Venture Fund Member Profile
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Voyager Capital is a leading Pacific Northwest information technology venture capital firm, providing entrepreneurs with the resources, experience, and connections to build successful companies. Voyager invests in early and growth stage business software and services, wireless and digital media companies, where its domain expertise, team-building exposure, and go-to-market resources help build market leaders. Voyager Capital has $370M under management and has offices in Seattle, Washington; Hillsboro, Oregon; and on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, California.
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Bill McAleer
Managing Director
Voyager Capital |
Bill brings to Voyager over 30 years of business experience and 20 years of senior executive and equity financing experience in the information technology industry.
Bill has participated on the boards of 18 companies, including 13 portfolio companies, focusing on software and services, digital media, and wireless. Eight portfolio companies were sold for exits including Amplitude, Attenex, NetPodium, and Tegic Communications. He currently serves on the boards of Melodeo and Yapta and recently was a Director for Avocent (NASDAQ: AVCT), a public technology company acquired in late 2009 by Emerson for $1.2 billion.
Prior to co-founding Voyager in 1997, Bill was President of e.liance Partners, a consulting firm that advised information technology companies on strategy, venture financing and corporate partnering.
He served as Vice President of Finance, Chief Financial Officer and Secretary of Aldus from 1988 to 1994, when the company's revenues grew from $39 to $240 million. He was responsible for global finance, legal, operations, and acquisition activities, including completing the merger with Adobe in 1994. He also served as a senior executive with Westin Hotels from 1979 to 1987.
Bill is active in several industry organizations, including serving as a director for the Washington Technology Industry Association and the Washington Technology Alliance as well as on the Advisory Board for DEMO, one of the industry's premier events. He is the chair of the Advisory Board for the University of Washington Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He also serves on the Advisory Board for Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Business and the Cornell Center for Entrepreneurship as well as a former member of the Cornell Council. He has been a featured speaker at industry conferences and panels. Bill earned a B.S. and an M.B.A. from Cornell University.
Representative Investments
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1020, Inc. is pioneering the online location-based advertising market. The company's Placecast service enables advertisers to transparently deliver localized advertising to standard internet browsers on any type of broadband connection -- fixed, mobile, or Wi-Fi. |
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Covario is the leading paid and organic search software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform provider. Covario software and services provide global organizations with robust interactive and search marketing analytics solutions for paid search advertising and organic search engine optimization across the enterprise and throughout the channel.
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Yapta an internet travel planning service in Seattle that assures consumers that they get the most value out of their trip planning and pay the lowest possible price for airline tickets. |
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Sensys Networks has combined state-of-the-art magnetic sensors with low-power radio technology to create a reliable, accurate, and cost-effective wireless vehicle detection system to address a wide range of traffic management applications. |
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