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Christine Tsai

San Francisco California - London - New York City (NY) - Seoul South Korea - Tokyo Japan - Valley California - Boston Massachusetts - Palo Alto California - Seattle Washington - Los Angeles California - Mountain View California, U.S.A. - U.K. - South Korea

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • IoT • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Security • Gaming (& eSports) • Food & Beverage • Impact • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services)

Description

Founding Partner at @500startups . Previously @google & @youtube . Left-handed. Ballet dancer of ~25 yrs. Go Bears.

Stephanie Palmeri

Page California - San Francisco, California - Canada - San Francisco (CA) - Los Angeles (CA) - New York (NY) - Boston (MA) - Boulder (CO) - Toronto (Ontario), U.S.A. - Canada

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • IoT • A.I. (& Big Data) • Distributed workforce • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services)

Description

Most Interested In

I driven by working with companies that leverage technology to help individuals, families, and businesses unlock their potential. I believe in the power of market networks. And I think a lot about the future of work and how participation in the economy is evolving.

Not Interested In

I only invest in the seed stage. If you are raising a series A, I regret missing the opportunity to meet you sooner, but us meeting now is probably not the best use of your time as you fundraise. I invest in marketplaces, SaaS, consumer services, IoT, and more - but I never invest in a company that could compete with something in my portfolio.

Partner @softtech-vc. Investing in marketplaces, consumer services, SaaS, mobile, edtech, digital health. Marketing, product & consulting in a former life.

Kara Nortman

Santa Monica California - Los Angeles, California - Austin (TX) - Washington (DC) - Los Angeles (CA) - Palo Alto (CA) - San Francisco (CA) - Santa Monica (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Security • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Distributed workforce • Human Resources • Logistics (& Distribution)

Description

Most Interested In

Security, future of work, engineering tools that enable the future of work, marketplaces with strong SaaS elements.

Not Interested In

D2C brands, media

Partner Upfront Ventures, co-founder/chairman Seedling ; Worked at Urbanspoon/Citysearch/IAC M&A; Princeton Undergrad, Stanford MBA

Mark Suster

Los Angeles California - Santa Monica (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Advertising • Distributed workforce • Logistics (& Distribution) • Mobile Apps

Description

General partner, @upfront-ventures & 2x entrepreneur. Sold Koral to @salesforce

Linked In Description:

2x entrepreneur. Sold both companies (last to salesforce.com). Turned VC looking to invest in passionate entrepreneurs.

Greg Bettinelli

Los Angeles California - Santa Monica (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Hospitality & Events • Media • AgroTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Entertainment (& Sports) • IoT • Logistics (& Distribution)

Description

Partner @upfront-ventures. Advisor @FreemanSpogli. Co-founder @mucker-lab. Former CMO @hautelook (now @nordstrom), @ebay, @stubhub , @LiveNation. #LongLA

Pete Flint

San Francisco, California - Chicago (IL) - San Francisco Bay Area (CA) - New York (NY) - London - Boston (MA), U.S.A. - U.K.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • IT (& TMT) • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • AR/VR • Insurance • Logistics (& Distribution)

Description

Most Interested In

Passionate about next generation marketplaces & technically minded founders that have strong intuition about markets & customers. AI and crazy ideas.

Not Interested In

Well if it doesn't have or aspire to have a network effect, then probably not a fit... Very very selective when looking at opportunities that are not based in the Bay Area - we can be more helpful when teams are near us.

Pete Flint serves as Managing Partner at NFX. The co-founder of Trulia, Pete is a serial entrepreneur who built one of today's most successful marketplaces. As CEO, Pete led the company from inception to one of the largest and fastest growing real estate websites in the U.S. with more than 50 million monthly unique users and a merger with Zillow in 2015 that valued Trulia at $3.5 billion. Prior to starting Trulia, Pete was part of the founding team of lastminute.com, a leading European online travel site that was acquired in 2005 by Travelocity / Sabre Holdings for over $1 billion. These experiences gave Pete a rarely acquired understanding of what it takes to scale a company from a great idea to a $1 billion+ exit, all from a founder's perspective.

