Barney Pell is Chief Architect for Local Search for Bing. He was previously Founder and CEO of Powerset, a natural language search engine acquired by Microsoft. Earlier, he was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Mayfield VC, an autonomous robotics researcher and manager at NASA, and a pioneer of general game-playing programs in AI. He’s also Associate Founder and Trustee of Singularity University and an active angel investor and advisor to startups.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| BrandYourself | 3/12 | Series A | $1.2M | 3 |
| CoderBuddy | 10/11 | Seed | 6 | |
| Getaround | 9/11 | Seed | $3.4M | 8 |
| famo.us | 9/11 | Seed | $1.1M | 11 |
| Getaround | 1/11 | Seed | 4 | |
| TekTrak | 11/10 | Series A | 9 | |
| CrowdFlower | 3/09 | Seed | $1.2M | 9 |