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Christine Tsai

San Francisco California - London - New York City (NY) - Seoul South Korea - Tokyo Japan - Valley California - Boston Massachusetts - Palo Alto California - Seattle Washington - Los Angeles California - Mountain View California, U.S.A. - U.K. - South Korea

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • IoT • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Security • Gaming (& eSports) • Food & Beverage • Impact • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services)

Description

Founding Partner at @500startups . Previously @google & @youtube . Left-handed. Ballet dancer of ~25 yrs. Go Bears.

Kara Nortman

Santa Monica California - Los Angeles, California - Austin (TX) - Washington (DC) - Los Angeles (CA) - Palo Alto (CA) - San Francisco (CA) - Santa Monica (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Security • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Distributed workforce • Human Resources • Logistics (& Distribution)

Description

Most Interested In

Security, future of work, engineering tools that enable the future of work, marketplaces with strong SaaS elements.

Not Interested In

D2C brands, media

Partner Upfront Ventures, co-founder/chairman Seedling ; Worked at Urbanspoon/Citysearch/IAC M&A; Princeton Undergrad, Stanford MBA

Mark Suster

Los Angeles California - Santa Monica (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Advertising • Distributed workforce • Logistics (& Distribution) • Mobile Apps

Description

General partner, @upfront-ventures & 2x entrepreneur. Sold Koral to @salesforce

Linked In Description:

2x entrepreneur. Sold both companies (last to salesforce.com). Turned VC looking to invest in passionate entrepreneurs.

Pete Flint

San Francisco, California - Chicago (IL) - San Francisco Bay Area (CA) - New York (NY) - London - Boston (MA), U.S.A. - U.K.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • IT (& TMT) • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • AR/VR • Insurance • Logistics (& Distribution)

Description

Most Interested In

Passionate about next generation marketplaces & technically minded founders that have strong intuition about markets & customers. AI and crazy ideas.

Not Interested In

Well if it doesn't have or aspire to have a network effect, then probably not a fit... Very very selective when looking at opportunities that are not based in the Bay Area - we can be more helpful when teams are near us.

Pete Flint serves as Managing Partner at NFX. The co-founder of Trulia, Pete is a serial entrepreneur who built one of today's most successful marketplaces. As CEO, Pete led the company from inception to one of the largest and fastest growing real estate websites in the U.S. with more than 50 million monthly unique users and a merger with Zillow in 2015 that valued Trulia at $3.5 billion. Prior to starting Trulia, Pete was part of the founding team of lastminute.com, a leading European online travel site that was acquired in 2005 by Travelocity / Sabre Holdings for over $1 billion. These experiences gave Pete a rarely acquired understanding of what it takes to scale a company from a great idea to a $1 billion+ exit, all from a founder's perspective.

Kevin Colleran

Boston Massachusetts - San Francisco California, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Food & Beverage • GovTech • Logistics (& Distribution)

Description

Kevin Colleran is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Slow Ventures. Slow manages nearly $250 million in capital financed by a group of 100+ tech industry founders, CEO's, executives as well as a select group of notable venture capital firms and endowments. At Slow, Colleran focuses on working consumer and enterprise seed stage startups and has a vast portfolio of more than 250 companies including Pinterest, Barkbox, Postmates, Nextdoor, Casper, Pillpack, Classpass, Breather, Slack, Allbirds, Robinhood, Blue Bottle Coffee, Plated, Breather, Hipcamp, Gusto, Zeel, Wag, Brandless, Everlane, Wealthfront and many more. Kevin was also previously a Venture Partner and Advisor at General Catalyst Partners and wrote a column for the Wall Street Journal (online & print) as part of their "Accelerators" section. Previously Kevin was one of the first 10 employees at Facebook Inc. having joined in early 2005 as their first advertising sales executives. He stayed at Facebook for nearly 7 years, leaving in 2012 after having become the longest tenured employee at the company other than Mark Zuckerberg. Kevin received a BA in Business Management and Marketing from Babson College.

