Petra Franklin is a cofounder and Managing Director of Vault Capital
and a General Partner of Vault Capital II. Prior to launching Vault,
Petra 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 a
member of the board of the Science Technology Center for Information
Technology of the National Science Foundation and 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. She was a founding member of Innovation & Science,
Agile, Alpha Arts, and Seniors Making Art. Petra attended Harvard
University and Bennington College, where she received her undergraduate
degree. She also attended Stanford University and the University of
Washington.