Toby Coppel is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Mosaic Ventures. He also serves Board Member at Habito. He has a strong track record of principal investing in growth companies and strong operational experience. His background and expertise allow him to provide unique insights regarding the convergence of energy, communications and information technologies. Prior to VGF, he held a number of senior executive roles with Yahoo!, including Chief Strategy Officer and Managing Director, Yahoo! Europe & Canada. While at Yahoo!, Toby was responsible for almost $5 billion of acquisitions and investments. Toby was also the Executive sponsor for Yahoo's global sustainability program and led initiatives including the launch of Yahoo! Green and the management of Yahoo's carbon footprint across its global data centers and facilities. Prior to Yahoo!, Toby was a Founding Partner of Windsor Media a private investment company that acquires traditional media businesses and re-positions them for the digital future. Coppel also held investment and client advisory positions with Allen & Company and Goldman Sachs. He is an Industry Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, Henry Crown Fellow at The Aspen Institute and a Member of both the Israel-Britain and Palestine-Britain Business Councils. Coppel received his MA Philosophy, Politics & Economics (First Class) from Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom and an MBA (with Distinction) from Harvard Business School.
Zaw Thet
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
San Francisco Bay Are..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Alice:
$1100000 (Seed Round)
• Remrise:
$8199999 (Early stage VC)
• Mozart Data:
$4000000 (Early stage VC)
• Landis:
$2000000 (Seed Round)
• Signia Venture Partners:
(late stage)
• Bitski:
• Crosscut Ventures:
(mid stage)
• plyfe:
• Palindrome Advisors:
• 4INFO (AdHaven):
(early stage)
• GetInventory:
• Exer Labs:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Exer Labs:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Exer Labs:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Hello Alice:
$1000000 (Seed)
• StatX:
$3000000 (Seed)
• STRIVR:
$5000000 (Seed)
• ApplePie Capital:
$16000000 (Series B)
• ApplePie Capital:
$6000000 (Series A)
• ApplePie Capital:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Nativo:
$20000000 (Series B)
• Nativo:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Boxed:
$25000000 (Series B)
• Boxed:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Hall:
$6000000 (Series A)
• HaulerDeals:
$1000000 (Seed)
Zaw Thet
San Francisco Bay Area - Denver - Colorado, U.S.A.
1. Applications solving large and non-obvious problems in data-intensive industries
2. ML-driven applications that have found a path to an initial data advantage and have the potential to create a definitive intelligence advantage
3. Business operations platforms for SMB vendors who have never had a good one, esp that are driven by mobile, esp that drive payment flow
4. Large-scale applications and HW/SW systems that sell into government
Not Interested In
I like to be surprised by things I think I may not be interested in and so try not to rule anything out.
Partner @venrock • Investor @claralending, @Centricient, @dataminr, @care, @gilt Groupe • Studied at @stanford-university, @university-of-oxford-2
Chris DeVore
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Tomasz Tunguz serves as Partner at Redpoint Ventures. He focuses on consumer Internet, online marketing, digital media and software investments. He is a Board Member of Chorus. Prior to joining Redpoint, he was the Product Manager for Google's Social Media monetization team, including the Google-MySpace partnership. In addition, he managed the launches of AdSense into six new markets in Europe and Asia. Before Google, he developed systems for the Department of Homeland Security at Appian Corporation, a provider of Business Process Management solutions. He also co-founded Perquimans Systems, a provider of bilingual, tri-currency automated time billing and document management systems for top-tier law firms in Chile. He holds a B.A. in Mechanical Engineering, a B.E. in Machine Learning and Master's degree in Engineering Management from Dartmouth College where he was a George Revitz Fellow. He is also a Board Member at Electric Imp, Expensify, StackRox, Quantifind and Customer.
