William Sahlman
Professor @ Harvard Business School
Boston, United States
William Sahlman is a Series A investor at Harvard Business School in Boston focused on Internet and Mobile Apps. Lead Entrepreneurship Professor and Dean of External Relations, Harvard Business SchoolWilliam Salhman is an advisor to HST Solar where he guides the firm on strategy. He is the Dimitri V. D’Arbeloff – Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. The d’Arbeloff Chair was established in 1986 to support teachingand research on the entrepreneurial process. His research focuses on the investment and financing decisions made in entrepreneurial ventures at all stages in their development. Sahlman has written numerous articles and two textbooks on topics including entrepreneurial management, venture capital, private equity, deal structuring, incentives, commercializing science, and the role of entrepreneurship in the global economy.In April 2011, the National Venture Capital Association gave Sahlman The American Spirit Award, which was created in 1999 to recognize individuals who have shown outstanding leadership by applying business skills, knowledge, expertise and resources to make a meaningful contribution to society. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business Economics (1982), also from Harvard.
- Total investments:
- 8
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries William Sahlman invests in
Stages William Sahlman invests in
Countries William Sahlman invests in
Round sizes
Round size
- Seed
- $950k–$1.8M
- Series A
- $5M–$8M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Internet 2 (25%)
- Mobile Apps 2 (25%)
- iOS 1 (13%)
- Apps 1 (13%)
- SaaS 1 (13%)
Stage
- Series A 4 (50%)
- Seed 3 (38%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (13%)
Country
- United States 5 (63%)
- Mexico 1 (13%)
- Australia 1 (13%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Zubale
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Zubale is the critical infrastructure that enables retailers to win in e-commerce. Through our gig workers marketplace and technical integrations we power our clients entire back end e-commerce operations delivering the best fill-rates, on-times and NPS. In the last year, Zubale has completed over 3 million jobs across 90 cities and 16,800 stores.We operate in Mexico, Colombia and Costa Rica and are scaling across Latin America. The Co-Founders Allison Campbell and Sebastian Monroy met during their Harvard MBA and are retail insiders with deep expertise at Walmart and P&G in Latin America, Africa, India and China. | $750K / Pre-Seed / Aug 01, 2018 | |
Truepic
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Truepic provides authenticity infrastructure for the internet. The company’s transparency tools deliver verifiable information about the origin and editing history of digital content. Truepic is dedicated to advancing products and services that establish transparency in digital content, empowering viewers and users to identify authenticity anddifferentiate human from computer-generated. Recognized as one of TIME’s Best Inventions and Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas, consumers, businesses, creators, and publishers trust Truepic’s technologies to make informed decisions. | $8M / Series A / Jun 20, 2018 | |
pop.in
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Smiletime, Inc. powers pop.in, an app for spontaneous, ephemeral live connection. On pop.in, civility and inclusivity are the bedrock of dynamic conversations, which are hosted in an environment that allows for discussions to be as multifaceted as the people having them. An unlimited number of people can join pop.ins and use video, audio, text andimages to have nuanced dialogue. A pop.in only lasts as long as people are in them, so by their definition, pop.ins are never empty and never lonely. And with the ability to create "ground rules" that are unique to every pop.in, hosts are empowered to be deliberate in setting a tenor and intention for their conversations from the get-go. Smiletime, Inc. believes technology can and should enable honest dialogue and empathetic connection, and that's what they've created with pop.in.Smiletime, Inc. was founded by Alex Kruglov, Sharon Chang, and Jace Hall in 2014, and is located in Los Angeles, California. | $1M / Seed / Sep 12, 2017 | |
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Truepic
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Truepic provides authenticity infrastructure for the internet. The company’s transparency tools deliver verifiable information about the origin and editing history of digital content. Truepic is dedicated to advancing products and services that establish transparency in digital content, empowering viewers and users to identify authenticity anddifferentiate human from computer-generated. Recognized as one of TIME’s Best Inventions and Fast Company’s World Changing Ideas, consumers, businesses, creators, and publishers trust Truepic’s technologies to make informed decisions. | $1.8M / Seed / May 11, 2017 | |
Bridj
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Bridj uses big data and crowdsourcing to predict how a city moves. It then deploys a dynamic transportation network of direct shuttles to match popular origin and destination pairings. As more users enter the system, Bridj uses machine-learning algorithms to get even smarter, allowing for a living, breathing, and thinking transportation system. Bycreating data-driven pop-up networks for daily intra-city transportation, Bridj is reinventing public transit, creating better transit for everyone. | Series A / Mar 01, 2015 | |
