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Christine Tsai

San Francisco California - London - New York City (NY) - Seoul South Korea - Tokyo Japan - Valley California - Boston Massachusetts - Palo Alto California - Seattle Washington - Los Angeles California - Mountain View California, U.S.A. - U.K. - South Korea

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • IoT • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Security • Gaming (& eSports) • Food & Beverage • Impact • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services)

Description

Founding Partner at @500startups . Previously @google & @youtube . Left-handed. Ballet dancer of ~25 yrs. Go Bears.

Stephanie Palmeri

Page California - San Francisco, California - Canada - San Francisco (CA) - Los Angeles (CA) - New York (NY) - Boston (MA) - Boulder (CO) - Toronto (Ontario), U.S.A. - Canada

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • IoT • A.I. (& Big Data) • Distributed workforce • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services)

Description

Most Interested In

I driven by working with companies that leverage technology to help individuals, families, and businesses unlock their potential. I believe in the power of market networks. And I think a lot about the future of work and how participation in the economy is evolving.

Not Interested In

I only invest in the seed stage. If you are raising a series A, I regret missing the opportunity to meet you sooner, but us meeting now is probably not the best use of your time as you fundraise. I invest in marketplaces, SaaS, consumer services, IoT, and more - but I never invest in a company that could compete with something in my portfolio.

Partner @softtech-vc. Investing in marketplaces, consumer services, SaaS, mobile, edtech, digital health. Marketing, product & consulting in a former life.

Pete Flint

San Francisco, California - Chicago (IL) - San Francisco Bay Area (CA) - New York (NY) - London - Boston (MA), U.S.A. - U.K.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • IT (& TMT) • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • AR/VR • Insurance • Logistics (& Distribution)

Description

Most Interested In

Passionate about next generation marketplaces & technically minded founders that have strong intuition about markets & customers. AI and crazy ideas.

Not Interested In

Well if it doesn't have or aspire to have a network effect, then probably not a fit... Very very selective when looking at opportunities that are not based in the Bay Area - we can be more helpful when teams are near us.

Pete Flint serves as Managing Partner at NFX. The co-founder of Trulia, Pete is a serial entrepreneur who built one of today's most successful marketplaces. As CEO, Pete led the company from inception to one of the largest and fastest growing real estate websites in the U.S. with more than 50 million monthly unique users and a merger with Zillow in 2015 that valued Trulia at $3.5 billion. Prior to starting Trulia, Pete was part of the founding team of lastminute.com, a leading European online travel site that was acquired in 2005 by Travelocity / Sabre Holdings for over $1 billion. These experiences gave Pete a rarely acquired understanding of what it takes to scale a company from a great idea to a $1 billion+ exit, all from a founder's perspective.

Kevin Colleran

Boston Massachusetts - San Francisco California, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Food & Beverage • GovTech • Logistics (& Distribution)

Description

Kevin Colleran is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Slow Ventures. Slow manages nearly $250 million in capital financed by a group of 100+ tech industry founders, CEO's, executives as well as a select group of notable venture capital firms and endowments. At Slow, Colleran focuses on working consumer and enterprise seed stage startups and has a vast portfolio of more than 250 companies including Pinterest, Barkbox, Postmates, Nextdoor, Casper, Pillpack, Classpass, Breather, Slack, Allbirds, Robinhood, Blue Bottle Coffee, Plated, Breather, Hipcamp, Gusto, Zeel, Wag, Brandless, Everlane, Wealthfront and many more. Kevin was also previously a Venture Partner and Advisor at General Catalyst Partners and wrote a column for the Wall Street Journal (online & print) as part of their "Accelerators" section. Previously Kevin was one of the first 10 employees at Facebook Inc. having joined in early 2005 as their first advertising sales executives. He stayed at Facebook for nearly 7 years, leaving in 2012 after having become the longest tenured employee at the company other than Mark Zuckerberg. Kevin received a BA in Business Management and Marketing from Babson College.

