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San Francisco California - Palo Alto California - Menlo Park, California - Seattle / Portland - New York, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure)
Most Interested In
I'm looking for bold founders going after big, audacious ideas. I'm personally passionate about SaaS/cloud, especially business applications.
Not Interested In
I'm not interested in anything related to adtech.
Partner at @dfj, a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. Lead our efforts in SaaS and Enterprise IT. Also active in Consumer and Mobile.
San Francisco California - Philadelphia Pennsylvania - 4040 Locust Street Philiadelphia Pennsylvania - New York, U.S.A.
Businesses Solutions • Consumer
Howard Morgan is co-founder and partner in First Round Capital, a seed stage venture capital investment firm specializing in information technologies. He began working with Idealab in 1996 and serves on their board. He has more than 30 years of experience with more than two hundred high-tech entrepreneurial ventures. He serves on the boards of Fab.com, Single Platform, GumGum, Energy Innovations and other private companies. Howard was Professor of Decision Sciences at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Professor of Computer Science at the Moore School for almost 15 years. He a Trustee of Cold Spring Harbor Labs and Math For America and is a respected author. He received the Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1997. Howard received his Ph.D. in operations research from Cornell University in 1968 and his B.S. from the City University of New York in 1965.
San Francisco California - New York City (NY) - Philadelphia Pennsylvania - 4040 Locust Street Philiadelphia Pennsylvania - Advertising - E - Gaming/eSports - IoT - Marketing automation - Social mobile, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Hospitality (& Events) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • AR/VR • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Payments • Mobile Apps • Investment Management • Mobile • Online Social
VC with First Round, former del.icio.us and Half.com/eBay BD guy, 25 yrs in Tech. Also @chrisfralic http://frc.vc/chris
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.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Other • IT (& TMT) • Hospitality (& Events) • Media • BioTech • AgroTech • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • IoT (& Wearables) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Food & Beverage • GovTech • Impact • Logistics (& Distribution) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Mobile • Mobility • Consumer
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.
Austin Texas - London - New York City (NY) - Cambridge Massachusetts - Chicago Illinois - Boston Massachusetts - Portland Oregon - San Antonio Texas - Seattle Washington - Atlanta Georgia - Los Angeles California - Washington D.C, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Logistics (& Distribution) • Mobile
Jason Seats serves as Managing Partner at Techstars. Jason was most recently the Managing Director of the Techstars programs in Austin and Cloud in San Antonio. Prior to joining Techstars, Jason was a Founder of Slicehost, an early cloud computing hosting company. In 2008 Slicehost was acquired by Rackspace and became the core for the initial Cloud Servers product. Jason continued on at Rackspace until 2010 as VP of software development for Rackspace Cloud, managing the cloud engineering tea Jason has a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology at Saint Louis University. He is also an Angel Investor. He also serves as Board Member at Convey and DigitalOcean.
San Francisco California - 200 Clarendon Street Boston - Palo Alto (CA) - Boston, Massachusetts - New York - , United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Advertising • Analytics • Local commerce • Online Social
Ajay Agarwal serves as Managing Director & Co-Managing Partner at Bain Capital Ventures. He serves as Board Member & Investor at Captora. Ajay leads the Bay Area offices for Bain Capital Ventures, where he focuses on early-stage application software and SaaS investing. Prior to Bain Capital Ventures, Ajay was an early employee at Trilogy, where as head of sales and marketing he grew annual revenues to $300 million. Ajay leads the Bay Area offices for Bain Capital Ventures, where he focuses on early-stage application software and SaaS investing. Prior to joining Bain Capital Ventures in 2003, Ajay was head of sales and marketing at Trilogy, where he grew annual revenues to $300 million. Previously, Ajay was a consultant with the Los Angeles office of McKinsey & Company. Ajay has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Ajay also holds a patent for the "Method and Apparatus of Configuration Solutions." At Bain Capital Ventures, Ajay's passion is working with early-stage founders on team-building, culture, iteration of product market fit, and scaling the early go-to-market operations. His primary investment themes include commerce enablement, the revolution of the sales and marketing functions, and the use of big data, and machine learning to transform business applications. In 2012 and 2013, Ajay was named to the Forbes Midas List of Top 100 Venture Capital Investors. Currently, he serves as a Board Member of ShipBob.