Kevin Colleran

Boston Massachusetts - San Francisco California, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Food & Beverage • GovTech • Logistics (& Distribution)

Description

Kevin Colleran is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Slow Ventures. Slow manages nearly $250 million in capital financed by a group of 100+ tech industry founders, CEO's, executives as well as a select group of notable venture capital firms and endowments. At Slow, Colleran focuses on working consumer and enterprise seed stage startups and has a vast portfolio of more than 250 companies including Pinterest, Barkbox, Postmates, Nextdoor, Casper, Pillpack, Classpass, Breather, Slack, Allbirds, Robinhood, Blue Bottle Coffee, Plated, Breather, Hipcamp, Gusto, Zeel, Wag, Brandless, Everlane, Wealthfront and many more. Kevin was also previously a Venture Partner and Advisor at General Catalyst Partners and wrote a column for the Wall Street Journal (online & print) as part of their "Accelerators" section. Previously Kevin was one of the first 10 employees at Facebook Inc. having joined in early 2005 as their first advertising sales executives. He stayed at Facebook for nearly 7 years, leaving in 2012 after having become the longest tenured employee at the company other than Mark Zuckerberg. Kevin received a BA in Business Management and Marketing from Babson College.

Dmitry Alimov

Singapore - Moscow Russia - San Francisco California - Palo Alto, California, Singapore - Russia - U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Distributed workforce • Food & Beverage

Description

Love companies with network effects!

Most Interested In

Focused on companies with network effects. Marketplaces, networks, software and communication platforms, AR, VR, IoT, connected cars, AI, b2b, b2c

Not Interested In

Not investing in traditional e-commerce (with physical goods, logistics, inventory etc), payments, ad tech, cybersecurity, esports and games.

Founder @ivi-ru, @frontier-ventures • ex-Managing Partner at @ru-Net• Investor @chope.com, @expert360.com, @Profi.ru, @ivi-ru etc • @harvard-business-school

George Zachary

San Francisco California - Menlo Park California - - Palo Alto (CA) - Boston (MA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services)

Description

Most Interested In

Deep learning / AI meets biology and chemistry. I am focused on products that accelerate breakthroughs in biological sciences that allow for new products that help peoples lives through huge advancements in health. An example investment we have made is in Freenome.

Not Interested In

Not interested in anything outside of this area. Not interested in digital health that involves behavior modification programs.

George Zachary serves as General Partner at Charles River Ventures. He is also a Board Member of CoTap and Crushpath. Zachary led the Nintendo 64 development business at Silicon Graphics, managed sales and marketing for virtual reality pioneer VPL Research, and served as a product marketer at CATS Software. He is on the board of Stanford SSE, Stanford's StartX and is an advisor to the X PRIZE Foundation. Zachary earned a joint BS from MIT and MIT Sloan.

Rob Hayes

New York City (NY) - 4040 Locust Street Philiadelphia Pennsylvania - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Advertising • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Food & Beverage • Mobile Apps

Description

Venture Investor

Roelof Botha

San Francisco California - Menlo Park (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Material Science

Description

Grew up in Cape Town. Came to @stanford-university in 1998. Joined @paypal in 2000 & became CFO. Joined Sequoia in 2003. Invested in @youtube in 2005.

Andy McLoughlin

London - Valley California - San Francisco, California - Austin (TX) - San Francisco (CA) - New York (NY) - Boston (MA) - Los Angeles (CA) - Toronto (Ontario) - Seattle (WA), U.K. - U.S.A. - Canada

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools

Description

Most Interested In

B2B, SaaS, developer tools, API platforms, vertical industry solutions, applications of AI technologies to big problems. There must be a revenue model

Not Interested In

Consumer, traction-based thingies, science projects, advertising, games, bio, genomics.

Partner @softtech-vc. Co-founder @huddle. Angel @postmates, @bugsnag, @intercom, @pipedrive, @buffer, @secret-escapes + 30 more. Product, brand, go-to-market.

Leo Polovets

Menlo Park California - Mountain View California - San Francisco, California - San Francisco (CA) - Los Angeles (CA) - New York (NY), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Insurance • Logistics (& Distribution) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • SaaS

Description

Most Interested In

We focus on companies with strong long-term competitive advantages (network effects, proprietary data, economies of scale, etc). Mostly b2b.

Not Interested In

We're open to any company with good moat potential. We do a lot of b2b investing. On the b2c side, we typically look for companies that monetize users directly rather than through ads.

