Steve Ricci, Senior Partner Steve is a senior partner with the firm. He has over 30 years of experience in the venture capital industry and has been directly involved in the financing of over 125 companies. Prior to the formation of Flagship Ventures, Steve was a General Partner at OneLiberty Ventures, a predecessor firm to Flagship. Prior to joining OneLiberty in 1994, he was a General Partner at Palmer Partners. Steve's early career includes several years in manufacturing engineering with Dupont and Cambridge Tool. He has an engineering degree from Tufts University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Steve is a past president of the New England Venture Capital Association, and was a founding advisor to Gilde Ventures, a major European venture capital firm.
During the past two decades, Steve has developed an extraordinarily deep and broad understanding of the businesses and business models in the information and communications technology sector. He has been involved in the financing of many highly successful companies including Astral Point Communications (purchased by Alcatel, NYSE: ALA), Banyan Systems (now ePresence, Nasdaq: EPRE), CardScan (purchased by Newell Rubermaid, NYSE: NWL), Charter Systems (purchased by BISYS, Nasdaq: BSYS), Cintas (Nasdaq: CTAS), Gensym Corp. (Nasdaq: GNSM), i-Logix (purchased by Telelogic, Stockholm Exchange: TLOG), Indus River Networks (purchased by Cabletron, NYSE: CS), NetGenesis Corp. (Nasdaq: NTGX, purchased by SPSS, Nasdaq: SPSS), Stratus Computer (NYSE: SRA, purchased by Ascend, Nasdaq: ASND) and Summa Four (Nasdaq: SUMA, purchased by Cisco, Nasdaq: CSCO).
Steve currently serves on the following boards: Affinnova, Brainshark, Carbon Design and ZoomInfo. He also works closely with Netuitive, Polatis and SiCortex.
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