Andrew S. Rappaport

Rappaport and his wife founded the Minnesota Street Project in 2016, an arts complex in the Dogpatch neighborhood of San Francisco.

In 1984, he founded a strategic consulting firm in Boston, the Technology Research Group (TRG).

The Computerless Computer Company, which he wrote together with Shmuel Halevi, won the McKinsey award for Harvard Business Review article of the year in 1991.

Prior to joining August Capital, he was involved in more than a dozen venture capital-backed start-ups since 1985 including Actel, Atheros Communications, Genoa Corp, MMC networks, Silicon Architects (acquired by Synopsys), Silicon Image, Viewlogic, and Transmeta.

Andy Rappaport joined August Capital in 1996, which prompted his family's moved to California.

[4][5] His expertise is in the areas of technology and finance related to open-source software, broadband communications, semiconductors, and computer systems.

Rappaport (left) and Glenn L. Smith at SXSW 2005 . Photo by Jon Lebkowsky