Glenn Solomon

Who is Glenn Solomon?

Glenn joined GGV Capital as a Partner in the Menlo Park office in 2006. Glenn has led GGV's investments in Pandora, Focus, SuccessFactors, Isilon and QuinStreet, helping the latter three through the initial public offering process. He is also actively involved with GGV's investments in Appirio, BlueKai and Yicai (China Talent Group) as well as new investments in software-as-a-service (Saas) and cloud infrastructure, online marketing and advertising, and human resources technologies.

Prior to GGV, Glenn was a General Partner with Partech International. As head of the Software and Internet Group, he led successful investments in Broadbase Software (acquired by Kana), Datacenter Technologies (acquired by Veritas/Symantec), Digital Island (acquired by Cable & Wireless), Pentasafe (acquired by NetIQ) and Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN). Earlier in his career, Glenn worked with Goldman Sachs and also with SPO Partners, a San Francisco-based private investment partnership.

Glenn received a B.A. from Stanford University, where he started on three NCAA championship tennis teams, and an M.B.A from Stanford where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. He co-founded and remains active with The Spotlight Foundation, a non-profit organization that, for the past 14 years, has been dedicated to funding social entrepreneurs addressing the educational needs of at-risk youth.