Speaker
Bill Reichert is a Managing Director of Garage Technology Ventures, a seed-stage and early-stage venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. Garage makes focused investments in promising early-stage technology companies and works intensively with them to help them grow and succeed. Bill currently sits on the Board of Directors of CaseStack, WhiteHat Security, ClearFuels, cFares, and ThermoCeramix. Garage's earlier investments include Tripwire, Claria (formerly Gator), Digital Fountain, iNest (acquired by LendingTree), BusinessLayers (acquired by Netegrity), Psionic (acquired by Cisco), uNav Microelectronics, LeftHand Networks, Answer.com (NSDQ: ANSW), Hoku Scientific (NSDQ: HOKU), and Miasole, among others.
Bill brings his experience as a serial entrepreneur to his work with Garage's portfolio companies. Prior to joining Garage in early 1998, Bill was co-founder of Academic Systems, a software company funded by Kleiner Perkins, Accel Partners and Microsoft. Academic Systems became the leading developer of network-based multimedia instructional materials for colleges and universities, and was acquired by Plato Learning (NSDQ: TUTR). Prior to Academic Systems, Bill was a senior executive at several venture-backed technology companies, including The Learning Company, which was the leading developer of educational software in the United States before its acquisition in 1994, and Infa Technologies, a pen-based computer company that developed many of the concepts underlying the Newton and Palm devices. Bill also co-founded Trademark Software, which was subsequently acquired by Dow Jones, while in graduate school at Stanford.
Earlier in his career, Bill worked for McKinsey & Co., the international management consulting firm, the World Bank in Washington, DC, and Brown Brothers Harriman & Co., in New York. He has authored and co-authored several articles and speeches on entrepreneurship, venture capital, international trade, and monetary policy.
Bill earned his AB in the History of Science from Harvard University and his MBA from Stanford University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and the Pacific Council on International Policy in California. He lives with his extraordinary wife Michelle and three incredible children in Los Altos, California.
