Audrey Maclean
Consulting Associate Professor, School of Eng. @ Stanford University
San Francisco, United States
Audrey Maclean is a Series A investor at Stanford University in San Francisco focused on Software and Consulting. Audrey MacLean has a unique track record for entrepreneurial success as a founder, CEO, seed investor, and board member. She has been on the Midas Touch list by Forbes, listed by BusinessWeek as one of the 50 most influential business women in America, and is a member of Fortune's Most Powerful Women group. She was also featured by Forbes in acover article on Angel Investing.MacLean has four decades of combined experience in the computer and communications industries. She was a founder of Network Equipment Technologies which went public in 1987 and later co-founded and was CEO of Adaptive which merged with NET in 1993.Building on her own entrepreneurial success, MacLean has been instrumental in helping to launch and grow successful companies through her work as a mentor capitalist and as a professor of entrepreneurship. The companies she has seed funded which have gone public include: Pure Software, Pete's Brewing Company, AdForce, dsl.net, and Selectica. Successful acquisitions include: Skybox/Google, Centrality/Sirf, Ironport/Cisco, Avidia/PairGain, Firefly/Microsoft, InternetMiddleware/NetworkAppliance, Amplitude/CriticalPath, specialtyMD/Chemdex, Gigabeat/Napster, and Achieva/Kaplan. MacLean serves on the Board or Advisory Board of BeyondCore, FollowAnalytics, SouthSuite, Sourcegraph, Andalou, Finesse, mOasis, Solum, Starmaker, Zady, and Oh My Green!. She is also an affiliate and advisor to a number of leading Venture Funds.In her teaching capacity at Stanford, she is a lead professor for the Technology Venture Formation course in the Stanford Technology Venture Program in the School of Engineering. In addition to her work at Stanford MacLean actively supports the development of entrepreneurial studies through her board work at the Kauffman Fellows Program and Maui College University of Hawaii.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Audrey Maclean invests in
Stages Audrey Maclean invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (33%)
- Consulting 2 (33%)
- SaaS 1 (17%)
- Legal 1 (17%)
- Big Data 1 (17%)
Stage
- Series A 2 (33%)
- Funding Round 2 (33%)
- Seed 1 (17%)
- Series B 1 (17%)
Investments
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Silicon Valley Data Science
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Silicon Valley Data Science is a big data and data science consulting company that specializes in agile and business-focused solutions.They work to drive people business forward through smart use of data: to create new capabilities, identify critical insights, and solve tough problems. Ready to meet difficult and large-scale data challenges,They're a consulting and engineering team with a difference. Their distinctive approach blends Silicon Valley's pioneering data technology with the best in agile development methodology. | $3.1M / Series A / Aug 30, 2013 | |
hopscout
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Formerly known as LilLuxe, hopscout is a daily deal online store for simple, classic and timeless childrens products. Each daily deal focuses on one amazing product, and offers it to customers for a period of 24 hours. At 8:30AM PST, the product is replaced by another, unless it sells out. | $1.3M / Seed / Sep 01, 2010 | |
CaseCentral
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Founded in 1994, CaseCentral is the leader in secure, cloud-based eDiscovery software for corporations and law firms to simplify and take control of electronic discovery (eDiscovery) in response to litigation, regulatory inquiries and internal investigations. CaseCentral enables repeatable, defensible and measurable business processes thatsignificantly reduce eDiscovery risk, cost and time. The CaseCentral eDiscovery platform integrates early case assessment, processing, analysis, review and production capabilities, enabling customers to succeed with a single matter and seamlessly migrate to multi-matter, multi-party, multi-repository support within the same software platform. CaseCentral pioneered the use of process analytics, providing real-time measurement of review rates, quality rates and costs per document - by matter, firm or user. CaseCentral has served more than 32 of the Fortune 100 and more than 83 of the AmLaw 100. | $11M / Series B / Aug 17, 2000 | |
Achieva.com
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Achieva is the comprehensive online college prep service for middle and high school students. Partnering with school districts across the nation, Achieva brings students from sixth to twelfth grade a comprehensive set of preparation tools they need to research, apply to and get into the colleges of their choice. Achieva's online coursesincorporate its proven college guidance approach combining study strategies and tools, admissions counseling, test preparation, and detailed scholarship, financial aid and college information. | $15M / Series A / Apr 28, 2000 | |
Applied Discovery
