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New York, U.S.A.
Media • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Laurel Touby is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Supernode Ventures. She is the Founder and Chief Executive Odfficer at Mediabistro. During her time as Chief Executive Officer, she pulled the company through two recessions, pivoted, managed growth with minimal resources and developed audience via guerrilla and social marketing (before that term existed). Users subscribe to mediabistro's many services, which include online education, employment classifieds, conferences (offline), events (offline), forums, and industry-specific blogs, such as the popular TVNewser. Following the sale of the company for $23 mm to Jupitermedia, Laurel remained with the company through June, 2011. Laurel began investing in seed-stage startups, including: AdYapper, Appboy, Apploi, Buddie, Clef, CreativeWorx, Fashion GPS, Learn Immersive and Pivit. She is an LP in Lowercase Ventures (with holdings in Twitter, Uber, etc.) and in Pershing Square, among others. Laurel is active as a public speaker and hosted "Secrets of Successful Startups" on CBS Interactive. An inveterate connector, Laurel touches the entrepreneurial community in various ways, including via her monthly co-hosted Cereal Entrepreneurs breakfast, Flatiron Investor meetings and Startup Digital Dinners. She lives in a loft in Silicon Alley and is married to Jon Fine, Author of "Your Band Sucks" and Executive Editor of Inc. Magazine. She has served as an Advisor at HoneyCo Homes.
Mountain View - Malaysia, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Media • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Advertising • Developer tools • Real Estate (& Construction)
Khailee Ng is the Co-Founder and serves as a Chief Executive Officer at SAYS. He serves as Managing Partner at 500 Startups. Previously, he served as Director at iMoney Group. He is also the co-founder of GroupsMore (acquired by Groupon), SAYS.com, a Social News Network in Southeast Asia.
Los Altos - Menlo Park - San Francisco Bay Area - Palo Alto - California, U.S.A.
Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Online Social • Consumer
Consumer VC @ Menlo Ventures
Mission: help entrepreneurs solve important problems at scale.
Lead @ Roku, Uber, JUMP, IMVU, Siri, TeleNav, YuMe, PlaySpan
Founder and former CEO of Handle (www.handle.today)
New York, U.S.A.
Media • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Consumer
Rick Heitzmann is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at FirstMark Capital. He focuses on consumer and enterprise investments in media, advertising technology, gaming, mobile, and data services. Rick has led investments in market leaders in commerce (StubHub, acquired by eBay), gaming (Riot Games, acquired by Tencent), data services (First Advantage, NASDAQ: FADV; acquired by First American), advertising technology (TapAd), media (Pinterest), and more. Prior to founding FirstMark, Rick was an entrepreneur including being a founding member of the senior management team at First Advantage which he helped grow and sell to First American (NYSE: FAF). He serves on the Board of Directors of the New York Venture Capital Association. Rick holds a B.S. from Georgetown University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He also serves as Board Member at Dashlane, Grid Mobile and Playnomics.
Santa Monica - California, U.S.A.
Media • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Gaming (& eSports) • Future Of Work • Online Social
Co-Founder/Partner at @science. Entrepreneur, Advisor. a few startups - @photobucket, @billshrink Always the first on the dance floor.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Media • Entertainment (& Sports) • Gaming (& eSports) • Online Social • Woman Focused
Managing Director | Transcend Fund
Most Interested In
Games, esports, and digital media
Business & Corporate Development • Founder @qbiquity • Exec roles at @playfish, @gree
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Businesses Solutions • Developer tools • Consumer
Matt Cohler serves as General Partner at Benchmark Capital. He also serves as the Board Observer at Greenhouse Software. He has several years of experience working with great entrepreneurs to build lasting consumer Internet companies, having served in senior management roles at Facebook and LinkedIn. Most recently, he served as vice president of product management at Facebook, overseeing the company's product development organizations. Matt joined Facebook in early 2005 as one of the first five employees hired by the company's founders and its first external executive hire, and he's been credited with helping drive Facebook's strategy, organizational growth and product direction. Previously, Matt served as vice president and general manager at LinkedIn, where he was a member of the company's founding team. Before LinkedIn, he was a consultant in McKinsey & Company's Silicon Valley office and worked in Beijing for AsiaInfo, the telecom solutions provider that built China's Internet infrastructure, prior to the company's initial public offering. His investments are 1stdibs, Asana, Baixing, CouchSurfing, Domo, Dropbox, Edmodo, Instagram, Quora, Peixe Urbano, ResearchGate, and Zendesk. He is also a special advisor at Facebook, board of governors at San Francisco Symphony. He holds a B.A. with honors and distinction from Yale University. He is the Board Member at Zendex.
New York, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Online Social
Working @facebook (Backend / data eng) ⢠Investing in exciting startups ⢠Engineering & product background. Write me i@mahaniok.com
Palo Alto - California, U.S.A. - Australia
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Impact • Logistics (& Distribution) • Woman Focused
Venture Capitalist, Athlete, Adjunct Professor
Most Interested In
Data Science, AI, SaaS , DevOps, Human Performance, Flow State
Not Interested In
Not interested in heavily capital intensive businesses.
Angel: Twitter (Tweetdeck) @Tango @voxer (BOD) @treasure-data (Chmn). Seed: @wish, Soundtracking. Past BOD of 7 Listed companies incl one I founded.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • AR/VR • Developer tools • Online Social • Consumer
Partner at e.ventures
Venture Investor at e.ventures. Formerly at Palantir Technologies, Fung Capital, and Cambridge Associates. Stanford, B.A., and Berkeley Law, J.D.
