Don Hutchison
Angel Investor
San Francisco, United States
Don Hutchison is a seed investor in San Francisco focused on Software and Video. Formative company advisor and angel investor, 2003 to the present.Experience includes: Board Member at Marin Software; Co-founder & Chairman at Recurrent Energy; CEO & COB at Work.com; SVP & GM at Excite@Home, SVP Sales & Marketing, Netcom. Successful exits of portfolio companies include: Sugar Media, TravelPost, Trovix,Recurrent Energy & WWCOMs. Investments & engagements include: Marin Software, Sugar, Inc., COLOURlovers, Vizu, Revision3, incentalign, Starmaker Interactive, SeniorHomes, LawPivot, BoostCTR, Apportable, Parse.ly, Close.ly & RethinkDB. Areas of greatest engagement: product marketing, distribution strategies, revenue generation, financing, organizational structure & leadership guidance. Don built @Home's business-focused @Work division into a leading provider of internetworking services, garnering over 5,000 new business accounts & over $45M in recurring revenues (1997 through 1999). As Netcom's SVP for Sales & Marketing, Don drove revenues from under $2M to over $120M. With the company founder and CFO, he successfully marketed the company's December, 1994 public offering, making Netcom the first 'pure-play' Internet venture to go public. (1994 through 1996)Don also served as Chairman and CEO of Work.com, a business information and services portal that attracted over one million unique users, $10 million in annual revenue, and a Media Metrix Top 10 B2B ranking before being sold (2000-2001)Don invested in, advised, and served on the boards of other internet ventures, including Critical Path (IPO), Exodus (IPO), Raindance Communications (IPO) and Zengine (IPO) (2000-2003)
- Total investments:
- 24
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Industries Don Hutchison invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (21%)
- Video 3 (13%)
- Mobile 3 (13%)
- Internet 3 (13%)
- Analytics 3 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 11 (46%)
- Angel 3 (13%)
- Series A 3 (13%)
- Funding Round 2 (8%)
- Debt Financing 1 (4%)
Country
- United States 18 (75%)
- Canada 1 (4%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Retain is the first Customer Insights Engine (CIE) that enables everyone responsible for delighting customers to be customer-obsessed. Retain delivers a trusted, flexible system for identifying and sharing customer teams’ best habits that drive revenue and retention. By sitting naturally in a team’s workflow, Retain enables everyone responsible forengaging customers to make data-driven decisions by giving them a complete view into every customer lifecycle. As one of AngelList’s “Hot Startups Hiring Now,” the company is headquartered in San Francisco and is backed by Emergence Capital, Baseline Ventures, Upside Partnership, Afore Capital, and Industry Ventures. | $4.6M / Seed / Apr 16, 2019 | ||
| Hackers/Founders serves technology entrepreneurs by equipping founders, encouraging vibrant tech ecosystems and sharing Silicon Valley insights with the world. | $70K / Angel / Jul 07, 2015 | ||
| Roadster provides consumer-driven Commerce Solutions for today’s modern dealership. With Roadster's proprietary technology platform, dealerships can provide a hassle-free car buying in-store, online, or on the go. Roadster dramatically improves dealership customer satisfaction scores, while significantly reducing sales costs. From inventorymerchandising to financing/leasing, incentives, trade-ins, service plans, and accessories. | $1.8M / Seed / Feb 24, 2015 | ||
| Grit is a sports media start-up creating original digital videos for Gen Z. | Convertible Note / Oct 01, 2014 | ||
| Our mission is to help local businesses thrive in a digital world. Founded in 2011, Womply is a local commerce platform that provides apps, APIs, marketing, and financial tools to make local commerce happen for over 500,000 American businesses and their customers. All of Womply’s products and services are powered by the Womply Commerce Graph, aproprietary data asset that offers the most complete view of local commerce. | $20M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 01, 2014 | ||
| Parse.ly is an engagement analytics platform aimed at online publishers. Every company is now a content company. Every marketing team is now a content marketing team. And every content strategy needs to be informed by data. The web’s content pros win with data by using Parse.ly, the world’s most innovative content analytics system. With Parse.ly,any company can prove the value of its content through analytics. | $5.2M / Series A / Aug 26, 2013 | ||
| Copper is the only crm made for G Suite, works instantly and has an intuitive user experience. Designed for the teams who close deals, Copper is helping people focus on what’s important: authentic relationships. | $2.5M / Seed / May 01, 2013 | ||
| vidIQ is the first YouTube audience development and management suite that helps brands and agencies grow their views and subscribers. vidIQ is an end-to-end solution that assists YouTube marketers at every step of their workflow, including uploading their videos at the best time of day, connecting brands with their top influencers, YouTube SEO,monitoring viewer and engagement analytics across Twitter and Facebook, bulk description editing, comment moderation, and Facebook fan page syndication.vidIQ was founded in January of 2012 by ex-Viddler founder Rob Sandie, Todd Troxell, and James Cross. It is backed by some of the biggest names in angel investment, including Mark Cuban, Scott Banister, and David Cohen, among others. | $2M / Seed / Feb 26, 2013 | ||
| Hackers/Founders serves technology entrepreneurs by equipping founders, encouraging vibrant tech ecosystems and sharing Silicon Valley insights with the world. | $225K / Seed / Oct 10, 2012 | ||
| MindMeld is an advanced AI platform powering a new generation of intelligent conversational interfaces. It is the first platform capable of powering intelligent conversational experiences for any app, device or website. Companies use this platform to create conversational assistants that understand what users say and find the information theyneed. | $2.4M / Oct 04, 2012 | ||
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What does Don Hutchison invest in?
Don Hutchison invests primarily in Software, Video and Mobile startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 24 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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When did Don Hutchison last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Don Hutchison closed in Apr 2019. Shizune tracks 24 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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