About

Serial entrepreneur and investor. T/Maker Co. in the 80’s, iPrint.com in the 90’s, MessageCast in the 00’s, and IMSI/Design in the 10’s. Cut me open and a product guy spills out.  That’s the important stuff… a few more details below.

Also see Farros Capital website.

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Royal Farros has spent over two decades as a technology entrepreneur and investor.

Royal is Managing Director of Farros Capital and recently was interim CEO and Chairman of portfolio company IMSI/Design, acquired by an investment group out of Mentor Graphics.

Before Farros Capital, Royal co-founded and was CEO of MessageCast, Inc., sold to Microsoft (NASD:MSFT) in 2005; founded and was CEO of iPrint.com, taken public in 2000 (NASD:IPRT); was an Officer and General Manager at Deluxe Corporation (NYSE:DLX); and was Chairman and EVP of T/Maker Company (sold to Deluxe Corporation in 1994).

A San Jose Business Journal Entrepreneur of the Year award winner and previously named one of Smart Computing’s Top 25 Internet Executives, Royal has been widely interviewed and quoted, has appeared numerous times on CNBC and other financial and high tech venues, has guest lectured at both Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Law School, and holds multiple software and process patents.

Royal received his B.S. and M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.

[See also Farros Capital website.]