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New York, U.S.A. - France
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Food & Beverage • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Partner at Alven
Seed & Series A VC in Europe focus on marketplaces, fintech, SaaS
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Consumer
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.
Tel Aviv, Israel - U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Gaming (& eSports) • Payments • Online Social
Most Interested In
I invest in Israeli and Israeli related startups across all stages and domains.
Not Interested In
Hardware, pharma / biotech, gaming, adtech
San Francisco Bay Area - Paris, France
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Consumer
Most Interested In
Exciting consumer and enterprise technology solutions. I am also seeking to out women and minority founders.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - South Korea - U.K. - Israel
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Local commerce • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobility • Consumer
Executive Coach
London, U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Hospitality (& Events) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Entertainment (& Sports) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Robotics • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobility • Consumer
Founder & Managing Partner at White Star Capital
Zurich, Switzerland - U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • Consumer
Klaus Hommels is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Lakestar. He also serves as Board Member at Factory Works. He is one of the leading European business angels and is or has been involved in numerous successful internet investments including QXL/Tradus, Skype, Facebook, king.com, StarDoll, Xing and spotify. He served as Board Member at Klarna. Klaus invests in promising start-ups that have the potential to become major players in the internet space.
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.
Paris, France
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Hospitality (& Events) • Education • AgroTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • IoT (& Wearables) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Food & Beverage • Robotics
Co-Founder & Partner @Daphni
Co-Founder & Partner @Daphni
Boulder - Denver - Salt Lake City - Provo - Minneapolis - Indianapolis - Madison - Milwaukee - Detroit - St. Paul - Ann Arbor - Chicago - Minnesota, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • AgroTech • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Developer tools • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Woman Focused
Most Interested In
We focus more on the insight of the founders than our insights, so we're most excited to learn how you think the world should be different and how we can help you make that change happen.
Not Interested In
Startups without a connection to The Rockies and The North regions of the US.
Stockholm, Sweden - U.S.A.
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.
London, U.K. - U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data)
Richard Marsh serves as Partner at Draper Esprit. He has worked in start-ups and venture capital since 1997 and is an experienced entrepreneur as well as a venture capitalist. He founded and built Datanomic, a Cambridge-based software company which was a pioneer of Data Quality software and was acquired by Oracle. As an investor, Richard has worked across software, hardware, mobile and cleantech sectors. He is responsible for DFJ Esprit's investments in Connectivity (acquired by KCOM, LSE:KCOM), Garlik (acquired by Experian, LSE: EXPN), GreenPeak Technologies, Polatis, Psytechnics (acquired by NetScout, NASDAQ: NTCT) and ZBD Solutions. Richard is an Engineering graduate of Cambridge University where he also received his PhD. Richard holds an MBA from IMD, Lausanne, where he was a Sainsbury Management Fellow.
London, U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • DeepTech
Experienced Business Angel
Experienced Business Angel
Originally a biochemist and management accountant by training, my brother and I have been full-time, active, early-stage investors in the UK since 2000. Focussed on funding early-stage, UK and Singapore-based businesses and then following our investment across multiple investment rounds, we've achieved numerous exits - OC Robotics (2017 sale to GE Aviation), Bybox (seed investment to >£70M turnover without further funding - MBO in 2016 for £105M), Buzzmove (2014 seed investment sold to White Mountain Insurance Group in 2016) Omega Logic (Sale to Eposs Ltd), Pout (Sale to Catterton Partners) Commerce Decisions (Sale to QinetiQ) and Tagman (Sale to Ensighten). Co-investing with my brother, Michael, who also runs Cocoon Capital in South East Asia, I am actively involved in the management of many of our investments, including the raise of further financing. I am a non-exec and Investment Committee member at Playfair Capital and also sit on the Investment Committee of the UK's Angel CoFund. Am also a member of Cambridge Angels. Current UK investments include Trouva (2013 investment alongside Index Ventures/Octopus, $10M Series A in 2017), Ventrata, Reposit, Audiense (formerly Socialbro), Chattermill, Specle, Virtual IT, CareLineLive and several others. We are actively looking for early-stage, investment opportunities and continue to support current portfolio companies in further financing rounds. Outside of work I sit on the Management Board of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts (at the University of East Anglia), where I also chair the finance subcommittee. I am an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music. Specialties: Financial exec with broad experience in early-stage fundraising, non-executive roles, business consulting, practical business advice, sounding board to owner-managers, troubleshooting, accounting controls, profit enhancement, exit strategies, business valuations & acquisitions
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A. - France
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Logistics (& Distribution) • Robotics
Partner at Global Founders Capital
Partner at Global Founders Capital