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New York City (NY) - Israel - San Francisco California - Boston Massachusetts - Los Angeles California - - Detroit (MI) - Ludlow Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Detroit, Michigan, United States
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) • Messaging • Mobile Apps • Investment Management • Online Social • Consumer
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.
Cupertino, California - Palo Alto California ; California - U.S.A. - 650 - 408 - New York - CA - San Mateo - Sacramento - San Bruno - Kingston - Tampa, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Payments • Robotics • Real Estate (& Construction) • Online Social • Consumer
Yun-Fang Juan is the Co-founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer of Fundastic. Previously, she was the Chief Scientist at Soldsie, a social commerce startup that helps small business owners sell on Facebook. She worked for Facebook for five years. She started as one of the founding engineers of Facebook Ads. Prior to Facebook, she worked for Yahoo! For 6 years on search, data mining and ab testing framework. She graduated with a BS in electrical engineering from National Taiwan University and a MS in operations research from UC Berkeley.
Seattle (WA) - Boston (MA) - New York (NY) - Los Angeles (CA) - San Francisco, California - Menlo Park, California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Gaming (& eSports) • Consumer
Partner at Andreessen Horowitz
Menlo Park California - Palo Alto, London, Dublin, Munich - San Francisco Bay Area, United States
FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Gaming (& eSports) • Robotics
David Lam serves as General Partner at Atlantic Bridge Capital. He also serves on Board of Swrve. He currently serves on the boards of Movidius, FieldAware, Accuris, Novaerus and Swrve Mobile. David has spent over a decade in cross-border technology investing between China and Western markets. Prior to Atlantic Bridge, he was Managing Director at WestSummit Capital, a leading US-China cross-border technology investment firm, where his board involvement included Twitch (Acquired by Amazon), Maginatics (Acquired by EMC), Mirantis, 3D Robotics and Nexenta. Previously, David was Managing Director at WI Harper Group, a pioneering US-China technology venture capital firm, and led the firm's investments in Quixey and Innovation Works China. Before WI Harper, David was Vice President at The Carlyle Group where his investments included eScreen (Acquired by Alere), and prior to that, he headed business development for Panasas, a Carlyle portfolio company in the data storage industry. David's operating experience also includes marketing, business development and corporate development roles in leading enterprise technology companies ONI Systems, CIENA, Cisco and Proxim. David is a Board Member, past President and past Chairman of the Asia America MultiTechnology Association (AAMA), which is the oldest and largest pan-Asian, cross-border technology executive network in Silicon Valley. He also serves on the board of the Association of Asian American Investment Managers (AAAIM). David holds a BS and an MA from Stanford University, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Berlin, Germany
Sales (& Marketing) • Entertainment (& Sports) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Gaming (& eSports) • Consumer
Jens Hilgers is a Co-Owner of G2 Esports. He is also a Co-Founder of Dojo Madness and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Prior to this, he Owned and Co-Founded Turtle Entertainment and served as its Chairman. Jens Hilgers served as the Chief Executive Officer of Geewa. He also served as Chief Executive Officer at GIGA Digital Television. He holds a degree from Bildungszentrum fuer Informationsverarbeitende Berufe.
Seattle, Washington, United States
PropTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • Gaming (& eSports) • Real Estate (& Construction)
Geoff Entress serves as Co-Founder & Managing Director at Pioneer Square Labs. He serves as a Board member at WhitePages.com. He is a Co-Founder and serves as a Managing Director at Pioneer Square Labs. He serves as Board Member at Hiya. He also served as Vice Chairman at Alliance of Angels.He is a Board Member at LiquidPlanner. In addition to his angel activities, he had spent the last two years as a Venture Partner at Voyager Capital and the eight years prior to that as an investment team member at Madrona Venture Group. He currently sits on the board of directors of drugstore.com (NASDAQ GM: DSCM) and several private companies. He is a graduate of The University of Michigan Law School, the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Notre Dame.