George Zachary

San Francisco California - Menlo Park California - - Palo Alto (CA) - Boston (MA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services)

Description

Most Interested In

Deep learning / AI meets biology and chemistry. I am focused on products that accelerate breakthroughs in biological sciences that allow for new products that help peoples lives through huge advancements in health. An example investment we have made is in Freenome.

Not Interested In

Not interested in anything outside of this area. Not interested in digital health that involves behavior modification programs.

George Zachary serves as General Partner at Charles River Ventures. He is also a Board Member of CoTap and Crushpath. Zachary led the Nintendo 64 development business at Silicon Graphics, managed sales and marketing for virtual reality pioneer VPL Research, and served as a product marketer at CATS Software. He is on the board of Stanford SSE, Stanford's StartX and is an advisor to the X PRIZE Foundation. Zachary earned a joint BS from MIT and MIT Sloan.

Rob Hayes

New York City (NY) - 4040 Locust Street Philiadelphia Pennsylvania - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Advertising • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Food & Beverage • Mobile Apps

Description

Venture Investor

Binh Tran

Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam - San Francisco, California - San Francisco (CA) - Mountain View (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • AgroTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Food & Beverage • Logistics (& Distribution)

Description

Founder turned Investor

Most Interested In

Tech companies solving emerging market problems

Not Interested In

Idea stage companies

Venture Partner @500startups, previously co-founder @klout

Roelof Botha

San Francisco California - Menlo Park (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Material Science

Description

Grew up in Cape Town. Came to @stanford-university in 1998. Joined @paypal in 2000 & became CFO. Joined Sequoia in 2003. Invested in @youtube in 2005.

Leo Polovets

Menlo Park California - Mountain View California - San Francisco, California - San Francisco (CA) - Los Angeles (CA) - New York (NY), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Insurance • Logistics (& Distribution) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • SaaS

Description

Most Interested In

We focus on companies with strong long-term competitive advantages (network effects, proprietary data, economies of scale, etc). Mostly b2b.

Not Interested In

We're open to any company with good moat potential. We do a lot of b2b investing. On the b2c side, we typically look for companies that monetize users directly rather than through ads.

Leo Polovets is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Susa Ventures. In 2003, Leo was the 2nd non-founding engineer at LinkedIn, where he helped build many core features like LinkedIn Jobs and LinkedIn Groups. After LinkedIn, he developed payment fraud detection systems at Google, then spent four years building much of the core data processing infrastructure at Factual. Leo left Factual in late 2012 to join Susa Ventures and focus on venture capital. He's also an angel investor in companies including DataFox, Lumoid, and Momentum Machines. Leo holds a BS with Honors degree from Caltech, and in 2002, he was one of three members of Caltech's world finalist ACM International Programming Contest team.

Aydin Senkut

Atherton California - San Francisco California - Valley California - Palo Alto California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Mobile Apps

Description

Aydin Senkut is the Founder and serves as a Managing Director at Felicis Ventures. He serves as the Board Member at PredictSpring, Weddington Way, Guideline, ClearSlide and MindSnacks. He also serves as the Board Observer at Vicarious FPC. He has been named one of the top 25 tech angels by Businessweek recently and was featured as one of the top 8 up and coming VCs by Forbes' Midas List. Felicis Ventures portfolio encompasses over 80 companies currently including Clearslide, Dropcam, Inkling, Practice Fusion, Rovio, and Shopify. In the last few years, over 46 Felicis backed start-ups have been acquired by firms such as Google, Facebook, Twitter, Groupon, Microsoft, AT&T, Disney, Ebay, Chegg and Intuit. Prior to starting Felicis Ventures, Aydin was a Senior Manager at Google, responsible for strategic partner development and account management in Asia Pacific (including Japan). Aydin joined Google in 1999 as its first Product Manager to launch Google's first 10 international sites, its first online search licensing products and its first Safe Search. He then became the first International Sales Manager at Google, responsible for world-wide licensing deals. Before joining Google, he was the Product Manager for Data Visualization and Data Mining software MineSet, and led the business development efforts for the financial services industry at SGI. He received a BS in Business Administration with Honors from Boston University. He also earned an MBA in Marketing from the Wharton School and an MA in International Studies from the School of Arts at the University of Pennsylvania. He is an Angel Investor.

