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San Francisco California - Palo Alto California - Menlo Park, California - Seattle / Portland - New York, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure)
Most Interested In
I'm looking for bold founders going after big, audacious ideas. I'm personally passionate about SaaS/cloud, especially business applications.
Not Interested In
I'm not interested in anything related to adtech.
Partner at @dfj, a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. Lead our efforts in SaaS and Enterprise IT. Also active in Consumer and Mobile.
San Francisco California - New York City (NY) - Philadelphia Pennsylvania - 4040 Locust Street Philiadelphia Pennsylvania - Advertising - E - Gaming/eSports - IoT - Marketing automation - Social mobile, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Hospitality (& Events) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • AR/VR • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Payments • Mobile Apps • Investment Management • Mobile • Online Social
VC with First Round, former del.icio.us and Half.com/eBay BD guy, 25 yrs in Tech. Also @chrisfralic http://frc.vc/chris
San Francisco California - Valley California - Menlo Park California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Local commerce
Jason Pressman is a Co- Founder and serves as Managing Director & Partner at Shasta Ventures. He also is an Angel Investor. He serves as the Board of Directors at Deep Sentinel. He leads the enterprise practice at Shasta Ventures and invests across a range of sectors including enterprise software, SaaS, cloud and consumer services. A company builder who played an integral role in the development of one of today's largest online businesses, Jason acts as a thought partner, advocate and counselor to entrepreneurs looking to take their companies from initial proof of product-market fit to industry dominance. As a partner at Shasta, Jason has been an active investor in cloud computing, with an emphasis on next-generation applications, systems management and open source software. His previous investments include Makara (acquired by RedHat) and iConclude (acquired by Opsware). Jason currently serves on the boards of application performance management startup Crittercism, Scala open source software platform Typesafe and SaaS subscription billing company Zuora, as well as local social guide Nextdoor and mobile platform Smule. Prior to joining Shasta in 2005, Jason was Vice President, Strategy and Operations at venture-backed Walmart.com, where he took the online retailer from zero to large scale revenue in five years. His experience growing that business into one of largest retailers online informs his understanding of how to thoughtfully scale fast-growing businesses, as well as how to use software to improve operations. Previously, Jason worked as an investment banker to venture-backed companies at Alex.Brown. Jason earned an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BS in Finance from University of Maryland.
Consumer products - Local commerce - Retail - Sales and CRM, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Local commerce • Logistics (& Distribution) • Consumer
3x founder, early-stage advisor, focus in commerce and b2b
San Francisco California - Menlo Park (CA), United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Analytics • Developer tools • Material Science
Partner at Greylock. Former Entrepreneur.
Menlo Park (CA) - San Francisco, California, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Investment Management • Mobile
Tomasz Tunguz serves as Partner at Redpoint Ventures. He focuses on consumer Internet, online marketing, digital media and software investments. He is a Board Member of Chorus. Prior to joining Redpoint, he was the Product Manager for Google's Social Media monetization team, including the Google-MySpace partnership. In addition, he managed the launches of AdSense into six new markets in Europe and Asia. Before Google, he developed systems for the Department of Homeland Security at Appian Corporation, a provider of Business Process Management solutions. He also co-founded Perquimans Systems, a provider of bilingual, tri-currency automated time billing and document management systems for top-tier law firms in Chile. He holds a B.A. in Mechanical Engineering, a B.E. in Machine Learning and Master's degree in Engineering Management from Dartmouth College where he was a George Revitz Fellow. He is also a Board Member at Electric Imp, Expensify, StackRox, Quantifind and Customer.
New York City (NY) - San Francisco (CA) - Menlo Park (CA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Future Of Work • Food & Beverage • Logistics (& Distribution) • Messaging • Online Social • Consumer
Co-founder at Fin, GP Slow Ventures, Intern The Information
Menlo Park, California, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Future Of Work • Human Resources • Mobile
Most Interested In
Enterprise SaaS Applications, Digital Health, Product Led GTM, Marketplaces
Not Interested In
Hardware, consumer, drugs/medical devices
Menlo Park California - Valley California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA) - San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Material Science • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Founder and Managing Partner at Threshold Ventures
San Francisco California - Valley California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA) - Menlo Park, California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Future Of Work • Food & Beverage • Human Resources • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Investor, Advisor, Board Member, and Entrepreneur
San Francisco California - Palo Alto California - Menlo Park California - Oakland (CA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Gaming (& eSports) • Analytics • Online Social
General Partner at @matrix-partners; Founder & Director at @betfair.com; Entrepreneur and Investor. Gambler, guy who knows how to do a lot of things.
