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Michael Stark

Michael Stark
Founder and General Partner

Board Seats:
Blue Arc, ReVera, SiliconBlue, Validity

Other Investments:
Abgenix (NASDAQ: ABGX), Cirrus Logic (NASDAQ: CRUS)*, CBT Systems - acquired by SmartForce (NASDAQ: SMTF), Cypress Semiconductor (NASDAQ: CY)*, Force10 Networks, Magma Design Automation (NASDAQ: LAVA),  NuCore acquired by Mediatek (TSE:2454), MemberWorks (NASDAQ: MBRS), OnDisplay - acquired by Vignette (NASDAQ: VIGN), TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO), Vitesse Semiconductor (NASDAQ: VTSS)*, Xilinx (NASDAQ: XLNX)*


* Investments led by Michael while at Robertson Stephens

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Venture Team

Michael Stark
Focus:
Michael co-founded Crosslink Capital. He oversees all the Firm's investment activities and is active in the firm's Energy Technologies and Computing & Semiconductors venture initiatives. Michael also serves as Portfolio Manager for all of the Firm's Crossover Funds, and its Emerging Growth hedge fund which is pari passu with the public portion of the Crossover Funds.

Experience:
Michael joined Robertson Stephens in 1983 where he served as Director of Research and equity analyst covering the semiconductor and software industries. Prior to that he was at Intel Corporation.

Education:
BS, Engineering, Northwestern University
MBA with honors, University of Michigan

Contact Information:
mjs@crosslinkcapital.com


Venture Team
Jerome Contro
Lou DiNardo
Jim Feuille
Alain Harrus
Gary Hromadko
Sy Kaufman
Bruce MacNaughton
Nick Mignano
Peter Rip
Michael Stark

Public Team
Tom Bliska
Neil Desai
Isabelle Fymat
Dan Myers
Stacy Nieuwoudt
Stephen Perkins
Dennis Puri
Paul Sabo
Jon Schwartz
Michael Stark

Operations, Finance
and Marketing
Jerome Contro
Maureen Offer
Nancy Payne
Mihaly Szigeti
Eric Winterhalter

Associates
Jake Koppinger
Alex Niehenke
Carl Rydbeck
Ted Wilson