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Rob Shavell
Founder of DeleteMe
Boston, Massachusetts
Overview
Rob Shavell is the Co-founder of DeleteMe and an investor with Accomplice VC, based in Boston, Massachusetts. His career highlights include founding DeleteMe and investing in companies like SIBEX at the seed stage.
Work Experience
Co-founder
2009 - Current
DeleteMe (www.joindeleteme.com) is a leading force in defining a new category of Privacy Protection as a Service - for both enterprises, families, and individuals across the world..
Principal
2005 - 2008
Seed-investment fund between LA and NY taking stakes in early-stage software companies where the founders are known entities to the principals. Investments include Wikispaces.com, TravelTogether.com.
Head of new products
2003 - 2006
LRN (www.lrn.com) is the leading Saas-based enterprise compliance training company in the world. Conceived, chartered with CEO and 5 enterprise customers and launched the first Sarbanes-Oxley governance, risk and compliance platform used by over 10 million employees in over a dozen languages at Fortune 100 companies including Tyco, Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, and Dow Chemical.
LRN provides integrated solutions through strategic advice, content, tools, online platforms, and support for organizations worldwide.
Raised $30,000,000.00 from Leeds Equity Partners.
Associate
2000 - 2003
Associate at Softbank Capital Partners (Boston) and Softbank VC / Mobius (Silicon Valley). Helped fund two Series A software startups (Python for enterprise and Microsoft Office real-time data exchange) and worked directly with a dozen portfolio investments across three funds totaling $3.2 billion - which used to be a big number way back when...
Analyst
1997 - 2000
Joined the first US office of Datamonitor Plc. (sold to Informa Group Plc. UK:INF). Led the US technology research group. My research on Internet trends, VOIP, etc. was frequently quoted in Newsweek, Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, PC Magazine, the New York Times, etc. Created and launched successful new information-based products still part of core revenues.
Education
Bachelors
1992 - 1996