Edith Yeung serves as Partner at 500 Startups. She also serves as Founding Partner at Right Ventures. Yeung serves as the Head of Marketing and Vice President of International Business Development at MoboTap. She has appeared on CBS, NPR, Wall Street Journal and is frequently quoted in Read Write Web, Small Business Trends and others technology and small business publications. Prior to 500, Edith ran marketing for Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia-backed company with over 150M installs. She was also an active angel investors focusing on mobile. Edith also worked with numerous evil empires such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless, Autodesk. In her copious spare time, Edith curates a mobile newsletter.
Jerry Yang
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • IT (& TMT) • Hospitality (& Events) • Media • Education • BioTech • AgroTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Entertainment (& Sports) • IoT (& Wearables) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Analytics • AR/VR • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Future Of Work • Food & Beverage • Human Resources • Impact • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Payments • Robotics • Mobile Apps • Aerospace (& Defense) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Music • Investment Management • LegalTech • Mobile • Mobility • Online Social • Consumer • Oil & Gas (& Mining) • Industrials • Film Production (& Distribution) • Semiconductors
Description
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
Miriam Rivera
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Miriam Rivera is the Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at Ulu Ventures. She is an early stage angel fund focused on IT investments and has made 30 investments in the last three years. She is also an Angel Investor. She is also the co-founder and co-president of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs, an "open source network" of Stanford alumni investors and entrepreneurs. She has taught in the Stanford Technology Ventures Program in the School of Engineering on start-up board issues and is a mentor in entrepreneurship at the Stanford GSB. She is also a Kauffman Fellow in venture capital. As a first generation college student and scholarship recipient, she graduated from Stanford University where she earned the AB, AM, and JD/MBA degrees. She has worked at all stages of new ventures, from formation to Fortune 500 public company Google Inc. At Google, she was the second attorney, and helped build the legal team from 2 to over 150 worldwide. She increased Google's revenue velocity by re-engineering the sales contracting process to allow 80+% of ad deals to close in three days (50% in one day), helping revenue grow from $85M in revenue to $10B in five years. She was Google's first internally promoted VP in a SG&A function (and the second internally promoted VP in a non-engineering function) as Vice President/ Deputy General Counsel. Prior to joining in 2001, she served as in-house counsel for Ariba and co-founded Outcome Software (an angel and venture-backed software company). At Outcome, she acted as Secretary to the Board and VP finance, legal and business operations. Previously, she worked as a strategy consultant for Accenture and an associate in the business and technology practice at the law firm of Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison. In 2008, she received the Jerry A. Porras Leadership Award from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 2006, the Hispanic National Bar Association voted Miriam "Latina Lawyer of the Year", and Hispanic.Net named her "Latina Executive of the Year". She was also selected by Corporate Counsel magazine as one of the top 10 corporate attorneys in the United States in 2005. In Spring 2011, the Google Legal department she helped found was named 2011 Best Legal Department by Corporate Counsel magazine and the Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal voted Miriam one of the top 100 Women of Influence in Silicon Valley.
Tony Corbin
Investing in BioTech • Businesses Solutions ...