Reid Hoffman
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Menlo Park - California, U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• RevUp:
$7500000
• MobilizeAmerica:
$3800000 (Series A)
• Gowalla:
$8300000 (Series B)
• Facebook:
$12700000 (Series A)
• Facebook:
$500000 (Angel Round)
• Ning Interactive:
$15000000 (Series A)
• Flickr:
(Funding Round)
• Socialtext:
$300000 (Angel Round)
• Naseeb Networks:
(Angel Round)
• Advent Solar:
(Angel Round)
• Technorati:
$4600000 (Series A)
• IronPort Systems:
$16500000 (Series B)
• Lyra Health:
$110000000 (Later stage VC)
• Nuro:
$92000000 (Early stage VC)
• Ritual:
$53000000 (Later stage VC)
• Abnormal Security:
$50000000 (Later stage VC)
• Trifacta:
$48000000 (Later stage VC)
• Caffeine:
$46000000 (Later stage VC)
• Demisto:
$43000000 (Later stage VC)
• Figma:
$25000000 (Later stage VC)
• Spoke:
$20000000 (Later stage VC)
• Mammoth Media:
$13000000 (Early stage VC)
• Rhumbix, Inc.:
$7350000 (Early stage VC)
• Apprente:
$4750000 (Seed Round)
• Mia Contacts:
$3000000 (Later stage VC)
• Fat Lama:
$1500000 (Seed Round)
• Mira:
$1000000 (Seed Round)
• Falkon AI:
• AppSheet:
(mid stage)
• SnapStrat:
• FogLogic:
• vFunction:
• Squelch:
(early stage)
• Umuse:
(early stage)
• LearnUp:
(mid stage)
• Akoonu:
(early stage)
• Six Apart:
(early stage)
• Vendio:
• Aufklarung LLC:
• Socialnet.com:
• CoRise:
$8500000 (Seed Round)
• NXCR:
$30000000 (Seed Round)
• Meta:
$13000000 (Series A)
• Uplimit (formerly CoRise):
$9000000 (Seed)
• Worldcoin:
$25000000 (Series A)
• Care.com:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Last.fm:
$5000000 (Series A)
• Fandom:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Fandom:
(Angel)
• Tiny Pictures:
(Seed)
• RealTravel:
$1000000 (Angel)
• Digg:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Vor Biopharma:
$56000000 (Post Ipo Equity)
• Boom Supersonic:
$100000000 (Series A)
• Pacific Fusion:
$900000000 (Series A)
• Resolve.ai:
$35000000 (Seed)
• World Labs:
$230000000 (Series Unknown)
• Uplimit:
$11000000 (Series A)
• Uplimit:
$9000000 (Seed)
• Applied Intuition:
$250000000 (Series E)
• Arcade:
$5000000 (Series Unknown)
• Rapport:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• Inflection AI:
$1300000000 (Series Unknown)
• Spring Free EV:
$31000000 (Series A)
• Tome:
$43000000 (Series B)
• Tome:
$6000000 (Seed)
• JusticeText:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Entrepreneur First:
$160000000 (Series C)
• Entrepreneur First:
$12000000 (Series Unknown)
• Meter:
$38000000 (Series B)
• Manara:
$3000000 (Pre Seed)
• 0x:
$70000000 (Series B)
• Aside:
$17000000 (Series A)
• CryptoSlam:
$9000000 (Seed)
• Taptap Send:
$65000000 (Series B)
• Taptap Send:
$13000000 (Series A)
• Ozow:
$48000000 (Series B)
• Wicked Saints Studios:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• World:
$25000000 (Series A)
• Cent:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Autonomy:
$20000000 (Pre Seed)
• Autonomy:
$30000000 (Seed)
• Coda:
$100000000 (Series D)
• Coda:
$80000000 (Series C)
• Coda:
$35000000 (Series B)
• Coda:
$25000000 (Series A)
• WaitWhat:
$12000000 (Series B)
• WaitWhat:
$4000000 (Series A)
• The Browser Company:
$13000000 (Series A)
• LoanSnap:
$30000000 (Series B)
• Alchemy:
$80000000 (Series B)
• Alchemy:
$15000000 (Series A)
• Mighty Networks:
$50000000 (Series B)
• Proxifile:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• Neeva:
$40000000 (Series B)
• Mobilize:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Aurora:
$600000000 (Series B)
• Aurora:
$90000000 (Series A)
• Unifonic:
$21000000 (Series A)
• RevUp Software:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Apollo Fusion:
$10000000 (Series B)
• Celo:
$6500000 (Venture Round)
• Celo:
$7000000 (Series Unknown)
• Chairman Mom:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Wealthfront:
$75000000 (Series E)