George Zachary

San Francisco California - Menlo Park California - - Palo Alto (CA) - Boston (MA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services)

Description

Most Interested In

Deep learning / AI meets biology and chemistry. I am focused on products that accelerate breakthroughs in biological sciences that allow for new products that help peoples lives through huge advancements in health. An example investment we have made is in Freenome.

Not Interested In

Not interested in anything outside of this area. Not interested in digital health that involves behavior modification programs.

George Zachary serves as General Partner at Charles River Ventures. He is also a Board Member of CoTap and Crushpath. Zachary led the Nintendo 64 development business at Silicon Graphics, managed sales and marketing for virtual reality pioneer VPL Research, and served as a product marketer at CATS Software. He is on the board of Stanford SSE, Stanford's StartX and is an advisor to the X PRIZE Foundation. Zachary earned a joint BS from MIT and MIT Sloan.

Binh Tran

Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam - San Francisco, California - San Francisco (CA) - Mountain View (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • AgroTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Food & Beverage • Logistics (& Distribution)

Description

Founder turned Investor

Most Interested In

Tech companies solving emerging market problems

Not Interested In

Idea stage companies

Venture Partner @500startups, previously co-founder @klout

Leo Polovets

Menlo Park California - Mountain View California - San Francisco, California - San Francisco (CA) - Los Angeles (CA) - New York (NY), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Insurance • Logistics (& Distribution) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • SaaS

Description

Most Interested In

We focus on companies with strong long-term competitive advantages (network effects, proprietary data, economies of scale, etc). Mostly b2b.

Not Interested In

We're open to any company with good moat potential. We do a lot of b2b investing. On the b2c side, we typically look for companies that monetize users directly rather than through ads.

Leo Polovets is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Susa Ventures. In 2003, Leo was the 2nd non-founding engineer at LinkedIn, where he helped build many core features like LinkedIn Jobs and LinkedIn Groups. After LinkedIn, he developed payment fraud detection systems at Google, then spent four years building much of the core data processing infrastructure at Factual. Leo left Factual in late 2012 to join Susa Ventures and focus on venture capital. He's also an angel investor in companies including DataFox, Lumoid, and Momentum Machines. Leo holds a BS with Honors degree from Caltech, and in 2002, he was one of three members of Caltech's world finalist ACM International Programming Contest team.

Aydin Senkut

Atherton California - San Francisco California - Valley California - Palo Alto California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Mobile Apps

Description

Aydin Senkut is the Founder and serves as a Managing Director at Felicis Ventures. He serves as the Board Member at PredictSpring, Weddington Way, Guideline, ClearSlide and MindSnacks. He also serves as the Board Observer at Vicarious FPC. He has been named one of the top 25 tech angels by Businessweek recently and was featured as one of the top 8 up and coming VCs by Forbes' Midas List. Felicis Ventures portfolio encompasses over 80 companies currently including Clearslide, Dropcam, Inkling, Practice Fusion, Rovio, and Shopify. In the last few years, over 46 Felicis backed start-ups have been acquired by firms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Groupon, Microsoft, AT&T, Disney, Ebay, Chegg and Intuit. Prior to starting Felicis Ventures, Aydin was a Senior Manager at Google, responsible for strategic partner development and account management in Asia Pacific (including Japan). Aydin joined Google in 1999 as its first Product Manager to launch Google's first 10 international sites, its first online search licensing products and its first Safe Search. He then became the first International Sales Manager at Google, responsible for world-wide licensing deals. Before joining Google, he was the Product Manager for Data Visualization and Data Mining software MineSet, and led the business development efforts for the financial services industry at SGI. He received a BS in Business Administration with Honors from Boston University. He also earned an MBA in Marketing from the Wharton School and an MA in International Studies from the School of Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an Angel Investor.

