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Jean-Francois “Jeff” Clavier

As it celebrates its first decade, seed-stage investor SoftTech VC announced the closing of its fourth fund at $85 million, offering an illustration of how the micro-VC movement has grown up in Silicon Valley.

SoftTech founder Jeff Clavier, a software developer and former general partner at Reuters’s now-inactive investment affiliate RVC, started making angel investments in 2004. In 2007, he tapped institutional investors for his second fund, a $15 million pool.

Image: Jean-Francois “Jeff” Clavier, founder and managing partner of SoftTech VC. SoftTech VC 

To read the original article: SoftTech VC Boosts Its Reserves With $85 Million Fourth Fund - Venture Capital Dispatch - WSJ

As it celebrates its first decade, seed-stage investor SoftTech VC announced the closing of its fourth fund at $85 million, offering an illustration of how the micro-VC movement has grown up in Silicon Valley.