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Jeff F. Clavier Age 36

Palo Alto, CA | Menlo Park, CA | Los Angeles, CA

Also known as: Jeff

Based in Palo Alto, California, Jean-Francois Jeff Clavier is the Founder and Managing Partner of SoftTech VC, one of the most active seed stage investors in Web . startups. Since , Jeff has invested in close to consumer internet startups in areas like social media, monetization, search, gaming or BBBC web services. These investments are typically located in Silicon Valley, New-York and Boulder. With over years of operational, entrepreneurial and venture capital experience, Jeff is able to add relevant perspective and value to his companies as they grow from inception to maturity, and hopefully, success. In , Jeff was recognized as one of the Web . King Makers by (late) Business .. BusinessWeek named him one of "The Most Influential People on the Web" in , and one of the "Top Angels in Tech" in . He was also nominated in the "Best Angel" category at the Crunchies in and . He is often noted for his investments in categories such as passion-centric communities or online gaming, or for having sold a number of his Web . startups to the likes of Yahoo, AOL, Intuit or more recently Twitter and Groupon. Believing that you have to practice what you invest in, and vice-versa, Jeff started Software Only in , one of the early venture capital blogs where he primarily covered social media, search, online communities and investing. After a few years of active posting, Jeff switched to micro-blogging, and a less time consuming production, mostly through @jeff on Twitter. Jeff was born, raised and educated in France, earning a MS in Computer Science and a research degree in Distributed Computing. He has been happily living in Silicon Valley since with his wife @Bernadette and their two children. When he is not busy working, Jeff likes to spend time with his family and friends, cook, collect wine and play video games. He also skis, hikes, dives and plays golf so poorly it is not even funny. Specialties Investing and advising early stage consumer internet startups.

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