Ferry Heilemann is a Co-Founder and serves as Co-Managing Director at DailyDeal. Heilemann was also a Co-Founder and served as Partner at Heilemann Ventures. Heilemann is also a Co-Founder at FreightHub and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. He also serves as Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital. Ferry founded Heilemann Ventures together with his brother Fabian after the trade sale of his company DailyDeal to Google in 2011. Since then he has been an early stage VC-investor, actively supporting companies in the digital sector with his operational skills and experience. Meanwhile, Ferry and his brother Fabian set the fundamentals for their holding Sky & Sand. Currently it combines DailyDeal, which the brothers bought back from Google in early 2013, and the mobile-POS system provider pepperbill.
Jenny is the Founder & Managing Partner of Rethink Impact, a venture capital fund with a unique approach to gender lens investing that invests in social impact companies with the potential to deliver outsized financial returns for investors alongside transformational social and environmental change. Jenny is a former CEO of a tech company and also held significant executive roles in the media, data, and education sectors. She has been featured at the United Nations and on Capitol Hill and was named Top 40 Under 40 in 2015 and a DC Power Women in Tech in 2014. She has a BA and MA from Stanford, an MBA from Harvard Business School and was a Fulbright Scholar in human genomics.
Jennifer Carolan
Investing in Education • Impact • Woman...
Palo Alto , San Franc..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Desmos:
• Reach Capital:
(early stage)
• Broadway Angels:
(mid stage)
• NewSchools Venture Fund:
(late stage)
• Suraasa:
$6000000 (Series A)
• AfterSchool HQ:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Mini Studio:
(Seed)
• Stellic:
$11000000 (Series A)
• Enable Us:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Outschool:
$110000000 (Series D)
• Outschool:
$75000000 (Series C)
• Outschool:
$45000000 (Series B)
• Outschool:
$9000000 (Series A)
• Rhithm:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Backer:
$4000000 (Pre Seed)
• PeopleGrove:
$5000000 (Series A)
• PeopleGrove:
$2000000 (Seed)
• PeopleGrove:
$1800000 (Series A)
• PeopleGrove:
$180000 (Seed)
• Ellevation:
$10000000 (Series B)
• BetterLesson:
$10000000 (Series B)
• BetterLesson:
$6000000 (Series A)
• BetterLesson:
$1600000 (Venture Round)
• BetterLesson:
$2000000 (Series A)
• Nearpod:
$21000000 (Series B)
• Nearpod:
$9000000 (Series A)
• FreshGrade:
$12000000 (Series A)
• EdSurge:
$3000000 (Series A)
• WriteLab:
$2000000 (Seed)
• WriteLab:
$2100000 (Seed Round)
• Moxxly:
(Seed)
• Zeal Learning:
(Seed)
• Pluto Media:
$500000 (Seed)
• Engrade:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Education Elements:
$2000000 (Seed)
Jennifer Carolan
Palo Alto - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Michael Brehm is a Co-Founder at Rebate Networks. Brehm is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Redstone Digital. Prior to this he was Executive Director of studiVZ, at the time Germany's largest social network. Before starting in the technology sector he began his career at Merrill Lynch in the M&A division. He obtained his Business degree from WHU (Germany) and EGADE (Mexico) and also studied at CEIBS (China) where he learned Mandarin. Alongside being a Partner at Redstone Michael is an active angel investor in more than 20 companies like: Kreditech, Atheneum Partners or Inventorum.
Jerry Yang
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
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
Keith Hamlin
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
New York, U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Inspiren:
(mid stage)
• Kafene:
• Spur:
(early stage)
• Debtsy:
(early stage)
• Petal:
(early stage)
• Zipdrug:
(early stage)
• LoanStreet Inc.:
(mid stage)
• Phase Change Energy Solutions, Inc.:
(mid stage)
Stephen DeBerry is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Bronze VC. He served as Partner at Kapor Capital. He invests in vehicles that align strong financial returns with positive social impact. Before joining Kapor Capital, he was an Investment Director at Omidyar Network, the mission-based investment firm started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife, Pam. He has been a frequent organizer and speaker at industry conferences and his investments have focused on pioneering new categories such as social lending. Some of his previous investments include: CircleLending (now Virgin Money), Prosper, InnoCentive and more recently Etherpad, Cardpool, Edulender and PayNearMe. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology with highest honors from UCLA as well as a Master's degree in Social Anthropology and MBA from the University of Oxford. He is a British Marshall Scholar and a Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. He served as Board Member at Proven.
Alex Moore
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Seth Bannon serves as Co-Founding Partner at Fifty Years. Seth Bannon is the Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder at Amicus. He is also an Angel investor. eth has invested in a range of startups shaping the world for the better -- from a company engineering microbes to produce industrial chemicals sustainably, to a company building small satellites to cover the earth in internet, to a company culturing meat to eat. Seth is also the co-founder of impact.tech, a community of entrepreneurs combining purpose with profit, and the founder & CEO of Amicus, a startup that builds digital organising tools for nonprofits and political campaigns. A graduate of Y Combinator, Seth was named twice to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for Social Entrepreneurship.
David Hirsch
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
David Hirsch serves as Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Compound. He is the Board Member at Paice. He previously served as the Board Member and an Advisor at Post Intelligence. He is a digital media veteran with 15 years of business development & operational experience. Google brought on David as employee #2 in the New York HQ with just $3m in revenue. David then launched and spearheaded the company's monetization strategy by co-founding Google's Vertical Markets Group and wiring the regional sales team structure. For eight years, he oversaw cross-functional and cross-business responsibilities, all of which helped him to lead both Google's culture committee and its recruiting initiative and subsequently hire many of the people who lead Google's sales and business teams today. David's earlier experiences handling business development for Adsmart and Snowball during their critical growth stages have contributed to his sincere understanding of common founder challenges. David actively employs this empathy when helping young companies with monetization, BD, acquisition, hiring, and corporate culture development. An active board member of Girls Who Code, The River Fund and The Sonima Foundation, David is also an advisor to the Israeli startup accelerator program IDC Elevator, the premier in-image advertising platform GumGum, and the content recommendation and monetization platform Taboola. David graduated with a BA degree from the University of Maryland in 1992.
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