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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)

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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

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

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Venture Investor

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.

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

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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

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Founding Partner at Fuel Capital

Doug Renert

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

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • IoT • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Food & Beverage

Description

Most Interested In

Most businesses with a leveraged go to market model. Most interesting spaces: marketplaces, platforms as a service and IoT (consumer or B2B)

Not Interested In

life sciences, med devices and deep science

Founded Tandem Cap, Silicon Valley's mobile incubator: investor in @tile, @playhaven,@pagerduty,@BashGaming,@ZumoDrive,@Cuff,@packetzoom, @upout;@ShoeLovers

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)

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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.

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.

Aaron Jacobson

San Francisco, California - San Francisco (CA) - Menlo Park (CA) - New York (NY) - Tel Aviv (Israel), U.S.A. - Israel

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Sales (& Marketing) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Security • Analytics • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Robotics

Description

Partner at NEA

Most Interested In

AI / ML, Microservices and Devops, Cybersecurity, Industrial AI / Automation and Robotics

Not Interested In

eCommerce, Adtech, Healthcare

Principal at @new-enterprise-associates

Manan Mehta

Palo Alto California - San Francisco, California - Denver (CO) - Canada - Washington (DC) - Los Angeles / Southern California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA) - New York (NY) - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A. - Canada

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Other • Media • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • AR/VR • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Aerospace (& Defense)

Description

Founding Partner at Unshackled Ventures

Most Interested In

Immigrant entreprenuers. We provide 3 things: Your scalable friends and family capital, full immigration support, including sponsorship and stewardship to help you succeed faster. Our goal is to make investment decisions in 3 meetings over 2 hours.

Not Interested In

Non-immigrant founders.

Founder @unshackled - Investor. Entrepreneur. Love being at the intersection of do good, do well.

Chip Hazard

Boston, Massachusetts - Boston (MA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • IoT • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Security • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure)

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Most Interested In

For Flybridge, I am primarily focused on core B2B tech, including developer-focused companies and AI applications & platforms. I also founded and help manage, in conjunction with a team of 22 female founders, XFactor Ventures, a pre-seed fund focused on new companies with female founders

Not Interested In

We are typically the "first institutional check" for companies, so not focused on large >$8M Series As for Series B and beyond. Industry wise, not doing anything in the healthcare market, unless it's HCIT.

Barry Eggers

Menlo Park California - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • BioTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • IoT • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Material Science

Description

Barry is a Partner of Lightspeed and focuses primarily on information technology infrastructure, with a specific interest in cloud computing, big data, storage, consumerization of IT, and networking. He has 15 years of venture capital experience, 10 years of operating experience and has been named to the Forbes Midas List of top 100 investors multiple times.Barry works closely with Avi Networks, MapR Technologies, Nimble Storage, Pertino and youwho. His past investments include Pliant Technology (acquired by Sandisk), Calista Technologies (acquired by MSFT), Arbor Networks (acquired by DHR), Growth Networks (acquired by CSCO), Maker Communications (acquired post-IPO by CNXT), Metasolv Software (acquired post-IPO by ORCL), Sirocco Systems (acquired by SCMR), and Telogy Networks (acquired by TI). Prior to joining Lightspeed, Barry held executive roles in business development and general management at Cisco Systems from 1991-1997. While at Cisco, Barry established many of the company’s largest distribution channels across OEMs, Service Providers, Distributors, and VARs. He also developed Cisco’s initial M&A process and directed the first wave of acquisitions and integrations for the company.Barry holds a BA in Economics and Business from the University of California, Los Angeles and an MBA from Stanford University Graduate School of Business. Barry is a member of the UCLA Economics Board of Visitors.

