Toby Coppel is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Mosaic Ventures. He also serves Board Member at Habito. He has a strong track record of principal investing in growth companies and strong operational experience. His background and expertise allow him to provide unique insights regarding the convergence of energy, communications and information technologies. Prior to VGF, he held a number of senior executive roles with Yahoo!, including Chief Strategy Officer and Managing Director, Yahoo! Europe & Canada. While at Yahoo!, Toby was responsible for almost $5 billion of acquisitions and investments. Toby was also the Executive sponsor for Yahoo's global sustainability program and led initiatives including the launch of Yahoo! Green and the management of Yahoo's carbon footprint across its global data centers and facilities. Prior to Yahoo!, Toby was a Founding Partner of Windsor Media a private investment company that acquires traditional media businesses and re-positions them for the digital future. Coppel also held investment and client advisory positions with Allen & Company and Goldman Sachs. He is an Industry Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, Henry Crown Fellow at The Aspen Institute and a Member of both the Israel-Britain and Palestine-Britain Business Councils. Coppel received his MA Philosophy, Politics & Economics (First Class) from Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom and an MBA (with Distinction) from Harvard Business School.
Steve Case
Investing in FinTech (& Financials services) &bul...
Co-founder of @aol; now Chairman of Case Foundation and Revolution (@zipcar, @livingsocial, @exclusive-resorts, @everyday-health, @revolution-money, @miraval, etc)
Gary Swart
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
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
Gigi Levy-Weiss
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Palo Alto - Tel Aviv, Israel - U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• DoorDash:
$700000000 (Later stage VC)
• La Haus:
$35000000 (Later stage VC)
• Storyhunter:
$4200000 (Seed Round)
• Warmly:
$2100000 (Seed Round)
• Lynks:
$120000 (Seed Round)
• Incredible Health:
(Seed Round)
• Parting Pro:
$120000 (Pre Seed Round)
• Jeeng (Acquired By PowerInbox):
$1500000 (Seed Round)
• Splacer:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Hackerbay:
(Pre Seed)
• Hackerbay:
$220000 (Pre Seed)
• The Hotels Network:
$100000 (Convertible Note)
• The Hotels Network:
$50000 (Seed)
• Synereo:
$120000 (Seed)
• Leade.rs:
(Pre Seed)
• Azra Games:
$43000000 (Series A)
• Azra Games:
$15000000 (Seed)
• Payouts.com:
$8000000 (Seed)
• enso:
$6000000 (Pre Seed)
• Opmed.ai:
$15000000 (Series A)
• Remepy:
$10000000 (Seed)
• PVML:
$8000000 (Seed)
• Faddom:
$12000000 (Series A)
• Faddom:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Permit.io:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Permit.io:
$6000000 (Seed)
• BrandShield:
$3000000 (Series Unknown)
• BrandShield:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Vendict:
$10000000 (Seed)
• Triple Whale:
$25000000 (Series B)
• Triple Whale:
$4000000 (Seed)
• PayEm:
$20000000 (Series A)
• PayEm:
$20000000 (Series A)
• PayEm:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Imagen:
$30000000 (Series A)
• Imagen:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Cherry:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Veriti:
$19000000 (Series A)
• MOV.AI:
$8000000 (Series B)
• MOV.AI:
$6000000 (Series A)
• MOV.AI:
$3000000 (Seed)
• MOV.AI:
$570000 (Seed)
• Xternity Games:
(Pre Seed)
• Constru:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Constru:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Constru:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Constru:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Alterya:
(Seed)
• Fair.xyz:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Diagnostic Robotics:
$45000000 (Series B)
• Kryptomon:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Circles - Online Group Support:
$17000000 (Series A)
• Circles - Online Group Support:
$8000000 (Seed)
• Circles - Online Group Support:
(Seed)
• A.Team:
$55000000 (Series A)
• A.Team:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Yo! Egg:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Komodor:
$42000000 (Series B)
• Komodor:
$21000000 (Series A)
• Komodor:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Propel:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Karmaverse:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Ridge:
$12000000 (Series A)
• Ridge:
$10000000 (Seed)
• Landa:
$25000000 (Series A)
• Landa:
$8000000 (Seed)
• Darrow:
$20000000 (Series A)
• Darrow:
$4000000 (Seed)
• MonkeyLeague:
(Seed)
• MonkeyBall:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Karma:
$25000000 (Series A)
• Karma:
(Seed)
• Breeze:
(Seed)
• Breeze:
(Pre Seed)
• Mammoth Biosciences:
$150000000 (Series D)
• Mammoth Biosciences:
$45000000 (Series C)
• Mammoth Biosciences:
$23000000 (Series A)
• Mammoth Biosciences:
$120000 (Pre Seed)
• Spike:
$23000000 (Series A)
• Spike:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Spike:
$120000 (Seed)
• Ace Games:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Edgybees:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Edgybees:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Edgybees:
(Pre Seed)
• Hip:
$12000000 (Series A)
• Hip:
(Seed)
• Hip:
(Seed)
• Papaya Gaming:
(Seed)
• Papaya Gaming:
(Seed)
• Kama:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Gigantic LTD (Clawee):
$7000000 (Seed)
• Cord:
(Seed)
• Covered by SAGE:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Bridgecrew:
$14000000 (Series A)
• Bridgecrew:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Shamaym:
$3000000 (Pre Seed)
• Lumen:
$9000000 (Series B)
• Travelstride:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Travelstride:
(Pre Seed)
• Wheelwell:
$3000000 (Series Unknown)
• Wheelwell:
$120000 (Pre Seed)
• Fabric:
(Seed)
• Fabric:
(Pre Seed)
• Zengaming:
(Seed)
• Zengaming:
(Pre Seed)
• Spacemesh:
$15000000 (Series A)
• DX.Exchange:
(Seed)
• Hometalk:
$15000000 (Series A)
• REACH:
$4000000 (Seed)
• JetInsight:
(Series A)
• JetInsight:
(Pre Seed)
• Volley:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Volley:
(Pre Seed)
• DAOstack:
(Seed)
• Gravyty (formerly Graduway):
$13000000 (Series B)
Network effect businesses! NFX focuses on businesses that have - or want to have - network effects in their core. This can be in any field - consumer, SMB, Enterprise, Fintech, Healthcare or govtech; and on any platform - web & mobile but also AR/VR, Blockchain, 3D printing, AI, Robotics and others. Top founders with huge ideas!