Leo Polovets is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Susa Ventures. In 2003, Leo was the 2nd non-founding engineer at LinkedIn, where he helped build many core features like LinkedIn Jobs and LinkedIn Groups. After LinkedIn, he developed payment fraud detection systems at Google, then spent four years building much of the core data processing infrastructure at Factual. Leo left Factual in late 2012 to join Susa Ventures and focus on venture capital. He's also an angel investor in companies including DataFox, Lumoid, and Momentum Machines. Leo holds a BS with Honors degree from Caltech, and in 2002, he was one of three members of Caltech's world finalist ACM International Programming Contest team.

Cyan Banister

San Francisco Bay Area - San Francisco Bay Area (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Other • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Distributed workforce • Human Resources • Logistics (& Distribution) • Mobile Apps

Description

Partner at Long Journey Ventures

Cyan Banister is a Co-Founder of Signal Media Project. She also serves as Partner at Founders Fund. Prior to joining Founders Fund, Cyan was an active Angel Investor with a portfolio including Uber, Thumbtack, SpaceX, EShares, Postmates and Affirm. A self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, Cyan has held a number of technical leadership positions throughout her career. As an early employee at IronPort, which was acquired by Cisco, Cyan oversaw support infrastructure and performance for a global customer base. Cyan has a passion for the arts and is a voracious film, documentary and media consumer. She co-founded and served as Editor-in-Chief at Zivity. She also served as Advisor at Hinge Capital. She also serves on the Board of The AI Foundation.

Aydin Senkut

Atherton California - San Francisco California - Valley California - Palo Alto California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Mobile Apps

Description

Aydin Senkut is the Founder and serves as a Managing Director at Felicis Ventures. He serves as the Board Member at PredictSpring, Weddington Way, Guideline, ClearSlide and MindSnacks. He also serves as the Board Observer at Vicarious FPC. He has been named one of the top 25 tech angels by Businessweek recently and was featured as one of the top 8 up and coming VCs by Forbes' Midas List. Felicis Ventures portfolio encompasses over 80 companies currently including Clearslide, Dropcam, Inkling, Practice Fusion, Rovio, and Shopify. In the last few years, over 46 Felicis backed start-ups have been acquired by firms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Groupon, Microsoft, AT&T, Disney, Ebay, Chegg and Intuit. Prior to starting Felicis Ventures, Aydin was a Senior Manager at Google, responsible for strategic partner development and account management in Asia Pacific (including Japan). Aydin joined Google in 1999 as its first Product Manager to launch Google's first 10 international sites, its first online search licensing products and its first Safe Search. He then became the first International Sales Manager at Google, responsible for world-wide licensing deals. Before joining Google, he was the Product Manager for Data Visualization and Data Mining software MineSet, and led the business development efforts for the financial services industry at SGI. He received a BS in Business Administration with Honors from Boston University. He also earned an MBA in Marketing from the Wharton School and an MA in International Studies from the School of Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an Angel Investor.

Josh Felser

Mill Valley California - San Francisco California, U.S.A.

Investing In

IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Entertainment (& Sports) • IoT • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Analytics • Developer tools • Local commerce • Logistics (& Distribution)

Description

Josh Felser is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Freestyle Capital. He also serves as Advisor at Catalyst Investors. Previously he Co-Founded and was CEO of Crackle, formerly known as Grouper Networks, a company that uses P2P technology to allow users to share their personal media within private groups. He previously served as Vice President of America Online and as General Manager of AOL's music brands Spinner, Winamp and Shoutcast. Felser was the co-founder of Spinner.com, a leading Internet music destination and served as President until its May 1999 purchase by America Online. In July 1996 he founded Internet music startup, RadioCo (a division of Organic Online), which ultimately merged with DJ.com (renamed Spinner.com). Previously, Felser was a Director of Business and Product Development in the Multimedia Group of U.S. West; an executive with News Corp. and a Manager, Business Development for News Corp.'s Fox Inc. in Los Angeles. Felser received his BA in Political Science from Duke University and his MBA from Fuqua School of Business at Duke. He is also the Co-Founder of FYI Living and serves as Chairman of the company.

