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Threshold is an early stage venture capital firm that spun out from DFJ Venture. We partner with exceptional entrepreneurs building innovative consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology companies.
Emily is a co-founder of Threshold. She is looking for entrepreneurs who are genuinely excited about being agents of change and have an almost irrational drive to make things better. Her portfolio includes BetterUp, Elation Health, Imagen, Livongo (NASDAQ: LVGO), Ooda Health, Redfin (NASDAQ: RDFN) , Shift, Verge Genomics, Vineti, and Wellframe.
In 2019, Forbes recognized Emily on the Midas Brink List as an investor destined for success based on her reputation and momentum in the industry. Emily is an active founding member of All Raise, a non-profit dedicated to improving access for women and others to start and invest in companies. She also serves on the board of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA).
Early in Emily's career, she sourced investments in Box (NYSE: BOX), Meebo (Google), Kudo (Google), RichRelevance, and Flux (MTV Networks). She has also invested and advised a number of early-stage companies including Pulse Network (LinkedIn), Notion and Poshmark.
A Stanford grad with a BA in political philosophy with honors and an MBA, Emily is drawn to disruptive ideas and technologies that have the potential to radically change consumer, enterprise and healthcare markets.
Emily Melton
Managing Partner
Josh is a co-founder of Threshold. He currently holds board responsibilities at Box (NYSE: BOX), Chartbeat, LaunchDarkly, LendKey, Lumity, and Talkdesk. He is also actively involved with the firm's investments in AngelList, Doximity, Front, Loftium and Rippling. His previous investments include Eventful (CBS Local), GoodGuide (UL), iList (IGN/News Corp), Periscope Data (Sisense), Polaris Wireless (strategic recapitalization), Redfin (NASDAQ: RDFN), Selligy (Veeva Systems), SugarCRM (Accel/KKR), Swell (Apple), Tremor Video (NYSE: TRMR), Twilio (NYSE: TWLO), Yammer (Microsoft), and Yardbarker (Fox Sports Interactive).
Josh was a VP at Telephia, where he managed a group providing strategic analysis and information to the nation's largest wireless carrier. Previously, Josh was a co-founder, director, and the chief strategy officer for ViaFone (NYSE: SY), a leading provider of wireless enterprise applications.
Josh has also held positions in product management at Microsoft and NetObjects, and was a management consultant in the San Francisco office of The Boston Consulting Group.
Josh holds a BA from Dartmouth College, an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, and is a graduate of the Kauffman Fellows Program. He currently serves on the board of trustees of the Crystal Springs Uplands School. Previously, he served on the board of directors of the Stanford GSB Trust, the Center for Venture Education and the Kauffman Fellows Program, the leading educational fellowship in venture capital.
Josh was named by Forbes to its annual Midas List of top technology investors in three consecutive years and was twice recognized as a “top VC investor” by New York Times / CB Insights in their annual rankings. He was also a recipient of the Deloitte Fast 500 Venture Capitalist of the Year award.
AngelList
Chartbeat
Doximity
Front
LaunchDarkly
LendKey
Loftium
Lumity
Rippling
Talkdesk
Box (NYSE: BOX)
Periscope Data (Sisense)
Redfin (NASDAQ: RDFN)
Selligy (Veeva Systems)
SugarCRM (Accel/KKR)
Swell (Apple)
Tremor Video (NYSE: TRMR)
Twilio (NYSE: TWLO)
Yammer (Microsoft)
Josh Stein
Managing Partner
Andreas invests in consumer and enterprise infrastructure, mobility, and technology-enabled services. He currently serves on the boards of Balena, CircleCI, Diamanti, Forward Networks, Lexent Bio, Mythic, NumberAI, and Tango, and supports Zymergen. Past investments include Appstream (Symantec), Centerpost (West Corp.), Epocrates (NASDAQ: ATHN), Everdream (Dell), Mobile 365 (Sybase), Meetup (WeWork), Silverpop (IBM), Vizu (Nielsen), and Yodle (Web.com).
At their core, all of his investments have a platform element. Andreas believes that if entrepreneurs do things correctly and build a springboard, they can solve problems and quickly escalate the value they put into the ecosystem.
He graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from Harvard University in computer science, along with an MA degree, and was first in his class at Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar. He previously worked for McKinsey & Company and Cornerstone Research.
Andreas Stavropoulos
Partner
Chirag invests in consumer-facing technology companies. He is on the board of directors of BentoBox and Loftium and is closely involved with Threshold’s investments in Front and LaunchDarkly. Prior to Threshold, Chirag was based in Los Angeles and was instrumental in establishing Pritzker Group’s west coast consumer practice. He led the firm's investments in Casper, The Honest Company, HelloGiggles (Time, Inc.), Hollar, PureWow (Vayner Media), Raden, and Retention Science. He also supported Pritzker's investment in Dollar Shave Club (Unilever).
He worked at CVC Capital Partners, Europe's largest private equity firm. Chirag started his career as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company.
He holds a BA in economics and diaspora studies from Swarthmore College and an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
The Los Angeles Times recognized Chirag as one of LA's top 10 innovators to watch. He is also a member of Swarthmore College's alumni council.
Chirag Chotalia
Partner
Heidi represents the voice of the entrepreneur, having been one herself. But she also represents the voice of the user, as those are the roots that led her to start a company in the first place. She is on the boards of directors of Zoox, Planet, Memphis Meats, HelixRE and DMGT (LSE:DMGT.)
