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Menlo Park - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Analytics • Developer tools
CEO at Gladly, Inc. and Partner at Greylock
Partner at Greylock. Former Entrepreneur.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Developer tools
Venture Investor at @pantera-capital ; Board Observer at @changecoin ; Mentor at @boost-bitcoin-fund ; Mentor at @golden-gate-ventures
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
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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.
Austin Texas - London - New York City (NY) - Cambridge Massachusetts - Chicago Illinois - Boston Massachusetts - Portland Oregon - San Antonio Texas - Seattle Washington - Atlanta Georgia - Los Angeles California - Washington D.C, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools
Jason Seats serves as Managing Partner at Techstars. Jason was most recently the Managing Director of the Techstars programs in Austin and Cloud in San Antonio. Prior to joining Techstars, Jason was a Founder of Slicehost, an early cloud computing hosting company. In 2008 Slicehost was acquired by Rackspace and became the core for the initial Cloud Servers product. Jason continued on at Rackspace until 2010 as VP of software development for Rackspace Cloud, managing the cloud engineering tea Jason has a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology at Saint Louis University. He is also an Angel Investor. He also serves as Board Member at Convey and DigitalOcean.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Developer tools • Online Social • Woman Focused
Most Interested In
Seed-stage Internet Software investments. Opportunistic.
Not Interested In
No Hardware.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Media • BioTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services)
Mr. Adam D'Augelli serves as a Partner at True Ventures. He serves as Board Member at Prime Roots, Pendulum Therapeutics, Feelmore Lab,s and Deep Genomics. He served as Board Member at Symbiome and TripleLift. He served as Board Member at Girihlet. Growing up, he was drawn to startups and technology - early on as a founder of a donation-based record label and a social business in India then later as a consultant to early-stage technology companies on the East Coast. Building upon this experience, he led the creation of "Digital Frontiers," a course at the University of Florida exploring how the Internet and Technology are changing the global business landscape. He is a Board Member of Terramino Foods, Venn, and InterVenn BioSciences. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Florida with a BS & MS in Finance.
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
New York, U.S.A.
Hospitality (& Events) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Developer tools • Logistics (& Distribution) • Messaging • Robotics • LegalTech
Happiness and Health
San Francisco Bay Area - Los Angeles - Boston - New York - California, U.S.A. - Canada
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • DeepTech
Ilya Sukhar serves as a General Partner at Matrix Partners. He also serves as Advisor at Xenon Ventures. He was a Board Member at Open Listings. Prior to joining Matrix in 2016, he worked on three startups, all of which were acquired. Most recently, he was the co-founder and CEO of Parse, a cloud platform for mobile developers that was acquired by Facebook in 2013. In addition to running Parse as a semi-independent subsidiary, Ilya led the teams responsible for all of Facebook's developer-facing products and worked on Messenger. He's an active angel investor and was a part-time partner at Y Combinator. He holds bachelor's and master's degrees in Computer Science from Cornell University. He invests across a variety of sectors, but is particularly interested in products that leverage hard technical underpinnings to become indispensable to consumers or developers. He's excited to work with hackers who are building mission-driven and engineering-centric companies.
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.
Boston - San Gabriel - California, U.S.A. - China
Hospitality (& Events) • Media • Education • Sales (& Marketing) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Analytics • Developer tools • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Most Interested In
I tend to stay focused on software-enabled startups, typically web or mobile.
David Chang serves as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Harvard Business School Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. He also serves as Executive Chair and Head of Corporate Development at Feelter, is a Co-founder of PersonalVC, and serves as the Director of the Summer Venture Program at Babson College. Additionally, he is on the board at MITX, an advisor at Harvard Ventures, Nanigans, Co Everywhere, Sharalike, Campseekers, and Linkwell Health. Previously he served as the Chief Operating Officer at PayPal Media Network and Co-founded the Start Tank innovation space and the Where Angel Fund. Prior to that, he served as Director of New Products at TripAdvisor, VP of Marketing and Co-founder of SnapMyLife, and Director of Product Marketing at m-Qube. David holds a BS with Distinction in Computer Science from Cornell University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He served as Advisor at Good Growth Capital.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Developer tools
General Partner at Spark Capital
Ms. Yasmin Razavi serves as General Partner, Growth at Spark Capital. She invests in growth-stage companies. She serves as Board Member at Deel. She Razavi previously served as an investor at Index Ventures. She was a former Snapchat product manager, helping build the app's monetization stack. Her work in technology spans growing startups as well as advising large F500 corporations as a consultant with McKinsey & Company. She holds a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering with a specialization in Operations Research from the University of Toronto as well as an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Menlo Park - California, U.S.A.
BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools
Peter Levine serves as a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He serves as the Board Member at Onshape, DigitalOcean and MakerLoop. Peter Levine serves as a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President of Citrix Systems. Levine is also a Board Member at GitHub, Cyanogen, Actifio, Tachyon Nexus, MixPanel and Instart Logic. Peter Levine is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Peter was previously SVP and GM of the Data Center and Cloud Division at Citrix, where he was responsible for revenue, product management, business development and strategic direction. Peter joined Citrix in 2007 through its $500 million acquisition of XenSource, where he served as CEO. Prior to XenSource, Peter was a general partner at the Mayfield Fund. Before Mayfield, Peter was an early employee of VERITAS Software, where he helped to grow the organization to over 5,000 employees and more than $1.5 billion in revenue. Peter served as executive vice president and was responsible for marketing, OEM sales, business development and several product divisions. He is also currently a management lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a former entrepreneurship lecturer at the Sloan School. He serves on the boards of Actifio, Bromium, Convergent.io, Mixpanel, Coho Data and Cynogen.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
BioTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • A.I. (& Big Data) • Developer tools • Aerospace (& Defense)
Peter Thiel is a technology entrepreneur and investor.He first gained attention for innovations in banking and startup finance. Today he is known as the mentor of the PayPal mafia of entrepreneurs, as well as for his warnings of a coming technology deficit with severe economic consequences. He works to accelerate innovation to prevent such a crisis by identifying and funding promising technology ideas and by guiding successful companies to scale and dominate their industries. In 1998,Thiel made e-commerce easier, faster, and more secure by co-founding and leading PayPal, which now has more than 128 million active financial accounts. In 2002, he sold PayPal to eBay and founded a global macro fund, Clarium.In 2004, he co-founded Palantir Technologies, which offers platforms for finance companies and intelligence, defense, and law enforcement communities to integrate, visualize, and analyze the world’s information. In the same year, he made the first outside investment in Facebook, a social networking hub that now has more than a billion million active members. He serves on its board. Building on his personal success as a venture capital investor, Thiel co-founded and manages Founders Fund, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital fund that has pioneered new methods of venture financing that benefit founders. Through Founders Fund, as well as through his private investing, he has helped the next generation of tech companies, such as SpaceX, LinkedIn, Yelp, RoboteX, and Spotify. And in 2012 he co-founded Mithril Capital Management, an international technology investment fund.Thiel established and funds the Thiel Foundation, which promotes freedom in all its forms. He sponsors the Committee to Protect Journalists, The Seasteading Institute, and the Human Rights Foundation. He funds the artificial intelligence research of theMachine Intelligence Research Institute. He also aids work against violence through theOslo Freedom Forum and through the research of philosopher René Girard, which is extended and promulgated by Imitatio. He also promotes better health by funding the longevity research of Dr. Cynthia Kenyon and the SENS Research Foundation.Thiel created the 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellowship, which nurtures the tech visionaries of tomorrow. And he formed Breakout Labs to help independent scientists, engineers, and inventors advance their most radical ideas. Thiel earned a B.A. in philosophy from Stanford University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he occasionally teaches on globalization and technology and serves on the board of overseers of the Hoover Institution. His articles have appeared in Policy Review and the Wall Street Journal. He co-produced the film Thank You for Smoking, was rated a master by the United States Chess Federation, and received the Innovation Award from the Economist in 2010. He lives in San Francisco.
San Francisco Bay Area - Herzliya, Israel - U.S.A.
Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • IoT (& Wearables) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools
Most Interested In
Everything deep technology for enterprise use, highly focused on AI/BD for enterprises, next gen cloud / virtualization / DC, not afraid of HW investments.
Not Interested In
Consumer, Media, Med-Tech, Green-Tech, Social, Apps
Boulder - Denver - Salt Lake City - Provo - Minneapolis - Indianapolis - Madison - Milwaukee - Detroit - St. Paul - Ann Arbor - Chicago - Minnesota, 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 - New York - Atherton, U.S.A.
Media • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Developer tools • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Craig Sherman serves as Managing Director at Meritech Capital Partners. He focuses primarily on digital media and consumer services. Craig has led the firm's investments in Evernote, Zulily, Lynda.com and Ariosa Diagnostics. Prior to Meritech, Craig was Chief Executive Officer of Gaia Interactive, which he grew from a 1/2 million to over a 20 million monthly visitor pioneer in social games and online communities. Prior to joining Gaia, Craig served as an EIR at Benchmark Capital. Previously, Craig was Chief Operating Officer of Ancestry.com (ACOM), where he helped lead the company's pivot from a free family social network to a family history subscription service and grew the company from under $10 million to $150 million in sales and from tens of millions in losses to tens of millions in profits. Before Ancestry.com, Craig held senior positions at AIG: he was head of marketing and internet for all of AIG's Japanese and Korean divisions totaling over $5 billion in sales; and the general manager of AIG's property management software subsidiary, a $90 million sales company whose growth rate quadrupled during Craig's tenure. Previous to AIG, Craig was Chief Executive Officer of Cendant Japan, a joint venture startup he founded with Cendant and Mitsubishi Corporation that he helped grow from inception to over $20 million in sales and profitability. Before that, he worked in product, marketing, finance and operations roles at Cendant during its growth from less than a $1 billion to over a $40 billion public company. Craig has personally invested in over a dozen startups including Ancestry, SurveyMonkey, Zillow and Zipcar. In addition, Craig has held independent board and advisory roles with Homestead (prior to its sale to Intuit), Kongregate (GameStop), Logoworks (Hewlett Packard), Netquote (BankRate), and Photobucket (Fox). He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University. He also serves as Board Member at Rev. He serves as Board Member at Roblox.
Menlo Park - Los Altos - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Local commerce • Online Social
Mike Dauber serves as a General Partner at Amplify Partners. He served as Principal at Battery Ventures. He has been involved with Continuuity, a stealth big data startup born out of Battery's Entrepreneur in Residence program, since the company's inception and is also engaged with Calxeda, Nutanix and RelateIQ. He is also on the teams that invested in Delphix and Splunk (NASDAQ: SPLK). A hardware engineer at Velio Communications early in his career, Mike went on to hold Sales, Business Development and Marketing roles at Altera and Xilinx prior to joining Battery. During this time, Mike was responsible for developing product vision, defining launch strategies and managing business development programs at major communications OEWhile in Sales, Mike served as the account manager for Cisco. He earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Mike contributes to Battery's infrastructure blog and also speaks frequently at industry conferences.
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 - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Gaming (& eSports) • Developer tools • Local commerce • Aerospace (& Defense) • Online Social • Consumer • Woman Focused
Most Interested In
eCommerce, Social Apps, Education, Transportation
Not Interested In
Enterprise, Security