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4About William Quigley
William Quigley joined Clearstone Venture Partners shortly after its formation and concentrates on its Internet and communications related investments. During his first two-and-a-half years with the firm, he worked out of the idealab! incubator and helped launch and lead investments in many idealab! backed companies including Homepage.com, FreePC, FreeMusic.com and Paymybills.com. A number of his early-stage investments have gone public, including MP3.com, Tickets.com, Emusic and PeopleSupport and several have been acquired including InternetConnect (sold to Covad) and Phasebridge (sold to Emcore).<br /><br />William's current portfolio reflects his belief in the enormous opportunity in the wireless consumer and enterprise markets (AOptix, SoonR, Meru Networks, Novariant). He is also focused on emerging companies offering managed services in the enterprise and consumer sectors (Communicado, Spock Networks). William is a member of the board of directors of AOptix Technologies, Communicado, Meru Networks, Novariant, SoonR and Spock.com.<br /><br />William joined Clearstone from Mid-Atlantic Venture Funds, where he invested in early- stage communications companies targeting the software, equipment and service sectors. At MAVF, he was responsible for investments in Integrated Chipware, a real time embedded OS developer, Wisor Telecom, an OSS vendor to telecom service providers and NexTone Communications, a manufacturer of voice over IP equipment.<br /><br />Prior to MAVF, William spent seven years in a variety of business planning and operational roles at The Walt Disney Company. His tenure at Disney included finance roles at EuroDisney, the Disney Store retail chain and Disney's consumer products merchandise licensing division. He oversaw all finance and business planning activities for Disney's licensing business unit, the world's largest consumer products licensor. William also co-managed Disney's merchant banking group where he negotiated and structured equity positions in the company's strategic licensees.<br /><br />Prior to Disney, William was a Senior Consultant with Arthur Andersen's Financial Services Group where he developed financial and business strategies for a wide range of companies in the media and communications and financial services industries.<br /><br />William is on the board of DealMaker LA, a Los Angeles based organization promoting entrepreneurial activities in Southern California. <br /><br />William received his MBA, with distinction, from Harvard Business School, and holds a BS in Accounting, with honors, from the University of Southern California. He is a CPA and a Kauffman Fellow.
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Latest William Quigley News
Sep 20, 2023
Sep 20, 2023 22:39 The crypto community was ecstatic at the launch of the PayPal USD (PYUSD) stablecoin in August. However, Tether’s co-founder doesn’t expect much innovation from the payment giant. Conversely, Tradecurve Markets has been hailed for bringing innovation to the crypto exchange space. Read on to find out more about these recent developments. Tether’s Co-Founder Speaks on PayPal’s Stablecoin Ambitions PayPal made its first official crypto involvement in 2020. Since then, the payment giant has been steadily embracing the technology. Its biggest involvement happened in August 2023, when PayPal announced the launch of its stablecoin. Dollar deposits, cash, and short-term U.S. treasuries back PYUSD. However, Tether’s co-founder says he doesn’t expect much innovation from the payment giant. William Quigley was also an early investor in PayPal. Despite his relationship with PayPal, Quigley isn’t very bullish about the PYUSD launch. According to him, PYUSD is only a potential way for PayPal to save trillions of dollars in multi currency transactions. Quigley adds that he knew PayPal had been looking into stablecoins for seven or eight years. He expects very little innovative addition from PayPal to the stablecoin space. The Tether co-founder left the company in 2015 and no longer holds PayPal stocks. Tradecurve Markets Brings New Innovation To Exchange Space Cryptocurrency is often regarded as a fast-evolving industry. However, one sector that has seen its growth stalled is crypto exchanges. Despite being a core of the industry, there has been little growth in the crypto exchange space over the last few years. However, the introduction of Tradecurve Markets (TCRV) has sparked excitement in the space. There are several reasons why this new exchange has piqued the interest of industry experts. Tradecurve Markets will be one of the first all-inclusive trading platforms in the industry. Tradecurve Markets will grant traders access to several financial markets unlike traditional exchanges. Stocks, forex, options, commodities, and crypto CFDs, are all available on Tradecurve Markets. The platform has launched a demo platform to give traders a glimpse of what is to come. The platform also supported automated AI trading as well as copy trading. These features will allow users to copy and execute profitable trading strategies automatically. As one of the most innovative exchanges ever launched, Tradecurve Markets has garnered massive investors’ interest. Three months after its unveiling, the project has raised over $5.8 million, onboarding over 18,000 investors. The project is now in its fifth presale stage where TCRV now retails for $0.025 per token. For more information about the Tradecurve Markets (TCRV) presale:
William Quigley Investments
4 Investments
William Quigley has made 4 investments. Their latest investment was in Crowdfunder as part of their Series A on October 10, 2014.
William Quigley Investments Activity
Date | Round | Company | Amount | New? | Co-Investors | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
10/7/2014 | Series A | Crowdfunder | $3.48M | Yes | 2 | |
10/6/2011 | Unattributed VC | |||||
5/24/2010 | Angel | |||||
5/10/2010 | Seed |
Date | 10/7/2014 | 10/6/2011 | 5/24/2010 | 5/10/2010 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Round | Series A | Unattributed VC | Angel | Seed |
Company | Crowdfunder | |||
Amount | $3.48M | |||
New? | Yes | |||
Co-Investors | ||||
Sources | 2 |
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