Mitchell Kapor – Partner

Mitchell Kapor is a pioneer of modern computing. He is the founder and former CEO of Lotus Development Corporation and the designer of Lotus 1-2-3, the “killer application” which made the personal computer ubiquitous in the business world in the 1980s. In the past 30 years he created or helped create dozens of startup companies and organizations, including UUNET, a first-generation Internet Service Provider; The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which protects freedom and privacy on the Internet; Real Networks, the originator of streaming media on the Internet; the Mozilla Foundation*, creator of the open source web browser Firefox; Linden Research*, the creator of the first successful virtual world, Second Life, and Xmarks*, formerly Foxmarks, the leader in bookmark synchronization, and ePals*, the Internet’s largest global community of connected classrooms.

Currently he also serves on several non-profit boards, including the Mitchell Kapor Foundation, which works to ensure fairness and equity for low-income communities of color in the areas of civic engagement, sustainability, and college access; the Level Playing Field Institute, whose mission is to enhance equal opportunity in education and the workplace.

Through Kapor Capital, he is an active investor in seed stage startup companies.

* current member of Board of Directors

Stephen DeBerry – Partner

Stephen DeBerry invests in vehicles that align strong financial returns with positive social impact. Before joining Kapor Capital, Stephen was an Investment Director at Omidyar Network, the mission-based investment firm started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife, Pam. Before that Stephen managed business development at Interval Research, where he supported new business initiatives for Microsoft co-founder, Paul Allen and Vulcan Ventures.

Over the past several years Stephen has been on the vanguard of building the emerging category of mission investing. He has been a frequent organizer and speaker at industry conferences and his investments have focused on pioneering new categories such as social lending. Some of his previous investments include: CircleLending (now Virgin Money), Prosper, InnoCentive and more recently Etherpad, Cardpool, Edulender and PayNearMe.

Stephen is a Trustee and Member of the Investment Committee at The California Endowment. He is the Chairman of Friends of New Orleans and serves the boards of The Association of Marshall Scholars and The Dalai Lama Foundation. Stephen earned a Bachelor’s degree in Anthropology with highest honors from UCLA as well as a Master’s degree in Social Anthropology and MBA from the University of Oxford. He is a British Marshall Scholar and a Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.

Freada Kapor Klein – Partner

Freada Kapor Klein is an entrepreneur, activist and leader in the field of organizational development. Her work over the past 25 years has linked rigorous research with practical intervention on issues involving the challenges of people and organizational culture, from raw startups to global enterprises.

An entrepreneur herself who has pioneered in developing models for revenue and sustainability of non-profits, she is an active advisor and mentor to social entrepreneurs, often connecting them to sources of funding from angel investors and venture capitalists. She is also an advocate for entrepreneurs from underrepresented backgrounds, especially people of color and women.

After completing her Ph.D. in 1984, Dr. Klein became the first Director of Organizational Development, Training and Employee Relations for Lotus Development Corporation.

Her consulting firm, Klein Associates, founded in 1987, specializes in employee surveys, training, and consulting on all forms of bias, harassment, and discrimination in the workplace. Klein’s client base ranges from Harvard Business School to the World Bank to top tier international law firms, Wall Street financial services firms, and Silicon Valley start-ups, among others.

From 2000-2005 she conducted an annual Quality of Worklife survey of venture capital-backed information technology startup companies focusing on aspects of company culture that correlate with profitability, retention, and high morale through Boom and Bust.

In 2001 she founded the Level Playing Field Institute, a non-profit which promotes innovative approaches to fairness in higher education and workplaces by removing barriers to full participation. Klein is the author of “Giving Notice: Why the Best and the Brightest Leave the Workplace and How You Can Help Them Stay”.

Ross Fubini – Advisor

Ross was the Co-Founder and a Board Member of Cubetree, a Gartner Visionary enterprise social collaboration company which is used by the Fortune 100 including SAP, Intuit, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He currently serves as an advisor to Kapor Capital, Palantir Technology, Facebook Causes, and other early stage technology companies.

From 2010-2011 Ross was a Vice President for SuccessFactors (NASDAQ:SFSF) which acquired his company CubeTree in 2010. Prior to that, Ross was Sr. Director of Engineering at Symantec, where he owned product development for Symantec/Brightmail Messaging Security anti-spam, anti-virus, and content filtering product lines serving 70,000 customers, protecting 100s of millions of email boxes, and delivering $300M+ revenue/year. Additionally Ross was a lead in M&A/partner selection including the integration of the IMLogic and TurnTide acquisitions; MessageLabs and Vontu partnerships. Before joining Symantec, Ross held technical leadership roles at BEA/Plumtree, TellMe Networks, and Netscape.

Ross is also an active board member of the Level Playing Field Institute (LPFI), a Kapor Foundation-funded non-profit that promotes innovative approaches to fairness in education and the workplace. He is an avid triathlete, marathon runner, and Ironman competitor. He holds a B.S. in engineering and art from Carnegie Mellon University..

Ulili Onovakpuri – Analyst

Ulili Onovakpuri, an IDEAL alumnus, graduated from U.C. Berkeley in 2009 with a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies, with a concentration in Business and Health in Global Societies and a minor in Creative Writing.

While at Cal she completed a thesis project on the rise of Medical Tourism in India and the importance technology has played on the industry. She also studied abroad, both as a part of the Semester at Sea Program, and later as a student at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom.

Ulili has interned with Adaptive Path, Mozilla Corporation, and GeekNet(formerly SourceForge Inc.).