Carl Stjernfeldt, General Partner, Castile Ventures
Carl Stjernfeldt is a General Partner at Castile Ventures. Carl Stjernfeldt has an investment focus on wired and wireless communications technologies and services, on advanced mobility solutions that provide secure high quality access to content and applications, and on next generation video delivery capabilities.
Prior to Castile, Mr. Stjernfeldt was a partner at Battery Ventures where he spent seven years investing in leading IT companies. He currently serves or participates on the boards of Agito Networks, Funambol, and PermissionTV. He has served on the boards of Arbor Networks, Broadbus Technologies (acquired by Motorola), Cedar Point Communications, and Tejas Networks, and was a board observer of Optium (NASDAQ: OPTM, acquired by Finisar).
Prior to Battery Ventures, Mr. Stjernfeldt was a client partner and project manager for Cambridge Technology Partners, delivering large mission-critical system implementations for Fortune 100 clients. Mr. Stjernfeldt started his career as an engineer at Summa Four, developing telecommunications solutions for domestic and international service providers, later rising to engineering management before starting an application development department.
Mr. Stjernfeldt holds a dual MS in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm and Northeastern University in Boston, and an MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management where he now teaches a course in entrepreneurial finance.
Mr. Stjernfeldt serves as a Catalyst for the Deshpande Center at MIT, is a Charter Member with TiE, judges MIT's 100K competition, is on the University of Michigan's Technology Transfer National Advisory Board, and serves on the Boards of the New England Venture Capital Association and the Massachusetts Network Communications Council. |