San Francisco, California - Consumer products - Energy tech - Hardware - Insurance - Manufacturing - Robotics, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • CleanTech • Web Security (& Privacy) • Gaming (& eSports) • Robotics • Aerospace (& Defense) • DeepTech • Consumer
Partner at ACME Capital
London United Kingdom - U.K., United Kingdom
PropTech • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Gaming (& eSports) • Real Estate (& Construction)
Shukri Shammas is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Initial Capital. Shukri is an entrepreneur with a passion for games, technology, finance and property. He is Partner and Co-Founder of Initial Capital and serves on both the Investment Committee and the board of the General Partner. Shukri is also Partner and Co-Founder of property development firm Summix. Previously, he was Chairman, Chief Financial Officer and Co-Founder of Playfish, a leading developer of social games, up to the company's acquisition by Electronic Arts in November 2009. Before Playfish, he was Managing Director and Co-Founder of Macrospace which merged with Sorrent to become Glu Mobile (NASDAQ:GLUU), a global publisher of mobile games. Prior to Macrospace, he was Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Domainia, an Internet services provider, after starting his career at accounting firm Westbury Schotness. Current or former board roles on behalf of Initial Capital: Another Place, Armada, BravoCo, Dazzle Rocks, Divido, Gamee, Grey Area, Jist, Ministry of Games, Nexmo, OWLR, Peak, Quikkly, Superbitmachine, Supercell, Supersolid, Traplight Games. He served as the Board Member at miDrive. He holds a Bachelor's in Business Administration from the American College, London.
Global - San Francisco (CA), United States
Media • Entertainment (& Sports) • Gaming (& eSports) • Online Social
Gordon Rubenstein serves as Managing Partner at Raine Ventures. He was a Board Member at Plexchat. He serves as the Board Observer at Amuse. Gordon is the Managing Partner of Raine Ventures where he leads Raine's venture capital group. Prior to joining Raine in 2013, Gordon founded and managed Pacific Partners, an operationally-focused venture capital partnership with backing from George Soros, Sam Zell, leading technology executives and entrepreneurs as well as partners from KKR, Silver Lake and Freeman Spogli. In addition, Gordon co-founded Astro Gaming (acquired by Skullcandy (Nasdaq: SKUL)), and Rave Digital Media (acquired by AMC Entertainment). Currently, he serves on the Board of Directors of Tastemade Inc. and Prism Skylabs and was involved at the board level and / or actively involved with Machinima, ZEFR, eHarmony, VivaReal, Audience Science, BigMachines (acquired by Oracle) and Convio (listed publicly on Nasdaq, then acquired by Blackbaud (Nasdaq: BLKB)). Gordon has an A.B. from the University of Michigan.
Chicago Illinois - - Illinois - U.S.A., United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Gaming (& eSports) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Investment Management • Mobile
Partner @ CV
Looking for a few great startups.
Menlo Park California - San Francisco (CA), United States
Web Security (& Privacy) • Gaming (& eSports)
After writing his first computer program in the late 70’s Matt’s passion for new technology eventually drew him to Silicon Valley in 1989 to work in the newly created Desktop Division of Oracle Corporation. He was hooked, and spent the last 22 years deep
New York City (NY) - AI - Analytics - Fintech - Gaming/eSports - Insurance, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • AgroTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Gaming (& eSports) • Analytics • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Real Estate (& Construction)
Most Interested In
Esports, Enterprise Saas, Real Estate, Insurance and Fintech
Not Interested In
Healthcare, gov tech, utility tech, ed tech
Los Angeles, California - Los Angeles California ; California - U.S.A., U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Gaming (& eSports)
Angel: Oculus VR (to FB), Climate Corp, Hired, Glide Founded: Scopely, Opp. Views, ASI Conceived: AdSense while @ Applied Semantics => 4 yr @ Google.
Menlo Park, California - San Francisco, California investing in founders with disruptive business models that can capitalize on current platforms, as well as those founders that are building breakthrough technologies, United States
Media • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Gaming (& eSports) • Robotics
Partner and Co-founder at ACME Capital
Barcelona Spain - Helsinki Finland - Berlin Germany - Singapore, Singapore
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Gaming (& eSports)
Founding Partner at Play Ventures
Miami, Florida - , United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Gaming (& eSports) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Future Of Work • Impact • Consumer
I’m both a founder , advisor and investor so happy to talk about all sides of each world.
Israel, Israel
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising
Businessman | Entrepreneur | Investor | Executive
Most Interested In
I am mostly interested in investing in any software related companies. I am interested in startups that are looking to raise debt as well. am interested in meeting companies from any internet vertical that is looking for a merger or acquisition, Startup that the stars are not aligning right, Startups that requires an out of the box solutions for funding.
Not Interested In
not interested in pre-seed companies