Todd Kimmel is the Founder and serves as Managing Director & Managing Partner at Montage Ventures. He is also a Co-Founder and serves as Board Member at Batch. He is also a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at Parasail. Kimmel is a Board Member at Sure, Pager, WorkIt Health, and Peek Travel Services. He served as Principal at Advanced Technology Ventures. Kimmel joined Mayfield from Advanced Technology Ventures, a bi-coastal venture capital firm, where he led cleantech investing in its West Coast office. Kimmel was also the co-founder and President of Coskata, a leading next-generation bio-fuels company, where he helped drive key product development, technology and financing milestones. Prior to venture capital, Kimmel was a co-founder and Senior Vice President at Innovance, a Canadian-based developer of optical networking solutions for telecommunications service providers and worked in investment banking with Wasserstein Perella & Co., Inc. in New York. He served as the Board Member at Project September. Kimmel holds a B.A. from Amherst College and was a history major.
Mike Walsh
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Mike Walsh is the Founder and serves as General Partner at Structure Capital. Mike has designed missile defense systems, designed and sold air and water pollution control systems and was an early angel investor in Salesforce.com. After a decade of software sales and sales management, Mike successfully founded and sold an enterprise social networking company, while attending business school at Haas and Columbia University. Following the sale of Leverage, Mike focused his efforts on investing and was a first round investor in Uber. Leveraging his early investment success and love for helping early stage companies, Mike launched Structure Capital in June of 2013 and invested in 50 companies during the first year of business.
Gigi Levy-Weiss
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Palo Alto - Tel Aviv, Israel - U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• DoorDash:
$700000000 (Later stage VC)
• La Haus:
$35000000 (Later stage VC)
• Storyhunter:
$4200000 (Seed Round)
• Warmly:
$2100000 (Seed Round)
• Lynks:
$120000 (Seed Round)
• Incredible Health:
(Seed Round)
• Parting Pro:
$120000 (Pre Seed Round)
• Jeeng (Acquired By PowerInbox):
$1500000 (Seed Round)
• Splacer:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Hackerbay:
(Pre Seed)
• Hackerbay:
$220000 (Pre Seed)
• The Hotels Network:
$100000 (Convertible Note)
• The Hotels Network:
$50000 (Seed)
• Synereo:
$120000 (Seed)
• Leade.rs:
(Pre Seed)
• Azra Games:
$43000000 (Series A)
• Azra Games:
$15000000 (Seed)
• Payouts.com:
$8000000 (Seed)
• enso:
$6000000 (Pre Seed)
• Opmed.ai:
$15000000 (Series A)
• Remepy:
$10000000 (Seed)
• PVML:
$8000000 (Seed)
• Faddom:
$12000000 (Series A)
• Faddom:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Permit.io:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Permit.io:
$6000000 (Seed)
• BrandShield:
$3000000 (Series Unknown)
• BrandShield:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Vendict:
$10000000 (Seed)
• Triple Whale:
$25000000 (Series B)
• Triple Whale:
$4000000 (Seed)
• PayEm:
$20000000 (Series A)
• PayEm:
$20000000 (Series A)
• PayEm:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Imagen:
$30000000 (Series A)
• Imagen:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Cherry:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Veriti:
$19000000 (Series A)
• MOV.AI:
$8000000 (Series B)
• MOV.AI:
$6000000 (Series A)
• MOV.AI:
$3000000 (Seed)
• MOV.AI:
$570000 (Seed)
• Xternity Games:
(Pre Seed)
• Constru:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Constru:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Constru:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Constru:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Alterya:
(Seed)
• Fair.xyz:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Diagnostic Robotics:
$45000000 (Series B)
• Kryptomon:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Circles - Online Group Support:
$17000000 (Series A)
• Circles - Online Group Support:
$8000000 (Seed)
• Circles - Online Group Support:
(Seed)
• A.Team:
$55000000 (Series A)
• A.Team:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Yo! Egg:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Komodor:
$42000000 (Series B)
• Komodor:
$21000000 (Series A)
• Komodor:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Propel:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Karmaverse:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Ridge:
$12000000 (Series A)
• Ridge:
$10000000 (Seed)
• Landa:
$25000000 (Series A)
• Landa:
$8000000 (Seed)
• Darrow:
$20000000 (Series A)
• Darrow:
$4000000 (Seed)
• MonkeyLeague:
(Seed)
• MonkeyBall:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Karma:
$25000000 (Series A)
• Karma:
(Seed)
• Breeze:
(Seed)
• Breeze:
(Pre Seed)
• Mammoth Biosciences:
$150000000 (Series D)
• Mammoth Biosciences:
$45000000 (Series C)
• Mammoth Biosciences:
$23000000 (Series A)
• Mammoth Biosciences:
$120000 (Pre Seed)
• Spike:
$23000000 (Series A)
• Spike:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Spike:
$120000 (Seed)
• Ace Games:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Edgybees:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Edgybees:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Edgybees:
(Pre Seed)
• Hip:
$12000000 (Series A)
• Hip:
(Seed)
• Hip:
(Seed)
• Papaya Gaming:
(Seed)
• Papaya Gaming:
(Seed)
• Kama:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Gigantic LTD (Clawee):
$7000000 (Seed)
• Cord:
(Seed)
• Covered by SAGE:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Bridgecrew:
$14000000 (Series A)
• Bridgecrew:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Shamaym:
$3000000 (Pre Seed)
• Lumen:
$9000000 (Series B)
• Travelstride:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Travelstride:
(Pre Seed)
• Wheelwell:
$3000000 (Series Unknown)
• Wheelwell:
$120000 (Pre Seed)
• Fabric:
(Seed)
• Fabric:
(Pre Seed)
• Zengaming:
(Seed)
• Zengaming:
(Pre Seed)
• Spacemesh:
$15000000 (Series A)
• DX.Exchange:
(Seed)
• Hometalk:
$15000000 (Series A)
• REACH:
$4000000 (Seed)
• JetInsight:
(Series A)
• JetInsight:
(Pre Seed)
• Volley:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Volley:
(Pre Seed)
• DAOstack:
(Seed)
• Gravyty (formerly Graduway):
$13000000 (Series B)
Network effect businesses! NFX focuses on businesses that have - or want to have - network effects in their core. This can be in any field - consumer, SMB, Enterprise, Fintech, Healthcare or govtech; and on any platform - web & mobile but also AR/VR, Blockchain, 3D printing, AI, Robotics and others. Top founders with huge ideas!
Not Interested In
Currently not focusing on non-network effect businesses and specifically not telecom equipment, semiconductors and life sciences.
Hans Tung
Investing in FinTech (& Financials services) &bul...
Los Angeles , San Fra..., U.S.A. - China
Previous Investments
• Trash:
(Seed Round)
• Prynt:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Wish:
$500000000 (Series F)
• Wish:
$50000000 (Series C)
• Wish:
$19000000 (Series B)
• AgVoice:
(Seed Round)
• FlightCar:
$20700000 (Series B)
• Wiselike:
$1300000 (Seed Round)
• Musical.ly:
$16600000 (Series B)
• Airbnb:
$1500000000 (Series E)
• Zimi:
$15000000 (Series B)
• More Design:
$15000000 (Series B)
• Misfit Wearables:
$40000000 (Series C)
• Totspot:
$1800000 (Seed Round)
• Curse:
$16000000 (Series B)
• Xiaomi:
$216000000 (Series C)
• Xiaomi:
$90000000 (Series B)
• Xiaomi:
$41000000 (Series A)
• Forgame:
$68800000 (Series A)
• Fanli:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Domob:
$20000000 (Series B)
• eHi Car Rental:
$70000000 (Series C)
• eHi Car Rental:
$5000000 (Series A)
• Hellobike:
$1000000000 (Later stage VC)
• Lemonade:
$120000000 (Later stage VC)
• Farmers Business Network:
$110000000 (Later stage VC)
Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Future Of Work • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobility
Description
Partner at Index Ventures
Martin Mignot serves as a Partner at Index Ventures. He also serves as Advisory Board Member at TheFamily. He specialises in SaaS, marketplaces, bitcoin and mobile. He worked on 50+ transactions to date, including Assistly, Auxmoney, BaseCRM, Cloud.com, Codecademy, DimDim, Factual, Farfetch, Flipboard, Funding Circle, Gluster, HouseTrip, Just Eat, Lookout, Nasty Gal, Notonthehighstreet, onefinestay, PeoplePerHour, TrustPilot, Soluto and SoundCloud. He is actively looking after Index's investments in Algolia, Capitaine Train, Drivy, Rad and Swiftkey. Prior to joining Index, Martin was in the TMT team at UBS Investment Bank and cofounded the beauty subscription business Boudoir Prive (acquired by Joliebox/Birchbox) and a student web radio service.
Patrick Lor
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Patrick Lor serves as Managing Partner at Panache Ventures. Lor also serves as Partner at 500 Startups Canada. He helped pioneer the microstock industry, as co-founder of iStockphoto, the world's first crowd sourced stock photography community. Upon his departure, the company was selling over 12 million images annually, and was sold to Getty Images for US$50 million in 2006. Most recently, he was head of North American operations for Fotolia, a stock photography community backed by private equity firm KKR. Patrick is also active in the technology startup ecosystem as an advisor, mentor, angel investor, teacher, and community leader. Organizations he contributes to include: thea100.org, thec100.org, democampcalgary.com, University of Calgary, Mount Royal University, Highline, and FounderFuel. He also served as Advisor at iNovia Capital.
