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San Francisco California - Los Angeles California - Venice Italy, United States
IT (& TMT) • Media • Entertainment (& Sports) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Investment Management • Mobile • Restaurants
ex-Entrepreneur and Seed-Stage investor in LA
ex-Entrepreneur and Seed-Stage investor in LA
Brian Garrett is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Crosscut. Brian is very active in the Los Angeles start-up community and currently works actively with the following companies: GumGum, Verve Mobile, Reaction Commerce, Jyve, Sales Pro Quo, The BlackTux, Narvar, Omaze, Robin Care, Foray, Fuzzy, Umbra Lab, Fastdata.io and Saber es Poder. With over 20 years of both investing and operating/entrepreneurial experience, Brian tries to bring humility and empathy to the lonely plight of starting and scaling start-up companies and works tirelessly to help his entrepreneurs succeed. Prior to co-founding Crosscut, Brian was a Partner at Palomar Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Santa Monica, California. Mr. Garrett joined Palomar in 2001 and played an active role in managing and investing two funds over 6 years totaling more than $400 million. While at Palomar, he was the sponsor of and/or an active board member in nine Palomar portfolio companies, including successes such as Entone (a video on demand company that sold to Harmonic), Lombardi (business process management software that sold to IBM) and Datallegro (data warehouse appliance company sold to Microsoft in 2008). Prior to Palomar, Brian was the Director of Business Development at Niku Corporation. Prior to Niku, Brian worked at a boutique strategy consulting firm called R.B. Webber & Company. Brian worked with numerous early-stage technology companies including CommerceOne, Inktomi, Sagent, Aurum and Broadbase. Brian received his MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and he graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering. Specialties: Entrepreneurial focus: Fashion/Tech/Media/Commerce. Investing Focus: Crosscut focuses primarily on seed-stage opportunities in consumer/digital media across Southern California.
Munich Germany, Germany
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Robotics • Real Estate (& Construction) • DeepTech • Investment Management
Managing Director and Founding Partner at Digital+ Partners
Managing Director and Founding Partner at Digital+ Partners
Munich Germany, Germany
IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • Energy • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Material Science
Vsquared Ventures | Vito Ventures | Ex-Uber
Vsquared Ventures | Vito Ventures | Ex-Uber
Munich Germany - Los Angeles California - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce)
Entrepreneur & Investor
Helsinki Finland - Chicago Illinois, Finland
IT (& TMT) • Education • Entertainment (& Sports) • A.I. (& Big Data)
Partnering with world-leading beauty brands & retailers to transform the customer-experience and unlock unparalleled value @ Revieve
Sampo Parkkinen is a Co-Founder and serves as Venture Partner at Gorilla Capital. Parkkinen served as COO at RapidBlue Solutions.
Paris France, France
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos)
Co-Founder at Ring Capital
Nicolas started his career at Paribas M&A Department in France and in Hong Kong.
In 1999, he sailed 14,0000 miles between Hong Kong and Brittany on a 40 ft sailing yacht. Back to France in 2000, he cofounded the venture capital arm of Crédit Lyonnais and joined Alven Capital in 2005.
Nicolas is a graduate from HEC (France) and holds a CEMS master’s degree from Luigi Bocconi University in Milan (Italy).
Susegana Italy - Boston Massachusetts - Massachusetts, United States
Other • IT (& TMT) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy)
Co-founder & CEO at Ridge.
Co-founder Akamai. Chairman of Zipcar, board of Zoom Telephonics.
