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Bill Tai

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Areas of greatest interest

Digital Television
Enabling Technology
Web Based Services
Wireless Infrastructure

Track record

Avvenu – acq. by Nokia (NYSE NOK), 2007
SlimDevices – acq. by Logitech (NASD LOGI), 2006
IPinfusion Inc. – acq. by ACCESS (TSE 4813), 2006
RLX Technologies – acq. by HP (NYSE HPQ), 2005
NCompass – acq. by Microsoft (NASD MSFT), 2001
ImGo – IPO 2001 via reverse merger (HKSE:0067)
Microtune – IPO 2000, (NASD TUNE)
iAsiaWorks Inc. – IPO 2000 (NASD IAWK)
Transmeta inc. – IPO 2000 (NASD TMTA)
ICWorks – acq. by Cypress (NYSE CY), 1999
Terayon – IPO 1998 (NASD TERN)
8×8, Inc. – IPO 1997, (NASD EGHT)
Award Software – IPO 1996 (NASD AWRD)
Rastergraphics – IPO 1996 (NASD RGFX)
Premisys Inc. – IPO 1995 (NASD PRMS)
Network Peripherals – IPO 1994 (NASD NPIX)
Centrum Inc. – acq. by 3Com (NASD COMS) 1994
Microchip – IPO 1993 (NASD MCHP)
Creative Technology – IPO 1992, (Nasdaq : CREAF)

Past lives

VC since 1991

Founder or Chairman of several companies (iAsiaWorks, IPinfusion, Tradebeam)

Created semiconductor practice at Alex.Brown & Sons

First valley start up job Marketing, LSI Logic

What he does for fun

Kiteboards on water and snow

Co-creator with Susi Mai of the MaiTai Kite Camp www.maitaisports.com

Joined CRV

2002

Education

MBA, Harvard Graduate School of Business
BS, Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois

Current Projects
Updates

Blog

Links

Press

  • 06/16/2008

    Silicon Valley quest: Wind over water more

  • 05/09/2008

    CNET - Want a VC deal? Go fly a kiteboard  more

  • 12/04/2007

    Nokia acquires Avvenu for Mobile Access and Share Technologies more

  • 11/04/2007

    Silicon Clocks raises $8M financing as Lux Capital joins existing investors Charles River, Format... more

  • 04/27/2007

    PodTech, Bill Tai of Charles River Ventures on Finding The Next Google more

  • 04/26/2007

    PodTech, Bill Tai of Charles River Ventures: Is The VC Game Going To the Angels? more

  • 11/01/2006

    Boston Globe- Charles River Ventures rolls out a seed-money program for Net start-ups more

Events

  • 08/05/2008

    Join Bill Tai at Silicon Dragon - A Wake-up Call for the Valley where he will be moderating a panel on Tuesday, August 5, 2008 (Palo Alto, CA)