Reed Sturtevant

Reed Sturtevant's career spans 40 years in venture capital and the software industry and includes company formation, technology strategy, engineering management, product management, and software development. Reed is a General Partner at The Engine, investing into "tough tech" science based startups, and Managing Director at Project 11 Ventures. Reed was a Managing Director of Techstars Boston and the founding director of Microsoft Startup Labs in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Prior to Microsoft, he was Chief Technology Officer of EONS, Inc. Before EONS he served as a Managing Director and Vice President of Technology for Idealab, Boston, which founded several companies including Picasa and Compete. Prior to Idealab, Reed co- founded Radnet and RadioAMP.

He was architect and designer of Freelance Graphics, a best selling presentation package acquired by Lotus Development. Reed was an innovative force at Lotus where he served as a key member of the senior technical staff and launched many products including InterNotes, Lotus' first web product.

Personal / Awards

Micro-trustee and co-founder of The Awesome Foundation, Mentor at TechStars Boston.

US Patents 8,811,775 "Visualizing digital images on a map", 8,705,897 "Method and apparatus for archiving and visualizing digital images", 8,631,080 "Email characterization", 8,473,517 "Privacy-sensitive cooperative location naming", 7,970,240 "Method and apparatus for archiving and visualizing digital images", 7,035,825 "Managing Relationships of Parties Interacting on a Network"

Co-founder of AXLE, Association of ex-Lotus Employees, a business networking group with 3000 members

Recipient of PC Magazine Technical Excellence Award, recognized as creator of Freelance Graphics

2nd place, 1976 MIT Luis de Florez Award Competition. The MIT Mechanical Engineering Luis de Florez Awards are granted to students for "Outstanding Ingenuity and Creative Judgment" in areas that utilize mechanical engineering knowledge or practice.