Category:
Angel Investor
Description:
John Taysom is the current Chairman of We7. In 1995 he founded the Greenhouse Fund in California for Reuters, which he then acquired from Reuters through an MBO in 2001. John invests in start-up companies many of which are relevant to we7. These companies have included Yahoo, Infoseek, Verisign, OpenWave, PacketVideo, WhereOnEarth, Bitpipe, as well as successful companies driven by the first wave of Internet advertising such as Advertising.com (sold in 2005 to AOL) and Forbes.com where John held Board seats. John was a board member of TIBCO when it was spun out from Reuters onto NASDAQ. John's seed investments, in addition to we7, include Tideway (UK), TheNewsMarket (NY), AbCam (now listed, ABC.L) and WebMynd (London and San Francisco).
Location:
United Kingdom