Background
Kopelman was born in Great Neck, New York, the son of Carol and Doctor Richard Kopelman. His father was a professor at Baruch College and his mother a real estate broker.
Entrepreneur Venture capitalist Philanthropist
Kopelman was born in Great Neck, New York, the son of Carol and Doctor Richard Kopelman. His father was a professor at Baruch College and his mother a real estate broker.
He attended the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
In 2000, Kopelman sold Half.com to EBay. In 1992, during his sophomore year, Kopelman co-founded Infonautics Corporation, in Wayne, Pennsylvania. In 1996, Infonautics went public on the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotation stock exchange.
Kopelman left Infonautics in 1999 to found Half.com.
After selling Half.com to eBay, Kopelman remained with eBay for three years. In 2004, Josh co-founded TurnTide an anti-spam technology company that was acquired by Symantec.
In 1995, Josh married Rena Cohen, an attorney. In 2002, the Kopelman Foundation funded a project to digitize and host the complete text of the Jewish Encyclopedia online.
Josh is an inventor on sixteen United States. Patents for his work in Internet technology.
Josh was ranked 4th on Forbes 2015 Midas List of the top 100 tech investors —and has been named as one of the top ten ‘angel investors’ in the United States by Newsweek magazine, one of "Technical"s New Kingmakers" by Business 2.0 magazine and a "Rising Venture capital Star" by Fortune magazine. Kopelman is currently Managing Director of First Round Capital, a seed-stage venture fund. He is an investor, director and advisor to a variety of businesses, most in the software and Internet domain, including OnDeck Capital, Flatiron Health, Aster Data Systems, Knewton, Gigya, IronPort, Mint.com, Monetate, LinkedIn, ModCloth, AppNexus, BankSimple, Swipely, Wanelo, OpenX, LiveOps, Clover Health and Discourse.
In 2007, Kopelman helped to coin the phrase the Implicit Web to better describe the Semantic Web.
