Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Angel

Warren Packard is the Founder and CEO of Thuuz Sports, a B2B business that has built a real-time artificial intelligence platform that drives greater tune-in, monetization, and overall entertainment value for the sports and media industries. Among the services that Thuuz enables are real-time, personalized clips, highlights, and shows, as well as personalized excitement ratings, dynamic headlines, and real-time tune-in alerts for live events. The power of one-to-one personalization yields significant lift in engagement and powers multiple business models that produce significantly more revenue than traditional broadcast and "post and pray” models.

Prior to starting Thuuz, Warren was a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson where he led the firm’s investments in over two dozen companies, leading to seventeen acquisitions and three IPOs, including SeaMicro (NASDAQ: AMD), Ooma (NYSE: OOMA), CastTV (NYSE: NLSN), Feedburner (NASDAQ: GOOGL), Xfire (NASDAQ: VIA), Digital Impact (NASDAQ: ACXM), and Fogdog Sports (NASDAQ: EBAY).

Prior to joining DFJ, Warren co-founded Angara Database Systems, a main memory relational database company, which was acquired by Personify. Prior to co-founding Angara, he was an Associate at Institutional Venture Partners, investing in early-stage technology companies.

Before IVP, Warren was a Senior Principal Engineer at Baxter International. Warren is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University and holds a BS and MS in Mechanical Engineering: Smart Product Design. He received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.