1. Applications solving large and non-obvious problems in data-intensive industries
2. ML-driven applications that have found a path to an initial data advantage and have the potential to create a definitive intelligence advantage
3. Business operations platforms for SMB vendors who have never had a good one, esp that are driven by mobile, esp that drive payment flow
4. Large-scale applications and HW/SW systems that sell into government
Not Interested In
I like to be surprised by things I think I may not be interested in and so try not to rule anything out.
Partner @venrock • Investor @claralending, @Centricient, @dataminr, @care, @gilt Groupe • Studied at @stanford-university, @university-of-oxford-2
Howard Morgan
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
New York - City, U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Dopamine Labs:
$1200000 (Seed Round)
• X1 Technologies:
(Venture Round)
• X1 Technologies:
$10000000 (Venture Round)
• The Climate Corporation:
$4300000 (Seed Round)
• Jean Ray:
(Seed Round)
• Genetika+:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Lidwave:
$10000000 (Seed)
• Garden:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Star Catcher:
$12000000 (Seed)
• HATCH:
$3000000 (Seed)
• HATCH:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• CurbWaste:
$10000000 (Series A)
• CurbWaste:
$4000000 (Seed)
• CurbWaste:
$6000000 (Seed)
• OrdinalsBot:
$1000000 (Seed)
• UpdateAI:
$2000000 (Seed)
• EeroQ:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Fairtility:
$15000000 (Series A)
• LexCheck:
$5000000 (Seed)
• LexCheck:
$3000000 (Seed)
• NeuroKaire:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Aktivate:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Tiny Organics:
$11000000 (Series A)
• Norbert Health:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Merlin Labs:
$25000000 (Series A)
• Moxie:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Moxie:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• Base Operations:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Cambrian Asset Management:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Hum Capital:
$9000000 (Seed)
• MyndYou:
$4000000 (Series A)
• MyndYou:
(Seed)
• Concertio:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Lightning Labs:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Invisible Technologies:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Boundless Mind:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Pepo:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Numerai:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Abra:
$13000000 (Series A)
• Abra:
$2000000 (Series A)
• Spoon University:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Envelop VR:
$2000000 (Seed)
• GumGum:
$26000000 (Series C)
• GumGum:
$7000000 (Series B)
• GumGum:
$3000000 (Series A)
• GumGum:
$1000000 (Series A)
• NeuroVigil:
(Series B)
• Gem:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Gem:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Gem:
$2000000 (Seed)
• DogVacay:
$25000000 (Series B)
• DogVacay:
$15000000 (Series B)
• DogVacay:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Bezar:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Augury:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Pinrose:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Nimble TV:
$5000000 (Series A)
• NiftyThrifty:
$2000000 (Series Unknown)
• Fab:
$110000000 (Series C)
• Fab:
$40000000 (Series B)
• Fab:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Fab:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Fab:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Truveris:
$10000000 (Series B)
• Truveris:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Altruik:
$3000000 (Series B)
• Altruik:
$5000000 (Series A)
• TechForward:
$4000000 (Series B)
• TechForward:
$800000 (Debt Financing)
• TechForward:
$1000000 (Series A)
• TechForward:
(Series A)
• X1 Discovery:
(Series Unknown)
• X1 Discovery:
$10000000 (Series Unknown)
• Ambient Devices:
$5000000 (Series B)
• Ambient Devices:
$2000000 (Series Unknown)
• The Climate Corporation (Bayer Crop Science):
$4000000 (Seed)
Howard Morgan is co-founder and partner in First Round Capital, a seed stage venture capital investment firm specializing in information technologies.
He began working with Idealab in 1996 and serves on their board. He has more than 30 years of experience with more than two hundred high-tech entrepreneurial ventures.
He serves on the boards of Fab.com, Single Platform, GumGum, Energy Innovations and other private companies.
Howard was Professor of Decision Sciences at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Professor of Computer Science at the Moore School for almost 15 years.
He a Trustee of Cold Spring Harbor Labs and Math For America and is a respected author.
He received the Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1997.
