Career
He has three daughters, Leah, Sara and Rebecca. Andy Rappaport joined August Capital in 1996. His expertise is in the areas of technology and finance related to open-source software, broadband communications, semiconductors, and computer systems
He has served on more than 30 public and private company boards.
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 Corporation, MMC networks, Silicon Architects (acquired by Synopsys), Silicon Image, Viewlogic, and Transmeta. Foreign over thirteen years he was the president of the Technology Research Group (TRG), a Boston-based strategy consulting firm he founded in 1984.
Before starting TRG, Andy was Senior Editor of EDN Magazine. In the early 1970s Andy attended Princeton University, but dropped out in the second year.
He also holds a United States patent.
He has lectured and written on the economics of changing technology. Andy is a guitarist, composer and guitar collector. One of the commercial ventures they sponsor is Huffington Post.
They also fund the Participatory Culture Foundation, an open source video based browser developer.