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Reid Hoffman

Palo Alto California - San Francisco California - Menlo Park California - Mountain View (CA) - , U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Hospitality (& Events) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Entertainment (& Sports) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Gaming (& eSports) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Impact • Material Science • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Payments • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Investment Management • Mobile • Mobility • Online Social • Consumer

Description

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.

Rick Desai

Chicago, Illinois - New York (NY) - San Francisco (CA) - Denver (CO) - Detroit (MI) - Austin (TX) - Boston (MA) - Los Angeles (CA) - Chicago (IL) - U.S.A., U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Entertainment (& Sports) • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Food & Beverage • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Investment Management • Online Social • Consumer

Description

Partner, Listen Ventures

Most Interested In

All things consumer. Products, services, marketplaces, platforms.

Not Interested In

Any business where a company does not have a direct relationship with the ultimate end user.

Investing in brands @listen-ventures-1. Building startups @dashfire.

David Mes

Munich Germany - San Francisco, California - London - Israel, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools

Description

Most Interested In

Promising B2B technology companies. Key focus: SaaS / enterprise software, fintech, AI.

Not Interested In

Life sciences, capital intensive projects, B2C.

David Mes is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Off The Grid Ventures. He also serves as a Venture Partner at US Invest LLC. He was a Co-Founder of Arc Venture Partners and served as a Managing Partner.

Jeff Pomeranz

San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Gaming (& eSports) • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Food & Beverage • Impact • Logistics (& Distribution) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Investment Management • Mobility • Online Social • Consumer

Description

Jeff Pomeranz serves as Managing Director at Right Side Capital Management. Pomeranz served as a Head of Alternative Investments at Legend Merchant Group. Previously, he was President of Hotovec, Pomeranz & Co., LLC, a boutique technology research, investment bank & wealth management firm located in San Francisco. He co-founded the firm in 1996. Prior to that, he joined Smith Barney in 1992 where he acted as a private client financial consultant. He began his career in 1991 as a senior fixed income account executive at McLaughlin, Piven & Vogel Securities. Jeff Pomeranz delivers private equity fund expertise and provides a securities industry perspective. For the past six years, he has worked for Legend Merchant Group in marketing and fundraising for the VC and hedge fund industry. Previously, he was the founder and President of a boutique investment bank and research firm. He holds Series 7, 24, 53, 63 & 65 licenses. His job is to make sure our offering appeals to investors.

Rob Trice

San Francisco Bay Area - Menlo Park, California, U.S.A.

Investing In

IT (& TMT) • Media • AgroTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Food & Beverage • Impact • Logistics (& Distribution) • Robotics • Mobile Apps • Mobile • Online Social

Description

Most Interested In

The application of information technology to make a positive impact in the food and agriculture sectors

Andres Barreto

San Francisco California - Mexico - Colombia - Chile - Argentina - Costa Rica - New York (NY), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Hospitality (& Events) • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • CleanTech • Advertising • Mobile Apps

Description

Managing Director at Techstars Boulder Accelerator

Founder @socialatomventures @onswipe, @grooveshark • Investor @authy, @bluesmart @cambly 50+ more.

Bedy Yang

California - - 500 Startups is an accelerator,

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Hospitality (& Events) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Entertainment (& Sports) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Food & Beverage • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobile • Online Social • Restaurants

Nicole Glaros

New York City (NY) - Cambridge Massachusetts - Chicago Illinois - Denver Colorado - Seattle Washington - Austin Texas - Boulder (CO), U.S.A.

Investing In

IT (& TMT) • Hospitality (& Events) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Gaming (& eSports) • Analytics • Impact