Howard received his Ph.D. in operations research from Cornell University in 1968 and his B.S. from the City University of New York in 1965.
Chamath Palihapitiya
Investing in Media • Education • FinTec...
Palo Alto , San Franc..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• OroWealth:
$1600000
• Journal:
$1500000 (Seed Round)
• LotusFlare Inc:
$6000000 (Series A)
• LotusFlare Inc:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Mitra Chem:
$40000000 (Series B)
• Mitra Chem:
$20000000 (Series A)
• Flock:
$38000000 (Series B)
• Flock:
$17000000 (Series A)
• Syapse:
$35000000 (Series Unknown)
• Syapse:
$30000000 (Series F)
• Syapse:
$30000000 (Series D)
• Syapse:
$25000000 (Series C)
• Syapse:
$10000000 (Series B)
• Syapse:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Palmetto Clean Technology:
$380000000 (Series C)
• Perimeter Medical Imaging:
$38000000 (Post Ipo Equity)
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.
Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Future Of Work • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobility
Description
Partner at Index Ventures
Martin Mignot serves as a Partner at Index Ventures. He also serves as Advisory Board Member at TheFamily. He specialises in SaaS, marketplaces, bitcoin and mobile. He worked on 50+ transactions to date, including Assistly, Auxmoney, BaseCRM, Cloud.com, Codecademy, DimDim, Factual, Farfetch, Flipboard, Funding Circle, Gluster, HouseTrip, Just Eat, Lookout, Nasty Gal, Notonthehighstreet, onefinestay, PeoplePerHour, TrustPilot, Soluto and SoundCloud. He is actively looking after Index's investments in Algolia, Capitaine Train, Drivy, Rad and Swiftkey. Prior to joining Index, Martin was in the TMT team at UBS Investment Bank and cofounded the beauty subscription business Boudoir Prive (acquired by Joliebox/Birchbox) and a student web radio service.
Founding Managing Partner at Glilot Capital Partners
Arik Kleinstein is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Glilot Capital Partners. He serves as Board Member at Solebit, Intsights and Dojo-Labs. He also served as Board Member at Armeron. He served as the chief financial officer at InterCure. Kleinstein served as an assistant director and investment manager for the bank provident funds at Bank Tefachot. He served as the chief financial officer at VideoCodes and a Board Member at CyberX. Kleinstein headed finance and operations at ECtel North America. He served for five years in an elite technology unit of the Israeli army where he led planning, budgeting, MIS and logistical tea He also serves as a board member at Porticor and Insightera.
Greg Neufeld
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
San Francisco Bay Are..., U.S.A. - Canada
Previous Investments
• Instnt:
$4120000 (Early stage VC)
• Wethos:
$3000000 (Seed Round)
• Aurora Insight Inc.:
(mid stage)
• Entera:
(early stage)
• Ikos Holdings, Inc.:
(early stage)
• Pillar Technologies, Inc.:
(mid stage)
• Windfall Data:
(mid stage)
• Ocrolus Inc.:
(mid stage)
• Pandium:
• Smile Identity:
• xtraCHEF:
(mid stage)
• API Fortress:
(mid stage)
• Verifly:
(early stage)
• Bitnomial:
(early stage)
• BondCliQ:
(early stage)
• EVEN Financial:
(early stage)
• LoanHero:
(early stage)
• OnPlan:
(early stage)
• Closir:
(early stage)
• Descartes Labs:
(early stage)
• firstAI:
• LendingFront:
(early stage)
• TickerTags:
• ChartIQ:
(early stage)
• ValueStream Ventures:
(early stage)
• Freespeech Messenger:
• SI Capital Management, LLC:
• Whole Coffee Co.:
• Staples Tuition Grants:
• Octane Lending:
(early stage)
• 1552 Golf Links Club:
• Aegis Mobility Inc.:
(mid stage)
• Celeritas LLC:
• Sahale Snacks:
(mid stage)
• Carpio Solutions:
• Estimize:
$1000000 (Series A)
Greg Neufeld
San Francisco Bay Area - New York - Delray Beach - Florida, U.S.A. - Canada
Greg Neufeld is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner at ValueStream Ventures. He also serves as an Advisor & Investor at ChartIQ. Greg co-managed a series of investment funds at SI Capital Management trading market index futures and options, before leaving to pursue entrepreneurship including stints at FailStation and as the co-founder of Freespeech, a consumer mobile messaging app.
