Primary Job Title Founder & General Partner Primary Organization 
Azure Capital Partners
Location San Francisco, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
Investor Type
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Paul Weinstein is a founding General Partner of Azure with 30 years of investment experience across numerous sectors of technology. Paul’s primary investment focus is on cloud, enterprise software, analytics, AI/ML technologies, data center and mobility solutions. Paul is currently representing Azure on the boards of Convercent, Decision
Next, NetFortiris, K2 Software, SwitchFly, Unitas Global and Virtual Instruments. Other investments include ATACAMA, Ginkgo Bioworks, IrisVR and Magic Cube.
Paul has previously served on the boards of Broadlight (acquired by Broadcom), World Wide Packets (acquired by Ciena) and Vapps (acquired by Citrix) and represented Azure on its investments in Prediction.IO (acquired by SalesForce) and Tutum (acquired by Docker).
Prior to Azure, Paul was a Managing Director and communications equipment analyst covering the Data Communications and Network Equipment sectors at Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB) in San Francisco. Prior to CSFB, Paul was a Managing Director and held a substantially similar position with Deutsche Bank Securities in San Francisco. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Paul was a Managing Director and held a substantially similar position with Paine Webber in New York and San Francisco. Prior to PaineWebber, Paul was a Senior Vice President and equity research analyst at Kidder Peabody in New York and Boston, where he was responsible for the Data Communications and Data Storage sectors. For four consecutive years (1995-1999), Paul was a top ranked analyst in the Institutional Investor and Greenwich Associates surveys.
Paul has provided strategic and investment advice on numerous communications equipment and data storage companies. Notable firms included; 3Com, Alantec Networks (acquired by Fore Systems), Aspect Telecommunications, Bay Networks (acquired by Nortel), Broadcom, Cabletron, CacheFlow (name changed to Blue Coat), Chipcom (acquired by 3Com), Cisco Systems, Conner Peripherals (acquired by Seagate), Efficient Networks (acquired by Siemens), EMC Corporation (acquired By Dell), Fore Systems (acquired by GEC), Juniper, Komag Corporation, Latitude Communications (acquired by Cisco), Maxtor Corporation, MMC Networks (acquired by AMCC), Newbridge Networks (acquired by Alcatel), Nortel Networks, Packet Engines (acquired by Alcatel), Quantum Corporation, Read-Rite Corporation, Seagate, SynOptics, WellFleet (acquired by SynOptics) and Xylan (acquired by Alcatel).