Josh Elman

Cambridge Massachusetts - Mountain View California - Massachusetts - Menlo Park, California - San Francisco (CA) - Los Angeles (CA) - Seattle (WA) - New York (NY) - Washington (DC), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Analytics • Material Science • Mobile Apps

Description

Josh Elman serves as a Venture Partner at Greylock Partners. He served as Board Member at Obvious Ventures. He joined Greylock in 2011. Over the past 15 years, he has worked in product and engineering roles at some of the leading companies in social, commerce, and media. Prior to Greylock, Elman was a product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, and helped Twitter grow it's active user base by nearly 10x. Before Twitter, he worked on the platform at Facebook and led the launch of Facebook Connect. Earlier in his career, he led product management for Zazzle, was part of the early team at LinkedIn focused on growth and jobs, and led product and engineering for RealJukebox and RealPlayer at RealNetworks. Elman holds a BS in Symbolic Systems with a focus on Human Computer Interaction from Stanford University. He also serves on Board of Jelly. He also serves on Board of Meerkat. He also serves as the Vice President, Product at Robinhood. He also serves as an Advisor at Capture Technologies. He earned an MBA degree from UC Berkley.

Jonathon Triest

New York City (NY) - Israel - San Francisco California - Boston Massachusetts - Los Angeles California - Michigan - - Detroit (MI), U.S.A. - Israel

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Gaming (& eSports) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Mobile Apps

Description

Managing Partner, Ludlow Ventures

Jonathon Triest is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Ludlow Ventures. In 2011, he was awarded the Crain's Detroit Business award for 20 in their 20's. That same year, he co-founded Funded by Night, a vehicle to help internet startups launch and get discovered. Previously, he served as creative director for New York's Discovery Productions. In 2005 he launched the Atlanta-based Triest Group, a mid-level advertising firm. In addition to his role at Ludlow, he is a mentor at The Brandery and a board member of The Trico Foundation, and Venture for America. previously creative director for New Yorks Discovery Productions. In 2005 he launched Triest Group, a mid-level advertising firm. He sits on the Board of the Trico Foundation and the Board of Investors for Venture for America.

Brian Hirsch

New York City (NY) - New York (NY), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Advertising

Description

Most Interested In

We are primarily a NY focused firm with over 90% of capital deployed locally.

Brian Hirsch is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Tribeca Venture Partners. He is a Board Member at Thinkful. He is also a Board Member at Lendio. Prior to starting Tribeca Venture Partners, Brian was a founder and Managing Director of GSA Venture Partners, formerly the venture arm of Greenhill & Co (NYSE: GHL). Prior to GSAVP, Brian was a Principal at Sterling Venture Partners and a Vice President at ABN AMRO Private Equity. Brian has invested across a broad number of sectors during his career including fintech, edtech, mobile, healthcare, online marketing and media/publishing. Brian has a BA in economics and American studies from Brandeis University. "When I was ten years old while most kids were reading comic books I was reading all of my father's business magazines. I mostly enjoyed reading the long profile stories of entrepreneurs that were building great companies against all odds. It was the 1980's and entrepreneurs like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Scott McNealy and Scott Cook were changing the world through technology. What fascinated me was the process of taking an idea and transforming it into a reality.

Michael Dempsey

Cambridge Massachusetts - Boston Massachusetts - New York City (NY), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • IoT • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Gaming (& eSports) • AR/VR • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Robotics • Aerospace (& Defense)

Description

General Partner at Compound

Most Interested In

Emerging categories with some level of commercial viability. Post-science project investing

Not Interested In

- Anything related to marketing automation or adtech - Marketplaces - VR content studios

Investing in Frontier Tech @rothenberg-ventures . Previously: Researched at @cb-insights-1 & invested at Crane Partners.

