Ellen Salisbury
Founder at Start Smart Ventures LLC
Profile
Ellen Salisbury was the founder of Cambridge West Ventures (founded in 2009) and Start Smart Ventures LLC (founded in 2018), where she held the title of Managing Director.
She is currently an Advisor at SignalFire Management Services LLC.
Ms. Salisbury's former positions include Director-Product Engineering, Operations and VP at Yahoo!.
Research Labs, Vice President at Sybase, Inc., Yahoo!, Inc., Brightmail, Inc., TimeBridge, Inc., and Stata Labs, Senior Vice President at Stata Labs, Vice President at Softrax Corp.
and Altiscale, Inc., and Advisor and Vice President at Times Bridge.
Ms. Salisbury holds an MBA from Loyola University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from the University of Minnesota.
Ellen Salisbury active positions
Companies | Position | Start |
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Start Smart Ventures LLC
Start Smart Ventures LLC Investment ManagersFinance Start Smart Ventures LLC is a Private Equity/Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Start Smart Group founded in 2018. Start Smart Ventures LLC is headquartered in Palo Alto. | Founder | 2017-12-31 |
SignalFire Management Services LLC
SignalFire Management Services LLC Investment ManagersFinance SignalFire Management Services LLC (Signalfire) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Christopher W. Farmer and Ilya Kirnos. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Consultant / Advisor | - |
Former positions of Ellen Salisbury
Companies | Position | End |
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Aqfer, Inc.
Aqfer, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Aqfer, Inc. provides a future-ready platform that helps enterprises adopt data-centric marketing technologies. The company is based in Windermere, FL. The company's identity graph manager offers a comprehensive view of the customer ecosystem by managing complex identity relationships. The company's first-party tag manager with granular privacy consent controls is designed to function as an extension of a brand's web technology. Aqfer's marketing-data-platform-as-a-service is a low-code alternative to building everything in-house for marketing solution providers. The company was founded by Daniel J. Jaye, who has been the CEO since incorporation. | Private Equity Investor | 2021-10-31 |
Altiscale, Inc.
Altiscale, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Altiscale, Inc. provides hadoop as a service for data science. It addresses issues that customers run into in production, such as job failures, resource contention, performance optimization and infrastructure upgrades. The firm eliminates the time-consuming steps of procuring and provisioning hardware, installing and configuring hadoop, and managing hadoop clusters in production. The company was founded by Raymie Stata in 2012 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. | Private Equity Investor | 2016-08-31 |
Brightmail, Inc.
Brightmail, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Brightmail, Inc. developed anti-spam software solutions. It provided different types of software products and solutions for spam protection to internet service providers, like AT&T WorldNet, Cox Communications, EarthLink, MSN, TelstraClear, Xtra and Verizon Online. The company was founded in October, 1997 by Sunil Paul and was located in San Francisco, CA. | Corporate Officer/Principal | 2014-03-06 |
Cambridge West Ventures
Cambridge West Ventures Investment ManagersFinance Cambridge West Ventures (Cambridge West Ventures) is a private equity firm founded in 2009 by Ellen Salisbury. The firm is headquartered in Redwood City, California. | Founder | 2010-12-30 |
Blancspot Media LLC
Blancspot Media LLC Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Blancspot Media LLC operates a sharing platform that allows for the publishing, extending, monetizing, and virtualizing of media brands. | Consultant / Advisor | 2010-11-30 |
Training of Ellen Salisbury
Loyola University of Chicago | Masters Business Admin |
University of Minnesota | Undergraduate Degree |
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Private companies | 14 |
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Sybase, Inc.
Sybase, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Sybase, Inc. engages in the development and provision of mobile and wireless software solutions for data integration. The company was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in San Ramon, CA. | Technology Services |
Yahoo!, Inc.
Yahoo!, Inc. Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Yahoo!, Inc. is a guide to digital information discovery, focused on informing, connecting, and entertaining users through its search, communications, and digital content products. It operates through the following geographical segments: Americas; Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA); and Asia Pacific. The company was founded by Jerry Chih-Yuan Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. | Technology Services |
Brightmail, Inc.