Description

Nicole Glaros serves as a Partner at Techstars. He is an Angel Investor. She is an entrepreneur and has been mentoring, supporting, and investing in entrepreneurs for over 15 years. Nicole got her entrepreneurial start in the 4th grade, orchestrating cousins into theatrical plays and charging neighbors admission. While earning her masters degree at the University of Florida, Nicole co-founded a tech startup that retailed products to the property management industry. It was there she developed her lifelong passion for supporting tech entrepreneurs. She took her learnings of how to scale and applied it to CTEK, an incubator in Colorado supporting tech startups in 2002, before accelerators existed. She helped grow CTEK from 1 to 5 offices across the state, and was an early catalyst in developing the startup ecosystem in Colorado. Most recently, she is the Chief Innovation Officer at Techstars - a global network and investor in early-stage web software companies. She's been with the company since it's earliest days, yet has been instrumental in its growth from one office in Boulder, CO to a global powerhouse, featuring investment offices in 18 cities worldwide, events in over 500 cities globally, with $265M in capital under management and a market cap of over $5B. Through Techstars she's invested in over 90 startups, most of which she still supports to this day. In addition to her role at Techstars, she's also on the board of Pana. Previously she's been on the boards of Owlet, the Application Developer's Alliance, Simple Energy and Pledge1Percent Colorado, She was named one of the Coolest People in New York Tech and an Extraordinary Woman in New York Tech by Business Insider, Marie Claire named her one of the NewGuard, and Entrepreneur Magazine named her One of the Most 7 Powerful Women to Watch and featured in the Denver Business Journal. She's been featured on CNBC, Inc.com, and Huffington Post, and her talks have been featured at SXSW, TEDx, WebSummit, Pioneers Festival, Arctic festival, the University of Colorado, Real Leaders, @WomenatForbes Mentoring Moments, and many, many more.

Cyril Ebersweiler

New York City (NY) - Beijing China - Shanghai China - Shenzhen China - Boston Massachusetts - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

IT (& TMT) • IoT (& Wearables)

Description

Cyril Ebersweiler serves as Managing Director, HAX and General Partner at SOSV. A hardware investor, visionary and serial entrepreneur, Cyril was SOSV's first general partner to run an accelerator, starting Chinaccelerator, the first mentorship-driven seed-funding program in China. He then went on to found HAX - the world's first and largest hardware accelerator - in 2012, along with HAX China and HAX Growth. Cyril is a mentor to Techstars and 500 Startups, and a founding member of the Global Accelerator Network. He is one of the world's most prolific investors in the hardware space, with 80+ investments. Cyril is a frequent speaker at events such as TechCrunch Disrupt, Makercon, Solidcon, Pioneers, The New Context Conference, AdTech, GMIC, and many others. He is an occasional guest writer at Techcrunch, and has been featured in The Economist, Popular Mechanics, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Huffington Post, Wired and more. He served as the Board Member at Nextly. He serves as Board Member in Formlabs.

Anil Advani

New York City (NY) - New York New York ; New Delhi India; Palo Alto California ; New York ; California, U.S.A.

Investing In

IT (& TMT) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Robotics • Legal Tech

Description

Founding Member and Legal Advisor, Excelerate at Excelerate

Anil Advani is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Inventus Law. Anil Advani specializes in the representation of early stage startup companies, venture funds, institutional angel investors and many prominent angel investors in silicon valley, India and other startup jurisdictions around the world. In the last 17 years practicing law in Silicon Valley, Advani has represented more than 2,000 startup companies and numerous founders, venture capital investors, angel investors, investment banks and venture debt investors in silicon valley and across the world, on issues relating to formation, founder issues, consulting and advisory arrangements, capital structuring, angel financings, venture financings, debt financings, leasing, strategic licensing and customer arrangements, and mergers and acquisitions. Advani has represented clients in more than 300 financing and M&A transactions valued at over $2 billion in the aggregate. He also has an active practice representing: (1) U.S. based public companies, investment banks, financial institutions and venture funds on acquisitions, financings, joint ventures and other strategic transactions in India, and (2) companies from New York, Los Angeles, Arizona, Chicago, India, Singapore, Turkey, Brazil, Mexico, Columbia, Croatia, Iceland, Czech, Hungary, Romania, South Africa, the U.K. and other world jurisdictions in setting up operations in Silicon Valley. Prior to starting Inventus Law in September 2009, Advani was Of Counsel and Head of India Practice in the Menlo Park offices of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe. Before joining Orrick, he was General Counsel and Vice President of SemIndia, a pioneering effort to establish semiconductor manufacturing in India. In that role, he was responsible for coordinating with the Government of India in formulating a comprehensive semiconductor policy for India as well as with the State of Andhra Pradesh in structuring Fab City in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh. Prior to joining SemIndia, Advani was a Senior Associate in the Silicon Valley offices of Cooley Godward where his practice focused on representing emerging companies and the venture funds and banks that finance those companies. Advani started his legal career practicing in the High Court of Delhi, India. He is licensed to practice in California, New York and New Delhi, India.

