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investors to give you the best chance to find startup investors.
New York City - San Francisco Bay Area - Palo Alto California - Boulder Colorado, United States - U.S.A.
Education • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Web Security (& Privacy)
Founder and Managing Director at Costanoa Ventures
Founder, Managing Director, Costanoa Venture Capital. Early stage investor. Managing Director, Sutter Hill. 1st Prod Manager, wrote 1st bus. plan at Netscape.
San Francisco Bay Area - Menlo Park California - San Francisco California - New York - Tel Aviv, U.S.A. - Israel
BioTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer • Pharmaceutical (& Medicine)
Partner at NEA
Most Interested In
AI / ML, Microservices and Devops, Cybersecurity, Industrial AI / Automation and Robotics
Not Interested In
eCommerce, Adtech, Healthcare
Principal at @new-enterprise-associates
New York City - New York New York, U.S.A.
PropTech • Real Estate (& Construction)
All PropTech, all the time.
Principal @gotham-ventures
Previously @canaan-partners @aol-ventures @learn-capital
@kauffman-fellows-program @insite Fellow
@columbia-business-school MBA
San Francisco California, U.S.A. - Canada
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Food & Beverage • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Robotics • Aerospace (& Defense) • Investment Management
Founder & Managing Partner at Bee Partners
Most Interested In
We're the earliest investors you'll ever meet, and never pass because you're 'too early'. We embrace the pre-seed. We are hot on Voice, Market Networks, Industrial Tech, NewSpace, and anything Frontier -- wonky enough for us to spend the time to learn and ramp up with you. We seek founders with Deep Market Insights - you know the problem cold and the solution is bursting from you.
Not Interested In
No discovery apps. No FinTech. No consumer (except for marketplaces). No international, please. No Seed Prime, Post Seed, Series A rounds.
San Francisco Bay Area - San Francisco California, U.S.A.
Education • Businesses Solutions • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness)
Co-Founder & Partner at Village Global
Most Interested In
Eager to support founders with disruptive ideas in human and machine learning, including AI and human capital development.
San Francisco California - New York, United States - U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Other • Media • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Food & Beverage • Logistics (& Distribution) • Material Science • Consumer
Managing Partner, Madison Parker Capital
Madison Parker Capital provides liquidity and growth capital to select middle-market enterprises. In addition, the firm seeks to provide attractive exit opportunities for owners and operators of middle-market enterprises and to provide divestiture opportunities for divisions of corporate parent companies that no longer reflect the company's strategic focus. Target investments include management-led buyouts, expansion financings, and recapitalizations. Madison Parker Capital is looking to invest in advanced materials & enabling technologies, business services, consumer products, retail/restaurants and manufacturing companies with $5 to $150 million in revenue, and that operate in well-defined market niches with attractive industry fundamentals. Madison Parker Capital invests in transactions ranging in size from $5 to $75 million.
Tel Aviv, Israel
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Media • BioTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness)
Managing Director at Blumberg Capital
Managing Director at Blumberg Capital
Menlo Park California - Austin - New York - Los Angeles - San Francisco - City - Salt Lake - Boston - Chicago - Sao Paulo - Portland - Seattle - Miami, United States - U.S.A. - Brazil
PropTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Payments • Real Estate (& Construction)
Early Stage Investor and Vintner
General Partner at Montage Ventures
Most Interested In
I'm excited about companies in the FinTech space that leverage technology to create better consumer experiences in these highly regulated industries.
San Francisco Bay Area - Lehi Utah - Menlo Park California - Palo Alto, United States - U.S.A.
Businesses Solutions • Web Security (& Privacy)
Managing Partner at Sorenson Ventures - Recognized by Marketwatch in 2017 as one of the most connected people in Tech
Partner and Co-Founder at Sorenson Ventures
California - Menlo Park - San Francisco investing in founders with disruptive business models that can capitalize on current platforms as well as those founders that are building breakthrough technologies, United States - U.S.A.
Media • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Gaming (& eSports) • Robotics
Partner, co-founder ACME Capital
Partner and Co-founder at ACME Capital
San Francisco Bay Area - New York City - Cambridge Massachusetts - San Francisco California, U.S.A.
Businesses Solutions • Consumer
Founder Collective is a seed-stage venture capital fund, built by a collection of successful entrepreneurs. The firm is headquartered in New York City and Cambridge, but makes investments all over the world. With $50M under management, the fund is focused on East coast investments. Founder Collective is industry agnostic, but the firm prefers companies that have an information technology component.
New York City - Tel Aviv - New York New York - Yafo, Israel - U.S.A.
Media • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing)
OPEN FOR BUSINESS: Investing in early stage start ups in: Retail, eCommerce, Media, Marketing and Advertising Tech.
Managing Director and CEO at Nielsen Innovate
Dov Yarkoni serves as Chief Executive Officer at Nielsen Innovate. He is a Board Member of TapReason and Personalics. He served as Chief Investment Officer at Nielsen Innovate.
New York - Seattle Washington, United States - U.S.A.
Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Robotics
General Partner at IA Ventures
What I look for
Pre-product market fit companies making the world suck less by delivering magical-seeming solutions to important and difficult problems. And appeal to a rational economic buyer.
Founders who are customer domain experts with a formidable strategic understanding of, and an ambitious non-obvious take on, a fast growing market.
