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New York, U.S.A.
Media • Education • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Analytics • Online Social
Eric Hippeau serves as Managing Partner at Lerer Hippeau Ventures. He serves as Special Partner at SoftBank Capital. He serves as a Board Member of BuzzFeed. He serves as Managing Director & Partner at Lerer Hippeau Ventures. He is the chairman of RebelMouse and co-founder of NowThis Media. Previously, Eric was the Chief Executive Officer of The Huffington Post and a Special Partner at Softbank Capital, where he served as Managing Partner. Prior to Softbank Capital, Eric was Chairman and CEO of Ziff-Davis, which was the largest media company serving the technology sector. He serves on the Board of various private and public companies, including Starwood Hotels and Resorts. He served as a Board Member at PureVideo Networks, Media Startup X and Rivet Games.
New York, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Gaming (& eSports) • Developer tools • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Online Social • Consumer
Partner, Investment Committee at TCG (The Chernin Group) | Kauffman Fellow
Series A VC (and beyond)
Marco DeMeireles serves as Principal & Head of Private Investments at Balyasny Asset Management. He is focused on public and private technology investments across Consumer Internet, Digital Media, Enterprise Software, HCIT and IT Infrastructure businesses globally. He attended Williams College where he graduated with a degree in Economics and Leadership studies. At BAM, Marco's investment experience spans Venture Capital, Growth Equity, Public Equities (equity long/short) and personal LP investments into leading fund managers. He has sourced and led the Firm's investments in Avant, Cuebiq, Orbital Insight, Outcome Health (fka ContextMedia), and Peloton where he serves as Balyasny's shareholder representative. Prior to joining BAM, Marco was with Technology Crossover Ventures, focused on growth stage investments, and began his career in Morgan Stanley's Investment Banking Division advising Technology clients based in Menlo Park. While at Morgan Stanley, Marco worked with companies in the storage, hardware, software, security, digital media and consumer internet sectors on a variety of transactions including public equity offerings (Palo Alto Networks), debt financings (Rovi, HP), leveraged buyouts (Dell/Quest) and strategic M&A assignments (Cisco/Meraki).
Palo Alto - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Developer tools • Local commerce • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobility • Consumer
Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Goodwater Capital
Chi-Hua Chien is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Goodwater Capital. He is a Board Member at Care/of. He was a Board Member at Lithium Technologies. He serves as the Board Member at charity: water. Chien served as General Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 2007 and focuses on investments in consumer technology. Chi-Hua serves on the board of directors or works closely with the teams at Chegg (CHGG), Chill, textPlus, Karma Science (acquired by FB), Klout, Level, Path, Spotify, Twitter (TWTR) and Zaarly. Before coming to KPCB, Chi-Hua worked with Accel Partners as a venture advisor and associate. He originated Accel's investments in Facebook (FB) and AdECN (acquired by MSFT) and worked on the firm's investments in AdMob (acquired by GOOG), fbFund, Glam, Trulia (TRLA) and YuMe Networks. Before becoming an investor, Chi-Hua was an early employee or co-founder of four startups including Coremetrics (acquired by IBM), where he led the marketing and inside sales teams, served as interim CFO, and was appointed to the Office of the President. Previously he also served as the Board Member at Inspirato. He also serves as a Board member at Sweatcoin.
San Francisco Bay Area - Austin - Texas, U.S.A. - Canada
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Online Social • Consumer
partner @formation-8. Claremont McKenna graduate. Originally from Iowa City, IA
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - Brazil
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Hospitality (& Events) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Entertainment (& Sports) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Online Social • Productivity
Managing Partner, Global Operator
New York - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Analytics • Future Of Work • Robotics • Consumer
Partner at Bedrock Capital. Formerly Founders Fund.
Tel Aviv - Hamburg, Germany - Israel - U.S.A.
Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Sales (& Marketing) • Blockchain (& Cryptos)
VC investor in US and Israel, Managing partner of J-Ventures and past Rhodium and Coin Ventures
Oded Hermoni serves as Venture Partner at Rhodium. He acts as a bridge for Rhodium's portfolio in the Valley, since early 2012. Oded has been involved with over 25 companies as investor/board member/ advisor or observer, has founded 2 startups, including Ozeret4u which was acquired by Yellow pages (2006), and was an early stage investor at Capital Point Group and Meytag High Tech Ventures. In addition, Oded headed the Israeli Venture Capital industry association and formed the IATI (previously HTIA) - the largest umbrella organization of the Israeli High Tech. Furthermore, Oded sits on the screening committee and is a chapter member of TIE angels, one of Silicon Valley strongest entrepreneurs network. Oded also co-chairs the IEFF - the Israeli Entrepreneurs and Founders forum of Silicon Valley, and is involved with many angels clubs, Accelerators and Incubators in the Valley. Oded loves gadgets of any form, and for 10 years had a monthly column about consumer electronics in TheMarker Magazine. Today, Oded writes frequently about his experiences in the Valley for some of the leading Israeli tech newspapers.
Palo Alto California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Advertising • Future Of Work • Logistics (& Distribution) • Payments • Woman Focused
Most Interested In
I'm most interested in commerce enablement SAAS, but remain opportunistic across vertical SAAS, Fintech, AI/ML, and others.
