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
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.
Lior Litwak
Investing in FinTech (& Financials services) &bul...
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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