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
Howard Morgan
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
New York - City, U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Dopamine Labs:
$1200000 (Seed Round)
• X1 Technologies:
(Venture Round)
• X1 Technologies:
$10000000 (Venture Round)
• The Climate Corporation:
$4300000 (Seed Round)
• Jean Ray:
(Seed Round)
• Genetika+:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Lidwave:
$10000000 (Seed)
• Garden:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Star Catcher:
$12000000 (Seed)
• HATCH:
$3000000 (Seed)
• HATCH:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• CurbWaste:
$10000000 (Series A)
• CurbWaste:
$4000000 (Seed)
• CurbWaste:
$6000000 (Seed)
• OrdinalsBot:
$1000000 (Seed)
• UpdateAI:
$2000000 (Seed)
• EeroQ:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Fairtility:
$15000000 (Series A)
• LexCheck:
$5000000 (Seed)
• LexCheck:
$3000000 (Seed)
• NeuroKaire:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Aktivate:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Tiny Organics:
$11000000 (Series A)
• Norbert Health:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Merlin Labs:
$25000000 (Series A)
• Moxie:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Moxie:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• Base Operations:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Cambrian Asset Management:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Hum Capital:
$9000000 (Seed)
• MyndYou:
$4000000 (Series A)
• MyndYou:
(Seed)
• Concertio:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Lightning Labs:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Invisible Technologies:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Boundless Mind:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Pepo:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Numerai:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Abra:
$13000000 (Series A)
• Abra:
$2000000 (Series A)
• Spoon University:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Envelop VR:
$2000000 (Seed)
• GumGum:
$26000000 (Series C)
• GumGum:
$7000000 (Series B)
• GumGum:
$3000000 (Series A)
• GumGum:
$1000000 (Series A)
• NeuroVigil:
(Series B)
• Gem:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Gem:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Gem:
$2000000 (Seed)
• DogVacay:
$25000000 (Series B)
• DogVacay:
$15000000 (Series B)
• DogVacay:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Bezar:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Augury:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Pinrose:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Nimble TV:
$5000000 (Series A)
• NiftyThrifty:
$2000000 (Series Unknown)
• Fab:
$110000000 (Series C)
• Fab:
$40000000 (Series B)
• Fab:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Fab:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Fab:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Truveris:
$10000000 (Series B)
• Truveris:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Altruik:
$3000000 (Series B)
• Altruik:
$5000000 (Series A)
• TechForward:
$4000000 (Series B)
• TechForward:
$800000 (Debt Financing)
• TechForward:
$1000000 (Series A)
• TechForward:
(Series A)
• X1 Discovery:
(Series Unknown)
• X1 Discovery:
$10000000 (Series Unknown)
• Ambient Devices:
$5000000 (Series B)
• Ambient Devices:
$2000000 (Series Unknown)
• The Climate Corporation (Bayer Crop Science):
$4000000 (Seed)
Howard Morgan is co-founder and partner in First Round Capital, a seed stage venture capital investment firm specializing in information technologies.
He began working with Idealab in 1996 and serves on their board. He has more than 30 years of experience with more than two hundred high-tech entrepreneurial ventures.
He serves on the boards of Fab.com, Single Platform, GumGum, Energy Innovations and other private companies.
Howard was Professor of Decision Sciences at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Professor of Computer Science at the Moore School for almost 15 years.
He a Trustee of Cold Spring Harbor Labs and Math For America and is a respected author.
He received the Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1997.
Howard received his Ph.D. in operations research from Cornell University in 1968 and his B.S. from the City University of New York in 1965.
Sean Jacobsohn
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Businesses Solutions • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Future Of Work • Human Resources • Real Estate (& Construction) • Mobility • Woman Focused
Description
Co-President of @harvard-business-school Angels. Venture Partner at Emergence Capital. Former VP of BD at @cornerstone-ondemand and @wageworks (both had IPOs).
Izhar Armony
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Developer tools • Online Social
Description
General Partner at CRV
Most Interested In
AI as applied to the real-world: autonomous vehicles, cyber security, demand forecasting, etc.
Also any SaaS application (B2B only)
Focused on Seed and A's only
Not Interested In
Not interested in Consumer software, FinTech, HC IT, Bio.
Not pursuing later stage deals
Chamath Palihapitiya
Investing in Media • Education • FinTec...
