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investors from all around the world.
FinTech, Hardware, SaaS … we diversify our portfolio of
investors to give you the best chance to find startup investors.
London, U.K. - Canada - Europe: Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Romania, Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, Greece, Portugal, Sweden, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Slovakia, Norway, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Iceland,
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Payments
Most Interested In
Fintech: applications built on top of open banking, Saas with integrated fintech products, embedded finance plays. Insurtech: new risk with new data sets; infrastructure, embedded insurance plays
Not Interested In
If you don't feel you have any link or connection to financial services (in a broad definition), then its probably not an opportunity for me
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Analytics • Developer tools • Human Resources • Payments • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer • Woman Focused
Co-Founder and CTO at Okay (YC W20)
Senior Director of Engineering @box-com. CIO advisory board @splunk. Investor @shyp and @sprig . Mentor @acceleprise-san-francisco . CS/Econ @duke-university.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • BioTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Payments • Online Social • Consumer
Co-Founder & CEO at Affirm, Inc
I start, run, and invest in companies. Specialties: Cryptography, product and user-interface design, security, web applications, multi-tier server and network design and implementation. Starting, building, running companies; recruiting, building, running engineering teams; architecting, building, launching large-scale software products.
San Francisco Bay Area - New York, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Sales (& Marketing) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Analytics • Logistics (& Distribution) • Payments • Woman Focused • Productivity
Most Interested In
Fintech, data/analytics, India, Blockchain
Not Interested In
Media or adtech
San Diego California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Gaming (& eSports) • Future Of Work • Payments • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer • Woman Focused
Startup Operations
Andy White is an Angel Investor. White is the Founder of Millennial Technology. He served as a Partner at VegasTechFund. He holds a BS in Marketing from Southern Illinois University.
Irvine California - Newport Beach California - Geneva Switzerland - London - New York City (NY) - Valley California - Western Europe - - Tehran Iran - Southern California California - Paris (France), U.S.A.
Hospitality (& Events) • Education • Sales (& Marketing) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Impact • Messaging • Payments
Dr. Amir Banifatemi serves as Managing Director at K5 Ventures. Dr. Banifatemi serves as an Advisor at Compass and serves as Board Member at Aura Labs. He also serves as Board Member and Advisor at Fusion Brakes. He is a successful entrepreneur whose work experience includes more than 14 years of advising startups. His focus has always been identifying and developing future and emerging technologies that can impact society with special emphasis on predictive business intelligence, knowledge sharing & education, and real-time technologies. Amir likes to work with startups on their product strategy, pricing, business model, go-to-market, and fund raising. Amir is currently a member and President of the Tech Coast Angels Orange County and actively involved with venture funds and angel investors to help continuous and sustained funding of startups. He is also an Angel Investor.
London, U.S.A. - U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Payments • Healthcare (& Wellness)
Investor, partner and advisor to entrepreneurs disrupting the technology industry. Two decades of global and cross-cultural principal investing and operating experience. Current and former investments led include Redis Labs, Spryker, Dream11, FarEye, Talend, Arcoro (HCM software), ThreatConnect, Conversica, Untangle, Chatmeter, Patron, OpusCapita, LogicMonitor (sold majority to Vista) and Anju Software (sold to Abry).MBA (Palmer Scholar) from The Wharton School of Business, MS and BS degrees with honors in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Cambridge - Boston - / New - Massachusetts, U.S.A.
PropTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Analytics • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Payments • Real Estate (& Construction)
Most Interested In
Supply chain finance SMB finance Bookkeeping automation Retirement gap Healthcare payments Real estate tech, particularly appraisals and home finance Enterprise payouts / mass disbursements Alternative data
Not Interested In
Companies selling signal to the buyside Insurance aggregator models Typically, companies dependent on enterprise-level sales into banks
Midwest - Chicago - Illinois, U.S.A. - U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IoT (& Wearables) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Analytics • GovTech • Payments • Robotics • Aerospace (& Defense) • DeepTech • Mobility • Woman Focused
Principal at Cultivation Capital, Technology and Geospatial Funds
Most Interested In
Sweet-spot is leading seed rounds, investing in adventurous founders dedicated to building innovative, high-growth businesses. Our team of former entrepreneurs and operators work closely with portfolio company founders to accelerate growth. We help build the team, crank up the commercial engine, and obtain financing.
Not Interested In
Prefer opportunities headquartered outside of SF/NY, with a history of capital efficiency.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Payments • Real Estate (& Construction) • Woman Focused
Most Interested In
Great teams building software to tackle large markets in unsexy industries.
Not Interested In
Hardware, DTC and hype
San Francisco Bay Area - London - New York, U.S.A. - U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Advertising • Developer tools • Local commerce • Messaging • Payments
Most Interested In
We operate an early stage program focused on "great founding teams" which is sector agnostic as well as invest directly into primarily enterprise technology companies. I love picks and shovels.
Not Interested In
We do not touch tokens (security or otherwise). Nothing "vice" related given our investor base (no alcohol, cannabis, etc).
Malaysia, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Food & Beverage • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Payments • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobility
Harvard 2019 | VC @ Soma Capital | Head of Content @ Elpha (YC S19) & Harvard in Tech | Medium Top VC Writer
Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund
Austin - Texas, U.S.A.
Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Payments • Online Social
Owner & Managing Director at XTT Consulting LLC
Experienced executive leading technology and business strategy teams. - Expertise in guiding new ventures from idea to funding in both large corporate and startup settings - Deep diligence experience on over seventy M&A actions - Angel and early stage investor. Corporate venture investor - Mentor to accelerators and many start up companies - Executive coach with extensive experience building and leading creative, execution oriented teams Experience: Technology Partnerships, Corporate Development, Mergers & Acquisitions, Business Development, Partner Ecosystems, Evangelism, Incubation, Software Development : systems and research; Venture & Seed Investing : advising, mentoring and coaching start up companies, Network, Software & Server architectures; Team Development : creation, restructuring and talent acquisition; Negotiating & Governance of partnerships; Go To Market strategies for innovative technologies; Strategic investing and portfolio management as well as innovation and creativity management.
San Francisco Bay Area - Miami - Florida, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Payments • Online Social
Investor at Expa
Shervin Pishevar serves as Chairman at Bolt Mobility. He Co-Founded Silicon Foundry. He was a Board Member at Cue Health. He was a Board Member of Getaround and comScore. He is also a Co-Founder of Virgin Hyperloop where he and served as Executive Chairman and Board Member. Pishevar also Founded Halo Computing. He Co-Founded and served as a Managing Director at Sherpa Venturs. He served as Managing Director at Menlo ventures. He sits on the board of Machine Zone, Fab, Warby Parker, Shaker and has led Menlo's investment in Tumblr. He focuses on the consumer internet, social web, mobile and the emerging Collaborative Consumption space. At Menlo, He works closely with the teams at Poshmark, Cinemagram, Machine Zone, Uber, Fab, Warby Parker, Shaker, Number and led Menlo's investment in Tumblr. He helped launch the Menlo Talent Fund, Menlo's $20M seed fund, in September 2011. Before joining Menlo, He was Chief Application Officer and GM at Mozilla Corporation after spending most of his career as a serial entrepreneur and angel investor. Companies he founded have reached an aggregate of 100 million users across companies like Webs.com (sold to Vistaprint for $117.5m), Social Gaming Network (SGN, merged with Mindjolt), and Hyperoffice, raising over $50m for those companies. He angel invested in over 40 companies including Taskrabbit, Cherry, Postmates, Klout, Voxer, Aardvark (sold to Google), Blackjet, Dollar Shave Club, Cherry, Branchout (advisor), Talent House, Gowalla (sold to Facebook), Milo.com (sold to eBay), Milk (sold to Google), Rapportive (sold to Linkedin), Likealittle (LAL), Qwiki, Votizen, Yobongo (sold to Mixbook), SpruceMedia, Medialets and SolveMedia. Hewas chosen by the US Government as an Outstanding American by Choice - one of only 100 naturalized Americans to be chosen since the beginning of the award. He serves on the advisory board of Comscore (NASDAQ: SCOR), is one of 10 members of the UN Foundation's Global Entrepreneurs Council, and serves as an Entrepreneurial Ambassador on several State Department delegations to the Middle East and Russia and a key note speaker at the President Obama's Summit on Entrepreneurship in Algeria. He is also an advisor at fbFund REV. He is also an Angel Investor. He was a Board Member of Cinemagram.
New York - Menlo Park - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Sales (& Marketing) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Payments • Woman Focused
Investing in real software solving real problems
Most Interested In
Real software solving real problems; enterprise software; algorithmic-intensive applications; AI; vertical-focused SaaS
Not Interested In
We don't invest in consumer businesses
Sean Dempsey is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at Merus Capital. He also is an Angel Investor. Before co-founding Merus, Sean was a Principal of Corporate Development at Google, responsible for acquisitions and investments including Android, YouTube, and Postini. Prior to Google, he spent over six years at Microsoft in the Corporate Development team. At Microsoft, he led over 40 acquisitions and investments including Bungie, the creator of the Xbox hit Halo. In addition to M&A, Sean was part of the original team to drive Microsoft's living room strategy which ultimately became the Xbox game console. His areas of focus at Google and Microsoft included consumer web services, online and traditional advertising, online video, gaming and enterprise SaaS. Before joining Microsoft, he spent two years in technology Mergers & Acquisitions at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell in Menlo Park and was a Research Analyst at the Jennings Group in San Francisco. Outside of Merus, Sean is an avid trail runner and is doing his small part in keeping the Bay Area trails alive and well through his involvement on the Board of the Peninsula Open Space Trust. He is also an Advisory Board Member of the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College where he graduated with degrees in Economics/Environment/Politics and French.
Palo Alto, U.S.A. - U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Analytics • Developer tools • Payments • Nanotechnology • Online Social
Mr. Lee co-founded and served as the Board Member at Vouch Financial. He serves as an Advisor at Abine. He also served as the Vice President of Engineering & Growth at TaskRabbit. He was an advisor at fbFund REV. He oversees the company's Mobile and Web product development efforts. Yee brings over fifteen years of product management and engineering experience to TaskRabbit. He was an early PayPal and Slide employee and has launched three startups, one of which was acquired by Google. Yee is an active angel investor and advisor to consumer Internet companies and has helped over a dozen get off the ground, including SlideShare, Khush, GroupCard, Togetherville and Wildfire Interactive. He served as Advisor at NetworkedBlogs.