Venture Investor

Boutique venture capital firm focused on discovering great entrepreneurs working on hard technical problems. We like cyber security and predictive analytics and anything that disturbs the heck out of the existing system.


About us

  Alsop Louie Partners is a team of seasoned investors who are entrepreneurs and executives with distinctive reputations. Each partner has experience building technology or media businesses that have grown into successful operating companies, public and private. Among our partners, we have experience in new media, gaming, SaaS, cloud infrastructure, security, and mobile. Half of the partners have had careers at intelligence agencies.

Alsop Louie Partners

Drop Kitchen has developed a suite of software and content to provide intelligent assistance to home cooks around the world, connecting their appliances, providing personalization in their recipe platform, and helping to have their food delivered just as it is needed.


Ursa Major is developing off-the shelf rocket engines for the expanding space industry.


Phase Four is developing a small propulsion device for cube sats.


Hover uses street level photography to render accurate 3D models of buildings.


About us

  HOVER uses patented technology to turn exterior home photos, captured with a smartphone, into a scaled 3D model. Users are then provided with all accurate measurements and an interactive model to plan and design that perfect project.


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Meow Wolf is a platform for integrating immersive, real-life experiences across physical locations and interactive digital media. 


Sapho built a platform that provides notification and actions to users across multiple enterprise applications. It was sold to Citrix. 


The Cipher is dedicated to providing key information for professionals in the business of protecting networks, companies, and countries from cyber attacks and in the national intelligence community.


My partnership, Alsop Louie Partners, was the Series A investor in Twitch Interactive, Inc., nee Justin.tv Inc., which was ultimately sold to Amazon Inc. in September, 2014


About us

  Twitch is the world’s leading video platform and community for gamers. More than 100 million gamers gather every month to broadcast, watch and chat about gaming. Twitch’s video platform is the backbone of live and on-demand distribution for leading video game broadcasters including casual gamers, pro players, tournaments, leagues, developers and gaming media organizations. Twitch is leading a revolution in the gaming community, working to create a participatory experience that transcends gameplay. Learn more at http://twitch.tv.


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Alsop Louie Partners was the Series A investor in Copilot Labs, an effort by one of our former Campus Associates, Eli Chait, to use analytics to help restaurant owners respond to customers and improve their business. The company was sold to Opentable in July, 2014.


About us

  Copilot is a freemium product that delivers concise, plain-english business insights and competitive restaurant rankings directly to the restaurant operator’s inbox. 

After a 5 minute install process, they start receiving emails with answers to questions such as why the business is trending up or down, how trends compare to competitors, and the most significant areas for growth. 

Copilot is founded by industry veterans and backed by technology and retail investors GRP Partners and Alsop Louie Partners.

Copilot (Acquired by OpenTable)

Ness tried to deliver perfect recommendations in real time to users about which restaurant to choose wherever they happened to be. It worked for a small group of hardcore foodies, but the company was sold to OpenTable in 2014 before it could scale its user growth.


About us

  Ness Computing's mission is to make search personal. By combining its understanding of human nature with its expertise in search, recommendations and social networking, Ness delivers experiences that are more deeply personal than ever before.

Ness Computing’s team has expertise in information retrieval, applied machine learning, natural language processing, collaborative filtering, and user interface engineering, and has built successful products and technologies at Apple, Google, Ning, Oracle, Palantir, and Yahoo. The company is venture-backed by Khosla Ventures, Alsop Louie Partners, TomorrowVentures, Bullpen Capital, AMEX, Singtel Innov8, and a Palantir co-founder. Advisors include the creators of Farmville and Mint. The company is based in Los Altos, California. For more information, and careers at Ness Computing, please visit www.likeness.com.

Ness Computing

Independent director for Sonos from before the first product launched to the year it sold $0.5B worth of products. What a fun ride! I learned uncountable lessons working with the CEO, John Macfarlane.


Total of 10 years at NEA. Two years as venture partner, six years as general partner and then a tail of 18 months as venture partner while I worked on my portfolio and figured out how to start a new venture capital firm....