Not Interested In
Currently not focusing on non-network effect businesses and specifically not telecom equipment, semiconductors and life sciences.
Chris DeVore
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
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.
Eva Ho
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Austin , Seattle , Ch..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Shift (Car Marketplace):
$23750000
• ProdPerfect:
$13000000 (Later stage VC)
• Visor:
$6500000 (Seed Round)
• Sturish:
$3200000 (Early stage VC)
• PullRequest:
$2300000 (Seed Round)
• FairClaims, Inc.:
$1800000 (Other)
• Bowery:
$1750000 (Seed Round)
• FairClaims:
• Upwards:
$21000000 (Series B)
• Upwards:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Upwards:
$750000 (Seed)
• Reken:
$10000000 (Seed)
• Together by Renee:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Elementary Robotics:
$30000000 (Series B)
• Elementary Robotics:
$13000000 (Series A)
• Elementary Robotics:
$4000000 (Seed)
• BackboneAI:
$5000000 (Seed)
• WeeCare:
$4200000 (Seed Round)
• Turvo:
$7000000 (Seed)
Eva Ho
Austin - Seattle - Chicago - Boston - New York - Los Angeles - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Advertising • Online Social • Woman Focused
Description
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.
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
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.
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.
Ashmeet Sidana
Investing in FinTech (& Financials services) &bul...
San Francisco Bay Are..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• OpsMx:
• Netsil (formerly Gencore):
(early stage)
• Prismo Systems:
(early stage)
• StackStorm:
(early stage)
• Datos IO, Inc.:
• SignalFx:
(early stage)
• Tubi:
(early stage)
• Foundation Capital:
(late stage)
• Sidana Systems, Inc.:
• Multiple:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• CtrlStack:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Evinced:
$55000000 (Series C)
• Evinced:
$17000000 (Series A)
• Evinced:
$3000000 (Pre Seed)
• Trustero:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Trustero:
$8000000 (Seed)
• CodeRabbit:
$16000000 (Series A)
• Fireproof:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• Kognitos:
$20000000 (Series A)
• Kognitos:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Nexla:
$18000000 (Series A)
• Nexla:
$12000000 (Series A)
• Nexla:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Connectifi:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Jolt AI:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• QueryPal:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Hedgehog:
$4000000 (Pre Seed)
• Sensible:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Onymos:
$12000000 (Series A)
• Onymos:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Onymos:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• vFunction:
$26000000 (Series A)
• vFunction:
$12000000 (Seed)
• Kentik:
$40000000 (Series C)
• Kentik:
$23000000 (Series B)
• Kentik:
$12000000 (Series A)
• Kentik:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Fidap:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Yotascale:
$13000000 (Series B)
• Yotascale:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Yotascale:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Robust Intelligence:
$11000000 (Series A)
• Robust Intelligence:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Menlo Security:
$75000000 (Series D)
• Menlo Security:
$40000000 (Series C)
• Menlo Security:
$25000000 (Series B)
• Menlo Security:
(Seed)
• Tignis:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Nimbella:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Baffle:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Baffle:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Baffle:
$500000 (Seed)
• Binaris:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Sail Internet:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Netsil:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Palerra:
$17000000 (Series B)
• Palerra:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Diamanti:
$13000000 (Series A)
• NeoReach:
$2000000 (Seed)
• NeoReach:
$3000000 (Series Unknown)
• NeoReach:
$300000 (Seed)
• Datos IO:
$3000000 (Seed)
• adRise:
$2000000 (Series A)
• CiiNOW:
$13000000 (Series A)
Ashmeet Sidana
San Francisco Bay Area - Palo Alto - California, U.S.A.
Ashmeet Sidana serves as Founder & Chief Engineer at Engineering Capital. His experience includes managing venture capital funds, serving on multiple Boards of Directors, and helping build the industry leading products VMware ESX Server and Silicon Graphics WebFORCE. Before his last decade as a venture capitalist, Ashmeet was an operating executive with hands-on operating experience as a CEO and entrepreneur. Ashmeet came to venture from VMware, where he ran product management for their flagship product-ESX Server. Before VMware, Ashmeet was the Founder and CEO of Sidana Systems, Inc. He started his career at Hewlett Packard and Silicon Graphics as an engineer. Ashmeet's previous investments include Azure (NYSE: AZRE), Palerra (acquired by Oracle), Freewheel (acquired by Comcast), InQuira (acquired by Oracle), Altor (acquired by Juniper), Appurify (acquired by Google), PrivateCore (acquired by Facebook) and StackStorm (acquired by Brocade). He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Baffle, RuperBot, Sail Internet, vFunction and Xockets. His current investments include Baffle, Binaris, Rubrik, Diamanti, Gyroscope, Kentik, Menlo Security, Netsil, Nexla, Prismo Systems, RuperBot, Sail Internet, SignalFx, vFunction, Xockets and YotaScale. Ashmeet received an MBA from Wharton, MS in Computer Science from Stanford University and a BS in Computer Science summa cum laude from USC.
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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