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Investment Team
Jan Bouten
Venture Partner
Jan joined The Aurora Funds in 2003 as part of the
investment team and focuses on Information Technology.
He came to Aurora with strong operating experience in
the high tech industry. At Aurora, Jan spends his time
sourcing and evaluating new investment opportunities,
and he also gives strategic and marketing support to
existing portfolio companies. He is on the Board of
Nextreme and Digitalsmiths, and acts as an observer
for Recordant, Centice and WorldCell. In addition, Jan
serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor at Duke’s
Pratt School of Engineering and frequently speaks at
events at Duke, UNC and NC State.
Prior to business school, Jan worked in sales
engineering and international business development at
Larscom, and was part of the core team that
successfully built the European presence of this
telecommunication equipment manufacturer. He gained
hands-on experience at a startup running technical
support for K-NET R&D, a video conferencing
manufacturer. Prior to that, he began his career as a
support engineer and later as a marketing engineer at
Madge Networks, a leading enterprise networking
manufacturer. During his time as an undergraduate
student, Jan founded and ran a software and hardware
engineering company.
Jan holds a BS in Software Engineering from Fontys
University in Holland, an MSc in Human-Computer
Systems focusing on Artificial Intelligence from
DeMontfort University in the UK, and an MBA from Duke
University's Fuqua School of Business, where he
received the Dean’s Recognition Award for
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