Stuart Coulson
Co-founder and Director - Social Entrepreneurship Lab and Extreme Design Lab @ Stanford University
Palo Alto, United States
Stuart Coulson is a seed investor at Stanford University in Palo Alto focused on SaaS and Software. Stuart Coulson is the Co-Founder and Director of Social Entrepreneurship Lab and Extreme Design Lab at Stanford University and a Lecturer at the Graduate School of Business, where he leads the Design for Extreme Affordability program. Student teams develop products and services to tackle poverty in the developing world. Projects and startupsemerging from the program have affected the lives of more than 100 million people so far.Stuart is an investor in and advisor to early stage technology and social impact organizations in Silicon Valley and Ireland. He is a member of the Trinity College Dublin Provost’s Council and sits on the board of Trinity’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Hub. He also grows old-vine Zinfandel grapes and enjoys regularly quality testing the resulting award winning wines.Stuart’s background is in software development, data communications and travel reservations systems. His previous roles include senior leadership in some of the world’s largest travel technology companies and several startups. He co-founded Gradient Solutions, a pioneer in web-based travel e-commerce, acquired by Sabre.Stuart holds a BA (Mod.) in Computer Science from Trinity College Dublin, an MBA from the University of Geneva and an EMBA from the Tepper Business School, Carnegie Mellon University.Previously, Stuart co-founded Gradient Solutions. Gradient developed on-line travel booking engines for customers such as Austrian Airlines, Delta, KLM, Northwest Airlines, Thomas Cook and Virgin Travelstore. As Technology Director and Joint CEO, Stuart was responsible for technical strategy, product architecture, product development, customer solutions and hosting operations, as well as sharing the responsibility for general management. Gradient was acquired by Sabre.
- Total investments:
- 4
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Stuart Coulson invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 2 (50%)
- Software 2 (50%)
- CRM 1 (25%)
- Apps 1 (25%)
- GovTech 1 (25%)
Stage
- Seed 3 (75%)
- Angel 1 (25%)
Country
- United States 3 (75%)
- Ireland 1 (25%)
Investments
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Talivest
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Talivest optimises an intelligent ecosystem for hi-tech, high-growth companies by gathering insights throughout the employee lifecycle. Talivest’s solution uses machine learning and predictive analytics to help companies measure, build and maintain high performance. | $500K / Angel / Jan 01, 2016 | |
Local Motion
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Our Mission:Provide simple, shared vehicle mobility.Company Overview:Local Motion is a leading provider of car sharing and mobility management technologies. Description:Our technology powers smart fleets for corporations, campuses and government. Stop sharing the keys, start optimizing your assets! We've developed a smalltelematics device that we install in any vehicle. Employees save time by switching from using keys to using their badge to access vehicles. We provide a web-based dashboard that helps manager's control the fleet and make hard decisions. Managers can monitor activity, lower maintenance costs and decide how to rightsize their fleet. | Seed / Nov 01, 2012 | |
AgencyCounter
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Buildingeye Inc. is ranked in the US GovTech 100 as an established provider of cloud software services to local government providing internal and public facing solutions. Their new platform, CivicCentral captures the leadership teams’ in-depth knowledge of augmenting government systems, applying proprietary AI to enrich data and spatial analytics,advancing digital transformation to leading smart cities, such as San Francisco, Grand Rapids, Palo Alto, Pittsburgh, and Berkeley. | Seed / Feb 01, 2012 | |
Intercom
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Intercom is a Conversational Relationship Platform (CRP) that helps businesses build better customer relationships through personalized, messenger-based experiences. It’s the only platform that delivers conversational experiences across the customer journey, with solutions for Conversational Marketing, Conversational Customer Engagement andConversational Support.Intercom is bringing a messenger-first experience to all business-to-customer communication, powering 500 million conversations per month and connecting 4 billion unique end users worldwide across its more than 25,000 paying customers, including Atlassian, Sotheby’s and New Relic.The company was founded in 2011 in San Francisco by Eoghan McCabe, Des Traynor, Ciaran Lee and David Barrett, with the mission to make internet business personal. Intercom was valued at $1.275 billion in 2018 and has secured $241 million in funding from investors including Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer Venture Partners and Social Capital. | $1M / Seed / Jan 25, 2012 |
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About Stanford University
Stanford University is a teaching and research university that focuses on graduate programs in law, medicine, education, and business. Few colleges can match the breadth, excellence, and prestige of Stanford’s academics, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. The university is organized into seven schools: Business, Earth Sciences,Education, Engineering, Humanities and Sciences, Law, and Medicine Student life at Stanford is quite active, due in part to the 11,000+ students living on campus. Art is a strong presence at Stanford, fostered by Stanford Lively Arts, the Cantor Center for Visual Arts, and numerous student clubs and organizations. Stanford also features extensive athletic programs, including more than 35 varsity sports and about 20 clubs sports. In order to maintain its high standards, Stanford University has extremely selective admissions. The university admits undergraduates based on a combination of academic achievement, intellectual curiosity, and personal experience. Graduate admissions criteria and application procedures vary based on the program of study. Undergraduates at Stanford have access to a variety of financial aid opportunities, including institutional scholarships, grants from the government, and student employment. Graduate students can receive financial aid through fellowships and grants, but funding is typically not available for master’s students.
Stanford University Contacts
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Audrey Maclean
Consulting Associate Professor, School of Eng.
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Badr Al-Rumaih
Graduate Research Assistant, Stanford Wave Physics Lab
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Carolyn Bertozzi
Professor of chemistry
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Christopher Field
Perry L. McCarty Director, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
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Chuck Eesley
Associate Professor
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What does Stuart Coulson invest in?
Stuart Coulson invests primarily in SaaS, Software and CRM startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 4 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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The most recent investment recorded for Stuart Coulson closed in Jan 2016. Shizune tracks 4 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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