Bruce Cleveland
Author of the best seller “Traversing the Traction Gap", CEO - Traction Gap Partners, former enterprise software executive and venture capitalist
United States
Overview
Work Experience
Chief Executive Officer
2023 - Current
Advisor
2024
Advisor
2024
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2024
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2024
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2024
Advisor
2022
Chief Marketing Officer
2019 - 2021
I was one of the first investors in C3 AI- at its start up in 2009 - and from 2019 through 2021, I was its CMO helping to create a new category (Enterprise AI) and to take the company through a successful IPO (NYSE: AI). Today, C3 AI is the global market leader in Enterprise AI.
Founding Partner
2016 - 2019
Wildcat Venture Partners is an early-stage VC firm in Silicon Valley. During my tenure at Wildcat, I made several early stage investments in software startups such as C3 AI (NYSE: AI) and Vlocity (acquired by Salesforce). I personally created a startup - GreenFig (rebranded as Ziplines Education) - that partners with universities to train people how to apply industry- leading business applications. Finally, I wrote Traversing the Traction Gap - a prescriptive guide for entrepreneurs to successfully take their startup from from ideation to scale.
Wildcat invests in early-stage B2B and B2B2C tech startups in digital health, EdTech, enterprise SaaS, and FinTech markets.
General Partner
2006 - 2015
During my 9 years as a member of the InterWest team, I invested in multiple very early stage software startups -- many were just ideas without a product, customers or revenue: C3 AI (NYSE: AI), Doximity (NYSE: DOCS), Marketo (acquired by Adobe), and Engagio (acquired by Demandbase).
InterWest invests an average of about $7 - 15 million over the span of their involvement with each company in their portfolio.