Graham Spencer is a managing partner at GV who co-founded Excite.com as one of the web's first search engines and served as its CTO, giving him rare first-cycle internet operating experience that few current investors possess. Unlike most investors who step away from building, he remains part-time CTO of Synapticure, a GV portfolio company using data and virtual care to improve ALS patient outcomes, and serves as a trustee of the Santa Fe Institute, positioning him at the intersection of complexity science and practical company-building. Graham Spencer is a managing partner at GV who co-founded Excite.com as one of the web's first search engines and served as its CTO, giving him rare first-cycle internet operating experience that few current investors possess. Unlike most investors who step away from building, he remains part-time CTO of Synapticure, a GV portfolio company using data and virtual care to improve ALS patient outcomes, and serves as a trustee of the Santa Fe Institute, positioning him at the intersection of complexity science and practical company-building.