Brightmail, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Brightmail, Inc. developed anti-spam software solutions. It provided different types of software products and solutions for spam protection to internet service providers, like AT&T WorldNet, Cox Communications, EarthLink, MSN, TelstraClear, Xtra and Verizon Online. The company was founded in October, 1997 by Sunil Paul and was located in San Francisco, CA. | Technology Services |
TimeBridge, Inc.
TimeBridge, Inc. Information Technology ServicesTechnology Services TimeBridge, Inc. provides web application services that helps professionals to schedule and run meetings. The company was founded in 2005 by Yori Nelken and Tsachy Shacham and is headquartered in South Jordan, UT. | Technology Services |
Stata Labs
Stata Labs Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Part of Yahoo, Inc., Stata Labs operates a search engine and provides email services. The company is based in San Mateo, CA. The company was founded by Raymond S. Stata, Raymie Stata. | Technology Services |
Yahoo! Research Labs
Yahoo! Research Labs Miscellaneous Commercial ServicesCommercial Services Yahoo! Research Labs provides technical and scientific research services. It manages data repositories and researchers mine insights from giant collections, individually and collectively maintaining the privacy of the users. The company has facilities in Silicon Valley, Southern California, Berkeley, New York City, Barcelona, Spain, Santiago, and Chile. The company was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA. | Commercial Services |
Softrax Corp.
Softrax Corp. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Hundreds of corporations trust Softrax to maximize their revenue reduce operating expenses and comply with revenue recognition regulations and Sarbanes-Oxley requirements. AFS Financial Solutions is a leading provider of enterprise revenue management and billing software solutions that fundamentally change the way companies manage, analyze, report, and forecast their revenue. Softrax solutions automate the entire revenue cycle, from revenue recognition, reporting and forecasting, through complex billing and contract renewals. Hundreds of corporations benefit from using Softrax to optimize their revenue, reduce operating expenses, comply with revenue recognition regulations and Sarbanes-Oxley requirements, and gain unprecedented visibility into their business performance. | Technology Services |
Cambridge West Ventures
Cambridge West Ventures Investment ManagersFinance Cambridge West Ventures (Cambridge West Ventures) is a private equity firm founded in 2009 by Ellen Salisbury. The firm is headquartered in Redwood City, California. | Finance |
SignalFire Management Services LLC
SignalFire Management Services LLC Investment ManagersFinance SignalFire Management Services LLC (Signalfire) is a venture capital firm founded in 2013 by Christopher W. Farmer and Ilya Kirnos. The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California. | Finance |
Start Smart Ventures LLC
Start Smart Ventures LLC Investment ManagersFinance Start Smart Ventures LLC is a Private Equity/Venture Capital firm, a subsidiary of Start Smart Group founded in 2018. Start Smart Ventures LLC is headquartered in Palo Alto. | Finance |
Times Bridge
Times Bridge Investment ManagersFinance Times Bridge (Times Bridge) is a venture capital subsidiary of The Times of India Group founded in 2014. The firm is headquartered in Redwood city, California. | Finance |
Blancspot Media LLC
Blancspot Media LLC Internet Software/ServicesTechnology Services Blancspot Media LLC operates a sharing platform that allows for the publishing, extending, monetizing, and virtualizing of media brands. | Technology Services |
Aqfer, Inc.
Aqfer, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Aqfer, Inc. provides a future-ready platform that helps enterprises adopt data-centric marketing technologies. The company is based in Windermere, FL. The company's identity graph manager offers a comprehensive view of the customer ecosystem by managing complex identity relationships. The company's first-party tag manager with granular privacy consent controls is designed to function as an extension of a brand's web technology. Aqfer's marketing-data-platform-as-a-service is a low-code alternative to building everything in-house for marketing solution providers. The company was founded by Daniel J. Jaye, who has been the CEO since incorporation. | Technology Services |
Altiscale, Inc.
Altiscale, Inc. Packaged SoftwareTechnology Services Altiscale, Inc. provides hadoop as a service for data science. It addresses issues that customers run into in production, such as job failures, resource contention, performance optimization and infrastructure upgrades. The firm eliminates the time-consuming steps of procuring and provisioning hardware, installing and configuring hadoop, and managing hadoop clusters in production. The company was founded by Raymie Stata in 2012 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. | Technology Services |
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