# Sue Decker

> Sue Decker is a seed investor at Raftr Inc. backing Software and Enterprise Software. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Raftr Inc.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/raftr-inc)
- Location: Belvedere Tiburon, United States
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Dec 2014
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sue-decker/3/4b7/129
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/suedecker
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/sue.decker.585

Sue Decker is a seed investor at Raftr Inc. in Belvedere Tiburon focused on Software and Enterprise Software. Sue Decker is principal of Deck3 Ventures LLC. She serves on the boards of directors of Berkshire Hathaway, Intel Corporation, and Costco Wholesale. She is also a trustee of Save the Children.During the 2009- 2010 academic year, she was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) at Harvard Business School (HBS). In this role, she was involved in casedevelopment activities, worked with students, and helped develop and deliver portions of the January 2010 Silicon Valley Immersion Program for HBS students.Prior to joining HBS, Decker performed a number of roles for Yahoo!, from June 2000 to April 2009. Her most recent position was president of Yahoo! Inc. from June 2007 to April 2009. In this role, she was a key participant in determining Yahoo!'s business strategy and vision and was responsible for all of the global business operations of Yahoo!, including sales, product marketing and distribution across the three major customer groups of audience, advertisers and publishers. Prior to becoming President, from December 2006 to June 2007, Decker served as the head of one of Yahoo!'s two major business units, the Advertiser and Publisher Group (APG). Before that, Decker was executive vice president and chief financial officer from June 2000 to June 2007, managing all aspects of the company's financial and administrative direction within key functional areas, including finance, facilities, investor relations (and human resources and legal through December 2006).Prior to joining Yahoo!, Decker was with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) for 14 years. Most recently, she served as the global director of equity research, a $300 million operation, where, among other things, she was responsible for building and staffing a non-U.S. research product based on global sector teams. Before she assumed these responsibilities, Decker spent 12 years as an equity research analyst, providing coverage to institutional investors on more than 30 media, publishing, and advertising stocks. In this capacity, she received recognition by Institutional Investor magazine as a top rated analyst for ten consecutive years.Decker holds a B.S. degree from Tufts University, with a double major in computer science and economics, and an M.B.A. from HBS. She also received the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst in 1989 and served on the Financial Accounting Standards Advisory Council (FASAC) for a four-year term, from 2000 to 2004. She served on the board of directors of Pixar Animation Studios from June 2004 to May 2006, until its sale to Disney, and on the board of The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) from March 2005 to May 2007.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.4M–$6.1M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 67% |
| Enterprise Software | 2 | 67% |
| SMS | 1 | 33% |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| Mobile | 1 | 33% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Series A | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Tetrapod Software | Tetrapod Software LLC offers Chatbox, an enterprise collaboration solution. | $2.4M | Seed | Dec 31, 2014 |  |
| Rakuten Americas | Curbside makes it easy to find, buy and pickup products at nearby stores. The Curbside app searches realtime local inventory across retailers and uses location-based technologies to alert stores when a customer is arriving for a pickup. Curbside helps consumers quickly get what they need and helps retailers better serve their increasinglymobile centric customers. | $8M | Series A | Oct 06, 2014 |  |
| Gusto | Gusto develops web-based payroll solution for small- and medium-sized businesses. It operates an online platform that provides payroll, benefits, human resources, and integration services for employers and employees in the United States.Gusto offers health benefits and workers’ compensation benefits that include medical insurance, commuterbenefits, and 401(k) contributions as well as workers’ compensation insurance plans, time tracking, and integration services, and access to employees for processing payroll from web-enabled devices such as smartphones and tablets. It also provides access to employees and contractors to browse their previous pay stubs, review their payroll forms, verify their personal details, and statistics about their pay, tax payments and federal forms filing services, and security and support services.Gusto serves startups, coffee shops, doctors, creative agencies, lawyers, and boutiques. Edward Kim, Joshua Reeves, and Tomer London founded ZenPayRoll in 2011 that became Gusto, with its headquarters in San Francisco in California with an additional office in Denver in Colorado. | $6.1M | Seed | Dec 11, 2012 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [137 Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/137-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AME Cloud Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ame-cloud-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Aspect Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aspect-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Chicago Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chicago-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [DCVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/data-collective) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Designer Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/designer-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Raftr Inc.

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

RAFTR: A UNIQUE SOLUTION FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS Meeting college students where they are in an authenticated platform that's organized with feeds and real-time notifications specific to each campus. Raftr is filled with social features, including group messaging and a full events calendar, offering students a familiar and comfortable way toconnect with each other, and the university administration a secure way to connect with students. All users are authenticated with each university's specific .edu email address creating secure campus-specific experiences.

1 contacts available at Raftr Inc..

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sue Decker | CEO, President and Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/susan-l-decker |

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## FAQ

### What does Sue Decker invest in?

Sue Decker invests primarily in Software, Enterprise Software and SMS startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Sue Decker's check size?

Sue Decker typically joins rounds of $2.4M–$6.1M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Sue Decker participates in.

### When did Sue Decker last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Sue Decker closed in Dec 2014. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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