Mr. Alon Lifshitz is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Hanaco Venture Capital. He also serves as Board Member at EasySend, Reveal Security, and Namogoo. He is an Angel Investor. He is the founding partner of Hanaco Ventures, a $400M fund with offices in Tel Aviv and NY. He is based in the Tel Aviv office and is primarily focused on investing in companies disrupting the Cyber, Fintech, Marketing-tech, and Enterprise software sectors.
Kamran Ansari
Investing in Media • Businesses Solutions &b...
New York, U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• GIPHY:
(early stage)
• Acorns:
(early stage)
• Greycroft:
(late stage)
• Vungle:
(early stage)
• Artivest:
• Facebook:
(late stage)
• Tenaya Capital:
(early stage)
• Credit Key:
$15000000 (Series B)
• Hopscotch:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Recurly:
$20000000 (Series C)
• Recurly:
$12000000 (Series B)
• Custora:
$14000000 (Series B)
• Custora:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Braavo Capital:
$6000000 (Series A)
• Braavo Capital:
$940000 (Seed)
• Azimo:
$20000000 (Series C)
• Azimo:
$20000000 (Series B)
• Azimo:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Billie:
(Seed)
• Bread:
$130000000 (Series B)
• Bread:
$14000000 (Series A)
• Frontline Selling (acquisition):
$3000000 (Series A)
• Frontline Selling (acquisition):
$2000000 (Series A)
• Frontline Selling (acquisition):
$3000000 (Series A)
Ullas Naik is the Founder and serves as General Partner at Streamlined Ventures. Naik founded Streamlined Ventures with a vision of building a thought leading investment platform rooted in the philosophical belief that founders of companies are the true heroes of entrepreneurial value creation in our society. Streamlined Ventures invests in and supports visionary founders working on transformational application and business infrastructure software companies for the Mobile Web, Social Web, Web and Enterprise markets. Ullas is a seasoned venture capitalist, angel investor and entrepreneur with over two decades of entrepreneurial and early stage investment experience across 300 companies. Prior to founding Streamlined Ventures, he co-founded investment firm Cota Capital. Prior to that, Ullas was a senior member of the investment team for 12 years at Globespan Capital and helped build the firm. He has also been an active angel investor over the last 21 years during which he invested in over 60 companies spanning Internet 1.0, Web 2.0, mobile web, social web, enterprise computing as well as disruptive technologies in other domains such as robotics and wearable computing. Before his institutional investing career Ullas was a top ranked Wall Street research analyst at FAC Equities/First Albany. He was recognized by the Wall Street Journal and Fortune Magazine as a Wall Street All Star. Prior to that, Ullas received an MBA degree after starting a chemicals trading business in India. He also has a bachelor's degree in organic chemistry. He is also an Angel Investor.
Mike Speiser
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Palo Alto, U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• It's a secret:
• Confidential (In stealth mode):
• It’s also a secret:
• Sigma Computing:
(early stage)
• Epinions.com:
• SentinelOne:
(late stage)
• Excelero:
(mid stage)
• Magisto:
(late stage)
• ScyllaDB:
(mid stage)
• TabTale:
(late stage)
• Weka.IO:
(early stage)
• Medisafe™:
(mid stage)
• Splacer - Connecting People and Spaces:
(early stage)
Most Interested In
Viral SaaS products with immediate impact. Gaming with proven unit economics. Foodtech 1-3 steps before last mile consumer deliveries (processing, manufacturing, procurement).
Cem Sertoglu
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Most Interested In
Consumer-facing e-businesses, including marketplaces, e-tailers, SaaS and SME-focused software companies targeting local markets in CEE & Turkey. Enterprise technology innovators with roots in CEE & Turkey.
Not Interested In
Life sciences, material science, clean tech
Cem Sertoglu serves as Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital. He has several years of experience as an Investor, focusing web-enabled services and consumer internet. Previously, he was a Partner at iLab Ventures, Co-Founder and CEO at Mondus.com, Founder & CEO at SelectMinds and Vice President at Farmer & Company. Pioneering the technology investment sector in Turkey since its inception with his personal investment vehicle Young Turk Ventures, his investments include propertyfinder.ae, Wikimart.ru, Civic Solar, Gittigidiyor.com (Turkey's leading online auctions portal), Yemeksepeti.com (Turkey's leading food order platform) and Grupanya (Turkey's leading daily deal website). He holds a BA in Economics from University of Texas (Austin). He served as Board Member at Fite and Grupanya.
David Ulevitch
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
San Francisco Bay Are..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Kentik Technologies:
$23000000 (Series B)
• Mem Labs:
$5600000 (Seed Round)
• Loft Holdings:
$175000000 (Later stage VC)
• BlockTower Capital:
$140000000 (Later stage VC)
• Rappi:
$130000000 (Later stage VC)
• Starburst Data:
$118000000 (Later stage VC)
• DFINITY:
$61000000 (Later stage VC)
• Reflektive:
$60000000 (Later stage VC)
• Caffeine:
$46000000 (Later stage VC)
• Cumulus Networks:
$43000000 (Later stage VC)
• Envoy:
$43000000 (Later stage VC)
• Highfive:
$32000000 (Later stage VC)
• Deel:
$30000000 (Later stage VC)
• Usermind:
$23500000 (Later stage VC)
• dyDx Ripple Coinbase Axoni Basecoin:
• Radiant:
$100000000 (Series C)
• Radiant:
$40000000 (Series B)
• Orderful:
$15000000 (Series Unknown)
• Orderful:
$19000000 (Series B)
• Orderful:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Infinite Machine:
$9000000 (Seed)
• Prepared:
$27000000 (Series B)
• Apex - Spacecraft Manufacturing:
$95000000 (Series B)
• Apex - Spacecraft Manufacturing:
$17000000 (Series A)
Started @opendns. Forced aside by VCs. Replaced the VCs. Took back over as CEO. Sold to Cisco for $635m+. Started and sold @everydns. Positively Disruptive.
