Deepak Kamra serves as General Partner at Canaan Partners. He also is an Angel Investor. He has been with Canaan Partners for over 20 years and focuses on investments in digital media and software. He served as Board Member at Alltranmedia. He led Canaan's early investment in DoubleClick, the Internet's first and leading online advertising solution; Match.com, the first subscription-based dating site; voice-over-IP infrastructure company Acme Packet (acq. by Oracle), and SuccessFactors (acq. by SAP). Deepak currently sits on the boards of ON24, the global leader of webcasting and video communications solutions, Zoosk, the largest social dating network in the world, and Skybox Imaging, a next-generation satellite company. Before joining Canaan, Deepak was on the startup team at Aspect Communications, a pioneer in call center technologies, which he helped lead to a successful IPO in 1990. Prior to Aspect, Deepak held strategic roles at ROLM Corp. and TRW Datacomm International. Deepak received a BA from Carleton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He served on the board of the National Venture Capital Association from 2008 to 2012 and was included on the Forbes Midas List in 2008 and 2009. In his spare time, he is involved in several microfinance initiatives to spur economic growth in developing nations and has served as Chairman of the Investment Committee at Deutsche Bank's Global Commercial Microfinance Consortium.
Eitan is a founding partner of TLV Partners. He currently focuses on Mobile, IoT, Marketing Analytics and Fintech. His passion is working with great entrepreneurs and helping them build their dream.
Eitan invested and partnered with the founders of Check (acquired by INTU), Videosurf (acquired by MSFT), AppsFlyer, Duda, 3DV (acquired by MSFT), Sckipio and Neura.
Previously Eitan was a General Partner at Pitango Venture Capital and led Pitango’s Silicon Valley activity since 2007. Before that he was part of the founding team of an internet startup focused on bringing the internet to the elderly and held Executive positions at Elbit Systems. Eitan holds an MBA from the University of Michigan. Eitan also served as a Pilot in the Israeli Air Force.
Ashmeet Sidana
Investing in FinTech (& Financials services) &bul...
San Francisco Bay Are..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• OpsMx:
• Netsil (formerly Gencore):
(early stage)
• Prismo Systems:
(early stage)
• StackStorm:
(early stage)
• Datos IO, Inc.:
• SignalFx:
(early stage)
• Tubi:
(early stage)
• Foundation Capital:
(late stage)
• Sidana Systems, Inc.:
• Multiple:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• CtrlStack:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Evinced:
$55000000 (Series C)
• Evinced:
$17000000 (Series A)
• Evinced:
$3000000 (Pre Seed)
• Trustero:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Trustero:
$8000000 (Seed)
• CodeRabbit:
$16000000 (Series A)
• Fireproof:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• Kognitos:
$20000000 (Series A)
• Kognitos:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Nexla:
$18000000 (Series A)
• Nexla:
$12000000 (Series A)
• Nexla:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Connectifi:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Jolt AI:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• QueryPal:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Hedgehog:
$4000000 (Pre Seed)
• Sensible:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Onymos:
$12000000 (Series A)
• Onymos:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Onymos:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• vFunction:
$26000000 (Series A)
• vFunction:
$12000000 (Seed)
• Kentik:
$40000000 (Series C)
• Kentik:
$23000000 (Series B)
• Kentik:
$12000000 (Series A)
• Kentik:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Fidap:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Yotascale:
$13000000 (Series B)
• Yotascale:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Yotascale:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Robust Intelligence:
$11000000 (Series A)
• Robust Intelligence:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Menlo Security:
$75000000 (Series D)
• Menlo Security:
$40000000 (Series C)
• Menlo Security:
$25000000 (Series B)
• Menlo Security:
(Seed)
• Tignis:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Nimbella:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Baffle:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Baffle:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Baffle:
$500000 (Seed)
• Binaris:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Sail Internet:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Netsil:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Palerra:
$17000000 (Series B)
• Palerra:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Diamanti:
$13000000 (Series A)
• NeoReach:
$2000000 (Seed)
• NeoReach:
$3000000 (Series Unknown)
• NeoReach:
$300000 (Seed)
• Datos IO:
$3000000 (Seed)
• adRise:
$2000000 (Series A)
• CiiNOW:
$13000000 (Series A)
Ashmeet Sidana
San Francisco Bay Area - Palo Alto - California, U.S.A.
Ashmeet Sidana serves as Founder & Chief Engineer at Engineering Capital. His experience includes managing venture capital funds, serving on multiple Boards of Directors, and helping build the industry leading products VMware ESX Server and Silicon Graphics WebFORCE. Before his last decade as a venture capitalist, Ashmeet was an operating executive with hands-on operating experience as a CEO and entrepreneur. Ashmeet came to venture from VMware, where he ran product management for their flagship product-ESX Server. Before VMware, Ashmeet was the Founder and CEO of Sidana Systems, Inc. He started his career at Hewlett Packard and Silicon Graphics as an engineer. Ashmeet's previous investments include Azure (NYSE: AZRE), Palerra (acquired by Oracle), Freewheel (acquired by Comcast), InQuira (acquired by Oracle), Altor (acquired by Juniper), Appurify (acquired by Google), PrivateCore (acquired by Facebook) and StackStorm (acquired by Brocade). He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Baffle, RuperBot, Sail Internet, vFunction and Xockets. His current investments include Baffle, Binaris, Rubrik, Diamanti, Gyroscope, Kentik, Menlo Security, Netsil, Nexla, Prismo Systems, RuperBot, Sail Internet, SignalFx, vFunction, Xockets and YotaScale. Ashmeet received an MBA from Wharton, MS in Computer Science from Stanford University and a BS in Computer Science summa cum laude from USC.
