Neil Rimer
| Neil Rimer | |
|---|---|
| Born |
October 7, 1963 Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Alma mater | Harvard Business School |
| Occupation | Venture capitalist and investor, partner at Index Ventures |
| Relatives | Father Gerald, who founded Index Securities, the predecessor to Index Ventures, in 1976. Brothers David, a partner at Index Ventures; Danny, also a partner at Index Ventures; and Richard, formerly a partner at Index Ventures, now at Acorn Energy. |
Neil Rimer is a partner at Index Ventures, a venture capital firm he co-founded with Giuseppe Zocco and brother David Rimer in 1996. He is also the brother of Danny Rimer, who joined him as a partner at Index Ventures in 2002.
Rimer was born in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and reared and educated (International School of Geneva) in Geneva, Switzerland. He received a bachelor’s degree in History and Economics from Stanford University, and was a General Course student at the London School of Economics. He then took his first job out of school with Montgomery Securities, an investment bank in San Francisco. He then completed a Master of Business Administration degree from Harvard Business School, and upon graduating, chose to return to Europe. He was later quoted by Fortune as reflecting on this move, “I was excited about the idea of participating in the birth of the VC industry in Europe”.
Soon after his return to Geneva, in 1991, Rimer helped his father Gerald exit the bond trading business he had founded, and spent a few years connecting institutional investors with European technology startups, an effort that over time evolved into the official launch of Index Ventures. In 1996 Rimer co-founded Index Ventures in Geneva with his brother, David, and Giuseppe Zocco, helping raise Index’ first pilot fund of $17 million, followed by a $180 million fund in 1998. Companies funded during this time include SCM Microsystems (now Identive) and Virata, a chipmaker, which later entered into a $1.3 Billion merger with GlobeSpan.
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