Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Phil joined Ridge Ventures (fka IDG Ventures USA) as a Managing Director in September 2006. He is currently a Member of the Board of Directors at Wave and was previously a General Partner at WaldenVC for 10 years where he primarily focused on early-stage investments in new media and information technology. Phil was responsible for WaldenVC investments in VitalStream (VSTH), Bamboo.com (IPIX), NIKU (NIKU), Sina.com (SINA), Adknowledge and People 3 (IT) and IDG Ventures investments in Funzio (GREE). Phil currently sits on the boards of Telltale Games, Phoenix Labs, Survata, Next Games, Fresh Planet, nWay, Free Range Games, and Espresa, and led investments in Super Bit Machine, Simply Hired, BandPage, GuideSpark, AlphaDraft, Plain Vanilla Games, and Freeform.

Prior to WaldenVC, he worked as an investment banker in Robertson Stephens’ New Media and Information Technology Groups. At Robertson Stephens, Phil managed initial public offerings and mergers and acquisitions assignments for CBT Systems, Computer Learning Centers, Electronic Arts, Fritz Integrated Logistics, Spectrum HoloByte, Sierra On-line, and Vantive, among others. Prior to Robertson Stephens, he worked in Goldman Sachs’ corporate finance group. Phil has also founded and operated three companies in the retail, non-profit, and manufacturing industries.

He is also A Board member of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and Co-Chairman/Founder of the VC Network and the YVCA; two non-profit organizations consisting of over 1,000 venture capitalists in Silicon Valley. Each year, Phil manages social networking events which include the participation of 50% of the Valley’s General Partners. In addition, Phil is the Co-Chairman of the Board of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists (WAVC).

Phil received his Master of Business Administration with Honors from the Harvard Graduate School of Business and earned his Bachelor of Arts in Economics with Honors from Hamilton College. IDG Ventures USA uses the “IDG” name since IDG is a minority LP that helps IDG Ventures USA portfolio companies where applicable. By leveraging the IDG Platform – an unparalleled combination of global IT market research, media, and financing resources – we help our companies understand their markets better and penetrate them faster than their competition. This combination of international perspective, local market expertise, and resources accelerates growth and reduces the early-stage risk for our portfolio companies.