Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Rob Theis is General Partner with 18 years of venture capital experience and invests in a broad range of multi-stage technology companies with exceptional growth potential. Some of his investments include Automation Anywhere, BirdEye, BrightRoll, Digital Shadows, DocuSign, Fortinet, HubSpot, PGP, RingCentral, and VanceInfo. Rob works closely with committed entrepreneurs to create businesses that become leaders in their respective markets. He has invested in over 25 companies creating an aggregate capitalization of $42 Billion with 7 IPOs and 11 acquisitions.

Rob spent his earlier career as an early employee for Silicon Graphics (SGI) as their product manager for IRIS Series Workstations. Later, he joined Sun Microsystems and went on to take executive roles to accelerate various business units into market leading positions. In 1996, he joined Rick Adam & Harold Piskiel from Goldman Sachs to create New Era of Networks (NASDAQ:NEON), the first enterprise software platform to integrate corporate applications and the internet which he helped grow to $200 million revenue in 4 years.

Rob has a BA in Economics & Computer Science from the University of Pittsburgh. He’s an avid rock climber, scuba diver, sailboat racer, and a member of the Sheriff’s Search & Rescue Team.