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Scott Maxwell
Director at The Athena Alliance
Boston, Massachusetts
Overview
Scott Maxwell is a Senior Managing Director at OpenView Venture Partners in Boston, Massachusetts. With an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and a Ph.D. from MIT, he has a strong background in venture capital and has made significant investments in companies like Intezer, Zipwhip, and Socrata, focusing on sectors such as SaaS and cloud infrastructure.
Maxwell's career highlights include serving as a Director at various companies like VersionOne and ExactTarget, in addition to being a Trustee at UC Davis and playing a key role in investments in successful companies like Skytap and Mashery.
Work Experience
External Advisory Board Member
2018 - Current
delta v is MIT’s premier venture accelerator, that prepares entrepreneurs to hit escape velocity and launch into the real world.
Director
2017
Director
2007
Director
2007
Exinda provides WAN optimization and network control products and services to mid-sized enterprises and institutions.
Raised $35,000,000.00 from Wellington Financial.
Senior Managing Director
2006
OpenView Venture Partners is a venture capital firm focused on helping technology companies turn their visions into reality. Scott Maxwell partners with management teams, boards, and investors to help build great companies.
OpenView is an expansion stage venture firm that helps grow software companies into market leaders.
Director
2011
Skytap Cloud accelerates enterprise innovation by modernizing traditional applications with cloud-native development and services.
Raised $127,510,000.00 from Vistara Growth.
Trustee
2013 - 2016
Director
2007 - 2013
Barracuda MSP provides IT security and data protection services.
Director
2004 - 2013
Exact Target IPOed in 2012 and was acquired by Salesforce.com in 2013
ExactTarget provides on-demand one-to-one email marketing software applications.
Raised $188,210,000.00 from Battery Ventures, Scale Venture Partners, Sapphire Ventures, Greenspring Associates, TCV and TCV.
Director
2011 - 2013
Mashery is an API management company and was purchased by Intel
Mashery is a TIBCO company providing API management services that enable companies to leverage web services as a distribution channel.
Raised $34,700,000.00 from First Round Capital, OpenView, Formative Ventures, Cisco and .406 Ventures.