FanBridge is a leading Fan Audience CRM platform, currently used to manage fan acquisition, retention, and engagement for more than 600 million fan relationships. Clients include the world’s largest brands, premium content producers, influencers from music, sports, film, television, comedy and publishing, and YouTube channel producers – all of whom use FanBridge to grow and profit from building direct relationships with audiences across email, social media, mobile and high engagement destinations.
FanRank is a Facebook application that rewards fans for spreading the word about the things they love.
Co-Founder and CEO of FanBridge.com – world’s leading provider of Fan Relationship Management solutions for artists internationally, based in New York City and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Jean-Francois Jeff Clavier is the Founder and Managing Partner of SoftTech VC, one of the most established seed VC firms in Silicon Valley, having closed 150 investments since 2004. An early angel investor in Web 2.0, Jeff and his team have backed successful startups like Mint (Intuit), Kongregate (GameStop), Brightroll, Milo (eBay), Wildfire (Google), Bleacher Report (Turner), Fitbit, Eventbrite, Sendgrid, Fab, Poshmark and Class Dojo. The portfolio has also seen acquisitions by Groupon, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo and AOL. The firm is currently investing out of its $55M Fund III, making 20 commitments of $500K per year in mobile/cloud saas, monetization infrastructure, marketplaces and e-commerce.
Born, raised and educated in France, Jeff graduated with a MS in Computer Science and a degree in Distributed Computing. He joined Effix, a financial services startup, as one of the initial developers while still at school and eventually led it as CTO.
An accomplished venture investor, private equity principal, company advisor, and entrepreneur, Chris manages a portfolio of over fifty consumer web, mobile, and wireless technology start- ups as well as an array of mature enterprises through his holding company, Lowercase Capital. While primarily known for its investments in seed and early stage technology companies, Lowercase has quietly become one of the largest momentum investment funds in the country.
Previously, Chris served as Head of Special Initiatives at Google Inc. In that role, among other responsibilities, he founded and headed up the alternative access and wireless divisions. His most visible projects include Google’s 700MHz and TV white spaces spectrum initiatives, the company’s groundbreaking data center in Oregon and Google’s free citywide WiFi network in Mountain View, CA.
Dave McClure is a venture capitalist & the founding general partner at [500 Startups](http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/500-startups), an internet seed fund and startup accelerator program in Mountain View, CA. Dave has been geeking out in Silicon Valley for over twenty years, and has worked with companies such as PayPal, Mint.com, Founders Fund, Facebook, LinkedIn, SlideShare, Twilio, Simply Hired, O’Reilly, Intel, & Microsoft. He also likes to play ultimate frisbee when his knees don’t hurt.
Dave has been an investor in over 500 companies in the past decade, including: [Mint.com](http://www.crunchbase.com/company/mint) (acqd INTU), [SlideShare](http://www.crunchbase.com/company/slideshare) (acqd LNKD), [Twilio](http://www.crunchbase.com/company/twilio),
[Makerbot](http://www.crunchbase.com/company/makerbot) (acqd SSYS), [SendGrid](http://www.crunchbase.com/company/sendgrid), [Credit Karma](http://www.crunchbase.
Co-Founder and President of FanBridge