSigns Software (Lucent) where he assembled and led the team that pioneered end-user performance management with Net.Medic and application and network performance market with VitalSuite. Within four years, VitalSigns grew into the market leader in network and application performance management software with $100M in bookings and 25M+ agents deployed. Prior to VitalSigns, Jim was the Vice President of Network Management for Bay Networks (Synoptics) where business segment revenues increased from $80 million to $396 million, Optivity’s market share grew to a dominant 51% and their embedded RMON market share grew to 43%. Prior to Bay and Synoptics, he held various product and marketing positions at AT&T and Digital Equipment. Jim has a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Drew Houston
Drew Houston is the founder and CEO of Dropbox, a software product that makes it easy to securely share files with other people, sync them across multiple computers, access them from anywhere, and keep them safe. Drew founded the company in 2007 and since then it has grown to over 4 million users using exclusively viral and referral marketing.
Chris Brogan
Chris Brogan is President of New Marketing Labs, a new media marketing agency and home of the Inbound Marketing Summit conferences and Inbound Marketing Bootcamp educational events. He works with large and mid-sized companies to improve online business communications like marketing and PR through the use of social software, community platforms, and other emerging web and mobile technologies.
Chris is a ten year veteran of using social media and both web and mobile technologies to build digital relationships for businesses, organizations, and individuals. He speaks, blogs, writes articles, and makes media of all kinds at http://chrisbrogan.com, a blog in the top 10 of the Advertising Age Power150, and in the top 100 on Technorati. He is co-author of the book Trust Agents, a New York Times bestseller.
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 http://www.davidmeermanscott.com/ or on his blog at http://www.webinknow.com/. For more information on David Meerman Scott, see his full bio or his Wikipedia entry.
Andrew McAfee
Andrew McAfee is currently a principal research scientist at the Center for Digital Business in the MIT Sloan School of Management, and a fellow at the Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society. He also serves as Dean of the HubSpot Fellows Program, an internal MBA-style curriculum for HubSpot employees. He studies the ways that information technology affects businesses and business as a whole. His research investigates how IT changes the way companies perform, organize themselves, and compete.
McAfee coined the phrase “Enterprise 2.0” in a spring 2006 Sloan Management Review article to describe the use of Web 2.0 tools and approaches by businesses. McAfee’s book on Enterprise 2.0 was published in November 2009 by Harvard Business School Press. McAfee is the author or co-author of more than 100 articles, case studies and other materials for students and teachers of technology. He has written columns for the Washington Post, the Financial Times, and Canadian Manager, and been a guest on the Charlie Rose show.
He speaks frequently to both academic and industry audiences, and has taught in executive education programs around the world. He received his Doctorate from Harvard Business School, and completed two Master of Science and two Bachelor of Science degrees at MIT.