Consumer products - Local commerce - Retail - Sales and CRM, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Local commerce • Logistics (& Distribution) • Consumer
3x founder, early-stage advisor, focus in commerce and b2b
New York (NY) - Founded in 2010, Collaborative Fund is a venture capital firm headquartered in New York, New York, U.S.A.
FinTech (& Financials services) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Taylor Greene serves as Partner at Collaborative Fund. Previously, he served as a Partner at Lerer Hippeau Ventures. He was previously Director of Finance and Business Development at Altruik. His background includes finance, operating and consulting roles with software, media, internet and venture capital firms. Prior to joining Altruik, he was a Summer Associate at DFJ Gotham Ventures as well as a venture consultant for several early stage startups. Before joining DFJ Gotham, he held operating and finance roles at Time Warner and at The Synapse Group, a customer acquisition firm acquired by Time Warner. He has a B.A. in Economics from Wesleyan University and an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship from Columbia Business School.
Savannah Georgia - Atlanta, Georgia - Atlanta (GA), United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • Gaming (& eSports) • Developer tools
Early-stage VC
Most Interested In
Enterprise, marketplace and platform, tech enabled service, and university spinout technology startups
Not Interested In
Life sciences, Biotech
Managing Partner of Tech Square Ventures. Seed & early stage venture fund investing in innovative technology startups in the Southeast
Los Angeles California - Philadelphia Pennsylvania - San Francisco Bay Area - San Francisco Bay Area (CA), United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • IoT (& Wearables) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Robotics
Roboticist, Founder, CEO at Chef Robotics (We're hiring!)
Menlo Park, California - Austin (TX) - Los Angeles (CA) - San Francisco (CA) - New York City (NY) - Salt Lake City (UT) - Boston (MA) - Chicago (IL) - Sao Paulo (Brazil) - Portland (OR) - Seattle (WA) - Miami (FL), United States
PropTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Payments • Real Estate (& Construction)
Most Interested In
I'm excited about companies in the FinTech and HealthTech space that leverage technology to create better consumer experiences in these highly regulated industries.
New York City (NY) - Midland Texas - Denver, Colorado - Earth Texas ; ; Colorado ; Menlo Park California ; N, U.S.A.
Aerospace (& Defense)
Most Interested In
Space exploration.
Not Interested In
Late stage.
Angel investor and advisor in NewSpace. 10% of World GDP will be Space related by 2030. Ask me about the multi-trillion dollar data set.
Seattle Washington - San Francisco California - New York (NY) - Missoula, Montana, U.S.A.
HealthTech (& Fitness) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Fritz Lanman serves as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at ClassPass. He serves as Advisor & Investor at LifeQ. He is the Co-Founder at Acequia Capital. He was also a Co-Founder and served as an Executive Chairman at Doppler Labs. He is a Co-Founder and Chairman at Verst. Lanman is a former Microsofter who has gone on to angel invest in companies like Wish, Pinterest, and Square. He served as the Executive Chairman at ClassPass. His primary focus is product development, engineering and recruiting. He is also Cofounder of DWNLD, a platform for building native mobile apps and Director of ClassPass, a monthly fitness membership program. Previously, Fritz founded Livestar, a recommendation app acquired by Pinterest. In addition to his operating roles, he is an angel investor in Square, Pinterest, ClassPass, Wish, Teespring and many other technology startups. Previously, he was a corporate strategy executive at Microsoft. He is the Co-Founder at Acequia Capital.
White Plains New York - Washington (DC) - Washington, District of Columbia, United States
IT (& TMT) • Education • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Impact • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobile
Jenny is the Founder & Managing Partner of Rethink Impact, a venture capital fund with a unique approach to gender lens investing that invests in social impact companies with the potential to deliver outsized financial returns for investors alongside transformational social and environmental change. Jenny is a former CEO of a tech company and also held significant executive roles in the media, data, and education sectors. She has been featured at the United Nations and on Capitol Hill and was named Top 40 Under 40 in 2015 and a DC Power Women in Tech in 2014. She has a BA and MA from Stanford, an MBA from Harvard Business School and was a Fulbright Scholar in human genomics.
