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| Kevin Efrusy |
Kevin joined Accel in 2003. His background is primarily as an entrepreneur and operating executive. He served two stints as an Entrepreneur where he started Corio, an ASP/SaaS pioneer which went public on Nasdaq and was acquired by IBM in 2005. Later he built and served as the first CEO of IronPlanet, an online marketplace for heavy equipment with current annual gross sales over $500M. Prior to his entrepreneurial career, Kevin worked at Zip2 and Bain & Company.
Kevin focuses primarily on consumer internet services and next generation business software, and he also is responsible for much of the firm’s efforts in Brazil and Latin America. Within consumer services, he serves on the boards of Groupon, BranchOut, Metacafe, and Medio Systems. He also sourced Accel’s investment in Facebook. Within next generation business software he serves on the board of Couchbase. In Brazil Kevin led the firm’s investments in Shoes4You and Elo7. Prior boards and investments include Terracotta (acquired by Software AG), Xensource (acquired by Citrix for $500MM), SpringSource (acquired by VMWare for $420MM) and BBN Technologies (acquired by Raytheon). In 2011 Kevin was listed at #6 of the Forbes Midas List of top 100 Tech Investors.
Kevin has an MSEE, BSEE, and BA in Economics all from Stanford University, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he was an Arjay Miller scholar.
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