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Oakland - California, U.S.A. - Canada
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • BioTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • Woman Focused • Productivity
Dr. Brian Dixon serves as Venture Partner at Elm Street Ventures. He also serves as the Chief Executive Officer of BioRelix, Inc. Prior to joining BioRelix in October 2007, Dr. Dixon served as Vice President with Bayer HealthCare in West Haven Connecticut. In that position, he led a multi-disciplinary organization of up to 130 employees that delivered state-of-the-art expertise in oncology biomarker discovery, new lead discovery, research drug formulation, pharmacokinetics and drug metabolism to Bayer's global R&D business. In addition, he held leadership roles in R&D licensing initiatives, strategic alliances and cross divisional collaborations in translational medicine. From 1998 to 2001, Dr. Dixon directed Bayer drug discovery efforts in both the Osteoporosis and Oncology therapeutic areas. He serves as a Director of BioRelix, Inc. Dr. Dixon was an undergraduate at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and completed post-doctoral training at Harvard University.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Consumer
Dr. Jyri Engestrom is a Co-Founder and serves as the General Partner at Yes VC. Dr. Engestrom served as Advisor at True Ventures. Engestrom is also a Co-Founder at Yes VC. He was a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Jaiku, which grew into the leading European mobile social network and pioneered the sharing of location information, status updates and activity streams on smartphones. Prior to Jaiku, Jyri worked at Nokia, and holds patents in remote content delivery, content prioritization and RF-tag-reading capabilities in mobile devices. A sociologist by training, Jyri coined the term "social object" to refer to photos, links and other shareable Web content. After Google acquired Jaiku in 2007, Jyri was responsible for mobile applications and Google's efforts to become a social destination on the Web and mobile. He left Google to found Ditto.me, a mobile local recommendations business, which was acquired by Groupon in 2012. At Groupon, Jyri served as the Director of Product Management responsible for Breadcrumb by Groupon, an iPad point-of-sale system that replaces traditional cash registers at restaurants and other local businesses. Born in Helsinki, Finland, Jyri graduated with a Master's degree in Social Science from the University of Helsinki in 2002 and pursued Ph.D. studies at Lancaster University Management School in the UK. He is the Co-Founder of Drone Games, a programming competition advancing the ethical use of autonomous flying drones, and Sesat School, a micro-school in San Francisco. He serves on the board of the Rare Cancer Research Foundation.
Tel Aviv, Israel - U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Gaming (& eSports) • Payments • Online Social
Most Interested In
I invest in Israeli and Israeli related startups across all stages and domains.
Not Interested In
Hardware, pharma / biotech, gaming, adtech
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Sales (& Marketing) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data)
Most Interested In
ML-powered B2B apps; high usage, product-led growth B2B apps
Not Interested In
Consumer; hardware; biotech
St. Louis - Missouri, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Sales (& Marketing) • Consumer
Brian Matthews is a Co-founder and a General Partner at Cultivation Capital. In addition, he is a General Partner and mentor at SixThirty FinTech accelerator, as well as, a founder of River City Internet Group (www.rcig.net). River City Internet Group is an Internet holding company that focuses on software, Internet access, and hosting products. Brian is a serial entrepreneur having co-founded and assisted in the sale of the following technology companies: Primary Network to Mpower Communications (MPWR) in 2000, Primary Webworks to Perficient (PRFT) in 2001, CDM Fantasy Sports to Liberty Media (LCAPA) in 2006, and IntraISP to Clearwire Communications (CLWR) in 2007. Brian continues to focus on investments in early stage companies and sits on the boards of LockerDome, TopOpps, Aisle411, Hatchbuck, Tunespeak, SixThirty, Hostirian, and Friends of T-REX.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - South Korea - U.K. - Israel
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Local commerce • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobility • Consumer
Executive Coach
London, U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Gaming (& eSports) • Developer tools • Food & Beverage • Logistics (& Distribution)
Dr. Simon Murdoch is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Episode 1 Ventures. Currently he is also Board Member at Triptease. He sold his first company, BookPages, to Amazon in 1998 after which he reported to Jeff Bezos as VP Europe of Amazon.com. In early 2000, Simon founded and ran Chase Episode 1, an early stage European technology VC fund backed by JP Morgan Chase. After the fund Simon became a full-time angel investor. His angel portfolio includes/included investments in Shazam, Zoopla, LoveFilm (sold to Amazon 2011), Natural Motion, Covestor and Shutl. In addition, from 2010 to 2012, Simon worked at Octopus Ventures in portfolio development. Simon has a BA in Physics from Cambridge and a PhD in Computer Science and Expert Systems. He serves as Chairman at SubHub. He also serves as the board member at Profitero. He also served as aboard member at SwiftSwift. He holds the board position at Global App Testing, SimplyCook, Triptease and Passfort. He served as board member at ParamountZone.
