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Los Angeles - New York - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Education • 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
Oakland - California, U.S.A. - Canada
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • BioTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • Woman Focused • Productivity
Dr. Brian Dixon serves as Venture Partner at Elm Street Ventures. He also serves as the Chief Executive Officer of BioRelix, Inc. Prior to joining BioRelix in October 2007, Dr. Dixon served as Vice President with Bayer HealthCare in West Haven Connecticut. In that position, he led a multi-disciplinary organization of up to 130 employees that delivered state-of-the-art expertise in oncology biomarker discovery, new lead discovery, research drug formulation, pharmacokinetics and drug metabolism to Bayer's global R&D business. In addition, he held leadership roles in R&D licensing initiatives, strategic alliances and cross divisional collaborations in translational medicine. From 1998 to 2001, Dr. Dixon directed Bayer drug discovery efforts in both the Osteoporosis and Oncology therapeutic areas. He serves as a Director of BioRelix, Inc. Dr. Dixon was an undergraduate at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and completed post-doctoral training at Harvard University.
Sunnyvale - Mountain View - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • Online Social • Woman Focused
Partner at @imagine-k12. Partner at @Ycombinator. Former CEO of music startup @lala (acquired by @apple); Former Chief Product Officer at @yahoo
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Gaming (& eSports) • Developer tools • Local commerce • Aerospace (& Defense) • Online Social • Consumer • Woman Focused
Most Interested In
eCommerce, Social Apps, Education, Transportation
Not Interested In
Enterprise, Security
Mountain View, U.S.A. - India
Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Entertainment (& Sports) • IoT (& Wearables) • Consumer • Productivity
Founding Partner at 3one4 Capital
Pranav Pai is a Co-Founder and serves as a Managing Partner & Chief Investment Officer at 3one4 Capital. Pai serves as General Partner at Elevate Innovation Partners. Pranav Pai serves as an Advisory Board Member at Licious. He is an Investor at Saha Capital. Pranav is deeply involved in the startup ecosystem in India and leads early-stage venture capital investments at 3one4 Capital. He has made over 70+ seed and venture capital investments across several investment categories in India and the US. Pranav serves on the boards of and as an advisor to several of the companies in the portfolio. As part of an LP team, Pranav also engages with an extensive funding ecosystem of over 30 different investment vehicles across different asset classes such as early and growth stage venture capital, public markets, real estate project financing, and venture debt in India and the US. Before 3one4, Pranav was an early employee at EdCast, an education technology startup in the San Francisco Bay Area. At EdCast, he helped launch the company's operations and served as the founding Senior Product Manager. It is now a multi-million dollar revenue business with enterprise clients such as Salesforce, GE, HP, Accenture, Walmart, the WEF, and NASSCOM, and top-tier investors such as SoftBank, GE Capital, and Menlo Ventures. Pranav graduated with a Master's in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and with a Bachelor's in Electronics and Communications Engineering from RV College, Bangalore.
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Hospitality (& Events) • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Gaming (& eSports) • Developer tools • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Mobility • Online Social
Entrepreneur, Investor
Shan Mehta serves as Partner at Trilogy Real Estate Group. He is also a Managing Partner at CITG Capital Partners, LLC. While at the firm, Mehta served as the President at Evigna and led its acquisition, restructuring, and eventual sale in 2010. Prior to CITG, he was an Investment Associate at GTCR, where he focused on evaluating investments in software and business services. Prior to that, Mehta worked at Morgan Stanley's Princes' Gate Investors fund in New York, where he focused largely on venture investing in areas such as data storage and enterprise software. Prior to that, he worked in Investment Banking at Morgan Stanley's Mergers, Acquisitions, and Restructurings group in New York. Mehta serves as a Board Member of Netlink and Little Switzerland. He holds an M.B.A. from INSEAD and a B.B.A. from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.
San Francisco Bay Area - Melbourne, Australia - U.S.A.
Education • BioTech • Developer tools • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Pharmaceutical (& Medicine)
CEO at Better | Seed VC
CEO at Better⚡ India-focused Seed VC @Rupeek @Open @Airmeet @Khatabook @Bijak @Jupiter @Fittr @SkillLync & 80+ other innovators
Estonia, U.S.A.
Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • CleanTech • Advertising • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Music
Chief Executive Officer at Alloy Labs Alliance
Chief Executive Officer at Alloy Labs Alliance
@techstars mentor. Co-founder at PerkStreet. Angel investor & advisor.
Los Angeles - Santa Monica - Denver - Colorado, U.S.A.
Education • Entertainment (& Sports) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Gaming (& eSports) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Nanotechnology • Online Social • Consumer • Woman Focused
Startups + Growth
Most Interested In
Platforms, Infrastructure and Technology for Gaming and Interactive Entertainment
Chicago Illinois - Prospect California - Illinois, United States
IT (& TMT) • Education • BioTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • IoT (& Wearables) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness)
Founding Partner at ParkerGale Capital
Devin Mathews is a Co-Founder and serves as a Partner at ParkerGale Capital. Prior to ParkerGale, he spent several years at Chicago Growth Partners, Baird Capital, and Great Hill where he focused on technology investments. He began his private equity career as an Associate with the CGP team when they were still running William Blair Capital Partners. He holds a BA from SUNY Binghamton and MBA from Tuck School at Dartmouth College.
