Jeffrey Preston Bezos, originally of Albuquerque, New Mexico, is the founder, president, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of Amazon.com. Bezos graduated from Princeton University Phi Beta Kappa. Prior to founding Amazon in 1994, he worked as a financial analyst for D. E. Shaw & Co. Time magazine named Bezos the Person of the Year in 1999.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| ChaCha | 1/07 | Series A | $6M | 2 |
| Pelago | 11/06 | Series A | $7.4M | 3 |
| Linden Research | 3/06 | Series B | $11M | 7 |
