Rick Lewis

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Biography

Mr. Rick Lewis serves as a General Partner at U.S. Venture Partners. Mr. Lewis served as a Board Member at Hooked Media Group. He focuses on software (enterprise SaaS and cybersecurity) and consumer services (e-commerce and media). He led the following USVP investments that have had successful exits: Happy Returns (acquired by PayPal), HotelTonight (acquired by Airbnb), Pluto TV (acquired by Viacom), Edison Software (acquired by Yipit), Rimeto (acquired by Slack), ThreatMetrix (acquired by RELX), Trunk Club (acquired by Nordstrom), MeetMe (acquired by ProSiebenSat.1), Intermolecular (IPO, acquired by Merck), Instantis (acquired by Oracle), and Victoria (acquired by Verint). He was instrumental in USVP's investment in Trusteer (acquired by IBM) and represented USVP as a board member at Yammer (acquired by Microsoft). He currently is a board member at Act-On Software, Darwinium, Primary, Stensul, TaskHuman, and Territory Foods. Before joining USVP, he spent six years in software engineering leadership roles at Autodesk, as a consultant to Walt Disney Imagineering, and as a co-founder of software companies Design Variations and Common Point Technologies. He also held positions at Sun Microsystems, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and McKinsey & Company. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of California at Davis (summa cum laude), an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and an M.B.A. with Distinction from Harvard Business School.