Joe Horowitz is the Managing General Partner of Icon Ventures, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm with offices in Palo Alto and San Francisco. 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’s venture capital experience includes a 10-year tenure at U.S. Venture Partners, where the first deal that he worked on was the seed financing of Sun Microsystems. He was also Chairman and CEO of Geocast Network Systems, a broadband infrastructure company backed by Mayfield, Kleiner Perkins and Institutional Venture Partners.

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) that today are publicly traded companies with multibillion-dollar market valuations. 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).

Current Icon portfolio companies that Joe is on the Board of or actively involved with include Global Worldwide, Istari, Playstudios (MYPS) and Synack.

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.