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San Francisco California - Los Altos (CA) - Menlo Park, California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Food & Beverage • Mobile Apps • Investment Management • Legal Tech • Mobile • Online Social
General Partner at @august-capital. Founding investor in @skype. @massachusetts-institute-of-technology graduate.
Newcastle upon Tyne - San Francisco California - Costa Mesa California - Los Angeles California - Ontario California - Toronto On Canada - New York City (NY) - Denver (CO) - Seattle (WA) - Austin (TX), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Other • IT (& TMT) • Media • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Developer tools • Mobile Apps • Online Social • Consumer
Most Interested In
Ecommerce, Marketplaces, Platforms, Products
Investor: @birchbox, @chloe-isabel, @warby-parker @harry's, @kiwi-crate, @stellaservice, @doubledutch, @zozi, @peloton-cycle
San Francisco California - New York (NY), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Online Social • Consumer
Mobile Tech Seed Investor - Founding Partner @eniac-ventures. Two time entrepreneur @vlingo & @thumb
Singapore - Nairobi Kenya - San Francisco (CA), Singapore
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Payments • Mobile Apps • Investment Management • Online Social
Founding Partner at @io, @golden-gate-ventures, @savannah-fund, & @presence Capital. Previously CEO of @lefora, @meetro & paragon5
New Delhi India - India - Bangalore - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Advertising • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Material Science • Mobile Apps • Investment Management • Online Social
Company Helper, Bits not Atoms
Focused on software for enterprise, SMB, consumer. Bits, not atoms. Partner @lightspeedindia, founder & early-stage investor Silicon Valley 1998+, India 2012+.
San Francisco California - Valley California - Menlo Park, California - Sequoia Capital is a venture capital investment firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California, U.S.A.
IT (& TMT) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Material Science • Investment Management • Life Science • Mobile • Nanotechnology • Online Social • Consumer • Oncology
@sequoia-capital, @google, morgan stanley, princeton
Menlo Park (CA) - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Material Science • Payments • Mobile Apps • Investment Management • Online Social
Arif Janmohamed serves as a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. He also serves as a Board Member at TripActions. He also serves as Charter Member at C100 Association. He is a Board Member at OverOps. He joined Lightspeed in 2008 and focuses primarily on investments in the areas of cloud and datacenter technologies, as well as enterprise mobile and SaaS solutions. He also serves as Board Member at Mist Syste He is currently working closely with the teams at Avi Networks, Highfive, Netskope, Nutanix, Pertino Networks, ThoughtSpot, Qubole, and Virtual Instruments. He was also involved in several Lightspeed investments which have had successful exits including Edgespring (acquired by Salesforce.com), IO Turbine (acquired by Fusion-io), Memoir Systems (acquired by Cisco), RAPsphere (acquired by AppSense) and StreamOnce (acquired by Jive Software). Prior to joining Lightspeed, he worked in the Corporate Business Development group at Cisco Systems where he focused on mergers and acquisitions, strategy, and investments in the Unified Communications, Enterprise Collaboration, Mobile, and SaaS market segments. Before joining Cisco Systems, he was with Novitas Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm. Earlier in his career, he worked in technical development and product management roles at WebTV (acquired by MSFT), Andes Networks (acquired by SUNW), and Sun Microsyste He holds an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a BSc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
San Francisco (CA) - Atlanta (GA) - San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Developer tools • Mobile • Online Social
Most Interested In
Point of inflection investor in consumer internet and enterprise software. Heavy focus in online marketplaces, fintech, and developer tools.
Not Interested In
Clean Tech. Healthcare.
