Allen Morgan

Who is Allen Morgan?

Allen Morgan's principal focus is on two major investment areas: enterprise software applications and infrastructure, particularly innovative solutions that enhance knowledge-worker productivity, as well as on start-ups in the area of consumer internet services, interactive entertainment, online advertising and new media.

Allen's investments include BlackArrow, DECA, Electric Cloud, Jobster, Pluck, Slide, Snap, Tagged and Zenprise. Allen's notable investments include Beatnik, Jotspot (acquired by Google), PlanetOut, Serious Magic (acquired by Adobe) and Varsity Group.

Allen has spent 25 years counseling entrepreneurs throughout the startup process, first as a well-known Silicon Valley lawyer and, since 1999, as a managing director at Mayfield.

Prior to joining Mayfield, Allen was a partner with two renowned Silicon Valley law firms, Latham & Watkins and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati. In his career, he has closed more than 750 venture capital financings, mergers and acquisitions, IPOs and other public offerings.

Allen earned an undergraduate degree (summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa) from Dartmouth College, a second bachelor's degree and master's degree from Oxford University (Christ Church) and a J.D. from the University of Virginia.

He is an eclectic reader of everything from economics, history and other social sciences to philosophy, counting The Success of Open Source, Everything Bad is Good for You and The Substance of Style as recent books he has enjoyed.