Robert Siegel
Partner @ XSeed Capital
Portola Valley, United States
Robert Siegel is a General Partner at XSeed Capital, bringing leadership in strategy definition, operational execution, and international sales and marketing for companies of all sizes.Robert’s investment areas include enterprise software, business operations where computational technology helps automate/improve company performance, andcomputing platforms that shape both business and consumer behaviors. He sits on the Board of Directors of Lex Machina, SIPX, Zooz, DropThought, CirroSecure and ZipLine, and he spearheads XSeed’s investments in Breezeworks, Cape Productions, Dispatcher, Teapot, The League, Neon, Pixlee, and Chatous, and also supports other portfolio companies such as Citrine Informatics. He is currently on the faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he teaches Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation, Formation of New Ventures and Entrepreneurial Finance. In these classes he has led research and written cases on companies including Google, Box, AngelList, SurveyMonkey, Zuora, Minted, 500 Startups, TrueCar, Axel Springer, General Electric and Starbucks (La Boulange), amongst others. Robert is the Co-President of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs, an alumni association that fosters relationships to strengthen the Stanford startup community, as well as the Chairman of the Strategic Advisory Board for TTTech in Vienna, Austria. He has co-authored several articles for California Management Review, is a Wall Street Journal Startup Guru, and is a frequent contributor to Forbes and VentureBeat.Prior to joining XSeed, Robert was General Manager of the Video and Software Solutions division for GE Security, with annual revenues of $350 million. Robert was also Executive Vice President of Pixim, Inc., a fabless semiconductor firm specializing in image sensors and processors (acquired by Sony). Before Pixim, Robert was Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Weave Innovations Inc. (acquired by Kodak), a network services developer that invented the world’s first digital picture frame, and delivered photos and other digital media to PCs and internet / mobile devices.Robert served in various management roles at Intel Corporation, including an executive position in their Corporate Business Development division, in which he invested capital in startups that were strategically aligned with Intel’s vision. Previous to Intel, Robert was promoted to a series of senior sales and marketing positions at GeoWorks, which went public in 1993.Robert holds a BA from UC Berkeley, an MBA from Stanford University, is the co-inventor of three patents and served as lead researcher for Andy Grove’s book Only the Paranoid Survive.
- Total investments:
- 21
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 29%
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Industries Robert Siegel invests in
Stages Robert Siegel invests in
Countries Robert Siegel invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 4 (19%)
- Analytics 4 (19%)
- Information Technology 4 (19%)
- Internet 3 (14%)
- Mobile 2 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (29%)
- Series A 6 (29%)
- Series B 3 (14%)
- Series C 2 (10%)
- Funding Round 1 (5%)
Country
- United States 10 (48%)
- Israel 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Avochato is a mobile messaging platform designed for customer relationship management. It enables business teams to connect with customers and deliver a seamless and efficient messaging experience every step of the way, from lead capture and nurturing to post-sale support. | $5M / Series A / Dec 07, 2018 | ||
| Avochato is a mobile messaging platform designed for customer relationship management. It enables business teams to connect with customers and deliver a seamless and efficient messaging experience every step of the way, from lead capture and nurturing to post-sale support. | $870K / Seed / Jun 22, 2016 | ||
| Zooz is a technology company that provides a payments platform designed to help merchants maximize their payments performance. The company was established in 2010. In July 2018, Zooz was acquired by PayU. | $24M / Series C / May 03, 2016 | ||
| DropThought’s Instant Feedback Platform empowers companies, brands, and marketers to engage with their customers and employees in real-time to gather, respond, and analyze feedback that leads to improved experiences and higher satisfaction and Net Promoter Scores. Instant feedback can be gathered through DropThought in three ways: via its mobileapp, embedded API integrations, and on-site using tablet devices. DropThought’s Analytics Dashboard and Manager mobile app can instantly notify managers and brands to feedback reported in the moment, to enable immediate responses, insights, and resolution. DropThought’s text analytics solution allows businesses to see customer experience metrics over time and quickly identify opportunities to improve. Companies can also easily select and promote customers’ positive instant feedback on social channels.The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Santa Clara, California, USA. | $2.1M / Convertible Note / Jul 10, 2015 | ||
