Dino J. Vendetti

Biography

Mr. Dino J. Vendetti is a principal at FoundersPad. Mr. Vendetti is also a co-founder and mentor at FoundersPad. He is involved in growing the tech eco-system in Bend. Mr. Vendetti is a Founder, Managing Director, General Partner and Managing Partner at Seven Peaks Ventures. He has been the Managing Director at Formative Ventures, LLC since July 2006 and is primarily focused on investing in early stage software, web and mobile. He is an Adjunct Professor in entrepreneurship and computer science at OSU-Cascades. Prior to Formative, he spent six years as a General Partner at Bay Partners and 4 years at Vulcan Ventures. At Bay Partners, he specialized in wireless equipment, software, services, semiconductors and communications equipment. He is an experienced operating executive, who spent the majority of his career in marketing, business development and engineering roles at startups, including Qualcomm. Research Division. He served at RBC Dain Rauscher Corp. He began his venture capital career in 1997 as an Investing Partner at Vulcan Ventures, where he invested in a variety of telecom, Internet and wireless companies and served for four years. He served as a General Partner at Vulcan Ventures. Previously, he served as a Vice President Product Management at Metawave Communications. Prior to that, he served as a Vice President and Research Analyst at Dain Rauscher, where he covered the telecom industry. Prior to embarking on a venture capital career that has spanned nearly a decade, he held a variety of key operating roles at some of the communications industry's leading companies. He held Product management and director business development positions at Qualcomm Incorporated, where he was responsible for the global infrastructure product line and U.S. West Cellular. He worked as an engineering manager at US West New Vector Group. Mr. Vendetti began his operating career as Senior Engineer at TRW, where he designed satellite communication systems. Earlier in his career, Mr. Vendetti held a variety of key executive operating roles at some of the communications industry's leading companies.

Research Interest

He has over 20 years of operating and investment experience and has spent his career as an entrepreneur, investor and executive in leading companies. His investments include Vungle, InboundWriter, Adept Cloud, Manzama, CrowdStreet, Rally Cause, Jett Stream and Capella. Mr. Vendetti served as an Equity Analyst of RBC Capital Markets, LLC. Mr. Vendetti serves as an Executive Chairman of CrowdStreet, Inc. and is a Director since September 23, 2014. Mr. Vendetti serves as a Director of Kontiki, Inc., PulseWave RF, Inc., Prophesi, Wavetrace, Staccato Communications, Steridian Corp., Allegiance Telecom, Inc., Turin Networks, Eightfold Logic, Inc and Enquisite, Inc. Mr. Vendetti is on the Advisory Board for the Economic Development Council for Central Oregon and is an Advisor and Mentor to the Tech Space of Bend Accelerator. He served as a Director of NorthPoint Communications Group, Inc. since February 1999 and Veebeam Limited. Mr. Vendetti served as a Board Advisor at Kontiki, Inc. He served as a Director of Pixo, Inc., Capella Photonics, Inc., Telesym, Inc., Magis Networks, Inc., Cswitch Corporation, Force10 Networks, Inc. and HarvardNet Inc. He has served on the board of the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Washington and has given guest lectures at the University of Washington, USF and UC Berkeley on various topics. His investment and board leadership experience includes, Staccato Communications, Cswitch, PulseWave RF, Northpoint Communications and Wavetrace. Mr. Vendetti earned an M.S.E.E. in 1992 and M.B.A. degree in 2000 from the University of Washington. He also received a BSEE degree in Electrical Engineering from San Diego State University in 1987.