Chris Sacca

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Christopher Sacca is a venture investor, private equity principal, company adviser, and entrepreneur managing a portfolio of over 15 consumer web, mobile, and wireless technology start-ups as well as an array of mature enterprises through his holding company, Lowercase Capital.

Previously, Chris served as Head of Special Initiatives at Google Inc. In that role, among other responsibilities, he headed up the alternative access division. His most visible projects include Google’s 700MHz and TV white spaces spectrum initiatives, the company’s groundbreaking data center in The Dalles, OR and Google’s free citywide WiFi network in Mountain View, CA. Chris also spearheaded many of Google’s business development and M&A transactions.

Most recently, Chris proudly worked on President Barack Obama’s campaign as a Telecommunications, Media, and Technology adviser, a speaking surrogate, a field office volunteer, and as Co-Chair of Finance and a Trustee of the Presidential Inaugural Committee.

The Wall Street Journal cited Sacca as “possibly the most influential businessman in America.” He was also recently recognized as a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, annually selecting 20 of the world’s most promising leaders and public servants under the age of 45. In addition, Chris serves as an Associate Fellow of the Said Business School at Oxford University.

Before joining Google, Chris held a number of executive roles at one of the world’s largest streaming and digital media distribution companies, Speedera Networks (acquired by Akamai Technologies), and was ultimately responsible for their legal and corporate development efforts. Prior to Speedera, Chris was an attorney with the Silicon Valley law firm of Fenwick & West where he handled venture capital, mergers & acquisitions, and licensing transactions for technology clients such as Macromedia, VeriSign, and Kleiner Perkins. Before arriving in Silicon Valley, Mr. Sacca lived and worked in Europe and Latin America.

Chris graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center where he was a member of The Tax Lawyer law review and was honored as the school’s Philip A. Ryan and Ralph J. Gilbert Memorial Scholar. He also graduated cum laude from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and was an Edmund Evans Memorial Scholar as well as a Weeks Family Foundation Scholar. Chris also attended university at each of Universidad Católica del Ecuador in Quito, Ecuador, University College Cork, in Cork, Ireland, and the Universidad Complutense in Madrid, Spain.

Chris lives in San Francisco and is an avid Pacifica surfer, San Mateo kite surfer, Lake Tahoe skier, and Ironman triathlete.

Milestones

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• Invested in Universal Record Database. (9/09)
  Posted 9/7/09 at 2:10pm
• Invested in Small Batch, Inc. (6/24/09)
  Posted 6/24/09 at 1:20pm
• Invested in bit.ly. (3/30/09)
  Posted 3/30/09 at 1:54pm
• Invested in Tipjoy. (9/24/08)
  Posted 9/24/08 at 8:01pm
• Invested in RescueTime. (9/08)
  Posted 9/22/08 at 4:13pm
• Invested in Someecards. (4/08)
  Posted 4/9/08 at 2:08pm
• Invested in Omnisio. (1/08)
  Posted 3/14/08 at 10:52am
• Invested in Twitter. (7/1/07)
  Posted 7/30/07 at 1:56am
• Invested in Photobucket. (5/1/06)
  Posted 5/29/07 at 3:05am
• Added position as Advisor (acquired by Synthasite) at Clickpass.
  Posted 11/10/08 at 9:36pm
• Added position as Advisor at Heroku.
  Posted 11/10/08 at 9:49pm
• Added position as Advisor/Investor at Flexilis.
  Posted 11/10/08 at 9:49pm
• Added position as Advisor/Investor at Adpinion.
  Posted 11/10/08 at 9:49pm
• Added position as Advisor/Investor (acquired by Live Current Media) at Auctomatic.
  Posted 11/10/08 at 9:49pm
• Added position as Advisor/Investor at Twitter.
  Posted 11/10/08 at 9:49pm
• Added position as Advisor at International Creative Management.
  Posted 11/10/08 at 9:51pm
• Added position as Limited Partner at Someecards.
  Posted 8/10/08 at 8:36am
• Added position as Advisor/Investor at Someecards.
  Posted 7/27/08 at 3:50pm
• Added position as Advisor/Investor at RescueTime.
  Posted 7/27/08 at 3:50pm
• Added position as Executive (acquired by Akamai) at Speedera Networks.
  Posted 6/23/08 at 5:14pm
• Added position as Advisor at MotionDSP.
  Posted 4/16/08 at 9:10am
• Added position as Advisor/Investor (acquired by Google) at Omnisio.
  Posted 4/16/08 at 9:09am
• Added position as Advisor at Summit Entertainment.
  Posted 11/10/08 at 9:51pm
• Added position as Advisor at path intelligence.
  Posted 11/10/08 at 10:03pm
• Added position as Managing Director at path intelligence.
  Posted 11/10/08 at 10:08pm
• Added position as Advisor at Tipjoy.
  Posted 11/11/08 at 9:13am
• Added position as Advisor/Investor (acquired by Newscorp) at Photobucket.
  Posted 11/11/08 at 10:20am
• Added position as Advisor/Investor at bit.ly.
  Posted 5/19/09 at 11:58pm
• Added position as Advisor/Investor at FanBridge.
  Posted 5/19/09 at 11:58pm
• Added position as Advisor/Investor at Twilio.
  Posted 5/19/09 at 11:59pm
• Added position as Advisor/Investor at Poll Everywhere.
  Posted 7/29/09 at 8:09pm
• Invested in Auctomatic.
  Posted 11/15/07 at 4:31am

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2. Small Batch Inc. Announces Typekit Funding (blog.typekit.com) [edit]
3. TinyURL Rival Bit.ly Raises $2 Million (businessinsider.com) [edit]
4. Tipjoy Raises $1 Million For Its Simple Micropayment Platform (techcrunch.com) [edit]
5. techcrunch.com [edit]
6. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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8. More Information On That Secretive Twitter Financing (techcrunch.com) []
9. PhotoBucket Closes $10.5M From Trinity Ventures (techcrunch.com) []
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