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Angela Strange

San Francisco Bay Area - Menlo Park, California - New York (NY), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • IT (& TMT) • Media • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Payments • Real Estate (& Construction) • Investment Management • Mobile

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Most Interested In

Financial services (esp anything with unique customer target/ or acquisition strategy), new software in esoteric spaces (eg mortgage servicing), all things Insurance

Ajay Chopra

San Francisco California - Menlo Park (CA) - West Hollywood, United States

Investing In

IT (& TMT) • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Mobile

Description

Ajay Chopra serves as General Partner at Trinity Ventures. He was a Board Member at Stratim. Since joining Trinity Ventures in 2006, he has developed a reputation as an entrepreneur's coach. His passion is helping entrepreneurs execute their Big Idea. He has over 20 years of operating experience at the senior management and board level with start-ups, private companies and public companies. Prior to joining Trinity Ventures, Chopra co-founded Pinnacle Systems, a seminal media technology company that pioneered consumer generated media creation. During his tenure at Pinnacle, the company grew from start-up stage to a global $350M public company, won several Emmy awards and completed over a dozen M&A transactions before being acquired by Avid Technology. Previously, he was with Mindset Corporation, a computer graphics start-up. Before Mindset, he held various technical and management positions at Atari Corporation, a video games company, and Unisys Corporation, an IT services company. He is a charter member of The Indus Entrepreneurs, an active group providing support for entrepreneurs and is on the Board of Trustees of the Harker School in San Jose. He serves as Board Member at Green Throttle Games, CrowdFlower, White Sky, Fitstar, BirdEye and Dynamic Signal.

Patrick Chung

Redwood City California - Menlo Park California - San Jose California - Palo Alto, California - , U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Human Resources • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer

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General Partner, Xfund

Managing Director of Naxuri Capital (a fashion technology fund); former Managing Director of SK Telecom Ventures; former attorney at Wilson Sonsini

Jyoti Bansal

San Francisco California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA) - Unusual Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Real Estate (& Construction)

Description

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.

Vinny Lingham

San Francisco California - Cape Town South Africa - Austin - Menlo Park (CA) - San Francisco Bay Area (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Other • IT (& TMT) • FinTech (& Financials services) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Gaming (& eSports) • Analytics

Description

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.

Brian Ascher

San Francisco California - Palo Alto, California - Palo Alto (CA) - Menlo Park, California, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Analytics • AR/VR • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Material Science • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Payments • Robotics • Mobile • Nanotechnology

Description

Most Interested In

"Intelligent Enterprise"--deeply understanding a business problem and making clever use of data in the background to provide a unique solution. FinTech--providing a better value to consumers for financial services by removing intermediaries IoT--beautifully designed products that invent a new category, or re-invent a sleepy one Robotics--machines that yield a massive performance advantage not just replace labor "Frontier"--any crazy idea that can create a new market and make life better

Not Interested In

I focus more on application layer than deep infrastructure. Also more interested in "brave new world" ideas than threading the needle in a crowded market.

Partner at @venrock

Kent Bennett

Menlo Park California - Boston (MA) - Redwood City, California, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Material Science • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobile • Consumer

Description

VP at @bessemer-venture-partners focused on seed and early/growth stage investments in "big data"/analytics/data & cloud infrastructure.

Arif Janmohamed

Menlo Park (CA) - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.

Investing In

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

Description

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.

Nakul Mandan

Palo Alto California - Menlo Park California - San Francisco, California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

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

Description

Early Stage VC @ Audacious Ventures

Most Interested In

SaaS, B2B marketplaces, professional communities/LinkedIn for vertical markets, Prosumer

Not Interested In

Hardware

Investor at @lightspeed-venture-partners

Max Gazor

Menlo Park California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA) - San Francisco Bay Area - Founded in 1970, CRV is a venture capital firm headquartered in Palo Alto, California, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Consumer

Description

Max Gazor serves as General Partner at Charles River Ventures. He also serves as a Board Member at Respond Software. He brings deep enterprise domain experience spanning M&A, strategy and business development. Prior to CRV, he led acquisitions and investments across enterprise and emerging technologies for Cisco's Corporate Development team. Before Cisco, he was responsible for business development within Oracle's Server Technologies division. He served as a Board Observer at OneLogin. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an M.S. in EECS from MIT and a B.S. in EECS from UC Berkeley.

Geoff Yang

San Francisco California - Menlo Park (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Local commerce • Mobile Apps • Online Social • Consumer

Description

Founding partner at Redpoint Ventures (www.redpoint.com). Looking for consumer and infrastructure companies that will create and shape new markets.

Jennifer Fonstad

San Francisco California - Menlo Park California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • CleanTech

Description

Founding Partner, Owl Capital Group

Barry Schuler

San Francisco Bay Area (CA) - Menlo Park, California - Yountville - Fairfax - San Francisco - San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • BioTech • Entertainment (& Sports) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Robotics

Description

Mr. Barry Schuler is a Co-Founder and serves as President and Chief Executive Officer at Medior. He serves as a Board Member at Unity. He serves as a Partner at DFJ Growth. He served as Board Member at LittleBits and Patreon. He serves as Board Member at Helix. He is credited with being one of the pioneers of the modern Internet. As an entrepreneur for several years, He propelled innovations in digital media, e-commerce, design, and video games. He was a member of the senior management team at AOL. He co-founded the DFJ Growth Fund in 2006 and is actively involved with its investments which include Twitter, Tumblr, SolarCity, SpaceX, and Tesla Motor Company. He serves on the board of directors for Foursquare, Formlabs, Good Technology, and Synthetic Genomics. He graduated with a BA from Rutgers University.

