Index Ventures

Sectors:

Communications, Internet, Media

Geographies:

US, UK

Contact:

Location:

US

Assistant:

Joy Radashaw -

Mike Volpi joined Index Ventures in July 2009. He is a Partner in the San Francisco office, focusing on investments in the Enterprise Software and Consumer Internet companies. He also contributes to the firm's later stage growth fund and he currently serves on the boards of Path, Sonos, Lookout, Hortonworks, Soundcloud, Big Switch Networks, Zuora, Foodily, and Storsimple. Mike is also on the board of Ericsson (NASDAQ: ERIC). Mike was previously a Director of Cloud.com (now part of Citrix).

Mike began his career at Hewlett Packard's optoelectronics division.  He then moved to Cisco Systems where he was Senior Vice President & General Manager of the Routing and Service Provider Technology Group, where he led Cisco's business for the Service Provider market, and was also responsible for all of Cisco's routing and access products.  In 2007, this was an $11 billion business for Cisco. Mike also served as the company's Chief Strategy Officer, where he was responsible for Cisco's corporate strategy as well as business development, strategic alliances, advanced Internet projects, legal services, and government affairs. During this tenure, Mike was instrumental in the creation of the company's acquisition and investment strategies, as Cisco acquired more than 70 companies during his tenure.

He has Master's and Bachelor's degrees in mechanical engineering from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Skype is a global P2P telephony company that is changing voice communications by moving voice calling to the Internet. Acquired by eBay in October 2005.

Details

Contact:

Danny Rimer, Saul Klein, Mike Volpi

Website:

www.skype.com

Status:

Exited

Sector(s):

Communications, Consumer

Stage(s)

Early stage

Geography:

US

News

Sep 12 2005

eBay to Acquire Skype

Mar 15 2004

SKYPE Closes 'B' Round Funding from Top Venture Capitalists