Biography
Scott Lenet is a founder and Managing Director of DFJ Frontier, a Draper Fisher Jurvetson Network partner fund and early stage technology venture capital firm focused on investments on the west coast . At Frontier, he leads fund management, fundraising and portfolio management efforts. Scott began his venture capital career in 1992 with Geocapital Partners, where his successful investments included Netcom and Logic Works. He also has entrepreneurial experience in the technology industry as the founder and CEO of SmartFrog.com, acquired by Cybergold in 1999, and in product marketing at Trilogy Software. In addition to his board roles as a Director for DFJ Frontier portfolio companies, Scott serves on the emeritus board of the Sacramento Philharmonic, the board of directors of SARTA, and the advisory board of the Entrepreneurship Center at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, where he was an adjunct professor from 2003 to 2010. Scott began teaching entrepreneurship and venture capital at the University of Southern California in 2010. He received his MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an AB in Comparative Literature from Princeton University.