Menlo Park , San Fran..., U.S.A. - Israel - 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, Icelan
Previous Investments
• Vayyar Imaging:
$109000000 (Later stage VC)
• VDOO:
$57000000 (Later stage VC)
• Cloudleaf:
$26000000 (Later stage VC)
• Fakespot:
(Series A)
• Fakespot:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Sumatra:
$2000000 (Seed)
• MRGN:
(Pre Seed)
• MRGN:
(Pre-Seed)
• Ash Wellness:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Ash Wellness:
(Seed+)
• AppliedXL:
$4000000 (Seed)
• AssetDash:
(Pre Seed)
• Tabula:
$3000000 (Pre Seed)
• Naya:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Thorium Data:
$100000 (Pre Seed)
• OpenAxis:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• CACTIVATE:
(Pre Seed)
• Grin Gaming:
(Seed)
• Grin Gaming:
(Seed)
• Docket:
(Seed)
• Ask Vera:
(Seed)
• UrsaLeo:
(Seed+)
• Cactivate:
(Pre-Seed)
• Clearforce:
(Seed)
• Paragon Intel:
(Seed+)
• Intrro:
(Seed)
• Bazze:
(Pre-Seed)
• Asset Dash:
(Pre-Seed)
• Extend:
$16000000 (Series A)
• OneCell Diagnostics:
$16000000 (Series A)
• Finicast:
$13000000 (Seed)
• Very Good Ventures:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Very Good Ventures:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Prellis Biologics:
$35000000 (Series C)
• Prellis Biologics:
$15000000 (Series B)
• Biomason:
$65000000 (Series C)
• Home Delivery Service (HDS Global):
$5000000 (Series Unknown)
• Rizzle:
$17000000 (Convertible Note)
• EnTribe:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Atonarp:
$50000000 (Series D)
• Atonarp:
$2000000 (Series B)
• Atonarp:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Boom Supersonic:
$50000000 (Series C)
• Extend, Inc.:
$16000000 (Series A)
• Quartic.ai:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Globality:
$27000000 (Series B)
• Globality:
$10000000 (Series A)
• BangDB:
(Seed)
• Reaction:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Reaction:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Shipster:
(Seed)
• H2O.ai:
$9000000 (Series A)
• Trove:
$5000000 (Series A)
• FUTR Corp.:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Yellowsmith:
$850000 (Seed)
• Printi:
$1000000 (Series A)
• GoPro:
$88000000 (Series A)
Tony Corbin
Menlo Park - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - Israel - 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, Icelan
Riverwood Capital is a globally-focused private equity firm that invests in high-growth businesses in the technology and services industries, across a variety of verticals and geographies. Riverwood has offices in Menlo Park, CA and New York, NY and currently has more than 20 investments in North America, Latin America and Asia. The firm's current fund has $780 million of committed capital. The final fund close was in April 2011. Riverwood invests in mid-market technology and technology enabled products and services. The firm defines mid-market as approximately $100-$500 million in revenue for product companies, and approximately $25-$150 million in revenue for software and services. Riverwood occasionally invests outside these ranges. Riverwood invests on a global basis, having already invested in the U.S., Israel, Argentina, Chile, and Brazil. The firm's normal investment size ranges from $25-75 million.
Cyril Bertrand is a Partner at Xange Captial where he is responsible for core-technology investments and for the German-speaking area.
Cyril has prior venture capital experience at DVC (Munich, Germany) where is was responsible for the Telecom & Semiconductor investments, and at TeleSoft Partners (San Mateo, CA).
Prior to that, his 7-year tenure at Alcatel brought him to the position of Director in charge of creating and growing Alcatel’s first generation of 802.11 products across France, Spain and Israel in 2000.
Cyril is also a non-exec board director of Apertio (UK), MergeOptics (Germany), Panoratio (Germany), Powerlase (UK) and is an observer at BigMachines (US).
Dave McClure
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Los Angeles , New Yor..., U.S.A. - U.K.
Previous Investments
• Mystery Science:
$2900000
• Ink:
$6650000 (Seed Round)
• ALL DAY MEDIA:
$2301600 (Seed Round)
• AstroPrint:
$300000 (Seed Round)
• Ezra:
$4000000 (Seed Round)
• HappyCo (Happy Inspector):
$895000 (Seed Round)
• LinkedIn SlideShare:
$300000 (Seed Round)
• TeachStreet:
(Angel Round)
• Tribal Credit:
$1200000 (Seed Round)
• HaulerAds:
(Seed Round)
• Price Technologies:
$3800000 (Seed Round)
• Exits.me:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Terraformation:
$5000000 (Equity Crowdfunding)
• Ezra AI:
$18000000 (Series A)
• Ezra AI:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Tribal:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Goldbelly:
$20000000 (Series B)
• Goldbelly:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Goldbelly:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Zeuss Technologies:
(Seed)
• Movia:
(Seed)
• Price.com:
$2000000 (Convertible Note)
• TuckerNuck:
$3000000 (Series A)
• TuckerNuck:
(Seed)
• MoBagel:
(Seed)
• Headout:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Greentoe:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Greentoe:
$1000000 (Seed)
• CareGuide:
$2000000 (Seed)
• MakeLeaps:
$600000 (Angel)
• BugHerd:
$930000 (Series A)
• Womply:
$20000000 (Series Unknown)
• Womply:
(Series Unknown)
• ViralGains:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Partender:
(Seed)
• Partender:
$50000 (Seed)
• Tech.eu:
$210000 (Seed)
• CultureMap:
$750000 (Seed)
• Geekatoo:
$500000 (Seed)
• Binpress:
$1000000 (Seed)
• BuildersCloud:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Social Tables:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Stormpulse:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Life360:
$10000000 (Series B)
• Life360:
$6000000 (Series A)
• Mattermark:
$400000 (Seed)
• Riskpulse:
$1000000 (Seed)
• LookSharp:
$4000000 (Series A)
• LookSharp:
$1000000 (Series Unknown)
• LookSharp:
$400000 (Angel)
• WHILL:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Breather:
$2000000 (Seed)
• ERPLY:
$2000000 (Series B)
• Credit Karma:
$30000000 (Series B)
• Virool:
$7000000 (Seed)
• RolePoint:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Versus:
$100000 (Seed)
• 42Floors:
$5000000 (Series A)
• Nuzzel:
$2000000 (Seed)
• SpotHero:
$50000 (Seed)
• HappyCo:
$900000 (Seed)
• Behance:
$7000000 (Series A)
• VULCUN:
$1000000 (Seed)
• ecomom:
$4000000 (Series A)
• ecomom:
$900000 (Angel)
• ecomom:
$1000000 (Angel)
• Mocavo:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Gengo:
$5000000 (Series A)
• Gengo:
$800000 (Seed)
• Gengo:
$750000 (Seed)
• IMRSV:
$810000 (Seed)
• MakerBot:
$10000000 (Series Unknown)
• ToutApp:
$350000 (Seed)
• BizeeBee:
$440000 (Seed)
• Baydin:
$380000 (Seed)
• CapLinked:
$900000 (Seed)
• Hipster:
$1000000 (Seed)
• MoonFruit:
(Series Unknown)
• SimpleHoney:
(Seed)
• Graphicly:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Graphicly:
$1000000 (Series A)
• Zappli (Acquired by Shopzilla):
$500000 (Seed)
• Twilio:
$12000000 (Series B)
• Twilio:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Wander (f. YongoPal):
$100000 (Angel)
• Formative Labs:
(Angel)
• OneTrueFan:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Presto:
(Seed)
• WePay:
$8000000 (Series B)
• WePay:
$2000000 (Series A)
• Recurly:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Wildfire:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Postling:
$350000 (Seed)
• oneforty:
$2000000 (Series A)
• Kissmetrics:
$1000000 (Series A)
• Mashery:
$7000000 (Series B)
• Mashery:
(Seed)
• Mashery:
(Seed)
• Lyft:
$300000 (Seed)
• Mill River Labs:
$900000 (Angel)
• SlideShare:
$300000 (Seed)
• Mint:
$5000000 (Series A)
• EventVue:
$440000 (Series A)
• Simply Hired:
$3000000 (Series B)
Dave McClure
Los Angeles - New York - London - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - U.K.
Venrock invests in technology and healthcare. Individual focus areas: Biotechnology, Diagnostics, Genomics, Healthcare IT, Medical Devices. Prefers: category kings + big risk element
Beth Turner
Investing in BioTech • Blockchain (& Cryptos...
San Francisco Bay Are..., U.S.A. - Canada
Previous Investments
• Socotra:
$16600000 (Later stage VC)
• Manticore Games:
$15000000 (Early stage VC)
• Voyage:
$15000000 (Later stage VC)
• CryptoKitties:
$15000000 (Later stage VC)
• Cedar:
$13000000 (Early stage VC)
• Zylo:
$9300000 (Early stage VC)
• Embodied Intelligence:
$7000000 (Seed Round)
• MyVR:
$6100000 (Early stage VC)
• Prodigy:
$5400000 (Seed Round)
• Sendwithus:
$5000000 (Early stage VC)
• Fuzzy:
$4500000 (Seed Round)
• Radar Relay:
$3000000 (Seed Round)
• Envisagenics, Inc.:
$2400000 (Seed Round)
• Chain OneName Coinbase:
• UTVATE:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Wordware:
$30000000 (Seed)
• Flex:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Ciro:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Playbook:
$4000000 (Seed)
• HumanFirst:
$12000000 (Series A)
• HumanFirst:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Skiff:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Firstbase:
$13000000 (Series A)
• Farcast:
$5000000 (Seed)
• The Lobby:
$130000 (Pre Seed)
Beth Turner
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - Canada
Deep Tech/Hard Science, Developer Tools, E-Commerce, Education, Enterprise, Entertainment, Fintech, Future of Work, Gaming, Government Technology, Health and Wellness, Healthcare/Medtech, Industrial, Internet and Mobile, IoT, Life Sciences, Marketplace, Productivity, Proptech/Real Estate, Robotics, SaaS, Social, Supply Chain/Logistics, Transportation, Travel/Hospitality
Eduardo Saverin
Investing in BioTech • Businesses Solutions ...