Seattle / Portland - Minneapolis - New York - Los Angeles / Southern California - Midwest - Chicago - Illinois, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Food & Beverage • Real Estate (& Construction) • Consumer
Founding Partner at Starting Line
Most Interested In
I am looking to lead rounds where founders have identified a market dislocation that they're successfully attacking - whether that is for economic reasons, data reasons, or generational reasons. I have invested in popular culture (Cameo), food (Hungryroot), mobility (Spothero), recreation (Catch Co), real estate (Flyhomes/Havenly), finance (Sunbit/M1Finance) and more.
Ezra Galston is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Starting Line. He serves as Investment Committee Member at Bold Coast Capital. Galston is an Angel Investor of Ezra Galston. He served as Principal at Chicago Ventures. He focuses on all facets of the firm's consumer facing and marketing tech investments and is actively involved with Blitsy, BloomNation, Kapow Events, Luxury Garage Sale, Shiftgig, SpotHero, and Zipments. Ezra's thoughts on startups, gaming, e-commerce and bitcoin have been published in the Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Re/code. Ezra joined Chicago Ventures in March, 2012 and prior was a Young Entrepreneur at Foundation Capital. Before business school, Ezra served as the Director of Marketing for CardRunners Gaming - the parent company of CardRunners, Hold'em Manager and DraftDay - and before then earned a living as a professional poker player. He launched his first startup at age 13 and served as Director of Interactive Marketing at Buzz Marketing Group from 2003-2005 working closely with Midas Records, Sony Records and MTV. Ezra is a proud husband and father to a two year old boy. His varied interests have led him to launch a record label and produce a festival screened short film. He is a Kauffman Fellow, Class 18 and holds an MBA from Chicago Booth and a BA from New York University.
London, U.K. - Canada - Europe: Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Romania, Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, Greece, Portugal, Sweden, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Slovakia, Norway, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Iceland,
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Payments
Most Interested In
Fintech: applications built on top of open banking, Saas with integrated fintech products, embedded finance plays. Insurtech: new risk with new data sets; infrastructure, embedded insurance plays
Not Interested In
If you don't feel you have any link or connection to financial services (in a broad definition), then its probably not an opportunity for me
Boulder - Denver - Salt Lake City - Provo - Minneapolis - Indianapolis - Madison - Milwaukee - Detroit - St. Paul - Ann Arbor - Chicago - Minnesota, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • AgroTech • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Developer tools • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Woman Focused
Most Interested In
We focus more on the insight of the founders than our insights, so we're most excited to learn how you think the world should be different and how we can help you make that change happen.
Not Interested In
Startups without a connection to The Rockies and The North regions of the US.
, U.S.A. - India
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Consumer
Subrata Mitra serves as Partner at Accel. Mitra also serves as Board Member at LetsVenture Online. He is also a Board Member at Juspay. He also serves as Fund Advisor at Jungle Ventures. He focuses on technology and Internet investing. Subrata served on the boards of Small-device (now a part of Digital Chocolate) and Mu Sigma, and is currently on the boards of Perfint, Flipkart, Myntra, and enStage. Before joining Accel India in 2008, Subrata was a Partner at Erasmic Venture Fund. Prior to Erasmic, Subrata was MD, India, for Tavant Technologies, Inc., a U.S.-based mortgage solutions company, which was acquired by privately held Ameriquest Mortgage Capital in 2004 (Ameriquest has since merged into CitiCapital). Previously, Subrata was the Founder of Firewhite, Inc., which was acquired by Ubiquio, Inc., and later merged into Mobile Planet. Subrata started his career at IBM's prestigious T.J. Watson and Santa Teresa Labs, working in the Software R&D groups. Subrata holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Delaware, and a B.Tech in Computer Science from IIT, Kanpur, India.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - China
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • BioTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Analytics • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Dr. David Chen serves as Venture Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. David focuses primarily on investments in the mobile, Internet, and software sectors. Before joining Lightspeed, David was a product manager on the Facebook growth team. Previously, he was co-founder and VP Product of Triangulate, a venture-backed startup using social media behaviors to drive algorithmic matching. Prior to Triangulate, David served in product management and engineering roles for Admob and Digital Chocolate. In addition, he worked at McKinsey on strategic engagements with technology companies. David received his Ph.D. in Science, Technology, and Management from Harvard Business School and Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and his M.S. and B.A. in Computer Science from Harvard.