| Chatous is a “social discovery platform through conversation.” The site uses a data-driven approach and algorithm to predict which users will be compatible for conversation, and learns about users as they engage in more conversations. Founded by three Stanford Computer Science students, Chatous grew out of a project the team worked on in CS224W:Social and Information Network Analysis. | $2.1M / Seed / Dec 17, 2014 | ||
| ZipLine® Medical is developing and commercializing innovative tissue repair devices to address the clinical need for rapid, non-invasive and easy-to-use skin closure. ZipLine’s PRELOC™ technology platform provides uniform closure forces while minimizing scar-promoting tension along the wound. Utilizing our patented technology, we believe thatphysicians can achieve the best of both worlds — the speed of staples with the cosmetic outcome of a meticulous suture closure.Our initial strategy focuses on procedures where the speed and cosmetic benefits of our technology as well as the reduced risk of surgical site infections have the greatest impact. Since skin closure is a part of most surgical procedures, our technology platform has broad application across various surgical specialties and emergency medicine.ZipLine Medical was founded in 2009 by Amir Belson, M.D. and is located in Silicon Valley, with access to a wealth of expertise in medical device research and development . | $5.7M / Series C / Oct 20, 2014 | ||
| Zooz is a technology company that provides a payments platform designed to help merchants maximize their payments performance. The company was established in 2010. In July 2018, Zooz was acquired by PayU. | $12M / Series B / Jul 16, 2014 | ||
| CirroSecure is a cloud data security platform that gives enterprises 360° visibility and protection into their cloud assets with zero IT disruption. The company's multi-dimensional compliance and exposure risk analysis help enterprises precisely identify the sources of risk and perform automated to the manual root cause non-disruptive dataprotection. | $1.6M / Seed / May 07, 2014 | ||
| ZipLine® Medical is developing and commercializing innovative tissue repair devices to address the clinical need for rapid, non-invasive and easy-to-use skin closure. ZipLine’s PRELOC™ technology platform provides uniform closure forces while minimizing scar-promoting tension along the wound. Utilizing our patented technology, we believe thatphysicians can achieve the best of both worlds — the speed of staples with the cosmetic outcome of a meticulous suture closure.Our initial strategy focuses on procedures where the speed and cosmetic benefits of our technology as well as the reduced risk of surgical site infections have the greatest impact. Since skin closure is a part of most surgical procedures, our technology platform has broad application across various surgical specialties and emergency medicine.ZipLine Medical was founded in 2009 by Amir Belson, M.D. and is located in Silicon Valley, with access to a wealth of expertise in medical device research and development . | $4.3M / Series C / Jan 21, 2014 | ||
| In early 2021, Pixlee merged with Ratings & Review company TurnTo, to become a combined entity dedicated to building customer-powered commerce. Paving the way for customer-powered commerce, Pixlee TurnTo now allows marketers and ecommerce executives to integrate UGC and Influencer Marketing with text-based customer content like Ratings &Reviews, Checkout Comments, and Community Q&A — without any additional technical resources required. This combination puts the customer at the center of marketing, and creates content proven to boost revenue, brand affinity, and engagement. Headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York and Toronto, Pixlee is funded by Andreessen Horowitz, XSeed Capital, Rothenberg Ventures, David Jones (founder of the world's first brand tech company You & Mr. Jones), GS Shop, and Bryan Weiner (chairman of 360i). | $1.5M / Seed / Oct 29, 2013 | ||
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Co-Investors
About XSeed Capital
XSeed believes in the creative destruction unleashed by technological innovators. Its portfolio companies boast significant differentiation that creates unique customer value. With $110 million under management, they make their initial investment commitments at the seed stage and then continue to support their portfolio companies with time,effort and follow-on capital through multiple investment rounds.The company works hard from the get-go to help entrepreneurs build value, define, and reach risk-reduction milestones, and get to their next value inflection point quickly.
XSeed Capital Contacts
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Ken Kronquist
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Lev Mass
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What does Robert Siegel invest in?
Robert Siegel invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 21 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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