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Axel Bichara joined Atlas Venture in 1993 and focuses on IT investments from the Boston office. Before coming to Atlas Venture, he was vice president of product development at Premise, a venture-backed software company which he co-founded in 1987. Premise was acquired by Computervision in 1991. Axel was lead investor in SolidWorks, a mechanical design automation software company that was acquired in 1997 by Dassault Systemes. Axel and Atlas Venture also participated as a first round lead investor in SpeechWorks. As a board member, Axel helped build the company through an IPO in 2000, and its later sale to ScanSoft in 2003. Between 1997 and 1999 Axel spent 18 months in Munich to build up Atlas Venture's German activities. Axel holds an MBA from INSEAD, an MS from both MIT and Technical University in Berlin. | 