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.
Carl Fritjofsson
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Los Angeles , New Yor..., U.S.A. - Sweden
Previous Investments
• Tide:
$14000000 (Early stage VC)
• Kahoot!:
$10000000 (Early stage VC)
• Billie:
$10000000 (Early stage VC)
• Comtravo:
$8500000 (Early stage VC)
• RFRSH Entertainment:
$7200000 (Later stage VC)
• 8fit:
$7000000 (Early stage VC)
• Argent Labs:
$5220000 (Early stage VC)
• Bokio:
$4420000 (Early stage VC)
• Bokio:
$3100000 (Seed Round)
• Taxfix:
$2000000 (Seed Round)
• Planday:
• URBANEER:
(mid stage)
• Impala Ventures:
• Measurabl:
(mid stage)
• ZeroAvia:
• PE Facility Solutions, LLC:
(early stage)
• Patina Restoration Technologies:
• Meniga Rewards:
(late stage)
• 500 Startups:
(mid stage)
• HDWR:
(early stage)
• CREANDUM:
(late stage)
• Eksab:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Wasoko:
$130000000 (Series B)
• Wasoko:
$14000000 (Series A)
• Wasoko:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Wasoko:
$2000000 (Seed)
• mPharma:
$30000000 (Series D)
• Wowzi:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Appetito:
$2000000 (Seed)
• ILLA:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Mono:
$15000000 (Series A)
• Mono:
$500000 (Pre Seed)
• Chaka Technologies:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• Chaka Technologies:
$30000 (Pre Seed)
• Jetstream Africa:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Jetstream Africa:
(Pre Seed)
• Minly:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Flutterwave:
$170000000 (Series C)
• Flutterwave:
$35000000 (Series B)
• Flutterwave:
(Seed)
• Autochek:
$3000000 (Pre Seed)
• Tizeti:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Tizeti:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Tizeti:
$2100000 (Seed Round)
• mSURVEY:
$4000000 (Series A)
• mSURVEY:
(Series A)
• Reliance Health:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Appcharge:
$26000000 (Series A)
• Codesphere:
$19000000 (Series A)
• Laka:
$6000000 (Undisclosed)
• Laka:
$12000000 (Series A)
• Laka:
$4000000 (Seed)
• CAST AI:
$20000000 (Series B)
• Project Eaden:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Project Eaden:
$8000000 (Seed)
• Better Stack:
$19000000 (Series A)
• Pipe:
$250000000 (Series Unknown)
• SafetyWing:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Mixmax:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Clustree:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Findify:
$1500000 (Seed)
• Sickweather:
$1000000 (Angel)
• Tablelist:
$1000000 (Angel)
• GoCoin:
$1000000 (Angel)
Carl Fritjofsson
Los Angeles - New York - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - Sweden
Most Interested In
Viral SaaS products with immediate impact. Gaming with proven unit economics. Foodtech 1-3 steps before last mile consumer deliveries (processing, manufacturing, procurement).
Arif Janmohamed
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Menlo Park , Mountain..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Udaan:
$3240000000 (Later stage VC)
• ShareChat:
$1163100000 (Later stage VC)
• FastFox:
$300000000 (Early stage VC)
• BYJU’S:
$75000000 (Later stage VC)
• Reflektive:
$60000000 (Later stage VC)
• Ladder:
$30000000 (Later stage VC)
• Dremio Corporation:
$25000000 (Later stage VC)
• Arctic Wolf Networks:
$16000000 (Later stage VC)
Arif Janmohamed serves as a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. He also serves as a Board Member at TripActions. He also serves as Charter Member at C100 Association. He is a Board Member at OverOps. He joined Lightspeed in 2008 and focuses primarily on investments in the areas of cloud and datacenter technologies, as well as enterprise mobile and SaaS solutions. He also serves as Board Member at Mist Syste He is currently working closely with the teams at Avi Networks, Highfive, Netskope, Nutanix, Pertino Networks, ThoughtSpot, Qubole, and Virtual Instruments. He was also involved in several Lightspeed investments which have had successful exits including Edgespring (acquired by Salesforce.com), IO Turbine (acquired by Fusion-io), Memoir Systems (acquired by Cisco), RAPsphere (acquired by AppSense) and StreamOnce (acquired by Jive Software). Prior to joining Lightspeed, he worked in the Corporate Business Development group at Cisco Systems where he focused on mergers and acquisitions, strategy, and investments in the Unified Communications, Enterprise Collaboration, Mobile, and SaaS market segments. Before joining Cisco Systems, he was with Novitas Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm. Earlier in his career, he worked in technical development and product management roles at WebTV (acquired by MSFT), Andes Networks (acquired by SUNW), and Sun Microsyste He holds an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a BSc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
Matt Murphy
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
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.