• Wealthfront:
$64000000 (Series D)
• Wealthfront:
$35000000 (Series C)
• Wealthfront:
$20000000 (Series B)
• Convoy:
$62000000 (Series B)
• Convoy:
$16000000 (Series A)
• Nauto:
$160000000 (Series B)
• Klang Games:
(Series Unknown)
• Change.org:
$30000000 (Series D)
• Change.org:
$25000000 (Series C)
• Gixo:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Trade Ghana:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Leade.rs:
$3000000 (Angel)
• LXMI:
(Seed)
• Crisis Text Line:
$24000000 (Series B)
• Crowdpac:
$6000000 (Series A)
• Segovia:
$14000000 (Series A)
• Blockstream:
$21000000 (Seed)
• Edmodo:
$30000000 (Series D)
• Edmodo:
$25000000 (Series C)
• Edmodo:
$15000000 (Series B)
• Xapo:
$20000000 (Series A)
• One Kings Lane:
$110000000 (Series E)
• One Kings Lane:
$50000000 (Series D)
• One Kings Lane:
$40000000 (Series C)
• One Kings Lane:
$23000000 (Series B)
• One Kings Lane:
(Series Unknown)
• Jelly HQ:
(Series B)
• Jelly HQ:
(Series A)
• Wrapp:
$15000000 (Series B)
• Wrapp:
$5000000 (Series A)
• Upserve:
$12000000 (Series B)
• Upserve:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Jelly:
(Series A)
• Kiva:
$1000000 (Angel)
• Treehouse:
$600000 (Seed)
• GoInstant:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Airbnb:
$110000000 (Series B)
• Airbnb:
$7000000 (Series A)
• TellApart:
$13000000 (Series B)
• TellApart:
$5000000 (Series A)
• Gobble:
$1000000 (Seed)
• LiquidSpace:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Buysight:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Buysight:
$6000000 (Series A)
• Shopkick:
$15000000 (Series B)
• Shopkick:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Shopkick:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Knewton:
$13000000 (Series C)
• Knewton:
$6000000 (Series B)
• Knewton:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Gowalla (acquired by facebook):
$8000000 (Series B)
Reid Hoffman is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman and Venture Capitalist at LinkedIn. He also serves as Partner at Greylock Partners. He also serves as a Chairman at The Translational Research Institute. He is a Board Member at Entrepreneur First. He also served as Strategic Advisor at New Cycle Capital. He also serves as Board Member at Endeavor Global. He also serves as an Advisor at The Breakthrough Energy Coalition. Previously he co-founded Socialnet.com and worked at Fujitsu Software Corp. and Apple Computer. He also serves as a Board Member at Microsoft.
Rob Hayes
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • CleanTech • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Advertising • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Future Of Work • Food & Beverage • Online Social • Consumer
Description
Venture Investor
Investor in @uber, @planet-labs, @gnip, @better-finance, @mint, @get-satisfaction, @xobni, @taskrabbit, @dnanexus, @yieldex. Team member of @first-round-capital.
George Zachary
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Deep learning / AI meets biology and chemistry. I am focused on products that accelerate breakthroughs in biological sciences that allow for new products that help peoples lives through huge advancements in health. An example investment we have made is in Freenome.
Not Interested In
Not interested in anything outside of this area. Not interested in digital health that involves behavior modification programs.
George Zachary serves as General Partner at Charles River Ventures. He is also a Board Member of CoTap and Crushpath. Zachary led the Nintendo 64 development business at Silicon Graphics, managed sales and marketing for virtual reality pioneer VPL Research, and served as a product marketer at CATS Software. He is on the board of Stanford SSE, Stanford's StartX and is an advisor to the X PRIZE Foundation. Zachary earned a joint BS from MIT and MIT Sloan.
