Burge Jamieson

Burgess Jamieson is a co-founder of Sigma Partners. He has a highly successful record of venture capital investing over the past 25 years, spanning several venture capital and public equity market cycles. He began making personal venture capital investments in 1968. In 1971, when it was founded, he became a partner of WestVen Management, the General Partner of Western Investment Associates, a venture capital affiliate of BankAmerica Corp. In 1973, he was a co-founding general partner of Institutional Venture Associates (IVS), a private venture capital investment partnership.

In 1980 he formed Jamieson & Co. and resumed making a high career in the minicomputer and electronics industry, where he held technical and management positions with Adage, Inc., Honeywell, Inc., Computer Control Company, Electronic Memories and Magnetics Corp., and Sycor, Inc. He has been an officer and director of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and attended the Graduate School of Business Administration at Northeastern University. He is a member of the M.I.T. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Visiting Committee. He has been responsible for Sigma's investments in Bytex Corporation, FileNet, Logic Modeling, Micro Linear, Octel Communications, Poet Software Corporation, R2 Technology and Tigon Corporation.