Partner, Investment Committee at TCG (The Chernin Group) | Kauffman Fellow
Series A VC (and beyond)
Marco DeMeireles serves as Principal & Head of Private Investments at Balyasny Asset Management. He is focused on public and private technology investments across Consumer Internet, Digital Media, Enterprise Software, HCIT and IT Infrastructure businesses globally. He attended Williams College where he graduated with a degree in Economics and Leadership studies. At BAM, Marco's investment experience spans Venture Capital, Growth Equity, Public Equities (equity long/short) and personal LP investments into leading fund managers. He has sourced and led the Firm's investments in Avant, Cuebiq, Orbital Insight, Outcome Health (fka ContextMedia), and Peloton where he serves as Balyasny's shareholder representative. Prior to joining BAM, Marco was with Technology Crossover Ventures, focused on growth stage investments, and began his career in Morgan Stanley's Investment Banking Division advising Technology clients based in Menlo Park. While at Morgan Stanley, Marco worked with companies in the storage, hardware, software, security, digital media and consumer internet sectors on a variety of transactions including public equity offerings (Palo Alto Networks), debt financings (Rovi, HP), leveraged buyouts (Dell/Quest) and strategic M&A assignments (Cisco/Meraki).
Omar El-Ayat
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Hospitality (& Events) • Media • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Future Of Work • Music
Description
Dr. Florian Heinemann is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Project A Ventures. He also serves as Board Member at kfzteile24 and Lost My Name. He also serves as Advisory Board Member at Onlineprinters. He is the Managing Director of Shirtagram. He is responsible for the areas of marketing, CRM and business intelligence. Before co-founding Project A, he was managing director of Rocket Internet holding the same areas of responsibility (2007-2012). During his time at Rocket, he was mainly involved in TopTarif, eDarling, and Zalando/Bigfoot. Prior to Rocket, Florian was co-founder and managing director of JustBooks/AbeBooks being in charge of marketing and product (1999-2002, exit to Amazon). Then, he was co-heading the online marketing department of Jamba! and the online dating portal iLove (2003-2005, exit to Verisign). In 2006, he was co-founder of the online marketplace antibodies-online.com. Moreover, he has been an investor/business angel in more than 40 startups, e.g. AdScale, Ladenzeile, Netmoms and Tradoria. Florian holds a doctorate's degree in innovation management/entrepreneurship from RWTH Aachen University. He was a visiting scholar at the Wharton School. His research has been published in leading international journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of International Marketing and Zeitschrift fur Betriebswirtschaft. He is an Angel Investor.
Jerry Yang
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • 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 (& Wearables) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Analytics • AR/VR • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Future Of Work • Food & Beverage • Human Resources • Impact • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Payments • Robotics • Mobile Apps • Aerospace (& Defense) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Music • Investment Management • LegalTech • Mobile • Mobility • Online Social • Consumer • Oil & Gas (& Mining) • Industrials • Film Production (& Distribution) • Semiconductors
Description
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
Seed investor. Managing Partner at @summit-partners for 25+ years. Invest in sectors spanning consumer and enterprise wherever data is disrupting an old market.
John Katzman
Investing in Education
New York, U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Kajabi:
• DataCamp:
(mid stage)
• Jimdo:
(late stage)
• TeachersPayTeachers.com:
(late stage)
• National Alliance for Public Charter Schools:
(late stage)
John Katzman is the Founder and serves as Board Member and Co-Chief Executive Officer at Noodle (Educational Software). He also served as Advisor at Rethink. He is also the Founder and serves as Chairman at 2U. Katzman serves as an Advisor at Cafe Learn. He currently serves as a Board member at Quad Learning. He founded three companies: The Princeton Review, 2Tor, and Noodle itself. Before serving as Executive Director, he founded and worked as Chief Executive Officer at 2tor, an edtech company that partners with prestigious universities to offer online degree progra He also founded The Princeton Review and served as Chief Executive Officer until 2007. He also serves on the Board of several other for- and non-profit organizations, and is the co-author of five books and many articles. He serves as an Advisor at Rethink Education and New Markets Venture Partners. He earned BA in Architecture from Princeton University.
