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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.
New York City (NY) - 4040 Locust Street Philiadelphia Pennsylvania - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.
Businesses Solutions • CleanTech • Online Social
First Round Capital is a venture capital firm willing to invest in pre-revenue companies, often providing a company's first outside capital. The partners look to take an active role in most of the companies they invest in. First Round Capital invests nationally and has additional offices in San Francisco and New York. The firm's typical initial investment is around $500,000. First Round Capital has coordinated the first ever VC-sponsored Exchange Fund. This fund allows qualified First Round Capital entrepreneurs to contribute a small piece of the stock they own in their company and share in the performance of all the other companies in the fund. Members of the First Round Capital Community have raised over $2.5 billion in follow-on capital to date. First Rounds's $20 million in total initial investments (in those companies that have been in the portfolio for over a year) have been followed by $850 million in financing from later-stage venture firms - a roughly 36-1 ratio.
Tokyo Japan - - San Francisco, California - San Francisco (CA) - New York (NY) - Seattle (WA) - Los Angeles (CA) - Austin (TX) - Palo Alto (CA) - Boston (MA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Gaming (& eSports) • AR/VR • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Developer tools • Robotics • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Investment Management • Nanotechnology • Consumer
Investing in AR/VR/Computer Vision @ Presence Capital
Most Interested In
Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, Computer Vision
Not Interested In
AdTech, Pure gaming plays, Mobile Gaming
Amitt Mahajan is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Technology Officer at Rare Bits. He is also a Co-Founder and serves as the Managing Partner at Presence Capital. He is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Rare Bits. He serves as an Advisor at SignalFire. He is the Founder and C.E.O of Toro. Prior to that, he served as the Director of Engineering for Zynga. Amitt was also the Co-Founder and C.T.O of MyMiniLife, Inc which was later acquired by Zynga. Mahajan is also the Co-Founder of Red Hot Labs and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to this, he was an Engineer in Zynga who helped in creating FarmVille. He briefly served as a Programmer for Epic Games. He has a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from University of Illinois.
New York City (NY) - New York New York ; New York - U.S.A., U.S.A.
PropTech • Real Estate (& Construction)
All PropTech, all the time.
Principal @gotham-ventures
Previously @canaan-partners @aol-ventures @learn-capital
@kauffman-fellows-program @insite Fellow
@columbia-business-school MBA
San Francisco (CA) - San Francisco, California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA), United States
Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • DeepTech
Partner, Khosla Ventures
Partner, Khosla Ventures
New York (NY) - San Francisco (CA) - Washington (DC) - Austin (TX) - Los Angeles (CA), United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Gaming (& eSports) • Developer tools • Local commerce • Logistics (& Distribution) • Online Social
VC, Entrepreneur, Military Veteran, Winner of Season 2 - The Apprentice, and father of twins!
Military Veteran investing in Extraordinary Leadership
Most Interested In
LEADERSHIP PREVAILS. Moonshots Capital is a seed-stage venture capital firm that invests in extraordinary leadership. Great leaders are hard to come by. We believe the best ones are military-trained or trial-by-fire entrepreneurs who have the ability to motivate others to action, inspire trust, and plan heuristically. We invest with conviction when those attributes are present. We have collectively founded and operated 14 companies, and have personally invested in more than 85 ventures.
Not Interested In
Biomedical, Hardware, Crypto.
Boulder, Colorado - Charlotte (NC) - Boston (MA) - Indianapolis (IN) - Seattle (WA) - Denver (CO) - San Francisco (CA) - New York (NY) - Boulder (CO), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Future Of Work • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Online Social • Consumer
Managing Director at Foundry
New York City (NY) - Palo Alto California - Philadelphia Pennsylvania - San Francisco (CA), United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Investment Management
Managing Director Comcast Ventures, Multi-stage Technology Investor
Multi-stage Technology Investor
San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools
Managing Partner at Uncork Capital
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.
