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Palo Alto, U.S.A.
FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Local commerce • Payments • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobility • Online Social • Consumer • Productivity
Mr. Aayush Phumbhra is a Co-Founder of Nectar and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Previously, he was a Co-Founder and Vice President of Chegg.com. He drove Chegg.com's growth, spreading the service to more and more college campuses and leading in the development of strategic business relationships. Prior to the founding of Chegg.com, he was an analyst at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage and a management and technology consultant at BearingPoint. Before he moved to the United States in 2001, he launched two companies in his native India, one of which focused on Web and graphic design. He holds an MBA in Marketing and Accounting from Iowa State University. He is also an Angel Investor.
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A. - Israel
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Gaming (& eSports) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Local commerce • Online Social • Productivity
Managing Partner at Hillsven
Managing Partner at Hillsven
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
PropTech • Hospitality (& Events) • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Impact • Real Estate (& Construction)
CEO at JOY - Behavioral Technologies for Families. #HAX
CEO at JOY - Behavioral Technologies for Families. #HAX
San Francisco California - California - U.S.A., United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobile • Consumer
Managing Partner at Adroit Capital LLC (Investing in our future)
CEO, @droisys - Product Engineering in Cloud, Mobile & mLearning
San Francisco California - California - U.S.A., United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Entertainment (& Sports) • Food & Beverage
entrepreneur
Board Member @la-boulange (Acquired by Starbucks) . vp prod. dev., marketing & manuf., Food division @starbucks-coffee-company . VP Food @munchery
Palo Alto - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A. - U.K. - South Korea - Japan
PropTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • IoT (& Wearables) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Developer tools • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
CEO and Founding Partner at 500 Startups
San Francisco California - Los Angeles California - California - U.S.A., United States
Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion)
CEO and Co-Founder at Credit Key
Co-founder and CEO of Onestop Internet. VC background at Shelter Capital Partners. Worked at iXL (now part of the Razorfish agency, owned by Publicis Groupe).
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Entertainment (& Sports) • CleanTech • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Analytics • Developer tools • Local commerce • Payments • Online Social
Josh Felser is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Freestyle Capital. He also serves as Advisor at Catalyst Investors. Previously he Co-Founded and was CEO of Crackle, formerly known as Grouper Networks, a company that uses P2P technology to allow users to share their personal media within private groups. He previously served as Vice President of America Online and as General Manager of AOL's music brands Spinner, Winamp and Shoutcast. Felser was the co-founder of Spinner.com, a leading Internet music destination and served as President until its May 1999 purchase by America Online. In July 1996 he founded Internet music startup, RadioCo (a division of Organic Online), which ultimately merged with DJ.com (renamed Spinner.com). Previously, Felser was a Director of Business and Product Development in the Multimedia Group of U.S. West; an executive with News Corp. and a Manager, Business Development for News Corp.'s Fox Inc. in Los Angeles. Felser received his BA in Political Science from Duke University and his MBA from Fuqua School of Business at Duke. He is also the Co-Founder of FYI Living and serves as Chairman of the company.
Gurgaon Haryana India - - Los Angeles California - California - U.S.A., U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Robotics • Mobile • Online Social
Nishkaam Mehta serves as a Venture Partner at GSF Global. He served as Head of Mobile Strategy and Growth (Corporate Development) at Hulu. He served as a Board Member at Mobstac.
San Francisco Bay Area - Atherton, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • BioTech • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Food & Beverage • Consumer
Founder and Managing Director of the Boost VC Accelerator
Mr. Adam Draper is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at Boost VC. He serves as an Advisor at 7shifts. He serves as Advisor at Ava. He serves as Advisor at Alpha Investing. He was a Board Member of Make School. He Co-Founded and served as Director and Board Member at Ender's Fund. He is a member of the board for a number of firms including Makegameswith.us and Xpert Financial where he is also the Founder. He serves as an advisor at Coinage. In 2009, the same year that he graduated from UCLA, he founded Xpert Financial, a secondary market for private securities. After settling millions of dollars in private security transactions and becoming a registered broker-dealer, he left Xpert Financial in late 2012 and began angel investing, where he backed such startups as Coinbase, Plangrid, and Amplitude. Mr. Draper then partnered up with Brayton Williams to change the face of global startup mentorship.
Denver - Seattle - New York, U.S.A. - Canada
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Developer tools • Online Social • Consumer
Most Interested In
Ecommerce, Marketplaces, Platforms, Products
Investor: @birchbox, @chloe-isabel, @warby-parker @harry's, @kiwi-crate, @stellaservice, @doubledutch, @zozi, @peloton-cycle
Mountain View - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • IoT (& Wearables) • Gaming (& eSports) • Food & Beverage • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness)
Managing & Founding Partner @ Lynchpin Capital
Visiting Lecturer at University of California, Berkeley
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Developer tools • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Payments • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Online Social • Consumer
Sneakerhead. VC.
