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Palo Alto - California, U.S.A. - Global: U.S.A., Australia, Canada, Germany, U.K., Israel, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, Malta, Iceland
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • BioTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Consumer
Most Interested In
API E-Commerce Education Enterprise Fintech Food and Beverage Future of Work Gaming Government Technology Hardware Health and Wellness Healthcare/Medtech Industrial Internet and Mobile IoT Life Sciences Productivity Proptech/Real Estate Robotics SaaS Social Supply Chain/Logistics Transportation Travel/Hospitality
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Gaming (& eSports) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Consumer
Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners
Most Interested In
Consumer applications, future of media, online video, developer platforms
Ethan Kurzweil serves as Partner, Investments at Bessemer Venture Partners. He was a Board Member at Stratim. He as eleven when he started his first business - The Cat Corporation. In charge of family cat care, he "awarded" all labor-intensive jobs to his sister (Cat Feeder, Cat Brusher) and claimed all management jobs for himself (CEO, VP of Cat Welfare, Executive Director of Grooming). He would now discourage founders from letting sibling rivalry influence their org charts. As a Stanford undergrad, Ethan eventually was a co-founder of a real company: SSB-Bart Group, which helps make the Web accessible to users with disabilities. Before joining Bessemer in 2008, he worked for Dow Jones & Co., managing the turnaround of The Wall Street Journal's international editions, and Linden Lab, the creator of Second Life. At BVP, Ethan focuses on investments in consumer technologies and developer platfor He is particularly excited about consumer video start-ups and companies "developerizing the enterprise," his phrase for companies that provide non-technical business users with powerful tools and potential impact without requiring them to code. Ethan's investments include consumer companies Twitch (acquired by Amazon), Periscope (acquired by Twitter), Dropcam (acquired by Google), Playdom (acquired by Disney), Zirx, Life360 and Piazza; developer platforms Intercom, Twilio, PagerDuty, npm, and Sendgrid; and SaaS companies Hightower and Simply Measured. He was also involved in the firm's investments in adap.tv (acquired by AOL) and Skybox Imaging (acquired by Google). Ethan graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Stanford University and earned an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School. He serves on the Bay Area advisory board for New Leaders. Raised in Boston, he remains a Red Sox fan for life. He also serves as a Board Member at Periscope Data.
New York - Tel Aviv - London - Los Angeles - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A. - Israel - U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Payments • Consumer
Global Early Stage Investor
Most Interested In
Tekton is an global seed fund that makes early stage investments in category defining companies in several strategic geographies around the world. What excites me is founders looking to build truly global venture scale businesses from scratch!
Not Interested In
Biotech, Energy.
Founder, Managing Partner, @tekton-ventures (seed fund). Former entrepreneur, sold last co. to @formspring. Public servant to company builders.
New York - Los Angeles - San Francisco Bay Area - Portland - Miami - Florida, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer • Productivity
Most Interested In
We focus on companies with strong long-term competitive advantages (network effects, proprietary data, economies of scale, etc). Mostly b2b.
Not Interested In
We're open to any company with good moat potential. We do a lot of b2b investing. On the b2c side, we typically look for companies that monetize users directly rather than through ads.
Leo Polovets is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Susa Ventures. In 2003, Leo was the 2nd non-founding engineer at LinkedIn, where he helped build many core features like LinkedIn Jobs and LinkedIn Groups. After LinkedIn, he developed payment fraud detection systems at Google, then spent four years building much of the core data processing infrastructure at Factual. Leo left Factual in late 2012 to join Susa Ventures and focus on venture capital. He's also an angel investor in companies including DataFox, Lumoid, and Momentum Machines. Leo holds a BS with Honors degree from Caltech, and in 2002, he was one of three members of Caltech's world finalist ACM International Programming Contest team.
