Scott Banister

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Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.

Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired by Microsoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.

Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Zivity, a social networking site co-founded with his wife, Cyan Banister, and Jeffrey Wescott. He was an early investor in Powerset, a startup building a natural language search engine, and sits on the company’s Board of Directors. He also sits on the Board of Directors for Slide, a start-up founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin.

Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com. Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.

Milestones

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  Scott Banister invested in OtherInbox. (11/09)
  Posted 11/5/09 at 4:57am
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  Scott Banister invested in Topsy. (12/08)
  Posted 5/26/09 at 2:33pm
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  Scott Banister invested in OtherInbox. (7/08)
  Posted 8/2/08 at 12:02pm
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  Scott Banister invested in WideOrbit. (2/15/08)
  Posted 6/23/08 at 8:59am
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  Scott Banister invested in Topsy. (1/08)
  Posted 5/26/09 at 2:31pm
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  Scott Banister invested in Zivity. (8/1/07)
  Posted 8/20/07 at 6:52am
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  Scott Banister invested in Powerset. (6/1/07)
  Posted 6/11/07 at 11:36am
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  Scott Banister invested in Causes. (1/07)
  Posted 5/14/08 at 11:04pm
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  Scott Banister invested in Slide. (2005)
  Posted 8/31/07 at 5:18am
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  Scott Banister invested in iLike. (2002)
  Posted 5/14/08 at 10:54pm
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  Scott Banister invested in LiveOps. (2001)
  Posted 3/13/08 at 2:04pm
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  Scott Banister invested in Zappos. (3/1/00)
  Posted 8/22/07 at 10:08pm
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  Scott Banister invested in PayPal. (1/99)
  Posted 5/13/08 at 12:13am
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  Scott Banister added a position as Founder at IronPort Systems.
  Posted 5/29/08 at 10:09am
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  Scott Banister added a position as Board of Directors at PayPal.
  Posted 5/13/08 at 12:17am
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  Scott Banister added a position as Board of Directors at Powerset.
  Posted 5/12/08 at 11:19pm

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1. OtherInbox Raises $2.3 Million For E-Mail Organization Tool (paidcontent.org) [edit]
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6. Zivity, an adult social network, raises $1M before launch (venturebeat.com) [edit]
7. powerset.com [edit]
8. Project Agape, formerly known as Philotic, raises $2.35M, for good causes (venturebeat.com) [edit]
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10. GarageBand.com Announces New CEO and Business Strategy (garageband.com) [edit]
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12. Zappos [edit]
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