Palo Alto - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Businesses Solutions • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Online Social • Consumer • Productivity
General Partner @ Accel
General Partner at VC firm, Accel. Serve on the BoDs: Atlassian (TEAM), Checkr (background check API), UIPath (Leader in Robotic Process Automation), ServiceChannel (Vertical SaaS for contractor mgmt), MidDesk (Business identity API), Bettercloud (SaaS mgmt), Process.St (workflow collaboration), Instabug (mobile development/APM), Qwilt (Video acceleration), and PYN (Human Capital & Employee Comms Software)
Volunteer Organizations:
- BoD of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA)
- The MIT Corporation - Development Committee
- The MIT Corporation - Visiting Committee for Political Science
- MIT's Center for Entrepreneurship Advisory BoD
Previous investments/exits include:
- Airwatch (mobile device mgmt leader acq by VMWare)
- Admob (early mobile advertising leader, acq by Google)
- MoPub (mobile adv leader, acq by Twitter)
- Parature (early SaaS leader in customer support, acq by Microsoft)
- Dealer.com (SMB SaaS player acq by DealerTrack)
- Nextbit (acq by Razer)
- Swiftkey (acq by Microsoft)
- Rovio (IPO - ROVIO.HE)
- SunRun (IPO - RUN)
- 3LM (mobile enterprise player, acq by Google)
Indianapolis - Salt Lake City - Phoenix - Detroit - Ann Arbor - Omaha - St. Louis - Cleveland - Cincinnati - Chicago - Madison - Boulder - Denver - Dallas - Houston - Austin - Texas, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Businesses Solutions
Managing Director at Mercury Fund
Managing Director at Mercury Fund
Palo Alto - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Businesses Solutions • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Online Social
Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO Rubrik, Inc.
Co-Founder, Chairman & CEO Rubrik, Inc.
Bipul Sinha is an entrepreneur, engineer and venture capitalist with more than 20 years of experience building billion-dollar companies - including Rubrik which he co-founded and leads as the CEO. In addition, Bipul is the Board Chairman & Co-Founder of Confluera and a Venture Partner at Lightspeed. Previously, Bipul was a Partner at Lightspeed where he focused on software, mobile, and Internet sectors. His investments included Nutanix, Pulse News, Bromium, and PernixData. Before Lightspeed, Bipul worked at Blumberg Capital, where he was the founding investor/board member of Nutanix and Hootsuite. Bipul also held engineering positions at Oracle Corporation, American Megatrends and IBM. Bipul received his Bachelor in Technology in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur where he was bestowed with the Distinguished Alumnus Award. Bipul completed his MBA in Finance from The Wharton School where he was a Palmer Scholar. Bipul holds several patents in distributed computing.
Palo Alto - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Businesses Solutions • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Partner at Accel
Accel,
Sequoia Capital,
Broadview International,
Oracle Corp,
Stanford MBA,
MIT MSEE/BSEE
Specialties: Venture capital and growth equity investing with focus on Internet, digital media, software, and services.
Seattle - Washington, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Media • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Future Of Work • Real Estate (& Construction) • DeepTech • UrbanTech
General Partner at Untapped Capital; Venture Partner at Scrum Ventures
Palo Alto - San Francisco Bay Area - New York - Atherton, U.S.A.
Media • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Developer tools • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Craig Sherman serves as Managing Director at Meritech Capital Partners. He focuses primarily on digital media and consumer services. Craig has led the firm's investments in Evernote, Zulily, Lynda.com and Ariosa Diagnostics. Prior to Meritech, Craig was Chief Executive Officer of Gaia Interactive, which he grew from a 1/2 million to over a 20 million monthly visitor pioneer in social games and online communities. Prior to joining Gaia, Craig served as an EIR at Benchmark Capital. Previously, Craig was Chief Operating Officer of Ancestry.com (ACOM), where he helped lead the company's pivot from a free family social network to a family history subscription service and grew the company from under $10 million to $150 million in sales and from tens of millions in losses to tens of millions in profits. Before Ancestry.com, Craig held senior positions at AIG: he was head of marketing and internet for all of AIG's Japanese and Korean divisions totaling over $5 billion in sales; and the general manager of AIG's property management software subsidiary, a $90 million sales company whose growth rate quadrupled during Craig's tenure. Previous to AIG, Craig was Chief Executive Officer of Cendant Japan, a joint venture startup he founded with Cendant and Mitsubishi Corporation that he helped grow from inception to over $20 million in sales and profitability. Before that, he worked in product, marketing, finance and operations roles at Cendant during its growth from less than a $1 billion to over a $40 billion public company. Craig has personally invested in over a dozen startups including Ancestry, SurveyMonkey, Zillow and Zipcar. In addition, Craig has held independent board and advisory roles with Homestead (prior to its sale to Intuit), Kongregate (GameStop), Logoworks (Hewlett Packard), Netquote (BankRate), and Photobucket (Fox). He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University. He also serves as Board Member at Rev. He serves as Board Member at Roblox.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - Brazil - Japan - China - Western Europe: Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Monaco, Netherlands, Switzerland, United Kingdom - Eastern Europe: Belarus, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Moldova, Poland, Romani
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Businesses Solutions • Advertising • Consumer
Entrepreneurial VC with truly global exposure
Los Angeles - California, U.S.A.
PropTech • Media • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Gaming (& eSports) • Analytics • Real Estate (& Construction) • Online Social
Vaizra Investments is a private venture capital fund investing in start-ups with creative solutions to existing or emerging consumer needs. Investment ranges are between $200,000-$500,000, with 'follow-ons' in later rounds.
Paris Ile - de, France - U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Local commerce • Consumer
Vice-President chez Iliad / Free