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San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - South Korea
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Hospitality (& Events) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Entertainment (& Sports) • Gaming (& eSports) • Developer tools • Future Of Work • Online Social • Woman Focused
Most Interested In
Active in fintech, e-sports, marketplaces, cross-border. But always prefer to invest in people who make me become aware about large problems.
Not Interested In
Businesses that are capital intensive prior to launch and especially businesses with long feedback loop cycles (pure hardware, etc.)
Partner at @500startups and heading up our $15M Korea specific fund, 500 Kimchi. Started a couple co's (bootstrapped & venture). Big fan of #ELaMF and #JFDI.
Tel Aviv - San Francisco Bay Area - Boston - Waltham - Massachusetts, U.S.A. - Israel
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Developer tools • Online Social
General Partner at CRV
Most Interested In
AI as applied to the real-world: autonomous vehicles, cyber security, demand forecasting, etc. Also any SaaS application (B2B only) Focused on Seed and A's only
Not Interested In
Not interested in Consumer software, FinTech, HC IT, Bio. Not pursuing later stage deals
Menlo Park - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Logistics (& Distribution) • Robotics
Partner at Menlo Ventures -
Executive/Venture Investor @renren-com • Co-Founder @appsurdity & @lemon-1 • Worked at @chegg, @bling-nation, @etrade • Studied at @santa-clara-university
San Francisco Bay Area - Austin - Boulder - Boston - Los Angeles - New York - Miami - Florida, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • Advertising • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Future Of Work • Messaging • Payments • Woman Focused
Co-Founder - Zelkova Ventures
Co-Founder - Zelkova Ventures & Uproot Wines
Most Interested In
We invest in early stage B2B SaaS. Areas we focus on include Marketing, Communications, Security, FinTech, Customer Service.
Early stage venture investor focused on technology around SaaS, Ecommerce and Social Media.
Chicago - Illinois, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Woman Focused
General Partner @ Jump Capital
Enpterprise Software Investor
VC: @jump-capital @lightbank; @lehman-brothers , @barclays-capital , Ops: @groupon ; Sweat: @benchprep ; Compilers @inria; Engineering @Cornell, MBA @booth
Mountain View - Malaysia, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Media • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Advertising • Developer tools • Real Estate (& Construction)
Khailee Ng is the Co-Founder and serves as a Chief Executive Officer at SAYS. He serves as Managing Partner at 500 Startups. Previously, he served as Director at iMoney Group. He is also the co-founder of GroupsMore (acquired by Groupon), SAYS.com, a Social News Network in Southeast Asia.
Palo Alto - Boulder - Colorado, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • AgroTech • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Developer tools • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Woman Focused
Most Interested In
We focus more on the insight of the founders than our insights, so we're most excited to learn how you think the world should be different and how we can help you make that change happen.
Not Interested In
Startups without a connection to The Rockies and The North regions of the US.
Palo Alto - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A. - U.K. - South Korea - Japan
PropTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • IoT (& Wearables) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Developer tools • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
CEO and Founding Partner at 500 Startups
Palo Alto - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Sales (& Marketing) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Advertising • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Robotics • Woman Focused
Most Interested In
I'm an early-stage technology B2B venture capital investor, investing in enterprise-facing tech startups driving transformation in the Future of Work in and across industry verticals with innovative new business models and typically a unique combination of technology and people. Industry interests include logistics, food, transportation, e-commerce, education, healthcare, oil &gas and more. Geographic focus single or hybrid-located startups across N. America.
Not Interested In
Am not currently investing in semiconductor or capital-intensive hardware startups, and not focused on consumer
Co-Founder and General Partner of Moment Ventures, seed & early stage VC firm in Palo Alto. We investing in startups building the Infrastructure of Everything.
San Francisco Bay Area - Menlo Park - California, U.S.A. - Global: U.S.A., Australia, Canada, Germany, U.K., Israel, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, Malta, Iceland
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Web Security (& Privacy) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools
Managing Partner at GGV Capital
Managing Partner at GGV Capital
New York - Seattle - San Francisco Bay Area - Palo Alto - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Consumer
Most Interested In
Consumer, Social, Marketplaces, Platforms, and the like. Really, happy to learn and help with anything interesting.
