Douglas Carlisle serves as Partner Emeritus at Menlo Ventures. He focuses on investments in the information technology sector. His current board seats and investments include: Cellfire, AnsibleWorks, Check, LiveOps, Lytx, Nexxo Financial, Nlight Photonics, Readyforce, and RF Surgical. His prior investments include Hotmail (sold to Microsoft), Pyxis (pyxs- acquired by Cardinal Health), Cyras Systems (acquired by Ciena), Efficient Networks (acquired by Seimens), Vidyo, Open Solutions, Octel Communications, HNC Software (merged into Fair Isaacs - FICO), Kalpana (acquired by Cisco), Stratacom (acquired by Cisco), Ironport Systems (acquired by Cisco), Aeroscout (acquired by Stanley) and Carrier Access Corporation. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley (BS - EECS) and Stanford University (JD/MBA). He also serves as Board Member & Advisor at Anchore.