IVP (Institutional Venture Partners)

Davey Nickels· Partner, Head of HR and Platform· San Francisco Bay Areain

Davey Nickels leads HR and platform functions at IVP, focusing on talent and people operations. He previously worked at Robinhood and Google, and supports portfolio companies with board recruiting, compensation strategy, and talent solutions.

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Dennis Phelps· General Partner· Sausalitoin 𝕏

Dennis Phelps is an advisory partner who led his firm's early Snapchat investment at ~$800M, published a metrics-driven thesis justifying the price, and is hands-on recruiting senior executives during hypergrowth.

Eric Liaw· General Partner· Londonin 𝕏

Eric Liaw is a General Partner at IVP focused on enterprise software, gaming and AR, bottom-up solutions, consumer, and fintech. He partners with entrepreneurs at inflection points to help scale high-growth startups.

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Helen Clement· Partner & Head of Capital Formation· Scotland, England, Portugal, Spain, and Francein

Helen Clement leads capital formation at IVP, focusing on partnering with LPs to fund innovation. She has experience raising capital across venture, growth, and public markets.

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Jimena Nowack· Partner· United Kingdomin

Partner at IVP focused on AI, enterprise SaaS, and Europe. She studied History of Art at Oxford and moved from private equity to early-stage investing before joining IVP, where she partners with founders who have deep obsession and earned insight in their craft.

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Jules Gsell· Strategic Advisor· San Francisco Bay Areain

Jules Gsell advises IVP portfolio companies on GTM strategy, sales process, hiring, distribution, and playbooks. Previously spent eight years at Databricks scaling its sales organization from under $20M in revenue and nearly a decade at Box, which she joined as the 35th employee, leaving three years after its IPO.

Jules Maltz· General Partner· San Francisco, Californiain 𝕏

Jules Maltz joined IVP in 2008 and focuses on productivity software, enterprise SaaS, and internet technology. He enjoys working closely with founders from the earliest stages and cites executive recruitment as a strength.

Kelly O'Kane· Partner & Head of Finance & IR· San Francisco Bay Areain

Kelly O'Kane leads finance and investor relations at IVP, where she has worked for over a decade. She focuses on partnering with the firm's investor community, sharing market insights and generating returns.

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Kevin Egan· Venture Partner· San Francisco Bay Areain 𝕏

Currently CRO at ClickHouse leading sales, Kevin supports IVP as a Venture Partner, advising founders on go-to-market strategy and executive hiring. He focuses on the intersection of product-led growth and high-touch sales.

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Leslie Stolper· Head of Legal and Compliance· San Francisco Bay Areain

Leslie Stolper leads legal and compliance at IVP. She began her career practicing law before moving into venture as a compliance counsel, and now works on complex legal issues supporting the firm's investors and portfolio companies.

Manish Gupta· Strategic Advisor· San Francisco Bay Areain

A former engineering executive who previously led engineering at Coinbase, where he worked alongside IVP as an operator. As a strategic advisor at IVP, he coaches founders and CTOs on scaling challenges including hiring, org design, and performance standards.

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Micherice Tao· Associate· San Franciscoin 𝕏

Micherice Tao is an Associate at IVP focused on consumer and application software businesses, covering frontier & physical world, applied AI, and consumer themes. With a background in electrical engineering, she worked as an advisor, student VC, and operator (including at IVP portfolio company Clipboard Health) before joining PWP's technology group advising startups and public companies on M&A.

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Miloni Madan Presler· Partner· San Francisco, California, United Statesin 𝕏

Partner at IVP focused on enterprise software, infrastructure, and health. She is drawn to growth investing for the chance to back founders solving real problems and transforming industries.

Norm Fogelsong· Advisory Partner· Menlo Park, California, United Statesin 𝕏

Norm Fogelsong joined IVP in 1989, working with Reid Dennis and Mary Jane Elmore, and founded the firm's later-stage and public market investment group. He began his career as a software engineer at Hewlett Packard and later worked as a strategy consultant at McKinsey & Company; he studied engineering at Stanford as well as business and law. His focus areas include digital media, generative AI, and enterprise software.

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Richard Clarke· Strategic Advisor· Lake Toxaway, North Carolina, United Statesin

A former Commander of U.S. Special Operations with nearly four decades of military service, leading a joint force of over 75,000 personnel. He now advises IVP, supporting founders building technologies relevant to national security and drawing on his leadership experience running large organizations.

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Sam Parker· Head of Executive Partnerships· San Francisco Bay Areain

Sam Parker leads IVP's Executive Partnerships function, connecting portfolio companies with the firm's network for recruiting, customer, and board-level introductions. Grew up in Silicon Valley and began his career at Apple as a product design engineer working on the first-generation AirPods and AirPods Pro.

Sandy Miller· General Partner· Menlo Park, Californiain 𝕏

Sandy Miller focuses on gaming, internet, and digital media at IVP, advising CEOs on financing and exit strategy. Over 35 years in VC and tech investment banking, he has been involved in 100+ IPOs and served on more than 25 boards, with a prior career spanning securities law, management consulting, and co-founding an investment banking firm.

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Sebastian Escarrer Bisbal· Senior Associate· Spain, Switzerland, USin

Investor at IVP focused on supporting European founders, covering SaaS, consumer, and fintech. Previously worked alongside leading European tech companies.

Shravan Narayen· Partner· San Francisco Bay Areain 𝕏

General Partner at IVP focused on Enterprise Infrastructure & Apps. Formerly worked in product roles at Snowflake and Confluent, and at early-stage startups across the full lifecycle from pre-PMF to IPO.

Shreyas Garg· Associate· Londonin 𝕏

Partner at IVP focused on SaaS, Consumer, and Fintech. A computer science background and lifelong technologist, he began coding at 14 and helped launch IVP's London office in 2023.

Somesh Dash· General Partner· Menlo Park, Californiain 𝕏

Somesh Dash is a General Partner at IVP focused on security and defense technology, healthcare AI, and global consumer platforms. He began his career through the dot-com collapse and the 2007-2008 financial crisis, experiences that shaped his emphasis on macro awareness and collaborative problem solving with founders.

Steve Harrick· General Partner· San Francisco, Californiain 𝕏

Steve Harrick is a General Partner at IVP focused on enterprise infrastructure, applications, and security. His interest in investing began during college, where he managed the Yale Student Investment Group, and his early career included a business development role at Netscape. He has worked in venture capital for over 25 years, advising CEOs and management teams on areas where improvement can most impact their businesses.