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Oakland - California, U.S.A. - Canada
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • BioTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • Woman Focused • Productivity
Dr. Brian Dixon serves as Venture Partner at Elm Street Ventures. He also serves as the Chief Executive Officer of BioRelix, Inc. Prior to joining BioRelix in October 2007, Dr. Dixon served as Vice President with Bayer HealthCare in West Haven Connecticut. In that position, he led a multi-disciplinary organization of up to 130 employees that delivered state-of-the-art expertise in oncology biomarker discovery, new lead discovery, research drug formulation, pharmacokinetics and drug metabolism to Bayer's global R&D business. In addition, he held leadership roles in R&D licensing initiatives, strategic alliances and cross divisional collaborations in translational medicine. From 1998 to 2001, Dr. Dixon directed Bayer drug discovery efforts in both the Osteoporosis and Oncology therapeutic areas. He serves as a Director of BioRelix, Inc. Dr. Dixon was an undergraduate at the University of Michigan. He received his Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and completed post-doctoral training at Harvard University.
Austin Texas - London - New York City (NY) - Cambridge Massachusetts - Chicago Illinois - Boston Massachusetts - Portland Oregon - San Antonio Texas - Seattle Washington - Atlanta Georgia - Los Angeles California - Washington D.C, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools
Jason Seats serves as Managing Partner at Techstars. Jason was most recently the Managing Director of the Techstars programs in Austin and Cloud in San Antonio. Prior to joining Techstars, Jason was a Founder of Slicehost, an early cloud computing hosting company. In 2008 Slicehost was acquired by Rackspace and became the core for the initial Cloud Servers product. Jason continued on at Rackspace until 2010 as VP of software development for Rackspace Cloud, managing the cloud engineering tea Jason has a B.S. in Computer Science and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Parks College of Engineering, Aviation and Technology at Saint Louis University. He is also an Angel Investor. He also serves as Board Member at Convey and DigitalOcean.
Seattle / Portland - Minneapolis - New York - Los Angeles / Southern California - Midwest - Chicago - Illinois, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Food & Beverage • Real Estate (& Construction) • Consumer
Founding Partner at Starting Line
Most Interested In
I am looking to lead rounds where founders have identified a market dislocation that they're successfully attacking - whether that is for economic reasons, data reasons, or generational reasons. I have invested in popular culture (Cameo), food (Hungryroot), mobility (Spothero), recreation (Catch Co), real estate (Flyhomes/Havenly), finance (Sunbit/M1Finance) and more.
Ezra Galston is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Starting Line. He serves as Investment Committee Member at Bold Coast Capital. Galston is an Angel Investor of Ezra Galston. He served as Principal at Chicago Ventures. He focuses on all facets of the firm's consumer facing and marketing tech investments and is actively involved with Blitsy, BloomNation, Kapow Events, Luxury Garage Sale, Shiftgig, SpotHero, and Zipments. Ezra's thoughts on startups, gaming, e-commerce and bitcoin have been published in the Wall Street Journal, TechCrunch, VentureBeat and Re/code. Ezra joined Chicago Ventures in March, 2012 and prior was a Young Entrepreneur at Foundation Capital. Before business school, Ezra served as the Director of Marketing for CardRunners Gaming - the parent company of CardRunners, Hold'em Manager and DraftDay - and before then earned a living as a professional poker player. He launched his first startup at age 13 and served as Director of Interactive Marketing at Buzz Marketing Group from 2003-2005 working closely with Midas Records, Sony Records and MTV. Ezra is a proud husband and father to a two year old boy. His varied interests have led him to launch a record label and produce a festival screened short film. He is a Kauffman Fellow, Class 18 and holds an MBA from Chicago Booth and a BA from New York University.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • BioTech • AgroTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Future Of Work • Robotics • Mobility • Woman Focused
Most Interested In
We look for founders using advanced technology or unique market insight to attack high impact problems in the real world, across themes like human health, climate & sustainability, manufacturing and food & agriculture. Our investments include Full Harvest, Mammoth Biosciences, Misty Robotics, Renew Financial, Palantir and Assurex Health.
Not Interested In
Entertainment, adtech, retail/ecommerce.
VC @ Claremont Creek Ventures • Investor @palantir-technologies, @badgeville, @snappytv, @flipswap • Founder @orbit-commerce • Worked at @rre-ventures, @in-q-tel, @bina-technologies
Malaysia, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Food & Beverage • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Payments • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobility
Harvard 2019 | VC @ Soma Capital | Head of Content @ Elpha (YC S19) & Harvard in Tech | Medium Top VC Writer
Venture Partner at Pioneer Fund
Helsinki, Finland - Luxembourg
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • Analytics • Consumer
Co Founder, Partner at Trind Ventures
Taavi Lepmets is the Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Trind Venture. Lepmets serves as Angel Investor at Taavi Lepmets. He also serves as an Advisor of Weekdone. Taavi is based in Munich, but often meets companies in Central and Eastern Europe. He attends many industry events.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Developer tools • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Reflecting
Most Interested In
Machine intelligence, digital health and big data.
