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Mike Volpi

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Mike Volpi joined Index Ventures in July 2009. He is a Partner in the San Francisco office, focusing on investments in the Enterprise Software and Consumer Internet companies. He also contributes to the firm’s later stage growth fund and he currently serves on the boards of Path, Sonos, Lookout, Hortonworks, Soundcloud, Big Switch Networks, Zuora, Foodily, and Storsimple. Mike is also on the board of Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC). Mike was previously a Director of Cloud.com (now part of Citrix).

Mike began his career at Hewlett Packard’s optoelectronics division. He then moved to Cisco Systems where he was Senior Vice President & General Manager of the Routing and Service Provider Technology Group, where he led Cisco’s business for the Service Provider market, and was also responsible for all of Cisco’s routing and access products. In 2007, this was an $11 billion business for Cisco. Mike also served as the company’s Chief Strategy Officer, where he was responsible for Cisco’s corporate strategy as well as business development, strategic alliances, advanced Internet projects, legal services, and government affairs. During this tenure, Mike was instrumental in the creation of the company’s acquisition and investment strategies, as Cisco acquired more than 70 companies during his tenure.

He has Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Recent Milestones

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  Mike Volpi added a position as Member, Board of Directors at Elasticsearch. (1/1/13)
  Posted 2/19/13 at 2:55pm
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  Mike Volpi added a position as Member, Board of DIrectors at FuzeBox. (7/1/12)
  Posted 4/13/13 at 4:58pm
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  Mike Volpi added a position as Member, Board of Directors at Pure Storage. (7/1/12)
  Posted 4/13/13 at 4:58pm
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  Mike Volpi invested in NationBuilder. (3/8/12)
  Posted 3/10/12 at 3:57am via techcrunch.com
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  Mike Volpi added a position as Member, Board of Directors at Hortonworks. (11/1/11)
  Posted 4/13/13 at 4:58pm
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  Mike Volpi added a position as Member, Board of Directors at Zuora. (9/1/11)
  Posted 11/18/11 at 10:52am
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  Mike Volpi invested in Mashape. (8/15/11)
  Posted 9/6/11 at 7:06pm via gigaom.com
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  Mike Volpi added a position as Member, Board of DIrectors at Lookout Inc.. (10/1/10)
  Posted 4/13/13 at 4:58pm
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  Mike Volpi added a position as Member, Board of Directors at Path. (9/1/10)
  Posted 2/1/11 at 3:06pm
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  Mike Volpi added a position as Member, Board of Directors at Big Switch Networks. (7/1/10)
  Posted 4/22/11 at 1:32pm
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  Mike Volpi added a position as Member, Board of Directors at SoundCloud. (6/1/10)
  Posted 2/20/11 at 5:16pm
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  Mike Volpi added a position as Member, Board of Directors at Ericsson Telecommunications. (4/13/10)
  Posted 4/16/10 at 12:07am
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  Mike Volpi added a position as Member, Board of Directors at Sonos. (2/12/10)
  Posted 3/12/10 at 9:23am
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  Mike Volpi added a position as Member, Board of Directors at Cloud.com. (2/1/10)
  Posted 2/6/10 at 12:08pm
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  Mike Volpi added a position as Member, Board of Directors at StorSimple. (7/15/09)
  Posted 2/6/10 at 12:08pm
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  Mike Volpi added a position as CEO at Joost. (6/1/07)
  Posted 7/20/07 at 10:36pm

Investments

Videos

Sources

1. Community Organizing Platform NationBuilder Raises $6.3M From Andreessen Horowitz; Causes Founder Joins As President (techcrunch.com) [edit]
2. API market Mashape raises $1.5M seed from mega investors (gigaom.com) [edit]