As an operating entrepreneur, David founded two companies including Pensoft Corporation, a venture-backed (Mohr, Davidow Ventures, IVP, and Bay Partners) mobile communications company that was sold to AT&T in 1994.

David was a key principal that raised, launched, staffed, and managed Prism Venture Partners, a leading early stage venture capital fund. Founded in 1996, Prism has provided start-up equity to more than eighty-five companies, which have completed four public offerings and twenty five strategic mergers and acquisitions. During his tenure at Prism, the firm grew from zero to over $1.25B under management. Previous investments include Softricity (sold to Microsoft), Network24 Communications (sold to Akamai), DotBank (sold to Yahoo), Altaworks (sold to Opnet), Integral Access (sold to Telco Systems), Syncra Systems (sold to Retek), Salesnet (sold to RightNow) and Bitfone (sold to HP).

In January of 2006, David launched Stage 1 Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm. New investments include Carbonite, Skyhook Wireless, Hiplogic, AdelaVoice, e-Centives (sold to Catalina) Innerpass, Instream, Delfigo Security, OnePin, Myxer, Ringleader Digital, Gaterocket, Cuesol (sold to MobileLime), Magnify Media, go2 (merged with 80108), Auspice (sold to Arris), Nimbit, WorldWinner (sold to Liberty Media), and Zink.

As a twelve year member of Common Angels, David is an active angel investor (24 angel investments) and a strong supporter of entrepreneurs across the country.

David holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School with second year honors and BS in Computer Science from Drexel University where he graduated first in his science class.

David’s investment areas of focus are: mobile applications and systems, cloud-based applications, content and gaming, IPTV, virtualization, location based services, on-demand enterprise software and data communications equipment.

Mr. Gordon is the founder of Ametron Technologies, Inc., a consulting and licensing firm that helps entrepreneurs and technologists with business development and monetizing their Intellectual Property and inventions. Recent clients have included Picassa/Lifescape (sold to Google), a photo management tool; Corestreet, a provider of security software; Liquid Machines,a provider of enterprise rights management technology and solutions and Bitzmart/ Stealth Media Labs, a technology used to embed information into digital audio and video streams with playback through Windows Media Player 9 Series.

Before Ametron, Mr. Gordon was CEO of mGen, Inc., an e-learning enterprise software company, which was focused on 1st Responder market opportunities within DOD and other government agencies, such as the Navy/Marine Intranet, US Dept. of Agriculture and the US Army.

Prior to that, he was CEO and founder of EndPoints, Inc.(sold to Flextronics and Archi-tech, Taiwan), a fabless semiconductor company, whose imaging chips powered high volume, low cost consumer digital cameras. Preceding EndPoints, Mr. Gordon was President of DiagSoft (sold to Sykes Enterprises), a PC hardware diagnostic and manufacturing test company.

Subsequent to EndPoints, Mr. Gordon was the founder of Phoenix Publishing (sold to Softbank). Mr. Gordon was also President of Paterson Labs, which he sold to Phoenix Technologies Inc. for Paterson’s founder, Tim Paterson (the author of the MS-DOS operating system).

Mr. Gordon has built international sales and marketing organizations for several notable companies like Phoenix Technologies, who he assisted in their IPO as their first VP of Sales. Additionally, he was VP of Sales of Graphic Software Systems, an early PC software pioneer who had graphic software on the original IBM XT and AT.

Jonathan’s early sales and marketing career included Physical Data Inc. (sold to Honeywell), a start up instrumentation company, who made digital waveform recorders for use in fusion reactor and munitions testing. He also was a sales engineer with Tektronix and helped introduce the first low cost graphic terminals for mini and mainframe computing.

Mr. Gordon attended the University of Wisconsin and Penn Morton College.

Byron brings to Stage1Ventures an extensive network of mobile carriers, content providers, and handset manufacturers he has worked with in the past. Byron is currently the exclusive enabler for Telefonica in the US and Israel. His responsibility includes strategic acquisitions for Telefonica, and works directly with the venture capital department of the corporate office in Madrid.

Byron works directly with the content departments of Telefonica in its 13 divisions in LATAM, plus O2 in UK and Germany. His previous experience includes content aggregation for Vodafone Global and Orange in Europe, Claro and Telcel in LATAM, and Singtel and NTT Docomo in Asia.

His current emphasis is on emerging markets, specifically Brazil, Russia, China and Singapore. He combines his work in Stage1Ventures with partnership in Maroon Analytics, a financial advisory firm with HQ in Singapore and Kong Kong. Byron also travels to Brazil and Russia every quarter to develop our angel investment network in these two countries.

Byron is BA from Sarah Lawrence College, MA from Columbia University, and MBA University of Chicago.

Daniel works directly with European clean tech corporations and supports government initiatives to enhance local actions in IT and clean tech innovation together with sustainability and energy efficiency initiatives.

Daniel is assisting several high tech incubators in Europe and South East Asia, and is particularly interested in the field of social entrepreneurship. He combines his work in Stage1 with partnership in Maroon Analytics, a financial advisory firm with HQ in Singapore and Hong Kong. Daniel travels to USA and South East Asia every quarter to consolidate new strategic partners in the area of digital media and clean tech.

Daniel is BA from Colorado College, MA in International Economics from Suffolk University, and BA in Philosophy and Theology Facultad de Teología San Dámaso (Madrid).