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.
Manu Kumar
Investing in PropTech • Hospitality (& Event...
Palo Alto - California, U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Lucid Software Inc:
$1000000 (Seed Round)
• Daughters of Rosie:
(early stage)
• Compound Eye:
(early stage)
• Crave.io Inc.:
(early stage)
• Traptic, Inc:
• Caarbon Corp.:
(early stage)
• Dishero, Inc.:
(early stage)
• Enuma, Inc. (formerly LocoMotive Labs, Inc.):
(early stage)
• Boomerang:
(early stage)
• LucidChart:
(early stage)
• Zimride:
(mid stage)
• Cardmunch, Inc. (acquired by LinkedIn):
(early stage)
Startups shaping the future of cities. Investing at the pre-seed & seed in a variety of verticals, including:
- Transportation
- Future of work
- Real estate tech
- Energy & water
- Business & fintech services
- Food
- Health & public safety
- Govt & civic tech
- Arts & recreation
Julie is a co-founder and Managing Partner of the Urban Innovation Fund. The Urban Innovation Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in transformative urban technology. It provides seed capital and regulatory expertise to entrepreneurs solving our toughest urban challenges – helping them grow into tomorrow’s most valued companies.
Previously, Julie co-founded Tumml, an urban ventures accelerator. During the last three years, Tumml has incubated 33 startups, who have raised $37M+ in funding and launched products/ services for over 2.2M people. Her work in urban entrepreneurship has been featured in numerous press outlets, including CNN, TedX, Forbes, and The San Francisco Chronicle, among others. Julie has an MBA from MIT Sloan and a BA from Stanford.
Gabe Greenbaum
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Backing ambitious Baltic founders from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, building global success stories.
Most Interested In
The best Baltic founders building global businesses.
Not Interested In
Any investments that don't have Baltic founders - sorry, but it is outside our investment scope.
Founders who don't have the "grit" (passion and perseverance) to build big, global, scalable businesses.
Eric Emmons
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Jesse Rasch is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Hedgewood. He is the co-founder and past Chairman & CEO of WebHosting.com and InQuent Technologies. He co-founded CareGuide. InQuent provides private label hosting solutions to telecommunications customers including Bell Canada, KPN, Telecom New Zealand, PCCW, AT&T, Comcast, & Cox Communications. WebHosting.Com was one of the largest business web hosting companies in the world. In 2000, Rasch sold InQuent and WebHosting.Com to AT&T. In 2002, Rasch orchestrated a management team acquisition of InQuent from AT&T. Rasch successfully sold InQuent once more in 2003. InQuent was merged with Network Solutions and is now part of publicly traded web.com. Rasch is widely credited with establishing the white label web hosting market segment that is a significant component of the $95 billion annual web hosting market. VerticalScope, which Rasch co-founded, develops and acquires online media and community properties. VerticalScope's network of websites is visited by over 85,000,000 people per month. VerticalScope's automotive publishing division, the Modified Automotive Group, was acquired by KKR / Primedia in 2007. Torstar acquired 56% of VerticalScope in 2015. Rasch is a proponent of venture philanthropy and is active in encouraging entrepreneurs to participate in strategic philanthropy. He established the Jesse & Julie Rasch Foundation in 2000 to invest in causes that reflect Rasch's broad charitable interests. In 2001, Rasch was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. He has been featured in Time Magazine, The Globe & Mail, Canadian Business, The National Post, Network World, Macleans, and on CBC, CTV, Global, City-TV, BNN, and many other print, televised, and radio media. He was a founding member of the Canadian E-Business Opportunities Roundtable, a joint private and public sector advisory group on e-business in Canada.
Eric Chen
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Palo Alto California ..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Agile Robots AG:
$220000000 (Series C)
• Wage:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Aether:
(Pre Seed)
• Camp Six Labs:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Camp Six Labs:
$1000000 (Seed)
• BrightCrowd:
(Seed)
• Cloudastructure:
$750000 (Convertible Note)
• PayJoy:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Lixibox, Inc.:
$500000 (Seed)
• Spry Health:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Gridspace:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Rhumbix:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Trusted Insight:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Annelutfen.com:
$1000000 (Angel)
• Annelutfen.com:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Triptrotting:
$500000 (Series A)
Eric Chen
Palo Alto California - Los Altos - San Francisco - San Jose - Berkeley - Oakland - San Mateo - Redwood City - New York - Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Investing In
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Media • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Analytics • Developer tools • Real Estate (& Construction)
Description
Partner at OVO Fund
Seed stage tech investor who co-founded an e-commerce company, worked at an enterprise IT startup, incubated and launched a double bottom line investment fund in DC and pulled all-nighters on Wall Street as an investment banker. I'm interested in meeting scrappy, persistent, visionary and high integrity entrepreneurs with a chip on their shoulder. Specialties: Seed Stage Investing, US / China Startups, Capital Raising including Seed Stage Syndication, Supporting Entrepreneurs
Vivjan Myrto
Investing in PropTech • BioTech • A.I. ...
