James D. Robinson IV
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| Born |
June 13, 1962 New York, NY, United States |
| Residence | New York, US |
| Citizenship | USA |
| Alma mater |
Antioch College Harvard Business School |
| Occupation | Co-Founder, Managing Partner - RRE Ventures |
| Home town | New York, NY |
| Political party | Independent (voter) |
James Dixon Robinson IV (also known as James D. Robinson, or Jim Robinson, born June 13, 1962) is an American venture capitalist and entrepreneur. Robinson has been a director of many private and several public companies. He has been listed on the Forbes Midas List of top venture capital investors, and the Institutional Investor Fintech 35.
Robinson founded or co-founded several other companies, including Abra, Symposia Group, InterVideo Response, and IV Systems. He is the inventor of the Quirky Switch.
Robinson is the son of James D. Robinson III, former CEO of American Express. Robinson was raised in New York City and Sun Valley, ID. He attended high school in New York. In his late teens he drove a NYC Taxi.
Robinson is a 1986 Business Administration / Computer Science graduate of Antioch College, and a 1992 MBA graduate of Harvard Business School.
Robinson worked at Hambrecht & Quist, JP Morgan & Co, and General Electric.
Robinson Co-Founded RRE Ventures (previously Sunset Partners) in late 1994 along with former Harvard Business School classmate (and 92nd Street Y Board President) Stuart J. Ellman. His father, James D. Robinson III, joined them full-time in 1996.
Among the firm's investments are Abra, Avant, Betaworks, Bitpay, Braintree, BroadSoft, Business Insider, Buzzfeed, Chain, Cyota, Concur, DCG, Extricity, eMachines, GiGa Information Group, Goldpocket, iCrossing, Kroll Bond Ratings, Loudeye, Makerbot, Massive, MessageOne, Metapath, Netcentives, Nexsan, OnDeck, Proofpoint, Quirky, Qpass, Recyclebank, Revolution Money, Rubric, Smartpay, ScreamingMedia, Taleo, Taqua, Telocity, Vastera, Venmo, Vine, Vocera, Watchguard, WeddingChannel, Whiptail, and WisdomTree Investments.
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