Bill Trenchard
Partner at First Round Capital
United States
Invests in
Sectors:
Locations:
Min Investment:
$750,000.00Max Investment:
$4,000,000.00Target Investment:
$2,375,000.00
Skills
Education
Lists including Bill
Investments
Rillet
Total Funding: $14M
Ossium Health
Total Funding: $120M
Evergrow
Total Funding: $14M
Xclaim
Total Funding: $18M
EvolutionIQ
Total Funding: $31M
Verkada
Total Funding: $340M
Ownwell
Total Funding: $6M
Cascade
Total Funding: $5M
Crossbeam
Total Funding: $120M
Cocoon
Total Funding: $26M
Work Experience
2012
Partner
2012
I am a generalist and have invested across b2b + consumer companies including hardware, SaaS, Fintech, Health, and Climate tech. Some of my investments: Looker, Flexport, Verkada, Sift, Omni, Together AI, Superhuman, Legion, Airbase, Crossbeam, Pine Park Health, Ossium, Promise, Labelbox, Last Energy, Sprig, Maven, Omni Analytics, Remora Carbon + many others...
2001
Angel Investor
2001
Investments Include: Ginkgo Bioworks, Finch Therapeutics, Moat, MileIQ, NextRoll, Step, Honor, Everlane, Newfront Insurance, Topsy, LendingClub, Gyft, IronPort, Powerset, Xoopit, Tapulous, Slide, Chegg
2000 - 2021
Co-Founder & Board Member
2000 - 2021
CEO / Chairman
2003 - 2008
World's leading virtual call center company. CEO for 4 years then recruited new CEO, Maynard Webb, in December 2006
2012 - 2019
Board Member
2012 - 2019
Our mission at Looker is to inspire everyone to embrace their curiosity, dig deeper and keep asking questions.
2009 - 2013
Board Member
2009 - 2013
2009 - 2012
Founder Partner
2009 - 2012
Founder Collective is seed stage capital fund built by a collection of successful entrepreneurs including David Frankel, Eric Paley, Chris Dixon, Caterina Fake, Micah Rosenbloom and Zach Klein. My investments include (among others): Uber, ThredUp, Stackmob, Moat, Pocket, Proven, HomeRun, Gigwalk
2010 - 2011
Board Member
2010 - 2011
Founding team member and board member of HomeRun, sold to Rearden Commerce in September 2011.
2001 - 2003
Co-Founder and CEO
2001 - 2003
CallCast built an innovative voice over IP (VoIP) software platform that could handle almost any type of phone interaction. Elements of this platform still power LiveOps today.
1999 - 2000
Managing Director
1999 - 2000
1999 - 1999
MSN Group
1999 - 1999
Latest Articles
My story
Videos & Interviews
Bill Trenchard - First Round Capital (Manager Meetings, EP.23)

Bill Trenchard on Market Timing

Bill Trenchard Explains How First Round Evaluates Markets

Bill Trenchard on Targeting the Right VCs: Do Your Homework

Bill Trenchard on Business Models: Be Open About What You Do and Don't Know

Bill Trenchard on how First Round Identifies Successful Teams

Bill Trenchard on Pitch Deck Structure

Bill Trenchard on Shopping for the Right VCs
