Josh B. Stein

Josh Stein
Born
Palo Alto, California
OccupationManaging partner at Threshold Ventures
Websitehttps://threshold.vc

Josh Stein (born May 3, 1973) is an American businessman and venture capitalist. He is a managing partner at Threshold Ventures (formerly DFJ)[1] and was featured in the Forbes Midas List in 2013, 2014 and 2015 in recognition of his accomplishments as an investor.[2] He was also the recipient of the 2015 Deloitte Fast 500 Venture Capitalist of the Year award.[3] Stein holds board responsibilities at Box (company),[4] Chartbeat,[5] LaunchDarkley,[6] LendKey,[7] Lumity,[8] and Talkdesk[9]—and led Box’s first round of institutional investment.[10] He is also an investor in AngelList,[11] Doximity,[12] Front,[13] Loftium,[14] Periscope Data[15] acquired by Sisense,[16] and Rippling.[17]

  1. ^ "Josh Stein | Threshold Ventures". threshold. 2019-11-01. Retrieved 2019-11-01.
  2. ^ "Josh Stein". Forbes. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
  3. ^ "DFJ's Josh Stein Named VC of the Year - DFJ - Medium". Medium. 2015-11-23. Retrieved 2015-11-23.
  4. ^ "Box's path to profit". Video.cnbc.com. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
  5. ^ "Chartbeat raises $9.5M round led by DFJ to help clients make the most of their real-time traffic | VentureBeat | News | by Sienrak". VentureBeat. 2012-04-16. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
  6. ^ "LaunchDarkly gets $8.7M to get access to the right features in front of right users | TechCrunch". techcrunch. 2016-12-20. Retrieved 2016-12-20.
  7. ^ "Lending-as-a-Service Platform LendKey Deploys $800M in Capital - NEW YORK, May 28, 2015 /PRNewswire/" (Press release). Prnewswire.com. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
  8. ^ "Benefits software maker Lumity raises $19M - MobiHealthNews". MobiHealthNews. 2017-08-23. Retrieved 2017-08-23.
  9. ^ "The cloud call-center startup that has people talking". Fortune. 2015-06-09. Retrieved 2015-07-18.
  10. ^ TechCrunch (13 May 2012). "Box: The Path From Arrington's Backyard To A Billion Dollar Business".
  11. ^ "AngelList Raises $24 Million From Google Ventures, Kauffman Foundation". Forbes. 2013-09-23. Retrieved 2013-09-23.
  12. ^ "The Daily Startup: DFJ, T. Rowe Price Co-Lead $54M Series C For Doximity - Venture Capital Dispatch - WSJ". WSJ. 2014-04-29. Retrieved 2014-04-29.
  13. ^ "Front raises $66 million to replace Microsoft Outlook - TechCrunch". TechCrunch. 2018-01-24. Retrieved 2018-01-24.
  14. ^ "Startup Loftium gives home down payments to people who continually rent their house on Airbnb — Quartz". Quartz. 2017-09-19. Retrieved 2017-09-19.
  15. ^ "Periscope Data Raises $9.5M Led By DFJ To Build Its "Tableau For Data Scientists" - TechCrunch". TechCrunch. 2015-10-25. Retrieved 2015-10-25.
  16. ^ "Sisense acquires Periscope Data to build integrated data science and analytics solution - TechCrunch". TechCrunch. 2019-05-14. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  17. ^ "Rippling raises $45M at $270M to be the biz app identity layer - TechCrunch". TechCrunch. 2019-04-03. Retrieved 2019-04-03.