William (Bill) Bryant

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.

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.

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.

CEO

2005 - 2006

Venture Partner

2001 - 2002

Originated Atlas investment in Isilon Systems, which went public and was later acquired by EMC for >$2B/