Chamath Palihapitiya

San Francisco California - Palo Alto (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness)

Description

Chamath Palihapitiya is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Social Capital. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer at Social Capital Hedosophia. He is also the Chariman of Lotusflare. He is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Remote Health Services. He served as Chairman at Integrated Plasmonics. He also serves as Chairman at Athos Works. He is also a Co-Owner and serves as Board Member at Golden State Warriors. He previously founded and served as General Partner at Embarcadero Ventures. He also served as a Board Member at ezhome. He was the VP of product marketing, operations, Growth, Mobile and International & & Head of User Growth of Facebook. He is a board member at BitYota, Groq, Future Shorts, 9021 PHO Restaurants, Remind101, Confer Health, Ezetap Mobile Solutions, Lemon, Treehouse Island, Crushpath, Captricity and Treehouse Island. He served as the principal of Mayfield Fund. He focused on consumer internet, advertising and media investments. Prior to this, he spent five years with AOL, most recently served as the VP and general manager of the Desktop Messaging group with overall responsibility for the AIM and ICQ businesses. Prior to his role as the Head of AIM and ICQ, He served as VP of Business Operations for AOL's broadband subscription service helping to build the business to over $1 billion in revenue. He also co-founded and launched a Music Video-On-Demand (VOD) Channel to both critical and user acclaim, garnering successive Emmy nominations in 2005 and 2006. Earlier, he held management positions with internet music pioneers Spinner.com (AOL) and Winamp (AOL). He is a Member of the Investment Committee of fbFund. He attended the University of Waterloo, where he graduated first class honors with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He serves as an executive chairman at MAD Apparel. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at Remote Health Services.

Dror Berman

San Francisco California - Palo Alto, California - Tel Aviv (Israel) - Palo Alto (CA), U.S.A. - Israel

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • BioTech • AgroTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Robotics

Description

Dror Berman is a Co-Founding Partner at Innovation Endeavors. He is a Board Member of Vicarious Surgical. He is also a Board Member of Team8. Prior to joining Innovation Endeavors, he worked on global search products with Yahoo, spearheaded an R&D team at NICE Systems, and led business development for an Israeli CE retailer. Berman has an MBA from Stanford, and graduated cum laude in Computer Science and Bioinformatics from Ben Gurion University in Israel.

Brad Holden

Palo Alto California - San Francisco, California - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Entertainment (& Sports) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos)

Description

Partner @tomorrowventures

Chris Farmer

San Francisco, California - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Food & Beverage • Logistics (& Distribution) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Robotics

Description

Most Interested In

Co's that apply tech/data/AI to cut material costs out of large, non-traditional tech industries either via "full-stack" offerings or marketplaces. Robotics. Smart SaaS. Consumer applications (viral or transactional).

Not Interested In

Trad. software w/ limited data/network effects or long sales cycles to classic IT buyers. Hardware w/o recurring revenue. Incremental improvements.

Chris Farmer is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at SignalFire. He also is an Angel Investor. He also served as Advisor at Stuph. He focuses on investments in consumer Internet, software and mobile with particular emphasis on seed stage investments and working with Entrepreneurs-In-Residence to launch new businesses. Previously, he was a Partner with General Catalyst Partners, where he led the seed program and a Vice President with Bessemer Venture Partners where he led investments in digital media & mobile companies. Prior to BVP, he was a consultant with Bain & Co where he advised on large scale technology buyouts. Prior to Bain, he spearheaded the successful turnaround of Skybitz, a wireless enabled SaaS company, where he served as led Product Management, Finance & Business Development. Earlier in his career, he founded an investment advisory firm for angel investors & private equity funds and served as a Venture Advisor to an early stage venture capital fund where he led investments in SkyBitz and Applied Semantics (acquired by Google). He started his career on Wall Street in the private equity group of Cowen & Company. He received a BA in International Relations & Business from Tufts University & the Fletcher School of Diplomacy.

Sheel Mohnot

San Francisco, California - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Hospitality & Events • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Food & Beverage • Mobile Apps • Real Estate (& Construction)

Description

Most Interested In

Seed stage FinTech, globally.

Not Interested In

Adtech, hardware, social networks

Sheel Mohnot serves as Partner, FinTech at 500 Startups. Sheel leads fintech investments for 500, which is great because his startup experience includes founding 2 fintech companies with successful exits. He also runs a podcast called The Pitch (http://thepitch.vc) where founders pitch investors.

