S T E V E L A R S E N

After spending a good part of my career working for big companies like AT&T, IBM and Control Data Corp., I found my niche in early stage companies. I started nine companies, nearly all high-tech and venture-funded. Typically my role was co-founder and CEO, raising capital and driving rapid early progress. I was good at getting the right people on the bus, the right people off and figuring out where to drive the thing. My most recent and last start-up roles were as CEO and co-founder of PhoneTell and before that, Krugle, Inc. PhoneTell was a comprehensive cloud-based contact database for mobile devices and Krugle (sold in 2009) was a search engine for source code. I was the CEO of BigFix which was sold to IBM in 2010, and on the founding teams of CitySearch and Net Perceptions which both went public. A more complete business profile is on LinkedIn here.