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Computing, Education, Entertainment, Financial, Gaming, Information Technology, Internet, Lifestyle, Media
Location:
USA
Interested in:
Advising startups, Creating a group, Finding experts, Giving back, Growing my group, Helping friends, Investing in projects, Meeting new people, Mentoring, Offering Expertise, Professional opportunities, Promoting my startups, Recruiting, Supporting my investments
Tags:
Angel investing, consumer web, early-stage investing, interactive entertainment, online advertising infrastructure, social media
Schools:
Dartmouth College, University of Oxford, University of Virginia
FULL BIO
Allen Morgan's principal focus is on two major investment areas: enterprise software applications and infrastructure, particularly innovative solutions that enhance knowledge-worker productivity, as well as on start-ups in the area of consumer internet services, interactive entertainment, online advertising and new media.
Allen's investments include BlackArrow, DECA, Electric Cloud, Jobster, Pluck, Slide, Snap, Tagged and Zenprise. Allen's notable investments include Jotspot (acquired by Google ), PlanetOut, Serious Magic (acquired by Adobe ) and Varsity Group.
Allen has spent almost 30 years counseling entrepreneurs throughout the startup process, first as a well-known Silicon Valley lawyer and, since 1999, as a Managing Director at Mayfield.
Prior to joining Mayfield, Allen was a partner with two Silicon Valley law firms, Latham & Watkins and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. In his career, he has closed more than 750 venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and other public offerings.
Allen earned an undergraduate degree (summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) from Dartmouth College, a second bachelor's degree and master's degree from Oxford University (Christ Church) and a J.D. from the University of Virginia.
He is an eclectic reader of everything from economics, history and other social sciences to philosophy, counting The Success of Open Source, Everything Bad is Good for You and The Substance of Style as recent books he has enjoyed.
WORK EXPERIENCE
Employer:
Mayfield.
Position:
Managing Director
Time period:
January 1999 - Present
Employer:
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Position:
Partner
Employer:
Latham & Watkins
Position:
Partner
Employer:
BlackArrow, DECA, Electric Cloud, Jobster, Pluck, Slide, Snap, Tagged and Zenprise, Jotspot (acquired by Google ), PlanetOut, Serious Magic (acquired by Adobe ) and Varsity Group.
Position:
Investor
EDUCATION
University:
University of Virginia
University:
Dartmouth College
University:
University of Oxford
INFORMATION
Hobbies:
He is an eclectic reader of everything from economics, history and other social sciences to philosophy, counting The Success of Open Source, Everything Bad is Good for You and The Substance of Style as recent books he has enjoyed.
Susan MacTavish Best has worked extensively with European and North American companies providing them with strategic public relations counsel since 1995.
