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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
Menlo Park California - Valley California - San Francisco, California - The firm was founded in 2003 - San Francisco Bay Area (CA), U.S.A.
FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Blockchain (& Cryptos)
Venture Investor at @pantera-capital ; Board Observer at @changecoin ; Mentor at @boost-bitcoin-fund ; Mentor at @golden-gate-ventures
Menlo Park California - San Francisco California - Palo Alto, California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA), U.S.A.
IT (& TMT) • Media • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Material Science • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Partner at Threshold Ventures
Most Interested In
consumer and enterprise infrastructure, mobility, and technology-enabled services
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 - 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 - 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.
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 (CA) - New York (NY) - London - Berlin (Germany) - Istanbul - Amsterdam (Netherlands) - Brussels - Dubai - Athens (Greece) - Sao Paulo (Brazil) - Mexico (Mexico), United Kingdom
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • BioTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Gaming (& eSports) • Analytics • Developer tools
Partner at Hummingbird
Menlo Park California - London - San Francisco California - Valley California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA) - Redwood City, California - Founded in 1984, Levine Leichtman Capital Partners is a private equity firm, United States
IT (& TMT) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Material Science • Aerospace (& Defense) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Investment Management • Mobile • Consumer • Restaurants • Oil & Gas (& Mining)
David Cowan serves as Partner, Investments at Bessemer Venture Partners. He is a Member of board of directors at Impossible Aerospace. He is a Board Member at Iris Automation. He is a Board Member at CyberGRX and Bastille Networks. He is also a Board Member of Team8. His historical portfolio includes Ciena, Hotjobs, Blue Nile, LinkedIn, LifeLock, PSI-Net, Qualys and over a dozen other IPOs, as well as many large acquisitions such as Twitch, Postini, Cyota, Tripwire, Netli, Playdom, Dropcam and Skybox Imaging. His current portfolio - spanning startups founded in the U.S., Argentina, Singapore, Israel, New Zealand and Scotland - includes Getinsured, Smule, Twilio, Rocket Lab, iSight Partners, Spire Global, Endgame, Auth0, Zapier and Zoosk. During his tenure at BVP. He co-founded three cybersecurity companies incubated in our offices: VeriSign (IPO), where he served as initial Chairman and CFO; Good Technology (fka Visto, acquired by Blackberry) where he served as CEO, and Defense.net (acquired by F5). Forbes ranked him #6 on the Midas List and tied for 4th in the Midas List of Hall of Fame. He is a Trustee of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. You can read his blog at WhoHasTimeForThis?, follow him on twitter (@davidcowan) or see him perform with his men's a capella singing group Voices in Harmony. He also serves as a Board Member at Claroty and an Advisor at Reef Capital Ventures. Cowan earned an A.B. in math and computer science and an MBA degree, both from Harvard University
Mountain View California - San Francisco, California - Palo Alto, California, United States
IT (& TMT) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Robotics • Healthcare (& Wellness)
Dave Munichiello serves as General Partner at GV. His background is in building and leading fast-growing, highly technical organizations under pressure in ambiguous environments. Dave joins Google Ventures from the executive leadership team of Kiva Systems where he helped grow the eCommerce-enabling robotics company to ultimately sell to Amazon for $775 million. Dave's four years at Kiva were spent launching, leading, and growing several client-facing organizations. He established a reputation for consistently recruiting top talent and both building and leading high-performing tea Dave played a key role at Kiva through its first year of integration with Amazon as the two companies partnered to maximize Kiva's impact and shape Amazon's perspective on industrial automation. Dave's career prior to Kiva included management consulting for The Boston Consulting Group and leading teams as a Captain in the U.S. military's most elite units. His military leadership roles ranged from running a high-tech organization in Europe; to serving as an Aide de Camp to the Four Star General responsible for U.S. forces in Europe, Africa, and Afghanistan; to deploying with elite special operations teams worldwide, ensuring they were enabled by the world's most advanced technologies. Dave holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. from Emory University in math and computer science.
San Francisco California - Menlo Park California - Valley California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA) - Los Altos, California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Advertising • Analytics • Food & Beverage • GovTech • Impact • Local commerce • Messaging
Benjamin Horowitz is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He also serves as a Board Member at United Masters, Sisu, Okta and Magnet Syste He was a co-founder and CEO of Opsware (formerly Loudcloud), which was acquired by HP in 2007 and was appointed vice president and general manager of Business Technology Optimization for Software at HP. Earlier, he was vice president and general manager of America Online's E-commerce Platform division. Previously, he ran several product divisions at Netscape Communications. He also served as vice president of Netscape's widely acclaimed Directory and Security product line. Before joining Netscape in July 1995, he held various senior product marketing positions at Lotus Development Corporation. He also serves as Board Observer at Gainspeed. He has a BA in Computer Science from Columbia University and an MS in Computer Science from UCLA. He serves on the board of many companies including Foursquare, SnapLogic,Tidemark Systems and Databricks, Jawbone, Lytro, Magnet Systems, Nicira, 3dna, Tidemark, medium & SignalFuse. He is also the Co-Founder of usermind. He also serves as Advisor at A.Capital Ventures.