San Francisco California - Los Angeles California - Venice Italy, United States
IT (& TMT) • Media • Entertainment (& Sports) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Investment Management • Mobile • Restaurants
ex-Entrepreneur and Seed-Stage investor in LA
ex-Entrepreneur and Seed-Stage investor in LA
Brian Garrett is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Crosscut. Brian is very active in the Los Angeles start-up community and currently works actively with the following companies: GumGum, Verve Mobile, Reaction Commerce, Jyve, Sales Pro Quo, The BlackTux, Narvar, Omaze, Robin Care, Foray, Fuzzy, Umbra Lab, Fastdata.io and Saber es Poder. With over 20 years of both investing and operating/entrepreneurial experience, Brian tries to bring humility and empathy to the lonely plight of starting and scaling start-up companies and works tirelessly to help his entrepreneurs succeed. Prior to co-founding Crosscut, Brian was a Partner at Palomar Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Santa Monica, California. Mr. Garrett joined Palomar in 2001 and played an active role in managing and investing two funds over 6 years totaling more than $400 million. While at Palomar, he was the sponsor of and/or an active board member in nine Palomar portfolio companies, including successes such as Entone (a video on demand company that sold to Harmonic), Lombardi (business process management software that sold to IBM) and Datallegro (data warehouse appliance company sold to Microsoft in 2008). Prior to Palomar, Brian was the Director of Business Development at Niku Corporation. Prior to Niku, Brian worked at a boutique strategy consulting firm called R.B. Webber & Company. Brian worked with numerous early-stage technology companies including CommerceOne, Inktomi, Sagent, Aurum and Broadbase. Brian received his MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and he graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering. Specialties: Entrepreneurial focus: Fashion/Tech/Media/Commerce. Investing Focus: Crosscut focuses primarily on seed-stage opportunities in consumer/digital media across Southern California.
San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.
Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Entertainment (& Sports) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Gaming (& eSports) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Food & Beverage • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Entrepreneur, Angel Investor, Author
Most Interested In
Founders with traction for the LAUNCH Accelerator Founders with $1m+ ARR for jasonssyndicate.com
Not Interested In
coffee to discuss ideas.... please, build something!
San Francisco Bay Area - Woodside, California - , U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Businesses Solutions • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Local commerce • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Online Social • Consumer
Founder & growth exec from zero through IPO. Now early-stage VC
Most Interested In
Marketplaces, SaaS, consumer internet, and most importantly: amazing founders.
Not Interested In
Most direct-to-consumer products, pure biotech (software okay), most hardware (unless commodity hardware using software/data).
New York City, United States
Retail (& E-Commerce) • Insurance (& InsurTech)
General Partner at Canaan
invests in startups that are changing the world with code in the FinTech (& Financials services), e-commerce and frontier tech sectors + built Canaan’s investment thesis in insurance and passionate about companies that re-imagine how financial services products are purchased and sold
Savyon, Israel - , Israel
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Robotics • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobile • Consumer
General Partner at Vertex Ventures
General Partner at Vertex Ventures
San Francisco, California - The firm is headquartered in San Francisco, California with additional offices in London, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Mobile
General Partner, NextWorld Capital
Partner at NewView Capital
Boston, Massachusetts - ; Cleveland Ohio - U.S.A., United States
IT (& TMT) • Media • Advertising • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Payments
Co-Founder, Managing Partner at January Ventures (Previously Jane VC)
Co-Founder and General Partner at January Ventures
Chicago (IL), United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Online Social
Higher Ed Consortia, EdTech, Artificial Intelligence, Microservices, Venture Capitalist
Higher Ed Consortia, EdTech, Artificial Intelligence, Microservices, Venture Capitalist
Oakland, California, United States
IT (& TMT) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness)
Principal at KP Ventures
Most Interested In
Enterprise healthcare IT, digital health, healthcare services, medical technology
Not Interested In
We don't deploy capital in: (1) new molecule development, (2) outside of the US, (3) in businesses that compete directly with Kaiser Permanente (Medicare Advantage plans, for example).
Menlo Park, California, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Other • IT (& TMT) • BioTech • AgroTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • IoT (& Wearables) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Gaming (& eSports) • Analytics • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Robotics • Aerospace (& Defense) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Director, Firefly Aerospace /
Managing Partner at Kilonova Capital
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