Ravi Mhatre serves as Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. He serves as Board Member at Cloudpassage and Exabeam. Ravi is also a Co-Founder and serves as Partner and Managing Director at Lightspeed India Partners Advisors. He is also a Board Observer at Natera. His current investments include Nutanix, Appdynamics, Natera, Mulesoft, Sailpoint, Edgespring, TheFind and Kixeye. He has also served as a board member or board observer for numerous successful venture-backed companies including net.Genesis (NTGX), Verio (VRIO), Qubole, Riverbed (RVBD), Lifeminders (LFMN), Kosmix (acquired by Walmart), TutorVista (acquired by Pearson), Virsa (acquired by SAP), Waveset (acquired by Oracle), Rapsphere (acquired by Appsense), Masergy (acquired by Abry) and Webspective (acquired by Inktomi), and has been recognized on the Forbes Midas List of top venture capital investors. Ravi has also served on the Board of Directors of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs Forum) in Silicon Valley, as a VC advisory board member to DeVenCI, the Department of Defense's start-up technology acquisition forum, and as a judge for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year competition. Ravi holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and a BA in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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.
Raju Rishi serves as General Partner at RRE Ventures. He serves as a venture partner at Sigma Prime Ventures. Previously, he co-founded Rave Mobile Safety and served as its Chief Strategy Officer. He is a Board Member and Investor at Knock. He also serves as Board Member at Bend Financial, Redox and READY Robotics. He brings to RRE's investment team over 20 years of experience as a distinguished technology entrepreneur, executive and investor specializing in mobility, SaaS, consumer & enterprise software and telecom. A hallmark of RRE is its success in working closely with extraordinary founders and entrepreneurs to help them grow their companies. Rishi brings special expertise in this respect, having founded and led two companies, held executive leadership positions at both early stages and Fortune 50 enterprises, and served as a strategic advisor to numerous startups, two of which he helped to successfully exit. Rishi comes to RRE from Sigma Prime Ventures, where he served as a Venture Partner based in New York. Prior to Sigma Prime Ventures, he co-founded and served as COO and CMO at Rave Mobile Safety, the leading provider of SaaS-based safety solutions employed by schools and state/local governments to keep their community members safe, secure and connected. Previously, he helped to start SwiftReach Networks, a leading provider of enhanced telecommunications solutions for businesses & government. Prior to SwiftReach, he was the EVP of Product Management at Vettro, a SaaS-based provider of enterprise mobile applications for sales, fleet, and service organizations. Earlier in his career, Rishi held executive roles at AT&T and Lucent, where he was responsible for R&D, architecture & product management, and was GM for the international emerging technologies division. He has been and continues to be, a strategic advisor to numerous early-stage companies. He is a graduate of M.I.T., where he earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering.
Edith Yeung
Investing in Education • BioTech • FinT...
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A. - China
Previous Investments
• AppOnboard, Inc.:
$4000000 (Venture Round)
• Placer:
(Venture Round)
• FTX:
$8000000 (Seed Round)
• Gravitational:
$7000000 (Early stage VC)
• AppZen:
$2900000 (Seed Round)
• RapidAPI:
$3500000 (Seed Round)
• Huma:
$8000000 (Seed)
• Mobile Action:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Persana AI:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Social Chat:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Reby:
(Angel)
• Citcon:
$6000000 (Series A)
• Solana:
(Pre Seed)
• Telepathic:
(Series A)
• Telepathic:
$1000000 (Seed)
• AppOnboard:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Placer.ai:
(Seed)
• Rapid:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Prynt:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Otter.ai:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Presence (Application Software):
$1000000 (Series A)
Edith Yeung serves as Partner at 500 Startups. She also serves as Founding Partner at Right Ventures. Yeung serves as the Head of Marketing and Vice President of International Business Development at MoboTap. She has appeared on CBS, NPR, Wall Street Journal and is frequently quoted in Read Write Web, Small Business Trends and others technology and small business publications. Prior to 500, Edith ran marketing for Dolphin Browser, a Sequoia-backed company with over 150M installs. She was also an active angel investors focusing on mobile. Edith also worked with numerous evil empires such as Siebel, AMS, AT&T Wireless, Autodesk. In her copious spare time, Edith curates a mobile newsletter.
Ellen Levy
Investing in PropTech • Education • Bus...