NEA partners with entrepreneurs to turn big ideas and bold aspirations into the products, services and solutions that shape the future. With four decades of investing experience and more than $20 billion in committed capital, we’ve helped build nearly 600 successful businesses, resulting in more than 220 IPOs and 370 acquisitions, across sectors, stages and geographies. We are investors; but we are also technologists, inventors, operators, physicians, researchers, marketers, and yes, even entrepreneurs. We bring these disciplines together under one global fund, united by a shared passion for innovation and a collaborative culture.

New Enterprise Associates (NEA)

I lead NEA's Series C investment in Xfire, where I worked with CEO Mike Cassidy for two years before it was sold to Viacom for $105M in 2006.


About us

  Xfire is the leader in social gaming services for core gamers. In July of 2012,  Xfire passed 22 million registered users.

Xfire was founded in 2003 and acquired by Viacom in 2008 for $102 million.

In August 2010 Xfire was spun out of Viacom by a private team of serial entrepreneurs and internet investors, including: Brock Pierce (IGE, Affinity Media), Mark Donovan (Titan Gaming), and William Quigley (Clearstone Venture Capital). The new team brings a wealth of experience, energy and focus that will further solidify Xfire’s leadership in the gaming space.

Xfire has recently released a re-vamped website and new UI/UX on its desktop and in-game client.

Further, it has launched a new competitive gaming service, Battleground into closed beta.

Battleground features 3 modes of competitive gaming; Instant Action (24/7 death match styled play), Challenges (direct wagering between users or clans) and Tournaments (multi-ladder, automated tournament system) supported by a full virtual eco-system of Xcoin (paid currency) and Battle Tokens (earned currency).

Xfire continues to provide users social networking, group VOIP and chat, social sharing of in-game screen shots and videos, and live-streaming gameplay. 

To learn more about Xfire and to download the client, please go to www.xfire.com.


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I lead NEA's Series A investment in the company that came to be known as Glu Mobile, publicly traded on NASDAQ as GLUU.


About us

  We’ve made our name in the mobile game industry with well-known player favorites like Cooking Dash, Deer Hunter, Design Home and Covet Fashion, Racing Rivals, and Tap Sports Baseball. If you check out Glu on the App Store or Google Play, you’ll find those titles as well as recent pop culture social games like Kim Kardashian: Hollywood and The Swift Life. 

Glu has a brand-new headquarters located in the SoMa district in San Francisco, with game studios in San Mateo and Burlingame, CA. Our global presence extends to Toronto and Hyderabad, totaling just over 600 employees. We're proud to be recognized as a leader in mobile gaming across genres like social, RPG, racing, shooters, sports, and simulation.

Want to know what we've got going on? We're glad you're here! Check it out!

Glu Mobile

I was one of two Series A investors in TiVo, along with Jeff Yang at IVP (later Redpoint). We helped the company formulate the idea for what has now been generically called the DVR (digital video recorder).


Chief editorial executive for leading weekly publication for IT professionals covering product news and reviews.



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Founder of company that published bi-weekly newsletter [PC Letter] for senior executives of personal computer hardware and software companies, as well producing conferences for the same audience called Agenda and Demo.


Occidental College is among the most distinctive urban liberal arts colleges in the country. Founded in 1887 as the first liberal arts college in Los Angeles, Oxy provides a gifted and diverse group of students with a total educational experience of the highest quality -- one that prepares them for leadership in an increasingly complex, interdependent and pluralistic world. Among the College’s esteemed alumni are President Barack Obama '83, Jack Kemp '57, federal judge Jacqueline Nguyen '87, and director Terry Gilliam '62.

Partner at Alsop Louie Partners

Alsop Louie Partners

Partner

Drop Kitchen

Member, Board of Directors

Ursa Major Technologies

Member, Board of Directors

Phase Four Inc.

Member, Board of Directors

HOVER Inc.

Member Board of Directors

Meow Wolf Inc.

Member Board Of Directors

Sapho, Inc.

Member Board of Directors

The Cipher

Member, Board of Directors

Twitch

Member, Board of Directors

Copilot (Acquired by OpenTable)

Member, Board of Directors

Ness Computing

Member, Board of Directors

Sonos Inc.

Member, Board of Directors

New Enterprise Associates (NEA)

General Partner

Xfire

Member, Board of Directors

Glu Mobile

Member, Board of Directors

TiVo Inc.

Member, Board of Directors

InfoWorld Media Group

Editor-in-Chief

Industry Publishing Company

President & Editor in Chief

Occidental College

English

BA