Michael Kim
Investing in PropTech • Education • Bus...
Seoul, Korea
Previous Investments
• Silicon Valley Data Science:
$3100000 (Series A)
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Hospitality (& Events) • Media • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Future Of Work • Music
Description
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.
Jerry Yang
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • IT (& TMT) • Hospitality (& Events) • Media • Education • BioTech • AgroTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Entertainment (& Sports) • IoT (& Wearables) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Analytics • AR/VR • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Future Of Work • Food & Beverage • Human Resources • Impact • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Payments • Robotics • Mobile Apps • Aerospace (& Defense) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Music • Investment Management • LegalTech • Mobile • Mobility • Online Social • Consumer • Oil & Gas (& Mining) • Industrials • Film Production (& Distribution) • Semiconductors
Description
Jerry Yang serves as Founding Partner at AME Cloud Ventures. Yang also serves as Special Partner at Neotribe Ventures. He serves as Investor of BirdEye. He also serves as an Independent Director at Workday and Advisor at Radius. He is the Founding Partner at AME Cloud Ventures. He serves as Board Observer and Senior Advisor at Didi Kuaidi. Since March 2012, he has worked with and invests in technology entrepreneurs as the founding partner of AME Cloud Ventures, his innovation investment firm. He is also a co-founder of Yahoo! Inc., where he served as a director from March 1995 to January 2012, and as Chief Executive Officer from June 2007 to January 2009. He also led Yahoo!'s investments in Yahoo Japan and Alibaba Group Holding Limited, and he is a currently a director of Alibaba Group, where he has served on the board from October 2005 to January 2012 and from September 2014 to the present. He is also a director of Lenovo, Inc. where he has served on the board since November 2014. From July 2000 to November 2012, he was a member of Cisco Systems, Inc.'s Board of Directors, and he was a director of Yahoo! Japan from January 1996 to January 2012. He also is a director of various private companies and foundations. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, where he served as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees from June 2005 until September 2016. He is also an Angel Investor. He serves as Board Member at Docker
Lior Litwak
Investing in FinTech (& Financials services) &bul...
How to connect with Angel Investors in the FinTech industry?
In the FinTech & Financial Services industry, prominent angel investors include Chris Sacca, Alexis Ohanian, and Max Levchin. These investors focus on startups offering innovative solutions in financial technology, digital payments, and personal finance management. Chris Sacca, known for his early investments in Twitter and Uber, looks for disruptive FinTech solutions with strong growth potential. Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, invests in startups that leverage technology to improve financial services. Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal and Affirm, seeks out companies that provide scalable and efficient financial solutions. To connect with these investors, attend FinTech conferences, financial services expos, and networking events such as Money20/20, Finovate, and LendIt Fintech. Utilize platforms like AngelList and LinkedIn to identify and reach out to potential investors. When pitching, emphasize how your FinTech solution addresses key challenges in the financial industry, such as improving transaction efficiency, enhancing financial inclusion, or reducing costs. Highlight any traction you’ve gained, such as partnerships with financial institutions, user growth, or regulatory approvals. Building relationships through initial informal meetings or discussions at industry panels can help establish trust with these investors. Demonstrating the impact of your technology through case studies or user testimonials can also add credibility. Personalize your outreach by referencing the investor’s previous investments and explaining how your venture aligns with their interests. Demonstrating a sustainable business model with clear revenue streams, such as transaction fees, subscription fees, or licensing, will further strengthen your pitch. Leveraging endorsements or case studies from financial experts can also enhance your credibility.
Case Studies: Successful Funding Rounds with Angel Investors on Angels Partners
Exotic Orange & Angels Partners: Turning Financial Simplicity Into Investment Success
