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investors from all around the world.
FinTech, Hardware, SaaS … we diversify our portfolio of
investors to give you the best chance to find startup investors.
Berlin - Amsterdam - New York City - San Francisco Bay Area - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - Houston Texas - Los Angeles California - Boston, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Gaming (& eSports) • Messaging • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Nanotechnology • Online Social • Consumer
Strategic Advisor & Chief Product Officer
Berlin, Germany
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Hospitality (& Events) • Media • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Future Of Work • Music
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.
San Francisco Bay Area - Mountain View California - San Francisco California - Los Angeles - New York, U.S.A. - U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Developer tools • Real Estate (& Construction) • Consumer
Founder: Practical Venture Capital, 500 Startups
Most Interested In
Later stage investments
Palo Alto California - Stockholm - San Francisco Bay Area - Consumer products, Sweden
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Consumer
Johan Brenner is a high-net-worth individual based in Palo Alto, California. He primarily invests in technology and growth companies. Currently, Johan is a General Partner with Creandum in Stockholm. His prior experience includes time at Balderton Capital (previously Benchmark Europe) working with investments such as LiveBookings, Habbo Hotel, Rebtel, Zopa and others.
San Francisco Bay Area - Helsinki Finland - San Francisco California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..)
Dr. Jyri Engestrom is a Co-Founder and serves as the General Partner at Yes VC. Dr. Engestrom served as Advisor at True Ventures. Engestrom is also a Co-Founder at Yes VC. He was a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Jaiku, which grew into the leading European mobile social network and pioneered the sharing of location information, status updates and activity streams on smartphones. Prior to Jaiku, Jyri worked at Nokia, and holds patents in remote content delivery, content prioritization and RF-tag-reading capabilities in mobile devices. A sociologist by training, Jyri coined the term "social object" to refer to photos, links and other shareable Web content. After Google acquired Jaiku in 2007, Jyri was responsible for mobile applications and Google's efforts to become a social destination on the Web and mobile. He left Google to found Ditto.me, a mobile local recommendations business, which was acquired by Groupon in 2012. At Groupon, Jyri served as the Director of Product Management responsible for Breadcrumb by Groupon, an iPad point-of-sale system that replaces traditional cash registers at restaurants and other local businesses. Born in Helsinki, Finland, Jyri graduated with a Master's degree in Social Science from the University of Helsinki in 2002 and pursued Ph.D. studies at Lancaster University Management School in the UK. He is the Co-Founder of Drone Games, a programming competition advancing the ethical use of autonomous flying drones, and Sesat School, a micro-school in San Francisco. He serves on the board of the Rare Cancer Research Foundation.
Chicago Illinois - Amsterdam, Belgium
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • FinTech (& Financials services) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy)
FinTech & Deep Tech VC Investor
With nearly $2 billion of capital under management, Water Street Healthcare Partners is a Chicago-based private equity firm focused on healthcare companies. Water Street seeks investments and relationships in targeted sectors across a wide spectrum of the healthcare industry (Diagnostic Devices, Medical Products, Pharmaceutical Services, Specialty Distribution, Specialty Pharmaceuticals, Specialty Services). The firm specializes in creating market leaders through flexible transaction structures, with particular expertise in complex corporate partnerships, carve-outs and recapitalizations in which owners retain a significant ownership stake. Transactions typically range from $50 million to $500 million. Water Street focuses primarily on two groups: large corporations that have low-priority business units or subsidiaries, and middle market healthcare companies where management wants to significantly accelerate growth and value creation. The firm does not typically invest in biotechnology, traditional healthcare facilities (hospitals, nursing homes) or early-stage companies without positive cash flow.
New York City - Berlin, Germany
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • CleanTech • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Mobility • Online Social • Consumer
Colin Hanna serves as Principal at Balderton Capital. Prior to joining Balderton Capital, Colin worked at SoundCloud in Berlin where he led Emerging Market Growth and worked as a Business Analyst. Prior to SoundCloud he was at ProSiebenSat.1 building out their media for equity business in Asia and investing for their Berlin-based E-commerce incubator. Colin began his career with three years at Goldman Sachs in New York where he worked on several Chinese internet IPOs, including Qunar (NASDAQ: QUNR), Vipshop (NASDAQ: VIPS) and Tarena (NASDAQ: TEDU).
Berlin, Germany
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • CleanTech • Impact • Logistics (& Distribution) • Mobility • Consumer
Dr. Fabian Heilemann is a Co-Founder and serves as Co-Managing Director at DailyDeal. Dr. Heilemann was also a Co-Founder and served as Partner at Heilemann Ventures. Dr. Heilemann is also a Co-Founder at FreightHub and serves as the Chairman. He also serves as Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital. Fabian is a serial-entrepreneur and investor from Berlin, Germany. He founded Heilemann Ventures together with his brother Ferry after the trade sale of his company DailyDeal, Europe's first couponing portal, to Google in 2011. Since then he has been an early stage VC-investor, actively supporting companies in the digital sector. Meanwhile, Fabian and his brother Ferry set the fundamentals for their holding Sky & Sand. Currently it combines DailyDeal, which the brothers bought back from Google in early 2013, and the mobile-POS system provider pepperbill. Fabian holds a Bachelors Degree from Bucerius Law School and a Ph.D. in Corporate Law from Heidelberg University. He was a visiting student in Santa Clara Law School and Stanford Business School and held a scholarship from Konrad Adenauer Foundation.
Paris - Ile - de, France
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..)
Vice-President chez Iliad / Free
Paris Saint - Lo Cedex, France
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • BioTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos)
Partner at 50 Partners Impact
Petit serves as the Personnel Director at Actalia.
San Francisco Bay Area - Venice California - Turlock California - Los Angeles California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Fifteen years of experience as an Internet entrepreneur who has built, operated and sold Internet media companies. In 1998, Brett co-founded Intermix Media, which launched several online businesses including Myspace.com, Skilljam.com and Alena.com. Brett sold Intermix to NewsCorp in 2005 for $680M. Brett was the President and Chairman of Adknowledge.com, a behavioral-based advertising technology company, which he helped grow from $40M in revenue to over $300M in revenue and $55M of EBITDA. He recently joined on as CEO of Sensa. Brett is a highly respected internet executive, an active angel investor (e.g., Demand Media) and a pillar in the SoCal Tech Community.
, U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Gaming (& eSports) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Robotics • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
LP and Venture Partner at firstminute capital
, U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Developer tools • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Robotics • Healthcare (& Wellness)
Most Interested In
I focus on ‘deep tech’ companies utilising technologies including Machine Intelligence, Internet of Things, Robotics, Drones and Big Data analytics. I also spend time looking at enterprise software companies in areas including Developer Tools and Infrastructure, and companies developing software-led solutions for Healthcare.
Warsaw - Poland, Poland
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Gaming (& eSports) • Developer tools • Future Of Work • Human Resources • Nanotechnology
Most Interested In
Gaming, esports, b2b saas, serial entrepreneurs with history in the industry, transparency and global mindset.
Not Interested In
Non-software startups, startups from outside of EU (we can help you set up in Poland and build a team here though), idea stage unless you're a serial founder.
Paris, France
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Venture Capital analyst at XAnge, in Paris. Passionate about innovative business models, digital labor and marketplaces. Happy to meet new entrepreneurs.