Josh Felser

Mill Valley California - San Francisco California, U.S.A.

Investing In

IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Entertainment (& Sports) • IoT • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Analytics • Developer tools • Local commerce • Logistics (& Distribution)

Description

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.

Josh Elman

Cambridge Massachusetts - Mountain View California - Massachusetts - Menlo Park, California - San Francisco (CA) - Los Angeles (CA) - Seattle (WA) - New York (NY) - Washington (DC), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Analytics • Material Science • Mobile Apps

Description

Josh Elman serves as a Venture Partner at Greylock Partners. He served as Board Member at Obvious Ventures. He joined Greylock in 2011. Over the past 15 years, he has worked in product and engineering roles at some of the leading companies in social, commerce, and media. Prior to Greylock, Elman was a product lead for growth and relevance at Twitter, and helped Twitter grow it's active user base by nearly 10x. Before Twitter, he worked on the platform at Facebook and led the launch of Facebook Connect. Earlier in his career, he led product management for Zazzle, was part of the early team at LinkedIn focused on growth and jobs, and led product and engineering for RealJukebox and RealPlayer at RealNetworks. Elman holds a BS in Symbolic Systems with a focus on Human Computer Interaction from Stanford University. He also serves on Board of Jelly. He also serves on Board of Meerkat. He also serves as the Vice President, Product at Robinhood. He also serves as an Advisor at Capture Technologies. He earned an MBA degree from UC Berkley.

Adam Rothenberg

New York City (NY) - New York (NY), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Logistics (& Distribution)

Description

Partner at BoxGroup

Jonathon Triest

New York City (NY) - Israel - San Francisco California - Boston Massachusetts - Los Angeles California - Michigan - - Detroit (MI), U.S.A. - Israel

Investing In

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) • Mobile Apps

Description

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.

Brian Hirsch

New York City (NY) - New York (NY), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Advertising

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Most Interested In

We are primarily a NY focused firm with over 90% of capital deployed locally.

Brian Hirsch is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Tribeca Venture Partners. He is a Board Member at Thinkful. He is also a Board Member at Lendio. Prior to starting Tribeca Venture Partners, Brian was a founder and Managing Director of GSA Venture Partners, formerly the venture arm of Greenhill & Co (NYSE: GHL). Prior to GSAVP, Brian was a Principal at Sterling Venture Partners and a Vice President at ABN AMRO Private Equity. Brian has invested across a broad number of sectors during his career including fintech, edtech, mobile, healthcare, online marketing and media/publishing. Brian has a BA in economics and American studies from Brandeis University. "When I was ten years old while most kids were reading comic books I was reading all of my father's business magazines. I mostly enjoyed reading the long profile stories of entrepreneurs that were building great companies against all odds. It was the 1980's and entrepreneurs like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Scott McNealy and Scott Cook were changing the world through technology. What fascinated me was the process of taking an idea and transforming it into a reality.

Michael Dempsey

Cambridge Massachusetts - Boston Massachusetts - New York City (NY), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • IoT • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Gaming (& eSports) • AR/VR • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Robotics • Aerospace (& Defense)

Description

General Partner at Compound

Most Interested In

Emerging categories with some level of commercial viability. Post-science project investing

Not Interested In

- Anything related to marketing automation or adtech - Marketplaces - VR content studios

Investing in Frontier Tech @rothenberg-ventures . Previously: Researched at @cb-insights-1 & invested at Crane Partners.

