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Theresia Gouw

Theresia Gouw

Theresia Gouw

Partner, Accel Partners

Theresia was responsible for several of Accel’s investments which have had successful acquisitions or IPO exits including AdECN (MSFT), CRS Retail Systems (EPIC), Interlace Systems (ORCL), Imperva (IMPV), Kosmix (WMT), PeopleSupport (PSPT), Xoopit (YHOO) and Zimbra (YHOO). Theresia was part of the Walmart.com (WMT) investment team, and she currently serves on the board of directors of several private companies in both the consumer Internet (Birchbox, Glam Media, Hotel Tonight, LearnVest,ModCloth, Trulia (IPO)) and security sectors (Imperva,TRUSTe,).

Theresia focuses primarily on Internet and software investments with specific interest in social commerce, vertical media, security, and consumer internet/mobile apps.

Theresia serves as a Trustee on Brown University’sCorporation Board, on the board of directors of DonorsChoose.org and as a member of The Stanford GSB Trust and DAPER Investment Fund.

Theresia has contributed to Fortune.com, The NYTimes, The Wall Street Journal, appeared on CNBC’s Women in Power series, Bloomberg TV, andFox TV. Read Theresia’s presentations and articles: an overview presentation on Accel’s Digital Media Portfolio, a profile of Theresia from The New Valley Girls article in Fortune Magazine, and her opinion piece for Fortune.com.

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Testimonials

The SVOD conference was a wonderful event. Networking is very important for start-ups. The challenge for them is often not money: it is mentoring and finding people who can give good advice from experience.

Esther Dyson

Founder, EDventure Holdings

A lot of energy, lot of very dedicated entrepreneurs here, very passionate, very committed to what they’re doing.

Mitchell (Mitch) Kapor

Partner, Kapor Capital

Thank you for the opportunity to present Driveway at SVOD. It gave us much needed exposure to the wide investor community. Combining the pitch preparation classes with the presentation content guidance, we came out strong and confident from the podium. During the conference we had a chance to speak to many investors and industry leaders resulting in a very valuable feedback.

Jake Diner

Driveway Software

I love coming to the Silicon Valley Open Doors! I discover entrepreneurs here every single year, and I think I’ve been to all of them.

Carol Sands

Founder, The Angels’ Forum

The organizers here are doing an amazing job with selecting the people who attend, selecting the speakers, coming up with ideas for panels and discussions. The truly amazing side is that the audience gets bigger, more involved, active and more thoughtful. It’s just a fun place to be!

Daniil Stolyarov

Investment Director, Almaz Capital Partners (102M under management)

The wonderful thing about entrepreneurs is that their passion for starting new companies transcends languages and geographic boundaries. I felt very comfortable at SVOD and recognized its participants as having the same type of DNA that made Silicon Valley what it is today.

Ron Conway

SV Angel

Cleary one of the very best conferences we attended and sponsored in Silicon Valley this year. To us the conference truly captured what we see in our daily practice, the substantial opportunities and also the challenges with cross-border business arrangements. We made many new meaningful connections.

Lars Johansson

Partner, K&L Gates

The quality of entrepreneurs and the international flavor: it’s always fun to see where innovation is happening around the world. It was fun for us to see not only the quality of thought but also pace of execution and the teams here are becoming ready to play.

Byron Deeter

Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners ($4B under management)

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