San Francisco (CA) - New York (NY) - London - Berlin (Germany) - Istanbul - Amsterdam (Netherlands) - Brussels - Dubai - Athens (Greece) - Sao Paulo (Brazil) - Mexico (Mexico), United Kingdom
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • BioTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Gaming (& eSports) • Analytics • Developer tools
Partner at Hummingbird
Helsinki, Finland - Lifeline Ventures is a venture capital investment firm headquartered in Helsinki, Finland, Finland
Media • Education • BioTech • Retail (& E-Commerce) • IoT (& Wearables) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Investment Management • Mobile • Consumer
Founding Partner at Lifeline Ventures
San Francisco, California - ; Potomac Maryland ; United Kingdom; New York New York ; London United Kingdom; Washington United, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Senior Vice President, iCapital Network | Special Advisor, Panorama Point Partners | Fmr Director, Mosaic | Fmr Goldman Sachs PSI | Founder, NextGenEngage
AR/VR - Games - Media/content - Tel Aviv, Israel - New York City (NY) - Herzliya, Israel, Israel
Media • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Gaming (& eSports) • Consumer
Most Interested In
Consumer Internet, Digital Media, Virtual Reality, Markeplaces
Not Interested In
Enterprise
Philadelphia Pennsylvania - New York City (NY) - Washington D.C, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness)
Brett Topche is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Red & Blue Ventures. Brett Topche serves as Managing Director at MentorTech Ventures. He also serves as Advisor at entreprenYOURS. He joined MentorTech Ventures in 2007 and has more than a decade of venture capital and private equity experience. He has spent much of his career primarily focusing on investments in ecommerce, digital media, mobile applications, marketing technologies and B2B software. He represents MentorTech on the Boards of Directors of Cloudmine and PayPerks and served on the Board of Wanderfly prior to its acquisition. He also serves as a Board Observer at Curalate, Quad Learning, Burrow, Soft Tissue Regeneration and TicketLeap and was a Board Observer at SeniorHomes.com prior to its acquisition by Bankrate. He also served as a member of the Investor Advisory Board of SnipSnap prior to its acquisition by Slyce. Prior to joining MentorTech, he was a member of the Fund Investments Team at Hamilton Lane Advisors, a fund-of-funds manager and private equity investment consultant. In this capacity, he evaluated private equity funds across a broad spectrum of stages and strategies on behalf of both discretionary and non-discretionary clients. During his time at Hamilton Lane, Topche reviewed more than 100 funds, including venture capital, mezzanine, buyout and real estate funds. Based in part on reports he drafted, more than $1 billion was invested into these funds. Prior to working for Hamilton Lane, Topche spent more than four years as an Associate with NJTC Venture Fund, where he focused on investments in early-stage companies in the software, Internet and communications sectors. His responsibilities included deal flow generation, initial company reviews, performing due diligence on potential investments, participating in deal structuring, reviewing legal documentation and working with companies post-investment, occasionally as an Observer on Boards of Directors. Topche is a magna cum laude graduate of the Wharton School, with a B.S. in Economics, with concentrations in Finance and Legal Studies and a Political Science minor from the College and Arts and Sciences.
Cambridge Massachusetts - Boston Massachusetts - Larchmont New York - New York (NY) - Redwood City, California, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Entertainment (& Sports) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Material Science • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobile • Consumer
Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners
Venture capital investor Specialties: Entrepreneurial startups and high growth companies in the following industries: consumer internet, online marketplaces, consumer software, subscription software, infrastructure software, information services, and consumer electronics.
Larchmont New York - New York (NY) - Redwood City, California, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • CleanTech • Gaming (& eSports) • Material Science • Messaging • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobile • Consumer
Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners
Venture Capital Investor with a strong history in software and financial markets. Specialties: Financial Services, Consumer Software, Web 2.0, Independent Research, Hedge Fund
Seattle Washington - Vancouver (WA) - Portland (OR) - Seattle (WA), United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data)
Professional troublemaker
San Francisco, California - Consumer products - Energy tech - Hardware - Insurance - Manufacturing - Robotics, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • CleanTech • Web Security (& Privacy) • Gaming (& eSports) • Robotics • Aerospace (& Defense) • DeepTech • Consumer
Partner at ACME Capital