Greg Castle is the Founder & serves as Managing Partner at Anorak Ventures. He serves as the Advisor at UploadVR. Prior to Anorak, Greg was an active angel investor with 30 investments counting two exits including Oculus, which was acquired by Facebook for $2bln. With strong ties to the VR/AR community, Greg focuses much of his time investing in and mentoring startups in this sector. Previously, Greg led marketing for the popular game development company Scaleform and for Autodesk's Game Technology Group.
Rajat Bhageria
Investing in A.I. (& Big Data) • Robotics
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Afore Capital:
• Chef Robotics:
• Kiwi:
(early stage)
• Prototype Capital:
(mid stage)
• Indiegogo:
(late stage)
• Kairos Society:
(late stage)
• Red & Blue Ventures:
(early stage)
• ThirdEye Technologies, Inc. (Acquired in 2017):
(early stage)
Roboticist, Founder, CEO at Chef Robotics (We're hiring!)
Roboticist, Founder, CEO at Chef Robotics (We're hiring!)
Founder @thirdeye • Managing Partner @prototype-capital • @forbes Contributor • Author of What High School Didn't Teach Me • Studied at @wharton-school
Raju Rishi serves as General Partner at RRE Ventures. He serves as a venture partner at Sigma Prime Ventures. Previously, he co-founded Rave Mobile Safety and served as its Chief Strategy Officer. He is a Board Member and Investor at Knock. He also serves as Board Member at Bend Financial, Redox and READY Robotics. He brings to RRE's investment team over 20 years of experience as a distinguished technology entrepreneur, executive and investor specializing in mobility, SaaS, consumer & enterprise software and telecom. A hallmark of RRE is its success in working closely with extraordinary founders and entrepreneurs to help them grow their companies. Rishi brings special expertise in this respect, having founded and led two companies, held executive leadership positions at both early stages and Fortune 50 enterprises, and served as a strategic advisor to numerous startups, two of which he helped to successfully exit. Rishi comes to RRE from Sigma Prime Ventures, where he served as a Venture Partner based in New York. Prior to Sigma Prime Ventures, he co-founded and served as COO and CMO at Rave Mobile Safety, the leading provider of SaaS-based safety solutions employed by schools and state/local governments to keep their community members safe, secure and connected. Previously, he helped to start SwiftReach Networks, a leading provider of enhanced telecommunications solutions for businesses & government. Prior to SwiftReach, he was the EVP of Product Management at Vettro, a SaaS-based provider of enterprise mobile applications for sales, fleet, and service organizations. Earlier in his career, Rishi held executive roles at AT&T and Lucent, where he was responsible for R&D, architecture & product management, and was GM for the international emerging technologies division. He has been and continues to be, a strategic advisor to numerous early-stage companies. He is a graduate of M.I.T., where he earned B.A. and M.A. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering.
Michael Kim
Investing in PropTech • Education • Bus...
Seoul, Korea
Previous Investments
• Silicon Valley Data Science:
$3100000 (Series A)
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • IT (& TMT) • Hospitality (& Events) • Media • Education • BioTech • AgroTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Entertainment (& Sports) • IoT (& Wearables) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Analytics • AR/VR • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Future Of Work • Food & Beverage • Human Resources • Impact • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Payments • Robotics • Mobile Apps • Aerospace (& Defense) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Music • Investment Management • LegalTech • Mobile • Mobility • Online Social • Consumer • Oil & Gas (& Mining) • Industrials • Film Production (& Distribution) • Semiconductors
Description
Jerry Yang serves as Founding Partner at AME Cloud Ventures. Yang also serves as Special Partner at Neotribe Ventures. He serves as Investor of BirdEye. He also serves as an Independent Director at Workday and Advisor at Radius. He is the Founding Partner at AME Cloud Ventures. He serves as Board Observer and Senior Advisor at Didi Kuaidi. Since March 2012, he has worked with and invests in technology entrepreneurs as the founding partner of AME Cloud Ventures, his innovation investment firm. He is also a co-founder of Yahoo! Inc., where he served as a director from March 1995 to January 2012, and as Chief Executive Officer from June 2007 to January 2009. He also led Yahoo!'s investments in Yahoo Japan and Alibaba Group Holding Limited, and he is a currently a director of Alibaba Group, where he has served on the board from October 2005 to January 2012 and from September 2014 to the present. He is also a director of Lenovo, Inc. where he has served on the board since November 2014. From July 2000 to November 2012, he was a member of Cisco Systems, Inc.'s Board of Directors, and he was a director of Yahoo! Japan from January 1996 to January 2012. He also is a director of various private companies and foundations. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, where he served as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees from June 2005 until September 2016. He is also an Angel Investor. He serves as Board Member at Docker
Tony Corbin
Investing in BioTech • Businesses Solutions ...