Motti Vaknin
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Most Interested In
Consumer-facing e-businesses, including marketplaces, e-tailers, SaaS and SME-focused software companies targeting local markets in CEE & Turkey. Enterprise technology innovators with roots in CEE & Turkey.
Not Interested In
Life sciences, material science, clean tech
Cem Sertoglu serves as Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital. He has several years of experience as an Investor, focusing web-enabled services and consumer internet. Previously, he was a Partner at iLab Ventures, Co-Founder and CEO at Mondus.com, Founder & CEO at SelectMinds and Vice President at Farmer & Company. Pioneering the technology investment sector in Turkey since its inception with his personal investment vehicle Young Turk Ventures, his investments include propertyfinder.ae, Wikimart.ru, Civic Solar, Gittigidiyor.com (Turkey's leading online auctions portal), Yemeksepeti.com (Turkey's leading food order platform) and Grupanya (Turkey's leading daily deal website). He holds a BA in Economics from University of Texas (Austin). He served as Board Member at Fite and Grupanya.
Steve Anderson
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Michael Brehm is a Co-Founder at Rebate Networks. Brehm is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Redstone Digital. Prior to this he was Executive Director of studiVZ, at the time Germany's largest social network. Before starting in the technology sector he began his career at Merrill Lynch in the M&A division. He obtained his Business degree from WHU (Germany) and EGADE (Mexico) and also studied at CEIBS (China) where he learned Mandarin. Alongside being a Partner at Redstone Michael is an active angel investor in more than 20 companies like: Kreditech, Atheneum Partners or Inventorum.
Natty Zola
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Chicago , Ann Arbor ,..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Branch Messenger:
$10000000 (Early stage VC)
• BaseHQ:
$2560000 (Seed Round)
• ScaleFactor, Inc.:
$2500000 (Seed Round)
• Learn to Live, Inc.:
$1000000 (Seed Round)
• Savitude Inc:
$325000 (Early stage VC)
• It's By U:
$323000 (Other)
• Spruce:
$170000 (Other)
• Intelligems:
$120000 (Pre Seed Round)
• Haekka:
$120000 (Pre Seed Round)
• treet:
$120000 (Pre Seed Round)
• CometChat:
(Pre Seed Round)
• Fiveable:
$620000 (Seed Round)
• Stateless:
$1500000 (Seed Round)
• Precog:
$750000 (Venture Round)
• Fulfilld.io:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Freeplay:
$3000000 (Pre Seed)
• Modern Adventure:
$5000000 (Series A)
• Fulfilld:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Fulfilld:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Stylo:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Bean:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• Showplace:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Showplace:
(Seed)
• Improovy:
(Seed)
• Scholars:
(Seed)
• Snug:
(Seed)
• Delfina:
(Pre Seed)
• Kahilla:
(Seed)
• Onward:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Onward:
(Seed+)
• Onward:
(Venture Round)
• Caddy:
(Seed)
• Helio Home:
(Seed)
• Benny:
(Pre Seed)
• Cured:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Cured:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Cured:
(Venture Round)
• Milk Moovement:
$3200000 (Seed)
• Zed:
(Pre Seed)
• Honest Jobs:
$1300000 (Pre-Seed)
• TiLT:
$700000 (Seed)
• Optera:
(Seed)
• Reema Health:
(Pre Seed)
• Warmly,:
(Seed)
• PingPong:
(Pre Seed)
• River Health:
(Seed)
• Curu:
(Seed)
• Fitco:
$300000 (Seed)
• FundBoard:
(Venture Round)
• StackHawk:
(Seed+)
• StackHawk:
(Venture Round)
• TermScout:
$370000 (Pre Seed)
• The Accessory Junkie:
(Pre Seed)
• Rescripted:
$120000 (Pre Seed)
• VideoPeel:
(Pre Seed)
• Warmly:
$120000 (Pre Seed)
• Beanstalk:
(Pre Seed)
• Keys:
$300000 (Pre Seed)
• Gondola:
(Pre Seed)
• Sympatic:
$120000 (Pre Seed)
• soona:
(Seed+)
• soona:
(Venture Round)
• AirSpace Link:
(Seed)
• AirSpace Link:
(Venture Round)
• Parallax:
(Seed)
• Landline:
(Seed+)
• Getro:
(Seed)
• Base HQ:
(Seed)
• Joust:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Onward Care:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Ordermark:
(Series B)
• Ordermark:
(Series A)
• Zestful:
(Seed)
• Zestful:
(Venture Round)
• Halp:
(Seed)
• Pana:
(Series A)
• Veho:
(Seed)
• Apostrophe:
(Series A)
• AVVAY:
(Seed 1)
• Pikup:
(Venture Round)
• Type W:
(Venture Round)
• Sozie:
(Venture Round)
• To The Market:
(Venture Round)
• Staffless:
(Venture Round)
• Flashfood:
(Venture Round)
• ProcessBolt:
(Venture Round)
• Clicktivated:
(Venture Round)
• Cooklist:
(Venture Round)