Paul Martino

Mountain View (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Other • 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 • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cannabis • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Security • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Analytics • AR/VR • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Distributed workforce • Food & Beverage • GovTech • Human Resources • Impact • Insurance • Local commerce • Logistics (& Distribution) • Material Science • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Messaging • Payments • Robotics • Mobile Apps • Aerospace (& Defense) • Real Estate (& Construction) • SaaS

Description

Bullpen Capital is an early-stage fund to make follow-on investments for companies who have recently raised seed

Nitin Pachisia

San Francisco California - Palo Alto, California - Cloud infrastructure, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Other • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • IoT • A.I. (& Big Data) • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Robotics • Aerospace (& Defense)

Description

Most Interested In

Immigrant founders in the US, from anywhere in the world, who are solving real-world problems with a unique insight. Strong adversity muscle is a must. We'll invest capital, take care of immigration, and surround you with operators who help you move faster.

Not Interested In

Companies without atleast one founder born outside the US. There are plenty of funds for such companies. So, we will focus only where we can add the most value.

Nitin is a founding partner of Unshackled Ventures, an early stage venture capital fund for immigrant founded startups in the U.S. The fund has led marquee investments in driverless trucking, AI for water management, edge computing and emotional intelligence. Before starting Unshackled Ventures, Nitin founded an experiential ecommerce company. Prior to that, he ran finance and strategy for ed-tech startup Kno (acquired by Intel) that raised over $90M of funding from top VC’s including Andreessen Horowitz, First Round Capital and Floodgate. Before Kno, Nitin worked at Deloitte, focusing on tech startups and helping them with growth, exits, and strategic initiatives. Nitin has appeared on NBC, NPR, CCTV, has been featured in various publications including Forbes, WSJ, Financial Times, Techcrunch, CNN, and has been an op-ed contributor in the Huffington Post and ReCode. Nitin is actively engaged as mentor or as part of evaluation committee at Stanford University, Babson, Alchemist Accelerator, GTWY, Founder Institute, among others. Being an immigrant himself and having founded startups while on a visa in U.S., Nitin understands the venture resources immigrant founders need, besides capital. He recognizes the opportunity immigrant founders represent and is focused on building an ecosystem that strengthens the pursuit of their American dream.

Brad Feld

Boulder, Colorado - Charlotte (NC) - Boston (MA) - Indianapolis (IN) - Seattle (WA) - Denver (CO) - San Francisco (CA) - New York (NY) - Boulder (CO), U.S.A. - India

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Distributed workforce • Food & Beverage • Mobile Apps

Albert Wenger

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

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Other • 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 • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cannabis • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Security • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Analytics • AR/VR • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Distributed workforce • Food & Beverage • GovTech • Human Resources • Impact • Insurance • Local commerce • Logistics (& Distribution) • Material Science • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Messaging • Payments • Robotics • Mobile Apps • Aerospace (& Defense) • Real Estate (& Construction) • SaaS

Arjun Sethi

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

Investing In

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

Description

Most Interested In

Agnostic. Always open to new ideas.

Not Interested In

N/A

Arjun Sethi is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Tribe Capital. He is a Board Member at SFOX. He is a Co-Founder of JamLegend. He is a Board Member at Kissmetrics and Chairman at Primer. He served as Partner at Social Capital. He also served as Senior Director of Product Management at Yahoo. Prior to Yahoo, he Co-Founded and served as Chief Executive Officer at MessageMe. Sethi received a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Maryland.

David Cohen

New York City (NY) - Cambridge Massachusetts - Chicago Illinois - Boston Massachusetts - Denver Colorado - San Antonio Texas - Seattle Washington - Los Angeles California - Austin Texas - Boulder, Colorado, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • IoT • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Logistics (& Distribution) • Mobile Apps

Description

Founder/CEO of @techstars. Investor in Amazing Startups. Geeky to the bone. http://www.davidgcohen.com

Ed Sim

Connecticut - Irving New York - Southport Uk - New York City (NY) - London - Tel Aviv (Israel) - New York (NY) - San Francisco (CA) - San Francisco Bay Area (CA) - Toronto (Ontario), U.S.A. - U.K. - Israel - Canada

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Security • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools

Description

day one partner + true believer for enterprise Infra/SaaS founders

Most Interested In

day one partner + true believer for enterprise Infrastructure/SaaS founders, first check lead + love new category creation

Not Interested In

All enterprise all the time - no consumer

@boldstart-ventures, Managing Partner. Seed investor for 20 years, investments include Greenplum, LivePerson, GoToMeeting, Divide.com...