Wesley Chan

Menlo Park California - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • Advertising • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Local commerce • Logistics (& Distribution)

Description

Wesley Chan serves as a Managing Director at Felicis Ventures. He was a General Partner at Google Ventures. He is a fun-loving entrepreneur and joined the Google Ventures team in 2009. As an early employee at Google, Chan helped to start, launch, and grow Google Analytics and Google Voice, products which millions of users depend on worldwide. He is a recipient of Google's founder award, the company's most prestigious recognition, for leading the development of Google Toolbar and building out Google's early client efforts. Chan also holds nine US Patents from his work on starting the business for targeted display advertising at Google. Additionally, he has held positions as a research lead at HP Labs, a program manager at Microsoft, and holds both master's and bachelor's degrees in computer science and electrical engineering from MIT where he did his graduate research at the Media Laboratory. He was selected as a "Top 35 Under 35" innovator by Technology Review magazine in 2010. Given his diverse background, Chan's investments at Google Ventures include companies that address markets in software and web services, mobile, biotech and cleantech. He has also held board or observer seats in Angelist, Crittericism, iPerian (exited to Bristol Myers-Squibb), Cool Planet Energy Systems, and Switch Communications. Wesley also led investments in Optimizely, Vungle, DataPad (exited to Cloudera), Freshplum (exited to TellApart), Namo Media (exited to Twitter), and Parse (exited to Facebook). He also served as Advisor at DoubleRock.

Julie Lein

San Francisco, California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Other • Hospitality & Events • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • IoT • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Food & Beverage • GovTech • Real Estate (& Construction)

Description

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.

Navin Chaddha

San Francisco California - Menlo Park (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • Material Science

Description

Navin Chaddha serves as Managing Director at Mayfield Fund. He also serves as a Board Member at Fungible. He also serves as Board Member at WorkSpan. He previously served as an Advisor at Formation Data Systems. He brings over 15 years of technology industry experience to Mayfield. Most recently, as a Partner at Gabriel Venture Partners, he focused on software, applications, and networking investments in the U.S. and led investment activities in India. His notable investment successes in India include three companies that went public on the Bombay Stock Exchange: Allsec Technologies, IL&FS Investsmart and Provogue. Prior to that, he served as entrepreneur-in-residence and venture partner at Mobius Venture Capital leading their cross-border US-India investment efforts. He holds a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, where he was awarded the Stanford Graduate and IBM Fellowships, and a Bachelor of Technology degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi, India where he received the Director's medal for graduating at the top his class and was recently honored with the prestigious IIT distinguished alumni award. He also holds over 35 technology patents. He also served as Board Member at Alchemist Accelerator.

Manan Mehta

Palo Alto California - San Francisco, California - Denver (CO) - Canada - Washington (DC) - Los Angeles / Southern California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA) - New York (NY) - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A. - Canada

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Other • Media • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • AR/VR • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Aerospace (& Defense)

Description

Founding Partner at Unshackled Ventures

Most Interested In

Immigrant entreprenuers. We provide 3 things: Your scalable friends and family capital, full immigration support, including sponsorship and stewardship to help you succeed faster. Our goal is to make investment decisions in 3 meetings over 2 hours.

Not Interested In

Non-immigrant founders.

Founder @unshackled - Investor. Entrepreneur. Love being at the intersection of do good, do well.

Patrick Lor

Quebec Canada - Toronto Ontario Canada - Montreal Qc Canada - Calgary Ab Canada, Canada

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Food & Beverage • Logistics (& Distribution) • Mobile Apps

Description

Patrick Lor serves as Managing Partner at Panache Ventures. Lor also serves as Partner at 500 Startups Canada. He helped pioneer the microstock industry, as co-founder of iStockphoto, the world's first crowd sourced stock photography community. Upon his departure, the company was selling over 12 million images annually, and was sold to Getty Images for US$50 million in 2006. Most recently, he was head of North American operations for Fotolia, a stock photography community backed by private equity firm KKR. Patrick is also active in the technology startup ecosystem as an advisor, mentor, angel investor, teacher, and community leader. Organizations he contributes to include: thea100.org, thec100.org, democampcalgary.com, University of Calgary, Mount Royal University, Highline, and FounderFuel. He also served as Advisor at iNovia Capital.

