William (bill) Bryant
General Partner at Threshold Ventures
Greater Seattle Area
Overview
Work Experience
Mentor & Advisor to Startups, Incubators and Accelerators
2023 - Current
Serving as a mentor, advisor and general resource to startups, accelerators and incubators. Investor in Residence for Techstars Seattle. Lead mentor at Blue Hawaii, Thrive HI (agtech, water) , Hatch (aquaculture), and JETRO (Japan External Trade Organization).
General Partner
2014
Partner with Draper Fisher Jurvetson (www.dfj.com). Current investments include Remitly, Xealth, Yellowbrick, Pro.com. Recent exits include Ping Identity, Chef, Z2live, Varolii, Azuqua, Bright Computing, Alpental and The Clymb. Looking for early stage opportunities throughout the Pacific Northwest, West Coast and NYC in consumer Internet, enterprise SaaS and cloud infrastructure, fintech, digital health, digital media. Previous angel investments in Winshuttle, Socrata, Limeade, Sensors in Motion, Liquid Planner. Banzai.
Threshold is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on conviction investment strategy.
Board of Directors
2009
Board member for 15+ companies including Remitly, Yellowbrick Chef, Ping Identity Pro.com,,Xealth, Qpass, Exchange Applications (public), Intrinsyc (public), Other past boards include Z2Live, Alpental, Bright Computing, Varolii, Jabber, Viafone, Liquid Planner, QL2 Software, ACL and others.
Chef is a continuous automation platform powered by community and open source software engines.
Raised $105,000,000.00 from Hewlett Packard Pathfinder, DFJ Growth, Citi Ventures, Millennium Technology Value Partners, Battery Ventures, Ignition Partners and Scale Venture Partners.
Founder & Chairman
2012
Founder, Strategic Advisor
2004
Entrepreneur, Investor & Mentor Capitalist
2003
EnvisionVentures is a personal "holding company" that I use to manage my Mentor Capital interests in private equity, both venture funds and early stage direct investing, as well as Board and Advisory Board roles. Current investments include Chef, Ping Identity, The Clymb, Z2live, Medio Systems, Banyan Branch, Vizify, Bonanza, mInfo and Conenza. Current advisory roles include Socrata, Winshuttle, Liquid Planner, Limeade and ACL Services. I am currently a venture partner with two venture funds. Previous investments include Loudeye (Nokia), SingingFish (AOL), Teamplate (Captaris), Exstatic Software (Exchange Applications), Throw (Excite), Web Relevance (Medio)
Venture Partner
2007 - 2014
Venture Partner
2007 - 2014
Venture partner with Draper Fisher Jurvetson investing in Pacific Northwest startups including Chef, Z2 Live, Mpire and Varolii.
Draper Fisher Jurvetson is a venture capital firm.
CEO
2005 - 2006
Venture Partner
2001 - 2002
Originated Atlas investment in Isilon Systems, which went public and was later acquired by EMC for >$2B/
Atlas Venture creates and invests in biotech startup companies with seed and early stage venture investments.