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Jeff Clavier - The Web 2.0 VC!

August 14, 2006

Earlier this summer, during the World Cup, I had the chance to spend some time with Jeff Clavier. He invited us to his home to talk about Big in Japan and our hope was to get to know him better.
He was super busy (four offering memorandums were sitting on his kitchen table waiting to be signed and mailed out), but he took some time hang out with us. I wondered how he was able to do so much and today’s news that one of his companies, Userplane was aquired by AOL, has me really stumped.

Earlier this year AOL bought Truveo (another company he advises) and now only eight months later they are buying another one! Wow! Not to mention that Netvibes, another one of his companies, just raised $15MM from Index and Accel. Om Malik has dubbed him, "THE WEB 2.0 VC" - it is starting to look that way! Congratuations Jeff!

Written by Alexander Muse · Filed Under Blog 

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  1. Blake P Says:
    August 15th, 2006 at 12:48 pm

    Netvibes is real clean and TechCrunch loves it. That $15MM should make their future pretty interesting. I also see that TechCrunch has something for Userplane as well. Maybe that should be part of the new “2.0 formula”.

  2. Jeff Clavier Says:
    August 16th, 2006 at 8:04 am

    Thanks Alex. Yeah, been keeping busy over the summer. And it ain’t over :-).

  3. Texas Startup Blog: Web 2.0 and Social Media by Alexander Muse » Blog Archive » Jeff Clavier’s New Seed Fund! Says:
    September 21st, 2007 at 8:41 am

    [...] Jeff Clavier is perhaps the best known and most succeful angel in the consumer internet space in recent years.  Last year I had the opporuntity to hang out with him at his house during the World Cup, I wrote about our meeting in a post titled, "Jeff Clavier - The Web 2.0 VC!"  Singlehandedly, Jeff has funded more than twenty startups, having sold five in the last three years.  He left Reuters Venture Capital a few years ago because as he explains, "my passion was working with early stage entrepreneurs, supporting them with time, cash and connections."  His new seed fund, SoftTech VC II, LP, has $12MM to work with.  He explains: [...]

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