Tim Chae
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Active in fintech, e-sports, marketplaces, cross-border. But always prefer to invest in people who make me become aware about large problems.
Not Interested In
Businesses that are capital intensive prior to launch and especially businesses with long feedback loop cycles (pure hardware, etc.)
Partner at @500startups and heading up our $15M Korea specific fund, 500 Kimchi. Started a couple co's (bootstrapped & venture). Big fan of #ELaMF and #JFDI.
Michael Dempsey
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Developer tools • Future Of Work • GovTech • Messaging • Payments • DeepTech • Online Social • Woman Focused
Description
Felix Haas is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at ID Now. He is also an angel investor. He also holds the position of founding investor in Kreditech Holding SSL GmbH and is also an angel investor. He served as the chief executive officer at Amiando GmbH. He serves as an Advisor at Distribute. Felix studied Electrical Engineering at Technical University Munich and the ETH Zurich with a visit at Stanford University.
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
Leo Chang
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
San Francisco Bay Are..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Tomato AI:
(Pre Seed)
• Dono:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Dono:
(Seed)
• Mesh Security:
$2000000 (Series Unknown)
• Clarity:
$16000000 (Seed)
• Clarity:
(Seed)
• Perspective AI:
(Seed)
• COVU:
$10000000 (Seed)
• Flow Security:
$13000000 (Seed)
• Tomato.ai:
(Pre Seed)
• CultureScience:
(Pre Seed)
• Brightflow AI:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Deduce:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Raise Commercial Real Estate:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Ever Loved:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Aura Health:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Cherre:
$9000000 (Seed)
• Watchful:
(Convertible Note)
• Improvado:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Digital Assets Data:
(Seed)
• May Mobility:
(Seed)
• TapResearch:
$2000000 (Seed)
• SafeGraph:
(Seed)
• Placer.ai:
(Seed)
• Placer.ai:
(Pre Seed)
• Orro:
(Series A)
• Armory:
(Seed)
• Hint Health:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Siftery:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Peerspace:
$5000000 (Series A)
• HoneyBook:
$22000000 (Series B)
• HoneyBook:
$250000 (Seed)
• Abra:
$2000000 (Series A)
• Zendrive:
$5000000 (Series Unknown)
• Credible:
$500000 (Seed)
• Automatic:
(Series A)
• Life360:
$6000000 (Series A)
• Overclock Labs, creators of Akash Network:
(Angel)
I mostly invest in Data+AI Enterprise business. Occasionally will invest in consumer tech companies.
Not Interested In
Not interested in Medical Devices, Healthcare, Bio/Pharma, and Semiconductors, Energy, CPG.
Itamar Novick serves as Chief Business Officer at Life360. He also is an Angel Investor. Novick joined Morgenthaler Ventures in the Menlo Park office in 2011 as Senior Associate. Prior to business school, Itamar was Sr. Director of Product Management at Gigya, a leading social optimization platform for online business. He has completed B.S. in Computer Science from the Academic College of Tel-Aviv Yaffo.
How to connect with Angel Investors in the Developer Tools industry?
In the Developer Tools industry, prominent angel investors include Tim Ferriss, Naval Ravikant, and Marc Andreessen. These investors focus on startups offering innovative solutions in software development, programming tools, and developer platforms. Tim Ferriss, an author and entrepreneur, invests in developer tools that enhance productivity and efficiency. Naval Ravikant, co-founder of AngelList, looks for companies that provide scalable and effective software development solutions. Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, seeks out startups that leverage technology to improve the developer experience and create new opportunities. To connect with these investors, attend developer conferences, tech expos, and networking events such as DevOps Days, PyCon, and Google I/O. Utilize platforms like AngelList and LinkedIn to identify and reach out to potential investors. When pitching, emphasize how your developer tool addresses key challenges, such as improving code quality, enhancing collaboration, or streamlining development processes. Highlight any traction you’ve gained, such as partnerships with tech companies, user growth, or positive feedback from developers. 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 software development experts can also enhance your credibility.
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