Jesse aper
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Santa Monica , Los An..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• theSkimm:
$12000000
• Humble Tea:
• itselectric:
$7000000 (Seed)
• itselectric:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Flourish:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Flourish:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Live Tinted:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Live Tinted:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Preemadonna:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Preemadonna:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Preemadonna:
(Seed)
• Preemadonna:
(Seed)
• Preemadonna:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Preemadonna:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Preemadonna:
$1100000 (Seed Round)
• Preemadonna:
$1100000 (Seed Round)
• Trust & Will:
$15000000 (Series B)
• Trust & Will:
$15000000 (Series B)
• Trust & Will:
$6000000 (Series A)
• Trust & Will:
$6000000 (Series A)
• Trust & Will:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Trust & Will:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Vurbl:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Vurbl:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Armoire:
$2000000 (Series Unknown)
• Armoire:
$2000000 (Series Unknown)
• Armoire:
$3000000 (Series Unknown)
• Armoire:
$3000000 (Series Unknown)
• StyleRow:
$4000000 (Seed)
• StyleRow:
$4000000 (Seed)
• StyleRow:
$620000 (Seed)
• StyleRow:
$620000 (Seed)
• Blue Fever:
$480000 (Pre Seed)
• Blue Fever:
$480000 (Pre Seed)
• Barn & Willow:
$1000000 (Series Unknown)
• Barn & Willow:
$1000000 (Series Unknown)
• BlockCypher:
$3000000 (Seed)
• BlockCypher:
$3000000 (Seed)
• VIDA:
$1000000 (Seed)
• VIDA:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Laurel & Wolf:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Laurel & Wolf:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Move Loot:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Move Loot:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Carbon38:
$1000000 (Series Unknown)
• Carbon38:
$1000000 (Series Unknown)
• Carbon38:
$1000000 (Venture Round)
• Carbon38:
$1000000 (Venture Round)
Jesse aper
Santa Monica - Los Angeles / Southern California, U.S.A.
Jesse Draper serves as Founding Partner at Halogen Ventures. Draper is the Founder of The Valley Girl Show and also serves as its Chief Executive Officer. She is also an Angel Investor. She is the Advisor at Youngry. She is also the creator and host of the television series The Valley Girl Show. Previously a Nickelodeon star, Draper has used her comedic talents to bring an approachable feel to the technology world, has produced and distributed over 300 interviews with some of the greatest minds in technology and beyond (including; Ted Turner, Mark Cuban, Sheryl Sandberg, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Jessica Alba, MC Hammer and Eric Schmidt) and was listed by Marie Claire magazine as one of the '50 Most Connected Women in America'. USA Today called the show "Must see startup TV". Draper is a contributor to Marie Claire, SV Magazine, Mashable, Forbes.com, and is a regular investor and tech personality on shows including 'The Katie Couric Show', Fox's 'Good Day LA', CNBC's 'Who Wants to Be the Next Millionaire Inventor?' & Freeform'sStartup U. She proudly sits on the board of directors of Werk, the advisory board of Bizworld and is on the Chairman's board of SurfAir. Draper supports the Parkinson's Institute and is very involved with growing UCLA's female entrepreneurship community. She is a new mom, a graduate of UCLA and a Kappa Kappa Gamma.Previously a Nickelodeon star, Draper has used her comedic talents to bring an approachable feel to the technology world, has produced and distributed over 300 interviews with some of the greatest minds in technology and beyond (including; Ted Turner, Mark Cuban, Sheryl Sandberg, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Jessica Alba, MC Hammer and Eric Schmidt) and was listed by Marie Claire magazine as one of the '50 Most Connected Women in America'. USA Today called the show "Must see startup TV". Draper is a contributor to Marie Claire, SV Magazine, Mashable, Forbes.com, and is a regular investor and tech personality on shows including 'The Katie Couric Show', Fox's 'Good Day LA', CNBC's 'Who Wants to Be the Next Millionaire Inventor?' & Freeform'sStartup U. She proudly sits on the board of directors of Werk, the advisory board of Bizworld and is on the Chairman's board of SurfAir. Draper supports the Parkinson's Institute and is very involved with growing UCLA's female entrepreneurship community. She is a graduate of UCLA and a Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Patrick Lor
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Patrick Lor serves as Managing Partner at Panache Ventures. Lor also serves as Partner at 500 Startups Canada. He helped pioneer the microstock industry, as co-founder of iStockphoto, the world's first crowd sourced stock photography community. Upon his departure, the company was selling over 12 million images annually, and was sold to Getty Images for US$50 million in 2006. Most recently, he was head of North American operations for Fotolia, a stock photography community backed by private equity firm KKR. Patrick is also active in the technology startup ecosystem as an advisor, mentor, angel investor, teacher, and community leader. Organizations he contributes to include: thea100.org, thec100.org, democampcalgary.com, University of Calgary, Mount Royal University, Highline, and FounderFuel. He also served as Advisor at iNovia Capital.