Tyler Mayoras

Chicago, Illinois - AgTech - Consumer products - Food and beverage - Saint Louis, Missouri - U.S.A., U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • BioTech • AgroTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Analytics • Food & Beverage • Material Science • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer

Description

Passionate impact investor and entrepreneur focused on building a sustainable future of food. Over 20 years of private equity experience building successful companies and teams in the food and agriculture industries.

Most Interested In

I am a food and agriculture investor that makes both private equity and angel investments in the space. We typically look at companies with at least $3 million to $4 million of revenue. I am also vegan and very interested in plant based foods. Other areas we are very interested in indoor agriculture, regenerative agriculture and organic products, composting, reducing food waste and better for you food products

Not Interested In

We cannot invest in pre-revenue companies and we avoid the front end of the food industry; restaurants, food delivery, etc.

Advantage Capital Principal, Food and Agriculture Fund We invest in growth and buyout opportunities across the food and agriculture industries.

Matt Huang

San Francisco California - Menlo Park (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

IT (& TMT) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Mobile Apps

Description

Internet investing @sequoia-capital

Elliot Geidt

Menlo Park (CA) - Mountain View, California, United States

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Investment Management • Mobile • Online Social

Description

Managing Director Redpoint Ventures

Warren Weiss

San Francisco Bay Area (CA) - Menlo Park, California - Palo Alto, California - Redwood City, California, U.S.A.

Investing In

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

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Managing Partner at WestWave Capital and General Partner at Foundation Capital

Jim Goetz

San Francisco California - Menlo Park, California - Sequoia Capital is a venture capital investment firm headquartered in Menlo Park, California, U.S.A.

Investing In

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

Description

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

Peter Hebert

San Francisco California - Menlo Park (CA) - Founded in 2000, Lux Capital Management is a venture capital firm headquartered in New York, New York with an additional office in Meno Park, California, U.S.A.

Investing In

IT (& TMT) • BioTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Robotics • Aerospace (& Defense) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Investment Management

Description

Peter is Co-Founder of Lux Capital and focuses on investments in technology and energy

Somesh Dash

Menlo Park California - San Francisco California - Palo Alto (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Blockchain (& Cryptos)

Description

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.

Karim Faris

Valley California - Mountain View California - San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • BioTech • AgroTech • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Analytics • Food & Beverage • Material Science • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Mobile Apps • Online Social

Description

General Partner at Google Ventures

Linked In Description:

Karim is a Partner at Google Ventures. He brings over a decade of operational, entrepreneurial and investment experience to his role. He initially joined Google's corporate development team in 2008, the group responsible for the company's acquisitions & strategic investments. His primary areas of focus are Internet services, mobile and digital media. Prior to Google, Karim was a venture capitalist at Atlas Venture, where he worked on investments in Internet infrastructure and digital media. Previously, he was Director of New Ventures at Level 3 Communications, responsible for evaluating new business opportunities and has led product development for the company's voice services. Earlier in his career, Karim held various product and marketing roles at Intel, initially on the i486, and later as product manager for the Pentium Processor. He started his career at Siemens as a software engineer working on the first vehicle navigation system for BMW. Karim holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a BS in Computer Engineering from Brown University where he published several papers on Neural Networks. Specialties: Venture Capital, Company formation, Entrepreneurship, Product Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Growth Financing

Satish Dharmaraj

San Francisco California - Menlo Park (CA) - Saratoga, California, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Mobile Apps • Investment Management • Mobile • Online Social

Description

Satish Dharmaraj serves as Partner at Redpoint Ventures. He serves as the Board Member at Solo.io. Prior to Redpoint, Satish was the founder/CEO of Zimbra, which he sold to Yahoo! for $350M. Before founding Zimbra, Satish was GM of the Messaging Products Division at Openwave Systems, responsible for mobile email, mobile unified messaging, mobile voicemail and mobile instant messaging product lines selling to large carriers and ISPs. Satish managed both the engineering and product management teams. Satish came to Openwave as part of the founding team at the unified messaging company Onebox, where he led engineering and network operations and sold Onebox to Openwave for $850M.

Alan Chiu

Palo Alto California - Alpine California - The firm is headquartered in Portola Valley, California - New York - Redwood City - Stanford - Menlo Park - San Mateo - CA, United States

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • Healthcare (& Wellness)

Description

Alan Chiu serves as Partner at XSeed Capital. Earlier, he co-founded and served as Vice President, 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. Alan 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. Alan 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, Alan 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, Alan 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. Alan 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.

Nina Kjellson

San Francisco Bay Area (CA) - Menlo Park, California - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

IT (& TMT) • BioTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Material Science • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Investment Management • Mobile • Consumer

Description

General Partner at Canaan Partners

Mark Fernandes

Menlo Park (CA) - San Mateo, California, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Analytics • Developer tools • Material Science • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Robotics • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Life Science

Description

Managing Director at Sierra Ventures