Brad Feld began his career an entrepreneur in 1987 when he and a partner launched a self-funded firm that became Feld Technologies,  one of Boston’s leading software consulting firms.  He was still an undergraduate at MIT at the time.

"We raised $10 (it’s about all we had at the time) and built a successful company," he says. "We were profitable - we had to be because that was the only way we could pay our bills."

In 1993, he sold that company to AmeriData Technologies, a $1.5 billion publicly-traded company later acquired by GE Capital, where he became Chief Technology Officer and directed diversification into software consulting through M&A and investment activities which, he says, gave him his first taste for investing.  He also did a lot of angel investments and helped start a number of businesses during that period with some of the money that he made from selling his first company.

"Basically, I took a classically entrepreneurial route where I had a successful business, became an angel investor and then ultimately got organized within an institutional group to make venture investments," he says.

In 1995, he founded Intensity Ventures, a company that helps launch and operate software companies. Intensity Ventures was a venture affiliate of SOFTBANK.   He co-founded Mobius Venture Capital in 1996 and Foundry Group in 2007. 

Feld currently serves on the boards of a number of private companies, including Commerce5, ePartners, Feedburner, Gold Systems, Newmerix, NewsGator, Quova, Rally Software, StillSecure, and Xaffire. In addition, he is on the board of three non-profit organizations: National Center for Women & Information Technology, The Colorado Conservation Trust, and The Watershed School. He is a member of the board of directors of the Young Entrepreneurs Organization and founded the Boston and Colorado chapters. 

He has two blogs--Feld Thoughts and Ask the VC.

"Blogging has given me a different avenue for communicating my perspective and promoting ideas that are important to me," he says.  "I developed a very interesting feedback loop with a lot of people who give me great feedback, ask good questions, and point me to interesting things. Just using the blog as a focal point for my thinking. Long term, it’s a pretty powerful vehicle for someone who wants to be as transparent as possible about what they’re up to, which is one of my goals. Everybody has their point of view on how to be successful in the venture business. I found that working as closely as I can with entrepreneurs and immersing myself in the things that I am investing in makes a huge difference in a positive way."

Feld  lives in Boulder, Colorado, loves to read, is an avid marathoner, believes computers are his friend, and is "happily married to an amazing person, have two gigantic golden retrievers, and try to enjoy myself every day as I subscribe to the 'you only get one chance' view of life."