Vesbridge Partners is an experienced venture capital firm that provides the fuel and guidance for the
development of technology innovations into thriving and successful businesses. As entrepreneurs ourselves with deep operational backgrounds, we bring our vast resource network together with promising management teams to create the successful companies of the future.

Zenas Hutcheson - Senior Managing Director

Staffan Ericsson - Venture Partner

Staffan has been an entrepreneur and technologist for 20 years. Staffan comes to Vesbridge from SPVC, where he had been a Venture Partner since 2000. Prior to joining SPVC, Staffan was with RealNetworks as a special consultant following their acquisition of his company, Vivo Software.

Staffan founded Vivo Software in 1992 and served as its first CEO and later as chairman until the company was acquired by RealNetworks in 1998. Before founding Vivo, Staffan spent seven years at PictureTel, where his roles included Director of Research and Director of International Sales. While at PictureTel, Staffan invented HVQ, enabling PictureTel to achieve prominence in group videoconferencing. Staffan also served as the CEO at GeoVantage.

Staffan holds 12 patents around video compression and is especially active with seed-stage start-ups.

Boards: NA
Education: BS, MS and PhD, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.

staffan@vesbridge.com

Assistant's contact info:
Barb Campbell 952-995-7498 bcampbell@vesbridge.com