Brendan Wales serves as Partner at e.ventures. Brendan joined e.ventures in March of 2012 and specializes in investing in online marketplaces, fin-tech, developer tools and open source software. He has worked on e.ventures' investments in Shipt (Acquired by Target), CodeFights, Test.AI, StackShare.io, Segment, App Annie, Acorns, When I Work, Shutl (Acquired by ebay), Everything But The House, Spothero, Nativo and HireAthena and is also actively involved with existing investments NGINX, Upsight, and Housecall. As a part of the e.ventures' team that leverages big data for deal origination, Brendan has been closely involved in the firm's development and utilization of in-house technology built to discover growing internet enabled companies. Prior to joining e.ventures, Brendan was an early employee at 500 Startups backed ZOZI, a leading SAAS booking platform for Tour and Activity Providers. He started his career at Sun Life Financial, a Fortune 500 financial services company, and has also started two consumer internet startups. Brendan earned a B.A. in Finance from the University of Georgia.
San Francisco California - Palo Alto (CA) - Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Mobile Apps • Investment Management • Mobile • Online Social
Salil Deshpande serves as Managing Director at Bain Capital Ventures. He is an Advisor of Quantum Metric. He is a Board Member of Rentomojo, Aria Systems, RedisDB, Iron.io, Typesafe, Eventful and Hazelcast. He is a former general partner with San Francisco-based Bay Partners. He holds a B.S. from Cornell University and M.S. from Stanford University. He serves as board member at ScaleArc and Rollbar.
San Francisco (CA) - Los Angeles (CA) - Toronto (Ontario) - Vancouver (WA) - New York (NY) - Seattle (WA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Other • IT (& TMT) • Media • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • IoT (& Wearables) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Advertising • Developer tools • Mobile Apps • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Investment Management • Online Social • Consumer
Most Interested In
I focus on consumer marketplaces and transactional businesses, particularly those that provide a 10x experience to consumers and save them money.
Not Interested In
Businesses that would basically be the same w/o software.
Sarah Tavel serves as General Partner at Benchmark Capital. She serves as a Board Member at Chainalysis. Tavel also served as Investment Partner at Greylock Partners prior to Benchmark Capital. She also served as an Advisor at SignalFire. Previously, she served as a Manager, Products at Pinterest. Prior to Pinterest, she was Vice President of Bessemer Venture Partners. Sarah Tavel, a senior associate in the Menlo Park office, joined Bessemer in 2006. Working with Jeremy Levine, she focused on the software and Internet sectors and has been closely involved in investments with consumer internet company Pinterest; Microsoft SharePoint migration solutions provider Metalogix; leads-generator Yodle; learning-and-talent-management company Cornerstone OnDemand (IPO); e-commerce site Onestop; energy-management company CPower (acquired by Constellation Energy); SaaS online-marketing company Convertro; business-software company MindBody Solutions; and leading Russian e-commerce company KupiVIP. She also works with Bessemer company eEye Digital Security and worked with Quidsi (operator of Diapers.com and Soap.com), acquired by Amazon.com, and classifieds-provider OLX, acquired by Naspers.
San Francisco California - Redwood City, California - Redwood City (CA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Mobile Apps • Online Social
Investor
Investment Partner with Omidyar Network. Investor in @digg, @linden-lab, @meetup, @metaweb, @couchsurfing.
Menlo Park California - New Delhi India - Valley California - San Francisco, California - Cloud infrastructure - Health & hospital services, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Material Science • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Mobile Apps • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Investment Management • Online Social • Consumer
Ravi Mhatre serves as Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. He serves as Board Member at Cloudpassage and Exabeam. Ravi is also a Co-Founder and serves as Partner and Managing Director at Lightspeed India Partners Advisors. He is also a Board Observer at Natera. His current investments include Nutanix, Appdynamics, Natera, Mulesoft, Sailpoint, Edgespring, TheFind and Kixeye. He has also served as a board member or board observer for numerous successful venture-backed companies including net.Genesis (NTGX), Verio (VRIO), Qubole, Riverbed (RVBD), Lifeminders (LFMN), Kosmix (acquired by Walmart), TutorVista (acquired by Pearson), Virsa (acquired by SAP), Waveset (acquired by Oracle), Rapsphere (acquired by Appsense), Masergy (acquired by Abry) and Webspective (acquired by Inktomi), and has been recognized on the Forbes Midas List of top venture capital investors. Ravi has also served on the Board of Directors of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs Forum) in Silicon Valley, as a VC advisory board member to DeVenCI, the Department of Defense's start-up technology acquisition forum, and as a judge for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year competition. Ravi holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and a BA in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
San Francisco (CA) - Palo Alto, California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Local commerce • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Robotics • Online Social • Pharmaceutical (& Medicine)
Investor for 20 years in teams (@zynga, XenSource/CTRX @facebook, Datamirror/IBM, Fortinet/FTNT, Tango, @metaweb, D-Wave) solving hard problems for large markets.
