Cameron Teitelman

I care deeply about empowering people to maximize their life long impact. The world would be a happier, safer place with more flying cars, diseases cured and people smiling if everyone had found their calling and had the support they needed to succeed.

As the current founder and chairman (former CEO of 7 years) of StartX, I try to help entrepreneurs with the above. StartX is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that works to accelerate startup founder’s abilities to build impactful companies by facilitating skill development as well as access to people and resources in a structured way that can help founder’s build companies faster and more effectively. I founded StartX as an undergraduate at Stanford and whew did I make a lot of mistakes. StartX is focused on the Stanford entrepreneurial population. We have supported over 700 companies who have created over 5000 jobs and raised over $8B. While I was there I founded and ran an extremely founder friendly fund called the Stanford-StartX Fund, which has been in operation since October 2013 and has made over 650 investments with more than $190M capital deployed. This is an uncapped, evergreen fund.

On a personal level, I completed the Kauffman Fellows program in 2012. Before StartX, I did all sorts of things: founded 2 companies, started a PE firm, wrestled in college, acted professional on a local and national level (broadway) and worked on tons of mini companies growing up, from ebay businesses to lemonade stands.

In college, I was on the varsity wrestling team at Stanford and studied MS&E and CS. As a freshman, I founded the Essential Card(EC), a campus based discount service, to solve my frustration with the local retail/food scene around palo alto. We got to decent scale with ¼ of Stanford students purchasing the product and were in the process of scaling to 400 universities, but I got pulled away with my excitement for StartX and went a different direction. While working on the EC, I was introduced me to a Stanford Sloan MBA and thus was started Accelon Capital. Accelon raised $80M from three GSB profs and we ended up buying a cloud-based server company. I then took a quick detour in private equity and veered quickly back into tech and entrepreneurship.

As a kid, I got involved in professional acting (2 years old). At the age of 10, I struck some serious luck and got the role of Gavroche in the National Broadway production of Les Miserables.