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Palo Alto California - Alpine California Portola Valley, California - New York - Redwood City - Stanford - Menlo Park - San Mateo - CA, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • Healthcare (& Wellness)
Mr. Alan Chiu is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer & Board Member at Enya. He also serves as Venture Advisor at Istari Ventures. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Head of Data at Blockdoc. He serves as a Partner at XSeed Capital. He co-founded and served as Vice President of Products at Listo. His investment areas include mobile enterprise applications, next-generation data center stack, and data analytics platforms and applications. He serves on the Board of Directors of StackStorm and supports other portfolio companies including Lex Machina, AtScale, Dispatcher, Teapot, Pixlee, SIPX (acquired by ProQuest), Zooz, and BrainofT. He is currently Vice President for Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs, an alumni association that seeks to strengthen Stanford's startup community by fostering relationships among entrepreneurs and alumni investors. He was previously Director of Product Management at Bycast (acquired by NetApp), an object storage software company with a global customer base that included some of the largest digital content repositories in the world. At Bycast, he and his team drove the product roadmap, managed OEM relationships with IBM and HP, and developed strategies to enter new vertical markets. Prior to Bycast, he served as an engineering manager at a network security start-up and helped develop the market-leading digital prepress workflow system at Creo, which was acquired by Kodak for $1B in cash. He holds a BASc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of British Columbia, as well as an MS in Management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was a Sloan Fellow focused on entrepreneurship, venture capital, and mergers and acquisitions.
San Francisco California - Valley California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • AR/VR • Material Science • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Mobile Apps
Maurice Werdegar serves as Investment Partner, Chief Executive Officer and President at Western Technology Investment. He also served as Advisor on Venture Capital Investments at Major League Baseball Ventures. He also serves as an Advisor at SparkLabs Global Ventures. His background includes positions as a Venture Partner at Outlook Ventures, an early stage venture firm, and Chief Investment Officer at MetaMarkets, an online mutual fund company. Maurice also founded and served as CEO of Left at Albuquerque, a venture-backed chain of restaurants. Prior to business school, Maurice worked in corporate finance at Robertson Stephens. Maurice holds both a BA and MBA from Stanford University.
New York City (NY) - Larkspur - NY - Cambridge - Stamford, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy)
Alessandro Piol is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Vedanta Capital. Piol is also a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at AlphaPrime Ventures. He also serves as an Advisor at U-Start. He led investments in Arbortext (acquired by PTC), Cadis (Aspect Development), Cast Iron Systems (IBM), Digital Persona, LogLogic (TIBCO), ONI Systems (IPO in 2000), Portal Software (IPO in 1999), Torrent Networking (Ericsson), and Verisign (IPO in 1997) among others. In 1991, he co-founded AT&T Ventures where he led investments in BBN Planet (Verizon), Classic Sports Network (now ESPN Classic), Multex (IPO in 1999), Redgate Communications (AOL), and Spectrum HoloByte (Microprose/Hasbro). In 1995, Alessandro became a partner at Invesco Private Capital. Before working as a venture capitalist, Alessandro spent several years developing compilers in Fortran, co-founded the AT&T-backed graphics supercomputing business Pixel Machines, and worked as director of Strategic Partnerships for AT&T Computer Syste Alessandro received an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1985. He received an MS and BS in Computer Science from Columbia University in 1982 and 1979, respectively.
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
IT (& TMT) • BioTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer • Pharmaceutical (& Medicine)
Medical & Health Technology Innovator, Entrepreneur, Inventor, Venture Capitalist
Milan Italy - Cagliari Italy, Italy
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Investment Management • Mobile
Mario Mariani is a Co-Founder and serves as Venture Partner at Annapurna Ventures. Mariani also serves as Partner at United Ventures. After graduating with a Master's degree in "Technology Innovation Management" from Scuola Superiore di Studi Sant'Anna in Pisa, he worked in the field of technology innovation for economic development agencies in Sardinia (such as BIC and Consorzio 21). From 1995 he worked as Product Manager for Online Services for Video On-Line (which later became Tin.it), the first Italian Internet service provider, following the start-up phase and the acquisition by Telecom Italia. In 1998 he co-founded Tiscali, first as Marketing & Communication Director and then as SVP Media & VAS, coordinating Tiscali's pan-European activities in this area and promoting the creation of Tiscali LABS. In July 2006 he was appointed CEO of Tiscali Italia SpA. In January 2009 he founded The Net Value.
Toronto On Canada, Canada
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Food & Beverage • Logistics (& Distribution)
Founder/CEO @highline. Seed Investor. Digital Product Entrepreneur. Corporate Innovation Architect
San Francisco California - Menlo Park California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Investment Management • Mobile
MD at Altos Ventures. Lead investor in fast-growing, founder-led software and mobile startups. Proud Canuck. Always learning.
