Update from the Business Builders Club at Ohio State

Tuesday, April 6, 2010

This Week: Venture Capitalist Matt Carbonara

Tuesday's meeting will be in the Ohio Union Ohio Staters, Inc. Traditions Room at 8:00pm.

Matt has over 15 years of experience working with technology companies, in venture capital, product marketing and design engineering roles.

Matt is both a General Partner at Reservoir Venture Partners and a Managing Director at TeleSoft Partners, a Silicon Valley based Venture Capital firm. As a venture capitalist Matt has invested in Jungo Software (NDS), Matrix Semiconductor (SanDisk), Ikanos Communications(IPO: IKAN) and SigmaTel (IPO: SGTL).

Matt was recently an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at TechColumbus. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Matt was at Terayon Communication Systems (IPO: TERN), where he initially architected and designed ASICs for Terayon’s cable modem systems before moving into product marketing and product management. He also had design roles at LSI Logic and Amdahl Corporation. Matt received his B.S., Summa Cum Laude, and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Ohio State University.