Adam Rothenberg

New York City (NY) - New York (NY), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Logistics (& Distribution)

Description

Partner at BoxGroup

Jonathon Triest

New York City (NY) - Israel - San Francisco California - Boston Massachusetts - Los Angeles California - Michigan - - Detroit (MI), U.S.A. - Israel

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Gaming (& eSports) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Mobile Apps

Description

Managing Partner, Ludlow Ventures

Jonathon Triest is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Ludlow Ventures. In 2011, he was awarded the Crain's Detroit Business award for 20 in their 20's. That same year, he co-founded Funded by Night, a vehicle to help internet startups launch and get discovered. Previously, he served as creative director for New York's Discovery Productions. In 2005 he launched the Atlanta-based Triest Group, a mid-level advertising firm. In addition to his role at Ludlow, he is a mentor at The Brandery and a board member of The Trico Foundation, and Venture for America. previously creative director for New Yorks Discovery Productions. In 2005 he launched Triest Group, a mid-level advertising firm. He sits on the Board of the Trico Foundation and the Board of Investors for Venture for America.

Chris Howard

Chicago Illinois - Denver Colorado - Atlanta Georgia - Houston Texas - Los Angeles California - Madison New York - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • IoT • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Local commerce • Material Science • Mobile Apps

Description

Founding Partner at Fuel Capital

Michael Dempsey

Cambridge Massachusetts - Boston Massachusetts - New York City (NY), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • IoT • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Gaming (& eSports) • AR/VR • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Robotics • Aerospace (& Defense)

Description

General Partner at Compound

Most Interested In

Emerging categories with some level of commercial viability. Post-science project investing

Not Interested In

- Anything related to marketing automation or adtech - Marketplaces - VR content studios

Investing in Frontier Tech @rothenberg-ventures . Previously: Researched at @cb-insights-1 & invested at Crane Partners.

Duncan Davidson

Sydney Australia - San Francisco California - Menlo Park (CA), Australia - U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • Mobile Apps

Description

Managing Director at @bullpen-capital. Bullpen Capital is the pioneer of Post Seed investing, an early A round setting up a super-sized round. Previously he was at VantagePoint Venture Partners.

Chamath Palihapitiya

San Francisco California - Palo Alto (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness)

Description

Chamath Palihapitiya is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Social Capital. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer at Social Capital Hedosophia. He is also the Chariman of Lotusflare. He is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Remote Health Services. He served as Chairman at Integrated Plasmonics. He also serves as Chairman at Athos Works. He is also a Co-Owner and serves as Board Member at Golden State Warriors. He previously founded and served as General Partner at Embarcadero Ventures. He also served as a Board Member at ezhome. He was the VP of product marketing, operations, Growth, Mobile and International & & Head of User Growth of Facebook. He is a board member at BitYota, Groq, Future Shorts, 9021 PHO Restaurants, Remind101, Confer Health, Ezetap Mobile Solutions, Lemon, Treehouse Island, Crushpath, Captricity and Treehouse Island. He served as the principal of Mayfield Fund. He focused on consumer internet, advertising and media investments. Prior to this, he spent five years with AOL, most recently served as the VP and general manager of the Desktop Messaging group with overall responsibility for the AIM and ICQ businesses. Prior to his role as the Head of AIM and ICQ, He served as VP of Business Operations for AOL's broadband subscription service helping to build the business to over $1 billion in revenue. He also co-founded and launched a Music Video-On-Demand (VOD) Channel to both critical and user acclaim, garnering successive Emmy nominations in 2005 and 2006. Earlier, he held management positions with internet music pioneers Spinner.com (AOL) and Winamp (AOL). He is a Member of the Investment Committee of fbFund. He attended the University of Waterloo, where he graduated first class honors with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He serves as an executive chairman at MAD Apparel. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at Remote Health Services.

Dror Berman

San Francisco California - Palo Alto, California - Tel Aviv (Israel) - Palo Alto (CA), U.S.A. - Israel

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • BioTech • AgroTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Robotics

Description

Dror Berman is a Co-Founding Partner at Innovation Endeavors. He is a Board Member of Vicarious Surgical. He is also a Board Member of Team8. Prior to joining Innovation Endeavors, he worked on global search products with Yahoo, spearheaded an R&D team at NICE Systems, and led business development for an Israeli CE retailer. Berman has an MBA from Stanford, and graduated cum laude in Computer Science and Bioinformatics from Ben Gurion University in Israel.

