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Degrees

Stanford University, MS CS 1987
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
INSEAD, MBA 1992
Business
Dartmouth College, Bachelors 1982
Computer Science and Electrical Engineering

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Geoff Ralston

Geoff Ralston has been an investor in, board member of, and advisor to a variety of start-up companies, mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area. Most recently, Geoff was the chief executive officer of Lala Media, Inc., an innovative cloud music start-up in Palo Alto which was purchased by Apple in December of 2009. Geoff worked at Yahoo! from 1997-2005 after their 1997 acquisition of Four11 Corp. At Four11 Geoff was the VP of Engineering and led the creation of Yahoo! Mail’s predecessor, RocketMail. At Yahoo! Geoff was Senior Vice President and general manager of the Communications Business Unit and then served as the company’s Chief Product Officer from 2003-2005. Prior to Four11, Geoff was the creator of the popular LookUP! Internet white pages and do-it-yourself home page service. Geoff holds a BA in Computer Science from Dartmouth College , an MS in Computer Science from Stanford University , and an MBA from INSEAD, the European Institute of Business Administration.

Recent Milestones

Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
Incident Technologies 11/11Seed$745k13
Earbits 6/11Seed$605k6
Mailgun 5/11Venture Round$1.1M4
Chirply 4/11Seed$1.1M18
MindSnacks 3/11Venture Round$1.2M13
Humanoid 12/10Seed$1.1M17
AeroFS 1/10Venture Round11
DanceJam 5/07Angel$1M8
Mint.com 4/07Series A$4.7M6
Xoopit 12/06Angel$1.5M12
Maya's Mom 10/06Angel$1M7
imeem 10/06Seed$750k5
Badongo.com 1/06Series A15
Cake Financial 1/06Seed8

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  2. Earbits Snags $605K From Y Combinator, Charles River Ventures And Others (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  3. Mailgun Raises $1.1 Million For Its ‘Twilio For Email’ (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  4. Crowd-Sourced Design Startup Chirply Raises $1.1 Million, Launches Redesign (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  5. MindSnacks Raises $1.2 Million For Mobile Educational Games (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  6. TechCrunch (techcrunch.com) [edit]
  7. YC-Funded AeroFS: It's Like Dropbox, But it Runs Inside Your Firewall (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  11. Maya’s Mom Raises Angel Round, Launches (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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  14. cakefinancial.com [edit]
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