San Francisco Bay Area - Calgary, U.S.A. - India
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure)
Partner at Lightspeed
Most Interested In
We want to back big thinking entrepreneurs; founders with the ability to galvanize a passionate and skilled team around them; a generalist mindset that understands it takes more than good technology to build a successful business We are currently most interested in cyber security, cloud applications and infrastructure and data analytics
Not Interested In
We have limited interest in EnergyTech mainly due to economics, slow adoption and long sales cycles
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • BioTech • Energy • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Robotics • Aerospace (& Defense) • DeepTech • Online Social • Consumer • Pharmaceutical (& Medicine) • Woman Focused
Dave Morin is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Slow Ventures. He previously was Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer and Director at Path. Morin was a Senior Platform Manager at Facebook and a Mentor at TechStars. Morin is a visionary entrepreneur, technologist, and businessman. Previously, he held positions at Apple, including a Manager of Creation and Collaboration and a Manager of Student Marketing. Morin also founded a design focused technology and internet software company called DM Design Studios in college. He has appeared in publications such as The Economist, Wired, CNN, BusinessWeek, Money, Business 2.0, TechCrunch, CNET, Silicon Alley Insider, The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, VentureBeat, and others. Morin is a passionate and well received speaker and has delivered keynotes and participated in events worldwide such as South by Southwest, Future of Web Apps, Web 2.0 Expo, Le Web, SNAP Summit, Microsoft MIX, O'Reilly Foo Camp, Facebook f8, and the worldwide syndicate of Facebook Developer Garages. His focus on innovation, vision, and technology strategy has involved extensive interaction with the global market at large. He also serves as a Board Member at Eventbrite and Dwell Media. Morin received a degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
San Francisco Bay Area - New York - Chicago - California, U.S.A. - U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Partner, Broadhaven Ventures at Broadhaven Capital Partners
Partner, Broadhaven Ventures at Broadhaven Capital Partners
Senior Vice President, iCapital Network | Special Advisor, Panorama Point Partners | Fmr Director, Mosaic | Fmr Goldman Sachs PSI | Founder, NextGenEngage
San Francisco Bay Area - Los Altos - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Sales (& Marketing) • IoT (& Wearables)
Managing Director at Alchemist Accelerator
Ravi Belani is Fenwick & West Lecturer of Entrepreneurship at Stanford University, and Managing Director of the Alchemist Accelerator, an enterprise seed accelerator backed by Cisco, DFJ, Khosla Ventures, Salesforce, SAP Ventures, and USVP.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Analytics • Online Social • Woman Focused
Garry Tan is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Initialized Capital. Tan serves as Partner at Y Combinator. He is part of the board on various startups including Privacy Labs. Previously, he was the Co-Founder of Posterous, which was funded by Y Combinator in 2008 and acquired by Twitter in 2012. Before that he was employee #10 at Palantir, where he was a founding member of the engineering team for Palantir Finance, and also designed Palantir's logo.
Tel Aviv - London - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A. - Israel - U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Payments • Real Estate (& Construction) • Productivity
Most Interested In
AI to help patients select medical providers
Not Interested In
super early stage opportunities with no technical co-founder
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Nanotechnology • Online Social
General Partner at Felicis Ventures
General Partner at Felicis Ventures
New York - Seattle - San Francisco Bay Area - Palo Alto - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Consumer
Most Interested In
Consumer, Social, Marketplaces, Platforms, and the like. Really, happy to learn and help with anything interesting.
San Francisco Bay Area - Menlo Park - California, U.S.A. - Global: U.S.A., Australia, Canada, Germany, U.K., Israel, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, Malta, Iceland
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Web Security (& Privacy) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools
Managing Partner at GGV Capital
Managing Partner at GGV Capital
New York - Seattle - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - Canada
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Sales (& Marketing) • IoT (& Wearables) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Analytics • Robotics
Global Private Markets at Shareworks
Most Interested In
I'm most interested in the idea of distributed ownership. This could be for a company, physical good/property or digital asset.
Not Interested In
I don't invest in life sciences, consumer goods and media/content.
Been in a startup, ran a seed fund and now a VC, but an entrepreneur at heart. A Canadian in the Silicon Valley.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • AR/VR • Developer tools • Online Social • Consumer
Partner at e.ventures
Venture Investor at e.ventures. Formerly at Palantir Technologies, Fung Capital, and Cambridge Associates. Stanford, B.A., and Berkeley Law, J.D.
Palo Alto - California, U.S.A. - Australia
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Impact • Logistics (& Distribution) • Woman Focused
Venture Capitalist, Athlete, Adjunct Professor
Most Interested In
Data Science, AI, SaaS , DevOps, Human Performance, Flow State
Not Interested In
Not interested in heavily capital intensive businesses.
Angel: Twitter (Tweetdeck) @Tango @voxer (BOD) @treasure-data (Chmn). Seed: @wish, Soundtracking. Past BOD of 7 Listed companies incl one I founded.
New York - San Francisco Bay Area - Toronto (Ontario), U.S.A. - Canada
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Developer tools • Human Resources • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Woman Focused
I've invested in 150+ pre-seed and seed stage B2B SaaS companies through Acceleprise
Most Interested In
SaaS, AI, Blockchain, SaaS enabled marketplace, B2B
Not Interested In
Consumer
Michael Cardamone serves as a Managing Director and General Partner at Acceleprise. He serves as Advisor at Lodestar Ventures. He was an early employee on the BD team at Box and more recently led BD and partner marketing at AcademixDirect. He has made several angel investments and is an advisor to a couple other startups. Michael has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Syracuse University and a MBA from Columbia University.
Menlo Park - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools
Semil Shah serves as a Venture Partner at GGV Capital. He also serves as an Investor of BirdEye. He is the Founder and serves as a General Partner of Haystack, which invested in more than 70 companies, including Instacart, Hired, and DoorDash. He serves as the Venture Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. He serves on the advisory boards of The Alpha Network and StrictlyVC. He is also a former consultant for several venture capital firms, including General Catalyst, Trinity Ventures, and GGV Capital, among others. His notable AI investments include AirMap, an airspace services provider that focuses on providing accurate airspace information for building unmanned aircraft, drones, and applications; Iris Automation, which helps industrial drones avoid collision; and SkySafe, which provides drone defense and airspace control solutions. Semil holds a bachelor's degree from University of Michigan and a Master's degree from Harvard University.