Heidi Roizen

Heidi Roizen, MBA ’83 (Business Administration), BA ’80 (English), is a venture capitalist, corporate director, and former technology CEO and entrepreneur.  Today, Heidi is a partner at Threshold Ventures where she serves as a board member for portfolio company Upside Foods and hosts Threshold’s popular podcast series The Startup Solution. She is currently also an independent corporate director for public company Planet Labs PBC. Heidi is an adjunct lecturer at Stanford University and leads Stanford’s Threshold Venture Fellows Program in the Management Science and Engineering Department.  At Stanford, Heidi also serves on the advisory councils of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence and Stanford Technology Ventures . She started her career as cofounder of software company T/Maker and served as its CEO for more than a dozen years until its acquisition by Deluxe Corporation. After a year as vice president of Worldwide Developer Relations at Apple, Heidi became a venture capitalist in 1999. She has undergraduate and MBA degrees from Stanford and is the proud mother of two kids and two rescue dogs.