Jeff CLAVIER

Founder and Managing Partner, SoftTech Venture Consulting

Based in Palo Alto (CA), Jean-Francois "Jeff" Clavier is the Founder and Managing Partner of SoftTech Venture Consulting, a firm providing services to early stage consumer Internet startups. Jeff contributes as an advisor, board member or part-time executive, focusing on business development, fund raising, and strategy.

His current areas of interests include next-generation search, social media (blogging, syndication, aggregation), and open source. He covers these topics on his blog, Software Only, along with venture capital, startup and industry news.

Jeff has spent over sixteen years in the software market, as an entrepreneur, a senior executive and a venture capitalist. Throughout his career, he's led development teams in Europe and on Wall Street, designing products that were sold internationally and investing in software infrastructure startups across the USA and Europe.