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.
Deepak Kamra
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
San Francisco Bay Are..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Beeline Bikes:
$2920000
• Apartment List:
$50000000 (Later stage VC)
• Leanplum:
$47000000 (Later stage VC)
• Ladder:
$30000000 (Later stage VC)
• MindTickle:
$27000000 (Later stage VC)
• Quantum Circuits:
$18000000 (Early stage VC)
• Uncommon Co.:
$18000000 (Early stage VC)
• UrbanSitter:
$17000000 (Later stage VC)
• ClimaCell Inc.:
$15000000 (Early stage VC)
• Genome Medical:
$11000000 (Early stage VC)
• Arbe Robotics:
$9000000 (Early stage VC)
• Pathios Therapeutics:
$8800000 (Early stage VC)
• ExecThread:
$6500000 (Later stage VC)
• BoostUp.ai:
$6250000 (Early stage VC)
• Mynd:
$5000000 (Later stage VC)
• Homeis:
$4000000 (Seed Round)
• Node:
$6000000 (Series Unknown)
• Node:
$16000000 (Series Unknown)
• Node:
$11000000 (Series A)
• Node:
$8000000 (Seed)
• Kustomer:
$35000000 (Series C)
• Kustomer:
$26000000 (Series B)
• Kustomer:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Wove:
$9000000 (Series A)
• Imanis Data:
$14000000 (Series B)
• Imanis Data:
$12000000 (Series A)
• Ascendify:
$11000000 (Series A)
• Turo:
$100000000 (Series D)
• Turo:
$25000000 (Series B)
• Capella Space:
(Seed)
• World View Enterprises:
$15000000 (Series B)
• AdverCar:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Terra Bella:
$70000000 (Series C)
• Skybox Imaging:
$70000000 (Series Unknown)
• Zoosk:
$21000000 (Series E)
• Zoosk:
$30000000 (Series D)
• Zoosk:
$6000000 (Series C)
• Zoosk:
$4000000 (Series B)
• GroundWork:
$5000000 (Series D)
• GroundWork:
$13000000 (Series C)
• GroundWork:
$9000000 (Series B)
• GroundWork:
$3000000 (Series A)
• ON24:
$8000000 (Series Unknown)
• ON24:
$3000000 (Series Unknown)
• ON24:
$25000000 (Series B)
• ON24:
$6000000 (Series A)
• Aperto Networks:
$20000000 (Series F)
• Aperto Networks:
$19000000 (Series E)
• Aperto Networks:
$26000000 (Series E)
• Aperto Networks:
$17000000 (Series E)
• Aperto Networks:
$20000000 (Series D)
• Aperto Networks:
$22000000 (Series C)
• Bharat Matrimony:
$12000000 (Series B)
• Bharat Matrimony:
$9000000 (Series A)
• Zmanda:
$8000000 (Series B)
• Zmanda:
$5000000 (Series A)
• Blackfoot:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Kinecta:
$12000000 (Series B)
• iPrint:
$8000000 (Series B)
• Electric Classifieds, Inc.:
$2000000 (Angel)
Deepak Kamra
San Francisco Bay Area - Menlo Park - California, U.S.A.
Deepak Kamra serves as General Partner at Canaan Partners. He also is an Angel Investor. He has been with Canaan Partners for over 20 years and focuses on investments in digital media and software. He served as Board Member at Alltranmedia. He led Canaan's early investment in DoubleClick, the Internet's first and leading online advertising solution; Match.com, the first subscription-based dating site; voice-over-IP infrastructure company Acme Packet (acq. by Oracle), and SuccessFactors (acq. by SAP). Deepak currently sits on the boards of ON24, the global leader of webcasting and video communications solutions, Zoosk, the largest social dating network in the world, and Skybox Imaging, a next-generation satellite company. Before joining Canaan, Deepak was on the startup team at Aspect Communications, a pioneer in call center technologies, which he helped lead to a successful IPO in 1990. Prior to Aspect, Deepak held strategic roles at ROLM Corp. and TRW Datacomm International. Deepak received a BA from Carleton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He served on the board of the National Venture Capital Association from 2008 to 2012 and was included on the Forbes Midas List in 2008 and 2009. In his spare time, he is involved in several microfinance initiatives to spur economic growth in developing nations and has served as Chairman of the Investment Committee at Deutsche Bank's Global Commercial Microfinance Consortium.
