Joe Horowitz is the managing general partner of Icon Ventures, a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California. He is veteran of the venture capital industry and in 2003 was instrumental in launching Icon with its current team. Joe’s prior venture capital experience includes a 10-year tenure at U.S. Venture Partners (USVP) from 1982 to 1992 where the first deal that he worked on was the seed financing of Sun Microsystems. Icon Ventures investments include such iconic, market-leading companies such as Aster Data, FireEye, 41st Parameter, Infinera, MoPub, Palo Alto Networks, Proofpoint and TelaDoc.