David Vogel

Boston Massachusetts - Massachusetts - Jupiter, Florida, U.S.A.

Investing In

IT (& TMT) • CleanTech • Impact

Description

Chief Legal Counsel

John Hawkins

San Francisco California - Greenwich Connecticut - Houston Texas - Europe - Washington D.C - Connecticut - Middle East - Texas, U.S.A.

Investing In

IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • HealthTech (& Fitness)

Description

John Hawkins is a Managing Partner and co-founder of Generation Partners, a private equity firm that provides growth capital to technology-enabled services companies through buyout and minority equity investments. Through Generation and predecessor firms, John has 25 years of experience in private equity investing. Prior to founding Generation in 1995, John was a General Partner of Burr, Egan, Deleage & Co., a venture capital firm which he joined in 1987. At Burr, Egan, Deleage, John invested mainly in telecommunications, data communications, software, and business services companies. Prior to this, John worked in the Corporate Finance Department of Alex Brown & Sons, Inc. in San Francisco, where he advised information technology companies in the areas of financial strategy, public offerings and mergers & acquisitions. Earlier, John was a publishing research analyst covering information technology companies for Woodman, Kirkpatrick & Gilbreath an investment bank which was subsequently purchased by Hambrecht & Quist. In addition to Captivate Network, John has served on the Board of Directors of over 20 companies including: HotJobs (NASDAQ: HOTJ) – a pioneer in online recruiting; P-Com (NASDAQ: PCOM) – a communications infrastructure equipment supplier; Demand Media (NYSE: DMD) – a leading online media company; thePlatform – a developer of digital content software solutions; Agility Recovery Solutions – a leading disaster recovery provider; High End Systems – a premier manufacturer of intelligent lighting; ShopWiki – an advanced comparison shopping search engine; Donuts – a domain registry where he is a board observer; and iCrossing – a large independent, global interactive advertising agency. John graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in English with honors from Harvard College in 1982, where he was a John Harvard Scholar. John received his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business in 1986. John is a member of the World Presidents’ Organization.

Manu Kumar

San Mateo California - Menlo Park California - Mountain View California - Palo Alto (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • IT (& TMT) • Hospitality (& Events) • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Entertainment (& Sports) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Impact • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness)

Description

Chief Firestarter @k9-ventures

Tom Siegel

San Francisco California - Champaign Illinois - Illinois, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • BioTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Life Science

Description

Tom Siegel serves as Managing Director and is a Co-Founder at Shepherd Ventures. He focuses on investments in technology, with particular emphasis on software and services, internet, digital media, mobile/wireless as well as food manufacturing and marketing. Past investments have resulted in many acquisitions and public offerings. Prior to Shepherd Ventures, Tom was a Senior Vice President with Advantage Capital Partners, a large early stage venture fund. He has also been a Managing Director of Illinois Ventures. Prior to Advantage Capital, Tom founded and/or served as President and Chief Executive Officer of various companies, primarily in the software, food, and publishing industries. Earlier in his career, Tom was a Management Consultant with, and a member of the M&A Group of KPMG. Tom received a BA in Economics and an MBA from the University of Illinois. He is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and also holds the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). He is a member of the CFA Institute, is a past Chairman and President of the CFA Society San Diego and past board member of Software San Diego. The US Small Business Administration has selected him as a Financial Services Advocate of the Year. Tom has been an active investor, advisor, and/or board member for dozens of privately-held companies.

Jeff Jordan

Menlo Park (CA) - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Hospitality (& Events) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Advertising • Analytics • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Food & Beverage • Local commerce • Payments • Mobility • Online Social

Description

GP at a16z

Venture Capitalist at @andreessen-horowitz.

