Management Team

David Vivero

Chief Executive Officer

David sets the company’s strategy, recruits the world-class team of engineers and businesspeople who produce and market the RentJuice service, and monitors and responds to all customer feedback as we continue to improve our offering for the rental community. In this capacity, David relies heavily on his career experience in Internet technology and his rental property management DNA, having grown up managing several apartment buildings on Miami Beach.

Prior to founding RentJuice, David evaluated consumer Internet investments on behalf of Mayfield Fund, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm. He was also a Management Associate at IDG Communications, the publishers behind 300 trade magazines and 400 web sites, reporting to the global CEO and VP of Interactive on new product development and business development projects.

David holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an AB in Economics from Harvard College. He rents an apartment in the Lower Haight neighborhood of San Francisco.

Kunal Shah

Chief Technology Officer

Kunal leads our software engineering team as CTO. Prior to RentJuice, Kunal was CTO at Connected Ventures, the New York-based media company that launched several renowned Internet brands, including media destination CollegeHumor.com, t-shirt e-commerce site BustedTees, and personal video sharing site Vimeo. In addition to developing the company’s custom software frameworks, he managed 13 engineers and scaled the infrastructure to eventually serve 10 million monthly unique visitors and 100 million monthly page views. Connected Ventures was acquired by IAC/InterActiveCorp in late 2006.

Kunal has a BS in IT/new media from Rochester Institute of Technology, and lives in a rental apartment in San Francisco’s Nob Hill.

Investors

Tim Draper

Draper Fisher Jurvetson

Timothy C. Draper is the Founder and a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson. On behalf of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, Tim serves on the boards of Glam, Kyte.tv, Meebo, ShareThis, SocialText, Wigix and DFJ Plug ‘N Play companies. Previous successes include: Skype (EBAY), Overture.com (YHOO), Baidu (BIDU), Parametric Technology (PMTC), Hotmail (MSFT), PLX Technologies (PLXT), Preview Travel (TVLY), Digidesign (AVID), and others.

As an advocate for entrepreneurs and free markets, Tim is regularly featured as a keynote speaker in entrepreneurial conferences throughout the world, has been recognized as a leader in his field through numerous awards and honors, and has frequent TV, radio, and headline appearances. He was #52 on the list of the 100 most influential Harvard Alumni, and #7 on the Forbes Midas List. He was named Always-On #1 top venture capital deal maker for 2008. He was awarded the Commonwealth Club's Distinguished Citizen Award for achievements in green and sustainable energy. His blog is featured at www.theriskmaster.com. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Colin M. Evans

Sandwith Ventures

Colin M. Evans is the Founder and Managing Partner of Sandwith Ventures LLC, a San Francisco and Philadelphia based investment firm focusing on angel and early stage investments founded in January, 2007.

Previous to launching Sandwith Ventures, Colin was a Co-Founder, member of the Executive Team and Vice President of Sales and Business Development at StubHub.com, a successful online ticket exchange founded in 2000 and sold to eBay in early 2007. Colin oversaw four main functions while at StubHub including all sports and music sponsorships, business development partnerships, corporate sales and the LargeSeller program, which aggregated and serviced all the inventory providers on StubHub. Colin sits on the Board of CommunityLend, Bonobos and TicketLeap.

Colin is on the Advisory Boards of a number of internet companies concentrated in the San Francisco Bay Area, New York and Philadelphia Regions.

Highland Capital

Highland Capital Partners is a venture capital firm with singular focus — helping world-class entrepreneurs build companies of consequence. Since 1988, they have backed transformative technology businesses like Avid, Lycos, MapQuest, Starent Networks, Sybase, and VistaPrint. With over $3 billion of committed capital and offices in Boston, Silicon Valley, Geneva, and Shanghai, they continue to invest in the next generation of category-defining companies, including Gemvara, Heartland Robotics, Qihoo 360, RedBrick Health, RentJuice, Rent the Runway, SCVNGR, WePay, and Yipit.

Launch Capital

LaunchCapital addresses the capital needs of companies that are in the earliest stages of funding by providing a needed source of financing to companies that can quickly advance to the next level of development. Launch’s market-agnostic approach to investing enables them to quickly take advantage of emerging technologies and trends to best help their portfolio companies reach critical developmental, corporate, and market milestones.

Thrive Capital

Thrive Capital is an early stage investment vehicle providing capital to entrepreneurs with compelling business ideas. The Thrive fund is comprised of institutional investors and high net worth individuals. Thrive focuses on early stage technology companies that are mostly involved in the digital consumer space. The fund has made 15 investments, including Group.Me, Paperless Post, email startup Sailthru, and Hot Potato, which was just acquired by Facebook.

NextView Ventures

NextView Ventures are dedicated seed stage investors focusing on transformative internet businesses. NextView identifies with entrepreneurs driven to solve problems realized through their own experiences and seek to create new markets or reinvent old ones. As a firm, they aspire to be creative and continuously rethink the way they invest and how they impact their portfolio companies.

Board of Directors

David Vivero

Chief Executive Officer

John Zdanowski

Board Member

John Zdanowski was most recently CFO of Linden Lab, the makers of Second Life, Prior to Linden Lab, he was CFO at HouseValues, a leading marketing partner for real estate and mortgage professionals. He arranged the company’s first institutional financing round of $15 million and its $94 million IPO in 2004. Prior to that, Zdanowski co-founded Affinity Internet, Inc. raising more than $60 million to build a highly profitable Web hosting company serving more than 200,000 small- and medium-sized businesses. He has also worked as an investment banker and a management consultant and began his career as an engineer in GE’s highly-acclaimed management training program

Zdanowski holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Syracuse University, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Clarkson University.

Peter Bell

Highland Capital Partners

Peter Bell is a General Partner at Highland Capital Partners, specializing in technology investments across all stages of company growth. As an industry veteran, Peter has worked with and invested in companies in the information security, e-commerce, data center infrastructure, enterprise software and communications industries. Peter represents Highland on the boards of Desktone, ExaGrid Systems, Gigamon, InXpo, SCVNGR,Virtual Computer, VMTurbo, WePay, and is actively involved with Highland's investments in NetentSec, Inc. and RethinkDB, and is a former boardmember of Ocarina Networks (acquired by Dell).