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Hospitality (& Events) • Media • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Sales (& Marketing) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Gaming (& eSports) • Analytics • Developer tools • Local commerce • Messaging • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Sandy Kory serves as Managing Director at Horizon Partners (San Francisco). Prior to Horizon, he was Vice President, Director of New Media & Technology at Media Venture Partners, a boutique M&A advisory firm in San Francisco. He started and led MVP's New Media & Technology practice. At MVP, he worked on a number of transactions in the digital media and interactive marketing sectors, such as the sale of Freeverse to ngmoco, the largest M&A deal in the iPhone/iPod Touch apps sector. Prior to MVP, he was Vice President at Arbor Advisors, leading their highly successful entry into the digital media and interactive marketing industries. He advised clients in a number of industry-leading transactions, such as the sale of WorldClass Strategy to EducationDynamics, the sale of ReliableRemodeler.com to Quinstreet, the sale of Investopedia.com to Forbes Media, and the sale of Interest.com to Bankrate. He is a regular speaker at industry conferences, including Ad Tech and LeadsCon.
Chicago Illinois - Denver Colorado - Atlanta Georgia - Houston Texas - Los Angeles California - Madison New York, United States
Other • IT (& TMT) • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • IoT (& Wearables) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Real Estate (& Construction)
Managing Partner, Co-Head of Growth Equity, Co-Portfolio Manager
Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors has engaged in alternative investing since its inception in 1984. The firm manages approximately $17.8 billion in alternative investments through partnerships, closed-end funds and offshore funds as of October 31, 2012. The firm engages in Energy Private Equity, Growth Equity and Mezzanine investing. Kayne Anderson has engaged in private energy investing since 1991. The firm manages a series of investment partnerships dedicated to private equity financings for high-growth exploration and production, midstream and oilfield service companies. Energy Private Equity target investments are generally $20 million to $100 million, but the firm can arrange larger financings through its extensive network of co-investors. Through a number of funds, Kayne's Growth Private Equity Group has completed numerous deals over the past 15 years with both public and private companies in various forms, including secured debt, convertible preferred and direct equity investments. Kayne Anderson Mezzanine Credit Partners makes investments in middle market companies that have demonstrated an ability to generate stable and measurable cash flows. The firm invests in middle market companies ($100-$500M sales and $10-$50M of EBITDA), with a typical investment size of $10-35M.
Gurgaon India - Port Louis Mauritius - Bangalore India, India
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Investment Management
Managing Director at Arkam Ventures
Rahul Chandra is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at Helion Venture Partners. Rahul Chandra has around 16 years of work experience in venture capital, corporate development and investment banking. Rahul co-founded Helion Ventures - a $600M venture fund focused on early to mid-sized opportunities in India. At Helion, Rahul led investments and played a board role in 16 companies over the last 10 years. Some of them include UnitedLex, Seclore, Shubham Housing, EzeTap, Equitas, Wooplr, moEngage, CrownIT, Toppr and RailYatri. From Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS Pilani) he earned a degree in Business and from University of California, Berkeley he earned MBA in Finance.
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Analytics • Mobility • Online Social
Partner, Theorem Ventures. Board & advisory board member. Entrepreneur.
- Austin Texas - Brooklyn New York - New York New York - New York - U.S.A., Brazil
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • HealthTech (& Fitness)
Founder at Artist Marketplace | StartupRunner | Sertaneja Cerveja
Founder of
StartupRunner Capital
Tokyo Japan - San Francisco California - CA - Berkeley - Palo Alto - Portland, United States
Education • Human Resources • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Semiconductors
Head of Ventures at Plug and Play Japan
Mr. Zak Murase is the Founder and serves as Managing Director at Pacific Sky Partners. After joining Sony as a software engineer, he moved to Silicon Valley in 1998 as a product manager for the PC VAIO. He left Sony in 2013 after working with the US PlayStation Network, the optical drive business, and collaboration with startups in UX development. As a representative of the Silicon Valley office of a Japanese venture capital, he was in charge of investing in American startups from CVC funds such as KDDI and Mitsui Fudosan. He has led investments in 14 companies ranging from seed to late stage and managed a portfolio of 18 companies.
San Francisco California - Boston Massachusetts - Colombia, Canada
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • IoT (& Wearables) • Developer tools
Director, Economic Development & Goverment Relations at City of St. Catharines
Co-founder at Liftit
I was adopted from Bogotá, Colombia when I was two weeks old and grew up in the Boston area. I came back to Colombia in 2017 to look for my biological family and ended up starting Liftit, a last-mile truck delivery platform, and I also eventually found my family after 18 months of searching. Coincidentally, my biological brother used to be a truck driver, so now he works with me at Liftit. We now have over 300 employees across Latam, and are doing truck deliveries in all the other major countries in the region (Brazil, Mexico, etc.).
New York City (NY) - San Francisco California - Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
IT (& TMT) • Education • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Aerospace (& Defense) • Investment Management • Mobile
Venture Capital at MindWorks Ventures
Behrman Capital is a private equity investment firm with more than $3.1 billion of capital under management across five funds. Founded in New York in 1991, the firm invests in management buyouts, leveraged buildups and recapitalizations of established growth companies. Target companies typically have revenues ranging from $30 million to $200 million. Behrman's equity investments are generally between $25 million and $100 million. In 1996 the firm expanded with an additional office in San Francisco. Behrman's investments have been focused in five industries: Health Care, Defense, Specialty Manufacturing, Business to Business Outsourcing, and Information Technology.
California, United States
Media • Education • Energy • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Food & Beverage • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services)
Managing Director at Sutter Hill Ventures
Managing Director at Sutter Hill Ventures
California, United States
IT (& TMT) • Education • BioTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Entertainment (& Sports) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services)
President / Managing Director - Venture Capital at Glynn Capital Management
President / Managing Director - Venture Capital at Glynn Capital Management