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Menlo Park, U.S.A.
Hospitality (& Events) • Media • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Insurance (& InsurTech)
Managing Partner of Montage Ventures
Todd Kimmel is the Founder and serves as Managing Director & Managing Partner at Montage Ventures. He is also a Co-Founder and serves as Board Member at Batch. He is also a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at Parasail. Kimmel is a Board Member at Sure, Pager, WorkIt Health, and Peek Travel Services. He served as Principal at Advanced Technology Ventures. Kimmel joined Mayfield from Advanced Technology Ventures, a bi-coastal venture capital firm, where he led cleantech investing in its West Coast office. Kimmel was also the co-founder and President of Coskata, a leading next-generation bio-fuels company, where he helped drive key product development, technology and financing milestones. Prior to venture capital, Kimmel was a co-founder and Senior Vice President at Innovance, a Canadian-based developer of optical networking solutions for telecommunications service providers and worked in investment banking with Wasserstein Perella & Co., Inc. in New York. He served as the Board Member at Project September. Kimmel holds a B.A. from Amherst College and was a history major.
London - San Francisco Bay Area - Berlin, Germany - U.K. - France
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • Sales (& Marketing) • Analytics • Developer tools • Impact • Local commerce • Woman Focused
SaaSicionado. First investor in Zendesk, Algolia, Contentful, Typeform,...
Most Interested In
Vertical SaaS, bottom-up land & expand, strong tech co-founders, startups from all around the world
Not Interested In
Copycats. Over-hyped pre-seed rounds.
Christoph Janz is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Point Nine Capital. Janz is an Angel Investor. He also serves as a Board Member at FreeAgent Holdings and Qwilr. Before co-founding Point Nine Capital in 2011, Christoph was active as a private angel investor, working together closely with Team Europe on a variety of investments. Prior to that, Christoph co-founded several software and Internet startups, including comparison shopping engine DealPilot.com (funded by Bertelsmann, acquired by Shopping.com) and personalized startpage Pageflakes (funded by Balderton Capital, acquired by LiveUniverse). With investments in Zendesk, FreeAgent Central, Clio, Propertybase and other highly successful SaaS companies Christoph is a recognized expert in the field of Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Christoph Janz serves as Board Member at ShiftPlanning, mention, Contentful, Propertybase and Zendesk. He also serves on Board of Infogr.am.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Gaming (& eSports) • Nanotechnology
Managing
Palo Alto - Los Altos - 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..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure)
Managing Partner at Pear VC
Seattle - San Francisco Bay Area - Washington, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Consumer
Jason Stoffer serves as Partner at Maveron. He also is an Angel Investor. He is a Board Member at Imperfect Produce and Dolly and an Advisor and Board Member at TrueFacet. He is focused on investing in education, e-commerce and technology-enabled consumer businesses. He joined Maveron in 2007 from education services provider Career Education Corp., where he co-founded and drove admissions and marketing strategy for IADT Online, a for-profit design school and a wholly owned Career-Ed subsidiary. Stoffer was an early Board member at zulily. He sourced our investments in and currently serves as the Board Member at General Assembly, Julep and Red Tricycle. He also led several of Maveron IV's most promising Seed investments, including CourseHero and Everlane. He serves on the Board of Fund V investment Dolls Kill and also sourced Peach, a Fund V investment. He was formerly a member of the advisory board of the Lumina Foundation's Next Generation Learning Initiative. He is also a mentor for TechStars. Previously, he was a board member of Startl, an education incubator. He regularly speaks at conferences, including the Venture Capital in Education Summit, The Software & Information Industry Association Ed Tech Summit, LeadsCon, and Silicon Valley Comes to the UK. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan (BA economics) and the Wharton School at the University Of Pennsylvania (MBA).
Menlo Park - California, U.S.A.
Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Gaming (& eSports) • Analytics
Most Interested In
Capital efficient, founder led, mission driven companies growing quickly, looking for patient, full lifecycle investor willing to invest early (at less than $10M revenue run rate) but also able to continue to scale up investments as the business grows.
Not Interested In
Pre-revenue companies. Medical Device, biotech or clean tech.
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.
Mountain View, U.S.A. - India
Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Entertainment (& Sports) • IoT (& Wearables) • Consumer • Productivity
Founding Partner at 3one4 Capital
Pranav Pai is a Co-Founder and serves as a Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer at 3one4 Capital. Pai serves as General Partner at Elevate Innovation Partners. Pranav Pai serves as an Advisory Board Member at Licious. He is an Investor at Saha Capital. Pranav is deeply involved in the startup ecosystem in India and leads early-stage venture capital investments at 3one4 Capital. He has made over 70+ seed and venture capital investments across several investment categories in India and the US. Pranav serves on the boards of and as an advisor to several of the companies in the portfolio. As part of an LP team, Pranav also engages with an extensive funding ecosystem of over 30 different investment vehicles across different asset classes such as early and growth stage venture capital, public markets, real estate project financing, and venture debt in India and the US. Before 3one4, Pranav was an early employee at EdCast, an education technology startup in the San Francisco Bay Area. At EdCast, he helped launch the company's operations and served as the founding Senior Product Manager. It is now a multi-million dollar revenue business with enterprise clients such as Salesforce, GE, HP, Accenture, Walmart, the WEF, and NASSCOM, and top-tier investors such as SoftBank, GE Capital, and Menlo Ventures. Pranav graduated with a Master's in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and with a Bachelor's in Electronics and Communications Engineering from RV College, Bangalore.