Chamath Palihapitiya

San Francisco California - Palo Alto (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness)

Description

Chamath Palihapitiya is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Social Capital. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer at Social Capital Hedosophia. He is also the Chariman of Lotusflare. He is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Remote Health Services. He served as Chairman at Integrated Plasmonics. He also serves as Chairman at Athos Works. He is also a Co-Owner and serves as Board Member at Golden State Warriors. He previously founded and served as General Partner at Embarcadero Ventures. He also served as a Board Member at ezhome. He was the VP of product marketing, operations, Growth, Mobile and International & & Head of User Growth of Facebook. He is a board member at BitYota, Groq, Future Shorts, 9021 PHO Restaurants, Remind101, Confer Health, Ezetap Mobile Solutions, Lemon, Treehouse Island, Crushpath, Captricity and Treehouse Island. He served as the principal of Mayfield Fund. He focused on consumer internet, advertising and media investments. Prior to this, he spent five years with AOL, most recently served as the VP and general manager of the Desktop Messaging group with overall responsibility for the AIM and ICQ businesses. Prior to his role as the Head of AIM and ICQ, He served as VP of Business Operations for AOL's broadband subscription service helping to build the business to over $1 billion in revenue. He also co-founded and launched a Music Video-On-Demand (VOD) Channel to both critical and user acclaim, garnering successive Emmy nominations in 2005 and 2006. Earlier, he held management positions with internet music pioneers Spinner.com (AOL) and Winamp (AOL). He is a Member of the Investment Committee of fbFund. He attended the University of Waterloo, where he graduated first class honors with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He serves as an executive chairman at MAD Apparel. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at Remote Health Services.

Dror Berman

San Francisco California - Palo Alto, California - Tel Aviv (Israel) - Palo Alto (CA), U.S.A. - Israel

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • BioTech • AgroTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Robotics

Description

Dror Berman is a Co-Founding Partner at Innovation Endeavors. He is a Board Member of Vicarious Surgical. He is also a Board Member of Team8. Prior to joining Innovation Endeavors, he worked on global search products with Yahoo, spearheaded an R&D team at NICE Systems, and led business development for an Israeli CE retailer. Berman has an MBA from Stanford, and graduated cum laude in Computer Science and Bioinformatics from Ben Gurion University in Israel.

Brad Holden

Palo Alto California - San Francisco, California - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Entertainment (& Sports) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos)

Description

Partner @tomorrowventures

Kyle Lui

Menlo Park California - New York City (NY) - Seoul South Korea - Tokyo Japan - Beijing China - Shanghai China - San Francisco, California - Los Angeles (CA), U.S.A. - South Korea - China

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • IT (& TMT) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • IoT • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services)

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Most Interested In

Vertical SaaS Transactional Consumer Real Estate Tech Fin Tech Check out more at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kylelui/

Kyle Lui serves as Principal at DCM Ventures. He also is an Angel Investor. Prior to DCM Ventures, Kyle was the co-founder and CEO of ChoicePass, where he led product management, user acquisition, partnerships, sales and operations. ChoicePass was an enterprise perks and rewards SaaS company backed by prominent angel investors, and acquired by Salesforce.com and Rypple. At Salesforce, Kyle served as Director of Product Management on the founding product team for Work.com, growing the business to over 1,000 enterprise customers. Kyle is a frequent speaker at Salesforce's customer conferences and holds a patent on innovative systems and methods for delivering rewards in an on-demand SaaS environment.

Bill Trenchard

New York City (NY) - 4040 Locust Street Philiadelphia Pennsylvania - 151 10th Street San Francisco - San Francisco, California - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • IT (& TMT) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Analytics • Distributed workforce • Logistics (& Distribution)

Description

I lead seed investments and look for founders who have gone unreasonably deep to understand a big problem

Most Interested In

I’m interested in all things SaaS, FinTech, specific applications of AI, Hardware, Climate Moonshots. Given my experience with LiveOps I am also interested in platforms for efficient hiring, management of distributed labor, many of which integrate with AI applications. I'm also excited about logistics 2.0 and unique data plays in real estate.

