Board of Directors
Scott DarlingDirector
Scott is a General Partner at Frazier Technology Ventures, serving on the boards of Docusign and Socrata. Scott has more than 25 years of experience as a technology executive. Most recently, Scott spent 7 years with Intel Capital where he was Vice President and Managing Director. During this tenure at Intel Capital he managed the teams responsible for the Digital Home and Enterprise investment sectors in support of the business units representing more than two thirds of Intel’s revenue. During Scott’s years at Intel and prior to joining Intel Capital in 2000, he was the general manager for several business units including the Internet Media Services Division and the Personal Conferencing Division, as well as the marketing director for the OEM Computer Systems Division. Before Intel, Scott worked in product marketing at Apple Computer and at two early PC industry startups: VisiCorp and Osborne Computer Systems. Scott received his MBA from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business in 1988. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 1981, where he studied economics and computer science.
Rebecca LynnDirector
Rebecca is a Partner at Morgenthaler Ventures. Rebecca joined Morgenthaler’s Menlo Park office in 2007 where she focuses on early-stage investments in mobile, health 2.0, Internet services and financial services. She serves on the boards of Lending Club, Practice Fusion, and Socrata and she is a second on the boards of Adara Media and Autonet.
Rebecca began her career at Procter and Gamble’s corporate headquarters where she worked in international new product market entry. She then joined NextCard as an early employee and spent four years at the company. At NextCard, she led product development efforts and later served as the Vice President of Marketing where she managed one of the top five largest online marketing efforts. NextCard was the first online credit card company, and it went public in 2000 with a $1.3B market cap. After NextCard, she ran her own consulting business focusing on online marketing for financial services and affiliate marketing. Rebecca received her JD/MBA degree from the Haas School of Business and U.C. Berkeley School of Law and holds a B.S. in chemical engineering from the University of Missouri.
Robert RungeDirector
Bob is an accomplished technology strategist and marketer with more than 25 years of experience as a leader in the technology industry. In addition to successful tenures with Oracle and Sybase, Bob served as chief marketing officer for content management pioneer BroadVision and as chief marketing officer for CRM innovator Pivotal Software. At Revenue Science (now Audience Science), Bob helped chart the company’s successful course as chief strategy officer. Bob holds an MBA from the University of Illinois. He also earned his undergraduate degrees from the University of Illinois where he studied fine arts and Germanic languages.
Kevin MerrittFounder & CEO
Here’s his lengthier biography.
Advisory Board
Bill BryantAdvisor
Bill has had early and instrumental involvement in over 20 leading software and Internet companies, serving in a variety of capacities, including founder, senior executive, investor and board member. Bill is a board member of ACL, a worldwide market leader in risk management and compliance software and Pluggd, a startup that is revolutionizing audio and video media search. He currently serves on the advisory boards of Medio Systems, Boopsie, Cascadia Capital, Sensors in Motion, Limeade, and Mixxer. Bill is a former partner of Atlas Ventures, where he originated their investment in Isilon Systems. Prior to Atlas, Bill co-founded Qpass and served as its CEO and chairman. He also co-founded and served as president of Netbot, which built Jango, the first comparison shopping agent for the Internet. In the early 90s, he was the founding vice president of worldwide sales and marketing at Visio Corporation (now part of Microsoft). Since that time, Bill has consulted extensively with Microsoft, Real Networks, Getty Images and Corbis, and has helped a half dozen startups reach liquidity. Bill is a popular speaker in the Northwest on technology, venture capital, entrepreneurship and startup topics. He received a B.A. in European History, an M.B.A., and his Ph.D. Candidacy in Business Strategy, all from the University of Washington. He holds a patent for an electronic commerce network. Bill is a venture partner with Draper Fisher Jurvetson.