Tim Chae
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Active in fintech, e-sports, marketplaces, cross-border. But always prefer to invest in people who make me become aware about large problems.
Not Interested In
Businesses that are capital intensive prior to launch and especially businesses with long feedback loop cycles (pure hardware, etc.)
Partner at @500startups and heading up our $15M Korea specific fund, 500 Kimchi. Started a couple co's (bootstrapped & venture). Big fan of #ELaMF and #JFDI.
Ashmeet Sidana
Investing in FinTech (& Financials services) &bul...
San Francisco Bay Are..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• OpsMx:
• Netsil (formerly Gencore):
(early stage)
• Prismo Systems:
(early stage)
• StackStorm:
(early stage)
• Datos IO, Inc.:
• SignalFx:
(early stage)
• Tubi:
(early stage)
• Foundation Capital:
(late stage)
• Sidana Systems, Inc.:
• Multiple:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• CtrlStack:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Evinced:
$55000000 (Series C)
• Evinced:
$17000000 (Series A)
• Evinced:
$3000000 (Pre Seed)
• Trustero:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Trustero:
$8000000 (Seed)
• CodeRabbit:
$16000000 (Series A)
• Fireproof:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• Kognitos:
$20000000 (Series A)
• Kognitos:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Nexla:
$18000000 (Series A)
• Nexla:
$12000000 (Series A)
• Nexla:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Connectifi:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Jolt AI:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• QueryPal:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Hedgehog:
$4000000 (Pre Seed)
• Sensible:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Onymos:
$12000000 (Series A)
• Onymos:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Onymos:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• vFunction:
$26000000 (Series A)
• vFunction:
$12000000 (Seed)
• Kentik:
$40000000 (Series C)
• Kentik:
$23000000 (Series B)
• Kentik:
$12000000 (Series A)
• Kentik:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Fidap:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Yotascale:
$13000000 (Series B)
• Yotascale:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Yotascale:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Robust Intelligence:
$11000000 (Series A)
• Robust Intelligence:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Menlo Security:
$75000000 (Series D)
• Menlo Security:
$40000000 (Series C)
• Menlo Security:
$25000000 (Series B)
• Menlo Security:
(Seed)
• Tignis:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Nimbella:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Baffle:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Baffle:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Baffle:
$500000 (Seed)
• Binaris:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Sail Internet:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Netsil:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Palerra:
$17000000 (Series B)
• Palerra:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Diamanti:
$13000000 (Series A)
• NeoReach:
$2000000 (Seed)
• NeoReach:
$3000000 (Series Unknown)
• NeoReach:
$300000 (Seed)
• Datos IO:
$3000000 (Seed)
• adRise:
$2000000 (Series A)
• CiiNOW:
$13000000 (Series A)
Ashmeet Sidana
San Francisco Bay Area - Palo Alto - California, U.S.A.
Ashmeet Sidana serves as Founder & Chief Engineer at Engineering Capital. His experience includes managing venture capital funds, serving on multiple Boards of Directors, and helping build the industry leading products VMware ESX Server and Silicon Graphics WebFORCE. Before his last decade as a venture capitalist, Ashmeet was an operating executive with hands-on operating experience as a CEO and entrepreneur. Ashmeet came to venture from VMware, where he ran product management for their flagship product-ESX Server. Before VMware, Ashmeet was the Founder and CEO of Sidana Systems, Inc. He started his career at Hewlett Packard and Silicon Graphics as an engineer. Ashmeet's previous investments include Azure (NYSE: AZRE), Palerra (acquired by Oracle), Freewheel (acquired by Comcast), InQuira (acquired by Oracle), Altor (acquired by Juniper), Appurify (acquired by Google), PrivateCore (acquired by Facebook) and StackStorm (acquired by Brocade). He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Baffle, RuperBot, Sail Internet, vFunction and Xockets. His current investments include Baffle, Binaris, Rubrik, Diamanti, Gyroscope, Kentik, Menlo Security, Netsil, Nexla, Prismo Systems, RuperBot, Sail Internet, SignalFx, vFunction, Xockets and YotaScale. Ashmeet received an MBA from Wharton, MS in Computer Science from Stanford University and a BS in Computer Science summa cum laude from USC.
Steve Anderson
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
How to connect with Angel Investors in the Web Security industry?
In the Web Security & Privacy industry, angel investors such as Marc Andreessen, Peter Thiel, and Naval Ravikant are significant figures. These investors focus on startups offering innovative solutions in cybersecurity, data protection, and online privacy. Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, invests in web security startups that address critical cybersecurity challenges. Peter Thiel, co-founder of Palantir Technologies, looks for companies that provide advanced security and data protection solutions. Naval Ravikant, co-founder of AngelList, seeks out startups with scalable web security technologies and strong market potential. To connect with these investors, attend cybersecurity conferences, data privacy expos, and networking events such as RSA Conference, Black Hat, and PrivacyCon. Utilize platforms like AngelList and LinkedIn to identify and reach out to potential investors. When pitching, emphasize how your web security or privacy solution addresses key challenges, such as protecting against cyber threats, ensuring data privacy, or complying with regulations. Highlight any traction you’ve gained, such as partnerships with tech companies, successful security audits, or positive feedback from clients. 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 security assessments 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 subscription fees, licensing, or service contracts, will further strengthen your pitch. Leveraging endorsements or case studies from cybersecurity experts can also enhance your credibility.
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