First Round Capital is a venture capital firm willing to invest in pre-revenue companies, often providing a company's first outside capital. The partners look to take an active role in most of the companies they invest in. First Round Capital invests nationally and has additional offices in San Francisco and New York. The firm's typical initial investment is around $500,000. First Round Capital has coordinated the first ever VC-sponsored Exchange Fund. This fund allows qualified First Round Capital entrepreneurs to contribute a small piece of the stock they own in their company and share in the performance of all the other companies in the fund. Members of the First Round Capital Community have raised over $2.5 billion in follow-on capital to date. First Rounds's $20 million in total initial investments (in those companies that have been in the portfolio for over a year) have been followed by $850 million in financing from later-stage venture firms - a roughly 36-1 ratio.
Montreal, Canada
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Gaming (& eSports) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Local commerce • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Online Social • Consumer
Partner Inovia Capital
Chris Arsenault serves as General Partner at iNovia Capital. He served as Advisor at Luge Capital. His focus areas are consumer internet, SaaS and e-commerce. Chris has been an early stage technology investor and entrepreneur for the past two decades. He was founder & CEO of SIT, which was acquired by Ubizen, and helped launch a series of tech companies; Copernic, Wanted, up2 and i5. Chris believes entrepreneurship is a "state of mind", not a title nor a profession. He is a board member of the CVCA, Reseau Capital, is Co-Chair of the CIX and is an active Charter Member of Silicon Valley based C100.
Palo Alto - California, U.S.A.
BioTech • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Messaging • Robotics • Consumer
Managing Partner at Amino Capital
Managing Partner at Amino Capital
New York - Los Angeles - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Education • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Entertainment (& Sports) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Messaging • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer • Woman Focused
Global Head Of Music at Roblox
Most Interested In
I focus on female founded consumer startups that are improving the way we live and making the best things in life accessible to more people domestically and around the world.
Not Interested In
Enterprise
Entrepreneur and Angel Investor. Father of 2. Recovering Media, Advertising and Mobile Exec. Interested in helping passionate founders where I can add value.
British Columbia - Los Angeles - California, U.S.A.
Hospitality (& Events) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Advertising • Productivity
Entrepreneur, Board Member, Actively acquiring and investing in health and tech businesses.
Advisor, Investment Committee Member, LP at iNovia Capital
Cofounder, Metalogix. Technology enthusiast. Angel Investor.
Toronto (Ontario) - San Francisco Bay Area - Boston - New York - Massachusetts, U.S.A. - Canada
Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Gaming (& eSports) • Nanotechnology
Most Interested In
Next-gen gaming, including AR, VR, and platforms that help players find each other intelligently. Although it's so hard to pick just one thing.
Not Interested In
Enterprise software, SaaS, insurance
San Francisco Bay Area - New York, U.S.A.
Media • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Entertainment (& Sports) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Gaming (& eSports) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Online Social • Consumer
Nikhil Kalghatgi serves as Partner at CoVenture. He also serves as Venture Advisor at Green Sands Equity. He formerly served as Partner at Vast Ventures. He is a partner at Vast Ventures, investing in world-positive early-stage and late-stage companies. He has invested across technology including space exploration, healthcare, energy, software, and transportation. Recent investments include Elon Musk's Hyperloop and Peter Diamandis's Planetary Resources. Nikhil previously worked at SoftBank Capital where the portfolio included Alibaba, FitBit, Buzzfeed, Huffington Post and many more. Nikhil also founded Partner 6, a hedge fund focused on large-cap, value-based strategies and joined the founding team of Localytics building mobile analytics. Nikhil spent several years as an engineer in the military intelligence sector before completing his MBA at Harvard Business School. Nikhil started and hosts the Necker Summit with Richard Branson on his island, where he brings together global leader and innovators from early to late stages of entrepreneurship to inspire ideas and products that create a different kind of billionaire - one who impacts a billion people.
London - New York - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Entertainment (& Sports) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Local commerce • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
General Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners
Nicole is an investor at Lightspeed Venture Partners, focused on early stage Consumer internet and FinTech companies, having invested in companies such as Calm, Cameo, Lunchclub, HAUS, Rothy’s, Zola, Daily Harvest, Illumix, Girlboss and Goop.
Nicole spent nearly a decade at Morgan Stanley covering the European and US e-commerce, retail and consumer companies. She also angel invested in healthcare and consumer companies over those years and then went to Nutmeg, a London based FinTech company. Later during business school, Nicole launched her own startup, which is where she met Lightspeed.
Nicole invests in generational change companies who are building brands and quickly becoming part of popular culture.
She holds a degree in math and economics from the University of York, England and an MBA from Stanford.
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Online Social
Mike Walsh is the Founder and serves as General Partner at Structure Capital. Mike has designed missile defense systems, designed and sold air and water pollution control systems and was an early angel investor in Salesforce.com. After a decade of software sales and sales management, Mike successfully founded and sold an enterprise social networking company, while attending business school at Haas and Columbia University. Following the sale of Leverage, Mike focused his efforts on investing and was a first round investor in Uber. Leveraging his early investment success and love for helping early stage companies, Mike launched Structure Capital in June of 2013 and invested in 50 companies during the first year of business.
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Payments • Online Social
CEO and Founder, General Partner at X Fund
Victor Young is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Flinja. He is the Co-Chief Executive Officer and Chief Product Officer at Take 44.