Palo Alto , San Franc..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• OroWealth:
$1600000
• Journal:
$1500000 (Seed Round)
• LotusFlare Inc:
$6000000 (Series A)
• LotusFlare Inc:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Mitra Chem:
$40000000 (Series B)
• Mitra Chem:
$20000000 (Series A)
• Flock:
$38000000 (Series B)
• Flock:
$17000000 (Series A)
• Syapse:
$35000000 (Series Unknown)
• Syapse:
$30000000 (Series F)
• Syapse:
$30000000 (Series D)
• Syapse:
$25000000 (Series C)
• Syapse:
$10000000 (Series B)
• Syapse:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Palmetto Clean Technology:
$380000000 (Series C)
• Perimeter Medical Imaging:
$38000000 (Post Ipo Equity)
Chamath Palihapitiya is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Social Capital. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer at Social Capital Hedosophia. He is also the Chariman of Lotusflare. He is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Remote Health Services. He served as Chairman at Integrated Plasmonics. He also serves as Chairman at Athos Works. He is also a Co-Owner and serves as Board Member at Golden State Warriors. He previously founded and served as General Partner at Embarcadero Ventures. He also served as a Board Member at ezhome. He was the VP of product marketing, operations, Growth, Mobile and International & & Head of User Growth of Facebook. He is a board member at BitYota, Groq, Future Shorts, 9021 PHO Restaurants, Remind101, Confer Health, Ezetap Mobile Solutions, Lemon, Treehouse Island, Crushpath, Captricity and Treehouse Island. He served as the principal of Mayfield Fund. He focused on consumer internet, advertising and media investments. Prior to this, he spent five years with AOL, most recently served as the VP and general manager of the Desktop Messaging group with overall responsibility for the AIM and ICQ businesses. Prior to his role as the Head of AIM and ICQ, He served as VP of Business Operations for AOL's broadband subscription service helping to build the business to over $1 billion in revenue. He also co-founded and launched a Music Video-On-Demand (VOD) Channel to both critical and user acclaim, garnering successive Emmy nominations in 2005 and 2006. Earlier, he held management positions with internet music pioneers Spinner.com (AOL) and Winamp (AOL). He is a Member of the Investment Committee of fbFund. He attended the University of Waterloo, where he graduated first class honors with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He serves as an executive chairman at MAD Apparel. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at Remote Health Services.
Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Future Of Work • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobility
Description
Partner at Index Ventures
Martin Mignot serves as a Partner at Index Ventures. He also serves as Advisory Board Member at TheFamily. He specialises in SaaS, marketplaces, bitcoin and mobile. He worked on 50+ transactions to date, including Assistly, Auxmoney, BaseCRM, Cloud.com, Codecademy, DimDim, Factual, Farfetch, Flipboard, Funding Circle, Gluster, HouseTrip, Just Eat, Lookout, Nasty Gal, Notonthehighstreet, onefinestay, PeoplePerHour, TrustPilot, Soluto and SoundCloud. He is actively looking after Index's investments in Algolia, Capitaine Train, Drivy, Rad and Swiftkey. Prior to joining Index, Martin was in the TMT team at UBS Investment Bank and cofounded the beauty subscription business Boudoir Prive (acquired by Joliebox/Birchbox) and a student web radio service.
