Shawn Carpenter

Experience

Exit

Invotas International

Chief Strategy Officer 2015 - 2016 (5 months)

Exit

iSIGHT Partners

Chief Technical Analyst 2012 - 2014 (over 2 years)

Exit

NetWitness

Principal Forensics Analyst 2007 - 2011 (over 4 years)

Founder

Three Tree Ventures

Employee

NetWitness, iSIGHT Partners, Sandia National Laboratories, Invotas International, Cybraics, HUMAN

Advisor

Crosscut Ventures, GroupSense, Netswitch Technology Management, Connect Our Kids, Lightfactor (USA), TruStar Technology, MILLIE, Trinity Cyber, uSTADIUM

Board Member

Crypsis Group

Projects

Improving Foster Care Outcomes w/ New Tech

Helped launch a new, non-profit organization

Technical Advisor · Technical and strategic planning, strategic partnering, fundraising

Use data & tools to find adults willing to assist at risk youth

With Paul Garrett

Education

About

Skills

Finding Needles in Haystacks Playing Trumpet Slide Guitar Blues Harmonica

What I'm Looking For

I invest in early stage product companies applying disruptive technologies to high cap market segments that lag in technology innovation/adoption. I am especially interested in products that leverage technology in novel ways to obtain an unfair market advantage (low friction SaaS is best).

Describe what you're looking for in a company.

Locations

Washington DC New York City Austin Los Angeles Seattle Sioux Falls San Francisco Tel Aviv-Yafo Palo Alto Minneapolis

Q&A

What words of advice would you give your younger self?

Carpe diem! But be reasonable, and take care of yourself and not work insane hours.

Which founders or startups do you most admire?

Elon Musk, Peter Thiel, Dug Song, Aaron Walters

What's your super power?

Finding needles in haystacks.

What's the best way for people to get in touch with you?

shawn[AT]threetreeventures[DOT]com

What words of wisdom do you live by?

Find your passions, climb a tree, be nice, hike, make music, foster shelter animals, plant things, help others without expecting reciprocation, travel, give

What aspects of your work are you most passionate about?

Being an active investor with my portfolio companies. The most important assets of any firm are the humans.

Shawn Carpenter

Early employee at NetWitness (acquired by EMC), savvy executive, board member and early-stage investor with a range of successful placements [e.g. Compass (IPO @$8.2B), Awake Security (acq Arista Networks), InAuth (acq AMEX), ThreatGRID (acq Cisco)]

I invest in early stage product companies applying disruptive technologies to high cap market segments that lag in technology innovation/adoption. I am especially interested in products that leverage technology in novel ways to obtain an unfair market advantage (low friction SaaS is best).