Alexander Lloyd (venture capitalist)

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Alexander Lloyd
Alma mater University of Pennsylvania
The Wharton School
Occupation Managing partner at Accelerator Ventures

Alexander "Alex" Lloyd is a venture capitalist, and the founder and managing partner of Accelerator Ventures, an investment and venture fund. [1] [2] Lloyd was an early investor in many companies that have gone public or merged, including online shoe company Zappos which was acquired by Amazon.com in 2009 in an all-stock deal worth about $1.2 billion and semantic job search engine Trovix which was acquired by Monster.com in 2008 for $72.5 million. [3]

Other companies Lloyd has invested in are technology platform iSocket, software and video game developer Tapulous, the mobile marketing automation company Appboy (now Braze, Inc.) [4] and Microsoft owned Powerset. Lloyd is a board of directors' observer for LoopNet, MerchantCircle, MobilePlay, and Practice Technologies Inc. [5] He is a mentor for Los Angeles-based business incubator MuckerLab, [6] and has co-written an article for The Atlantic . [7]

Prior to founding Accelerator Ventures, Lloyd was a venture partner at Rustic Canyon Partners. [8] He has also worked at Microsoft, SGI, Activision, Apple Computer and Goldman Sachs. He holds a BA from The University of Pennsylvania [9] and an MBA from The Wharton School. [10]

Philanthropy

Lloyd is active in philanthropy, and founded the San Francisco Media Arts Council. [11] He served as commissioner for the San Francisco Art Commission, [12] and sits on the board of Slideluck. [13] He has been on the board of SF Camerawork [14] and the Contemporary Extension of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. [15]

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  13. ↑ "Board Members". Slide Luck. Retrieved July 18, 2014.
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