Innovation Bay

We encourage people to tell it like it is

The objective of Innovation Bay is to bring people together from all walks of life, who are passionate about innovation and success. The underlying principle of the group is to create an exclusive but informal and honest forum for leaders in the high growth business space.

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Tristen Langley, Southern Cross Venture Partners

Tristen has worked with Skype as their North American Business Development and Marketing Manager, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, www.dfj.com (one of the world’s leading technology focused venture firms) and is currently Investment Director at Southern Cross Venture Partners, www.sxvp.com.

Tristen whilst at DFJ has been proud to back over 500 companies across many sectors including such industry changing successes such as Hotmail (acquired by Microsoft), Baidu, Skype (acquired by eBay), United Online, Overture (acquired by Yahoo), Athenahealth, EnerNOC, TicketsNow (acquired by TicketMaster), Feedburner (acquired by Google), Interwoven, Four11 (acquired by Yahoo), Parametric, and Digidesign (acquired by Avid) where she initiated the firm’s investment in and led the due diligence for Skype Technologies (sold to eBay for US$2.6 billion), a peer-to-peer communications firm. She was also involved with DFJ’s portfolio companies, Xfire (sold to Viacom for $100M), Visto (wireless email), Anagran (flow routing), abazab (video telephony) and Media Lario (lithography optics).

Prior to DFJ, Tristen was a Senior Associate with the Australian technology venture capital firm, Allen & Buckeridge (A&B). At A&B she led the firm’s investment in the CRC-spinout Wedgetail Communications (sold to Quest Software for US$57M), a security software firm. She joined Wedgetail as Manager, Operations & Planning, where she was engaged in sales, IP management and budget planning,

Tristen holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. She completed her graduate studies in software engineering at the Fraunhofer IESE, Germany. She earned a bachelor of science (Honours) from the University of NSW and was the recipient of the University Medal.

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