Heidi Roizen

Partner at Threshold Ventures · Joined 2012

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Biography

Heidi Roizen is a Partner at Threshold Ventures, the firm formerly known as Draper Fisher Jurvetson, which she joined as a Venture Partner in 2012 and where she was named Operating Partner in 2014. Before venture capital she co-founded the software company T/Maker in 1983 and was its CEO until Deluxe Corporation acquired it in 1994, then served as Vice President of Worldwide Developer Relations at Apple. She entered venture capital in 1999 and spent eight years as a Managing Director at Mobius Venture Capital. She sits on the boards of Threshold portfolio companies EdgeQ, Elementary, Freeform, M7 Health, Moonlake, OpsLevel, Tia and Upside Foods, co-leads Stanford's Threshold Venture Fellows Program in Management Science and Engineering, and serves on the advisory council of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence.

Education

Previous Experience

Notable Investments

Upside FoodsEdgeQElementaryFreeformTiaOpsLevelM7 HealthMoonlake

Board Seats

Career Timeline

1983
Co-founded the software company T/Maker, which she led as CEO for over a dozen years.
1994
T/Maker was acquired by Deluxe Corporation.
1999
Moved into venture capital after serving as Vice President of Worldwide Developer Relations at Apple.
2012
Joined Draper Fisher Jurvetson as a Venture Partner in February.
2014
Was appointed Operating Partner at DFJ following the close of DFJ Venture XI.
2019
DFJ was renamed Threshold Ventures, where she is a Partner.

Sources & References

Threshold Ventures - Heidi Roizen ↗Threshold Ventures - Team ↗Threshold Ventures - Portfolio ↗Heidi Roizen - Bio (personal site) ↗PR Newswire - Heidi Roizen Appointed as Operating Partner at DFJ ↗Axios - Draper Fisher Jurvetson changes its name to Threshold Ventures ↗Stanford Profiles - Heidi Roizen ↗