Linked In Description:

Jeff Jordan is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joining a16z, Jeff was president and CEO of OpenTable, which he took public in 2009. Before OpenTable, he was president of PayPal and the SVP and GM of eBay North America. Follow him on his blog (http://jeff.a16z.com/) and on Twitter @jeff_jordan.

Angular Ventures

Tel Aviv (Israel), Israel

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data)

Karin Klein

New York (NY) - Founded in 2013, Bloomberg Beta is a corporate venture capital arm of Bloomberg headquartered in San Francisco, California, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Analytics • Investment Management

Description

partner @bloombergbeta. previously @ softbank. entrepreneur, venture capitalist, strategist, dreamer.

Doug McCormick

New York City (NY) - Northbrook Illinois - Minneapolis Minnesota - Washington D.C, U.S.A.

Investing In

Other • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Aerospace (& Defense)

Description

Formerly known as Thayer | Hidden Creek, HCI Equity Partners is a strategically focused private equity firm that targets growth oriented industrial product and service companies. The Firm has offices in Washington, DC and Minneapolis, MN. HCI Equity Partners focuses in the lower middle market which includes companies with approximately $20 to $200 million in annual revenue (and $5 million to $20 million in EBITDA). HCI targets companies that manufacture components or provide services in markets such as: Aerospace/Defense and Federal Services; Automotive and Commercial Vehicle Suppliers; Distribution; Industrial Distribution; Infrastructure; Power Generation; Test & Measurement; and Transportation and Logistics.

Thiago Olson

Atlanta, Georgia - Tel Aviv (Israel) - Bellevue (WA) - Raleigh - Durham / Southeast US - Chicago (IL) - Austin (TX) - Tampa (FL) - New York (NY) - Boston (MA) - Atlanta (GA) - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Developer tools • Logistics (& Distribution) • Robotics • Mobile

Description

Engage & Tech Square Ventures

Most Interested In

B2B Platforms and Marketplaces, Logistics & Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Enterprise Software, Connected HW.

Not Interested In

Consumer apps, sales automation, games, bio, genomics

Binh Tran

Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam - San Francisco, California - San Francisco (CA) - Mountain View (CA) - San Francisco Bay Area - 500 Startups is an accelerator,

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • AgroTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Food & Beverage • Logistics (& Distribution) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Mobile • Online Social • Restaurants

Description

Founder turned Investor

Most Interested In

Tech companies solving emerging market problems

Not Interested In

Idea stage companies

Venture Partner @500startups, previously co-founder @klout

Brad Bao

Beijing China - Shanghai China - Palo Alto California - Redwood City (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Other • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness)

Description

Unlock Life

Managing Partner at Kinzon Capital (Fosun Group), ex-General Manager of Tencent US branch (8 years); Internet expert of both US and China market

Patrick Lewis

Houston Texas - Texas, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Material Science

Nautilus Venture Partners

San Francisco Bay Area (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Investment Management • Mobile

Description

Nautilus Venture Partners is a venture capital firm based in Palo Alto, California with an additional office in South Korea. The firm invests in the artificial intelligence, internet of things and mobile sectors.

Doug Renert

San Francisco California - Burlingame, California - Burlingame (CA), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • IoT (& Wearables) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Food & Beverage

Description

Most Interested In

Most businesses with a leveraged go to market model. Most interesting spaces: marketplaces, platforms as a service and IoT (consumer or B2B)

Not Interested In

life sciences, med devices and deep science

Founded Tandem Cap, Silicon Valley's mobile incubator: investor in @tile, @playhaven,@pagerduty,@BashGaming,@ZumoDrive,@Cuff,@packetzoom, @upout;@ShoeLovers

Chang Xu

Santa Monica (CA) - Los Angeles (CA) - Los Angeles / Southern California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA) - Boston (MA) - New York (NY) - Seattle (WA) - Washington (DC) - Austin (TX), U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Food & Beverage • Material Science

Description

Most Interested In

Human capital development (edtech, higher ed, consumer toys, non-traditional education); AI / ML; marketplaces; consumer brands, products & services

Not Interested In

Gaming, life sciences, non-tech-enabled businesses