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University of Cape Town, Bachelors of Science
Actuarial Science, Economics, and Statistics
Stanford, MBA

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Roelof Botha

Roelof Botha is a partner at Sequoia Capital focusing on financial services, cloud computing, bioinformatics, consumer internet and mobile companies. Roelof sits on the boards of Aliph, Eventbrite, Mahalo, Meebo, Nimbula, Square, TokBox, Tumblr, Unity and Xoom. Roelof is a champion of consumer Web plays and considers himself as “just another consumer.”

Roelof’s previous investments at Sequoia include Insider Pages and YouTube.

Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2003, Roelof served as the Chief Financial Officer of PayPal during its sale to eBay. Earlier, he worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company. Roelof is a certified actuary (Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries).

Roelof was listed as #23 on Forbes’ 2007 Midas List, which identifies venture capital’s most successful professionals.

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Investments

Company Date Round Size Participants
TokBox 12/08Series A$4M5
Xoom Corporation 9/07Series E$20M7

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TechCrunch Disrupt ‘10: Super Angels To Super VCs

Added: 2/7/11
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TechCrunch Disrupt ‘10: Roelof Botha Backstage

Added: 2/7/11

Sources

  1. techcrunch.com [edit]
  2. Xoom Raises $20 Million Series E (techcrunch.com) [edit]
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