San Francisco, California - Hardware - Media/content - Social mobile - Saratoga, California - Menlo Park (CA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Messaging • Mobile Apps • Online Social
General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
Melbourne Australia - New York (NY) - Austin, Texas - Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • FinTech (& Financials services)
Managing Partner at @village-ventures
Venture capitalist with a focus on financial services companies. Actively looking for investment opportunities in payments, specialty lending, fin tech, asset management, trading systems, insurance, etc.
San Francisco California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA) - Unusual Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Real Estate (& Construction)
Jyoti Bansal is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at BIG Labs. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Entrepreneur Partner at Unusual Ventures. He is a serial entrepreneur and a silicon valley technology visionary. Jyoti believes passionately in software's ability to change the world for the better. He conceived BIG Labs as a vehicle for "parallel entrepreneurship," where he can co-create companies that can help define the future of software and technology. In 2008, he founded AppDynamics, an application intelligence company that provides enterprises with real-time insights into application performance. Jyoti led the company as Founder & CEO for the first eight years, and as Founder & Chairman for the last one year until its acquisition by Cisco for $3.7 Billion in January 2017. Jyoti has been a recipient of many leadership awards, including Forbes' "Best Cloud Computing CEO to Work For", and "Best CEO" by San Francisco Business Times at the Annual Tech & Innovation Award. He was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year⢠for Northern California in 2016. Jyoti received his BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Prior to founding AppDynamics, Jyoti worked at various silicon valley startups as a software engineer and architect. Jyoti is the lead inventor on 20+ US patents.
Boston Massachusets - Menlo Park California - Palo Alto (CA) - San Francisco, California - Founded in 1977, Matrix Partners is a venture capital firm headquartered in San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Sales (& Marketing) • Online Social • Consumer
Dana Stalder serves as General Partner at Matrix Partners. He is a Board Member at Apartment List. Dana left PayPal in 2008 to join Matrix Partners, where he invests in software and Internet businesses that target consumers as well as corporations. He is a board member at Gilt Groupe, iRise, minuteKEY, Polyvore, QuinStreet, textPlus, Work4 Labs, Zendesk, Bugsnag, Poynt and ZestFinance. Dana joined eBay in 2001. As Vice President of Internet Marketing, Dana managed the company's global customer acquisition strategy and a multi-hundred million-dollar Internet marketing budget, where his responsibilities included running eBay's search engine marketing and search engine optimization initiatives. Dana was also responsible for eBay's Strategic Partnership Group, which generated more than several hundred million in revenue from third party partnerships and media sales. In 2004, Dana joined PayPal, where he managed all business operations, including product, sales, marketing and, eventually, technology. Dana started PayPal's international business from scratch, and led PayPal's expansion beyond the eBay platform onto other online retail sites. He also initiated a number of other startup projects, including PayPal Mobile and the PayPal Developer Platform.
Valley California - Palo Alto California - San Francisco, California - Menlo Park (CA) - Los Angeles (CA) - New York (NY) - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Gaming (& eSports) • AR/VR • Material Science • Mobile Apps • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Investment Management • Nanotechnology • Online Social • Consumer
Partner at Lightspeed
Partner at @lightspeed-venture-partners. Investing in consumer technology startups. AB Harvard, SM MIT, MBA Harvard.
San Francisco California - Chicago Illinois - - Illinois - Palo Alto, California - New York (NY) - Menlo Park, California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Logistics (& Distribution) • Payments
Investing in real software solving real problems
Most Interested In
Real software solving real problems; enterprise software; algorithmic-intensive applications; AI; vertical-focused SaaS
Not Interested In
We don't invest in consumer businesses
Sean Dempsey is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at Merus Capital. He also is an Angel Investor. Before co-founding Merus, Sean was a Principal of Corporate Development at Google, responsible for acquisitions and investments including Android, YouTube, and Postini. Prior to Google, he spent over six years at Microsoft in the Corporate Development team. At Microsoft, he led over 40 acquisitions and investments including Bungie, the creator of the Xbox hit Halo. In addition to M&A, Sean was part of the original team to drive Microsoft's living room strategy which ultimately became the Xbox game console. His areas of focus at Google and Microsoft included consumer web services, online and traditional advertising, online video, gaming and enterprise SaaS. Before joining Microsoft, he spent two years in technology Mergers & Acquisitions at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell in Menlo Park and was a Research Analyst at the Jennings Group in San Francisco. Outside of Merus, Sean is an avid trail runner and is doing his small part in keeping the Bay Area trails alive and well through his involvement on the Board of the Peninsula Open Space Trust. He is also an Advisory Board Member of the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College where he graduated with degrees in Economics/Environment/Politics and French.