San Francisco (CA) - Palo Alto (CA) - San Francisco Bay Area - General Catalyst is a venture capital firm headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • IoT (& Wearables) • CleanTech • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Material Science • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Investment Management • Mobile • Online Social • Consumer
Niko Bonatsos serves as a Managing Director at General Catalyst. Previously, he served as a Venture Partner at General Catalyst Partners. He serves as a Board Member at 6D.ai. He focuses on investments in consumer Internet, cloud computing and mobile. He worked on lean manufacturing for Yokogawa Electric Corp, biomedical signal processing at Harvard Medical School/MGH, cloud computing at Stanford University and as a founding team member of myLinkpower, a social networking start-up. He is a graduate of Stanford University, earning an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering as a Fulbright Scholar; the University of Cambridge, earning an M.Phil. in Manufacturing Engineering and Management; and the National Technical University of Athens, earning an engineer's degree (Dipl.-Ing) in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
San Francisco, California - Cambridge, Massachusetts with an additional office in New York, New York, U.S.A.
CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • DeepTech • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobile • Online Social • Consumer
Most Interested In
I am always interested in founders looking to make a difference in the world, and who don't follow the beaten path. We describe it as the weird and wonderful - founders pursuing businesses that don't fit neatly into any bucket.
Salt Lake City (UT) - Boston (MA) - Seattle (WA) - New York (NY) - Los Angeles (CA) - Toronto (Ontario) - San Francisco (CA) - Europe, operating in the biotechnology, retail, clean technology, media - U.K., U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Hospitality (& Events) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Robotics • Mobile Apps • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Investment Management • Mobile • Online Social • Consumer
Most Interested In
New consumer services or experiences. Workflow applications that are adopted by the end-user, especially in non-desk environments.
Not Interested In
Healthcare / life sciences, infrastructure, security.
Valley California - Mountain View California - San Francisco, California - Analytics - Social mobile, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Analytics • Food & Beverage • Material Science • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Mobile Apps • Online Social
General Partner at Google Ventures
Karim is a Partner at Google Ventures. He brings over a decade of operational, entrepreneurial and investment experience to his role. He initially joined Google's corporate development team in 2008, the group responsible for the company's acquisitions & strategic investments. His primary areas of focus are Internet services, mobile and digital media. Prior to Google, Karim was a venture capitalist at Atlas Venture, where he worked on investments in Internet infrastructure and digital media. Previously, he was Director of New Ventures at Level 3 Communications, responsible for evaluating new business opportunities and has led product development for the company's voice services. Earlier in his career, Karim held various product and marketing roles at Intel, initially on the i486, and later as product manager for the Pentium Processor. He started his career at Siemens as a software engineer working on the first vehicle navigation system for BMW. Karim holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a BS in Computer Engineering from Brown University where he published several papers on Neural Networks. Specialties: Venture Capital, Company formation, Entrepreneurship, Product Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Growth Financing
New York City (NY) - Valley California - San Francisco (CA) - Palo Alto, California - Founded in 2013, Bloomberg Beta is a corporate venture capital arm of Bloomberg headquartered in San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Investment Management • Online Social
Early stage VC investing in the new world of work
Valley California - Palo Alto California - Los Angeles California - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Advertising • Analytics • Material Science • Payments • Robotics • Mobile Apps • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Investment Management • Mobile • Online Social • Consumer
Daniel Darling is the Founder and serves as a Managing Director at Darling Ventures. He serves as a board member at AppVision and Human. He has more than 7 years of background in product and market strategy for mobile and adtech companies in the US, Australia and Japan. Daniel started his career in digital advertising and moved progressively into mobile product development before launching Darling Ventures in 2013. He has founded companies, grown startups to acquisition and led product innovation at public technology corporations. He is a specialist in business strategy and bringing products to market for mobile technology companies. Daniel has a degree in Economics and Social Sciences form The University of Sydney as well as executive education from both Berkeley HAAS and Stanford GSB.