New York City (NY) - Sydney Australia - Shenzhen China - Beijing, China - Menlo Park, California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Food & Beverage • Material Science • Investment Management
Dr. David Wang serves as Senior Managing Director at OrbiMed. Most recently, he was a Managing Director at WI Harper Group, responsible for healthcare investment in China. Previously, he served as Head of Business Development at Siemens Medical Solutions, where he directed corporate strategy and new businesses in molecular diagnostics and diagnostic imaging. He was co-founder and EVP at First Genetic Trust, a personalized medicine company. During his tenure at Bristol-Myers Squibb, he was Chairman of The SNP Consortium Management Committee, the first group of its kind formed by pharmaceutical and technology industries to support the development of personalized medicine. He received his MD from Peking University Medical School. He earned his doctorate in Developmental Biology from California Institute of Technology.
Paris France - New York City (NY) - Los Angeles (CA) - San Francisco (CA) - New York (NY), France - U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Food & Beverage • Logistics (& Distribution)
Paul Strachman serves as Venture Partner, US at ISAI. He serves as Venture Partner at Red Sea Ventures. Paul graduated with a BSC/MSC in engineering from Ecole des Ponts et Chaussees in France and a MSC in finance and economics from the London School of Economics. In 2002, Paul joined Bain & co. In his three year tenure, Paul focused on CPG and retail companies where he led both turnaround and growth projects. In 2005, Paul left France to pursue his MBA at the Stanford graduate school of business, where he graduated in 2007. After Stanford, Paul moved to NY to join Equinox, where he led strategy for over five years. For the past few years, Paul has been an active angel investor in NYC and SF; he sits on several boards and serves as a mentor at future labs at NYU Tandon and StartX.
Paris, France
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Logistics (& Distribution)
Partner @Serena and Founder @Talentletter
Partner @Serena and Founder @Talentletter
Toronto Ontario Canada - New York - Mountain View, Canada
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Online Social • Consumer • Semiconductors
angel investor
Dennis Bennie is the Founder of XDL Capital Group and serves as its Principal. Bennie is also a Co-Founding Partner of Creative Destruction Lab. He is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chiarman at Adira Energy. He is the Chairman and Co-Founder at Newtopia. Bennie serves as the Board Member at Appinions. He also serves as the board member at WestonExpressions and Mill Street Brewery. He earlier served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at Delrina. He also co-founded the company. Bennie has had over 33 years experience in start ups, rapid growth and turn around opportunities. He has built companies from scratch to over a billion dollars in market capitalization with IPOs on both the TSX and NASDAQ. Dennis Bennie is a pioneer, entrepreneur and innovator in the Canadian technology industry. Over the past 33 years, his entrepreneurial management has powered several successful companies. Bennie currently operates as the XDL Capital Group, investing in early stage technology opportunities. In 1997, he founded the XDL Venture Capital Fund, focusing on information technology opportunities. XDL Intervest, a $150 million fund that started in 1999 and is now fully invested. From 1988 to 1996, Bennie was Chairman and CEO of Delrina Corporation, which forged the new software categories and was best known for producing "Winfax". Listed on both the Toronto Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, Delrina cultivated a reputation for leadership, growth and profitability. In November 1995, the company was sold to Symantec Corporation for share consideration valued at $560 million. Bennie qualified as a chartered accountant in 1975. He entered the world of technology in 1979, when he co-founded Mission Electronics, which is still today a dominant force in the high-end home entertainment market. In 1982 he sold his interest in Mission and founded Aviva Software, an independent, mass-market software developer. Under his direction, the company expanded its scope to include software distribution and merged with Ingram Micro Inc. in 1986 to become Canada's largest software distributor. He is a Co-founder of Delano Technology. From University of the Witwatersrand he earned a degree in Finance and from University of Toronto he earned another degree.
Barcelona - Madrid, Spain - San Sebastian, Spain, Spain
IT (& TMT) • Media • BioTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Material Science • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • DeepTech • Investment Management • Life Science • Mobile • Oncology
San Francisco Bay Area (CA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Logistics (& Distribution)
Business Operations & Finance at data.world
Early stage startups- founder, investor, and operator. Industry experience in enterprise software with a focus on SaaS, developer tools, open source software, and AI. Currently focused on revenue operations and go-to-market strategy at data.world.
Co-Founder and CEO of networking startup, Forget-Me-Not. Featured app in the App Store as a part of the cohort of companies selected for Apple's first original TV series, Planet of the Apps. Selected for Harvard Innovation Labs Venture Incubation Program- Spring 2017 and Fall 2017 cohorts.
Founding investment team member of Unusual Ventures- seed stage venture capital firm founded in 2018 by John Vrionis (Lightspeed Venture Partners) and AppDynamic's founder, Jyoti Bansal.
