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Petra Franklin is the Managing Director of Vault Capital and a General Partner of Vault Capital II. She co-founded the venture capital company in 1998 with Irwin Treiger and William Justen. Ms. Franklin is responsible for Vault Capital's investments in Terabeam, Singingfish, HouseValues, Ramgen, eProject, Coffee Equipment Company and Seattle Biofuels. Prior to Vault Capital, Ms. Franklin worked with start-ups in a management or director capacity and came to that from the data networking and wireless communications field including positions with US West Wireless, AT&T, MFS, UUNET, IBM, WorldCom, and as Associate Producer for CBS in New York City. Ms. Franklin has also worked closely with artist Dale Chihuly building his support organization for upwards of 11 years. Ms. Franklin is on the board of the National Science Foundation's Science Technology Center for Information Technology, a member of the National Venture Capital Association, the Community Development Roundtable, ACT Theatre, the Alliance of Angels, Washington Software Association, WWFC, the Hilltop Group, and WIT, and was a founding member of Innovation & Science, Agile, Alpha Arts, Seniors Making Art and the Women's Bioethics Project. Ms. Franklin attended Harvard University and Bennington College, where she received her undergraduate degree. She also attended Stanford University and the University of Washington. (c) Copyright 1998 Vault Capital. All Rights Reserved |