Companies benefiting from a massive fundamental trend. Ones where the market will continue to blossom over the next 10+ years. For example:
DataDog and DigitalOcean benefit from the incredible growth of new software developers,
Kepler benefits from the burgeoning space economy & software-defined satellites,
DataRobot benefits from the importance of ML and the desire to democratize it,
Coiled benefits from Python becoming the defacto language of data science/engineering,
Canvas benefits from the move to value-based health care, and
Vectra benefits from the rise of AI, the move to the cloud, and the increasing sophistication of security attacks.
Companies with audacious visions that can deliver an MVP and have many collisions with the market in the 12 months following our initial investment because distribution matters as much as product. Ones that can get to fast-growing, high-margin, scalable, and repeatable revenue within 18 months.
Companies that have a thesis about how they can be a 70%+ gross margin business with an accelerating advantage that enable them to capture the majority of the market and resulting economics.
Founders that display clarity, courage, & urgency (clarity of speech == clarity of thought). Ones who are relentlessly resourceful and can attract the talent to achieve the vision.
How I like to invest
Provide enough runway. 24+ months of capital (thoughts on burn and team size at the seed stage) to build team, product, demonstrate the irrefutable product-market fit needed to raise the next round from a great investor.
Have enough conviction to do the whole round. No lead investor should make founders scavenge to fill out the round.
Value great syndicate members over ownership. The right syndicate can change the complexion of a company. Bottom line is the founder has the final say as to the right raise and right syndicate — keeping in mind it’s in both our interests to have a small focused group of truly helpful investors.
Hold an additional amount in reserve from the outset in case the company needs a bridge to demonstrate product-market fit. This falls under the responsibility of a true lead investor.
Invest in only a handful of companies a year. New investments should never be “options” or “lottery tickets.” Every investment I make has the potential to change the world, be a legendary company, and return our fund many times over.
Keep it simple (e.g. post-money SAFE) and expect that the time from signed term sheet to money in the bank will be less than 2 weeks.
Pay my own legal fees.
How I like to work with companies
Earn the trust of founders. Founders who believed in me enough to let me invest in their company.
Do no harm. The singular focus of a seed-stage company is finding irrefutable product-market fit. Investors can and do help, but most important is to ensure they don’t randomize founders. Founders know their business better than anyone.
Be an accountability partner. This has an outsize effect on success.
Be aligned. Every round of funding is an experiment. It is important to be explicit about, constantly assess, and evolve the hypotheses that are being tested. The company and its investors must be aligned prior to an investment. I’ve found that the best way to achieve this is for the founders and investors to explicitly define and agree upon the hypotheses being tested with this round of funding (here is an example of a hypothesis document ). That is not to say things won’t change, but it’s much easier when both parties are starting from a place of mutual understanding.
How I like to communicate
Be open. Send me anything you think is helpful or useful. When in doubt, send it. I read every email — if I have something of value to say I’ll respond, if not I won’t. The more information we share, the better we can work together.
I’ve found that the best entrepreneurs send out monthly updates.
Be candid. If I’ve done something that you want me to stop doing, keep doing, or start doing — let me know. I’d rather you be honest with me and tell me I screwed up than keep it to yourself. It makes me better and builds trust between us.
I’m your investor. I believe in you. I want you to succeed. I’ve seen it all (ducks!). You don’t need to market to me.
What I hope for
While each company has its own path to success, patterns do stand out. Generally, within 18 months after our initial investment, the best companies have built the right team, have the product in market and have demonstrated conclusive and irrefutable product-market fit (if you are not sure you have it, you likely don’t).
Once a company has demonstrated product-market fit, actively help raise the next round. Work closely with companies to refine the pitch (here is some great advice). Introduce them to the best VCs.
Invest my pro-rata in subsequent rounds of those companies that have demonstrated success. On average we invest somewhere between $6 and $10M over the life of the best companies in our portfolio. And those companies return 10x++ our total investment.
New York - City, United States
Retail (& E-Commerce) • Insurance (& InsurTech)
General Partner at Canaan
invests in startups that are changing the world with code in the FinTech (& Financials services), e-commerce and frontier tech sectors + built Canaan’s investment thesis in insurance and passionate about companies that re-imagine how financial services products are purchased and sold
Barcelona - Berlin, United Kingdom - U.K. - Spain - Germany
PropTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Real Estate (& Construction)
Leading Fintech investments at Draper Esprit
Partner at Molten Ventures
Palo Alto California ; California - U.S.A., U.S.A.
Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • CleanTech • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Developer tools • Future Of Work • Impact • Mobile Apps • DeepTech • Mobile • Online Social
Founder / CEO @wikihow. Co-CEO @ehow (sold to Demand Media). Co-founder at @luminescent ($25 MM VC + acquired) and @bigtray (Sequoia).
San Francisco Bay Area - San Francisco California - Menlo Park California, United States - U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Robotics • Investment Management
Partner at Shasta Ventures
Most Interested In
Emerging Platforms: VR/AR; Voice; Robotics; Connected Hardware, Space
Palo Alto California - Austin Texas - San Francisco Bay Area, United States - U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Local commerce • Online Social
Co-founder and General Partner at Cervin Ventures
Co-Founder and General Partner, Cervin Ventures
Tel Aviv - Savyon, Israel
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Robotics • Mobile • Mobility
General Partner at Vertex Ventures
Most Interested In
Enterprise Software
Not Interested In
Consumer, Hardware