Excite Co-Founder, Ryan McIntyre, Joins SOFTBANK Venture Capital.Business Editors and High Tech Writers MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 16, 2000 SOFTBANK Venture Capital (SBVC SBVC San Bernardino Valley College SBVC Saginaw Bay Visitors Center (Bay City, Michigan) ), which manages venture capital funds Venture Capital Funds An investment fund that manages money from investors seeking private equity stakes in small and medium-size enterprises with strong growth potential. Notes: focused primarily on early-stage Internet companies, today announced that Ryan McIntyre, co-founder of Excite (now part of Excite@Home), has joined the fund as a Netbatsu Development Officer (NDO NDO National Demining Office NDO Neglect of Differential Overlap NDO National Debt Office (UK) NDO New Development Opportunities NDO Novell Data Object NDO National Database Organization (Pakistan) ). "Netbatsu" is a SOFTBANK buzzword A term that refers to the latest technology or a term that sounds catchy. If not a flash in the pan, new technologies become mainstream. For example, Java was a hot buzzword in the 1990s, but should remain a major topic for decades. , loosely translated it means "affiliation of powerful Internet companies." To facilitate SBVC's Netbatsu, the fund's managing directors work hand-in-hand with the NDO team to investigate new investment opportunities and consequently team with those companies to achieve success. Each NDO is selected for his or her knowledge of the Internet as well as past experience working with entrepreneurs and investment firms. The NDOs play a critical role in the fund's primary activities. "Ryan's record speaks for itself - it's very impressive," stated Heidi Roizen Heidi Roizen (born 1958 in Stanford, California) is a Silicon Valley executive and venture capitalist. She graduated from Stanford University in 1980 with a bachelor's degree in English and earned her MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business three years , managing director for SOFTBANK Venture Capital's current technology fund. "We are thrilled he has joined our team on a permanent basis. He has a great wealth of Internet knowledge and experience as well as strong expertise in its emerging technologies. These attributes, along with his roll-up-your-sleeves mentality, will serve our fund and our portfolios well." Prior to joining SOFTBANK Venture Capital, Ryan was co-founder of Excite, now part of Excite@Home. He was a principal engineer of the information retrieval information retrieval Recovery of information, especially in a database stored in a computer. Two main approaches are matching words in the query against the database index (keyword searching) and traversing the database using hypertext or hypermedia links. and content management systems for Architext Software, which later became Excite for the company's April 1996 IPO (Initial Public Offering) The first time a company offers shares of stock to the public. While not a computer term per se, many founders, employees and insiders of computer companies have found this acronym more exciting than any tech term they ever heard. . Ryan was also a key player in the architecture and launch of Excite's community and commerce platforms. Prior to Excite, Ryan was part of the technical staff for the Hewlett Packard Division at Oracle Corporation and Canon Research of America, the research arm of Canon. He is a member of the DoDots' advisory board, a SOFTBANK Venture Capital portfolio company. Ryan has a Bachelor of Science Noun 1. Bachelor of Science - a bachelor's degree in science BS, SB bachelor's degree, baccalaureate - an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies degree in Symbolic Systems with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence from Stanford University Stanford University, at Stanford, Calif.; coeducational; chartered 1885, opened 1891 as Leland Stanford Junior Univ. (still the legal name). The original campus was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. David Starr Jordan was its first president. . He has studied in Berlin and Munich, Germany, and has a strong interest in music, sports and micro-brewed beer. About SOFTBANK Venture Capital SOFTBANK Venture Capital (SOFTBANK VC) manages venture capital funds focused primarily on early-stage Internet companies. SOFTBANK VC's technology fund directors are all experienced technology leaders with prior operating experience as founders of early-stage companies, senior managers of major technology corporations, and leaders in investment banking. SOFTBANK VC's past and current portfolios include public Internet companies such as Critical Path, E-LOAN, GeoCities, Interliant, MessageMedia, Net2Phone, and TheStreet.com. For more information, visit www.sbvc.com. About SOFTBANK CORP. SOFTBANK CORP. (Tokyo Stock Exchange Tokyo Stock Exchange Main stock market of Japan, located in Tokyo. It opened in 1878 to provide a market for the trading of government bonds newly issued to former samurai. : 9984) has emerged as one of the world's leading Internet market forces. Through its ownership positions in more than 300 Internet companies and its unique Internet management concept, it is able to create market synergies for its family of companies on a global scale. In Japan its activities encompass distribution, publishing, Internet media platforms, a broad range of e-commerce businesses, and joint ventures with companies including Microsoft, Cisco, Yahoo!, the National Association of Security Dealers, and many other market leaders. In the U.S., SOFTBANK is the largest shareholder in leading Internet companies including Yahoo!, E*TRADE and ZDNet, and in Europe has established Internet joint ventures with News Corp. and Vivendi. For more information, visit www.softbank.com. |
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