RightVentures

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  Intercom

  Intercom is a next-generation customer relationship management and messaging product designed for SaaS providers. Application owners desire more effective communication channels to build relationships with their key customers. Intercom lets application teams explore, message and engage their users in powerful ways. In realtime or set to triggers, users can be engaged for promotions, support or product feedback. Sites are finding Intercom 5-10x more effective than email. The team behind Intercom are experienced web software designers and developers. Previously we've launched two popular products which have been acquired.

  - Advising Founders, 2011

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  PusherApp

  "RightVentures aren't your average group. They will help you strap a rocket ship to your company, integrate it and keep you on course with the right advice and expertise throughout. Just remember to strap in."

  

  - Damien Tanner, PusherApp Founder, 2011

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  Iron.io

  "RightVentures was our first advisor and investor. They believed in us when we were still a couple guys in a garage. Their track record, deep connections, and infectious energy gave us the confidence to raise a much bigger round with additional fantastic, well respected investors. Now our growth is a hockey stick with a healthy seed round in the bank all thanks to RightVentures creating that critical inflection point.

  We can't wait to build even more momentum alongside RightVentures, whether it be on a whiteboard, over a longboard, or in a board room."

  
  - Chad Arimura CEO & Co-Founder Iron.io, 2011

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  CloudVertical

  "RightVentures have supported and helped accelerate CloudVertical since day 1 - we simply would not be where we are now without their help and advice. At every turn they provided the right introductions, added weight and credibility when we were raising venture capital, and always give sound advice and add expertise. The company, and myself, get so much value from RightVentures, I hope that we can contribute back in the future."

  "The only downside is trying to keep up with their pace! If you get the opportunity to work with the RightVentures team - take it."

  
  - Ed Byrne CEO & Founder, 2011

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  ftopia

  "We've been so lucky to have Jonathan investing early on. It's not just about funding -- actually one might consider paying to have RightVentures involved! The amount of energy, knowledge and ideas spurring from them has no parallel."

  
  - Philippe Honigman CEO & Founder, 2009

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  Trigger.io

  "The RightVentures team are seriously value-add: they're operators themselves so it's not just about intros to other investors and bus devt contacts. They can dive into code, figure out user acquisition and advise based on experience of all aspects of starting up. They are also enormous fun to work with if you can keep up with the pace!

  I would recommend working with RightVentures to any founder."

  

  - Amir Nathoo, CEO & Founder

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  DueProps

  "Jonathan is a constant source of ideas, inspiration and motivation -- plus he's just so much fun to work and hangout with. I don't ever want to do a startup without RightVentures involved!"

  

  - Obie Fernandez, DueProps Founder, 2011

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  higear

  P2P Luxury car rental.

  - Advising Founders, 2011

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  syntellia

  "Right Ventures has brought us incredibly valuable advice, connections, and have been very supportive of our team and business throughout the process.

  It's a rare thing for a VC firm to understand your business plan not just to assess an investment, but to genuinely find ways to help and add value. If you are raising funding, I highly recommend you try to work with them.

  And, for what it's worth, they are really fun people to work with too!"

  - Ioannis Verdelis, Founder and COO, 2012

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  ScaleXtreme

  Cloud Management 2.0

  - Advising Founders, 2012

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  BabyJunk

  "After our first pitch to Jonathan, I'm pretty sure he understood our business model better than we did. His insight, introductions, and investment have been invaluable. We count ourselves lucky to be part of the RightVentures network."

  

  - Garth Humbert, Cofounder BabyJunk, 2012

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  BioIQ

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  42Floors

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  CircleCI

  "CircleCi makes Continuous Integration and Deployment as a service. In practice, this is a Platform as a Service designed for testing. Jonathan's expertise has been instrumental in getting us where we are today. He has advised us on every part of our business, from hardcore backend technology, to connections and fundraising advise, to help with customer acquisition and marketing. He has been an invaluable partner and ally on our journey."

  
  - Paul & Allen, Founders, 2012

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  ZenBox

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  Dolphin

  "RightVentures believes in us. They are all about making things happen and adding value. It's not just about making intros to investors or partnership contacts, they truly care about our brand and making a dent in the world. We want to change the world and they are there with us. I highly recommend them."

