Jennfer Fonstad

Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Jennifer Fonstad is a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, an early stage information technology venture firm. She currently sits on several private company boards, including Nantero, a start-up building carbon nanotube-based DRAM, Troika Networks a storage area networking firm, NanoCoolers, a chip cooling vendor, and Ipedo, a software-based data cache solution. She also led the firm’s investment in Molecular Imprints, a nano-imprint lithographer, Luminus Devices, a solid state lighting company, Ember, a wireless mesh network solution, and Athena health, an eHealth services vendor. Previous investments include United Online (public - UNTD), Achex (acq. by First Data Corp - FDC), and iShip (acq. by Stamps - STMP). Ms. Fonstad speaks frequently at industry conferences and writes often for industry publications. She began her career with Bain and Company after spending a year teaching in sub-Sahara Africa.

Jennifer holds a BS Cum Laude from Georgetown University and an MBA with Distinction from the Harvard Business School. She is a former Kauffman Fellow.