Mike Farmwald

Mike Farmwald is a serial entrepreneur with one of the most successful track records in Silicon Valley. As one half of the investing team behind Skymoon Ventures, Mike sits on the boards of companies such as Rambus and Matrix Semiconductor. To date, he has founded six companies, five of which were financed in part by Benchmark Capital, where he was a venture partner. Mike is best known for founding Rambus, where he served as vice president and chief scientist, overseeing the development of several key innovations, including the 1992 introduction of the world's first 4 Mbit RDRAM. Other companies Mike has founded include Matrix Semiconductor, Chromatic Research (acquired by ATI), Epigram (acquired by Broadcom), and FTL(merged with MIPS). Mike holds a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Purdue University and a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University.