Brian Requarth
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
LatAm (Latin ) , San ..., U.S.A. - Brazil
Previous Investments
• BHub.com:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Conectamos:
$200000 (Pre Seed)
• VMind AI:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• TRACTIAN:
$45000000 (Series B)
• Blind Creator:
$580000 (Pre Seed)
• Bamboo Debt Capital Markets Platform:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Truora:
$15000000 (Series A)
• Alinea Health:
$4000000 (Series Unknown)
• Awari:
$680000 (Angel)
• Pulppo:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• Luca:
$3000000 (Pre Seed)
• Academlo:
$790000 (Pre Seed)
• Tarken:
$4000000 (Seed)
• SproutFi:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Bachan's:
(Series Unknown)
• BHub:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Driven Education:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Orchata:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Neivor:
(Seed)
• Torre:
$16000000 (Seed)
• Clara:
$4000000 (Pre Seed)
• Flourish Fi:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• Cubbo:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• gonddo:
$130000 (Seed)
• Taboom:
(Seed)
• Alude:
$3000000 (Seed)
• La Haus:
$10000000 (Series A)
• La Haus:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Genial Care:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Zwapp:
$100000 (Pre Seed)
• AoCubo:
$380000 (Seed)
• LAR.app:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Tributi:
(Seed)
• EmCasa:
$1000000 (Seed)
• UBITS:
(Seed)
• Liftit:
$2000000 (Seed)
• QuintoAndar:
$7000000 (Series A)
• QuintoAndar:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Decorati:
(Seed)
• Giving Assistant:
$1000000 (Series Unknown)
• Giving Assistant:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Priced:
$500000 (Seed)
• Love Mondays:
(Seed)
• VivaReal:
$540000 (Seed)
Brian Requarth
LatAm (Latin ) - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A. - Brazil
PropTech • Education • Future Of Work • Messaging • Real Estate (& Construction) • DeepTech
Description
Fondateur & Président - Courtin Real Estate - FLEX’O
Founder & CEO | Courtin Real Estate | Flex-O | Courtin Investment
Christophe Courtin is the Founder & serves as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Courtin Investment. He was the Founder and served as the Chief Executive Officer at Groupe Santiane. He founded several companies, of which the most emblematic is the Santiane Group, a leading health insurance broker and winner of the 2012 "Entrepreneur of the Year Award" in the Innovation category. Christophe Courtin holds a Master's degree in IT Management and Project Management, and began his entrepreneurial journey early. In 1999, as a 20 year old student, Christophe started his first venture : an e-learning company targeting college students. In 2001, Christophe founded Best-Price, which he sold successfully in 2002. In 2006, as he was working in the Insurance industry and knew the disruptive potential of the Internet, Christophe founded Santiane.fr, an innovative health insurance aggregator and wholesaler that became in a matter of five years the #1 distributor of health insurance online. The Santiane Group was sold to BlackFin Capital Partners in 2015. Christophe Courtin retains a minority stake and is, to this day, a member of the board. As of September 2015, the Santiane Group had 350 employees based on 3 locations (Paris, Nice, Casablanca) and posted a â¬50m annual revenue for 2015. With his experience of "serial entrepreneur" and good understanding of the Capital Development industry, Christophe started the Courtin Investment fund in October 2015. The fund offers consulting and financing opportunities to ambitious entrepreneurs in order to help them achieve success. Since Septembre 2016, Christophe has been a shareholder and a parter in Day One Entrepreneurs & Partners' startup incubator. As such, he is a board member alongside other investors and entrepreneurs such as the Leclercq family (owners of Decathlon Group). Founded by Michel de Guilhermier and Juan Hernandez, Day One Entrepreneurs & Partners is a leading player in the French startup scene. To date, the fund has invested in over forty startups including Running Heros, GuestApp, ZenChef, FioulReduc, Morning Group and Ector.
Liam Casey
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
San Francisco Bay Are..., U.S.A. - Ireland
Previous Investments
• Plotlogic:
$28000000 (Series B)
• Greenwork:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• Coco:
$36000000 (Series A)
• Boomitra:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Station A:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Oportun:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Tracworx:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• Pandas:
$6000000 (Pre Seed)
• &Open:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Nothing:
$7000000 (Seed)
• SISU Aesthetic Clinic:
$6000000 (Series A)
• SISU Aesthetic Clinic:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Trustap:
$800000 (Pre Seed)
• SODA SAYS:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Talivest:
$500000 (Angel)
• Stripe:
$2000000 (Seed)
Liam Casey
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - Ireland
Liam Casey is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer of PCH. He also serves as a Board Member at Sisu Aesthetic Clinic. Prior to that, he served as the Marketing Director for Meadows & Byrne. He holds a Degree from Cork College Of Commerce.
How to connect with Angel Investors in the Education industry?
In the Education industry, prominent angel investors include Ashton Kutcher, Tim Ferriss, and Naval Ravikant. These investors focus on startups offering innovative solutions in EdTech, online learning platforms, and educational content. Ashton Kutcher, known for his investments in technology companies, looks for EdTech startups that have the potential to transform traditional education systems. Tim Ferriss, an author and entrepreneur, invests in educational platforms that promote self-learning and productivity. Naval Ravikant, co-founder of AngelList, seeks out startups that provide scalable and accessible educational solutions. To connect with these investors, attend EdTech conferences, education expos, and networking events such as ASU+GSV Summit, EdTechXEurope, and SXSW EDU. Utilize platforms like AngelList and LinkedIn to identify and reach out to potential investors. When pitching, emphasize how your EdTech solution addresses key challenges in education, such as improving accessibility, enhancing learning outcomes, or providing personalized education. Highlight any traction you’ve gained, such as partnerships with educational institutions, user growth, or positive feedback from students and educators. 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 pilot programs 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 course sales, will further strengthen your pitch. Leveraging endorsements or case studies from education experts can also enhance your credibility.
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