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John Beatty

EIR, Sutter Hill Ventures. Engineer. Former co-founder, VPEng, and CEO of Clover (acquired).

San Carlos, California

Overview 

John Beatty is currently serving as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Sutter Hill Ventures, specializing in investing in seed and pre-seed stages within sectors like Hardware and CleanTech. He is renowned for his role as co-founder, VPEng, and CEO of Clover Network, which was successfully acquired, showcasing his expertise in technical architecture, scalability, and cloud computing. Highlights of John Beatty's career include his leadership in founding and growing Clover Network, Inc., culminating in a successful acquisition, and his current role at Sutter Hill Ventures, where he leverages his engineering background to invest in innovative startups in various sectors within the San Francisco Bay Area.

Work Experience 

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Clover Network, Inc.

  • Advisor

    2020 - 2021

  • CEO and Co-founder

    2016 - 2020

    Clover is the operating system for small business. Our mission is to help businesses operate efficiently and grow sustainably. We build beautiful hardware and software for payments and point-of-sale, built on an open platform that enables innovation in the physical world of commerce.

  • Co-founder & President of Engineering

    2010 - 2016

    Clover is on a mission to help merchants provide awesome in-store customer experiences. We’re doing this by building an open, cloud-based point-of-sale platform combined with Android-based devices that merchants and customers interact with.

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Sutter Hill Ventures

  • Entrepreneur in Residence

    2010 - 2010

Sutter Hill Ventures primarily invests in technology-based start-ups.

Raised $15,000,000.00.

shv.com
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Yahoo!

  • Principal Technical Yahoo!

    2007 - 2009

    Voting systems. Condorcet methods, dynamic ballots, fast provisional rankings, anti-fraud. Anti-spam/abuse. Used Hadoop to route out fraud and abuse. Cut my teeth on machine learning techniques. Internet applications work. Built web programming toolkits, DB tools, etc.

Yahoo is a technology and media company that serves users through its portfolio of digital platforms, products, and services.

Raised $6,800,000.00 from Visa, SoftBank Capital, Sequoia Capital and Reuters Venture Capital.

yahoo.com

Bix.com

  • Founding Engineer

    2006 - 2007

    Online voting back-end and front-end. Lots of web development framework and database work. Also hacked on a QuickTime for Java-based webcam recorder/uploader for Mac.

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BEA Systems, Inc.

  • Staff Engineer

    2003 - 2006

    Helped build fault-tolerant in-memory data store which was used in BEA WebLogic SIP Application Server. Also worked in CTO office leading Java API standards. Was BEA's alternate representative to the Java Community Process Executive Committee.

BEA provides enterprise application and service infrastructure software enabling companies to streamline operations and cut costs.

Raised $50,000,000.00 from Alfred Chuang and Warburg Pincus.

bea.com
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Sun Microsystems

  • Senior Staff Engineer

    2001 - 2003

    Research Software Engineer, Sun Labs. Distributed search, peer-to-peer systems. Lead Architect, Liberty Alliance. Fortunately for the world, OpenID and OAuth have superseded most of what we did there.

Sun Microsystems is a multinational vendor of computers, computer software and hardware, and information technology services.

Raised $1,700,000.00 from Kleiner Perkins.

sun.com

Cambridge Technology Partners

  • Associate Director

    1998 - 2000

    Engineer for various custom software products, including retirement plan trading systems, financial modeling, and mobile service delivery platforms.

Coresoft Technology

  • Intern Software Engineer

    1996 - 1997

    Intern software engineer for PC-class computer telephony clients and servers. Lots of C++ and DCOM.

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