Reed Hundt
Angel Investor
Washington, United States
Reed Hundt is a seed investor in Washington focused on Software and Advertising. Reed was Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from 1993-97. He is currently the CEO of the non-profit Coalition for Green Capital, as well as the Principal of REH Advisors. He was a member of President Barack Obama's Presidential Transition Team (2008-09) where he was the economic agency review group head. Reedis a consultant to Skadden, Arps, and from 1998-2009, he served as a Senior Adviser to McKinsey & Company, a strategic management consulting firm. He was Co-Chairman of the Forum on Communications and Society at the Aspen Institute (1998-2006). From 1982-1993 he was a Partner in the Washington, DC office of Latham & Watkins, a national and international law firm and was an associate in Los Angeles and Washington offices (1975-1982). Reed is on the Board of Directors of Intel Corporation, a public company, is an advisor to Infinera (also a public company) and a member of the board of Telegent Systems and Vanu, Inc., both private companies. Reed has been Principal at Charles Ross Partners, a consulting firm, since 1997. He serves as a member of the District of Columbia, Maryland and California bars (former).Books include In China's Shadow: The Crisis of American Entrepreneurship (Yale University Press, 2006) and You Say You Want A Revolution: A Story of Information Age Politics (Yale University Press, 2000).Reed graduated from Yale College (1969) with a bachelor's degree in History magna cum laude and with honors with exceptional distinction in history. He graduated from J.D. Yale Law School (1974) and is a member of the executive board of the Yale Law Journal. He is married to Elizabeth Katz and has three children: Adam (b. 1982), Nathaniel (b. 1985), and Sara (b. 1989).
- Total investments:
- 7
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (29%)
- Advertising 2 (29%)
- Social Network 2 (29%)
- News 1 (14%)
- VoIP 1 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (43%)
- Series A 3 (43%)
- Series B 1 (14%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Swayable is a data platform that predicts changes in consumer opinion. It uses causal data science to determine the impact that ads and messages have on public attitude and intentions, so marketing and campaign decision-makers can dramatically increase ROI. | Seed / Feb 26, 2018 | ||
| For the majority of people who don't like budgeting, Level is building a Financial GPS, enabling effortless personal financial control and new models for financial services. Instead of categorizing transactions and tracking bank balances, Level empowers members to easily understand cash flow by automatically detecting income and fixed expensesfrom linked financial accounts. | $5M / Series A / Oct 10, 2013 | ||
| socialmedian helps people easily discover and share news with their social networks.On socialmedian, users can create and join topical "news networks" on any topics. Users can also follow news clippings of people in their social graph, and be followed. The site also enables users to share news in/out of their social networks.The service aggregates news articles from around the web, which are filtered by topic. Users can pre-define which keywords and topics they'd like to receive news on, and they can also submit articles to the site by using a bookmarklet. Stories can be viewed either in chronological order or according to popularity on the network. A more thorough description of the site can be found | $560K / Seed / Mar 07, 2008 | ||
| Lookery provides demographic marketing services in and around social networks, trying to solve the basic economic problem that social networks face: great user profiling but unpredictable ad inventory. The service makes it safe for social networks to distribute their data as targeting information outside their web sites, in order to make money inpartnership with web sites that have great inventory but little or no user targeting information. | $900K / Seed / Feb 07, 2008 | ||
| Broadband networking technology. | $435M / Series A / Feb 23, 2001 | ||
| EqualFooting.com, a B2B online marketplace that places small businesses on equal footing with large companies in the areas of purchasing. | $60M / Series B / Jul 11, 2000 | ||
| Surgient, Inc. offers self-service virtualization automation and lab management solutions. The company offers Virtual Automation Platform, a software automation and management platform that helps enterprise IT organizations to provide self-service computing resources to users. Its virtualization solutions are used for software QA/test,training, sales, and marketing applications. The company’s Surgient Cloud Express combines cloud computing technology and implementation services to help organizations deploy on-premise clouds. Surgient also provides services, such as solution design and architecture, capacity and infrastructure planning, image and lab configuration planning, software installation and configuration, setup of initial images and lab configurations, software customization and integration, training for administrators and end-users, and custom reporting and analytics. The company serves hotels/hospitality, pharmaceutical, aerospace, insurance, software, financial services, healthcare, telecom, and hardware markets. Surgient, Inc. was formerly known as Surgient Networks, Inc. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Austin, Texas. | $10M / Series A / Jun 05, 2000 |
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What does Reed Hundt invest in?
Reed Hundt invests primarily in Software, Advertising and Social Network startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 7 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 Reed Hundt last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Reed Hundt closed in Feb 2018. Shizune tracks 7 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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