Ullas Naik
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Ullas Naik is the Founder and serves as General Partner at Streamlined Ventures. Naik founded Streamlined Ventures with a vision of building a thought leading investment platform rooted in the philosophical belief that founders of companies are the true heroes of entrepreneurial value creation in our society. Streamlined Ventures invests in and supports visionary founders working on transformational application and business infrastructure software companies for the Mobile Web, Social Web, Web and Enterprise markets. Ullas is a seasoned venture capitalist, angel investor and entrepreneur with over two decades of entrepreneurial and early stage investment experience across 300 companies. Prior to founding Streamlined Ventures, he co-founded investment firm Cota Capital. Prior to that, Ullas was a senior member of the investment team for 12 years at Globespan Capital and helped build the firm. He has also been an active angel investor over the last 21 years during which he invested in over 60 companies spanning Internet 1.0, Web 2.0, mobile web, social web, enterprise computing as well as disruptive technologies in other domains such as robotics and wearable computing. Before his institutional investing career Ullas was a top ranked Wall Street research analyst at FAC Equities/First Albany. He was recognized by the Wall Street Journal and Fortune Magazine as a Wall Street All Star. Prior to that, Ullas received an MBA degree after starting a chemicals trading business in India. He also has a bachelor's degree in organic chemistry. He is also an Angel Investor.
Mike Speiser
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Palo Alto, U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• It's a secret:
• Confidential (In stealth mode):
• It’s also a secret:
• Sigma Computing:
(early stage)
• Epinions.com:
• SentinelOne:
(late stage)
• Excelero:
(mid stage)
• Magisto:
(late stage)
• ScyllaDB:
(mid stage)
• TabTale:
(late stage)
• Weka.IO:
(early stage)
• Medisafe™:
(mid stage)
• Splacer - Connecting People and Spaces:
(early stage)
Most Interested In
Viral SaaS products with immediate impact. Gaming with proven unit economics. Foodtech 1-3 steps before last mile consumer deliveries (processing, manufacturing, procurement).
Cem Sertoglu
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Most Interested In
Consumer-facing e-businesses, including marketplaces, e-tailers, SaaS and SME-focused software companies targeting local markets in CEE & Turkey. Enterprise technology innovators with roots in CEE & Turkey.
Not Interested In
Life sciences, material science, clean tech
Cem Sertoglu serves as Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital. He has several years of experience as an Investor, focusing web-enabled services and consumer internet. Previously, he was a Partner at iLab Ventures, Co-Founder and CEO at Mondus.com, Founder & CEO at SelectMinds and Vice President at Farmer & Company. Pioneering the technology investment sector in Turkey since its inception with his personal investment vehicle Young Turk Ventures, his investments include propertyfinder.ae, Wikimart.ru, Civic Solar, Gittigidiyor.com (Turkey's leading online auctions portal), Yemeksepeti.com (Turkey's leading food order platform) and Grupanya (Turkey's leading daily deal website). He holds a BA in Economics from University of Texas (Austin). He served as Board Member at Fite and Grupanya.
Arif Janmohamed
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Menlo Park , Mountain..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Udaan:
$3240000000 (Later stage VC)
• ShareChat:
$1163100000 (Later stage VC)
• FastFox:
$300000000 (Early stage VC)
• BYJU’S:
$75000000 (Later stage VC)
• Reflektive:
$60000000 (Later stage VC)
• Ladder:
$30000000 (Later stage VC)
• Dremio Corporation:
$25000000 (Later stage VC)
• Arctic Wolf Networks:
$16000000 (Later stage VC)
Arif Janmohamed serves as a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. He also serves as a Board Member at TripActions. He also serves as Charter Member at C100 Association. He is a Board Member at OverOps. He joined Lightspeed in 2008 and focuses primarily on investments in the areas of cloud and datacenter technologies, as well as enterprise mobile and SaaS solutions. He also serves as Board Member at Mist Syste He is currently working closely with the teams at Avi Networks, Highfive, Netskope, Nutanix, Pertino Networks, ThoughtSpot, Qubole, and Virtual Instruments. He was also involved in several Lightspeed investments which have had successful exits including Edgespring (acquired by Salesforce.com), IO Turbine (acquired by Fusion-io), Memoir Systems (acquired by Cisco), RAPsphere (acquired by AppSense) and StreamOnce (acquired by Jive Software). Prior to joining Lightspeed, he worked in the Corporate Business Development group at Cisco Systems where he focused on mergers and acquisitions, strategy, and investments in the Unified Communications, Enterprise Collaboration, Mobile, and SaaS market segments. Before joining Cisco Systems, he was with Novitas Capital, an early-stage venture capital firm. Earlier in his career, he worked in technical development and product management roles at WebTV (acquired by MSFT), Andes Networks (acquired by SUNW), and Sun Microsyste He holds an MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a BSc in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo, Canada.
