Bob is General Partner at Antler US. Bob is an experienced founder and 3x startup veteran, having raised over $130M in venture capital from leading investors including Sequoia Capital and Marc Andreessen. After his third startup Qik was acquired by Skype, Bob became VP of Business Development at Skype. After Skype’s $8.5B acquisition by Microsoft, Bob served as VP&GM of the division at Microsoft.

Bob left to join LinkedIn as VP of Business Development, where he was a member of the product leadership team and led partnerships for 4.5 years, and then returned to Microsoft as part of their $26.2B acquisition of LinkedIn. Bob was an angel investor in payments company Stripe and subsequently joined as head of partnerships and member of the Leadership Team. Bob transitioned full-time into investing personally as well as at the venture capital firm Defy.vc and has invested in multiple unicorn companies.

Bob won the Dubilier Prize at Harvard Business School, was named College Scholar at Cornell, holds a 3rd degree black belt in Aikido, and is first author on 10 granted US patents. Bob was also a columnist in a Japanese national newspaper.