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Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam - San Francisco, California - San Francisco (CA) - Mountain View (CA) - San Francisco Bay Area - 500 Startups is an accelerator - San Francisco Bay Area (CA), U.S.A.
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
General Partner at Ascend Vietnam Ventures
Most Interested In
Tech companies solving emerging market problems
Not Interested In
Idea stage companies
San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Gaming (& eSports) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Online Social • Consumer
Early-Stage Investor & Advisor in B2B Marketplaces
San Francisco (CA) - New York City (NY), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Media • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Advertising • Analytics • Real Estate (& Construction)
Founding Partner at Zigg Capital
New Haven Connecticut - Boston Massachusetts - San Jose California - San Francisco (CA) - Oakland, California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • BioTech • FinTech (& Financials services)
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.
San Francisco California - London - New York City (NY) - Seoul South Korea - Tokyo Japan - Valley California - Boston Massachusetts - Palo Alto California - Seattle Washington - Los Angeles California - Mountain View California, U.S.A.
PropTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • IoT (& Wearables) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
CEO and Founding Partner at 500 Startups
New York City (NY) - Valley California - Palo Alto California - Menlo Park California - Lake City Utah - - Las Vegas Nevada - San Francisco, California - AgTech - E - Fintech - Local commerce, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Future Of Work • Real Estate (& Construction)
Partner @homebrew. Formerly VP Product at @twitter, ex-Google PM, ex-Partner at @battery-ventures. Penn educated. Vegas raised.
New Delhi India - New York (NY), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Advertising • Online Social • Consumer
Nihal Mehta serves as Founding General Partner at Eniac Ventures. He is also the Founding Partner at India Internet Fund. He also served as Member of Advisory Board at Blue Cloud Ventures. He serves as an Advisor at Inter Mobile Ventures. Nihal has several years experience in innovating marketing technologies through founding five startups to date. Nihal is currently the Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of LocalResponse, which helps marketers respond to real-time consumer intent. Prior to LocalResponse, (which pivoted from buzzd, a leading real-time city guide), Nihal founded ipsh!, one of the first full-service mobile marketing agencies in 2001, which he sold to Omnicom (NYSE: OMC) in 2005. Nihal is a noted expert in the emerging adoption of mobile technologies for media properties and consumer brands. Named one of the "25 People Every New Founder Should Meet in New York Tech" and a top "25 Up-And-Coming Startup CEO in New York" in 2012 by Business Insider, a 2012 AlwaysOn "Power Player NYC," a top 10 NYC 'Game Changer' in the 2010 New York Enterprise Report, one of twenty RCR Wireless News 'Mobile Movers and Shakers' in 2008, a BusinessWeek 'M-Commerce Baron' in 2006 and named one of AdAge's 'Top 20 Marketers in Their 20s' in 2005. Nihal graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Philosophy and a BSE in Computer Science. He is also an Angel Investor. He also serves as a Board Member at Alloy. He served as Board Member and Advisor at Lokast and as an Advisor at Findable. He is also an Angel Investor.
Los Angeles, California - Austin (TX) - Seattle (WA) - Chicago (IL) - Boston (MA) - New York (NY) - Los Angeles (CA) - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Advertising • Online Social
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.
New York City (NY) - 4040 Locust Street Philiadelphia Pennsylvania - San Francisco (CA) - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - , U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Businesses Solutions • Consumer
Partner, First Round Capital
Josh is a founding Partner at First Round Capital, a seed-stage technology venture fund. Josh has been an active entrepreneur and investor in the Internet industry since its commercialization. In 1992, while he was a student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Josh co-founded Infonautics Corporation – and took it public on the NASDAQ stock exchange in 1996. Josh founded Half.com in July of 1999, and led it to become one of the largest sellers of used books, movies and music in the world. Half.com was acquired by eBay in July 2000 -- and Josh remained with eBay for three years, running the Half.com business unit and growing eBay’s Media marketplace to almost half a billion dollars in annual gross merchandise sales. In late 2003 Josh helped to found TurnTide, an anti-spam company that created the world's first anti-spam router. TurnTide was acquired by Symantec just six months later. Josh founded First Round Capital in 2004 to reinvent seed-stage investing. And since that time the firm has invested in over 350 emerging technology startups – becoming one of the most active venture capital firms in the country. Josh was ranked 3rd on the 2018 New York Times list of Top Venture Capitalists and consistently ranks in the top 20 of the Forbes Midas List of the top 100 tech investors. Josh has been named as one of the top ten ‘angel investors’ in the United States by Newsweek magazine, one of "Tech's New Kingmakers" by Business 2.0 magazine and a "Rising VC Star" by Fortune magazine. Josh also is the proud winner of a second place ribbon in the 2011 Nantucket Watermelon Eating competition. Josh is an inventor on sixteen U.S. Patents for his work in Internet technology. In June 2000, he was awarded Ernst and Young’s prestigious “Entrepreneur of the Year” award for the Greater Philadelphia region. Josh earned a Bachelor of Science degree cum laude in Entrepreneurial Management and Marketing from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Boston Massachusetts - Palo Alto California - - Massachusetts - San Francisco (CA) - San Francisco Bay Area - Menlo Park, California, United States
Education • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness)
General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz. Reforge, ex-Uber Growth
Andrew Chen serves as General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He serves as Board Member at Atrium (Application Software). He is an advisor/investor for tech startups including AngelList, Barkbox, Boba Guys, Dropbox, Front, Marco Polo, Gusto, Kiva, Product Hunt, Tinder, Workato and others. Previously, he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Mohr Davidow Ventures, a Silicon Valley-based firm with $2B under management. He holds a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Washington. Previously he served as in charge of Uber's rider growth team.
