Matt Freivald
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Mr. Freivald brings many years of high-tech industry experience to his role as Venture Partner at Techfund Capital.
He was the founder, president, and CEO of NetMind Technologies, Inc., which was sold to Puma Technology, Inc. in February 2000 for $812 million in public stock.
With less than $9 million in venture capital invested, Mr. Freivald's most important accomplishment at NetMind was producing an overall 10,000% ROI in four years.
Other accomplishments include creating the world's first and most successful e-mail alert service, accumulating over seven million active, registered Internet users with virtually no outbound marketing expenditures, signing up major corporate customers such as eBay and Boeing, and bringing in premier investors such as TechFund Capital, Softbank Technology Ventures, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, BankBoston Ventures, Chase Capital Partners, and Charter Venture Capital.
Until May of 2000, Mr. Freivald served as Executive Vice President of Strategy at Puma aiding in transition issues associated with the acquisition.
He is currently involved as a consultant, advisor, and investor with several high-tech startups.
Prior to founding NetMind, Mr. Freivald held various engineering, marketing, and management positions at Schlumberger, National Semiconductor, and Analog Devices.
Mr. Freivald earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology and an MBA from San Jose State University.
He holds five software patents.
Ehemalige bekannte Positionen von Matt Freivald
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TechFund Capital
TechFund Capital Investment ManagersFinance TechFund Capital (TechFund Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 by Kurt A. Keilhacker. The firm is headquartered in Saratoga, California, with additional office on Paris, France. | Chief Investment Officer | 01.04.2008 |
Puma Technologies, Inc.
Puma Technologies, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Puma Technologies, Inc. developed mobile data exchange software. It was also into marketing of wireless software solutions to the global mobile communications market. The company was headquartered in San Jose, CA. | Marktstratege | 30.04.2005 |
NetMind Technologies, Inc.
NetMind Technologies, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services NetMind Technologies, Inc. operated as a software development company that provided change detection applications. Users can be tracked any web-based information at any level of detail and be notified when the information changes via email, pager, cell phone, PDA or the Web. The company was founded by Matt Freivald, Mark Richards and Alan Noble in 1996 and was headquartered in Santa Cruz, CA. | Vorstandsvorsitzender | 01.05.2000 |
SCHLUMBERGER LIMITED | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
ANALOG DEVICES, INC. | Corporate Officer/Principal | - |
Ausbildung von Matt Freivald
San Jose State University | Masters Business Admin |
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Börsennotierte Unternehmen | 2 |
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ANALOG DEVICES, INC. | Electronic Technology |
SCHLUMBERGER LIMITED | Industrial Services |
Private Unternehmen | 4 |
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NetMind Technologies, Inc.
NetMind Technologies, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services NetMind Technologies, Inc. operated as a software development company that provided change detection applications. Users can be tracked any web-based information at any level of detail and be notified when the information changes via email, pager, cell phone, PDA or the Web. The company was founded by Matt Freivald, Mark Richards and Alan Noble in 1996 and was headquartered in Santa Cruz, CA. | Technology Services |
National Semiconductor Corp.
National Semiconductor Corp. SemiconductorsElectronic Technology National Semiconductor Corp. develops and manufactures analog intensive and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The firm’s product portfolio includes power management circuits, audio and operational amplifiers, analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog converters, communication interface circuits, lighting and display circuits, adaptive voltage scaling circuits, and radio frequency integrated circuits, as well as power references, regulators, and switches. The company was founded by Arie Brish on June 29, 1959 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA. | Electronic Technology |
TechFund Capital
TechFund Capital Investment ManagersFinance TechFund Capital (TechFund Capital) is a venture capital firm founded in 1997 by Kurt A. Keilhacker. The firm is headquartered in Saratoga, California, with additional office on Paris, France. | Finance |
Puma Technologies, Inc.
Puma Technologies, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Puma Technologies, Inc. developed mobile data exchange software. It was also into marketing of wireless software solutions to the global mobile communications market. The company was headquartered in San Jose, CA. | Technology Services |