Primary Job Title Manager, Cove Fund II Primary Organization Cove Fund
Location Orange, California, United States Regions Greater Los Angeles Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Dr. Paul Voois is a Fund Manager with Cove Fund (www.covefund.com), an early-stage venture fund that invests in Southern California startups in both technology and life sciences. He is also a member of Tech Coast Angels, one of the largest and most active angel investment organizations in the country. As an entrepreneur, Dr. Voois established a
track record of building valuable companies with unique, defensible technology in the networking, communications and software industries. In 2002 he co-founded ClariPhy Communications, a venture-backed supplier of optical networking semiconductors that was acquired by Inphi (now Marvell Semiconductor) for $300M in 2016 and now operates as Marvell’s Coherent DSP business unit. He served as ClariPhy’s CEO until 2011 and as Chief Strategy Officer until its acquisition. Prior to founding ClariPhy, he served as CEO of 8x8 (NASDAQ:EGHT), a market leader in voice and video over IP technology. Dr. Voois received an MS and PhD from Stanford and a BS (summa cum laude) from Penn State, all in electrical engineering. He is an inventor on 36 issued United States patents.