San Francisco California - Valley California - Menlo Park, California - Cloud infrastructure - Data services, U.S.A.
BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure)
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, California - Palo Alto, California - New York City (NY), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Gaming (& eSports) • AR/VR • Robotics • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Investment Management • Mobile • Nanotechnology • Consumer
Most Interested In
Future of interactive media, retail, and automobile
San Francisco (CA) - Menlo Park, California - - Shanghai - Beijing, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Local commerce • Robotics • Mobile Apps • Investment Management • Mobile • Consumer
Most Interested In
SaaS, SMB Tech and vertical SaaS. Examples in our portfolio include Brightwheel, Slice, BigCommerce, Houzz, Square.
Not Interested In
Cleantech, hardware
Menlo Park California - San Francisco, California - Sequoia Capital is a venture capital investment firm hea, United States
IT (& TMT) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Material Science • Investment Management • Mobile • Nanotechnology • Consumer
Founder's Coach and Partner at Sequoia Capital
Founded in 1970, CRV is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto, California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Hospitality (& Events) • Media • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Entertainment (& Sports) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Local commerce • Mobile Apps • Consumer
Investor @ CRV
Most Interested In
I'm excited about anything in the consumer/SMB space!
San Francisco Bay Area (CA) - Menlo Park, California - Palo Alto, California - Redwood City, California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • IoT (& Wearables) • CleanTech • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Analytics • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Mobile Apps • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Investment Management • Online Social
Managing Partner at WestWave Capital and General Partner at Foundation Capital
Mountain View California - San Francisco Bay Area - Menlo Park, California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • BioTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Investment Management • Mobile
General Partner @a16z; Physician @Stanford
San Francisco California - Menlo Park, California - Sequoia Capital is a venture capital investment firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California, U.S.A.
IT (& TMT) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Material Science • Investment Management • Life Science • Mobile • Nanotechnology • Oncology • Online Social
Jim Goetz is a Partner at Sequoia Capital and is inpired by founders who plan to disrupt the mobile landscape (admob, whatsapp) or disrupt the enterprise (github, panw). He was raised in the Midwest, studied computer engineering, gave up on a PhD to start his career as a rookie product manager at SynOptics (SNPX), and matured into a VP/GM before co-founding VitalSigns (ALU). Both as an entrepreneur and as an investor, Jim is most enthused when teaming with others to turn an authentic idea into a market leading technology company.Jim joined Sequoia Capital in 2004, and led or co-led Sequoia’s Investments in Admob (GOOG), Appirio (WIPRO), Barracuda Networks (CUDA), BBOP (GOOG), Carbon, Chartboost, Clari, Clearwell (SYMC), Dashlane, Drawbridge(MSFT), eMeter (SI), GitHub(MSFT), HalloApp, Hubspot (HUBS), Karma (FB), Flite(SNAP), Jasper (CSCO), Jive Software (JIVE), Metaswitch (MSFT), Neeva, Nimble Storage (NMBL), Observable, Okta (OKTA), Palo Alto Networks (PANW), Peakstream (GOOG), Pocket Gems, R2C, Quantenna (QTNA), Ruckus (RKUS), Springpath (CSCO), ThousandEyes (CSCO), Versa and WhatsApp (FB). Prior to joining Sequoia, Jim served as a General Partner at Accel Partners. Prior to VitalSigns and Synoptics, Jim held various product and marketing positions at AT&T, AT&T Bell Labs, and Digital Equipment. Jim has a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.Specialties: Mobile, Cloud, Networking, Storage, Open Source, Social
Lisbon Portugal - AI - Blockchain - E - Fintech - IoT, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • BioTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Robotics
Most Interested In
Our focus is ICT (SaaS, AI, blockchain, fintech, cybersecurity, fintech, marketplaces, big data, robotics), seed to series A opportunities. We cover mostly early stage Portugal and Spain and lead or co-lead with other VCs. We occasionally co-invest in new opportunities elsewhere in Europe or the US.
Not Interested In
Biotech, cleantech, hardware.
Menlo Park California - San Francisco California - Palo Alto (CA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Blockchain (& Cryptos)
Somesh Dash serves as Managing Director & General Partner at IVP. He focuses primarily on later-stage investments in Internet, software, wireless, and technology-enabled services companies. Prior to joining IVP, Somesh was an Analyst in the Corporate Finance Division of Credit Suisse's Technology Investment Banking Group. While at Credit Suisse, Somesh focused on strategic financing initiatives for a number of public and private technology companies. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Somesh worked for Luxmi Capital, an early stage venture capital fund focused on digital media investments. He also worked for the Corporate Development Division of Sony Entertainment Television (SET) in Mumbai, India. Somesh is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley, the Tech Advisory Group of UCSF and the Stanford Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS). He is also currently a member of the Partnership for a New American Economy, a nonprofit initiative focused on skilled immigration reform, and co-chaired the March for Innovation (#iMarch). Somesh is a term member of the Council of Foreign Relations. He was formerly a member of the Haas Alumni Board and Haas Development Board at UC Berkeley. Somesh earned a B.S. in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. He also serves on Board of Pindrop Security, Humu, Woven Digital and Qubole. He serves as a Board Observer at Amplitude.