Ferry Heilemann is a Co-Founder and serves as Co-Managing Director at DailyDeal. Heilemann was also a Co-Founder and served as Partner at Heilemann Ventures. Heilemann is also a Co-Founder at FreightHub and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. He also serves as Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital. Ferry founded Heilemann Ventures together with his brother Fabian after the trade sale of his company DailyDeal to Google in 2011. Since then he has been an early stage VC-investor, actively supporting companies in the digital sector with his operational skills and experience. Meanwhile, Ferry and his brother Fabian set the fundamentals for their holding Sky & Sand. Currently it combines DailyDeal, which the brothers bought back from Google in early 2013, and the mobile-POS system provider pepperbill.
Daniel Gross the founder of Greplin, a search engine. Greplin operated by linking together various online accounts into one search experience. For example, a customer could search their Facebook, Gmail and Dropbox accounts from one unified service without check each individually.
In 2011, Greplin raised $4 million in funding from venture capital firm Sequoia Capital. Gross was one of Sequoia's youngest founders at the time. They introduced a premium offering at $5 a month, which allowed customers to link enterprise-facing services like Salesforce.
In 2012 the company renamed itself to “Cue” and launched an additional predictive search features. In addition to search, Cue offered customers an automatic and intelligent agenda of their day. This included files, emails, addresses, phone numbers and more that were deemed algorithmically relevant. Cue was a similar product to Google Now.
He is Y-Combinator's first Israeli.
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
Chris Sacca
Investing in Businesses Solutions • CleanTec...
Montana, U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Toymail:
$600000
• Gowalla:
$8300000 (Series B)
• Flair:
(Series Unknown)
• Flair:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Flair:
$2000000 (Series Unknown)
• Tender Food:
$11000000 (Series A)
• Tender Food:
$12000000 (Seed)
• Cloover:
$6000000 (Seed)
• SolarSquare Energy:
$4000000 (Series Unknown)
• SolarSquare Energy:
$12000000 (Series A)
• SolarSquare Energy:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Quilt:
$33000000 (Series A)
• Quilt:
$9000000 (Seed)
• Mosa Meat:
$42000000 (Series Unknown)
• Mosa Meat:
$2000000 (Series A)
• Lilac Solutions:
$150000000 (Series C)
• Lilac Solutions:
$150000000 (Series B)
• River:
$40000000 (Series B)
• River:
$15000000 (Series B)
• River:
$11000000 (Series A)
• Arc Boats:
$70000000 (Series B)
• Arc Boats:
$30000000 (Series A)
• Arc Boats:
(Seed)
• Gridware:
$11000000 (Seed)
• Woodoo:
$31000000 (Seed)
• Novalith Technologies:
$15000000 (Series A)
• Lun:
$11000000 (Seed)
• Living Carbon:
$21000000 (Series A)
• Detect:
(Series C)
• Enode:
$15000000 (Series A)
• Fuse Energy:
$79000000 (Series Unknown)
• Tomorrow Farms:
$9000000 (Seed)
• Antora Energy:
$50000000 (Series A)
• Cover:
$60000000 (Series B)
• SIMULATE:
$50000000 (Series B)
• Kinema:
$2000000 (Seed)
• TerraTrue:
$15000000 (Series A)
• TerraTrue:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Stensul:
$16000000 (Series B)
• Stensul:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Pachama:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Automattic:
$300000000 (Series D)
• Automattic:
$160000000 (Series C)
• Commonwealth Fusion:
$120000000 (Series A)
• Swayable:
(Seed)
• Linear Labs:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Boundless Mind:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Brightwheel:
$600000 (Seed)
• The Happy Home Company:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Rent Like a Champion:
(Seed)
• Dubsmash:
$6000000 (Series A)
• OpenDNS:
$35000000 (Series C)
• Medium:
$25000000 (Series A)
• Liftopia:
$5000000 (Series D)
• Liftopia:
$1000000 (Series C)
• Heavybit:
(Undisclosed)
• Chewse:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Getable:
$2000000 (Seed)
• FOBO:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Streak:
$2000000 (Convertible Note)
• 9GAG:
$3000000 (Seed)
• VHX:
$1000000 (Seed)
• StyleSeat:
$780000 (Seed)
• Gumroad:
$1000000 (Seed)
• RecordSetter:
$1000000 (Series A)
• RecordSetter:
(Angel)
• X (formerly Twitter):
$400000000 (Series G)
• X (formerly Twitter):
$5000000 (Series A)
• Embedly:
$450000 (Seed)
• Milk:
$2000000 (Angel)
• Message Bus:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Kickstarter:
$10000000 (Series Unknown)
• AdGrok:
$470000 (Angel)
• dotCloud:
$800000 (Angel)
• Docker:
$800000 (Angel)
• 1000memories:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Uber:
$11000000 (Series A)
