James Currier

General Partner

2015 - Current

Co-Founder and Chairman

2010 - 2017

A secure network and marketplace for connecting employees of the F500 to the health care industry. Backed by Venrock, Towers Watson, GE, J&J, and merged with Castlight, a public company.

CEO & Co-Founder

2007 - 2014

Start-up greenhouse focused on networks and marketplaces, and methodologies for growing them. Launched three successful companies, Wonderhill (social gaming), IronPearl (growth analytics, SaaS) and Jiff (healthcare software SaaS for large, self-insured employers and insurance companies).

Board Member

2005 - 2011

Co-Founder and CEO

2008 - 2011

Social gaming company, maker of GreenSpot on MySpace and Dragons of Atlantis on Facebook. CRV and Shasta invested, merged with Kabam 2010.

Founder and CEO

1999 - 2005

Tickle was founded in 1999. It's primary business was viral self-assessment tests. We also developed matchmaking and social networking properties in 2002 and 2003 respectively. In May 2004 we sold to Monster.com. The company grew to 80 employees and $38 million in revenue. Between all the viral services, we registered over 175 million user accounts, and at one time ranked as the 18th largest website in the world by Media Metrix. We won the Webby in 2002 for "Fastest Growing Website." Ex-Ticklers still get together to party, and many of the old Ticklers work with me still at Ooga Labs. Great people.

Associate

1994 - 1997

Source and help close deals in telecommunications, software and Internet fields. In my spare time in 1994 and 1995, started two websites: Capital Venture (for young VC's) and VCNN (Venture Capital News Network), the first online community site for the high tech venture capital community.

Business Development Manager

1993 - 1994

Developed plans for suites of digital technologies which would lead to 12 new television channels in 7 different languages and enable STAR TV to become the cable operator of Asia. Murdoch bought the company.

Associate

1990 - 1993

GTE New Ventures group just north of Hollywood. We were investing in startups building broadband applications targeted to the entertainment industry. All we had at the time was AT&T's private broadband network, no TCP/IP yet.