Venture Fund Member Profile
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First Round Capital is an early stage venture capital firm managed by Joshua Kopelman, Chris Fralic, Rob Hayes and Howard Morgan. We look to partner with entrepreneurs to build innovative technology companies.
We are seed-stage investors, often providing a company’s first outside capital, and are not afraid of investing in pre-revenue companies. We understand the challenges of launching a new product. We look to take an active role in most of the companies we invest in. We believe our experience, insight and expertise are far more valuable than our capital -- and we look for entrepreneurs who feel the same. To learn more about what we look for, click here.
We recognize that time is an extremely valuable resource for an entrepreneur -- and seek not to waste it. We operate as an entrepreneurial shop and are able to make quick decisions. No investment committees. No months of negotiations. If we're going to invest, we usually decide within days.
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Phin Barnes
Principal
First Round Capital |
Phin joined First Round Capital as a Principal in 2009.
Before joining First Round Capital, Phin founded ResponDesign, an independent videogame company that developed and published Yourself!Fitness, the first fitness game for Xbox and PlayStation2. While managing the marketing and distribution of Yourself!Fitness from 2003-2006, Phin secured retail partnerships with Nordstrom and Best Buy as well as promotional partnerships with Proctor & Gamble and McDonald’s.
One of the earliest employees at AND 1 Basketball, Phin spent six years helping to grow the company from revenues of $15 million to over $225 million. While at AND 1 Phin led product direction, managed relationships with national retail accounts and created the initial concept for the signature AND 1 marketing property—the AND 1 Mix Tape.
Phin also has consulted with several companies, including MTV Networks, where he focused on non-traditional games and the growth of the MTV Games division beginning in 2006.
Phin earned his MBA with honors from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business with a double major in Operations and Information Management and Finance. He earned his BA in Economics and Sociology from Haverford College in 1998 and was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society. A college basketball player, Phin maintains his addiction to sneakers and a decent mid-range jumper. He has also participated in several triathlons and marathons and looks forward to more.
Representative Investments
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Monetate extends consistent messaging and promotions from your traffic acquisition campaigns -- including paid and organic search, display ads, affiliates and email -- onto every page of your site. With just a few clicks, and one javascript tag on the site, you can boost results by creating personalized messaging and promotions based on everything you know about each visitor -- on more than 50 dimensions including behavior, source, location, and even the weather. |
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Foxmarks is turning web search upside down. Creating a better way to search that is community inspired and people powered. Getting you to the content you really want - faster and easier. |
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ScanScout technology enables a market exchange for digital video. At the same time, it creates new inventory alongside and within the video content; providing new revenue streams for publishers and better, more precise alignment for advertisers. By ensuring the contextual relevance of each ad and also by monetizing the clicks, ScanScout technology executes on both the branding and performance opportunities for digital video, upending the way digital video has been bought, sold, and delivered, while providing a better user experience for consumers. |
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WeatherBill is the first service to provide affordable and easy-to-use weather coverage to protect revenue and control costs for the 7 million U.S. businesses impacted by the weather. |
Phin participated in the FundingPost event: VC Event: NYC Venture Capital Showcase
on Wednesday, Feb 11, 2009 in NY, Sponsored by Credit Suisse, Shelowitz & Associates, Hub International, Geller & Company
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