The Fundable Startup: How Disruptive Companies Attract Capital

Author Bio: Fred M. Haney PhD

Dr. Fred Haney has over fifty years of experience as a venture capitalist, angel investor, mentor, corporate director, entrepreneur, and corporate executive. Haney was the founder and manager of 3i Ventures, California, a venture capital fund that invested $80 million in sixty startups and produced nineteen public companies and top quartile returns. He created Monday Club, a 950-member mentoring network that assists startup companies monthly in Santa Monica, Torrance, and Orange County, CA. He was a cofounder of Tech Coast Angels, one of the largest angel groups in the US. He has served as an active director of more than twenty companies. He has been a cofounder or founding chairman of six startup companies. Before 1983, he held executive positions at Xerox, Computer Sciences Corporation, and TRW. In 1999 he was selected “Mentor/Angel of the Year” by the American Electronics Association in Orange County. In 2002, he was named “Director of the Year for Early Stage Companies” by the Forum for Corporate Directors. He holds a BA degree from Ohio Wesleyan University, an MS degree in mathematics from Colorado State University, and a PhD in Computer Sciences from Carnegie-Mellon University.