San Francisco Bay Are..., U.S.A. - Singapore - Brazil
Previous Investments
• iVideoSmart:
$3500000 (Series A)
• Sugar.fit:
$5000000 (Series A)
• Mswipe Technologies:
$20000000 (Series Unknown)
• Mswipe Technologies:
$31000000 (Series E)
• Mswipe Technologies:
$10000000 (Series D)
• Inspace XR:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Hopscotch:
$20000000 (Series E)
• Hopscotch:
$13000000 (Series C)
• Hopscotch:
$11000000 (Series B)
• CoinDCX:
$140000000 (Series D)
• CoinDCX:
$90000000 (Series C)
• Kopi Kenangan:
$96000000 (Series C)
• Kopi Kenangan:
$210000000 (Series B)
• Yalo:
$50000000 (Series C)
• Yalo:
$15000000 (Series B)
• Antler:
$50000000 (Series Unknown)
• Perx Technologies:
$5000000 (Series B)
• Perx Technologies:
$1000000 (Series A)
• Carro:
$30000000 (Series B)
• Carro:
$60000000 (Series B)
• CXA Group:
$25000000 (Series C)
• Tech in Asia:
$7000000 (Series Unknown)
• Tech in Asia:
$4000000 (Series C)
• INTURN:
$23000000 (Series B)
• 99.co:
$8000000 (Series A)
• 99.co:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Intelligent Video Solutions:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Jumio:
$4000000 (Debt Financing)
• Jumio:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Xfers:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Silvercar:
$28000000 (Series C)
• Silvercar:
$14000000 (Series B)
• RedMart:
$27000000 (Series C)
• RedMart:
$23000000 (Series B)
• RedMart:
$5000000 (Series Unknown)
• RedMart:
(Seed)
• Eat Just:
$90000000 (Series C)
• FlightCar:
$14000000 (Series A)
• Tag (Acquired):
$1000000 (Seed)
• Nitrous:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Nitrous:
$1000000 (Seed)
• ShopSavvy:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Qwiki:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Aporta, Inc.:
(Undisclosed)
• CrowdMob:
(Seed)
Eduardo Saverin
San Francisco Bay Area - Los Angeles, U.S.A. - Singapore - Brazil
Eduardo Saverin is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at B Capital Group. He is a Co-Founder of Facebook. He also co-founded Velos Partners, a private equity firm based in Los Angeles and serves as its Chairman. He serves on the board of Carro, Connexions Asia and Ninja Van. He also serves as Advisor at Golden Gate Ventures.
How to connect with Angel Investors in the BioTech industry?
In the BioTech industry, angel investors such as Esther Dyson, Vinod Khosla, and Steve Jurvetson are prominent figures. These investors focus on startups offering innovative solutions in biotechnology, genomics, and medical research. Esther Dyson, an entrepreneur and investor, looks for biotech startups that have the potential to make significant advancements in healthcare and medicine. Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, invests in high-impact biotech companies with disruptive technologies. Steve Jurvetson, a co-founder of Future Ventures, seeks out startups that push the boundaries of biological science and innovation. To connect with these investors, attend biotech conferences, medical expos, and networking events such as BIO International Convention, JP Morgan Healthcare Conference, and SynBioBeta. Utilize platforms like AngelList and LinkedIn to identify and reach out to potential investors. When pitching, emphasize how your biotech solution addresses key challenges in healthcare and medical research, such as developing new therapies, improving diagnostic accuracy, or advancing genomic research. Highlight any traction you’ve gained, such as partnerships with research institutions, successful clinical trials, or regulatory approvals. 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 clinical results 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 licensing, product sales, or research grants, will further strengthen your pitch. Leveraging endorsements or case studies from biotech experts can also enhance your credibility.
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