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Developer tools • Online Social • Consumer
Founder Root Ventures. Early Stage Venture. Ex-CTO turned Hardware Hacker Investor. CS @columbia-university-1 Always searching espresso || food || beer
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Developer tools • Consumer
Early Stage VC @ Audacious Ventures
Most Interested In
SaaS, B2B marketplaces, professional communities/LinkedIn for vertical markets, Prosumer
Not Interested In
Hardware
Investor at @lightspeed-venture-partners
San Francisco Bay Area - Palo Alto - California, U.S.A. - Sweden
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Developer tools • Future Of Work • Logistics (& Distribution) • Material Science • Online Social
Leading teams launching new mobile apps and brands
Most Interested In
I invest in a broad range of companies, from consumer, to enterprise, to fintech, to healthtech, and hardtech as well. At the very core my thesis is to invest in exceptional founders tackling expansive markets. If that's what you're building, I'd love to hear from you!
Not Interested In
Cold pizza
Andy Chen serves as Chief Executive Officer at Aspiro and Preview Networks. He serves as Board Member at Falcon Social. Andy Chen served as the Chief Executive Officer at Wimp Music. He is a venture partner at Vectr Ventures. He served as Chairman at VideofyMe.
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Businesses Solutions • Developer tools • Consumer
Matt Cohler serves as General Partner at Benchmark Capital. He also serves as the Board Observer at Greenhouse Software. He has several years of experience working with great entrepreneurs to build lasting consumer Internet companies, having served in senior management roles at Facebook and LinkedIn. Most recently, he served as vice president of product management at Facebook, overseeing the company's product development organizations. Matt joined Facebook in early 2005 as one of the first five employees hired by the company's founders and its first external executive hire, and he's been credited with helping drive Facebook's strategy, organizational growth and product direction. Previously, Matt served as vice president and general manager at LinkedIn, where he was a member of the company's founding team. Before LinkedIn, he was a consultant in McKinsey & Company's Silicon Valley office and worked in Beijing for AsiaInfo, the telecom solutions provider that built China's Internet infrastructure, prior to the company's initial public offering. His investments are 1stdibs, Asana, Baixing, CouchSurfing, Domo, Dropbox, Edmodo, Instagram, Quora, Peixe Urbano, ResearchGate, and Zendesk. He is also a special advisor at Facebook, board of governors at San Francisco Symphony. He holds a B.A. with honors and distinction from Yale University. He is the Board Member at Zendex.
New York, U.S.A.
Hospitality (& Events) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Developer tools • Logistics (& Distribution) • Messaging • Robotics • LegalTech
Happiness and Health
Palo Alto - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Mobility
Most Interested In
Fun SaaS, particularly with a defensible barrier to entry that is technical. Some infrastructure software & hardware. IoT for consumers and enterprises.
Not Interested In
We don't make consumer (B2C) or crypto investments, sorry.
Jonathan Heiliger serves as Partner at Vertex Ventures US. He is a Board Member at LaunchDarkly. Most recently, he was a General Partner with North Bridge Venture Partners, from April 2012 to November 2014. During his tenure, he started the seed practice and led investments in Lytro, Periscope.io, Quora, and Ravel Law. Prior to NBVP, Jonathan worked at Facebook, where he led global infrastructure, site architecture and internal systems as VP Infrastructure & Technical Operations, from 2007 until 2011. During that time Facebook grew from 35 million to over 800 million users. Before that, Jonathan held executive engineering roles at Wal-Mart and Danger (acquired by Microsoft). He also spent several years as Chief Operating Officer for Loudcloud (which became Opsware and was later acquired by HP). Earlier in his career, Jonathan co-founded and was CTO of GlobalCenter, and later founded Global Crossing's venture capital group. Jonathan currently serves on the board of directors of DuPont Fabros (DFT), Jive Software (JIVE), and Webmonsters. He also co-founded Coolan and served as an Advisor.