• Learn to Live:
(Series A)
• Learn to Live:
(Seed)
• inspectorio:
(Series A)
• inspectorio:
(Seed)
• Structural:
(Seed)
• Local Crate:
(Seed)
• BYBE:
(Seed)
• StoryXpress:
(Seed)
• Upsie:
(Venture Round)
• ShopTurn:
(Venture Round)
• AirTailor:
(Seed)
• Kokko:
(Venture Round)
• SpotCrowd:
(Venture Round)
• Find Me A Shoe:
(Venture Round)
• Savitude:
(Venture Round)
• ScaleFactor:
(Seed)
• AddStructure:
$1900000 (Seed)
• CANDL:
$120000 (Pre Seed)
• Nexosis:
(Seed)
• MakersBloks:
(Venture Round)
• Itsbyu:
(Venture Round)
• SpruceBot:
(Venture Round)
• Init.ai:
$100000 (Seed)
• Vidgrid:
(Seed)
• Kipsu:
(Seed)
• Kapta:
(Seed)
Natty Zola
Chicago - Ann Arbor - St. Paul - Detroit - Milwaukee - Madison - Indianapolis - Minneapolis - Provo - Salt Lake City - Denver - Boulder - Colorado, U.S.A.
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.
Managing Director @techstars, Founder of @everlater. Explorer, mountain biker, foreign accent lover, optimist, evitcepsreP, new dad #givefirst.
Jerry Yang
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Jerry Yang serves as Founding Partner at AME Cloud Ventures. Yang also serves as Special Partner at Neotribe Ventures. He serves as Investor of BirdEye. He also serves as an Independent Director at Workday and Advisor at Radius. He is the Founding Partner at AME Cloud Ventures. He serves as Board Observer and Senior Advisor at Didi Kuaidi. Since March 2012, he has worked with and invests in technology entrepreneurs as the founding partner of AME Cloud Ventures, his innovation investment firm. He is also a co-founder of Yahoo! Inc., where he served as a director from March 1995 to January 2012, and as Chief Executive Officer from June 2007 to January 2009. He also led Yahoo!'s investments in Yahoo Japan and Alibaba Group Holding Limited, and he is a currently a director of Alibaba Group, where he has served on the board from October 2005 to January 2012 and from September 2014 to the present. He is also a director of Lenovo, Inc. where he has served on the board since November 2014. From July 2000 to November 2012, he was a member of Cisco Systems, Inc.'s Board of Directors, and he was a director of Yahoo! Japan from January 1996 to January 2012. He also is a director of various private companies and foundations. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, where he served as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees from June 2005 until September 2016. He is also an Angel Investor. He serves as Board Member at Docker
How to connect with Angel Investors in the Retail industry?
In the Retail & E-Commerce industry, angel investors such as Chris Sacca, Alexis Ohanian, and Peter Thiel are prominent figures. These investors focus on startups offering innovative solutions in online retail, e-commerce platforms, and digital marketplaces. Chris Sacca, known for his early investments in Twitter and Uber, looks for disruptive retail solutions with strong growth potential. Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, invests in startups that leverage technology to improve the retail experience. Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies, seeks out companies that provide scalable and efficient e-commerce solutions. To connect with these investors, attend retail tech conferences, e-commerce expos, and networking events such as Shoptalk, Retail Innovation Conference, and NRF Retail’s Big Show. Utilize platforms like AngelList and LinkedIn to identify and reach out to potential investors. When pitching, emphasize how your retail or e-commerce solution addresses key challenges, such as improving customer experience, enhancing operational efficiency, or optimizing supply chains. Highlight any traction you’ve gained, such as partnerships with retailers, user growth, or positive feedback from customers. Building relationships through initial informal meetings or discussions at industry panels can help establish trust with these investors. Demonstrating the impact of your technology through case studies or user testimonials can also add credibility. Personalize your outreach by referencing the investor’s previous investments and explaining how your venture aligns with their interests. Demonstrating a sustainable business model with clear revenue streams, such as product sales, subscription fees, or service contracts, will further strengthen your pitch. Leveraging endorsements or case studies from retail or e-commerce experts can also enhance your credibility.
Case Studies: Successful Funding Rounds with Angel Investors on Angels Partners
Exotic Orange & Angels Partners: Turning Financial Simplicity Into Investment Success
