Craig Sherman

Investment Partner , Angel

Overview

Gender
male
Investor Type
Investment Partner,Angel
Investor Stage
Seed

Craig Sherman is a Partner and Managing Director at Meritech since 2011. Craig focuses primarily on digital media and consumer services. Craig has led the firm's investments in Evernote, Zulily, Lynda.com and Ariosa Diagnostics.

Prior to Meritech, Craig was Chief Executive Officer of Gaia Interactive, which he grew from a 1/2 million to over a 20 million monthly visitor pioneer in social games and online communities.

Prior to joining Gaia, Craig served as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Benchmark Capital.

Previously, Craig was Chief Operating Officer of Ancestry.com (ACOM), where he helped lead the company’s pivot from a free family social network to a family history subscription service and grew the company from under $10 million to $150 million in sales and from tens of millions in losses to tens of millions in profits.

Before Ancestry.com, Craig held senior positions at AIG: he was Head of Marketing and Internet for all of AIG's Japanese and Korean divisions totaling over $5 billion in sales; and the General Manager of AIG's property management software subsidiary, a $90 million sales company whose growth rate quadrupled during Craig's tenure.

Previous to AIG, Craig was Chief Executive Officer of Cendant Japan, a joint venture startup he founded with Cendant and Mitsubishi Corporation that he helped grow from inception to over $20 million in sales and profitability. Before that, Craig worked in product, marketing, finance and operations roles at Cendant during its growth from less than a $1 billion to over a $40 billion public company.

Craig has personally invested in over a dozen startups including Ancestry, SurveyMonkey, Zillow and Zipcar.

In addition, Craig has held independent board and advisory roles with Homestead (prior to its sale to Intuit), Kongregate (GameStop), Logoworks (Hewlett Packard), Netquote (BankRate), and Photobucket (Fox).

Craig graduated magna cum laude with A.B. degree in East Asian Studies from Princeton University.

Craig spends his 'free' time with his son and daughter - hiking, playing soccer, doing puzzles and even some musical theater. After they go to sleep, he loves to meditate and read classic (AKA “old”) novels.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
3
Craig Sherman has made 3 investments. Their most recent investment was on Jun 5, 2007, when Scribd raised $3.71M.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
Nov 4, 2015 Karat Seed $2.30M Information Technology Detail
Dec 1, 2011 Rev.com Series A $4.60M Artificial Intelligence Detail
Jun 5, 2007 Scribd Series A $3.71M EBooks Detail

Jobs

Number of Current Jobs
7
Craig Sherman has 7 current jobs including Board Observer at Evernote , Angel Investor at Rev.com and Board Member at Rev.com .
Organization Name Title At Company Start Date End Date
Evernote Board Observer May 1, 2012 Detail
Rev.com Angel Investor Mar 1, 2011 Detail
Rev.com Board Member Jan 1, 2011 Detail
Momentive Angel Investor Jan 1, 2010 Detail
Roblox Board Of Director & Angel Investor Jan 1, 2007 Detail
Domo Investor Detail
Pendulum Therapeutics Board Member Detail