Michael Moritz is a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital focusing on software and services investments. Moritz currently sits on the boards of 24/7 Customer, Aricent, Gamefly, Green Dot, Kayak.com, Plaxo, Pure Digital, Sugar Inc, WeatherBug, and Zappos.com.

Moritz’s previous investments at Sequoia include Google, Yahoo, PayPal and Flextronics. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 1986, he worked in a variety of positions at Time Warner and was a Founder of Technologic Partners, a technology newsletter and conference company.

Moritz was listed several times on Forbes’ Midas List, which identifies venture capital’s most successful professionals. Although he protests the individual recognition and regards every investment as a team effort.

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Michael Moritz added a position as Board member at Zappos.

Posted 6/3/09 at 1:08pm
Michael Moritz added a position as Director at Yahoo!.

Posted 6/15/08 at 4:01pm
Michael Moritz added a position as Board Member at PayPal.

Posted 5/19/08 at 12:42pm
Michael Moritz added a position as Board Member at Google.

Posted 5/19/08 at 12:42pm
Michael Moritz added a position as Board Observer at HealthCentral.

Posted 5/19/08 at 12:42pm
Michael Moritz added a position as Board Observer at Eons.

Posted 5/19/08 at 12:42pm
Michael Moritz added a position as Board Member at WeatherBug.

Posted 5/19/08 at 12:42pm
Michael Moritz added a position as Board of Directors at Sugar Inc.

Posted 5/19/08 at 12:42pm
Michael Moritz added a position as Board Member at Pure Digital Technologies.

Posted 5/19/08 at 12:42pm
Michael Moritz added a position as Board Member at Plaxo.

Posted 5/19/08 at 12:42pm
Michael Moritz added a position as Board Member at Kayak.

Posted 5/19/08 at 12:42pm
Michael Moritz added a position as Board Member at GameFly.

Posted 5/19/08 at 12:42pm
Michael Moritz added a position as Board Member at A123 Systems.

Posted 5/19/08 at 12:42pm
Michael Moritz added a position as Venture Capitalist.

Posted 2/7/08 at 9:33pm