Primary Job Title Venture Partner Primary Organization 
Formative Ventures
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
Investor Type
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Mike Boich was most recently a partner at Interwest, a Menlo Park-based venture firm that he joined in 2005. Prior to Interwest, he worked as an investing partner at Alta Partners, a San Francisco-based venture firm that he joined in January of 2003. Boich has over 20 years of operating experience as a seasoned executive of venture-backed
companies, having been involved with some of Silicon Valley’s most successful start-ups.
Boich was most recently the Co-Founder, President and CEO at Eazel, Inc., a pioneer Open Source company, backed by Accel Partners, whose software is now part of all major Linux distributions.
Prior to Eazel, Boich co-founded Rendition, Inc., a fabless semiconductor firm whose breakthrough graphics-rendering engine pioneered the integration of high-performance three-dimensional graphics into PC graphics controllers. Boich wrote the business plan, raised capital from venture firms Interwest, Matrix, and Enterprise Partners and led the company that became the first to combine high quality texture-mapped graphics and legacy PC graphics into single low-cost component. Rendition was acquired by Micron Technology for $125M in 1997.
From 1986 to 1994, Boich was Co-Founder, President and CEO at Radius, Inc., which grew to be a $300 million supplier of graphics hardware and software for the Apple Macintosh. Boich wrote the business plan, raised the money from pioneer venture firms Kleiner Perkins and Interwest, and grew the company from $0 to $120M in revenue. In 1990, Boich led the company through a very successful IPO. He remained as Chairman and then as a Director until the company merged with Media100 in 2000.
Prior to Radius, Boich was a creator of Apple's software evangelism team for the Macintosh. He was principally responsible for the Apple-Microsoft relationship that resulted in creating hugely successful software applications such as Excel, Word, and other Microsoft applications for the Macintosh.
Boich graduated from Stanford University in 1977 with bachelor of arts degree in economics, and in 1981, he received his MBA from Harvard Business School.
