Bill Wood
Founder & General Partner @ Bill Wood Ventures
Austin, United States
Bill Wood is a funding round investor at Bill Wood Ventures in Austin focused on Software and SaaS. Prior to founding Silverton Partners, Bill Wood began his venture career in 1984 as a founding partner of Austin Ventures which has since become one of the largest venture capital firms in the country.Bill is a past recipient of both the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur-of-the-Year Award and the Austin Technology Pillar Award, recognizing hislifetime contribution to the development of the Austin technology community.Bill received his BA from Brown University Phi Beta Kappa and his MBA from Harvard Business School.Bill sits on the board of Boundless Network, Javelin Semiconductor, Sailpoint Technologies, Silicon Labs, Tk20 and UnboundID.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 55%
Last updated:
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Industries Bill Wood invests in
Stages Bill Wood invests in
Countries Bill Wood invests in
Round sizes
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Round size
- Series A
- $6M–$10M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (27%)
- SaaS 2 (18%)
- Cyber Security 2 (18%)
- B2B 1 (9%)
- Mobile 1 (9%)
Stage
- Funding Round 3 (27%)
- Seed 2 (18%)
- Series A 2 (18%)
- Series C 2 (18%)
- Series B 1 (9%)
Investments
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MineralAnswers.com
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MineralAnswers.com is an Internet technology company focused on organizing information for U.S. mineral and royalty owners. | Seed / Sep 09, 2020 | |
Praetorian
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Praetorian is a cybersecurity company whose mission is to make the digital world safer and more secure. Through expertise and engineering, Praetorian helps today's organizations solve complex cybersecurity problems across critical enterprise assets and product portfolios. At Praetorian, it brings together the world's security expertise tosolve the cybersecurity problem and secure the next-wave innovation. | $10M / Series A / Feb 13, 2020 | |
Stoplight
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Stoplight is an API Design, Development, and Documentation platform. Use Stoplight Platform to enable consistency, reusability, and quality in your API lifecycle, all with an easy, enjoyable developer experience. Here's what you can do with Stoplight Platform:- Design API's with our easy visual designer, Stoplight Studio - Mock APIdesigns automatically with Stoplight Prism mocking - Collaborate on your designs and invite internal and external users to provide feedback - Develop faster and better APIs - Test and enforce against style guides with Stoplight Spectral - Document both internal and external APIs automatically to create a delightful experienceUtilize and integrate design-first workflows to quickly scale up standardized, collaborative, and well-governed API programs. | $6M / Series A / Jan 30, 2020 | |
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Stoplight
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Stoplight is an API Design, Development, and Documentation platform. Use Stoplight Platform to enable consistency, reusability, and quality in your API lifecycle, all with an easy, enjoyable developer experience. Here's what you can do with Stoplight Platform:- Design API's with our easy visual designer, Stoplight Studio - Mock APIdesigns automatically with Stoplight Prism mocking - Collaborate on your designs and invite internal and external users to provide feedback - Develop faster and better APIs - Test and enforce against style guides with Stoplight Spectral - Document both internal and external APIs automatically to create a delightful experienceUtilize and integrate design-first workflows to quickly scale up standardized, collaborative, and well-governed API programs. | $3.3M / Seed / Oct 03, 2018 | |
TurnKey Vacation Rentals
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TurnKey Vacation Rentals is a full-service vacation rental property management company for luxury and premium vacation rental homes in top U.S. travel destinations. As a leading vacation rental hospitality brand, TurnKey provides guests with the consistency and quality of a fine hotel experience, while optimizing the management, marketing andreturn on investment for vacation rental homeowners.TurnKey's proprietary smart home technology – digital smart locks, FieldSync housekeeping scheduler, HomeDroid tablet, noise decibel monitors and more – integrates with local, in-market teams to ensure extraordinary vacation rental experiences for every home, every stay, every time. | $21M / Series C / Mar 09, 2017 | |
Hive9
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Hive9 is a cloud based marketing solution that brings all of your marketing activities, spending and performance insights into one collaborative place. We do this to make marketers' lives better and to significantly improve their impact on the business.The quickest starting point is planning, where we offer a flexible calendar, handlecomplex segmentation, enforce your standards, enable you to set goals, and provide everyone the personalized views they need of the marketing plan in as little as 2 weeks.We also manage all of your money, enabling advanced planning, budget comparisons and integrating to actual spending. Moving money around is easy. Our customers save time and never surprise their finance department.Finally, our performance capabilities are designed to enable marketers to see everything that is working and what is not, going from insight to action in Hive9 in seconds, with the entire team notified of the change. Behind this capability are sophisticated predictions and attribution models, fully integrated with your martech stack. | $5.4M / Jun 01, 2015 | |
FibeRio
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FibeRio Technology Corporation is transforming the materials market through the unlimited availability of nanofibers. It is supplying the equipment and processes that are meeting these demands. Utilizing rapid response manufacturing methodologies, the company is quickly developing and delivering Forcespinning technology to the market whileproducing the highest quality and most cost-effective equipment. | $13M / Series C / Feb 25, 2013 | |
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FibeRio
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FibeRio Technology Corporation is transforming the materials market through the unlimited availability of nanofibers. It is supplying the equipment and processes that are meeting these demands. Utilizing rapid response manufacturing methodologies, the company is quickly developing and delivering Forcespinning technology to the market whileproducing the highest quality and most cost-effective equipment. | $3.6M / Series B / Aug 31, 2011 | |
Boundless Network
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Boundless Network is a full-service promotional products company that connects buyers across organizations to create efficiencies of scale and reduce the cost of branded merchandise. | $4M / Feb 09, 2011 | |
UnboundID
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The UnboundID Platform is enterprise software for identity and preference management, deployed on premises or in the cloud. Enterprises use the UnboundID Platform to modernize workforce Identity and Access Management, and to enable identity-centric customer engagement and personalization across channels.Enterprise clients use the UnboundIDPlatform for social login, adaptive authentication, unified customer profiles, preference management, privacy and consent management, self-service account management, and data access governance, all while providing enterprise-grade security and web-scale performance. | $1.1M / Mar 10, 2010 | |
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About Bill Wood Ventures
Bill Wood Ventures is a venture capital investment firm that invests in the information technology sectors.
Bill Wood Ventures Contacts
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Bill Wood
Founder & General Partner
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Andrew Nerlinger
Venture Partner
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FAQ
What does Bill Wood invest in?
Bill Wood invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Cyber Security startups, most often at Funding Round and Seed stage. Most of the 11 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Bill Wood's check size?
Bill Wood typically joins rounds of $6M–$10M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Bill Wood participates in.
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When did Bill Wood last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Bill Wood closed in Sep 2020. Shizune tracks 11 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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