Jonathan Heiliger

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

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Security • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools

Description

Most Interested In

Fun SaaS, particularly with a defensible barrier to entry that is technical. Some infrastructure software & hardware. IoT for consumers and enterprises.

Not Interested In

We don't make consumer (B2C) or crypto investments, sorry.

Jonathan Heiliger serves as Partner at Vertex Ventures US. He is a Board Member at LaunchDarkly. Most recently, he was a General Partner with North Bridge Venture Partners, from April 2012 to November 2014. During his tenure, he started the seed practice and led investments in Lytro, Periscope.io, Quora, and Ravel Law. Prior to NBVP, Jonathan worked at Facebook, where he led global infrastructure, site architecture and internal systems as VP Infrastructure & Technical Operations, from 2007 until 2011. During that time Facebook grew from 35 million to over 800 million users. Before that, Jonathan held executive engineering roles at Wal-Mart and Danger (acquired by Microsoft). He also spent several years as Chief Operating Officer for Loudcloud (which became Opsware and was later acquired by HP). Earlier in his career, Jonathan co-founded and was CTO of GlobalCenter, and later founded Global Crossing's venture capital group. Jonathan currently serves on the board of directors of DuPont Fabros (DFT), Jive Software (JIVE), and Webmonsters. He also co-founded Coolan and served as an Advisor.

Ethan Kurzweil

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

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Gaming (& eSports) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Material Science

Description

Most Interested In

Consumer applications, future of media, online video, developer platforms

Ethan Kurzweil serves as Partner, Investments at Bessemer Venture Partners. He was a Board Member at Stratim. He as eleven when he started his first business - The Cat Corporation. In charge of family cat care, he "awarded" all labor-intensive jobs to his sister (Cat Feeder, Cat Brusher) and claimed all management jobs for himself (CEO, VP of Cat Welfare, Executive Director of Grooming). He would now discourage founders from letting sibling rivalry influence their org charts. As a Stanford undergrad, Ethan eventually was a co-founder of a real company: SSB-Bart Group, which helps make the Web accessible to users with disabilities. Before joining Bessemer in 2008, he worked for Dow Jones & Co., managing the turnaround of The Wall Street Journal's international editions, and Linden Lab, the creator of Second Life. At BVP, Ethan focuses on investments in consumer technologies and developer platfor He is particularly excited about consumer video start-ups and companies "developerizing the enterprise," his phrase for companies that provide non-technical business users with powerful tools and potential impact without requiring them to code. Ethan's investments include consumer companies Twitch (acquired by Amazon), Periscope (acquired by Twitter), Dropcam (acquired by Google), Playdom (acquired by Disney), Zirx, Life360 and Piazza; developer platforms Intercom, Twilio, PagerDuty, npm, and Sendgrid; and SaaS companies Hightower and Simply Measured. He was also involved in the firm's investments in adap.tv (acquired by AOL) and Skybox Imaging (acquired by Google). Ethan graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University and earned an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School. He serves on the Bay Area advisory board for New Leaders. Raised in Boston, he remains a Red Sox fan for life. He also serves as a Board Member at Periscope Data.

Reid Hoffman

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

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Hospitality & Events • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Entertainment (& Sports) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Impact • Material Science • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services)

Description

Reid Hoffman is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman and Venture Capitalist at LinkedIn. He also serves as Partner at Greylock Partners. He also serves as a Chairman at The Translational Research Institute. He is a Board Member at Entrepreneur First. He also served as Strategic Advisor at New Cycle Capital. He also serves as Board Member at Endeavor Global. He also serves as an Advisor at The Breakthrough Energy Coalition. Previously he co-founded Socialnet.com and worked at Fujitsu Software Corp. and Apple Computer. He also serves as a Board Member at Microsoft.

