Paul Holland is a general partner at Foundation Capital. He invests in the IT, consumer, and digital energy sectors and is on the boards of CalStar Products, Dreambox Learning, InsideView, Simply Hired, and SpoonRocket. Prior to joining Foundation Capital, he worked at -- and helped take public -- two software startups, Kana Communications and Pure Software. He began his career in Silicon Valley at the Stanford Research Institute, now known as SRI International.