Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Education • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Advertising • Online Social • Consumer
Description
Nihal Mehta serves as Founding General Partner at Eniac Ventures. He is also the Founding Partner at India Internet Fund. He also served as Member of Advisory Board at Blue Cloud Ventures. He serves as an Advisor at Inter Mobile Ventures. Nihal has several years experience in innovating marketing technologies through founding five startups to date. Nihal is currently the Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of LocalResponse, which helps marketers respond to real-time consumer intent. Prior to LocalResponse, (which pivoted from buzzd, a leading real-time city guide), Nihal founded ipsh!, one of the first full-service mobile marketing agencies in 2001, which he sold to Omnicom (NYSE: OMC) in 2005. Nihal is a noted expert in the emerging adoption of mobile technologies for media properties and consumer brands. Named one of the "25 People Every New Founder Should Meet in New York Tech" and a top "25 Up-And-Coming Startup CEO in New York" in 2012 by Business Insider, a 2012 AlwaysOn "Power Player NYC," a top 10 NYC 'Game Changer' in the 2010 New York Enterprise Report, one of twenty RCR Wireless News 'Mobile Movers and Shakers' in 2008, a BusinessWeek 'M-Commerce Baron' in 2006 and named one of AdAge's 'Top 20 Marketers in Their 20s' in 2005. Nihal graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Philosophy and a BSE in Computer Science. He is also an Angel Investor. He also serves as a Board Member at Alloy. He served as Board Member and Advisor at Lokast and as an Advisor at Findable. He is also an Angel Investor.
Edith Yeung
Investing in Education • BioTech • FinT...
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A. - China
Previous Investments
• AppOnboard, Inc.:
$4000000 (Venture Round)
• Placer:
(Venture Round)
• FTX:
$8000000 (Seed Round)
• Gravitational:
$7000000 (Early stage VC)
• AppZen:
$2900000 (Seed Round)
• RapidAPI:
$3500000 (Seed Round)
• Huma:
$8000000 (Seed)
• Mobile Action:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Persana AI:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Social Chat:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Reby:
(Angel)
• Citcon:
$6000000 (Series A)
• Solana:
(Pre Seed)
• Telepathic:
(Series A)
• Telepathic:
$1000000 (Seed)
• AppOnboard:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Placer.ai:
(Seed)
• Rapid:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Prynt:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Otter.ai:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Presence (Application Software):
$1000000 (Series A)
Edith Yeung serves as Partner at 500 Startups. She also serves as Founding Partner at Right Ventures. Yeung serves as the Head of Marketing and Vice President of International Business Development at MoboTap. She has appeared on CBS, NPR, Wall Street Journal and is frequently quoted in Read Write Web, Small Business Trends and others technology and small business publications. Prior to 500, Edith ran marketing for Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia-backed company with over 150M installs. She was also an active angel investors focusing on mobile. Edith also worked with numerous evil empires such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless, Autodesk. In her copious spare time, Edith curates a mobile newsletter.
Jennifer Carolan
Investing in Education • Impact • Woman...
Palo Alto , San Franc..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Desmos:
• Reach Capital:
(early stage)
• Broadway Angels:
(mid stage)
• NewSchools Venture Fund:
(late stage)
• Suraasa:
$6000000 (Series A)
• AfterSchool HQ:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Mini Studio:
(Seed)
• Stellic:
$11000000 (Series A)
• Enable Us:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Outschool:
$110000000 (Series D)
• Outschool:
$75000000 (Series C)
• Outschool:
$45000000 (Series B)
• Outschool:
$9000000 (Series A)
• Rhithm:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Backer:
$4000000 (Pre Seed)
• PeopleGrove:
$5000000 (Series A)
• PeopleGrove:
$2000000 (Seed)
• PeopleGrove:
$1800000 (Series A)
• PeopleGrove:
$180000 (Seed)
• Ellevation:
$10000000 (Series B)
• BetterLesson:
$10000000 (Series B)
• BetterLesson:
$6000000 (Series A)
• BetterLesson:
$1600000 (Venture Round)
• BetterLesson:
$2000000 (Series A)
• Nearpod:
$21000000 (Series B)
• Nearpod:
$9000000 (Series A)
• FreshGrade:
$12000000 (Series A)
• EdSurge:
$3000000 (Series A)
• WriteLab:
$2000000 (Seed)
• WriteLab:
$2100000 (Seed Round)
• Moxxly:
(Seed)
• Zeal Learning:
(Seed)
• Pluto Media:
$500000 (Seed)
• Engrade:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Education Elements:
$2000000 (Seed)
Jennifer Carolan
Palo Alto - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
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
PierreEric Leibovici
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
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.
