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Steven
P. Bird
General Partner
Steve is a cofounder and General Partner of Focus Ventures. Steve
focuses on investments in the enterprise software and electronic commerce
areas. He has led successful investments in Broadbase (Kana), FrontBridge (Microsoft), Interwoven and ShoreTel. He has recently headed up investments in Entropic, MarkMonitor, Six Apart and VideoEgg.
Prior to cofounding Focus Ventures, Steve was a Managing Director
at Comdisco Ventures where he provided debt and equity capital for
emerging growth companies. Previously he was a General Partner at
First Century Partners, a $100 million venture capital fund affiliated
with Smith Barney. Successful investments at First Century and
Comdisco included Aspect Development, Elantec, Summit Design Technology,
SuperMac Technology, and US Web. Steve was a Manager at Bain
& Company, a management consulting firm where he worked in the
communications, software, and semiconductor industries. Steve
began his career as a Senior Development Engineer working in software
development at Battelle Northwest Laboratories.
Steve holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business,
where he graduated as an Arjay Miller Scholar, and MS and BS degrees,
with distinction, in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
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