Joe Horowitz
Managing General Partner
Joe Horowitz is the Managing General Partner of Icon Ventures. A veteran of the venture capital industry, he founded Icon in 2003 and has overseen its growth, from $100 million in assets under management to $1.4 billion.
Joe Horowitz has a 40 year history as a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, as an investor and an innovator in building VC firms.
His experience includes 10 years at US Venture Partners, where his first investment was the seed financing of Sun Microsystems. He served as Chairman & CEO of Geocast Network Systems (backed by Kleiner Perkins, Mayfield and IVP). In 2003, Joe launched Icon Ventures with a $100M fund and a commitment to best practices in venture capital.
At Icon, Joe has had 16 successful exits to date. He has been particularly active in the security space with early investments in FireEye (FEYE), Palo Alto Networks (PANW) and Proofpoint (PFPT). Other notable exits include Area 1 Security (Cloudflare), Aster Data (Teradata), Avnera (Skyworks), Clicker (CBS), Infinera (INFN), KIXEYE (Stillfront), Meebo (Google), Mimosa Systems (Iron Mountain), Ocarina Networks (Dell), Opcity (News Corp), Posterous (Twitter), SiTime (MegaChips), Teladoc (TDOC) and True[x]Media (Fox).
Joe received his MBA from the Wharton Graduate School of Business. As an undergraduate, he earned his BA degree in economics from Columbia University, in addition to three years of study at Columbia’s School of Engineering & Applied Sciences. He is an active member of the National Venture Capital Association Alumni Council and was previously a board member of the NVCA and the Western Association of Venture Capitalists.