Walter Kortschak
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Seed investor. Managing Partner at @summit-partners for 25+ years. Invest in sectors spanning consumer and enterprise wherever data is disrupting an old market.
Mike Maples Jr
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Palo Alto , San Franc..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Twitter:
$25000 (Seed Round)
• Stonks:
$15000000 (Seed)
• ZITADEL:
$9000000 (Series A)
• Ario:
$16000000 (Seed)
• Created by Humans:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Handraise:
$6000000 (Seed)
• REALLY:
$18000000 (Seed)
• Waitroom:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Neo.Tax:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Neo.Tax:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Mora Financial:
$15000000 (Seed)
• AirGarage:
$13000000 (Series A)
• AirGarage:
$2000000 (Seed)
• CommonStock:
$25000000 (Series A)
• CommonStock:
$10000000 (Seed)
• Almanac:
$34000000 (Series A)
• Almanac:
$9000000 (Seed)
• Roboflow:
$20000000 (Series A)
• IRL:
$170000000 (Series C)
• IRL:
$16000000 (Series B)
• IRL:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Hadrian:
$10000000 (Seed)
• Cheetah:
$36000000 (Series B)
• Cheetah:
$30000000 (Series A)
• The Zebra:
$44000000 (Series C)
• The Zebra:
$17000000 (Series A)
• The Zebra:
$5000000 (Seed)
• The Zebra:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Applied Intuition:
$40000000 (Series B)
• Applied Intuition:
$12000000 (Series A)
• Origin:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Origin:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Bot MD:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Capture Technologies:
$1000000 (Seed)
• OhmConnect:
$9000000 (Series B)
• The Podcast App:
(Seed)
• Dispatchr:
(Seed)
• GoFormz:
$3000000 (Series A)
• GoFormz:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Pike13:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Pike13:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Pike13:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Zeplin:
$1000000 (Seed)
• ModCloth:
$15000000 (Series C)
• ModCloth:
$25000000 (Series C)
• ModCloth:
$20000000 (Series B)
• ModCloth:
$2000000 (Series A)
• Outreach:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Mixmax:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Edgecase (formerly Compare Metrics):
$4000000 (Series B)
• Edgecase (formerly Compare Metrics):
$4000000 (Series A)
• Rally:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Rally:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Rally:
(Seed)
• DoubleDutch:
$12000000 (Series C)
• DoubleDutch:
$4000000 (Series B)
• DoubleDutch:
$2000000 (Series A)
• Keepsafe:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Matchbox:
(Series A)
• Matchbox:
$3000000 (Series Unknown)
• Clever:
$3000000 (Seed)
• OutboundEngine:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Pulse.io:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Okta:
$17000000 (Series B)
• Okta:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Egnyte:
$10000000 (Series B)
• Egnyte:
$6000000 (Series A)
• Demandforce:
(Series Unknown)
• Chegg:
$5000000 (Series B)
• Chegg:
$2000000 (Series A)
• Weebly:
$650000 (Series A)
• X (formerly Twitter):
$25000 (Seed)
Mike Maples Jr
Palo Alto - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
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.
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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