Our investment team members have founded over a dozen companies and bring on-the-ground operating expertise from engineering to finance to data science to marketing to legal to communications. We work as a single tactical unit during a critical stage in a company’s life, and companies that receive investment from Bullpen receive support from each and every team member as desired.
Paul is a Managing General Partner at Bullpen Capital, and the founder of nine companies including Ahpah Software (a computer security firm acquired by InterTrust); Tribe (one of the world’s first social networks), and Aggregate Knowledge (a big data advertising attribution company acquired in 2014 by Neustar). Paul’s early online gaming innovations in multi-player user experience from over 30 years ago are the inspiration for several of the modern social gaming offerings. He holds over a dozen patents on core social networking concepts, content targeting, and recommendation systems.
Prior to forming Bullpen In 2010, he was an active angel investor and personally invested in the first rounds of Zynga (NASDAQ: ZNGA), TubeMogul (NASDAQ: TUBE), and uDemy. He sold a company into Millennial Media prior to its public offering (Condaptive), as well as to Marketo prior to Its public offering (Crowd Factory).
While at Bullpen, Paul has led several of its key investments including FanDuel (merged with Flutter Entertainment (LSE:FLTR)), Swish Analytics, Jackpocket, Grove, Ipsy, EDGE, Rei do Pitaco and Life360 (ASX:360). Paul served on the board of directors of FanDuel for over 5 years during a period of tremendous high growth. Paul has continued to stay active as an entrepreneur even as a General Partner at Bullpen, forming companies specifically at the Intersection of sports, gaming, technology, and nightlife.
Paul is also active in media and press on topics of sports betting and gaming. He has been a guest on CNBC and Varney on Fox Business. He also created a film production company, 818 Media, that produced the film Inside Game. Inside Game tells the story of the 2007 NBA betting scandal in which referee Tim Donaghy's leveraged unreported inside information to wager on games including those that he officiated.
Duncan is a serial entrepreneur who most notably founded Covad Communications (the leading independent DSL provider, went public and reached a market value of $9B) and Sky Pilot Networks (developer of outdoor wireless mesh systems, acquired by Trillium in 2009 for connectivity to smart meters). He served as the SVP of Business Development at InterTrust and led the IPO in 1999 and the secondary in 2000 (InterTrust reached a $9B market value in 2000). He spent four years as a managing director at VantagePoint Venture Partners where he focused on digital media and telecom investments including Widevine (acquired by Google) and Livescribe.
Prior to Bullpen, he co-founded one of the first mobile social app companies, Xumii, later sold to Myriad Group and now powering over 200M users in the developing world. At Bullpen he focuses on SaaS and IoT investments, and is an advisor to or sits on the boards of Modal, Filament, Hologram, Illumeo, SpaceIQ, Verbling and Wag Labs. He received a Sc.B. in physics/math from Brown University, with Honors, and a J.D. magna cum laude from Michigan Law School, where he was Order of the Coif and a member of the Law Review.
Eric has spent his career in technology and has been an entrepreneur, investor, advisor, and attorney. He began his career as a co-founder of Xert Computing while still an undergraduate at UC Berkeley. Xert was a provider of hardware and services to the 3D Graphics and Animation communities. As a 20-year-old college student, Mr. Wiesen ran sales, marketing and partnerships. Following the sale of Xert, Eric attended the University of Michigan Law School, after which he practiced in the corporate group at Fenwick & West in SiliconValley, working with both startups and private technology companies. He left the practice of law in 2004 to co-found Higher Ground Solutions, a firm that specialized in the solution design and implementation of enterprise software.After scaling the business, Eric moved to New York City where he enrolled atColumbia Business School. He was recruited by professors Stuart Ellman and Will Porteous to join them at RRE Ventures as an associate in 2008. Eric was promoted to General Partner in 2010 and made over 25 investments while at RRE.
Multiple of Eric’s investments were acquired by public companies: Paypal (NASDAQ: PYPL) acquired Venmo, Braintree. Stratasys (NASDAQ: SSYS) acquired Makerbot. Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) acquiredTapCommerce. Constant Contact (CTCT) acquiredSinglePlatform. Eric was involved with) early-stage investment at OnDeck (ONDK). And sourced seed/A investment at BarkBox (recently public via SPAC).