After Heidi earned her undergraduate and MBA degrees from Stanford, she co-founded T/Maker, where she served as CEO for over a decade through its acquisition by Deluxe Corporate in 1994. Next, she joined Apple as VP of Worldwide Developer Relations, and from there, Mobius Venture Capital. She's been named to the Corporate Board Member's "Top 50 Women in Tech" list and Hot Topics' Top 100 Women in Tech. In 2018, Heidi was named the Financial Woman of the Year by the Financial Women of San Francisco. She has also earned the Forum for Women Entrepreneurs and Executives Annual Achievement Award, among other accolades.
Heidi currently holds two leadership positions at Stanford University. She co-leads the Threshold Venture Fellows in the Management Science and Engineering department at Stanford. She is also a member of the advisory council of Stanford’s Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.
Heidi Roizen
Partner
Kristen is an associate and focuses on healthcare and SaaS. Before Threshold, Kristen was an investor at Bessemer Venture Partners, where she sourced investments in Restaurant365 and Applitools. Kristen graduated from Harvard College with a degree in computer science and looks to invest in companies that have durable tech assets.
In her free time, Kristen is a competitive cyclist and is passionate about supporting more diversity in the industry.
Kristen Faulkner
Associate
Mo is focused on emerging platforms. He has sourced and/or co-led investments in Mythic, Yellowbrick, Imagen, Memphis Meats, Atomwise, and Zymergen, and serves on the board of two stealth companies.
Mo was on the technology team at In-Q-Tel, where he conducted technical diligence on behalf of the CIA. Mo also held engineering roles at Lockheed Martin, the National Science Foundation, and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory.
Mo is an author in a chapter addressing the disruption of employment by the rise of automation and artificial intelligence in Disrupting Unemployment: Reflection on a Sustainable, Middle-Class Economic Recovery.
Mo graduated with a BS in electrical engineering, with interdisciplinary honors in international security studies, and an MBA from Stanford University.
In 2018, Mo was named to Business Insider’s list of Silicon Valley biotech stars. He was also featured in the 2017 Forbes 30 under 30 Venture Capital list.
Mohammad (Mo) Islam
Partner
Bill is a fixture in the Seattle tech circle and has held instrumental roles in more than 25 leading software, internet, mobile, and digital media companies as a founder, senior executive, investor, and board member. Today, he serves on the boards of Remitly, Yellowbrick, Chef, Pro.com, and Xealth; with exits at AdXpose (Comscore), Ping Identity (Vista Equity), Reflect (Puppet), Z2live (King), and Varolii (Nuance). He was also an active angel investor in Socrata, Swype, Liquid Planner, Limeade, Sensors in Motion, and Winshuttle, as well as two companies that went public, Isilon Systems and Loudeye.
Based in Seattle, he earned a degree in European history, an MBA, and a PhD candidacy in business strategy from the University of Washington. He focuses primarily on startups in the Pacific Northwest.
Chef
Pro.com
Remitly
Xealth
Yellowbrick
Azuqua (Okta)
Bright Computing
Ping Identity (Vista Equity)
Reflect (Puppet)
Z2Live (King)
William (Bill) Bryant
Partner
Carol is the marketing partner at Threshold. She oversees the firm's brand marketing and communications strategy and plays an advisory role to Threshold’s portfolio companies.
Carol works with entrepreneurs and their teams to help them launch and establish a company position, tell a story, and get in front of the right audiences. Before joining Threshold, Carol was a managing director of Sparkpr's Emerging Technology practice. As a member of the firm's leadership team, she oversaw a portfolio of clients comprised of startups and VC firms. Carol also launched and ran the startup practice at Bite Communications, and was the director of corporate communications at Object Design when the company was named number one on the Inc. 500.
Prior to working with startups, Carol specialized in developing communications strategies for public companies going through significant transitions. She represented Oracle during its rapid growth period and Hewlett Packard after the acquisition of Apollo Computer. Carol is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, where she received her BA in English.
Carol Wentworth
Marketing Partner
As the talent partner at Threshold, Jen works closely with and advises portfolio companies on their initiatives to identify, attract, and retain world-class talent in their organizations.
Jen has been in the talent industry for nearly 15 years with a focus on managing executive searches and counseling founders as they scale their companies. Jen was the head of talent at Comcast Ventures, as well as a partner on the executive talent team at Andreessen Horowitz. Jen spent over four years at Box, where she built the executive search function and ultimately ran recruiting for the company, pre and post IPO. Earlier, Jen was a search consultant at Russell Reynolds Associates.
Jen received a BA in telecommunications from Indiana University.
Jen Kodner
Talent Partner
Johnna keeps track of Threshold’s funds and firm administration.
Prior to joining Threshold, Johnna spent eight years at Lightspeed Venture Partners, most recently as the vice president of finance, where she was responsible for the firm’s financial management, operations, and reporting. Prior to joining Lightspeed, she was a senior accountant at MacFarlane Partners, a real estate investment management firm, and a financial analyst at Apple where she was a key member of the online store finance team during one of its most rapid periods of growth. Johnna began her career at PricewaterhouseCoopers as an associate in the firm’s technology sector.
She graduated from Santa Clara University with a BS in accounting and is a CPA (inactive).
Johnna Lesch
CFO
We are thrilled to congratulate Livongo on its successful IPO, an exciting milestone in the company’s ongoing journey of success and impact. Livongo serves as an exemplary case study for how to drive positive change in healthcare through a new experience for its members.
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