Mentors

Richard Dale

Richard Dale | Principal, Sigma Partners

Claim to fame

Entrepreneur turned VC. 3-year mentor at TechStars Boston. As a VC, not afraid to do talks on "All the bad things VCs want to do to you!".

Words to live by

If you can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.

More information about Richard Dale

Richard joined Sigma Partners in 2000, bringing with him 16 years experience founding and running software companies. His proven leadership abilities combined with deep technical and operational expertise provide a platform to advise entrepreneurs in building solid technology companies. Richard is an accomplished mentor to early stage startups in the Sigma portfolio, at TechStars Boston and other local startup incubators. Previously, Richard co-founded and had various leadership roles at Phase Forward, a provider of software services for pharmaceutical clinical trials which went public and later was sold to Oracle. Prior to that, Richard was VP Operations for Vermeer Technologies, creators of FrontPage which was acquired by Microsoft in 1996.