Palo Alto - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Sales (& Marketing) • IoT (& Wearables) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Gaming (& eSports) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Woman Focused
Ullas Naik is the Founder and serves as General Partner at Streamlined Ventures. Naik founded Streamlined Ventures with a vision of building a thought leading investment platform rooted in the philosophical belief that founders of companies are the true heroes of entrepreneurial value creation in our society. Streamlined Ventures invests in and supports visionary founders working on transformational application and business infrastructure software companies for the Mobile Web, Social Web, Web and Enterprise markets. Ullas is a seasoned venture capitalist, angel investor and entrepreneur with over two decades of entrepreneurial and early stage investment experience across 300 companies. Prior to founding Streamlined Ventures, he co-founded investment firm Cota Capital. Prior to that, Ullas was a senior member of the investment team for 12 years at Globespan Capital and helped build the firm. He has also been an active angel investor over the last 21 years during which he invested in over 60 companies spanning Internet 1.0, Web 2.0, mobile web, social web, enterprise computing as well as disruptive technologies in other domains such as robotics and wearable computing. Before his institutional investing career Ullas was a top ranked Wall Street research analyst at FAC Equities/First Albany. He was recognized by the Wall Street Journal and Fortune Magazine as a Wall Street All Star. Prior to that, Ullas received an MBA degree after starting a chemicals trading business in India. He also has a bachelor's degree in organic chemistry. He is also an Angel Investor.
San Francisco Bay Area - Menlo Park California - San Francisco California - New York - Tel Aviv, U.S.A.
Businesses Solutions • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Robotics
Most Interested In AI / ML, Microservices and Devops, Cybersecurity, Industrial AI / Automation and Robotics Not Interested In eCommerce, Adtech, Healthcare
Tel Aviv - Menlo Park - California, U.S.A. - Israel
PropTech • BioTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • CleanTech • Web Security (& Privacy) • Real Estate (& Construction)
Private Investor; Co-Founder & Partner Emeritus, DCM Ventures; US NVCA Chair (2008-09)
LP/Advisor at Ten Eleven Ventures
Montreal, Canada
AgroTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Analytics • Impact • Robotics • DeepTech • Woman Focused
Most Interested In
Investing in startups that use software, ubiquitous connectivity, large pools of data, algorithms and AI, all wrapped in superior user experiences, to re-engineer or disrupt industries.
Not Interested In
We mostly invest in Canadian startups at the pre-seed and seed stage. We will take a look at American and European companies that have a strong fit with our thesis but we will not lead those deals.
Los Angeles - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Future Of Work • Human Resources • Music • Consumer • Woman Focused
Most Interested In
-B2B marketplaces - solving unsold inventory - future of work, disintermediating education, consumer fintech, digital health - environmental security: climate tech - retail experience innovation - social impact
Not Interested In
Biotech; hardware; cannabis; martech
Palo Alto - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • CleanTech • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Developer tools • Future Of Work • Impact • Online Social
Founder / CEO @wikihow. Co-CEO @ehow (sold to Demand Media). Co-founder at @luminescent ($25 MM VC + acquired) and @bigtray (Sequoia).
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • BioTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Sales (& Marketing) • CleanTech • Impact • Material Science • Robotics • Aerospace (& Defense) • Woman Focused
Views best described as cosmopolitan-cum-extropian
Most Interested In
Where the intersection of software, hardware, & wetware can create value in over a billion lives this decade––esp. industrial bio, aerospace, industrial robotics, next-gen computing hardware, and drug development.
Not Interested In
CPG, mobile-first, ad/marketing/sales, hiring-tech, anything that could have been built more than 2-3 years ago. Nor cannabis, therapeutics, or medical devices.
Most Interested In
Where the intersection of software, hardware, & wetware can create value in over a billion lives this decade––esp. industrial bio, industrial robotics, next-gen computing hardware, and drug development.
Not Interested In
CPG, mobile-first, ad/marketing/sales, hiring-tech, anything that could have been built more than 2-3 years ago. Nor cannabis, therapeutics, or medical devices.
Ian Rountree is the Founder of Cantos Ventures. He is an Agent and Chief of Staff at Invisible Technologies.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - Canada
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • BioTech • AgroTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • CleanTech • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Impact • Robotics • Mobility
General Partner at FTW Ventures, improving the worldwide Food System
Most Interested In
FTW Ventures invests in innovations for the Food System, including Ag, Food, Consumer & Heath Tech. We look for great teams doing something revolutionary.
Not Interested In
Anything outside our core sectors - Ag, Food & Health
Advisor/Investor @teforia @nomiku @gelzen @ProperFood @lemnoslabs @indiebio @timeful (acq @google) @posterous (acq @twitter). CS @cornell-university
Boulder - Colorado, U.S.A.
AgroTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • IoT (& Wearables) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Impact • Mobility • Nanotechnology
Most Interested In
I'm most passionate about energy and environmental stewardship and human health. As a whole, Blackhorn Ventures invests in entrepreneurs who are improving resource efficiency with science and engineering-based solutions.
San Francisco Bay Area - LatAm (Latin ) - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • BioTech • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Developer tools • DeepTech • Nanotechnology • Productivity
Anamitra Banerji is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at Afore Capital. Banerji served as Partner at Foundation Capital. He serves as a Board Member of Localytics. He came to Foundation with eight years of product management leadership experience in the consumer internet space at Twitter, Yahoo! and Overture. Before working in product roles, Anamitra was a software engineer in the enterprise data space for four years. He also co-founded an internet-healthcare company PlanetHealthOnline. Anamitra joined Twitter in March 2009 as its 30th employee and first product manager. While there, he built out Twitter's advertising team, incubating from scratch all three products promoted tweets, promoted trends and promoted accounts, he led the team in getting those products up and running. As Partner at Foundation Capital, Banerji focuses on identifying and investing in promising startups in the communications, commerce, mobile and marketing technology industries. He uses his vast personal experience working alongside entrepreneurs to identify those who stand out in their respective industries. During his time as an Entrepreneur In Residence, he served as a consultant in the investment process and also helped launch Widescope, an early-stage research project at Stanford focused on crowd-sourcing federal and state budget deficit reduction. Anamitra earned an MBA from Cornell University and a degree in Electronics Engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Jamshedpur, India.