Chris Noble
Principal @ Bay Partners
Dallas, United States
Chris Noble is a Series A investor at Bay Partners in Dallas focused on Real Time and Communications Infrastructure. Chris is interested in next generation wireless equipment, software and services as well as Internet infrastructure software.Chris brings 16 years of experience in the software industry to his role at Bay. Chris most recently served as Vice President of Marketing at Kana Communications (NASDAQ: KANA). While at Kana, Chris built the productmarketing, marketing communications, and business development organizations and helped set Kana’s corporate strategy.Before Kana, Chris was the Vice President of Product Management and Vice President of Business Development for Geoworks, Inc. (NASDAQ: GWRX). At Geoworks he was instrumental in successfully shifting the company’s focus to the smart phone/wireless communications market. Chris also forged strategic relationships with many of the leading cellular companies in the world, including Nokia and Ericsson.Prior to Geoworks, Chris served in a variety of product and marketing roles at Lotus Development. Chris received his B.A. from Harvard University
- Total investments:
- 1
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 100%
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Industries Chris Noble invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Real Time 1 (100%)
- Communications Infrastructure 1 (100%)
Investments
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Jarna
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Jarna enables the real-time mobile enterprise through event-based solutions. In contrast with solutions offered by individual device or application vendors, Jarna meets the enterprise customer's needs for a single infrastructure that extends the real-time enterprise to mobile users independent of enterprise application infrastructure, mobiledevice or network. | $6.5M / Series A / May 18, 2000 |
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About Bay Partners
Bay Partners is a venture capital firm based in Menlo Park, California. Founded by John Freidenrich in 1976, it has funded over 200 information technology and healthcare businesses.
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Chris Noble
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