Steve Anderson
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Michael Brehm is a Co-Founder at Rebate Networks. Brehm is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Redstone Digital. Prior to this he was Executive Director of studiVZ, at the time Germany's largest social network. Before starting in the technology sector he began his career at Merrill Lynch in the M&A division. He obtained his Business degree from WHU (Germany) and EGADE (Mexico) and also studied at CEIBS (China) where he learned Mandarin. Alongside being a Partner at Redstone Michael is an active angel investor in more than 20 companies like: Kreditech, Atheneum Partners or Inventorum.
Tod Sacerdoti
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Auren Hoffman and I have combined our investing activity and launched Flex Capital.
Seed -- We have made 140 investments to date and are targeting 5-10 companies over the next 12 months.
Early Growth Stage -- We are investing in growth companies that are typically in the $100 million to $400 million valuation range. We're focused on companies that will dominate their respective markets and generally investing in companies that have $10M - $100M revenue run rates.
Not Interested In
We are primarily interested in software business models. If you are not a software business then we likely won't be interested.
Tod Sacerdoti serves as Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Turbo Ventures. He founded and served as a Chief Executive Officer at BrightRoll, the leading provider of digital video advertising services. He is an Angel Investor. He is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Turbo Ventures. He also serves as Advisor at Ridge Ventures. Under his direction, BrightRoll has grown from conception into the world's largest and most trusted video ad platform and a leader in digital video advertising. Prior to founding BrightRoll, Tod served as the director of revenue at Plaxo, one of the fastest growing Internet companies in history. He also led business development at Spoke Software, an Internet pioneer in sales and marketing efficiency solutions and also held positions at Interscope, Geffen and A&M Records, a division of the Universal Music Group. Prior to this, he worked as an investment banker in the Internet marketing group at Robertson Stephens. He received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2013 Award in the advertising technology category for Northern California and won the 2013 Stevie Award for innovator of the year in computer software. He holds a BA in Economics from Yale University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He serves as Advisor at Synapse Partners.
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
Jonathan Roosevelt
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
GP & CEO @social-leverage Group of Companies, 12+ years Angel Investing, Former President & COO NASDAQ traded $NTRL. Hockey, Skiing, Golf, Lax, Family 7/8s CDN
Chris Pacitti
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Austin - Texas, U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Ambiq Micro:
$9500000 (Later stage VC)
• Onit:
$8250000 (Later stage VC)
• Datical:
$8000000 (Later stage VC)
• HALIS:
• Spredfast:
$50000000 (Later stage VC)
• Tasktop:
$15000000 (Later stage VC)
• Airbrake.io:
• OpsCompass:
(mid stage)
• ActivTrak:
• BurstIQ:
(mid stage)
• Foresite (Managed Services):
(late stage)
• Statflo:
(late stage)
• Elsewhere Partners:
(early stage)
• Itential:
(mid stage)
• Relatient:
(mid stage)
• Vyopta Incorporated:
(late stage)
• COMPLEX (dba Complex Media, Inc.):
(late stage)
• Jam City:
(early stage)
• Innography: IP Answers. Business Results.:
• SGN:
$22000000 (Venture Round)
• Learnsoft:
$17000000 (Series A)
• greymatter.io:
$7000000 (Series A)
• BackBox:
$32000000 (Series A)
• Veros Systems:
$2000000 (Series C)
• Veros Systems:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Veros Systems:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Veros Systems:
$5000000 (Series A)
• Vyze:
$13000000 (Series C)
• Vyze:
$13000000 (Series B)
• Vyze:
$10000000 (Series B)
• Vyze:
$5000000 (Series A)
• Bloomfire:
$13000000 (Series B)
• Bloomfire:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Bloomfire:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Donuts:
$54000000 (Series C)
• Donuts:
$100000000 (Series A)
• Edgecase (formerly Compare Metrics):
$4000000 (Series B)
• Edgecase (formerly Compare Metrics):
$4000000 (Series A)
How to connect with Angel Investors in the Cloud Services industry?
In the Cloud Services & Infrastructure industry, angel investors such as Marc Benioff, Tim Ferriss, and Naval Ravikant are significant figures. These investors focus on startups offering innovative solutions in cloud computing, infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), and cloud security. Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, invests in cloud startups that enhance enterprise efficiency and data management. Tim Ferriss, an author and entrepreneur, looks for companies that leverage cloud technology to provide scalable and efficient solutions. Naval Ravikant, co-founder of AngelList, seeks out startups with strong cloud infrastructure capabilities and market potential. To connect with these investors, attend cloud computing conferences, tech expos, and networking events such as AWS re:Invent, Google Cloud Next, and Cloud Expo. Utilize platforms like AngelList and LinkedIn to identify and reach out to potential investors. When pitching, emphasize how your cloud services or infrastructure solution addresses key challenges, such as improving data security, enhancing scalability, or reducing operational costs. Highlight any traction you’ve gained, such as partnerships with tech companies, user growth, or positive feedback from clients. 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 user testimonials 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 subscription fees, licensing, or usage-based pricing, will further strengthen your pitch. Leveraging endorsements or case studies from cloud computing experts can also enhance your credibility.
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