San Francisco Bay Area - Menlo Park, California - New York (NY), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • IT (& TMT) • Media • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Payments • Real Estate (& Construction) • Investment Management • Mobile
General Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Most Interested In
Financial services (esp anything with unique customer target/ or acquisition strategy), new software in esoteric spaces (eg mortgage servicing), all things Insurance
Redwood City California - Atherton California - Sunnyvale, California - Mountain View (CA), U.S.A.
Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • Online Social
Partner at @imagine-k12. Partner at @Ycombinator. Former CEO of music startup @lala (acquired by @apple); Former Chief Product Officer at @yahoo
San Francisco, California - San Francisco (CA) - Menlo Park, California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Web Security (& Privacy) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure)
Entrepreneur / GP at Andreessen Horowitz
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.
Menlo Park California - Valley California - San Francisco, California - The firm was founded in 2003 - San Francisco Bay Area (CA), U.S.A.
FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Blockchain (& Cryptos)
Venture Investor at @pantera-capital ; Board Observer at @changecoin ; Mentor at @boost-bitcoin-fund ; Mentor at @golden-gate-ventures
San Francisco Bay Area - New York (NY) - Tel Aviv (Israel) - San Francisco (CA) - Los Angeles (CA) - London, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • 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.
Valley California - Waterloo Canada - Ontario California - South San Francisco, California - Founded in 2015, 8VC is a venture capital firm - Austin, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Human Resources
Alex Kolicich serves as Co-Founding Partner at 8VC. Prior to joining 8VC, He is a Board Member at Senti Bio. He was a Partner at Formation 8. He is also a Board Member and Advisor at Chatous. He serves as Advisor at Street Contxt. Previously, he served as Principal at Mithril Capital Management. Previously, Kolicich worked as an engineer and early-product advisor at Clarium, Palantir, and Google. He was an early member of the Clarium Capital quantitative engineering team and close advisor for the early Palantir team; advising on product design and contributing to the product. At Google Research, Kolicich worked on Google Street-Views before and during launch. Preceding Street-Views, also at Google, he worked on the development and launch of the Google Checkout product. He received a B.SE in Software Engineering from the University of Waterloo and a Masters in Econometrics from the University of Toronto.
Los Angeles California - Denver, Colorado - San Francisco (CA) - Redwood City, California, United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • AR/VR • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Mobile Apps • Mobile • Mobility • Nanotechnology • Online Social
Co-Founder and CEO at Exer Labs, Inc.
Co-Founder and CEO at Exer Labs, Inc.
Veteran Entrepreneur & Investor: @signiavc @plyfe @haulerdeals @4info etc | Philanthropist: @palindromeadv climateX @asasafterschool @unfoundation @sfspca
New York City (NY) - San Francisco California - Boulder Colorado - Palo Alto (CA), United States
Education • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Web Security (& Privacy)
Founder and Managing Director at Costanoa Ventures
Founder, Managing Director, Costanoa Venture Capital. Early stage investor. Managing Director, Sutter Hill. 1st Prod Manager, wrote 1st bus. plan at Netscape.
New York City (NY) - New York (NY), United States
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Advertising
Brian Hirsch is the Founder & Managing Partner of Tribeca Venture Partners
Most Interested In
We are primarily a NY focused firm with over 90% of capital deployed locally.
Brian Hirsch is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Tribeca Venture Partners. He is a Board Member at Thinkful. He is also a Board Member at Lendio. Prior to starting Tribeca Venture Partners, Brian was a founder and Managing Director of GSA Venture Partners, formerly the venture arm of Greenhill & Co (NYSE: GHL). Prior to GSAVP, Brian was a Principal at Sterling Venture Partners and a Vice President at ABN AMRO Private Equity. Brian has invested across a broad number of sectors during his career including fintech, edtech, mobile, healthcare, online marketing and media/publishing. Brian has a BA in economics and American studies from Brandeis University. "When I was ten years old while most kids were reading comic books I was reading all of my father's business magazines. I mostly enjoyed reading the long profile stories of entrepreneurs that were building great companies against all odds. It was the 1980's and entrepreneurs like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Scott McNealy and Scott Cook were changing the world through technology. What fascinated me was the process of taking an idea and transforming it into a reality.
Singapore - Nairobi Kenya - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Payments • Online Social
Founding Partner at @io, @golden-gate-ventures, @savannah-fund, & @presence Capital. Previously CEO of @lefora, @meetro & paragon5
San Francisco California - Los Altos (CA) - Menlo Park, California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Food & Beverage • Online Social
Venture Partner at Lobby Capital