Boston - Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Vesper Technologies:
$19450000
• Vesper:
$15000000 (Early stage VC)
• Numerated:
$9000000 (Early stage VC)
• TellusLabs:
$3100000 (Seed Round)
• Tive:
$3000000 (Seed Round)
• Spiro Technologies Inc:
$3000000 (Seed Round)
• Pillar Technologies:
$2750000 (Seed Round)
• Jisto Inc.:
$2450000 (Seed Round)
• Elsen:
$2400000 (Seed Round)
• Biotia:
$2400000 (Seed Round)
• indico data solutions:
$1200000 (Seed Round)
• AkinovA:
• Elucidata:
$16000000 (Series A)
• Elucidata:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Elucidata:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Aryeo:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Dexai Robotics:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Soft Robotics:
$22000000 (Series B)
• Soft Robotics:
$20000000 (Series A)
• DynamiCare Health:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Empirical Systems:
$3000000 (Series Unknown)
• Indico Data:
$3000000 (Seed)
Vivjan Myrto
Boston - Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Investing In
PropTech • BioTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Robotics • Real Estate (& Construction)
Description
Vivjan Myrto serves as Board Member at Tranquil Data. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner and Managing Director at Hyperplane Venture Capital. He is an Angel Investor and Board Observer at AlphaSheets. He also serves as a Board Observer at Sentenai and Indico Data Solutions.
Brian Garrett
Investing in IT (& TMT) • Media • Enter...
San Francisco Califor..., United States
Previous Investments
• Fuzzy:
$4500000 (Seed Round)
• Boom.tv:
$3500000 (Seed Round)
• Purple Squirrel:
$2700000 (Seed Round)
• RelationUp:
(Later stage VC)
• Retina.AI:
(Seed Round)
• IMMORTALS:
(Seed Round)
• HiveWatch (Network Management Software):
• Teampay:
$12000000 (Later stage VC)
• Branch Messenger:
$10000000 (Early stage VC)
• Conversion Logic:
$9000000 (Early stage VC)
• Narvar:
(early stage)
• Club W:
• Intelligent Beauty:
• Lettuce:
(early stage)
• SHIFT.com:
(early stage)
• StyleSaint:
(early stage)
• ShoeDazzle:
(early stage)
• GumGum:
(early stage)
• Crosscut Ventures:
(early stage)
• Verve:
(early stage)
• Palomar Ventures:
Brian Garrett
San Francisco California - Los Angeles California - Venice Italy, United States
Investing In
IT (& TMT) • Media • Entertainment (& Sports) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Investment Management • Mobile • Restaurants
Description
ex-Entrepreneur and Seed-Stage investor in LA
ex-Entrepreneur and Seed-Stage investor in LA
Co-Founder of LA-based seed fund CrossCut Ventures
Linked In Description:
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.
David Stark
Investing in PropTech • Businesses Solutions...
New York, U.S.A. - Israel
Previous Investments
• Nextpeer:
$300000
• Jones (Insurance):
$2800000 (Seed Round)
• Beyond (Automotive):
$1800000 (Seed Round)
• PrettyDamnQuick:
$6000000 (Seed)
• POSTMODA:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
David Stark
New York, U.S.A. - Israel
Investing In
PropTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Entertainment (& Sports) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Robotics • Real Estate (& Construction) • Mobility
Description
David Stark is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Ground Up Ventures. Stark serves as General Partner at OurCrowd. He began his career as an investment analyst at Blackstone in the Real Estate Private Equity group, where he was involved in multiple leveraged buyout acquisitions with a combined value of over $700 million. David served in the Givati Rotem Brigade and finished basic training as the "most exemplary soldier" in his company. David graduated summa cum laude from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Economics and was a Joseph Wharton Scholar.
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