Dick Williams
CEO-in-Residence @ Accel
Broomfield, United States
Dick Williams is a Series A investor at Accel in Broomfield focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Dick Williams is President and CEO of Webroot and brings over four decades of executive and operational leadership experience for technology, software and digital media companies to Cloudera’s Board.Dick has worked as CEO or Chairman of several category-defining companies funded by some of the most successful venture capital firms in the world,including Altor Networks (acquired by Juniper Networks), Hyperic (acquired by SprintSource Global), Wily Technology (acquired by Computer Associates) and Illustra Information Technologies (acquired by Informix).He also co-founded and served as chairman of Quokka Sports, an online immersive sports media company. Williams' executive leadership experience began at IBM, where he spent 22 years in a variety of sales, marketing, product and business management roles. Following IBM, he served as President and CEO of Digital Research, which he turned around and sold to Novell. Williams is currently also an outside director of 3VR and LogRhythm.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Lead investor:
- 27%
Last updated:
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Industries Dick Williams invests in
Stages Dick Williams invests in
Countries Dick Williams invests in
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Round size
- Series A
- $3.8M–$6M
- Series B
- $6M–$10M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (27%)
- Enterprise Software 2 (18%)
- IaaS 1 (9%)
- SaaS 1 (9%)
- Big Data 1 (9%)
Country
- United States 3 (27%)
- United Kingdom 1 (9%)
Investments
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| Cloudera develops a data management and analytics platform. They specialize in delivering a hybrid data platform with secure data management and cloud-native data analytics. They provide software subscriptions and public cloud services. They also provide clients with professional services for the implementation and use of software subscriptions,machine learning expertise, consultation, training, and education services. | $65M / Series E / Dec 07, 2012 | ||
| Cloudera develops a data management and analytics platform. They specialize in delivering a hybrid data platform with secure data management and cloud-native data analytics. They provide software subscriptions and public cloud services. They also provide clients with professional services for the implementation and use of software subscriptions,machine learning expertise, consultation, training, and education services. | $40M / Series D / Nov 07, 2011 | ||
| Server Density is a SaaS-based product that helps users manage and monitor their infrastructure. The tool syncs with major cloud providers and allows users to monitor their websites and servers from a single console, API, and mobile app; enabling them to diagnose problems, maintain uptime, and maximize performance. Server Density is available onLinux, Windows, OS X, and FreeBSD servers.Server Density offers automatic agent installation for Puppet, Chef, and Ansible as well as alternative installer for scripts and packages that works in any environment.Users can receive server monitoring alerts in the form of emails, SMS, push notifications, PagerDuty, and web hooks. They can stack, collect, and compare alerts with graph dashboards across servers and clusters. Metrics can be automatically pulled in from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Rackspace.Server Density was launched in 2009 by David Mytton and is operated from London, United Kingdom. | $242K / Angel / Nov 01, 2011 | ||
| Cloudera develops a data management and analytics platform. They specialize in delivering a hybrid data platform with secure data management and cloud-native data analytics. They provide software subscriptions and public cloud services. They also provide clients with professional services for the implementation and use of software subscriptions,machine learning expertise, consultation, training, and education services. | $25M / Series C / Oct 26, 2010 | ||
| Altor is giving customers unprecedented visibility into and granular control over virtual network traffic. Purpose-built for virtual environments, its Altor VF virtual firewall is dramatically improving the security of virtual servers in data centers while reducing administrative overhead. The award winning technology has been architected tosupport multiple virtualization platforms from vendors such as VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix. Multi-platform support will allow enterprises to use whatever virtualization products they need, now and in the future.Altor Networks’ pioneering innovations include:Enforcing a rule-based security policy on a single VM or group of VMsSecuring VMs during VMotion events, without dropping connectionsEnabling low cost intrusion detection in the virtual network by mirroring selected traffic to external devicesEnforcing a default policy automatically on newly created or “rogue†VMs | $10M / Series B / Mar 02, 2010 | ||
| Cloudera develops a data management and analytics platform. They specialize in delivering a hybrid data platform with secure data management and cloud-native data analytics. They provide software subscriptions and public cloud services. They also provide clients with professional services for the implementation and use of software subscriptions,machine learning expertise, consultation, training, and education services. | $6M / Series B / Jun 02, 2009 | ||
| Cloudera develops a data management and analytics platform. They specialize in delivering a hybrid data platform with secure data management and cloud-native data analytics. They provide software subscriptions and public cloud services. They also provide clients with professional services for the implementation and use of software subscriptions,machine learning expertise, consultation, training, and education services. | $5M / Series A / Mar 16, 2009 | ||
| Altor is giving customers unprecedented visibility into and granular control over virtual network traffic. Purpose-built for virtual environments, its Altor VF virtual firewall is dramatically improving the security of virtual servers in data centers while reducing administrative overhead. The award winning technology has been architected tosupport multiple virtualization platforms from vendors such as VMware, Microsoft, and Citrix. Multi-platform support will allow enterprises to use whatever virtualization products they need, now and in the future.Altor Networks’ pioneering innovations include:Enforcing a rule-based security policy on a single VM or group of VMsSecuring VMs during VMotion events, without dropping connectionsEnabling low cost intrusion detection in the virtual network by mirroring selected traffic to external devicesEnforcing a default policy automatically on newly created or “rogue†VMs | $6M / Series A / Apr 01, 2008 | ||
| Hyperic provides monitoring and management software for all types of web applications, whether hosted in the cloud or on premise. | $6.1M / Series B / Jun 05, 2007 | ||
| Hyperic provides monitoring and management software for all types of web applications, whether hosted in the cloud or on premise. | $3.8M / Series A / May 10, 2006 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Accel
Accel invests in sectors such as enterprise software, consumer internet, financial technology, and cybersecurity. It participates in funding rounds ranging from seed and pre-seed stages to growth-stage capital. Beyond direct investment, the organization offers operational resources to assist founders with product development and talent recruitment.The firm connects entrepreneurs with a network of industry peers and mentors to facilitate market expansion.
Accel Contacts
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What does Dick Williams invest in?
Dick Williams invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and IaaS startups, most often at Series A and Series B 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.
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Dick Williams typically joins rounds of $3.8M–$6M at Series A and $6M–$10M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Dick Williams participates in.
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