Jonathan Abrams

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

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Mobile Apps • SaaS

Description

Co-founder of 8-Bit Capital, Founders Den, Nuzzel, and Friendster

Most Interested In

8-Bit Capital invests in startups that connect people and businesses in new ways

Jonathan Abrams is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Nuzzel. He serves as Advisor at Darwin Ventures. He is also an Angel Investor. He is a Co-Founder & serves as a Managing Partner at Founders Den. Previously, Jonathan was the founder and CEO of Socializr, Friendster, and HotLinks, and a software engineer at companies such as Netscape and Nortel. Jonathan is a mentor in Steve Blank's entrepreneurship classes at Stanford and Berkeley, a top-rated mentor at The Founder Institute, an advisor to AngelList and LeanLaunchLab, and has been extensively involved in the Silicon Valley entrepreneurial community for over ten years, including as a long-time member of the advisory board of the Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs (SVASE), co-chair of the SDForum Venture Finance SIG, moderator of the SVASE CTO Forum, and a judge for the Stanford Entrepreneur's Challenge business plan contest, the UC Berkeley Business Plan Competition, the Stanford-Berkeley Innovators' Challenge, the Intel Challenge, and Start-Up Chile. He has a BS in Computer Science from McMaster University. He is an Angel Investor.

Jason Pressman

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

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Local commerce

Description

Jason Pressman is a Co- Founder and serves as Managing Director & Partner at Shasta Ventures. He also is an Angel Investor. He serves as the Board of Directors at Deep Sentinel. He leads the enterprise practice at Shasta Ventures and invests across a range of sectors including enterprise software, SaaS, cloud and consumer services. A company builder who played an integral role in the development of one of today's largest online businesses, Jason acts as a thought partner, advocate and counselor to entrepreneurs looking to take their companies from initial proof of product-market fit to industry dominance. As a partner at Shasta, Jason has been an active investor in cloud computing, with an emphasis on next-generation applications, systems management and open source software. His previous investments include Makara (acquired by RedHat) and iConclude (acquired by Opsware). Jason currently serves on the boards of application performance management startup Crittercism, Scala open source software platform Typesafe and SaaS subscription billing company Zuora, as well as local social guide Nextdoor and mobile platform Smule. Prior to joining Shasta in 2005, Jason was Vice President, Strategy and Operations at venture-backed Walmart.com, where he took the online retailer from zero to large scale revenue in five years. His experience growing that business into one of largest retailers online informs his understanding of how to thoughtfully scale fast-growing businesses, as well as how to use software to improve operations. Previously, Jason worked as an investment banker to venture-backed companies at Alex.Brown. Jason earned an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BS in Finance from University of Maryland.

Brian Pokorny

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

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Mobile Apps

Description

Brian Pokorny serves as General Partner at SV Angel. Prior to this, he was at Airbnb, where he joined via an acquisition of DailyBooth/Batch. DailyBooth was a venture backed start-up that Brian led for 3 years as their CEO. Before this, Brian was a partner at SV Angel with David Lee and Ron Conway upon the launch of the firm. Prior to SV Angel he was a founding team member and partner at Baseline Ventures, a leading seed-stage investment firm. Before joining Baseline, Brian spent 3.5 years at Google within various positions in the Content Partnerships team and Direct Sales Organization. Before this, he had various roles within sales operations and finance at Juniper Networks, TIBCO Software, and Applied Materials. Brian graduated with a degree in Operations and Management Information Systems from Santa Clara University. Brian is an angel investor in Twitter, Square, OMGPOP (Acquired by Zynga), Tweetdeck (Acquired by Twitter), DailyBooth (Acquired by Airbnb), Milo (Acquired by eBay), Posterous (Acquired by Twitter), Chomp (Acquired by Apple), Milk (Acquired by Google), Bump, Couple, Elepath, MessageMe, and has advisory positions with Ooyala, Stitcher, and Rupture (Acquired by EA).