  - Yongzhi Founder, 2011

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  BizTech

  BizTechDay delivers insights, research and best practices on the way our audience should do business with small businesses. We work hard to discover the most innovative strategies, technologies and tools in working with small businesses. Over 6000 members receive our weekly newsletter every week.

  - Founder, 2008

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  Exceptional

  Exceptional tracks errors in web apps. It reports them in real-time and gathers the info you need to fix them fast.

  - Lead Investor, 2011

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  Airbrake

  Airbrake tracks errors in web apps. It reports them in real-time and gathers the info you need to fix them fast.

  - Lead Investor, 2011

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  RedisToGo

  Redis is the in-memory data structure of choice for enlightened technologists.

  - Lead Investor, 2011

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  RightSignature

  Leading the online document signing space.

  - Founder & Lead Investor, 2008

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  Zencoder

  "If you're a cloud service like Zencoder, you want to have RightVentures on your team. Not (just) for the money, but for the advice, connections, mentoring, energy, and wisdom that they bring. Jonathan has been enormously helpful to Zencoder, and comes highly recommended."

  

  - Jon Dahl, Founder & CEO, 2012

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  RightScale

  One of the first Cloud managament platforms. Siegel cofounded RightScale with Thorsten von Eicken in his garden shed in 2006. In early 2007, Siegel hired RightScale's CEO Michael Crandell. In 2009, Siegel exited RightScale to its existing investors Benchmark and Index Capital.

  - Founder & Lead Investor, 2006

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  CloudKick

  CloudKick is the leader in server monitoring and visualization. CloudKick was acquired by RackSpace in December 2010.

  - Advisor to the Founders, 2010

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  BitTorrent

  The leading P2P file transfer client and network protocol.

  - Company Advisor, 2011

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  RightCart

  A copy and paste shopping cart ahead of its time. Acquired in 2007 by Buy.com.

  - Founder, 2006

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  Heroku

  Ruby on Rails (and more) platform as a service (PaaS). Acquired by SalesForce in December 2010.

  - Advisor to the Founders, 2010

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  Orchestra.io

  "Anyone considering if RightVentures is the right advisor for their team, should also consider if your team is the right startup for RightVentures to advise. If your team are not highly motivated, their input will be wasted on you.

  If RightVentures' contribution to your startup was measured in product advice alone, it would be valuable. When combined with market insight, industry network and an impressive entrepreneurial track record, their contribution becomes invaluable.

  Protip to those who take on Jonathan as an advisor: always be ready to take notes."

  - Eamon Leonard, CEO & Founder

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  ELC Technologies

  ELC was founded in 1991 as the BBS Electronic Connection by RightVentures partner Jonathan Siegel. ELC grew to service Fortune 500 clients in the areas of Ruby on Rails, Cloud Computing and Mobile professional services. Along the way ELC's team built RightCart, RightScale, RightSignature and many, many other creative and beautifully executed applications.

  ELC was purchased by Kamran Pourzanjani in 2010.

  - Founded

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Jonathan Siegel

Jonathan Siegel is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor and advisor to many cloud companies.

Jonathan is the founder of 4 Internet companies: ELC Technologies (acquired by PriceGrabber’s Kamran Pourzanjani), RightCart (acquired by Buy.com), RightScale, and RightSignature.

In 2010, Jonathan joined Accel Partners London before returning to San Francisco in March 2011. He has been on Amazon’s Web Services customer advisory board since 2008.

Jonathan speaks frequently on mobile and cloud computing. He is passionate about supporting founders of early stage tech start-ups.

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Edith Yeung

Edith is a founding partner at RightVentures. Her focus is mobile and consumer internet companies. Edith previously worked with AT&T Wireless, Oracle, Siebel, Autodesk, Cisco, Telstra and Hungary Telecom.

Prior to joining RightVentures, Edith founded BizTechDay, the insightful voice of news, events & research for the SMB internet market and SFentrepreneur, San Francisco's 3700+ member-entreprenuers.

Edith has appeared on CBS, NPR, Wall Street Journal and is frequently quoted in Read Write Web, Small Business Trends and others.

Edith speaks frequently on mobile, women and international entrepreneurship. She is passionate about helping founders of tech start-ups.

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