Tod Sacerdoti

Partner at Flex Capital

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Biography

Tod Sacerdoti is a Partner at Flex Capital. He is named on the SEC Form D of Flex Capital Fund I, L.P., filed 25 October 2018, and on the Form D/A of Flex Capital Fund II, L.P., filed 13 February 2023, as a managing member of each fund's general partner. Flex Capital's team page describes him as founder and CEO of Pipedream, acquired by Workday in 2025, and of BrightRoll, sold to Yahoo for $640 million in 2014. Before founding BrightRoll in 2006 he was an investment banking analyst at Robertson Stephens, Director of Business Development at Spoke Software and Director of Revenue and Business Development at Plaxo; after the Yahoo acquisition he served as Yahoo's Vice President for Display and Video Advertising Products from 2014 to 2017. He holds an undergraduate degree from Yale University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business. No individual company investment is attributed to him by name in any Flex Capital announcement read, so his notableInvestments is empty.

Education

Previous Experience

Career Timeline

2006
Founded BrightRoll and led it as CEO until 2014.
2014
BrightRoll was acquired by Yahoo for $640 million; he became Vice President, Display and Video Advertising Products at Yahoo.
2018
Named on the Form D of Flex Capital Fund I, L.P., filed 25 October 2018, as a managing member of the fund's general partner.
2019
Founded Pipedream with seven former BrightRoll employees and became its CEO.
2025
Workday announced a definitive agreement to acquire Pipedream in November 2025; the acquisition closed in February 2026.

Sources & References

Flex Capital - Homepage, team section (exact title and firm-written bio) ↗SEC EDGAR - Form D, Flex Capital Fund I, L.P. (25 October 2018) ↗SEC EDGAR - Form D/A, Flex Capital Fund II, L.P. (13 February 2023) ↗Wikipedia - Tod Sacerdoti (education, BrightRoll, Yahoo, Pipedream and the Workday acquisition) ↗