Bill Trenchard serves as a Partner at First Round Capital. He serves as Founding Advisor at LendingHome. He was a Co-Founder & served as a Board Member at LiveOps. He is also a Co-Founder and Chairman at Readyforce and as an Advisor at Hall. As a founder, operator, advisor and angel investor, Bill has helped dozens of companies launch, manage through hyper growth and win. Before joining First Round, Bill led LiveOps to $100 million in sales and hundreds of employees as the industry's leading cloud contact center. He also founded Jump Networks, a leading web calendar and personal organizer acquired by Microsoft. As an angel investor and Founder Partner at Founder Collective, Bill made investments in category killing companies including Uber, IronPort (acquired by Cisco), Adroll, PowerSet (acquired by Microsoft), Lending Club, HomeRun (acquired by Rearden Commerce), Tapulous (acquired by Disney), Slide (acquired by Google), and Chegg. Bill currently serves on the boards of Readyforce, LiveOps, Looker and Samasource, and is Vice Chairman of Entrepreneurship@Cornell. Bill has a Bachelor of Arts in science and technology studies from Cornell University.

Chris Farmer

San Francisco, California - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Food & Beverage • Logistics (& Distribution) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Robotics

Description

Most Interested In

Co's that apply tech/data/AI to cut material costs out of large, non-traditional tech industries either via "full-stack" offerings or marketplaces. Robotics. Smart SaaS. Consumer applications (viral or transactional).

Not Interested In

Trad. software w/ limited data/network effects or long sales cycles to classic IT buyers. Hardware w/o recurring revenue. Incremental improvements.

Chris Farmer is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at SignalFire. He also is an Angel Investor. He also served as Advisor at Stuph. He focuses on investments in consumer Internet, software and mobile with particular emphasis on seed stage investments and working with Entrepreneurs-In-Residence to launch new businesses. Previously, he was a Partner with General Catalyst Partners, where he led the seed program and a Vice President with Bessemer Venture Partners where he led investments in digital media & mobile companies. Prior to BVP, he was a consultant with Bain & Co where he advised on large scale technology buyouts. Prior to Bain, he spearheaded the successful turnaround of Skybitz, a wireless enabled SaaS company, where he served as led Product Management, Finance & Business Development. Earlier in his career, he founded an investment advisory firm for angel investors & private equity funds and served as a Venture Advisor to an early stage venture capital fund where he led investments in SkyBitz and Applied Semantics (acquired by Google). He started his career on Wall Street in the private equity group of Cowen & Company. He received a BA in International Relations & Business from Tufts University & the Fletcher School of Diplomacy.

Sheel Mohnot

San Francisco, California - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Hospitality & Events • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Food & Beverage • Mobile Apps • Real Estate (& Construction)

Description

Most Interested In

Seed stage FinTech, globally.

Not Interested In

Adtech, hardware, social networks

Sheel Mohnot serves as Partner, FinTech at 500 Startups. Sheel leads fintech investments for 500, which is great because his startup experience includes founding 2 fintech companies with successful exits. He also runs a podcast called The Pitch (http://thepitch.vc) where founders pitch investors.

Matt Heiman

London - Valley California - San Francisco (CA) - New York (NY), U.K.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • IT (& TMT) • Hospitality & Events • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Mobile Apps

Description

Matt Heiman is the Founder & serves as Chief Executive Officer at Diagonal View. He Co-founded & served as Chief Executive Officer at Mobix Interactive.

Aaron Holiday

San Francisco Bay Area (CA) - New York (NY), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Logistics (& Distribution)

Description

Founder of 645 Ventures; Managing Entrepreneurial Officer @ Cornell Tech; Seed Stage Investor; Goldman Sachs; Gotham Ventures

Niko Bonatsos

San Francisco (CA) - Palo Alto (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • Material Science

Description

Niko Bonatsos serves as a Managing Director at General Catalyst. Previously, he served as a Venture Partner at General Catalyst Partners. He serves as a Board Member at 6D.ai. He focuses on investments in consumer Internet, cloud computing and mobile. He worked on lean manufacturing for Yokogawa Electric Corp, biomedical signal processing at Harvard Medical School/MGH, cloud computing at Stanford University and as a founding team member of myLinkpower, a social networking start-up. He is a graduate of Stanford University, earning an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering as a Fulbright Scholar; the University of Cambridge, earning an M.Phil. in Manufacturing Engineering and Management; and the National Technical University of Athens, earning an engineer's degree (Dipl.-Ing) in Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Julie Lein

