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San Francisco Bay Area - Malaysia - Mountain View California - Indonesia, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Advertising • Developer tools • Food & Beverage • Real Estate (& Construction) • Mobile
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.
Menlo Park California - San Francisco Bay Area - 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 - San Francisco California, U.S.A.
Media • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • 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.
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Sales (& Marketing) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Aerospace (& Defense)
Early-stage venture investor at Race Capital, former Greylock Partners.
San Francisco Bay Area - San Francisco California - Walnut, 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.
Distributed workforce - Human capital - San Francisco Bay Area - San Francisco California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • AgroTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Analytics • Developer tools • Future Of Work • Human Resources • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Investment Management • Mobile • Consumer
General Partner at Spark Capital
Seattle Washington - Washington D.C - Seattle / Portland, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • AgroTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Food & Beverage • Robotics • Aerospace (& Defense) • Mobility • Nanotechnology
Most Interested In
Core Technologies, Artificial Intelegence, Big Data. Edge Computing, Data Driven Applications
Not Interested In
Healkth Care Tech, VR, BioTEch
Kevin Ober serves as Managing Director at Divergent Ventures. Prior to Divergent, he spent 7 years with Vulcan Ventures, a national venture capital firm owned by Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft Corporation. While with Vulcan, he led investments in Internet Infrastructure companies Internap Network Services Corporation, Nexabit Networks, Wavtrace and Net Perceptions. Other investments included Command Audio, Capstone Turbine, Colorado Micro Displays, ShareWave, Terastor and Netschools. Prior to working at Vulcan Ventures, Ober served in various positions at Conner Peripherals, Inc., a computer hard disk drive manufacturer in San Jose California. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from St. John's University and a Master of Business Administration from Santa Clara University. He is a director of Internap Network Services Corporation and SpaceCurve and a board observer with Flashsoft and Piston.
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 Bay Area - Palo Alto California - Menlo Park California - San Francisco California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Sales (& Marketing) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Developer tools • Human Resources • Material Science • Investment Management • Consumer
Founder and Partner at Audacious Ventures
Most Interested In
SaaS, B2B marketplaces, professional communities/LinkedIn for vertical markets, Prosumer
Not Interested In
Hardware
San Francisco Bay Area - San Francisco 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..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobile
Managing Director, founder of Heavybit
Tom Drummond serves as Managing Director at Heavybit. He is an Angel Investor. He also serves as an Advisor at Reed Elsevier Ventures. Previously he served as a Principal at Reed Elsevier Ventures. He manages Heavybit's investor and member relations and helps developer companies with go-to-market strategy, fundraising and operations.
Truckee California - San Francisco Bay Area - Los Angeles California - Montana, U.S.A.
Businesses Solutions • 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.
Sagaponack New York - San Francisco California - Los Angeles California - New York (NY) - Texas ; ; Burr Ridge Illinois ; Houston Tex, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Food & Beverage • Human Resources • Mobility • Online Social • Restaurants • Semiconductors
Adam Schwartz is the Founder serves as Chief Executive Officer at Articulate Global. He is an Advisor of Merida Capital Partners. He is a Board Member of New Frontier Data. He founded Articulate in 2002 with a vision to create innovative technologies that make it easier for the world to learn. Under his direction, Articulate has grown from a groundbreaking idea into an award-winning company that was recognized by Deloitte as one of the fastest-growing technology companies in North America. Schwartz is an active angel investor in more than 100 innovative tech companies and serves on the boards of Embedly, Videolicious, and others.
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).
California - Santa Monica - Bonfire Ventures is a venture capital investment firm, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Future Of Work
Principal at Bonfire Ventures
Minneapolis Minnesota - Boulder - Denver - Salt Lake City - Provo - Indianapolis - Madison - Milwaukee - Detroit - St. Paul - Ann Arbor - Chicago - that inve, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • AgroTech • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • IoT (& Wearables) • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Developer tools • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Mobile
Investor
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.
San Francisco California - San Francisco Bay Area - Menlo Park California, U.S.A.
IT (& TMT) • BioTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Mehdi Maghsoodnia is a Co-Founder of Vitagene and serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman. He also serves as Board Memeber at SpineZone. He also serves as General Partner at Combustion Ventures. He serves as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Vitagene. He served as the Chief Executive Office & Board Member at Rafter. He previously served as an executive in residence at Trinity Ventures. Prior to joining Trinity, Mehdi worked as VP of online operations at CafePress where he was responsible for all aspect of the online business including SEO, products and site operations. Mehdi was an EIR at Mohr Davidow Ventures and COO at FaceTime Communication and SVP of products at Intellisync (PumaTech) which was purchased by Nokia in 2003 for $450M. Mehdi held a number of executive positions at other Valley companies and currently sits on the board of FaceTime, Pbworks and Fotomoto. He did his undergraduate studies at Berkeley and his graduate studies in computer science at Stanford. He is Investor, Board Member at RxMatch. He also co-founded Actiance and served as its Board Member.
California - San Francisco - Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Developer tools • Future Of Work • Human Resources • Investment Management
Partner at On Deck
New York City, 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 • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Future Of Work • Payments
Business Development, Investments, Partnerships, Strategy, Fundraising, Go-to-Market
San Francisco Bay Area - Distributed workforce - Human capital - Investors who invested in female, U.S.A. - Canada
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Developer tools • Future Of Work • Human Resources • Real Estate (& Construction) • SaaS
3X Marketplace Founder (Hired, 99designs, Flippa).
Most Interested In
Seeking founders solving large, urgent and valuable problems that are radically cheaper (90%+) or better (10x) than the status quo. I'm looking to back ambitious founders, who run through walls and who aspire to build one of the most important companies of the decade. The best products are hard to copy, have an accumulating advantage, a unique distribution mechanism, and deliver jaw dropping value that blows customers away.
Not Interested In
Consumer products, DTC, pre-revenue companies.
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Sales (& Marketing) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Developer tools • Future Of Work • Human Resources • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer • Pharmaceutical (& Medicine)
Partner at New Enterprise Associates
Talent is everywhere, but opportunity is not. Advancing racial equity in venture capital means making space for diverse teams and leaders and funding real progress in our industry. I'm committed to changing this system with the help of my peers, and joined a community of investors in an initiative committing dedicated time every week to meet with underrepresented founders and encourage you to reach out. Learn more and sign-up here: https://www.vcopendoor.com/