Josh Kopelman
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
San Francisco Bay Are..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Jean Ray:
(Seed Round)
• Candid Health:
$29000000 (Series B)
• Candid Health:
$16000000 (Series A)
• Vitable Health:
$16000000 (Series A)
• Vitable Health:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Pomelo Care:
$46000000 (Series B)
• Pomelo Care:
$33000000 (Series A)
• Eigen Therapeutics:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Merlin Labs:
$110000000 (Series B)
• Merlin Labs:
$25000000 (Series A)
• Merlin Labs:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Boulder Care:
$36000000 (Series B)
• Boulder Care:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Canonic Security:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Pinwheel:
$50000000 (Series B)
• Pinwheel:
$20000000 (Series A)
• Pinwheel:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Mythic Therapeutics:
$100000000 (Series B)
• Kandji:
$100000000 (Series C)
• Kandji:
$60000000 (Series B)
• Kandji:
$21000000 (Series A)
• Kandji:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Kandji:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Vital:
$15000000 (Series A)
• Vital:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Root AI:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Root AI:
$2000000 (Seed)
• RenoFi:
$6000000 (Series A)
• RenoFi:
$750000 (Seed)
• Snackpass:
$24000000 (Series A)
• Snackpass:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Notion:
$18000000 (Series A)
• Notion:
(Angel)
• Whose Your Landlord:
(Seed)
• Athenascope:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Spring Discovery:
$18000000 (Series A)
• Spring Discovery:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Gregor Diagnostics:
$900000 (Seed)
• Swivel:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Upserve:
(Series Unknown)
• Upserve:
$20000000 (Series C)
• Upserve:
$12000000 (Series B)
• Upserve:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Upserve:
$880000 (Angel)
• Houwzer:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Upstart:
$33000000 (Series D)
• Upstart:
$35000000 (Series C)
• Upstart:
$6000000 (Series A)
• Upstart:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Grokker:
$7000000 (Series B)
• Grokker:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Grokker:
$6000000 (Series A)
• Clover Health:
$160000000 (Series C)
• Clover Health:
$35000000 (Series B)
• Clover Health:
$100000000 (Series A)
• Zodiac:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Curalate:
$28000000 (Series C)
• Curalate:
$9000000 (Series B)
• Curalate:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Curalate:
$750000 (Seed)
• The Black Tux:
$25000000 (Series B)
• The Black Tux:
$10000000 (Series A)
• The Black Tux:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Drop:
$40000000 (Series B)
• Drop:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Drop:
$1000000 (Seed)
• ModCloth:
$15000000 (Series C)
• ModCloth:
$25000000 (Series C)
• ModCloth:
$20000000 (Series B)
• ModCloth:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Jelli:
$21000000 (Series B)
• Jelli:
$9000000 (Series Unknown)
• Jelli:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Jelli:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Boxed:
$25000000 (Series B)
• Boxed:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Zoomin:
$8000000 (Series Unknown)
• Zoomin:
$12000000 (Series Unknown)
• Zoomin:
$850000 (Seed)
• Flatiron Health:
$130000000 (Series B)
• Flatiron Health:
$8000000 (Series A)
• OnDeck:
$77000000 (Series E)
• OnDeck:
$42000000 (Series D)
• OnDeck:
$10000000 (Series B)
• Monetate:
$8000000 (Series C)
• Monetate:
$5000000 (Series A)
• Monetate:
$600000 (Seed)
• PandoDaily:
$3000000 (Seed)
• SavingStar:
$9000000 (Series D)
• SavingStar:
$9000000 (Series C)
• SavingStar:
$7000000 (Series B)
• SavingStar:
$2000000 (Series A)
• Mashery:
$10000000 (Series Unknown)
• Mashery:
$11000000 (Series D)
• Mashery:
$6000000 (Series C)
• Mashery:
$7000000 (Series B)
• Mashery:
$1000000 (Series A)
• Mashery:
(Seed)
• Gumroad:
$1000000 (Seed)
• tlee.com:
$1000000 (Series Unknown)
• AppNexus:
$50000000 (Series C)
• AppNexus:
$5000000 (Series B)
• AppNexus:
$8000000 (Series B)
• AppNexus:
$3000000 (Seed)
• BigDeal:
$5000000 (Series Unknown)
• Aster Data Systems:
$17000000 (Series B)
• Aster Data Systems:
$5000000 (Series A)
• Aster Data Systems:
$1000000 (Angel)
• Bazaarvoice:
$9000000 (Series B)
• Bazaarvoice:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Feedster:
(Series A)
• Adchemy:
$1000000 (Series A)
• InstaMed:
$800000 (Seed)
• Delicious:
(Seed)
• LinkedIn:
$5000000 (Series A)
• TurnTide:
$750000 (Series A)
• IronPort Systems:
$17000000 (Series B)
• Boomi:
$900000 (Angel)
• Liveops:
$1000000 (Series A)
Josh Kopelman
San Francisco Bay Area - Philadelphia - Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • Consumer • Woman Focused
Description
Partner, First Round Capital
Founding Partner, @first-round-capital; Founder @half-com (sold to EBay)
Linked In Description:
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.
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.