San Francisco, California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Other • Hospitality & Events • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • IoT • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Food & Beverage • GovTech • Real Estate (& Construction)

Description

Most Interested In

Startups shaping the future of cities. Investing at the pre-seed & seed in a variety of verticals, including: - Transportation - Future of work - Real estate tech - Energy & water - Business & fintech services - Food - Health & public safety - Govt & civic tech - Arts & recreation

Julie is a co-founder and Managing Partner of the Urban Innovation Fund. The Urban Innovation Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in transformative urban technology. It provides seed capital and regulatory expertise to entrepreneurs solving our toughest urban challenges – helping them grow into tomorrow’s most valued companies. Previously, Julie co-founded Tumml, an urban ventures accelerator. During the last three years, Tumml has incubated 33 startups, who have raised $37M+ in funding and launched products/ services for over 2.2M people. Her work in urban entrepreneurship has been featured in numerous press outlets, including CNN, TedX, Forbes, and The San Francisco Chronicle, among others. Julie has an MBA from MIT Sloan and a BA from Stanford.

Navin Chaddha

San Francisco California - Menlo Park (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • Material Science

Description

Navin Chaddha serves as Managing Director at Mayfield Fund. He also serves as a Board Member at Fungible. He also serves as Board Member at WorkSpan. He previously served as an Advisor at Formation Data Systems. He brings over 15 years of technology industry experience to Mayfield. Most recently, as a Partner at Gabriel Venture Partners, he focused on software, applications, and networking investments in the U.S. and led investment activities in India. His notable investment successes in India include three companies that went public on the Bombay Stock Exchange: Allsec Technologies, IL&FS Investsmart and Provogue. Prior to that, he served as entrepreneur-in-residence and venture partner at Mobius Venture Capital leading their cross-border US-India investment efforts. He holds a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, where he was awarded the Stanford Graduate and IBM Fellowships, and a Bachelor of Technology degree in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) in Delhi, India where he received the Director's medal for graduating at the top his class and was recently honored with the prestigious IIT distinguished alumni award. He also holds over 35 technology patents. He also served as Board Member at Alchemist Accelerator.

Paul Straub

Mill Valley California - Oakland California - San Francisco, California - Canada, U.S.A. - Canada

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • BioTech • AgroTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • IoT • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Impact • Logistics (& Distribution) • Material Science • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services)

Manan Mehta

Palo Alto California - San Francisco, California - Denver (CO) - Canada - Washington (DC) - Los Angeles / Southern California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA) - New York (NY) - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A. - Canada

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Other • Media • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • AR/VR • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Aerospace (& Defense)

Description

Founding Partner at Unshackled Ventures

Most Interested In

Immigrant entreprenuers. We provide 3 things: Your scalable friends and family capital, full immigration support, including sponsorship and stewardship to help you succeed faster. Our goal is to make investment decisions in 3 meetings over 2 hours.

Not Interested In

Non-immigrant founders.

Founder @unshackled - Investor. Entrepreneur. Love being at the intersection of do good, do well.

Cheryl Cheng

San Francisco California - Menlo Park, California - Menlo Park (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Mobile Apps

Description

Most Interested In

Automated enterprise, fintech, healthtech/digital health, blockchain (not cryptocurrency or ICO). I have a soft spot for consumer products and applications given my consumer marketing background but they need to leverage a unique user insight.

Not Interested In

Life sciences, biotech, clean tech, semiconductors, pharma, adtech

Cheryl Cheng serves as General Partner at BlueRun Ventures. She focuses on early stage mobile software opportunities with a focus on retail, health and vertical marketplaces. In addition, Cheryl drives marketing strategy, messaging and business development for BlueRun Ventures. She also supports BRV portfolio companies in marketing and business development. Prior to BlueRun, Cheryl was a Brand Manager at Clorox where she worked in new products and retail marketing. She brings her brand experience to BlueRun's portfolio where she helps companies connect with brands and agencies. She has a B.A. from Stanford University and an MBA from Kellogg School of Management. Cheryl also serves on the Board of the Ronald McDonald House at Stanford.