Not Interested In
Medical, health
Los Angeles - New York - Detroit - San Francisco Bay Area - Tel Aviv - Los Altos - California, U.S.A. - Israel
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Entertainment (& Sports) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Robotics • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobility • Online Social • Consumer
Most Interested In
Consumer Mobile Software, Consumer Health, Autonomous Cars and Truck technology, esports, Consumer VR
Not Interested In
saas, big data, enterprise
Menlo Park - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Hospitality (& Events) • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Entertainment (& Sports) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Neil Tolaney serves as a Principal & Head of Consumer Internet Investing at Francisco Partners. Prior to joining Francisco Partners in 2016, Neil was Managing Director of PersonalizationMall.com, an e-commerce category leader of personalized gifts. Neil was previously Vice President at Technology Crossover Ventures ("TCV"), where he helped lead investments in Facebook, AppNexus and Minted. Prior to TCV, Neil was Director of Strategic Development at LegalZoom.com, where he led initiatives across business development, corporate development and financial planning and analysis. Neil began his career as an Associate at Polaris Venture Partners and an investment banking Analyst at Banc of America Securities.
Palo Alto - California, U.S.A.
Education • A.I. (& Big Data) • Human Resources • Impact
General Partner at Reach Capital
General Partner in Reach Capital (an early stage venture fund for edtech startups). Started in edtech industry in 2013 as Executive Director of co.lab, an accelerator for ed-tech startups leveraging the power of games to improve educational outcomes
Former co-founder and CEO of social game developer Atakama Labs. Based in San Francisco and Santiago, Chile. Developing next generation social games on mobile platforms.
Acquired in Oct 2011 by the DeNA Group (TYO:2432). After acquisition I became VP at DeNA with roles in Studios, corporate development and as Head of Alliances.
Previously co-founder and CEO of Wanako Games, a console, PC and online videogame development company that pioneered in leveraging Latin American talent for the design and production of videogames. Wanako earned numerous awards including Game of the Year 2006 for Xbox Live by IGN.com.
After Wanako was acquired by Vivendi Inc (Paris: VIV) in December 2006, I was VP of Business Development at Sierra Online.
Previous to Wanako I had worked in the VC, Private Equity and Investment Banking industries.
London - Berlin Germany - Moscow Russia - New York City (NY) - San Francisco California - Valley California - Europe - , United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness)
General Partner at Runa Capital
Andre Bliznyuk serves as Partner at Runa Capital. He serves as the Board Member at SchoolMint. Andre Bliznyuk is also a Board Member at Lendio. He also serves as Partner at Runa Capital. Prior to that, he was head of capital markets and investor relations at Sistema. Andre graduated from MSU with a master's degree in Cross-Cultural Communications, followed this with a graduate course in Economics/Management. He previously served as Board Member at Auxo.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Payments • Nanotechnology • Online Social • Consumer
Managing Partner at Form Capital
New York - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Analytics • Future Of Work • GovTech • Human Resources • Woman Focused
Managing Director at Avalanche VC
MD of PALF - emerging market focused education VC
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Education • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Developer tools • Online Social
Jared Friedman serves as a Partner at Y Combinator. He is also an Angel Investor. He was also a Co-Founder of Scribd, which was funded by Y Combinator in 2006 and grew to be one of the top 100 sites on the web. Jared previously worked at a pioneering AI company and studied computer science at Harvard.
Miami Beach Florida, U.S.A. - Canada - Germany
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Hospitality (& Events) • Education • BioTech • IoT (& Wearables) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Founder and CEO
Jason Goldberg serves as Board Member at Crew. He serves as Chief Executive Officer at OST. Goldberg Co-Founded and served as Chief Executive Officer at Pepo. He previously founded consumer Internet companies Hem.com, Fab.com, Social Median, and Jobster and led strategy and product teams for T-Mobile and AOL. Before his career in business, his first startup was Bill Clinton's campaign for President of the U.S.A. in 1992, which carried Jason to a six-year stint in the White House. He currently splits his time between Berlin, Germany
Austin - Texas, U.S.A.
PropTech • Education • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Real Estate (& Construction) • UrbanTech
Associate at Dreamit Ventures
Early Stage VC at Dreamit Ventures | Formerly Associate at Flatiron Investors, product management at Allied Health Media and LearnVest | Harvard 2011
San Francisco California - New York City (NY) - Durham North Carolina - North Carolina - Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Other • IT (& TMT) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Food & Beverage • Logistics (& Distribution) • Healthcare (& Wellness)
General Partner at ICONIQ Capital
Matthew Jacobson serves as General Partner at ICONIQ Capital. He is also and Angel Investor. He serves as Board Member at Relativity. He is a Board Observer at Turbonomic and serves as Board Member at AppBoy, Sprinklr Japan, and Skuid. Prior to this role he served as the Managing Director. Previously, he served as an Investor at Battery Ventures and Chief Executive Officer of New York at Groupon, where he led the sales and operations for Groupon's largest market, growing revenues 220%. Before Groupon, Matt spent a number of years with Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) a $7.7B private equity and venture capital firm, where he focused on investments in the Internet and Software sectors. At TCV, Matt served as an Investor and has helped source and execute investments in leading Internet and Software businesses including Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN), HomeAway (NASDAQ: AWAY) and Everyday Health. He also worked closely with other companies including Orbitz (NASDAQ: OWW), Adknowledge, TheStreet.com (NASDAQ: TSCM) and Travelport. Prior to TCV, Matt spent several years at Lehman Brothers, working on a variety of debt and equity financings, M&A transactions and strategic advisory assignments, including advising Yahoo! on Microsoft's unsolicited $44 billion bid for the company. Matt received a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a dual concentration in Finance and Management. He currently serves on the Executive Advisory Board of Techweek. He serves as Board Member at Gitlab.