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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.
Tokyo, expanding its investment activities in the US, United Kingdom
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Investment Management
Partner and Europe Office Representative at Global Brain Corporation
Partner and Europe Office Representative at Global Brain Corporation
New York City (NY) - Northbrook Illinois - Minneapolis Minnesota - Washington D.C, U.S.A.
Other • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Aerospace (& Defense)
Formerly known as Thayer | Hidden Creek, HCI Equity Partners is a strategically focused private equity firm that targets growth oriented industrial product and service companies. The Firm has offices in Washington, DC and Minneapolis, MN. HCI Equity Partners focuses in the lower middle market which includes companies with approximately $20 to $200 million in annual revenue (and $5 million to $20 million in EBITDA). HCI targets companies that manufacture components or provide services in markets such as: Aerospace/Defense and Federal Services; Automotive and Commercial Vehicle Suppliers; Distribution; Industrial Distribution; Infrastructure; Power Generation; Test & Measurement; and Transportation and Logistics.
Singapore - Tokyo Japan, Singapore
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data)
Investor & Board Observer at Black Fish Technologies
Saemin Ahn serves as Managing Partner & Executive Officer at Rakuten Capital. He is an Angel Investor. He is also an Advisor and a Board Member at Run Dexter, AdsNative and ViSenze. Saemin invests in diverse verticals such as advertising technology, artificial intelligence and on-demand business around the world. Some of his investments include Carousell, Pocketmath and Algorithmia.
New York - Brooklyn, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • BioTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Woman Focused
Partner at Notation
Most Interested In
We invest in pre product-market fit and tech heavy companies based in NYC. We like to lead the first round of financing, typically pre-seed or seed.
Nicholas Chirls is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Notation Capital. Previously, he also served as Co-Chief Executive Officer at Alphaworks. He served as a Head of Investments at betaworks. Prior to this, he served as the Head of Investments at Betaworks.
- Austin Texas - Brooklyn New York - New York New York - New York - U.S.A., Brazil
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • HealthTech (& Fitness)
Founder at Artist Marketplace | StartupRunner | Sertaneja Cerveja
Founder of
StartupRunner Capital
San Francisco Bay Area - Palo Alto - California, U.S.A. - Japan
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools
Builder · Investor · Managing Partner at Locus Ventures
Most Interested In
AI enabled services, e-Sports, Infrastructure as a Service, B2B SaaS, Industrial Robotics, Cloud Security, India
Not Interested In
Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies
Founding engineer at Operator.com • Ex-Facebook, Yahoo • Studied at Stanford, CMU • Specialized in User Acquisition, Internationalization & Growth • Angel
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A. - Japan
FinTech (& Financials services) • Blockchain (& Cryptos)
General Partner at Gumi Ventures
General Partner at Gumi Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - Japan
FinTech (& Financials services) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness)
Venture investor in the future of work
General Partner at SemperVirens Venture Capital
Allison Baum is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Fresco Capital. She is involved in all aspects of investment and operations with a specific focus on the education sector. Previously, as Regional Director of Asia at General Assembly, she established and grew the company's first education programs for technology, business and design in Hong Kong. She originally joined the company during its early stages in New York where she developed and scaled their first long-form part-time and immersive courses. Throughout this process, Allison has worked with startups of all sizes across the San Francisco, New York, and Hong Kong communities. After earning a B.A. in Economics and a Secondary Degree in Film Studies from Harvard University, Allison worked in Equity Derivatives Sales & Trading at Goldman Sachs in New York and as an Associate Producer for the Microlending Film Project, a documentary about micro finance for women around the world. She continues to contribute to the cause for female empowerment through an education initiative called Arts and Enterprise for Women, which teaches business skills to refugee and asylum seekers in Hong Kong. She is also an active member of the Hong Kong Global Shapers Community, a social impact initiative of the World Economic Forum. She serves as a Board Member at Ardusat. She also serves as an Advisor at BridgeU. She also serves as Principal at Trinity Ventures.
Spokane - Washington, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Nanotechnology • Online Social • Consumer
Most Interested In
Driven resilient founders solving a big problem of personal interest with unique technology approach, hopefully creating a blue ocean.
Not Interested In
Hardware, crypto, biotech, real estate.
Los Angeles - Toronto (Ontario) - Seattle - Boston - New York - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - South Korea - Japan - China
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Sales (& Marketing) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobility • Consumer • Woman Focused
Partner at DCM Ventures
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.
Hong Kong - Tokyo - Valley California - Palo Alto California - San Francisco Bay Area - SF Bay Area Palo Alto, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools
Most Interested In
AI enabled services, e-Sports, Infrastructure as a Service, B2B SaaS, Industrial Robotics, Cloud Security, India
Not Interested In
Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies
New York - Tokyo, U.S.A. - Israel - Japan
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • BioTech • AgroTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • Nanotechnology
Chairman of @zula-1. A pioneer who helped shape the development and growth of the worldwide VoIP industry. Loves Disruptive Technologies. Host #140conf.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - South Korea - Japan
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Woman Focused
Founder & Angel Investor Advisor: Uber, Expa Investor: Uber, Hyperloop, Lily Robotics, Postmates, Luxe, Poshmark, Blue Bottle Coffee Past: SoundTracking, imeem
Boston - Atlanta - San Francisco Bay Area - Tel Aviv - New York - Brooklyn, U.S.A. - Israel
FinTech (& Financials services) • Blockchain (& Cryptos)
Venture Partner at 2048 Ventures
Mr. Yossi Hasson is a Co-Founder of we think code_. He also is a Co-Founder of The Runway Fund. He serves as Managing Director at Alchemist Blockchain. Previously, he ran the Barclays Accelerator, Powered by Techstars in Cape Town. He is a passionate entrepreneur and angel investor. Prior to Techstars, Hasson co-founded SYNAQ, an open source cloud email security company. After scaling to 1 million users, SYNAQ was acquired by Dimension Data and awarded Top 20 Tech Startup in Africa by Forbes Magazine. Hasson has an MBA from the Gordon Institute of Business Science. He also lectures on Entrepreneurship and is a member of Endeavor and Entrepreneurs Organization.