Brad Holden

Palo Alto California - San Francisco, California - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Entertainment (& Sports) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos)

Description

Partner @tomorrowventures

Boris Silver

San Francisco (CA) - New York (NY) - Toronto (Ontario) - Tel Aviv (Israel) - Los Angeles (CA) - San Diego (CA) - Chicago (IL) - Boston (MA) - Philadelphia (PA) - Baltimore (MD), U.S.A. - Canada - Israel

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Other • IT (& TMT) • Hospitality & Events • Media • BioTech • AgroTech • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • IoT • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Food & Beverage • GovTech • Impact • Logistics (& Distribution)

Description

Boris Silver is a Co-Founder and serves as President, Venture at FundersClub. Prior to starting FundersClub, he was founder and CEO of Sport Interactiva, a leading fantasy sports gaming company on Facebook (sold to Citizen Sports and acquired by Yahoo!). He was named an Ambassador of Entrepreneurship by Wharton, serves on the Board of Advisors to a venture backed technology company, and is an advisor to First Round Capital's Dorm Room Fund. Previously, he worked at Bunge, a global agribusiness, in their Commodity Trading and Risk Management program. He has been named to the Forbes 30 under 30 in Tech and to Silicon Valley's 40 under 40. Boris graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Science in Economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and is also an alumnus of Y Combinator.

Aileen Lee

Menlo Park California - Denver (CO) - San Diego (CA) - Seattle (WA) - New York (NY) - San Francisco (CA) - Palo Alto (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Food & Beverage • Local commerce • Logistics (& Distribution)

Description

Founder of Cowboy Ventures, seed stage-focused fund; and longtime partner at KPCB. Founding CEO of RMG Networks, an out-of-home digital media startup.

Alireza Masrour

San Francisco California - Valley California - Sunnyvale (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Other • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Logistics (& Distribution) • Mobile Apps

Description

Alireza Masrour serves as Managing Partner at Plug and Play Ventures. He is an Advisor at Shrimpy. He is a Strategic Advisor at Thryve. He is in charge of Investment and due diligence for Plug and Play's venture arm where he is responsible for supporting the firm's investment and venture capital partners. Alireza also serves as Advisor at PasswordBox and Rentalutions. lireza is in charge of Investment and due diligence for Plug and Play's Venture Group where he is responsible for supporting the firm's investment and venture capital partners. Some of investments led by him are Kamcord, FiscalNote, Aarki, CreditSesame, HealthPocket which acquired by Health Insurance Innovations, Matcha which acquired by Apple, PasswordBox which acquired by McAfee/Intel, TrustGo which acquired by Baidu, GNS3 which was acquired by Solarwind, Flyr, Shippo, Virool, Skytree, eyeIO and BookingPal to name a few. Prior to Plug and Play, he was Founder and CEO at NekaTel, one of the large Internet Airtime Distribution Networks, with over 800 retailers and millions of subscribers. Alireza grew NekaTel's revenue from $0 to over $45M in less than 2 years. He was also Founder of VidaTel, offering mobile airtime distribution technology and sold the technology in 2007. He has prior Chemical Engineering and Management background/ MBA certificate from Tehran University and Sharif/Royal Roads. Alireza published "Crossing the Digital Divide: What's Next" in Information Technologies and International Development Journal published by Harvard Business School for UN's World Summit on the Information Society.

Kyle Lui

Menlo Park California - New York City (NY) - Seoul South Korea - Tokyo Japan - Beijing China - Shanghai China - San Francisco, California - Los Angeles (CA), U.S.A. - South Korea - China

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • IT (& TMT) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • IoT • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services)

Description

Most Interested In

Vertical SaaS Transactional Consumer Real Estate Tech Fin Tech Check out more at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylelui/

Kyle Lui serves as Principal at DCM Ventures. He also is an Angel Investor. Prior to DCM Ventures, Kyle was the co-founder and CEO of ChoicePass, where he led product management, user acquisition, partnerships, sales and operations. ChoicePass was an enterprise perks and rewards SaaS company backed by prominent angel investors, and acquired by Salesforce.com and Rypple. At Salesforce, Kyle served as Director of Product Management on the founding product team for Work.com, growing the business to over 1,000 enterprise customers. Kyle is a frequent speaker at Salesforce's customer conferences and holds a patent on innovative systems and methods for delivering rewards in an on-demand SaaS environment.

