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
B.A. English, Stanford University
M.B.A., Stanford Graduate School of Business
Previous Experience
Co-founder and CEO, T/Maker (1983 to its 1994 acquisition by Deluxe Corporation)
Vice President of Worldwide Developer Relations, Apple
Managing Director, Mobius Venture Capital (eight years)
Venture Partner and later Operating Partner, DFJ (Draper Fisher Jurvetson), which was renamed Threshold Ventures in 2019