Mobius Venture Capital :: Ryan McIntyre
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Ryan has been an early stage investor and entrepreneur for 15 years. Ryan started his career in venture capital at Mobius Venture Capital in January 2000.
Prior to joining Mobius Venture Capital, Ryan co-founded Excite in 1993, which went public in 1996 and later became Excite@Home following the $6.7 billion merger of Excite and @Home in 1999. At the time this acquisition was the largest internet transaction to date and created a company that achieved peak revenues of $616 million in 2000. There Ryan held the role of Principal Engineer and was a key technological contributor to the company's search engine and content management systems and also led the design and implementation of Excite's community and commerce platforms. Ryan was also responsible for integrating engineering teams and technologies into Excite.s infrastructure following the acquisitions of several companies based in Seattle and Austin.
Prior to Excite, Ryan was a member of the technical staff for the Hewlett Packard Division at Oracle Corporation, where he worked on several releases of the Oracle Office platform. Before joining Oracle, Ryan was a software engineer at Canon Research of America, where he focused on the development of optical character recognition algorithms.
Ryan holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Symbolic Systems with a concentration in Artificial Intelligence from Stanford University. While at Stanford, he published research on genetic algorithms in The First IEEE Conference on Evolutionary Computation, and studied abroad at Stanford's overseas campus in Berlin, Germany.
Ryan is an avid guitarist and songwriter and operates a recording studio in his home, has brewed his own beer, runs the occasional marathon (1996 San Francisco marathon and the 2003 Portland marathon), and spends hours playing around with as many electronic gadgets he can get his hands on. Ryan publishes a blog at www.ryanmcintyre.com.
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