New York - San Francisco Bay Area - Toronto (Ontario), U.S.A. - Canada
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Developer tools • Human Resources • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Woman Focused
I've invested in 150+ pre-seed and seed stage B2B SaaS companies through Acceleprise
Most Interested In
SaaS, AI, Blockchain, SaaS enabled marketplace, B2B
Not Interested In
Consumer
Michael Cardamone serves as a Managing Director and General Partner at Acceleprise. He serves as Advisor at Lodestar Ventures. He was an early employee on the BD team at Box and more recently led BD and partner marketing at AcademixDirect. He has made several angel investments and is an advisor to a couple other startups. Michael has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Syracuse University and a MBA from Columbia University.
Palo Alto - California, U.S.A. - Australia
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Impact • Logistics (& Distribution) • Woman Focused
Venture Capitalist, Athlete, Adjunct Professor
Most Interested In
Data Science, AI, SaaS , DevOps, Human Performance, Flow State
Not Interested In
Not interested in heavily capital intensive businesses.
Angel: Twitter (Tweetdeck) @Tango @voxer (BOD) @treasure-data (Chmn). Seed: @wish, Soundtracking. Past BOD of 7 Listed companies incl one I founded.
Los Angeles - Santa Barbara - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Human Resources • Woman Focused
Most Interested In
100% focused on B2B Software, broadly defined: applications, infra, SMB, enterprise, subscription, usage-based, vertical, horizontal, etc.
Not Interested In
We don't invest in consumer, we rarely invest in hardware,
Montana, U.S.A.
Businesses Solutions • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Developer tools • Local commerce • Online Social • Consumer
Christopher Sacca is the Founder and serves as Chairman at Lowercase Capital. Sacca is an Angel Investor. He served as Software Engineer at Ellucian. He managed a portfolio of over fifty consumer web, mobile, and wireless technology start-ups as well as an array of mature enterprises through his holding company, Lowercase Capital. While primarily known for its investments in seed and early stage technology companies like Twitter, Uber, Instagram, and Kickstarter, Lowercase has quietly become one of the largest venture funds in the United States. Previously, Chris served as Head of Special Initiatives at Google Inc. In that role, among other responsibilities, he founded and headed up the alternative access and wireless divisions. His most visible projects include Google's 700MHz and TV white spaces spectrum initiatives, the company's groundbreaking data center in Oregon and Google's free citywide WiFi network in Mountain View, CA. Chris also spearheaded many of Google's business development and M&A transactions and was on the founding team of the company's New Business Development organization. Before joining Google, Chris held a number of executive roles at one of the world's largest streaming and digital media distribution companies, Speedera Networks (acquired by Akamai Technologies), and was ultimately responsible for their legal and corporate development efforts. Prior to Speedera, Chris was an attorney with the Silicon Valley law firm of Fenwick & West where he handled venture capital, mergers & acquisitions, and licensing transactions for technology clients such as Macromedia, VeriSign, and Kleiner Perkins. In 2012, Chris continued his work as a National Finance Committee member, a host of the technology roundtable series, and as a Co-Chair of Tech for Obama. The Wall Street Journal cited Chris as "possibly the most influential businessman in America." Chris graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center where he was a member of The Tax Lawyer law review and was honored as the school's Philip A. Ryan and Ralph J. Gilbert Memorial Scholar. He also graduated cum laude from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and was an Edmund Evans Memorial Scholar as well as a Weeks Family Foundation Scholar. He is an an Angel Investor. He also serves as an Adivsor at Lookout. He is an Investor at Docker.
Austin - Seattle - Toronto (Ontario) - Los Angeles - Boston - New York - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Consumer • Woman Focused
Most Interested In
B2B, SaaS, developer tools, API platforms, vertical industry solutions, applications of AI technologies to big problems. There must be a revenue model
Not Interested In
Consumer, traction-based thingies, science projects, advertising, games, bio, genomics.