David Ulevitch
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
San Francisco Bay Are..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Kentik Technologies:
$23000000 (Series B)
• Mem Labs:
$5600000 (Seed Round)
• Loft Holdings:
$175000000 (Later stage VC)
• BlockTower Capital:
$140000000 (Later stage VC)
• Rappi:
$130000000 (Later stage VC)
• Starburst Data:
$118000000 (Later stage VC)
• DFINITY:
$61000000 (Later stage VC)
• Reflektive:
$60000000 (Later stage VC)
• Caffeine:
$46000000 (Later stage VC)
• Cumulus Networks:
$43000000 (Later stage VC)
• Envoy:
$43000000 (Later stage VC)
• Highfive:
$32000000 (Later stage VC)
• Deel:
$30000000 (Later stage VC)
• Usermind:
$23500000 (Later stage VC)
• dyDx Ripple Coinbase Axoni Basecoin:
• Radiant:
$100000000 (Series C)
• Radiant:
$40000000 (Series B)
• Orderful:
$15000000 (Series Unknown)
• Orderful:
$19000000 (Series B)
• Orderful:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Infinite Machine:
$9000000 (Seed)
• Prepared:
$27000000 (Series B)
• Apex - Spacecraft Manufacturing:
$95000000 (Series B)
• Apex - Spacecraft Manufacturing:
$17000000 (Series A)
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.
Matt Murphy
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Eitan is a founding partner of TLV Partners. He currently focuses on Mobile, IoT, Marketing Analytics and Fintech. His passion is working with great entrepreneurs and helping them build their dream.
Eitan invested and partnered with the founders of Check (acquired by INTU), Videosurf (acquired by MSFT), AppsFlyer, Duda, 3DV (acquired by MSFT), Sckipio and Neura.
Previously Eitan was a General Partner at Pitango Venture Capital and led Pitango’s Silicon Valley activity since 2007. Before that he was part of the founding team of an internet startup focused on bringing the internet to the elderly and held Executive positions at Elbit Systems. Eitan holds an MBA from the University of Michigan. Eitan also served as a Pilot in the Israeli Air Force.
Tim Chae
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Active in fintech, e-sports, marketplaces, cross-border. But always prefer to invest in people who make me become aware about large problems.
Not Interested In
Businesses that are capital intensive prior to launch and especially businesses with long feedback loop cycles (pure hardware, etc.)
Partner at @500startups and heading up our $15M Korea specific fund, 500 Kimchi. Started a couple co's (bootstrapped & venture). Big fan of #ELaMF and #JFDI.
How to connect with Angel Investors in the Cloud Services industry?
In the Cloud Services & Infrastructure industry, angel investors such as Marc Benioff, Tim Ferriss, and Naval Ravikant are significant figures. These investors focus on startups offering innovative solutions in cloud computing, infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS), and cloud security. Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, invests in cloud startups that enhance enterprise efficiency and data management. Tim Ferriss, an author and entrepreneur, looks for companies that leverage cloud technology to provide scalable and efficient solutions. Naval Ravikant, co-founder of AngelList, seeks out startups with strong cloud infrastructure capabilities and market potential. To connect with these investors, attend cloud computing conferences, tech expos, and networking events such as AWS re:Invent, Google Cloud Next, and Cloud Expo. Utilize platforms like AngelList and LinkedIn to identify and reach out to potential investors. When pitching, emphasize how your cloud services or infrastructure solution addresses key challenges, such as improving data security, enhancing scalability, or reducing operational costs. Highlight any traction you’ve gained, such as partnerships with tech companies, user growth, or positive feedback from clients. Building relationships through initial informal meetings or discussions at industry panels can help establish trust with these investors. Demonstrating the impact of your technology through case studies or user testimonials can also add credibility. Personalize your outreach by referencing the investor’s previous investments and explaining how your venture aligns with their interests. Demonstrating a sustainable business model with clear revenue streams, such as subscription fees, licensing, or usage-based pricing, will further strengthen your pitch. Leveraging endorsements or case studies from cloud computing experts can also enhance your credibility.
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