San Francisco Bay Are..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• CodeHS:
$1900000
• Bravado Network:
$8500000 (Series A)
• AI Redefined:
$3500000 (Seed Round)
• BetterUp:
$2900000 (Seed Round)
• Trumid Financial:
$36000000 (Venture Round)
• Trumid:
$36000000 (Series B)
• Happiest Baby:
$10000000 (Series A)
• 128 Technology:
$12000000 (Series A)
• Doctor On Demand:
$3000000 (Seed Round)
• Accompany:
$5600000 (Seed Round)
• RelateIQ:
$9000000 (Series A)
• The RealReal:
$7500000 (Series A)
• حسن مهجر:
$2000000 (Convertible Note)
• Upwage:
$2000000 (Convertible Note)
• Stake:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Rattle:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Daily.co:
$15000000 (Series A)
• Daily.co:
(Funding Round)
• Flux:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Oooh:
$2000000 (Pre-Series A)
• Docugami:
$10000000 (Seed)
• Clockwise:
$11000000 (Series A)
• AIR (AI Redefined):
$4000000 (Seed)
• Groopit:
$550000 (Pre Seed)
• Trusted Health:
$1000000 (seed)
• ZenSourcer:
$2000000 (Seed Round)
• Gem:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Pagecloud:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Pagecloud:
$2000000 (Seed)
• PageCloud:
$4000000 (Series A)
• PageCloud:
$2200000 (Seed Round)
• Birdeye:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Outreach:
$2000000 (Seed)
• SonicEnergy™:
$10000000 (Series A)
• SonicEnergy™:
$750000 (Seed)
• Foko Retail:
$450000 (Seed)
• Foko Inc.:
$450000 (Seed Round)
• Omni:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Booshaka:
$2000000 (Convertible Note)
• Jobr:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Osper:
$10000000 (Series A)
• BrightSky Labs:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Skycatch:
$13000000 (Series Unknown)
• Skycatch:
$13000000 (Venture Round)
• GemShare:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Rocksbox:
$1500000 (Seed Round)
• Rocksbox:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Rise:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Experiment:
$1000000 (Series Unknown)
• Science Exchange:
$3000000 (Series A)
• EvntLive:
$2300000 (Seed Round)
• EvntLive:
$2000000 (Seed)
• True&Co:
$2000000 (Series Unknown)
• MightyText:
$650000 (Seed)
• Local Laboratory Corp:
(Seed)
Ellen Levy
San Francisco Bay Area - Menlo Park - California, U.S.A.
PropTech • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Sales (& Marketing) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Future Of Work • Human Resources • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer • Woman Focused
Description
Investor, Advisor, Board Member, and Entrepreneur
Dr. Ellen Levy serves as Managing Director at Silicon Valley Connect. She is the Advisor at Omni. She also serves as Advisor at SignalFire. She also serves as Advisor at Resolute Ventures. She has served as Managing Director of Silicon Valley Connect, LLC, a management consulting company. From 2008 to April 2012, she served in various roles at LinkedIn Corporation, a professional social networking internet service, serving most recently as Vice President Strategic Initiatives since March 2010. She holds a B.A. from the University of Michigan and an M.A. and Ph.D. in cognitive psychology from Stanford University.
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)
Dr. Adam Goulburn served as Partner at Lux Capital. He serves as Board Member at Eikon Therapeutics, Plexium and Mahana Therapeutics. He serves as Board Member at Drone Racing League. He served as Board member at Kallyope. He is based in the firm's New York headquarters and focuses on broad investment opportunities in healthcare IT, services, mobile health, and therapeutics. He was a Board Member of Authorea, Variant Bio & 3Scan. He has worked extensively with a number of Lux portfolio companies including Kala Pharmaceuticals and Genocea Biosciences. He is also a mentor for healthcare IT incubators Blueprint Health and Healthbox. Before joining Lux, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College, researching regenerative medicine in association with brain disorders including schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. Originally from Australia, he has dual undergraduate degrees in Commerce and Science and subsequently completed his Ph.D. at the Australian Stem Cell Centre, having been chosen as a highly selective Premier Scholar. He has published in numerous peer-reviewed scientific journals. Prior to joining Lux in 2011, he received his Ph.D. in neuroscience from Weill Cornell Medical College. He also serves as Board Member at Vesta Healthcare. He serves as Board Member at Rivet Health and rd. MD. He is a Co-Founder of Cajal Neuroscience.
Mr. Aaron Perman serves as Principal at S3 Ventures. He also served as Chief Executive Officer at Qualia. He is also an Angel Investor. Prior to joining S3, he invested in small-cap publicly traded companies at Western Standard, a long/short equity hedge fund. Earlier in his career, he spent time in the corporate strategy group at Southern California Edison and started a successful small business liquidating computer hardware. He serves as a mentor for the DivInc Accelerator and leads the Emerging Venture Capitalist Association's Austin chapter. He received his BS in International Business from the University of Southern California.
Venrock invests in technology and healthcare. Individual focus areas: Biotechnology, Diagnostics, Genomics, Healthcare IT, Medical Devices. Prefers: category kings + big risk element
How to connect with Angel Investors in the Medical Devices industry?
In the Medical Devices & Hospital Services industry, angel investors such as Esther Dyson, Vinod Khosla, and Steve Jurvetson are highly active. These investors focus on startups offering innovative solutions in medical technology, healthcare devices, and hospital services. Esther Dyson, an entrepreneur and investor, looks for companies that leverage technology to improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, invests in medical device startups that have the potential to revolutionize patient care. Steve Jurvetson, a co-founder of Future Ventures, seeks out startups with scalable and impactful medical technology solutions. To connect with these investors, attend medical device conferences, healthcare expos, and networking events such as MedTech Conference, Health 2.0, and HIMSS. Utilize platforms like AngelList and LinkedIn to identify and reach out to potential investors. When pitching, emphasize how your medical device or hospital service solution addresses key challenges, such as improving patient care, enhancing operational efficiency, or reducing costs. Highlight any traction you’ve gained, such as partnerships with healthcare providers, successful clinical trials, 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 clinical results 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 product sales, licensing, or service contracts, will further strengthen your pitch. Leveraging endorsements or case studies from healthcare experts can also enhance your credibility.
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