Singapore - Manila Philippines - Malaysia - San Francisco California - Vietnam - Indonesia - Bongkok Thailand, Singapore
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Investment Management
World explorer and founding partner @golden-gate-ventures. My motivation is Southeast Asia's startup scene.
South San Francisco - San Francisco Bay Area - Tokyo, U.S.A. - Japan
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Robotics • Online Social
Most Interested In
SaaS, IoT, A.I, Marketplaces
Not Interested In
Games, adtech
San Francisco Bay Area - Truckee, U.S.A.
Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Food & Beverage • Logistics (& Distribution) • Robotics • Productivity
Founder & Executive Chairman @ Abl
Mr. Adam Pisoni is the Founder and serves as Executive Chairman at Always Be Learning. He formerly Co-Founded and served as CTO of the enterprise messaging company Yammer. He was a Mentor at Alchemist Accelerator. He oversees engineering and the development of all software at Yammer. Before Yammer, he served as Software Architect at Geni - the company in which Yammer was originally created. Prior to Geni, He was Director of Web Engineering at Shopzilla, playing a pivotal role in systems architecture and product development. He also co-founded and served as CTO of Cnation, a web development consultancy with clients including CBS MarketWatch, BizRate.com, Fox Interactive, Nissan of Japan, and Honda. Cnation's work for Honda earned them the 1997 Clio award for interactive design.
Greenwich Connecticut - Washington District of Columbia - Omaha Nebraska - Boston Massachusetts - Brooklyn New York - Alexandria Virginia - Virginia - Nebraska, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Other • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Food & Beverage • Logistics (& Distribution) • Payments
Michael Meyer serves as General Partner at Edge Harris Ventures. Mike is an entrepreneur, inventor, and inveterate early-stage investor. As Founder and CEO of Transmitive, his team developed the groundbreaking Memote remote-control platform, bringing together consumer electronics and mobile software. Mike is the lead inventor on and holds the patent for the remote control of obstructed, infrared-light-receiving devices via omnidirectional IR output. He has directly supervised physicists, electrical engineers, patent agents, industrial designers, software engineers, and web developers. Mike studied Physics at Yale University while still in high school, graduated summa cum laude and valedictorian from Landmark College, and finished his academic career at Columbia University. He is an active investor in early-stage fintech companies, and was an early first-round investor in both Dataminr and Artivest. A member of the Milstein family, which owns and operates Emigrant Savings Bank, New York Private Bank & Trust, Milstein Properties, Milstein Ventures, and Milford Management, Mike has close ties to banking, real estate, and traditional venture financing, which supplement his excellent access to deal flow as part of the New York City tech startup world.
Los Angeles - Brooklyn - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Advertising • Future Of Work • Logistics (& Distribution) • Online Social • Consumer • Woman Focused
Most Interested In
Community Driven Investments, Content Economy, SaaS Infrastructure
Tokyo Japan, Japan
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce)
Previously, Batara Eto co-founded Mixi and brought the company public in Japan. He was responsible for creating Mixi in December 2003, and he served as Chief Technology Officer of Mixi until 2008. He started his investment career by co-founding East Ventures and made their first investment in 2010. Batara holds bachelor degree in Computer Science from Takushoku University Japan.
Austin Texas - - Oklahoma City Oklahoma, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data)
Virgo Capital is a private equity firm focused on making control investments in profitable and growing technology-enabled services companies, targeting functional outsourced services and financial technology companies. Virgo Capital seeks established companies with revenue of $10 and 30 million, strong customer relationships, and domain expertise, and actively adds value by leveraging the team's experience in areas such as the strategic use of technology, outsourcing, and mergers and acquisitions. Virgo Capital, with offices in Austin and Oklahoma City, manages Virgo Capital Fund I, L.P. and Virgo Capital Fund II, L.P. which together have total capital commitments of nearly $80 million. Virgo Capital typically invests in companies with enterprise values of $10 to 25 million.
Tokyo Japan, Japan
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data)
Nobutake Suzuki serves as Partner in charge of KDDI open innovation fund at Global Brain. Nobutake is in charge of investments outside of Japan. Prior to joining GB, he was a technology analyst at Sanwa Bank in Japan and in the US.
Northbrook Illinois - Minneapolis Minnesota - Washington D.C - Illinois, U.S.A.
Other • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Aerospace (& Defense)
Formerly known as Thayer | Hidden Creek, HCI Equity Partners is a strategically focused private equity firm that targets growth oriented industrial product and service companies. The Firm has offices in Washington, DC and Minneapolis, MN. HCI Equity Partners focuses in the lower middle market which includes companies with approximately $20 to $200 million in annual revenue (and $5 million to $20 million in EBITDA). HCI targets companies that manufacture components or provide services in markets such as: Aerospace/Defense and Federal Services; Automotive and Commercial Vehicle Suppliers; Distribution; Industrial Distribution; Infrastructure; Power Generation; Test & Measurement; and Transportation and Logistics.