Not Interested In
Consumer internet and mobile apps.
Seth Teicher serves as Associate Partner at GreatPoint Ventures. He is also a Board Member of Activ Surgical. He earlier served as a Head of Content and Business Development at CrowdFlower. Previously, he served as a Partnerships and Business Development at CrowdFlower.
London, U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Retail (& E-Commerce) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Consumer
VC @ Saatchinvest. Looking out for the future, now. Founder, Angel, Advisor and Mentor. Working with tech-enabled start ups and ambitious outliers. Searching greater opportunities.
Leonardo Castellanos is a Co-Founder & serves as Director at Comparabien. He also serves as Board Member at Technology Will Save Us. He is also a Board Observer and Advisor at Yossarian Lives. He holds an EMBA from the Cass Business School. He holds a Degree from the Imperial College London and Santa Maria University. He is also an Angel Investor.
Alameda - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Sales (& Marketing) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Healthcare (& Wellness)
Most Interested In
I am particularly interested in Aerospace and defense right now. Drones, space, flight and everything connecting them.
Not Interested In
I don't invest in purely consumer facing businesses, e-commerce businesses, game studios or ad tech. If your business is not based on a novel technology or an original application of technology to a new space, it probably is not a great fit.
San Francisco California - Menlo Park California - Atlanta Georgia, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Food & Beverage • Insurance (& InsurTech)
Managing Director and COO, Accel-KKR
Founded in 2000, Accel-KKR is a technology-focused private equity investment firm founded by venture firm Accel Partners and leveraged buyout firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR). With over $2.0 billion of capital under management, the firm's target investment size ranges from $10 to $100 million, although Accel-KKR has the ability to take larger or smaller stakes as appropriate. The firm targets investments in companies with annual revenues ranging from $10mm to $200mm. Accel-KKR focuses primarily on three types of transactions: buyouts of divisions, subsidiaries and business units from public companies; acquisitions and recapitalizations of closely-held private companies; and going-private transactions of small public companies. Although Accel-KKR pursues transactions across multiple segments, the firm is specifically active in a wide range of sub-segments, including enterprise and infrastructure software, vertical market application software, technical software, networking software, enterprise computing and data storage, storage networking, data communications, Internet services, business process outsourcing and professional IT services.
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Material Science • Investment Management
Managing Director at EPIC Venture Fund
Managing Director at EPIC Venture Fund
Salt Lake City - Atlanta - Phoenix - Denver - Washington - Boston - Los Angeles - Austin - New York - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Woman Focused
Most Interested In
1. AI/ML based solutions for Enterprise/B2B, FinTech and Healthcare. 2. AutoTech and Mobility
Not Interested In
Biotech, Drug development
Seattle - Philadelphia - Pennsylvania, U.S.A. - U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Payments
Entrepreneur & Builder
Entrepreneur & Builder
Oakland, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Hospitality (& Events) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Local commerce • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Co-Founder at Tari Labs
Naveen Jain is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer & Board Member at Viome. Jain Founded and also served as Board Member at Intelius.He is also the Founder of Blucora. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at Moon Express. He is a Co-Founder at Talentwise. He also serves as Board Member at Singularity University and as a Board Member at Extend America.
Las Vegas, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Entertainment (& Sports) • Advertising • Analytics • Developer tools
Founder of @grasshopper acquired by @citrix-systems. Founder of @chargify. Founder of @return-path. Angel Investor.
Arlington Virginia - Philadelphia Pennsylvania, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Other • IT (& TMT) • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Logistics (& Distribution)
Partner at LLR Partners
LLR Partners is a private equity firm managing over $2 billion. LLR Partners invests in Business Services, Consumer Services, Education, Financial Services, Healthcare Services, Security & Government, and IT Services & Software. The firm provides growth capital for the following situations: Growth, Acquisitions, Buyouts, and Recapitalizations. LLR Partners provides capital to companies that have revenues of $10 million to $150 million, seeking to invest between $15 million and $100 million of equity per transaction. LLR will invest in businesses throughout the country, but the firm's primary geographic focus is the Mid-Atlantic and Eastern United States. LLR is currently investing out of its $800 million 3rd fund.
Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Material Science • Investment Management
Managing Director at EPIC Ventures
Managing Director at EPIC Ventures
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • A.I. (& Big Data) • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars)
Investor in tech growth companies; senior tech M&A advisor & trusted board member of several companies
Investor in tech growth companies; senior tech M&A advisor & trusted board member of several companies
San Francisco Bay Area - Philadelphia - Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Advertising • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Food & Beverage • Online Social • Productivity
Venture Investor
Eastlake Washington - Eastlake Washington ; New York New York ; Seattle Washington ; Washington ; New York, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • DeepTech • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Investment Management • Life Science • Mobile • Oncology
Advisor to Deal Springer.