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Clint Korver

Co-Founder and MD, Ulu Ventures

Clint is a Managing Director and co-founder of Ulu Ventures, a $50m seed stage venture firm investing in enterprise IT companies from Stanford and Silicon Valley.

An active supporter of entrepreneurship within the Stanford community, Clint taught entrepreneurship in the School of Engineering; mentors at StartX, Stanford’s accelerator; and co-founded Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs, an alumni group with over 1000 members.

Over the last 9 years, Clint and his partner Miriam Rivera have invested in over 80 startups. 50 have come from the Stanford community including Palantir, SoFi, Krux (acquired by Salesforce), and Blue River Technology (acquired by John Deere).

Prior to Ulu, Clint was a serial entrepreneur, co-founding four Silicon Valley startups which provided tools to help individuals or organizations make better decisions. He co-authored Ethics for the Real World (Harvard Business Press 2008), is a Kauffman Fellow, and holds a PhD and an MS in engineering from Stanford, and a BA in mathematics from Grinnell College where he served as Chair of the Board of Trustees.

My Sessions

Hi-Tech Panel: Building decision tools responsibly

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Humans have been building more and more tools to augment ourselves. For instance, we now have tools to collaborate on a document simultaneously. These are becoming accessible and democratized. This presents a big opportunity. DQ per capita is low if our model of training only a select few. We can’t make humanity smarter by training […]

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Data Science and Decision Analysis in Venture Investing

The Capital Peak

Data availability has always been a challenge to investing in the start-up space. Although that makes it ripe for Decision Analysis, few have implemented it for investment decisions. This is now changing and we bring together perspectives from Corporate Venturing, Venture Capital and Angel Investing to investigate the paradigm shift currently underway. Panel Chair: Victor […]

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Decision Quality and Data in Entrepreneurship and Leadership

The Capital Peak

How have leaders/entrepreneurs who have strong DA backgrounds looked at entrepreneurship/leadership? 

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Workshop: A Decision Analysis Approach to Venture Capital

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Venture Capitalists (VCs) could be poster children for cognitive biases. Most successful VCs conclude they “have the magic.” Forbes even celebrates the best performing VCs each year with their Midas List. However, few VCs test their gut feel driven decision making with data or frameworks. Fewer still distinguish between luck and skill in a decision […]

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