Scott Lenet is a founder and Managing Director of DFJ Frontier, a DFJ Network partner fund and early stage venture capital firm focused on west coast media and information services investments.

Based in Los Angeles, he leads fund management, fundraising and portfolio management for Frontier. Scott began his venture capital career in 1992 with Geocapital Partners, where his successful investments included public companies Netcom and Logic Works. He also has entrepreneurial experience in the technology industry as the founder and CEO of SmartFrog.com, acquired by Cybergold in 1999, and in product marketing at Trilogy Software. In addition to his board roles as a Director for Frontier portfolio companies, Scott serves on the emeritus board of the Sacramento Philharmonic and the advisory board of the Entrepreneurship Center at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, where he was an adjunct professor from 2003 to 2010. Scott began teaching entrepreneurship and venture capital at the University of Southern California in 2010. He received his MBA in Entrepreneurial Management from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an AB in Comparative Literature from Princeton University.