Jim Long

Jim Long is a Partner in Gabriel Venture Partners. Jim Long joined Gabriel as a Venture Partner in early 2007， and drives new investments as well as advises existing Gabriel portfolio companies. Jim has over 25 years experience as a founder， CEO， and investor building successful businesses in the technology industry， as well as developing new technologies and patents for the Internet and PC environments and advising many startups and venture capital firms. After doing software and product marketing at Hewlett Packard and getting his MBA， Jim joined Fred Adler Ventures in 1982. In his four years at the firm Jim was acting CEO at several turnarounds and worked with veteran VCs Jim Swartz and Arthur Patterson prior to them founding Accel Partners. Over the years， Jim has also done projects with venture firms Accel Partners， Crosspoint Venture Partners， IT-Farm （Japan）， and Sequoia Capital. Jim’s venture experience also includes interim CEO jobs and “turn-arounds” at companies such as Linkware （acquired by Ungermann-Bass）. As an angel advisor/investor， Jim has been involved with several leading startups， including TiMetra （acquired by Alcatel）， Manageware （acquired by Computer Associates）， Ruckus Wireless （WiFi video leader）， Ready Systems （acquired by Mentor）， and Jibe Networks （acquired by Citrix）.

Jim has a wide depth and breadth of experience in the technology industry， and focuses on investments in emerging cleantech， software， and consumer Internet companies， identifying disruptive business models with a capital efficient focus. He has helped direct investments at Gabriel in next-generation biofuels production， social software for the enterprise market， and innovative gardening technology. Before joining Gabriel， Jim was a serial entrepreneur for most of the last 20 years. Most recently， Jim was CEO of RioPort， a leading music application service provider RioPort， powered MTV.com， Best-Buy.com， Yahoo， HP， Nike.com， and Microsoft， was the first Internet company to license digital songs for resale from a