Adam Dell

Adam R. Dell (b. 1970-01-14; Houston, Texas) is an American venture capitalist.

Dell went to Memorial High School in Houston, Texas, Tulane University and the University of Texas School of Law. He began his career working as a corporate attorney for Winstead Sechrest & Minick in Austin, Texas before joining the venture capital firm of Enterprise Partners in southern California in 1997. He then joined Crosspoint Venture Partners in northern California where he became a Partner in 1999. In 2000 he formed Impact Venture Partners [http://www.impactvp.com Impact Venture Partners ] , an early stage venture capital firm, in New York City.cite news| last=Saracevic |first=Alan T|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/e/a/2000/01/25/BUSINESS3415.dtl&hw=section%3Dfinance+subject%3DFIN&sn=308&sc=718 |title=Venture capital company launched by brother of Dell Computer CEO|date=2000-01-25|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle |accessdate=2008-05-22] [cite news|url=http://www.forbes.com/global/2000/0221/0304027b.html|title=Dell ringer|last=Gallagher|first=Leigh |date=2000-02-21|publisher=Forbes|accessdate=2008-05-22] Dell also serves as a Managing Director at Steelpoint Capital Partners [http://www.steelpointcp.com Steelpoint Capital Partners ] , a private equity firm with offices in New York City and San Diego.

During the course of his career, Dell has invested in numerous technology companies such as HotJobs.com, which was acquired by Yahoo in 2002, Connectify, which was acquired by Kana Software in 2000, Ingenio, which was acquired by AT&T in 2007, and OpenTable. He has founded two companies, Buzzsaw.com, which was acquired by AutoDesk in 2002, and MessageOne, [cite news|url=http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-8662965_ITM|title=Adam Dell's Message One Tries to Tame E-Mail Beast|last=Pletz |first=John |date=2002-03-11|publisher=Austin American-Statesman (Austin, Texas)|accessdate=2008-05-22] which was acquired by Dell, Inc. in 2008. [cite news|url=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/technology/13dell.html?_r=1&oref=slogin|title=Dell to Buy E-Mail Service to Better Compete With Rivals |date=2008-02-13|publisher=New York Times|accessdate=2008-05-22] He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the Santa Fe Institute and is on the board of directors of XO Communications, OpenTable and BagBorrowOrSteal.com.

Mr. Dell teaches a course on Business, Technology and Innovations at Business School at Columbia University [http://www0.gsb.columbia.edu [Columbia Business School ] and is a visiting professor at the University of Texas School of Law [http://www.utexas.edu/law University of Texas School of Law] where he teaches a class on the role of law in innovation. Information about his class can be found at [http://www.adamdell.com www.adamdell.com] .

In 2005, Mr. Dell conceived and wrote the story for the documentary film, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?, which was directed by and stars Morgan Spurlock. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2008 and was purchased by the Weinstein Company for distribution.

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