Chris Farmer

San Francisco, California - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Food & Beverage • Logistics (& Distribution) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Robotics

Description

Most Interested In

Co's that apply tech/data/AI to cut material costs out of large, non-traditional tech industries either via "full-stack" offerings or marketplaces. Robotics. Smart SaaS. Consumer applications (viral or transactional).

Not Interested In

Trad. software w/ limited data/network effects or long sales cycles to classic IT buyers. Hardware w/o recurring revenue. Incremental improvements.

Chris Farmer is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at SignalFire. He also is an Angel Investor. He also served as Advisor at Stuph. He focuses on investments in consumer Internet, software and mobile with particular emphasis on seed stage investments and working with Entrepreneurs-In-Residence to launch new businesses. Previously, he was a Partner with General Catalyst Partners, where he led the seed program and a Vice President with Bessemer Venture Partners where he led investments in digital media & mobile companies. Prior to BVP, he was a consultant with Bain & Co where he advised on large scale technology buyouts. Prior to Bain, he spearheaded the successful turnaround of Skybitz, a wireless enabled SaaS company, where he served as led Product Management, Finance & Business Development. Earlier in his career, he founded an investment advisory firm for angel investors & private equity funds and served as a Venture Advisor to an early stage venture capital fund where he led investments in SkyBitz and Applied Semantics (acquired by Google). He started his career on Wall Street in the private equity group of Cowen & Company. He received a BA in International Relations & Business from Tufts University & the Fletcher School of Diplomacy.

Sheel Mohnot

San Francisco, California - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Hospitality & Events • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Food & Beverage • Mobile Apps • Real Estate (& Construction)

Description

Most Interested In

Seed stage FinTech, globally.

Not Interested In

Adtech, hardware, social networks

Sheel Mohnot serves as Partner, FinTech at 500 Startups. Sheel leads fintech investments for 500, which is great because his startup experience includes founding 2 fintech companies with successful exits. He also runs a podcast called The Pitch (http://thepitch.vc) where founders pitch investors.

Wesley Chan

Menlo Park California - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • Advertising • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Local commerce • Logistics (& Distribution)

Description

Wesley Chan serves as a Managing Director at Felicis Ventures. He was a General Partner at Google Ventures. He is a fun-loving entrepreneur and joined the Google Ventures team in 2009. As an early employee at Google, Chan helped to start, launch, and grow Google Analytics and Google Voice, products which millions of users depend on worldwide. He is a recipient of Google's founder award, the company's most prestigious recognition, for leading the development of Google Toolbar and building out Google's early client efforts. Chan also holds nine US Patents from his work on starting the business for targeted display advertising at Google. Additionally, he has held positions as a research lead at HP Labs, a program manager at Microsoft, and holds both master's and bachelor's degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from MIT where he did his graduate research at the Media Laboratory. He was selected as a "Top 35 Under 35" innovator by Technology Review magazine in 2010. Given his diverse background, Chan's investments at Google Ventures include companies that address markets in software and web services, mobile, biotech and cleantech. He has also held board or observer seats in Angelist, Crittericism, iPerian (exited to Bristol Myers-Squibb), Cool Planet Energy Systems, and Switch Communications. Wesley also led investments in Optimizely, Vungle, DataPad (exited to Cloudera), Freshplum (exited to TellApart), Namo Media (exited to Twitter), and Parse (exited to Facebook). He also served as Advisor at DoubleRock.

Grant Allen

Palo Alto California - Washington D.C - Boston (MA) - Menlo Park (CA) - Tel Aviv (Israel) - Cambridge (MA) - London - San Jose (CA) - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A. - Israel - U.K.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • IoT • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Robotics • Real Estate (& Construction)

Description

Most Interested In

Automation of everything. From building controls and energy management to industrial IoT and tools for deskless workers, SEV is exploring the application of new technology towards the disruption and automation of industry and the built environment.

Not Interested In

Battery chemistry, healthcare, science projects.

SVP @abb-technology-ventures based in @palo-alto • worked at @microsoft, @core-capital-partners • @duke-university engineering, @wharton-school