Petra Franklin

Ms. Petra Franklin is Co-Founder & Managing Director at Vault Capital.
Ms. Franklin co-founded the venture capital company in 1998 with Irwin Treiger and William Justen.
Prior to Vault Capital, she worked with start-ups in a management or director capacity and came to that from the data networking and wireless communications field including positions with US West Wireless, AT&T, MFS, UUNET, IBM, WorldCom, and as Associate Producer for CBS in New York City.
She is on the board of the National Science Foundation's Science Technology Center for Information Technology, a member of the National Venture Capital Association, the Community Development Roundtable, Seraph Capital Partners, MIT Enterprise Forum, the Alliance of Angels, Washington Software Association, FWE, WWFC, the Hilltop Group, and WIT, and was a founding member of Innovation & Science, Agile, Alpha Arts, Seniors Making Art and the Women's Bioethics Project.
Ms. Franklin attended Harvard University and Bennington College, where she received her undergraduate degree.
She also attended Stanford University and the University of Washington.