In Sik Rhee co-founded two major companies that sold for a combined $1.8 billion (Kiva Software to Netscape and Opsware to HP) before becoming a venture investor at Vertex Ventures, giving him rare experience as both a successful founder and professional investor. He focuses specifically on enterprise infrastructure and data platforms, backing founders who have personally experienced the problems they're solving and emphasizing that developers, not traditional IT administrators, now drive most technology purchasing decisions. In Sik Rhee co-founded two major companies that sold for a combined $1.8 billion (Kiva Software to Netscape and Opsware to HP) before becoming a venture investor at Vertex Ventures, giving him rare experience as both a successful founder and professional investor. He focuses specifically on enterprise infrastructure and data platforms, backing founders who have personally experienced the problems they're solving and emphasizing that developers, not traditional IT administrators, now drive most technology purchasing decisions.