New York, U.S.A.
Media • Education • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Online Social
Joe Medved serves as Partner, SoftBank Capital at Lerer Hippeau Ventures. He served as Partner at SoftBank Capital. Joe joined SoftBank Capital in 2005 and has been investing in digital media companies for over nine years, from seed through growth stage. He focuses on supporting primarily Seed and Series A stage companies with special interests including consumer and enterprise mobile, gaming, and social marketing. Prior to joining SoftBank Capital, Joe was an Associate with Constellation Ventures, a media and communications venture capital fund under Bear Stearns Asset Management. Prior to Constellation Ventures, he was an Associate and Analyst for the Technology, Media and Telecommunications Group with JPMorgan Investment Banking. In 2011, Joe was selected by the Boston Business Journal for its 40 Under 40 class. He is Co-Founder of the Digital Media VC/Corp Dev Connection, a group that brings together active investors and corporate development professionals from large corporations focused on digital media. Joe is also Chairman Emeritus of the New England Venture Network (NEVN), one of the largest venture capital organizations on the East Coast. Joe received a Bachelor of Science, with honors, from Boston College's Wallace E. Carroll School of Management, and completed The General Course at the London School of Economics.
Los Angeles - San Francisco Bay Area - New York - California, U.S.A. - Canada
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Entertainment (& Sports) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Gaming (& eSports) • Future Of Work • Online Social • Consumer
Founding Partner at Forecast Fund
Most Interested In
Current portfolio: Away Luggage, Unmute, Shine Text, Poncho, MealPal, Kang Health
Principal @ Comcast Ventures. Lead CV's NYC seed practice. Formerly: Founder @ FashionStake, Product @ Fab.com, Consultant @ BCG, Author @ HBR.
Menlo Park - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Sales (& Marketing) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Analytics • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Sunny Dhillon serves as Partner at Signia Venture Partners. He joined the Signia team in 2012 after launching his own location-based mobile startup named Barstool and investing in early stage technology companies for New World Ventures in LA and Chicago. He was previously an M&A analyst in technology investment banking at Rothschild in London, a business development manager at a venture backed spin-off of New Line Cinema, and a corporate strategist for Warner Bros.He is a mentor for various incubators in Silicon Valley and is on the board of Cents of Relief, a charity based in Connecticut that focuses on reducing human trafficking in Indian urban slums. He is also a board member for Next Gen Partners, the Valley's leading venture capital mentoring organization.Sunny invests across consumer and enterprise sector startups, with a particular interest in gaming, consumer, and digital health.Sunny graduated with his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, where he was a Lee Hague Scholar. He has an undergraduate honors degree in Economics & Management from Oxford University and a master's in International Relations & History from the London School of Economics (LSE), where he graduated with distinction. He served as Board Observer at Artillery Games. He also serves as Board Member at Drifter Entertainment. He serves as an Advisor at TheWaveVR.
Menlo Park - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Education • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Gaming (& eSports) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Nanotechnology • Online Social • Consumer
Partner at Lightspeed
Partner at @lightspeed-venture-partners. Investing in consumer technology startups. AB Harvard, SM MIT, MBA Harvard.
New York City - Larchmont New York - Redwood City California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Messaging
Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners
Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners
Partner at @bessemer-venture-partners
Linked In Description:
Venture Capital Investor with a strong history in software and financial markets. Specialties: Financial Services, Consumer Software, Web 2.0, Independent Research, Hedge Fund
Washington - District of Columbia, U.S.A.
Education • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Impact • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness)
Founder & Managing Partner at Rethink Impact, LP
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.
London, U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • BioTech • AgroTech • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobility • Nanotechnology • Consumer • Productivity
Most Interested In
AI , autonomous driving, fintech, medtech
Not Interested In
US companies without a strong local lead
Los Angeles - Phoenix - New York - San Francisco Bay Area - Provo - Salt Lake City - Lehi - Utah, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Education • Real Estate (& Construction)
Founder & General Partner at Album VC
Founder & General Partner at Album VC
Los Angeles - New York - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Education • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Analytics • Impact • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Online Social • Consumer • Woman Focused
Founder & Managing Partner at Collaborative Fund
Most Interested In
I'm interested in supporting founders who are building businesses that directly impact consumers and push the world forward.
Not Interested In
I am not currently investing in anything enterprise or B2B focused.
Founder of @collaborative-fund: Investor in, @kickstarter, @reddit, @taskrabbit, @lyft, @codecademy, and @blue-bottle-coffee
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
PropTech • Hospitality (& Events) • Education • Energy • IoT (& Wearables) • Food & Beverage • GovTech • Real Estate (& Construction) • Mobility
Most Interested In
Startups shaping the future of cities. Investing at the pre-seed & seed in a variety of verticals, including: - Transportation - Future of work - Real estate tech - Energy & water - Business & fintech services - Food - Health & public safety - Govt & civic tech - Arts & recreation
Julie is a co-founder and Managing Partner of the Urban Innovation Fund. The Urban Innovation Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in transformative urban technology. It provides seed capital and regulatory expertise to entrepreneurs solving our toughest urban challenges – helping them grow into tomorrow’s most valued companies. Previously, Julie co-founded Tumml, an urban ventures accelerator. During the last three years, Tumml has incubated 33 startups, who have raised $37M+ in funding and launched products/ services for over 2.2M people. Her work in urban entrepreneurship has been featured in numerous press outlets, including CNN, TedX, Forbes, and The San Francisco Chronicle, among others. Julie has an MBA from MIT Sloan and a BA from Stanford.
New York - San Francisco Bay Area - Denver - Detroit - Austin - Boston - Los Angeles - Chicago - Illinois, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Entertainment (& Sports) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Food & Beverage • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Online Social • Consumer
Partner, Listen Ventures
Most Interested In
All things consumer. Products, services, marketplaces, platforms.
Not Interested In
Any business where a company does not have a direct relationship with the ultimate end user.
Investing in brands @listen-ventures-1. Building startups @dashfire.
Vancouver - BC, U.S.A. - Canada
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • Energy • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Developer tools • Online Social • Woman Focused
Most Interested In
Blockchain, VR / AR, genomics, AI / ML
Not Interested In
Gaming, content / media, commerce / retail