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investors from all around the world.
FinTech, Hardware, SaaS … we diversify our portfolio of
investors to give you the best chance to find startup investors.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Gaming (& eSports) • Nanotechnology
Managing
Los Angeles - New York - Berkeley - Palo Alto - Menlo Park - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Future Of Work • Online Social
Builder. ex-Consumer VC (@a16z)
London - New York City (NY) - Sydney Australia - Tokyo Japan - Vancouver Washington - Waterloo Canada - Quebec Canada - Montreal Qc Canada - Toronto On Canada - Canada, Canada
Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Human Resources • Mobile Apps
Co-Founder & Partner at Real Ventures
Co-Founder & Partner at Real Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • AR/VR • Payments • Online Social
CEO and Founder, General Partner at X Fund
Victor Young is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Flinja. He is the Co-Chief Executive Officer and Chief Product Officer at Take 44.
Moscow - Social mobile, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Entertainment (& Sports) • Gaming (& eSports) • Nanotechnology • Online Social
Most Interested In
We help exceptional founders from Eastern Europe and Baltic Region take over global markets and scale. B2C, mobile.
Not Interested In
medtech, web3
Los Angeles - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A. - China
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Consumer
Travel, Learn & Invest Globally; 8-time Forbes Midas Lister (#10 in ‘20)
Early investor in Xiaomi, EHIC (NYSE), Forgame (HKSE 0484), Wish, FlightCar, Mafengwo, 51Fanli, Operator, Misfit, Little Red Book, Musical.ly, Snapdeal, Airbnb
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Developer tools
Venture Investor at @pantera-capital ; Board Observer at @changecoin ; Mentor at @boost-bitcoin-fund ; Mentor at @golden-gate-ventures
Palo Alto - California, U.S.A.
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)
General Partner at GV
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.
Menlo Park - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Online Social • Consumer
Jeremy Liew serves as a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. He invests primarily in the Internet and mobile sectors, with a particular interest in social media, commerce, gaming and methods for increasing monetization. He joined in early 2006. Previously, he was with AOL, first as SVP of Corporate Development and Chief of Staff to the CEO and then as General Manager of Netscape. Liew joined AOL from InterActiveCorp (originally USA Networks), where he was VP of Strategic Planning. While there, he was responsible for acquisitions, divestitures and investments in TV Networks, consumer Internet companies and online travel companies. Liew started working in the consumer Internet industry as an early employee of CitySearch in 1996, where he held a variety of sales management, operational and business development roles. He is also a Board Member at Affirm, Dote, VarageSale, HQ Trivia and Special Guest App. He formerly served on the Board of Whisper. He was also a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. Liew holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA/BSc from the Australian National University in Linguistics and Pure Mathematics.
San Francisco Bay Area - Menlo Park - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Consumer
Charles Moldow serves as General Partner at Foundation Capital. He serves as Member of Board of Directors at LendingHome, States Title and CoverWallet. He served as Board Member & Advisor at BTCJam. He has a background in general management, sales, marketing, product management, and business development. Before coming to Foundation Capital, he was part of two teams that successfully built companies from early start-up through greater than $100 million in sales and exits near or above a billion dollars. Charles has made fourteen investments since joining Foundation, of which five have been acquired: PowerSet to Microsoft; Xoopit to Yahoo!; Adwhirl to Google; Weblistic to Spot Runner and Therative to Phillips. Charles' current portfolio includes: BancBox, CloudOn, Copious, Everyday Health, Fanhood, Utah Street Labs, HomeRun, Adroll, Motif Investing, Revel Touch, and SunRun. Prior to Foundation, Charles spent five years with Tellme Networks and was a member of the founding executive team. While there, he led Tellme in raising one of the largest private financing rounds in the country post-Internet bubble, adding $125 million in cash to the company balance sheet during tough market conditions in August, 2000. Tellme was acquired by Microsoft in 2007 for $760 million. Prior to Tellme, Charles was a member of the founding team of Internet access provider Home Network. In 1996, he established the @Media division and over the ensuing three years helped establish Media as the leading broadband media provider. In 1997 the company went public. A year later, Charles assisted in the $7 billion acquisition of Excite Network. Prior to that, Charles spent three years in the Mergers and Acquisitions practice at Merrill Lynch. Charles holds a BS degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and received his MBA from Harvard University. He serves as an Advisor at VSL Partners. He also serves as a Board member at Grabr.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Gaming (& eSports)
Ronald Conway is the Founder and serves as a Co-Managing Partner at SV Angel. He also serves as Advisor & Investor at ElationHealth. He was a Co-Founder and served as an Investor at Start Fund. Ron has been an active angel investor since the mid 90's. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005). He was included in 2010's Vanity Fair 100 most influential people in the Information Age. He was awarded Best Angel at The 2009 TechCrunch Crunchies Awards. He was named #13 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top "deal-makers" in 2011. Ron was with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions (1973-1979), Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO (1979-1990) and took Altos public on Nasdaq in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) (1991-1995). PTS was acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft (Nasdaq SKIL). Philanthropically, Ron is a Board Member of the Salesforce.com Foundation, a member of the UCSF Medical Center Chancellor's Advisory Board in SF, and is active in fundraising for the UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, College Track, Sandy Hook Promise-Newtown CT, Americans for Responsible Solutions-Gabby Giffords, Smart Tech Challenges Foundation, and the THORN Foundation. Ron is an advocate for technology companies and civic engagement in San Francisco and founder of sf.citi (San Francisco's tech-backed civic organization). Ron is also an advocate for immigration reform and a co-founder of FWD.US. He also serves as Advisor at A.Capital Ventures.
San Francisco Bay Area - Menlo Park - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Consumer
Managing Partner at GGV Capital
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, India
Education • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Investment Management • Mobile
Looking forward to new ideas and investing in startups across sectors, Nexus Venture Partners
Looking forward to new ideas and investing in startups across sectors, Nexus Venture Partners
San Francisco Bay Area, 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.
Menlo Park - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Payments • Online Social • Woman Focused
Venture Capitalist
Most Interested In
For my personal angel investing: category creators with defensible business models. For my DTCP investing: Enterprise SaaS and recurring revenue businesses who are past $10m ARR and interested in doing more business in Europe.
Not Interested In
Whatever category the venture echo chamber has declared "hot" right now.
Seattle - New York - San Francisco Bay Area - Menlo Park - California, U.S.A.
Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Online Social • Consumer
Founder, Managing Director Shasta Ventures
Most Interested In
Tech enabled consumer brands and services. We focus on Series A and early B, US based companies.
Not Interested In
We do not focus on clean tech, biotech, or companies outside the United States. We are not active seed investors.
Menlo Park - California, U.S.A.
FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • IoT (& Wearables) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Gaming (& eSports) • Analytics • Robotics • Aerospace (& Defense) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Director, Firefly Aerospace /
Managing Partner at Kilonova Capital
Technology Special Situations
Menlo Park - California, U.S.A.
Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Online Social
Founder and Managing Director at Vertical Venture Partners
Founder and Managing Director at Vertical Venture Partners
San Francisco Bay Area - Menlo Park - Redwood City - California, U.S.A. - U.K.
Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Gaming (& eSports) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Aerospace (& Defense) • DeepTech • Consumer
Aerospace and Cybersecurity VC
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