Greg Neufeld
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
San Francisco Bay Are..., U.S.A. - Canada
Previous Investments
• Instnt:
$4120000 (Early stage VC)
• Wethos:
$3000000 (Seed Round)
• Aurora Insight Inc.:
(mid stage)
• Entera:
(early stage)
• Ikos Holdings, Inc.:
(early stage)
• Pillar Technologies, Inc.:
(mid stage)
• Windfall Data:
(mid stage)
• Ocrolus Inc.:
(mid stage)
• Pandium:
• Smile Identity:
• xtraCHEF:
(mid stage)
• API Fortress:
(mid stage)
• Verifly:
(early stage)
• Bitnomial:
(early stage)
• BondCliQ:
(early stage)
• EVEN Financial:
(early stage)
• LoanHero:
(early stage)
• OnPlan:
(early stage)
• Closir:
(early stage)
• Descartes Labs:
(early stage)
• firstAI:
• LendingFront:
(early stage)
• TickerTags:
• ChartIQ:
(early stage)
• ValueStream Ventures:
(early stage)
• Freespeech Messenger:
• SI Capital Management, LLC:
• Whole Coffee Co.:
• Staples Tuition Grants:
• Octane Lending:
(early stage)
• 1552 Golf Links Club:
• Aegis Mobility Inc.:
(mid stage)
• Celeritas LLC:
• Sahale Snacks:
(mid stage)
• Carpio Solutions:
• Estimize:
$1000000 (Series A)
Greg Neufeld
San Francisco Bay Area - New York - Delray Beach - Florida, U.S.A. - Canada
Greg Neufeld is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner at ValueStream Ventures. He also serves as an Advisor & Investor at ChartIQ. Greg co-managed a series of investment funds at SI Capital Management trading market index futures and options, before leaving to pursue entrepreneurship including stints at FailStation and as the co-founder of Freespeech, a consumer mobile messaging app.
Brett Brewer
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Los Angeles , Turlock..., U.S.A. - Italy
Previous Investments
• Fuzzy:
$4500000 (Seed Round)
• Boom.tv:
$3500000 (Seed Round)
• Purple Squirrel:
$2700000 (Seed Round)
• RelationUp:
(Later stage VC)
• Retina.AI:
(Seed Round)
• IMMORTALS:
(Seed Round)
• HiveWatch (Network Management Software):
• Teampay:
$12000000 (Later stage VC)
• Branch Messenger:
$10000000 (Early stage VC)
• Rx Redefined:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Radius Agent:
$13000000 (Series A)
• Branch:
$75000000 (Series C)
• Branch:
$48000000 (Series B)
• Branch:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Fama:
$10000000 (Series B)
• Fama:
$5000000 (Series A)
• Conversion Logic:
$9000000 (Series A)
• Conversion Logic:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Omaze:
$9000000 (Series A)
• Omaze:
(Seed)
• Soma:
$2000000 (Series A)
• The Black Tux:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Docstoc:
$750000 (Series A)
Brett Brewer
Los Angeles - Turlock - California, U.S.A. - Italy
Fifteen years of experience as an Internet entrepreneur who has built, operated and sold Internet media companies.
In 1998, Brett co-founded Intermix Media, which launched several online businesses including Myspace.com, Skilljam.com and Alena.com.
Brett sold Intermix to NewsCorp in 2005 for $680M. Brett was the President and Chairman of Adknowledge.com, a behavioral-based advertising technology company, which he helped grow from $40M in revenue to over $300M in revenue and $55M of EBITDA. He recently joined on as CEO of Sensa.
Brett is a highly respected internet executive, an active angel investor (e.g., Demand Media) and a pillar in the SoCal Tech Community.
How to connect with Angel Investors in the A.I. industry?
In the AI & Big Data industry, angel investors such as Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and Reid Hoffman are highly active. These investors focus on startups offering innovative solutions in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data analytics. Peter Thiel, co-founder of Palantir Technologies, invests in AI startups that have the potential to revolutionize data analysis and intelligence. Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, looks for companies that leverage AI to solve complex problems and create new opportunities. Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, seeks out startups with scalable AI solutions and strong network effects. To connect with these investors, attend AI and big data conferences, tech expos, and networking events such as NeurIPS, AI Summit, and Strata Data Conference. Utilize platforms like AngelList and LinkedIn to identify and reach out to potential investors. When pitching, emphasize how your AI or big data solution addresses key challenges, such as improving data analysis, enhancing decision-making, or automating processes. Highlight any traction you’ve gained, such as partnerships with tech companies, user growth, or successful pilot projects. 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 pilot programs 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 service contracts, will further strengthen your pitch. Leveraging endorsements or case studies from AI or big data experts can also enhance your credibility.
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