Cameron Teitelman

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

I love helping founders with: Team Dynamics, Management, Fundraising, Hiring, firing, enterprise sales, Leadership, M&A, and being a trusted sounding board.

I’ve helped companies raise over $40 billion to date, mainly seed through Series A, as well as coach over 700 startups.

As the founder and chairman (former CEO of 8 years) of StartX, I try to help entrepreneurs with the above.

I also enjoy helping innovation ecosystems, which more or less means helping build subcultures in different countries that facilitate the right norms and networks to increase the probability of success of their startups

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 trusted 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 the highest potential founders who are here to make a huge impact, starting with the Stanford community, then the University community, then global ecosystems.

We have supported over 1300 companies who have are collectively worth over $114B

We run an extremely founder friendly venture fund called the Stanford-StartX Fund, which has been in operation since October 2013 and has made over 750 investments with more than $190M capital deployed.

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 D1 at Stanford, 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.