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Applied Discovery, A DTI Company is engaged in the delivery and management of electronic discovery services and support for law firms, corporations, and government entities engaged in audits, investigations, and litigation. Its electronic discovery services include the network discovery of devices/repositories and data(automated/non-automated), fixed storage collection (manual/active data copy and forensic imaging), and portable storage collection (manual copy/forensic imaging); and data preparation and indexing (upload/DeNIST/deduplication/indexing), data organization and understanding (culling/filtering of indexed data), and expert assisted early case assessment (cost estimation/pre-trial planning. The company also provides full text and metadata extraction, data conversion, and load file preparation; international (foreign) language support and secure Web-based architecture (Software-as-a-Service Delivery) services; native file format, near-paper (PDF and TIFF), and paper format production services; managed review services; legal hold services that include consulting on legal hold strategy; digital forensics and investigations services that include client scoping and assessment, client data acquisition, and post-collection E-discovery; and security infrastructure and project management services. In addition, it offers Leverage data analytics, a hosted early and ongoing case assessment and data analysis tool for concept and communication mapping; Leverage review, a review toolset capable of handling the largest data sets; Leverage review analytics, an automated dashboard view of review rates, time against schedule, and quality/accuracy. Applied Discovery, A DTI Company was formerly known as Applied Discovery, Inc. and changed its name to Applied Discovery, A DTI Company in January 16, 2014. The company was founded in 1998 and is based in Bellevue, Washington. As of January 16, 2014, Applied Discovery, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Document Technologies, Inc. | $2M / Apr 24, 2000 | |
WetFeet
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WetFeet is a career advice website and publisher for driven, career-minded students and young professionals looking for tools, tips, and inside information to help them plan their careers and ultimately achieve career satisfaction.Their high-quality content is the product of hundreds of hours of in-depth research, critical analysis, and precisewriting. They survey massive amounts of publicly available information and conduct dozens of in-depth interviews of rank-and-file employees who work for the companies and industries they cover. WetFeet was founded in 1994 by Stanford MBAs Gary Alpert and Steve Pollock. While exploring their next career moves, they needed products like the WetFeet Insider Guides to guide them through their research and interviews. But these resources didn't exist yet so they started writing! Since then, millions of job seekers have used the WetFeet Insider Guides and WetFeet.com to research their next career move.In 2007 WetFeet became part of Universum Communications, the global leader in employer branding. Thanks to the integration of Wetfeet into the Universum group, Wetfeet products are now used by job seekers all over the world. In addition to their Insider Guides and WetFeet.com, they produce WetFeet magazine, which features career advice tailored to undergraduate students. | $9M / Jan 31, 2000 |
Co-Investors
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
2 deals together
Advanced Technology Ventures
1 deal together
Cendana Capital
1 deal together
Crescent Capital
1 deal together
Crosslink Capital
1 deal together
Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich
1 deal together
About Stanford University
Stanford University is a teaching and research university that focuses on graduate programs in law, medicine, education, and business. Few colleges can match the breadth, excellence, and prestige of Stanford’s academics, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The university is organized into seven schools: Business, Earth Sciences,Education, Engineering, Humanities and Sciences, Law, and Medicine Student life at Stanford is quite active, due in part to the 11,000+ students living on campus. Art is a strong presence at Stanford, fostered by Stanford Lively Arts, the Cantor Center for Visual Arts, and numerous student clubs and organizations. Stanford also features extensive athletic programs, including more than 35 varsity sports and about 20 clubs sports. In order to maintain its high standards, Stanford University has extremely selective admissions. The university admits undergraduates based on a combination of academic achievement, intellectual curiosity, and personal experience. Graduate admissions criteria and application procedures vary based on the program of study. Undergraduates at Stanford have access to a variety of financial aid opportunities, including institutional scholarships, grants from the government, and student employment. Graduate students can receive financial aid through fellowships and grants, but funding is typically not available for master’s students.
Stanford University Contacts
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Audrey Maclean
Consulting Associate Professor, School of Eng.
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Badr Al-Rumaih
Graduate Research Assistant, Stanford Wave Physics Lab
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Carolyn Bertozzi
Professor of chemistry
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Christopher Field
Perry L. McCarty Director, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
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Chuck Eesley
Associate Professor
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What does Audrey Maclean invest in?
Audrey Maclean invests primarily in Software, Consulting and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Funding Round stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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The most recent investment recorded for Audrey Maclean closed in Aug 2013. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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