Ross Goldstein
Co-Founder & Managing Director @ Gotham Ventures
Ross Goldstein is a Series A investor at Gotham Ventures focused on Software and Analytics. Ross is Co-founder and Managing Director of DFJ Gotham Ventures, which has been investing in early-stage tech companies in NYC since 2000. Ross is currently DFJ Gotham’s representative on the boards of Mimeo, PulsePoint, Drop.io, Medialets, JIBE, Altruik and STELLAService.Prior to co-founding DFJ Gotham Ventures, Ross was EVP and ChiefFinancial Officer of Interactive Imaginations, Inc., one of the East Coast’s first adtech companies, and the predecessor company to 24/7 Media, which went public and was eventually sold to WPP. Ross helped manage Interactive Imaginations through the challenges of the early Internet years and eventually toward its successful merger and IPO as 24/7 Media.Prior to joining Interactive Imaginations, Ross was with Morgan Stanley, where he had been a senior banker responsible for IPOs and other equity financings for the firm’s technology, telecommunications and media clients. Since 2001, Ross has served on the Board of Directors of New York Cares, a leading volunteer service non-profit organization based in New York City. Ross received a BS in Applied Mathematics-Economics from Brown University and an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Ross lives in NYC with his wife and two sons and plays ice hockey and keyboards in a rock band in his “spare” time.
- Total investments:
- 18
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
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Industries Ross Goldstein invests in
Stages Ross Goldstein invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (17%)
- Analytics 3 (17%)
- Mobile 2 (11%)
- E-Commerce 2 (11%)
- Advertising 2 (11%)
Stage
- Series A 5 (28%)
- Series B 5 (28%)
- Series C 4 (22%)
- Seed 1 (6%)
- Series G 1 (6%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Stella Connect is a customer feedback and quality management platform built specifically for customer service teams. Companies use Stella Connect to drive agent engagement and to measure and improve their service performance. | $11M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 11, 2019 | ||
| Stella Connect is a customer feedback and quality management platform built specifically for customer service teams. Companies use Stella Connect to drive agent engagement and to measure and improve their service performance. | $15M / Series C / Jul 15, 2015 | ||
| At Jibe, we create global recruiting software solutions to help the world’s leading companies identify, engage, and hire the best talent. Jibe's core technology is the Jibe Recruiting Cloud, a SaaS-based platform that enables leading companies to hire the best talent, regardless of their existing systems. Through this platform, Jibe providesa suite of products including personalized career sites and recruiting tools for sourcing, nurturing and marketing to candidates. Jibe currently serves the world's leading Fortune 500 companies, including Johnson & Johnson, FedEx, Marriott, and American Express. Elevated by strategic partnerships with Google and LinkedIn and backed by their expertise in recruiting technology, Jibe continues to be an innovative leader in the changing world of talent acquisition. | $20M / Series C / May 20, 2014 | ||
| Sailthru helps modern marketers acquire, grow, and retain customers. With over 1.6Bn global consumer profiles under management, Sailthru's powerful suite of connected capabilities – including high-performance email, onsite personalization, mobile marketing automation, and unique integrations powering new customer acquisition – drives higherrevenue, improves customer lifetime value, and reduces churn. The world's most innovative publishers, including Business Insider, Refinery29 and Mashable, and the world's fastest-growing e-commerce companies, including Rent The Runway, JustFab, and Alex and Ani, trust Sailthru to help them succeed. Founded in 2008, Sailthru's exceptional group of investors include Benchmark, RRE Ventures, DFJ Gotham, Scale Venture Partners, and AOL Ventures. | $20M / Series C / Dec 17, 2013 | ||
| Stella Connect is a customer feedback and quality management platform built specifically for customer service teams. Companies use Stella Connect to drive agent engagement and to measure and improve their service performance. | $15M / Series B / Feb 27, 2013 | ||
| Sailthru helps modern marketers acquire, grow, and retain customers. With over 1.6Bn global consumer profiles under management, Sailthru's powerful suite of connected capabilities – including high-performance email, onsite personalization, mobile marketing automation, and unique integrations powering new customer acquisition – drives higherrevenue, improves customer lifetime value, and reduces churn. The world's most innovative publishers, including Business Insider, Refinery29 and Mashable, and the world's fastest-growing e-commerce companies, including Rent The Runway, JustFab, and Alex and Ani, trust Sailthru to help them succeed. Founded in 2008, Sailthru's exceptional group of investors include Benchmark, RRE Ventures, DFJ Gotham, Scale Venture Partners, and AOL Ventures. | $19M / Series B / Feb 11, 2013 | ||
| At Jibe, we create global recruiting software solutions to help the world’s leading companies identify, engage, and hire the best talent. Jibe's core technology is the Jibe Recruiting Cloud, a SaaS-based platform that enables leading companies to hire the best talent, regardless of their existing systems. Through this platform, Jibe providesa suite of products including personalized career sites and recruiting tools for sourcing, nurturing and marketing to candidates. Jibe currently serves the world's leading Fortune 500 companies, including Johnson & Johnson, FedEx, Marriott, and American Express. Elevated by strategic partnerships with Google and LinkedIn and backed by their expertise in recruiting technology, Jibe continues to be an innovative leader in the changing world of talent acquisition. | $10M / Series B / Feb 05, 2013 | ||
| PulsePoint is an advanced data and technology company that is breaking new ground with programmatic solutions for healthcare organizations, to personalize information and improve outcomes. We are leading a revolution in radical health personalization to help organizations improve how they provide care, education and support to people when they needit most. Through programmatic automation, we interpret the hard to read signals of the customer journey and understand the connection points between relevance and engagement. This enables us to deliver a suite of tools that allow for the seamless activation of health options. | $3M / Jan 01, 2013 | ||
| Stella Connect is a customer feedback and quality management platform built specifically for customer service teams. Companies use Stella Connect to drive agent engagement and to measure and improve their service performance. | $5M / Series A / Nov 02, 2011 | ||
| Sailthru helps modern marketers acquire, grow, and retain customers. With over 1.6Bn global consumer profiles under management, Sailthru's powerful suite of connected capabilities – including high-performance email, onsite personalization, mobile marketing automation, and unique integrations powering new customer acquisition – drives higherrevenue, improves customer lifetime value, and reduces churn. The world's most innovative publishers, including Business Insider, Refinery29 and Mashable, and the world's fastest-growing e-commerce companies, including Rent The Runway, JustFab, and Alex and Ani, trust Sailthru to help them succeed. Founded in 2008, Sailthru's exceptional group of investors include Benchmark, RRE Ventures, DFJ Gotham, Scale Venture Partners, and AOL Ventures. | $8M / Series A / Sep 01, 2011 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Gotham Ventures
Gotham Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City. We work with the visionaries of today to create the successes of tomorrow. We invest in early-stage information technology startups based in our backyard. We are proud to be an active partner, leveraging our expertise and relationships to provide substantial value to our portfoliocompanies.
Gotham Ventures Contacts
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Ross Goldstein
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What does Ross Goldstein invest in?
Ross Goldstein invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Mobile startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 18 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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