Bill Tai

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

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Impact • Logistics (& Distribution)

Description

Venture Capitalist, Athlete, Adjunct Professor

Most Interested In

Data Science, AI, SaaS , DevOps, Human Performance, Flow State

Not Interested In

Not interested in heavily capital intensive businesses.

Angel: Twitter (Tweetdeck) @Tango @voxer (BOD) @treasure-data (Chmn). Seed: @wish, Soundtracking. Past BOD of 7 Listed companies incl one I founded.

Semil Shah

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

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Other • 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 • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cannabis • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Security • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Analytics • AR/VR • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Distributed workforce • Food & Beverage • GovTech • Human Resources • Impact • Insurance • Local commerce • Logistics (& Distribution) • Material Science • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Messaging • Payments • Robotics • Mobile Apps • Aerospace (& Defense) • Real Estate (& Construction) • SaaS

Description

Semil Shah serves as a Venture Partner at GGV Capital. He also serves as an Investor of BirdEye. He is the Founder and serves as a General Partner of Haystack, which invested in more than 70 companies, including Instacart, Hired, and DoorDash. He serves as the Venture Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. He serves on the advisory boards of The Alpha Network and StrictlyVC. He is also a former consultant for several venture capital firms, including General Catalyst, Trinity Ventures, and GGV Capital, among others. His notable AI investments include AirMap, an airspace services provider that focuses on providing accurate airspace information for building unmanned aircraft, drones, and applications; Iris Automation, which helps industrial drones avoid collision; and SkySafe, which provides drone defense and airspace control solutions. Semil holds a bachelor's degree from University of Michigan and a Master's degree from Harvard University.

Naval Ravikant

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

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Sales (& Marketing) • CleanTech • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Gaming (& eSports) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure)

Description

Sweat: @angellist , @venture-hacks @vast @epinions ; Money: @twitter @heyzap @uber

Kevin Moore

Dallas, Texas - Canada - Seattle / Portland - Austin (TX) - Boston / New England - Chicago (IL), U.S.A. - Canada

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools

Description

Most Interested In

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Not Interested In

Hardware & CPG

Leeroy Jenkins of angels. VC scout/leading feeder angel. Former tech i-banker, corp dev, CFO, Perot Systems. @university-of-southern-california

Eric Kwan

Hong Kong - Tokyo Japan - Valley California - Palo Alto, California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA), Japan

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Other • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • IoT • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools

Description

Builder · Investor · Managing Partner at Locus Ventures

Most Interested In

AI enabled services, e-Sports, Infrastructure as a Service, B2B SaaS, Industrial Robotics, Cloud Security, India

Not Interested In

Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies

Founding engineer at Operator.com • Ex-Facebook, Yahoo • Studied at Stanford, CMU • Specialized in User Acquisition, Internationalization & Growth • Angel

Nnamdi Okike

New York City (NY) - San Francisco Bay Area (CA) - New York (NY), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Logistics (& Distribution)

Description

Managing Partner and Co-Founder at 645 Ventures. Focused on investing in exceptional early-stage software companies.

Most Interested In

Our firm focuses on three core investment themes: 1) Software for the second wave, which represents vertical SaaS markets where software is transforming and improving key business operations; 2) Citizen professionals, which represents software platforms that are enabling workers to become experts without requiring advanced skills; and 3) personalized consumer products and services, where advanced data is transforming the consumer experience.

Not Interested In

We only invest in software and software-enabled companies.

Nnamdi Okike is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at 645 Ventures. Nnamdi is an experienced venture capital investor. He spent 8 years at Insight Venture Partners where he sourced and invested in several successful companies, which included Folhamatic (acquired for $300 million), Astaro (acquired by Sophos), and Hitwise (acquired for $240 million). He served on the boards of Kabum, CSSN and Folhamatic. Nnamdi currently works closely with 645 Ventures' portfolio companies Keaton Row, Trendalytics, Hire an Esquire and Poshly. He also serves on the boards of AbbeyPost, Astia and Rifiniti.