Jim Tybur - Trinity Ventures

“One of my favorite startup moments was during my investment in Bix.com.
The pressure was on to nail a great launch as we knew Walt Mossberg at the WSJ was gearing up to write a make or break review.”

“During those intense weeks, I was in the trenches with the Bix team helping with both the strategy and the “grunt” work – everything from helping the CEO with scenario planning to guerilla street marketing. It was during this experience that my roll-up-the-sleeves and get-engaged-but-not-in-the-way approach to venture investing was crystallized. I now have two articles pinned up in my office – Walt’s positive review and the announcement of the highly successful acquisition of Bix by Yahoo!.”

Jim Tybur, Principal
jim@trinityventures.com

Jim joined Trinity Ventures in 2004 with seven years of operating experience in Internet services and software. Jim led Trinity’s investment in Bix.com in 2006, which resulted in a successful sale to Yahoo! in 2007. Prior to Trinity Ventures, Jim worked in the corporate strategy and business development group at VERITAS Software (acquired by Symantec, SYMC), the world leader in security, storage and systems management software and at PolyServe (acquired by HP, HPQ), a venture backed infrastructure software company. Jim has also managed new products for About.com (acquired by The New York Times Company, NYT) and helped launch several early Internet companies while working for the Boston Consulting Group in Atlanta and Singapore.

Focus
Internet Services and Software

Education
M.B.A., Harvard Business School
B.S., Systems Engineering, University of Virginia

Active investments
Cubetree
Focus (formerly Tippit)
MaxPoint interactive
TubeMogul

Past investments
Bix (acquired by Yahoo! – YHOO)
Photobucket (acquired by Fox Interactive Media – NWS)

Blog
www.irongiving.com