Jim Hornthal

Bio

Jim is a parallel entrepreneur, angel investor, entrepreneurship educator, and a Lester Center Fellow for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at UC Berkeley Haas School of Business. His private investment fund, Hornthal Investment Partners, has made investments in over 50 early stage companies. Jim is the co-founder and Chairman of Triporati, Zignal Labs, and LaunchPad Central. He sits on several boards, including KIND Snacks, Revinate, Via.com and One Voice. Jim has taught the Lean LaunchPad and I-Corps courses at UC Berkeley, Stanford, UCSF and Princeton, and is the author of the TED Book “A Haystack Full of Needles.” Jim earned a BA in Economics from Princeton University (Cum Laude), and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.