Alexander Bruehl
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Munich, Germany
Previous Investments
• SMAHO:
(early stage)
• EQT Ventures:
(early stage)
• Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners:
(mid stage)
B2B SaaS expert ▪ Mentor & Coach ▪ Active Angel Investor ▪ Owner of The SaaSgarage
Investor at Point Nine Capital
Angel investor and mentor for those having exciting business ideas, ready kicking off their company. Core competency and areas of interest: SaaS (eg. @freeagent @geckoboard @positionly @riskmethods @minubo @contentful @softgarden )
Eva Ho
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Austin , Seattle , Ch..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Shift (Car Marketplace):
$23750000
• ProdPerfect:
$13000000 (Later stage VC)
• Visor:
$6500000 (Seed Round)
• Sturish:
$3200000 (Early stage VC)
• PullRequest:
$2300000 (Seed Round)
• FairClaims, Inc.:
$1800000 (Other)
• Bowery:
$1750000 (Seed Round)
• FairClaims:
• Upwards:
$21000000 (Series B)
• Upwards:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Upwards:
$750000 (Seed)
• Reken:
$10000000 (Seed)
• Together by Renee:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Elementary Robotics:
$30000000 (Series B)
• Elementary Robotics:
$13000000 (Series A)
• Elementary Robotics:
$4000000 (Seed)
• BackboneAI:
$5000000 (Seed)
• WeeCare:
$4200000 (Seed Round)
• Turvo:
$7000000 (Seed)
Eva Ho
Austin - Seattle - Chicago - Boston - New York - Los Angeles - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Advertising • Online Social • Woman Focused
Description
Eva Ho is a Co-Founder & serves as a General Partner at Fika Ventures. She also serves as an Angel Investor. She is a serial entrepreneur and founder, most recently a founding executive at Factual, a leading location data provider in Los Angeles. Prior, she was a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Google and Youtube for 5 years. Prior to Google, she was the head of marketing for Applied Semantics, a company that sold to Google in 2003. She also co-founded Navigating Cancer, a health startup, in 2008 which is now based in Seattle. She is active in the non-profit sector, serving on the boards of California Community Foundation, Ocean Conservancy, First Descents, and Iridescent. She is currently the Entrepreneur-in-Residence for the city of Los Angeles working with Mayor Eric Garcetti and his team. She holds an MBA from Cornell and a BA from Harvard.
How to connect with Angel Investors in the Software industry?
In the Software (Web Marketplace, SaaS, etc.) industry, prominent angel investors include Jason Lemkin, David Sacks, and Jason Calacanis. These investors have a keen interest in startups offering innovative SaaS solutions, enterprise software, and online marketplaces. Jason Lemkin, known for his SaaStr community, has invested in numerous SaaS startups and provides valuable mentorship to founders. David Sacks, co-founder of Yammer and former COO of PayPal, invests in high-growth SaaS companies and enterprise software solutions. Jason Calacanis, an early investor in Uber and Robinhood, looks for disruptive software startups with strong market potential. To connect with these investors, attend SaaS and tech conferences like SaaStr Annual, Collision, and Web Summit. Networking events, demo days, and industry meetups are also valuable opportunities. Utilize platforms like AngelList and LinkedIn to identify and reach out to these investors. When pitching, focus on demonstrating your product's unique value proposition, market potential, and revenue growth. Highlight key metrics such as user acquisition, retention rates, and customer testimonials. Personalize your outreach by referencing the investor’s previous investments and explaining how your startup aligns with their investment thesis. Building a strong relationship through initial informal meetings or discussions can help establish trust and credibility. Demonstrate your knowledge of the industry, competitive landscape, and growth strategies to make a compelling case for investment.
Case Studies: Successful Funding Rounds with Angel Investors on Angels Partners
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