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Jeff Clavier
Managing Partner, SoftTech VC
Based in Palo Alto, Jeff is the Managing Partner of SoftTech VC, a Venture Consulting firm serving the needs of the “software ecosystem”: startup companies, established vendors, venture capital firms and large IT buyers. He has spent over fifteen years in the software market, as an entrepreneur, a senior executive and a venture capitalist.
Prior to founding SoftTech VC, Jeff was the President of RVC Capital, the firm managing the Reuters Greenhouse Fund – the Corporate Venture arm of Reuters that has invested $560M in 82 companies since 1994, including Yahoo!, Verisign, Phone.com, and Infoseek. As the leader of US Operations, Jeff’s focus was on investing and managing the US portfolio, as well as supporting all companies in their commercial and business development efforts.
Jeff joined the Venture arm of Reuters from its product development division, where he was leading the development of the Risk Management and Desktop unit. He had direct responsibly for 250+ staff in Paris, London and New-York, developing a number of leading front and middle-office products. Jeff became instrumental in the development of the Reuters Open Systems product line since the early 1990’s, after its acquisition of Effix Systems, the Paris-based startup company he helped develop in 1989.