Rory O'Driscoll

Partner at Scale Venture Partners

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Biography

Rory O'Driscoll is a Partner at Scale Venture Partners, where his firm bio lists focus areas of applications and robotics and states that he has been investing with the firm since the mid-1990s. He grew up in Ireland, trained as an accountant, attended the London School of Economics and moved to the United States in 1991, joining Bank of America's corporate M&A division and then the bank's venture capital arm, which relaunched as Scale Venture Partners in 2007. His firm bio names BILL, Box, DocuSign, WalkMe, Tavus, Klarity, Regie and Locus Robotics among his investments. He served on the boards of Box, DocuSign and Bill.com, and joined the Tavus board in connection with Scale's Series A investment.

Education

Previous Experience

Notable Investments

BILL BILLBox BOXDocuSign DOCUTavusWalkMeLocus RoboticsKlarityRegieOmnitureExactTarget

Board Seats

Career Timeline

1991
Immigrated to the United States and began venture investing within a year.
2007
BA Venture Partners relaunched as Scale Venture Partners after Bank of America became a minority investor in the firm's second $400M fund.
2010
Joined the board of directors of Box in April.
2013
Joined the Bill.com board of directors as part of Scale Venture Partners' $38 million investment.
2018
Departed DocuSign's board of directors in the company's post-IPO board refresh.
2023
Resigned from the BILL Holdings board of directors effective January 31.

Sources & References

Scale Venture Partners - Rory O'Driscoll ↗TheJournal.ie - Meet the Clare man who went from working for a graveyard to overseeing billion-dollar deals ↗Bill.com press release - Bill.com Closes $38 Million in Financing Led By Scale Venture Partners ↗Box - Rory O'Driscoll (Outgoing) director page ↗CNBC - Almost half of DocuSign's board departs just months after IPO ↗Business Wire - Tavus Raises $18 Million ↗VentureBeat - BA Ventures relaunches as Scale Venture Partners ↗Scale Venture Partners - About ↗