San Francisco California - Los Angeles, California - Los Angeles (CA) - Bonfire Ventures is a venture capital investment firm, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Advertising • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Mobile Apps • Mobile • Online Social
Founder @double-m-partners @Mull Capital • Worked at @rbc-capital-markets, @City of LA • Studied at @university-of-michigan, @Thunderbird @Univ of Denver
New York City (NY) - HOF Capital is a technology - focused venture capital investment firm that is headquartered in New York, New York - Global, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Hospitality (& Events) • Education • AgroTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Advertising • Logistics (& Distribution) • Real Estate (& Construction)
Fady Yacoub is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at HOF Capital. He is also an Angel Investor. Together with Hisham El Haddad, Fady created a Hong Kong-based SPV to invest in the record-setting IPO of Alibaba. The SPV received a stock allocation at a discount with a 3x margin and was successfully exited with a 76% return in two months. Fady worked previously at Digital World Capital, a technology-focused hedge fund, helping the firm to expand its investment portfolio in Asia, including a sizeable investment in Baidu, the world's second largest online search engine. Along with Hisham, Fady also invented the drumm device, an IoT-enhanced wearable that allows for haptic communication, after participating successfully in Switch SuperNap's technology accelerator in Nevada. Earlier in his career, Fady held multiple positions at El Tholathia Corp Egypt (ETC). He led El-Tholathia Corp's (ETC Egypt) industrial development team in deploying a new home appliances factory in Sudan for a $8m initial cost. Through ETC's real estate development arm, he also facilitated the purchase of and subsequently led the development team for ~400,000 m2 on Egypt's North Coast, a project initially valued at ~$60m. Fady holds dual Bachelor's degrees in Business Administration & Psychology from the University of Southern California. He is also an Angel Investor.
Austin, Texas - Los Altos California ; Los Gatos California ; Stanford California ; Sunnyvale California ; Menlo Park California ; Cupertino Ca, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Future Of Work • Investment Management
Head of Marketing @appzen â¢Â Founder @walkabout-wireless @marketingcamp ⢠Mentor @500startups ⢠Advisor @fundersclub @candy-lab-1
San Francisco California - Cape Town South Africa - Austin - Menlo Park (CA) - San Francisco Bay Area (CA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Other • IT (& TMT) • FinTech (& Financials services) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Gaming (& eSports) • Analytics
Vinny Lingham is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Office at Civic. He is a Co-Founder and serves as a General Partner at Newtown Partners. He serves as an Advisor at Blockchain Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur who previously founded the digital gift card platform, Gyft, which was acquired by First Data Corporation in 2014. After over a decade of experience in e-commerce, he realized that no-one had a universal solution to tackle identity fraud for consumers. He also serves as General Partner in crypto-token fund Multicoin Capital.
Blockchain - Cryptocurrency - Fintech - Games - Gaming/eSports - Insurance - London, United Kingdom - U.K., United Kingdom
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Gaming (& eSports) • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Material Science • Investment Management • Mobile
Most Interested In
Insurtech, fintech, crypto
Not Interested In
hardware, ecommerce, silicon
San Francisco, California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA) - Menlo Park, California - - Redwood City, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Online Social
Mr. Aaref Hilaly serves as Partner at Bain Capital Ventures. He also serves as Board Member at Clari, Noteable and Truera. He serves as Board Observer at ReCharge Payments. He previously served as a Board Member at Guardant Health, Duck Duck Moose, LightStep, Keen (IO), MobileIron, Remix, Skyhigh Networks and Validere. Previously he also served as Partner at Wing Venture Capital. He joined Sequoia Capital, in April 2012 and served as a Managing Member of Sequoia Capital Operations from January 2015 to June 2018. He served as Board Observer & Advisor at ThousandEyes. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital, he served as Vice President, Engineering at Symantec Corp. from June 2011 to April 2012. He was the Chief Executive Officer of Clearwell Systems, Inc. Prior to that, he was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of CenterRun, Inc. He holds an M.B.A. degree from Harvard Business School, an M.A. degree in Economics from McGill University and a B.A. degree from Oxford University.