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Richard is the co-founder of Electronic Arts ($30B market cap); Melmon Tawa & Partners (a high tech advertising agency acquired by Livingston and Co. in 1989); and Objective Software (acquired by Asymetrix in 1993). He co-founded NetService Ventures Group in 2002, sourcing and managing its seed stage investments in twelve companies, including Broadware (sold to Cisco), BigFix (sold to IBM), TubeMogul, Aggregate Knowledge, and Tanium. Richard is a data driven consumer marketing guy, having honed his skills in launching the first digital watch at Intel, helping launch Apple, and putting in place the dominating sales and distribution strategy for EA. The lessons learned there have long guided his investment decision theses, and this continues in this hyper-data driven era.
Richard co-founded Bullpen in 2010, and has led several of its key investments, including Braze and Homelight. Richard received a B.A. in Physics from UC Berkeley in 1969 and an M.B.A. from Stanford University in 1973.
As Vice President of Finance, Candace is responsible for overseeing the financial operations of Bullpen and its funds. She has over 20 years of combined venture capital and operational accounting experience.
Prior to joining Bullpen, Candace was the Senior Controller at Versant Ventures. During the 7+ years she spent at Versant, she was involved with both the management company and fund accounting aspects of the firm. She had primary responsibility for fund financial statements including investor, portfolio company, and income tax reporting for multiple entities.
Prior to Versant, Candace spent 2 years in the FP&A department at Avid Technology and over 11 years in the Leasing Division of Enterprise Rent-A-Car supervising accounting operations and overall business management.
Candace received a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from The University of California, Berkeley. She currently serves on the board of the VCBC (a non-profit association of finance professionals in venture capital firms).
Rick joined Bullpen in 2020 as CFO-in-residence. He is a career CFO who spent 8 years with Deloitte in their Silicon Valley practice.
Over the past 20 years Rick has guided 3 companies through successful exits ($1B+ in exit value) as a CFO with his deep financial and operational experience.
Rick is still striving to achieve “Renaissance Man” status and reserves his Saturdays for NCAA sports, his Sundays for family and fly fishing. He also loves his Gibson guitar and a good glass of wine.
Alyssa joined Bullpen in 2023 as the office manager. Prior to joining Bullpen, she worked as a Community Manager for CANOPY Spaces.
Alyssa received her BA in Sociology from the University of California, Davis.
On a day off, you can find her marathon training, reading in the park, or trying a new restaurant in the city.
Bobby joined Bullpen in 2023 as the accounting manager. He started his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers in Boston, MA in their audit practice where he focused primarily on venture capital clients. Prior to joining the team, he was a member of the finance team at General Catalyst in Cambridge, MA.
Bobby received his Masters and bachelor’s in accounting from Fairfield University. He moved out to San Francisco in September 2022 and has been enjoying everything the west coast has to offer. He enjoys outdoor activities (biking, hiking, skiing, surfing, etc.), as well as going to concerts and spending time with friends.
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Alex is a Principal at Bullpen Capital focused on early-stage investments across consumer, fintech and enterprise software. Prior to Bullpen, Alex worked at TCV and Norwest Venture Partners and began her career in investment banking at Morgan Stanley. Alex supports the teams at ManyCo, PackageX, Gameflip, Daash and Arro.
Alex received her BA in Economics from Cornell University. As a native San Franciscan, she enjoys exploring the nature around the Bay and trying new restaurants. In her free time, you can find her hunting for the best matcha and throwing pottery.
As an analyst, Kate is part of the investment team and works to support Bullpen’s portfolio companies. Kate got her introduction to the startup and venture ecosystem as a 2019 fellow with True Ventures where she also worked at True’s portfolio company, Helpshift. Since then, she worked in marketing, primarily in demand generation, at Gainsight.
Kate holds a BA in Global Business and Religion from Mount Holyoke College. In her free time, she enjoys trying new recipes and exploring new restaurants.
TJ joined Bullpen in 2022 as a member of the Operations team. He helps on all things PR and social, including the production of the new season of the Bullpen Podcast Lunch Pail VC. TJ has a long career in tech and politics where he has started his own startup and worked on political campaigns from the presidential to the municipal level.
TJ has a BA from the University of Alabama and an MPA from the University of Pennsylvania. He lives with his wife and daughter in Philadelphia.
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