New York City (NY) - Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Gaming (& eSports) • Analytics • Real Estate (& Construction) • Online Social
Vaizra Investments is a private venture capital fund investing in start-ups with creative solutions to existing or emerging consumer needs. Investment ranges are between $200,000-$500,000, with 'follow-ons' in later rounds.
Beijing Haidian District China - Los Angeles California - Illinois - Chicago (IL) - New Orleans, Louisiana - WI Harper Group is a venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco, C, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Robotics • Real Estate (& Construction) • SaaS • Investment Management • Mobile • Online Social • Consumer
VC at @PritzkerVC, Founder/CEO of VentureUP.info
Building something new in New Orleans. More to come! Previously VC @ Pritzker Group Venture Capital. Investments: - Apprentice (Series A) - Specright (Seed, Series A) - Coinbase (Series D) - Vettery (Seed) - Parabol (Seed) - Visibly (Seed) - Catalytic (Seed) - Extend (Seed) - OpenPath (Seed) - SMS Assist (Series A) - Cue (Series A) - Backlot Cars (Series A) - G2Crowd (Series A) - Mindshow (Series A) - Bird (Series C) - VIV (Series A) - X.Ai (Seed) - IrisVR (Series A) - Mapbox (Series B) - Project44 (Series B) - Dronebase (Series A) - Airmap (Series A) - Spothero (Seed) - Augmentir (Seed) - Repurpose (Seed)
Singapore - Stockholm Sweden - New York City (NY) - San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Future Of Work • Mobile • Online Social • Consumer
Currently: investor. Ex: product lead at Twitter/FB/Snap.
Sriram Krishnan serves as a Vice President, Global Markets at Humin. Sriram also serves as Head of International Growth at Tinder. He managed new market expansion into/in APAC at Spotify. Before Spotify, he worked in management consulting and in technology startups in Europe and Asia. Sriram also serves as an Advisor at YouStake. He studied at the National University of Singapore and Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden. He also co-founded Cosmify. He served as Advisor at Jackson Square Ventures.
California - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Other • IT (& TMT) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Online Social • Consumer
I am a Partner at Y Combinator's Continuity Fund focused on growth stage investments. More recently at YC Continuity, I led investments in Boom, Instacart, Convoy, Brex, Gusto, Faire, Monzo, Rappi, Vouch and Groww. I am also personally passionate about global technology investing and the convergence of great entrepreneurs between US, China and India and have invested in a personal capacity in a few companies including Bytedance. Previously, I was an investment partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where I focused on consumer internet growth investments, and worked actively with the management teams of a number of portfolio companies including Airbnb, Instacart, Medium, OfferUp and Udacity. Prior to Andreessen Horowitz, I was a Principal at The Boston Consulting Group's Private Equity practice in NYC where I led multiple growth equity due diligences in the consumer and fintech sector. I started my career as a senior engineer at Qualcomm and hold a MS in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech and MBA from The Wharton SchoolIf you would like to reach me please email me at anu@ycombinator.com
San Francisco, California - Belmont, California - Menlo Park, California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Gaming (& eSports) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Messaging • Investment Management • Mobile • Online Social • Consumer
Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
Menlo Park (CA) - San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Investment Management • Online Social
General Partner at Benchmark
On twitter: @chetanp; General Partner at Benchmark. Currently: Elastic (NYSE: ESTC), Sketch, Duffel, Pachyderm, Modern Treasury, Stytch. Previously: MuleSoft (NYSE: MULE, acquired by Salesforce for $6.5B), MongoDB (NASDAQ: MDB), Acquia (acquired by Vista Equity for $1B), Scout (acquired by Workday for $540M)