London, U.K. - U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data)
Richard Marsh serves as Partner at Draper Esprit. He has worked in start-ups and venture capital since 1997 and is an experienced entrepreneur as well as a venture capitalist. He founded and built Datanomic, a Cambridge-based software company which was a pioneer of Data Quality software and was acquired by Oracle. As an investor, Richard has worked across software, hardware, mobile and cleantech sectors. He is responsible for DFJ Esprit's investments in Connectivity (acquired by KCOM, LSE:KCOM), Garlik (acquired by Experian, LSE: EXPN), GreenPeak Technologies, Polatis, Psytechnics (acquired by NetScout, NASDAQ: NTCT) and ZBD Solutions. Richard is an Engineering graduate of Cambridge University where he also received his PhD. Richard holds an MBA from IMD, Lausanne, where he was a Sainsbury Management Fellow.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - Israel
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Human Resources • Impact • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer • Woman Focused
Most Interested In
-Health - how can we improve outcomes in the healthcare? Examples include digital health, tech-enabled health services or health IT. -Economic Opportunity - how can individuals or household improve their economic situation? Examples include fintech, future of work, housing and job on-ramps. -Public Sphere - how can we improve governance in society? Examples include civictech, and govtech.
Not Interested In
Generally we do not invest in companies focused on hardware, consumer packaged goods, wellness or environmental issues. No FDA risk, please. Focus is on US as first market.
London, U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • DeepTech
Experienced Business Angel
Experienced Business Angel
Originally a biochemist and management accountant by training, my brother and I have been full-time, active, early-stage investors in the UK since 2000. Focussed on funding early-stage, UK and Singapore-based businesses and then following our investment across multiple investment rounds, we've achieved numerous exits - OC Robotics (2017 sale to GE Aviation), Bybox (seed investment to >£70M turnover without further funding - MBO in 2016 for £105M), Buzzmove (2014 seed investment sold to White Mountain Insurance Group in 2016) Omega Logic (Sale to Eposs Ltd), Pout (Sale to Catterton Partners) Commerce Decisions (Sale to QinetiQ) and Tagman (Sale to Ensighten). Co-investing with my brother, Michael, who also runs Cocoon Capital in South East Asia, I am actively involved in the management of many of our investments, including the raise of further financing. I am a non-exec and Investment Committee member at Playfair Capital and also sit on the Investment Committee of the UK's Angel CoFund. Am also a member of Cambridge Angels. Current UK investments include Trouva (2013 investment alongside Index Ventures/Octopus, $10M Series A in 2017), Ventrata, Reposit, Audiense (formerly Socialbro), Chattermill, Specle, Virtual IT, CareLineLive and several others. We are actively looking for early-stage, investment opportunities and continue to support current portfolio companies in further financing rounds. Outside of work I sit on the Management Board of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (at the University of East Anglia), where I also chair the finance subcommittee. I am an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music. Specialties: Financial exec with broad experience in early-stage fundraising, non-executive roles, business consulting, practical business advice, sounding board to owner-managers, troubleshooting, accounting controls, profit enhancement, exit strategies, business valuations & acquisitions
San Francisco Bay Area - New York, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Sales (& Marketing) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Analytics • Logistics (& Distribution) • Payments • Woman Focused • Productivity
Most Interested In
Fintech, data/analytics, India, Blockchain
Not Interested In
Media or adtech
London, U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Nanotechnology
7years in operations, 5 years in strategy and 30 years in venture capital. Dedicated to demonstrating that European VC can be globally competitive.Specialties: Finance and Strategy
London, U.K. - Netherlands
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Consumer
Venture Partner at BGV (BioGeneration Ventures)