Menlo Park , San Fran..., U.S.A. - Israel - Europe: Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Romania, Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, Greece, Portugal, Sweden, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Slovakia, Norway, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Icelan
Previous Investments
• Vayyar Imaging:
$109000000 (Later stage VC)
• VDOO:
$57000000 (Later stage VC)
• Cloudleaf:
$26000000 (Later stage VC)
• Fakespot:
(Series A)
• Fakespot:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Sumatra:
$2000000 (Seed)
• MRGN:
(Pre Seed)
• MRGN:
(Pre-Seed)
• Ash Wellness:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Ash Wellness:
(Seed+)
• AppliedXL:
$4000000 (Seed)
• AssetDash:
(Pre Seed)
• Tabula:
$3000000 (Pre Seed)
• Naya:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Thorium Data:
$100000 (Pre Seed)
• OpenAxis:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• CACTIVATE:
(Pre Seed)
• Grin Gaming:
(Seed)
• Grin Gaming:
(Seed)
• Docket:
(Seed)
• Ask Vera:
(Seed)
• UrsaLeo:
(Seed+)
• Cactivate:
(Pre-Seed)
• Clearforce:
(Seed)
• Paragon Intel:
(Seed+)
• Intrro:
(Seed)
• Bazze:
(Pre-Seed)
• Asset Dash:
(Pre-Seed)
• Extend:
$16000000 (Series A)
• OneCell Diagnostics:
$16000000 (Series A)
• Finicast:
$13000000 (Seed)
• Very Good Ventures:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Very Good Ventures:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Prellis Biologics:
$35000000 (Series C)
• Prellis Biologics:
$15000000 (Series B)
• Biomason:
$65000000 (Series C)
• Home Delivery Service (HDS Global):
$5000000 (Series Unknown)
• Rizzle:
$17000000 (Convertible Note)
• EnTribe:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Atonarp:
$50000000 (Series D)
• Atonarp:
$2000000 (Series B)
• Atonarp:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Boom Supersonic:
$50000000 (Series C)
• Extend, Inc.:
$16000000 (Series A)
• Quartic.ai:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Globality:
$27000000 (Series B)
• Globality:
$10000000 (Series A)
• BangDB:
(Seed)
• Reaction:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Reaction:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Shipster:
(Seed)
• H2O.ai:
$9000000 (Series A)
• Trove:
$5000000 (Series A)
• FUTR Corp.:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Yellowsmith:
$850000 (Seed)
• Printi:
$1000000 (Series A)
• GoPro:
$88000000 (Series A)
Tony Corbin
Menlo Park - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - Israel - Europe: Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Romania, Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, Greece, Portugal, Sweden, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Slovakia, Norway, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Icelan
Riverwood Capital is a globally-focused private equity firm that invests in high-growth businesses in the technology and services industries, across a variety of verticals and geographies. Riverwood has offices in Menlo Park, CA and New York, NY and currently has more than 20 investments in North America, Latin America and Asia. The firm's current fund has $780 million of committed capital. The final fund close was in April 2011. Riverwood invests in mid-market technology and technology enabled products and services. The firm defines mid-market as approximately $100-$500 million in revenue for product companies, and approximately $25-$150 million in revenue for software and services. Riverwood occasionally invests outside these ranges. Riverwood invests on a global basis, having already invested in the U.S., Israel, Argentina, Chile, and Brazil. The firm's normal investment size ranges from $25-75 million.
GM & Managing Director at M12- Microsoft’s Venture Fund
Samir Kumar is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director, Inventus (India) Advisors at Inventus Capital Partners. He serves as Board Member at Cbazaar. For ten years from 1988 to 1999, Samir was part of the early team at Wipro (NYSE: WIT), one of India's largest and most highly valued IT companies. Samir was a founding member of Wipro's joint venture with Acer Computer in Taiwan to design, build and sell computers for the Indian market. He holds a BSEE from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay and an MBA from Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Bangalore.
Dave McClure
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Los Angeles , New Yor..., U.S.A. - U.K.
