Larry Augustin

Managing Director

About

Larry Augustin is an entrepreneur, angel investor, and advisor to technology companies. Previously, Larry was the Vice President for Applications at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he was responsible for the applications services businesses including Contact Center (Connect, Wisdom, Profiles, and Tasks), Marketing Automation (Pinpoint), Productivity and No-code Applications (Honeycode, Chime, WorkDocs, WorkMail, Alexa For Business), Communication Developer Services (Chime SDK, Simple Email Service (SES), Pinpoint SMS APIs, Chime Voice Connector, WorkDocs SDK), and End User Computing/Desktop and Application Virtualization (WorkSpaces, AppStream, and WorkLink). Prior to AWS, Larry was CEO and Chairman of SugarCRM. Under his leadership, SugarCRM grew from $10M in annual revenue and a $15M loss to $100M in revenue and $7.5M in EBITDA. Accel-KKR acquired SugarCRM in August 2018. Larry has invested and served on the boards of numerous startups, including GitLab (IPO, GTLB), MindTouch (acquired by NICE), Pentaho (acquired by Hitachi Data Systems), Hyperic (acquired by VMWare), JBoss (acquired by Red Hat Software), XenSource (acquired by Citrix), Appcelerator (acquired by Axway), DNN (acquired by ESW Capital), VA Linux (IPO, LNUX), and the nonprofit industry consortium The Linux Foundation. One of the group who coined the term Open Source, Larry has written and spoken extensively on Open Source worldwide. Worth Magazine named him to their list of the Top 50 CEOs in 2000. Previously he served as interim CEO of Medsphere. From September 2002 to December 2004, he was a Venture Partner at Azure Capital Partners, where he helped lead Azure's investments in Zend and Medsphere. In 1993 he founded VA Linux (now SourceForge, NASDAQ:LNUX), where he served as CEO until August 2002 and led the company through an IPO in December 1999. The VA Linux IPO still holds the record for largest first day gain ever in an IPO of almost 900%. In November 1999 he launched SourceForge.net, the world's largest Open Source software development community. Also at VA Linux, he acquired Andover.net, merging SourceForge.net, Linux.com, Slashdot, and other well-known Open Source Internet sites to form the Open Source Development Network (OSDN). Larry holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Stanford University, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Notre Dame.

Country

United States

City

San Francisco Bay Area

Industry

Computer Software

Skill

Fundraising, Open Source Licensing, Start-ups, Business Development, Venture Capital, CRM, Cloud Computing, Linux, Mobile Devices, Strategy, Open Source, Entrepreneurship, Leadership, Online Marketing, Enterprise Software, Marketing Strategy, Web Applications, Business Alliances, Web Development, Strategic Partnerships

Experience

Managing Director

Augustin Ventures

2005-10 - Present · 21 yrs

Los Altos, California, United States

VP Applications

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

2019-7 - 2021-8 · 2 yrs 2 mos

Seattle, Washington, United States

Vice President at AWS responsible for the applications services businesses including Contact Center (Connect, Wisdom, Profiles, and Tasks), Marketing Automation (Pinpoint), Productivity and No-code Applications (Honeycode, Chime, WorkDocs, WorkMail, and Alexa For Business), Communication Developer Services (Chime SDK, Simple Email Service (SES), Pinpoint SMS APIs, Chime Voice Connector, and WorkDocs SDK), and End User Computing/Desktop and Application Virtualization (WorkSpaces, AppStream, and WorkLink).

CEO

SugarCRM

2009-5 - 2019-2 · 9 yrs 10 mos

SugarCRM makes CRM Simple. As the world's leading provider of open source customer relationship management (CRM) software, SugarCRM applications have been downloaded more than seven million times and currently serve over 600,000 end users in 80 languages. Over 6,000 customers have chosen SugarCRM's On-Site and Cloud Computing services over proprietary alternatives. SugarCRM has been recognized for its customer success and product innovation by CRM Magazine, InfoWorld, Customer Interaction Solutions and Intelligent Enterprise.

Member of the Board of Directors

DNN Corp.

2008-10 - 2017-8 · 8 yrs 11 mos

DotNetNuke Corp. is the steward of the DotNetNuke open source project, the most widely adopted Web Content Management Platform for building web sites and web applications on Microsoft .NET. Organizations use DotNetNuke to quickly develop and deploy interactive and dynamic web sites, intranets, extranets and web applications. The DotNetNuke platform is available in a free Community and subscription-based Professional and Enterprise Editions with an Elite Support option. DotNetNuke Corp. also operates Snowcovered.com where users purchase third party software apps for the platform. Founded in 2006 and funded by Sierra Ventures, August Capital and Pelion Venture Partners, DotNetNuke Corp. is headquartered in San Mateo, Calif. For additional information, visit www.dotnetnuke.com.

Member of the Board of Directors

Appcelerator

2008-11 - 2016-1 · 7 yrs 3 mos

Appcelerator enables web developers, ad agencies, ISVs, and enterprises to take advantage of the explosive growth in mobile, desktop, and iPad applications. The company’s flagship offering, Titanium, is the only open source platform to enable cross-platform development, from a single codebase, at web development speed for these three platforms. Appcelerator’s customers can leverage their exiting skills and open, industry standard technologies to decrease time-to-market and development costs, increasing customer adoption and revenues, and enjoying greater flexibility and control. For more information, please visit www.appcelerator.com.