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • Human Resources • Impact • Consumer • Woman Focused
Edtech Investor at Reach Capital
Most Interested In
Platforms and experiences that facilitate access to good careers
Not Interested In
Products that do not increase access to education or improve socioeconomic mobility in a meaningful way
Los Angeles - New York - Berkeley - Palo Alto - Menlo Park - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Future Of Work • Online Social
Builder. ex-Consumer VC (@a16z)
London - Barcelona, Spain - U.K. - U.S.A. - Germany
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Gaming (& eSports) • Consumer • Woman Focused
Entrepreneur, Investor, Advisor
Entrepreneur, Investor and Executive
Palo Alto, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Education • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Advertising • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Online Social
Young Song is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer & Board Member at NComputing. He also is an Angel Investor. Young is a Venture Partner of Big Basin Capital. He is also the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at ZeroDesktop. Song brings over 20 years of technology vision and entrepreneurial leadership with a focus on products that deliver life-enhancing value to education, business and consumers. He has founded and operated several start-up ventures with an inherent talent and track record for turning ideas into viable products and sustainable businesses. After six years of service at NComputing in executive management positions including Chief Executive Officer, President and Chief Operating Officer, Song remains an active director of the company. He founded and currently is Chief Executive Officer of Booga Ventures, an investment, advisory and mentoring firm dedicated to helping start-up companies commercialize new ideas and technologies or expand into new geographic markets. Prior to co-founding NComputing, Song was also the founder and CEO of DoubleSight Displays, a company that delivered affordable and cost-effective dual displays to businesses and consumers. In addition, Song co-founded and was vice president of product marketing for eMachines, a pioneer in bringing affordable computing to consumers. He began his career as marketing director for both TriGem America Corporation and TriGem Computer. Song holds a Bachelor of Science in Electronics Engineering from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea.
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Consumer
Founding Partner at Roble Ventures
Sergio Monsalve serves as a Partner at Norwest Venture Partners. He was a Board Member at Stratim. He brings to NVP extensive operational and venture capital experience from a wide range of business and consumer technology companies. Sergio is focused on early and growth investments in ecommerce, consumerized SaaS, consumer finance, and educational technologies. His current investments and board seats include Adaptive Planning, Bionic Panda Games, Branchout, Gemvara, Motif Investing, and Rafter. Sergio was previously on the board of The DealMap (acquired by Google), myYearbook (acquired by Quepasa), and StarCite (acquired by The Active Network). He is a board observer at InsightsOne and Lending Club. Sergio started his career at Morgan Stanley, where he advised several companies on mergers and acquisitions. Sergio was also a marketing and business development manager at Portal Software (now part of Oracle) which had a successful Initial Public Offering in 1999, during his tenure. Sergio was also the co-founder and first business development executive at Cymerc, which was a hosted SaaS solution for consumers and small-sized businesses. Sergio successfully raised two rounds of venture financing and grew Cymerc from inception to more than $15 million in sales. From 2001 to 2005, Sergio was Director of the Mobile Electronics Categories at eBay, which he grew from $150 million to more than $500 in gross merchandise sales. Prior to NVP, Sergio was Vice President of Marketing at Photobucket, which was successfully sold to News Corp. for $300 million in 2007. Sergio was born and raised in Latin America and has worked in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. Sergio holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a bachelor of science degree in management sciences and engineering (industrial engineering) from Stanford University.
San Francisco Bay Area - 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..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Consumer
Hooman Radfar serves as Partner at Expa Labs. He also is an Angel Investor. Hooman Radfar Co-Founded & served as Chairman at AddThis. He was also the Chief Executive Officer of Ando, a food delivery app by Momofuku. Radfar actively drives platform marketing and strategy initiatives at Clearspring. He graduated magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with degrees in Economics and Computer Science. He serves as the board member at Always Prepped. He holds an M.S. from Carnegie Mellon University where he researched Social Networking Theory. He serves as Board Member at Always Prepped.
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 • Mobile Apps
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.
Dubai - United Arab Emirates, U.S.A.
Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Entertainment (& Sports) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Developer tools
Forbes top50 Angel Investor | Venture Builder | Serial Entrepreneur | Investor in +100 startups | mentor | Business leader | Digital transformation | Judge @ Startup Competition | Advisor | Software Architect
CEO and Founder at FasterCapital
San Francisco Bay Area - London - Tel Aviv - City - New York, U.S.A. - U.K. - Israel - Mexico
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Hospitality (& Events) • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Human Resources • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Most Interested In
Our current interests are: - B2C - Products and service that are solving a core consumer pain point, mainly focused on the every day consumer - Non-tech incumbents in the market Categories of interest: - Parenting/Child Care - Fertility - Student Debt/Loans and Access to Education - Housing - Workforce Retraining - Baby Boomer Market
Not Interested In
B2B, Gaming, Entertainment, Luxury Brands, Hardware without Software driven business model, SAAS, Robotics
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Education • Energy • CleanTech • Mobility
Most Interested In
• Personal transportation using energy other than oil • Primary education • Energy storage • Urban farming • Decentralized utilities • Large-scale water desalinization • New nuclear technologies • Government policy on energy, education, transportation and water
, U.S.A. - India
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness)
General Partner | Co-Founder at Antler India
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Education
Wayee Chu serves as General Partner at Reach Capital. Wayee sources and supports start-ups that bring access and opportunity to all students. Wayee co-founded the NewSchools Seed Fund in 2006. Prior to her work in education, Wayee worked in equity research at Merrill Lynch and started her career at Morgan Stanley. In addition to her role at Reach, she currently serves on the Board of Trustees of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and supports several Bay Area education non-profit organizations including New Leaders, Bay Area and Beyond12. She earned a BA in Economics and Political Science from the University of Michigan and enjoys exploring the world with her husband and children.