• Uber:
$1000000 (Angel)
• Instagram:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Instagram:
$500000 (Seed)
• FanBridge:
$2000000 (Series A)
• FanBridge:
$350000 (Seed)
• AeroFS:
(Seed)
• GroupSpaces:
$1000000 (Series Unknown)
• Hello Chair:
$880000 (Series Unknown)
• Hello Chair:
$15000 (Seed)
• Optimizely:
$1000000 (Angel)
• Posterous:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Backupify:
$900000 (Seed)
• Graphicly:
$1000000 (Series A)
• Cardpool:
(Seed)
• Twilio:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Lookout:
$6000000 (Series A)
• Gowalla (acquired by facebook):
$8000000 (Series B)
Businesses Solutions • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Developer tools • Local commerce • Online Social • Consumer
Description
Christopher Sacca is the Founder and serves as Chairman at Lowercase Capital. Sacca is an Angel Investor. He served as Software Engineer at Ellucian. He managed a portfolio of over fifty consumer web, mobile, and wireless technology start-ups as well as an array of mature enterprises through his holding company, Lowercase Capital. While primarily known for its investments in seed and early stage technology companies like Twitter, Uber, Instagram, and Kickstarter, Lowercase has quietly become one of the largest venture funds in the United States. Previously, Chris served as Head of Special Initiatives at Google Inc. In that role, among other responsibilities, he founded and headed up the alternative access and wireless divisions. His most visible projects include Google's 700MHz and TV white spaces spectrum initiatives, the company's groundbreaking data center in Oregon and Google's free citywide WiFi network in Mountain View, CA. Chris also spearheaded many of Google's business development and M&A transactions and was on the founding team of the company's New Business Development organization. Before joining Google, Chris held a number of executive roles at one of the world's largest streaming and digital media distribution companies, Speedera Networks (acquired by Akamai Technologies), and was ultimately responsible for their legal and corporate development efforts. Prior to Speedera, Chris was an attorney with the Silicon Valley law firm of Fenwick & West where he handled venture capital, mergers & acquisitions, and licensing transactions for technology clients such as Macromedia, VeriSign, and Kleiner Perkins. In 2012, Chris continued his work as a National Finance Committee member, a host of the technology roundtable series, and as a Co-Chair of Tech for Obama. The Wall Street Journal cited Chris as "possibly the most influential businessman in America." Chris graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center where he was a member of The Tax Lawyer law review and was honored as the school's Philip A. Ryan and Ralph J. Gilbert Memorial Scholar. He also graduated cum laude from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and was an Edmund Evans Memorial Scholar as well as a Weeks Family Foundation Scholar. He is an an Angel Investor. He also serves as an Adivsor at Lookout. He is an Investor at Docker.
Keith Hamlin
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
New York, U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Inspiren:
(mid stage)
• Kafene:
• Spur:
(early stage)
• Debtsy:
(early stage)
• Petal:
(early stage)
• Zipdrug:
(early stage)
• LoanStreet Inc.:
(mid stage)
• Phase Change Energy Solutions, Inc.:
(mid stage)
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data)
Description
Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Congruent Ventures
Mr. Abraham Yokell is a Co-Founder & serves as Managing Partner at Congruent Ventures. He also serves as Board Member at AMP Robotics, Modumate, Omnidian, Solidspac3, and Blueprint Power. He serves as Board Observer at Dispatch Goods. He serves as Board Member & Advisor at Evergrow. He serves as an Advisor at Leap. He is an Angel Investor. He oversees Congruent's investments in Amply Power, Camus, For Days, Hippo Harvest, Hopthru, Kingfield, Lightship, Milk Run, Optimoroute, Phase Genomics, Raptor Map, Span.IO, Thrilling, and Vector among others. He has over 17 years of investment experience, having invested across sectors with an emphasis on deep tech and business model innovation.
Previously, he served as a Partner at Rockport Capital. he joined Rockport as an Associate and moved from Boston to help spearhead the opening of RockPort's Menlo Park office in 2007.758r. While at Rockport, he was involved in over 50 transactions across 22 companies in the sustainability ecosystem, focusing on hardware/software, financing, and business model innovation. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Economics, with minors in Chemistry and Biology.
