About Bill Boebel

Bill Boebel is a Austin TX and Blacksburg VA-based angel investor who typically invests $25K - $100K in young companies. Boebel prefers to invest in US-based seed stage web software and infrastructure startups which have low capital requirements in order to bring a minimum viable product to market. Boebel prefers to advise on product strategy and also brings a network of relationships in the cloud hosting, web infrastructure and email software industries.<br />Bill Boebel is VP of Strategy at Rackspace and is responsible for technology relationships that power many of the company's Cloud growth initiatives. Prior to Rackspace, Bill co-founded and was CTO of Webmail.us, which Rackspace acquired in 2007. As an entrepreneur, Bill played strategic as well as hands-on roles in all areas of the Webmail.us email hosting business. He built many of the company's scalable systems including the mail storage platform, anti-spam/anti-virus, support and operations software. Today, as a "Racker", Bill aims to accelerate progress in many areas of Rackspace's Cloud business including its product line, technical architectures and the company's unique culture. Bill is an active angel investor, a member of 460 Angels, as well as a mentor at DayOne Ventures, an early stage startup mentoring and funding program in Blacksburg VA.