Magdalena Yesil
Entrepreneur and venture capitalist
Magdalena Yesil is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and venture capitalist who was the first investor in Salesforce. She is the author of Power Up.
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About Magdalena Yesil
Yesil began her investing career at US Venture Partners, then became the first investor and a founding board member at Salesforce. She also founded Broadway Angels, a group of female angel investors. As an entrepreneur, she cofounded the technology companies UUnet, CyberCash and MarketPay. Her companies worked on commercializing internet access, e-commerce infrastructure and electronic payments. She later founded Informed, an AI-based software company serving the financial services industry, and has served on the boards of SoFi, Smartsheet and Zuora. Her book in our catalog is Power Up.