Stephen DeBerry is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Bronze VC. He served as Partner at Kapor Capital. He invests in vehicles that align strong financial returns with positive social impact. Before joining Kapor Capital, he was an Investment Director at Omidyar Network, the mission-based investment firm started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife, Pam. He has been a frequent organizer and speaker at industry conferences and his investments have focused on pioneering new categories such as social lending. Some of his previous investments include: CircleLending (now Virgin Money), Prosper, InnoCentive and more recently Etherpad, Cardpool, Edulender and PayNearMe. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology with highest honors from UCLA as well as a Master's degree in Social Anthropology and MBA from the University of Oxford. He is a British Marshall Scholar and a Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. He served as Board Member at Proven.
Alex Moore
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Founder and Managing Partner at Motivate Venture Capital
Most Interested In
Solutions to problems that accelerating longevity will create.
Not Interested In
Adtech, med devices, pharma
David Wieland is a Co-Founder and serves as Co-Chairman & Investment Committee Member at IrishAngels. He is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Endowment Research Group. He is a member of the Investment Committee and is Chair of the firm's Venture Capital Investments. He is responsible for corporate strategy, capital raising, deal sourcing, and investment due diligence. He is Chairman of the Board at RIVS, a software company, and he is positioning the firm for an exit. Prior thereto, Wieland was CEO of Innflux and Powersurge Technologies, where he founded, grew, and sold both companies. He earned his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management. He also serves as Board Member at IrishAngels Ventures.
Shaun Abrahamson
Investing in Hardware (& Manufacturing) • En...
Los Angeles California, U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• CrowdTwist:
$20000
• Hades:
$1900000 (Seed Round)
• Radiator Labs:
$2400000 (Seed Round)
• Radiator Labs:
$300000 (Pre Seed Round)
• Radiator Labs:
$220000 (Pre Seed Round)
• Arbor:
$2600000 (Seed Round)
• Electric Visionary Aircrafts:
(Convertible Note)
We're interested in teams re-imagining cities in 3 areas - GHG reduction, climate adaptation and solving problems associated with high density (like traffic or public safety).
Cities are complex, so founders continue inspire and amaze us by identifying new systemic issues and solutions. If you're re-imagining city life, we'd love to hear from you.
Not Interested In
We don't invest in edtech or healthtech. Certainly not a vote on whether we want to see these categories succeed, we just think they need additional focus/skills which we don't have. That said public health is a growing area of interesting.
Shaun Abrahamson is a Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Urban Us. Shaun is a Member of the Investment Committee, and he leads investment selection and communications with portfolio companies, members of the Network, and limited partners in Fund II. Before founding Fund I, Shaun was an active angel investor, investing in more than 20 firms between 2007 and 2013 in his personal capacity. Early-stage investing and advising is informed by his experiences building MediaSentry (acquired by SafeNet in 2005), Starmedia Network (acquired by France Telecom) and Oculus Technologies (MIT CADLab spin-out). In 1999, he was an early employee at govWorks, one of the earliest startups focused on serving local government. govWorks was ahead of the market and failed during the dot-com bust, becoming the subject of the documentary Startup.com in 2001. Shaun has written for organizations such as The Economist Intelligence Unit, The Huffington Post, and CNNMoney. Crowdstorm, published by Wiley, was his first book and is a guide to working with large online crowds to find and evaluate ideas. The book is based on Shaun's experience working with Starbucks, Omnicom Group, $300 House, and Life Edited. Shaun has an MSc from MIT; an MBA from the Berlin School of Creative Leadership; and a BSc from the University of Cape Town. He is also an Angel Investor.
How to connect with Angel Investors in the CleanTech industry?
In the CleanTech industry, prominent angel investors include Bill Gates, Elon Musk, and Vinod Khosla. These investors focus on startups offering innovative solutions in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and sustainable technologies. Bill Gates, through Breakthrough Energy Ventures, invests in CleanTech startups that can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Elon Musk, known for his work with Tesla and SolarCity, looks for companies that revolutionize the energy sector with clean and sustainable technologies. Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, seeks out high-impact CleanTech companies with disruptive innovations. To connect with these investors, attend CleanTech conferences, sustainability expos, and networking events such as Clean Energy Ministerial, VERGE, and Renewable Energy World Conference. Utilize platforms like AngelList and LinkedIn to identify and reach out to potential investors. When pitching, emphasize how your CleanTech solution addresses key environmental challenges, such as reducing carbon emissions, improving energy efficiency, or promoting sustainability. Highlight any traction you’ve gained, such as partnerships with energy companies, successful pilot projects, 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 pilot programs 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 energy contracts, will further strengthen your pitch. Leveraging endorsements or case studies from CleanTech experts can also enhance your credibility.
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