Ben Horowitz is vice president and general manager of Business Technology Optimization for Software at HP.
Horowitz was a co-founder of Opsware (formerly Loudcloud), which was acquired by HP in 2007. Earlier, he was vice president and general manager of America Online’s E-commerce Platform division, where he oversaw development of the company’s flagship Shop@AOL service Previously, Horowitz ran several product divisions at Netscape Communications. Horowitz also served as vice president of Netscape’s widely acclaimed Directory and Security product line. Before joining Netscape in July 1995, he held various senior product marketing positions at Lotus Development Corporation.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| ExtraHop Networks | 4/09 | Series A | $5.1M | 3 |
| Good Data | 4/09 | Series B | $2.5M | 4 |
| kaChing | 12/08 | Angel | 7 | |
| Metaplace | 10/08 | Series B | $6.7M | 4 |
| Qik | 8/08 | Unattributed | 2 | |
| AppNexus | 12/07 | Series A | $2.5M | 5 |