Paul Martino

Mountain View (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Other • IT (& TMT) • Hospitality & Events • Media • Education • BioTech • AgroTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Entertainment (& Sports) • IoT • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cannabis • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Security • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Analytics • AR/VR • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Distributed workforce • Food & Beverage • GovTech • Human Resources • Impact • Insurance • Local commerce • Logistics (& Distribution) • Material Science • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Messaging • Payments • Robotics • Mobile Apps • Aerospace (& Defense) • Real Estate (& Construction) • SaaS

Description

Bullpen Capital is an early-stage fund to make follow-on investments for companies who have recently raised seed

Trevor Kienzle

Valley California - Palo Alto California - - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Other • Media • Education • FinTech (& Financials services)

Description

Managing Director at @correlation-ventures

Wayne Hu

San Francisco California - Consumer health & fitness - Fintech - Health & hospital services - Media/content, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • Food & Beverage • Logistics (& Distribution) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services)

Description

Partner at SignalFire

Michael Berolzheimer

San Francisco, California - Canada, U.S.A. - Canada

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • IoT • A.I. (& Big Data) • Food & Beverage • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Robotics • Aerospace (& Defense)

Description

Most Interested In

We're the earliest investors you'll ever meet, and never pass because you're 'too early'. We embrace the pre-seed. We are hot on Voice, Market Networks, Industrial Tech, NewSpace, and anything Frontier -- wonky enough for us to spend the time to learn and ramp up with you. We seek founders with Deep Market Insights - you know the problem cold and the solution is bursting from you.

Not Interested In

No discovery apps. No FinTech. No consumer (except for marketplaces). No international, please. No Seed Prime, Post Seed, Series A rounds.

Sundeep Peechu

San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Security • AR/VR • Insurance • Mobile Apps

Kelly Perdew

New York (NY) - San Francisco (CA) - Washington (DC) - Austin (TX) - Los Angeles (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Gaming (& eSports) • Developer tools • Local commerce • Logistics (& Distribution) • Material Science • Mobile Apps

Description

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.

Gigi Levy-Weiss

Tel Aviv (Israel) - Palo Alto (CA), Israel - U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Gaming (& eSports) • Developer tools • Logistics (& Distribution) • Mobile Apps

Description

Most Interested In

Network effect businesses! NFX focuses on businesses that have - or want to have - network effects in their core. This can be in any field - consumer, SMB, Enterprise, Fintech, Healthcare or govtech; and on any platform - web & mobile but also AR/VR, Blockchain, 3D printing, AI, Robotics and others. Top founders with huge ideas!

Not Interested In

Currently not focusing on non-network effect businesses and specifically not telecom equipment, semiconductors and life sciences.

Ash Fontana

San Francisco (CA) - London - New York (NY) - Boston (MA) - Portland (OR) - Los Angeles (CA), U.S.A. - U.K.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Analytics

Description

Early stage technology investor (General Partner at Zetta)



Venture capital investor in intelligent systems at Zetta. Previously launched the business side of AngelList, started companies and invested in private/public/many markets.

Vincent Diallo

San Francisco (CA) - New York (NY), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • IoT • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Analytics • Logistics (& Distribution)

Description

Most Interested In

Omnichannel tech solutions for brands and retailers throughout the consumer journey

Chian Gong

San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • Human Resources • Impact

Description

Most Interested In

Applications of AI/ML to improve educational opportunity (both student-facing and back-end operational improvements)

Not Interested In

drill & kill test prep or products serving the 1%