Investments include: AptEdge, CoScreen, Kloud.io (Board Observer), Shujinko (Board Observer), Vivun, and Yourbase.
Additional investing experience at Applied Ventures and Alumni Venture Group.
Menlo Park California - San Francisco California, U.S.A.
Other • IT (& TMT) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • CleanTech • Material Science • Robotics • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobile • Nanotechnology • Consumer • Woman Focused
Kamini Ramani brings more than 25 years of public relations and marketing communications experience to Mayfield. She has counseled several early-stage companies on messaging, media relations, crisis handling and the communications of strategic initiatives. Her experience includes working with Internet companies such as Bigstep.com and NetObjects, semiconductor leaders such as NVIDIA, enterprise software players such as ASK/Ingres and NeXT and venture capital firms such as Sevin Rosen Funds. She holds a Masters in English Literature from Yale University, a Masters in Communication Research from Stanford University and a Bachelors in English Literature from Bombay University.
Jaipur Rajasthan, India
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Other • IT (& TMT) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Food & Beverage • Logistics (& Distribution) • Material Science • Mobile Apps
Amit Jain is a President , India at Uber.
London - New York City (NY) - Alberta Canada - Boston Massachusetts - Massachusetts - Calgary Ab Canada, United Kingdom
IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Insurance (& InsurTech)
Founder Partner at REV Venture Partners
Founder Partner at REV Venture Partners
Westport Connecticut - New York City (NY) - Connecticut - Palo Alto, California - South Carolina - North America - Massachusetts - Croatia - Albania - Montenegro, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • AgroTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Developer tools • Food & Beverage • Mobile Apps • Online Social
Mr. Zac Zeitlin is the Founder and serves as Partner at New Ground Ventures. He serves as Board Member at Waltz. Zac has been an active investor in an exciting group of impact-minded, early stage companies, with a focus on food, health and wellness, education and financial technology. Prior to starting NGV, Zac was a co-founder and head of the Principal Finance business of Silver Point Capital, as well as one of the firm's six partners. Zac began his career as a private equity investor in the PIA group of Goldman, Sachs & Co. and at TPG Capital. He is a Plan II-Business Honors graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. Zac is the Treasurer and a Trustee of Greens Farms Academy. He served as Board Member at Foodsmart.
San Francisco, California, Menlo Park, California, U.S.A.
IT (& TMT) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Material Science • Investment Management • Mobile • Nanotechnology
Building something new-- Hiring!
Past: Sequoia, Uber, Facebook, Microsoft
Paris France, France
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Robotics • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • LegalTech • Mobile • Restaurants • Woman Focused
European Tech VC
San Diego California Menlo Park, California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Robotics
Partner at Menlo Ventures
Barcelona Spain - Hamburg Germany - Catalonia Spain, Germany
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • CleanTech • Material Science
Venturepreneur & Founding Partner: @active-venture-partners, Co-founder: @foundum-s-l, @autoscout24 Spain,
Paris France - Nova Lima Brazil, France
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • BioTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • IoT (& Wearables) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Material Science • Life Science • Mobile
Piioneer in the IT venture capital industry in France. Co-founder of ABN Amro Capital France; successfully led over 30 IT investments, a majority of which were subsequently listed. Strong entrepreneurial experience, having acquired a small French industrial company in 1992, restored it to profitability and sold it at a profit 18 months later. Board member of Boostermedia, Equitime, Horizontal Software, Keyyo (Alternext: ALKEY), LeadMedia Group (Alternext: ALLMG), Momac, NetBooster (Alternext: ALNBT), NetMediaEurope, Populis, Utel, all Truffle Capital portfolio companies. Initiator and publisher of the Truffle 100 France and Truffle 100 Europe, the leading ranking of the top 100 French and European software vendors respectively. MBA from ESSEC Business School (Paris), Executive Certificate from MIT.
San Francisco California - Palo Alto California - SF Bay Area (CA) , 8VC is a venture capital firm,
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • GovTech • Logistics (& Distribution) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness)
General Partner at 8VC
San Francisco California - Palo Alto California - Menlo Park California - Atlanta Georgia, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Food & Beverage • Real Estate (& Construction) • Investment Management • Life Science • Mobile • Oncology
Greg Williams is the Managing Director at DAG Ventures since 2006. Greg focuses primarily on enterprise infrastructure, SaaS, consumer internet and clean tech. Prior to joining DAG, Greg spent over a decade at other VC firms, including Summerhill Ventures (formerly BCE Capital). Previously, Greg was the Portfolio Manager at Teacher Private Capital where he focused on mid-stage investments in the technology sector. Greg was a Vice-President at Growthworks Capital, managing a diverse portfolio of early stage venture capital investments. Greg holds a B.Sc. degree from McGill University.