Previous Investments
• Mystery Science:
$2900000
• Ink:
$6650000 (Seed Round)
• ALL DAY MEDIA:
$2301600 (Seed Round)
• AstroPrint:
$300000 (Seed Round)
• Ezra:
$4000000 (Seed Round)
• HappyCo (Happy Inspector):
$895000 (Seed Round)
• LinkedIn SlideShare:
$300000 (Seed Round)
• TeachStreet:
(Angel Round)
• Tribal Credit:
$1200000 (Seed Round)
• HaulerAds:
(Seed Round)
• Price Technologies:
$3800000 (Seed Round)
• Exits.me:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Terraformation:
$5000000 (Equity Crowdfunding)
• Ezra AI:
$18000000 (Series A)
• Ezra AI:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Tribal:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Goldbelly:
$20000000 (Series B)
• Goldbelly:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Goldbelly:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Zeuss Technologies:
(Seed)
• Movia:
(Seed)
• Price.com:
$2000000 (Convertible Note)
• TuckerNuck:
$3000000 (Series A)
• TuckerNuck:
(Seed)
• MoBagel:
(Seed)
• Headout:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Greentoe:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Greentoe:
$1000000 (Seed)
• CareGuide:
$2000000 (Seed)
• MakeLeaps:
$600000 (Angel)
• BugHerd:
$930000 (Series A)
• Womply:
$20000000 (Series Unknown)
• Womply:
(Series Unknown)
• ViralGains:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Partender:
(Seed)
• Partender:
$50000 (Seed)
• Tech.eu:
$210000 (Seed)
• CultureMap:
$750000 (Seed)
• Geekatoo:
$500000 (Seed)
• Binpress:
$1000000 (Seed)
• BuildersCloud:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Social Tables:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Stormpulse:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Life360:
$10000000 (Series B)
• Life360:
$6000000 (Series A)
• Mattermark:
$400000 (Seed)
• Riskpulse:
$1000000 (Seed)
• LookSharp:
$4000000 (Series A)
• LookSharp:
$1000000 (Series Unknown)
• LookSharp:
$400000 (Angel)
• WHILL:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Breather:
$2000000 (Seed)
• ERPLY:
$2000000 (Series B)
• Credit Karma:
$30000000 (Series B)
• Virool:
$7000000 (Seed)
• RolePoint:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Versus:
$100000 (Seed)
• 42Floors:
$5000000 (Series A)
• Nuzzel:
$2000000 (Seed)
• SpotHero:
$50000 (Seed)
• HappyCo:
$900000 (Seed)
• Behance:
$7000000 (Series A)
• VULCUN:
$1000000 (Seed)
• ecomom:
$4000000 (Series A)
• ecomom:
$900000 (Angel)
• ecomom:
$1000000 (Angel)
• Mocavo:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Gengo:
$5000000 (Series A)
• Gengo:
$800000 (Seed)
• Gengo:
$750000 (Seed)
• IMRSV:
$810000 (Seed)
• MakerBot:
$10000000 (Series Unknown)
• ToutApp:
$350000 (Seed)
• BizeeBee:
$440000 (Seed)
• Baydin:
$380000 (Seed)
• CapLinked:
$900000 (Seed)
• Hipster:
$1000000 (Seed)
• MoonFruit:
(Series Unknown)
• SimpleHoney:
(Seed)
• Graphicly:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Graphicly:
$1000000 (Series A)
• Zappli (Acquired by Shopzilla):
$500000 (Seed)
• Twilio:
$12000000 (Series B)
• Twilio:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Wander (f. YongoPal):
$100000 (Angel)
• Formative Labs:
(Angel)
• OneTrueFan:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Presto:
(Seed)
• WePay:
$8000000 (Series B)
• WePay:
$2000000 (Series A)
• Recurly:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Wildfire:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Postling:
$350000 (Seed)
• oneforty:
$2000000 (Series A)
• Kissmetrics:
$1000000 (Series A)
• Mashery:
$7000000 (Series B)
• Mashery:
(Seed)
• Mashery:
(Seed)
• Lyft:
$300000 (Seed)
• Mill River Labs:
$900000 (Angel)
• SlideShare:
$300000 (Seed)
• Mint:
$5000000 (Series A)
• EventVue:
$440000 (Series A)
• Simply Hired:
$3000000 (Series B)
Dave McClure
Los Angeles - New York - London - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - U.K.
Frank Thelen is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, Technology, Design & Sales at Freigeist. Frank is a European serial founder, technology investor and TV personality. Since 1994, he founded and managed over 10 technology and design-driven companies. Frank works with founders on technology, design, team, sales, and fundraising. He also serves as a board member at Lilium.
Daniel Recanati
Investing in FinTech (& Financials services) &bul...
How to connect with Angel Investors in the Robotics industry?
In the Robotics industry, angel investors such as Elon Musk, Steve Jurvetson, and Tim Ferriss are significant figures. These investors focus on startups offering innovative solutions in robotics technology, automation, and artificial intelligence. Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, invests in robotics startups that have the potential to revolutionize industries with advanced automation. Steve Jurvetson, a co-founder of Future Ventures, looks for companies that leverage robotics to create groundbreaking products and services. Tim Ferriss, an author and entrepreneur, seeks out startups with scalable and impactful robotics solutions. To connect with these investors, attend robotics conferences, tech expos, and networking events such as RoboBusiness, IROS, and Automate. Utilize platforms like AngelList and LinkedIn to identify and reach out to potential investors. When pitching, emphasize how your robotics solution addresses key challenges, such as improving operational efficiency, enhancing automation, or reducing costs. Highlight any traction you’ve gained, such as partnerships with manufacturing companies, successful pilot projects, 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 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 product sales, licensing, or service contracts, will further strengthen your pitch. Leveraging endorsements or case studies from robotics experts can also enhance your credibility.
Case Studies: Successful Funding Rounds with Angel Investors on Angels Partners
Exotic Orange & Angels Partners: Turning Financial Simplicity Into Investment Success