Jonathan Seelig serves as Chairman at pq. He is a Board member at Zagster. Seelig is a Co-Founder at Akamai Technologies. He sources new investment opportunities, evaluates and negotiates investments, and serves on the boards of portfolio companies. He also serves as a Board Member at Pursway. He focuses on investments in Communications and Internet/Infrastructure companies. Jonathan, a successful entrepreneur himself, shares his company creation and operating experience, technical expertise, and broad international perspective to help the firm's portfolio companies succeed. Jonathan co-founded Akamai Technologies, the leading global Internet content and application delivery services company. At Akamai, he managed global infrastructure development and deployment, international expansion, and business development in a fast-growth environment. He knows first-hand the challenges of managing a high growth startup. "I love being with entrepreneurs who are building fast paced, innovative and highly responsive companies." At Globespan, the companies he works with "know that they can ask me for advice on absolutely any issue. I've seen many of them before." As an entrepreneur-turned-venture capitalist, Jonathan got his introduction to venture capital trying to raise money for his company. "We had a very supportive and productive relationship with many of our early investors, so I learned just how much value a good angel investor or VC can add to a company." He believes that working as a team is essential, which means "asking for help when I need it, giving help when I am asked, and accepting help when it is offered." At Globespan, Jonathan enjoys "meeting and getting to know passionate entrepreneurs who love what they do everyday." Before he co-founded Akamai, Jonathan worked at ECI Telecom in Israel where he held roles in product marketing and new product development, working with customers in nearly 40 countries around the world. Jonathan earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Physics, with honors, from Stanford University. He also serves as Board Member at Nominum.
Washington District of Columbia - Alexandria Virginia - Virginia, Luxembourg
IT (& TMT) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Insurance (& InsurTech)
Managing Partner, MiddleGame Ventures
Pascal Bouvier serves as Venture Partner at Santander InnoVentures. He also serves as a General Partner at Route 66 Ventures. He is also an angel investor.
Darmstadt Germany - - Germany - Valley California - California - U.S.A., United States
IT (& TMT) • A.I. (& Big Data)
Software executive, investor and advisor
Frederic Hanika serves as Senior Vice President and Head of Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Ventures at Software. He also is an Angel Investor.
Helsinki - Oslo, Norway, Finland
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • BioTech • Consumer
Northern Europe and SW focused investment professional at Verdane, based in Helsinki
Northern Europe and SW focused investment professional at Verdane, based in Helsinki
London United Kingdom - United Kingdom - U.K., United Kingdom
IT (& TMT) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Entertainment (& Sports) • Blockchain (& Cryptos)
Founder at Crix
I am a serial entrepreneur and angel investor interested in IT, blockchains and fintech.
London, United Kingdom
IT (& TMT) • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Insurance (& InsurTech)
entrepreneur
Juan Manuel Fernandez Lobato is a Co-Founder and serves as the Co-Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Ebury. He also serves as Venture Partner at 83North. He also serves as Board Observer and Angel Investor at BlueVine. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at BaseKit Platform. He serves as a Board Member at Saberr. He holds MS (Master of Science) in Engineering from Universidad Politecnica de Madrid and MS (Master of Science) in Economics from UNED.
Reading Uk England United Kingdom - United Kingdom - England United Kingdom - U.K., United Kingdom
IT (& TMT) • Insurance (& InsurTech)
#Digital #SAAS #Entrepreneur #Purpose #ESG #Investor #Scaleup #Growth #Chair #Coach
Leuw serves as the chairman uf Clearswift. Prior to joining the Clearswift Board, Martin served as Group CEO of IRIS from 2001-2011, leading its growth from revenues of 9m to over 120m p.a. During this period, IRIS grew from an enterprise value of 30m to over 500m to become one of the UK's largest private software houses, with market leading positions in a number of sectors and circa 60,000 business customers. Martin has a BSc (Hons) in Management Science from Manchester University and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen. He also serves as a Non-Executive Chairman at Leathwaite. Martin Leuw is the Founder of Growth4Good. He also serves as Chairman of the Board at Latimer Group. He is also an angel investor.
Düsseldorf, Germany
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Other • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Real Estate (& Construction)
Investment Professional bei Avedon Capital Partners - Growth & Private Equity
Investment Professional bei Avedon Capital Partners - Growth & Private Equity
New York, Netherlands
Other • IT (& TMT) • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Logistics (& Distribution) • Material Science
Co-founder / CCO at MatchingWINGS + Co-founder / Business Development at Purpose Investment
Co-founder / CCO at MatchingWINGS + Co-founder / Business Development at Purpose Investment
London, United Kingdom
Other • IT (& TMT) • BioTech • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services)
Investment Professional
Synova Capital is a private equity firm based in London, United Kingdom and was founded in 2007. The firm primarily invests in the business services, consumer brands, software, information technology, healthcare, education and financial services sectors.