Scout Finance
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Scout Finance is on a mission to transform how investors perform day-to-day equity research and analysis through automation, data science, and amazing design. They’re building a SaaS product that provides next-generation data analytics and workflow solutions for fundamental, public markets investors. They want to make professional investors 10xmore productive when performing fundamental research by giving them an automated analyst at their fingertips, whether at their desk or on the road.Existing market data tools (Bloomberg, CapIQ, etc.) are expensive, difficult to use and are primarily repositories of data. Work is performed the same way it was 20 years ago using a combination of Excel and the terminal, which is inefficient and time consuming. They are building a product that adapts to how you work.Their product is in the alpha stage, built by a team that includes the former Head of Mobile at Thomson Reuters, two Lead Engineers at Bloomberg, and former buyside professionals. | $950K / Seed / Dec 31, 2014 | |
WeShow
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the noise from Gears woke the sleeping giant, pipes.yahoo.com oeksmd em out, and Zoho definitely damned Dynamics. One could have said Microsoft was definitely not leading the Web 2.0 Revolution And although we understand that businesses do go through cycles, insatiable Internetters have become savvy social beings. Microsoft WAS missing out onkey growth from the social netwokring and web application sector. One could say Microsoft got it's SecondLight during the 4 day Professional Developers Conference. (So I was told) Microsoft was abuzz for Azure, Live was the life of the party, services like mesh.com or foldershare.com highlighted the direction Microsoft was going with webware and I am sure a developer (or two) reached for his inhaler after Microsoft gave out a copy of the next version of their operating system, Windows 7. Microsoft was ready to take on the competition. With new ideas , technology and services, Microsoft definitely paved the path to a whole new level of WoW Start with windowslive.com , if you are a Developer, check out Codeplex, Microsoft's open source project hosting web site.Want to start a business? office.live.comcreate games and mashups with popfly.com Yes, the sleeping giant has been woke, but the competition will continue fighting back. Consumers are the great benefactor of a countless number of web goodies.Are you ready for what’s next? So am I. | $5M / Series A / Jun 01, 2007 | |
Snapfish
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Snapfish is a photo sharing and storage service that was acquired by HP in 2005. Users can upload, print, and share photos with friends. Printing photos is Snapfish's main focus for the site. This is a different focus than most photo sharing and storage sites that usually have a strong focus on the community aspect, like Flickr.Snapfishhas even partnered with retail stores like Costco and Walgreens so you can pick up your prints locally. Users can also easily create gifts, photo books and cards using their photos.Users are encouraged to upload as many photos as they want since they have unlimited uploads. However, to keep unlimited upload status users are required to buy prints at least once every year or their photos will be deleted. This is easy to get around since you can buy a single print for around $0.12.Main competitors include | $7.5M / Series A / Dec 14, 1999 |
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About Harvard Business School
Harvard Business School educates leaders who make a difference in the world.HBS offers MBA Program, an intensive, two-year residential program leading to an MBA degree; Doctoral Programs with nine full-time programs leading to a Ph.D. or DBA degree; and Executive Education with more than 80 programs preparing talented professionals from all overthe world for new levels of leadership in their careers and within their organizations.Some of the notable graduates of Harvard Business School are former US president George W. Bush, Ratan Tata, and James Dimon. Harvard Business School is an ivy league school.
Harvard Business School Contacts
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Lynda Applegate
Professor
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Alex Iskold
Coach and Venture Capitalist in Residence
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Alistair Croll
Visiting Executive
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Amy Schulman
Senior Lecturer - Business Administration
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Andy Wu
Assistant Professor of Business Administration (Strategy Unit)
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FAQ
What does William Sahlman invest in?
William Sahlman invests primarily in Internet, Mobile Apps and iOS startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 8 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 William Sahlman's check size?
William Sahlman typically joins rounds of $950k–$1.8M at Seed and $5M–$8M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds William Sahlman participates in.
When did William Sahlman last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for William Sahlman closed in Aug 2018. Shizune tracks 8 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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