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Santo Politi

Boston Massachusetts, U.S.A.

Investing In

Media • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure)

Description

Founder and General Partner at Spark Capital

Santo Politi is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Spark Capital. He has led Spark's investments in eToro, Convert Media, Genie, Oculus, Orchard, Qriously, Storenvy, Triggit and Zazma. He also led Spark's previous investments in Adap.TV (acquired by AOL), Admeld (acquired by Google), CT-100/CNET (acquired by CBS), IPWireless (acquired by General Dynamics), KickApps (acquired by KIT Digital), Lexity (acquired by Yahoo!) and OneRiot (acquired by Walmart). He served as a board member of 5Min (acquired by AOL) and thePlatform (acquired by Comcast). He was previously a Partner at Charles River Ventures (CRV) where he led investments in BigBand Networks (NASDAQ: BBND), Broadbus Technologies (acquired by Motorola) and Groove Mobile (acquired by LiveWire). Prior to Charles River Ventures, he served as President of New Media for Blockbuster Entertainment (NYSE: BBI). He also previously co-founded BT Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm affiliated with Bankers Trust where he led successful investments in Aether Systems (NASDAQ: AETH), DigitalThink (NASDAQ: DTHK) and Novatel Wireless (NASDAQ: NVTL). He previously held various engineering and management positions at Matsushita Electric Industrial, Panasonic and Weston Instruments. He holds an MBA in finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from NJIT and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey. He serves as a Board member at Qriously, PreVeil, Uncommon and Lightmatter.

Khailee Ng

San Francisco Bay Area - Malaysia - Mountain View California - Indonesia, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Media • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Advertising • Developer tools • Real Estate (& Construction)

Description

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.

Dmitry Alimov

Moscow - San Francisco Bay Area - Palo Alto California - Cupertino California, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Developer tools • Future Of Work

Description

Love companies with network effects!

Most Interested In

Focused on companies with network effects. Marketplaces, networks, software and communication platforms, AR, VR, IoT, connected cars, AI, b2b, b2c

Not Interested In

Not investing in traditional e-commerce (with physical goods, logistics, inventory etc), payments, ad tech, cybersecurity, esports and games.

Founder @ivi-ru, @frontier-ventures • ex-Managing Partner at @ru-Net• Investor @chope.com, @expert360.com, @Profi.ru, @ivi-ru etc • @harvard-business-school

Reid Christian

Boston - San Francisco Bay Area - Palo Alto California, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure)

Description

General Partner at CRV

General Partner at CRV

Miles Grimshaw

San Francisco Bay Area - New York - South San Francisco California - City, U.S.A.

Investing In

Businesses Solutions • Online Social • Consumer

Description

General Partner at Thrive Capital

General Partner at Benchmark

Matt Murphy

Valley California - Menlo Park California - Austin Texas - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Logistics (& Distribution) • Robotics

Description

Partner at Menlo Ventures -

Executive/Venture Investor @renren-com • Co-Founder @appsurdity & @lemon-1 • Worked at @chegg, @bling-nation, @etrade • Studied at @santa-clara-university

Murat Bicer

Boston Massachusetts - San Francisco Bay Area Palo Alto California, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure)

Description

General Partner @crv-1

Max Gazor

San Francisco Bay Area - Menlo Park California - Palo Alto California, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure)

Description

Max Gazor serves as General Partner at Charles River Ventures. He also serves as a Board Member at Respond Software. He brings deep enterprise domain experience spanning M&A, strategy and business development. Prior to CRV, he led acquisitions and investments across enterprise and emerging technologies for Cisco's Corporate Development team. Before Cisco, he was responsible for business development within Oracle's Server Technologies division. He served as a Board Observer at OneLogin. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, an M.S. in EECS from MIT and a B.S. in EECS from UC Berkeley.

Eric Paley

Boston Massachusetts - New York City - Cambridge Massachusetts - Social mobile - with an additional office in, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Online Social

Description

Eric Paley is the Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Founder Collective. He also serves as a Board member at Blissfully Tech, Embark, 10% Happier and New England Venture Capital Association. He also co-founded Brontes Technologies to market innovative technology to dentists. He also serves as a Board Member at Integral Ad Science. Previously, Eric was the CEO and a co-founder of Brontes Technologies, which was acquired in 2006 by 3M. Investors in Brontes included David Frankel (Founder Collective), Bain Capital Ventures, Charles River Ventures and Flybridge Capital Partners. Eric is an angel investor in a number of companies including Magazine Radar, OPOWER, and TrialPay and also served as a senior advisor to Flybridge Capital Partners. Eric was previously co-founder and CEO of Abstract Edge, a web application and marketing company in New York. Eric graduated Magna Cum Laude, from Dartmouth College and with High Distinction, as a Baker Scholar, from the Harvard Business School.

Jonathan Golden

San Francisco Bay Area - San Francisco California, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Consumer

Description

Partner @ NEA

Product Lead @airbnb and Angel, Previously @dropbox and @johnschmocker

Linked In Description:

Bio: https://www.nea.com/team/jonathan-golden Twitter: https://twitter.com/jpgg Medium: https://medium.com/@jgolden

Ansaf Kareem

California - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.

Investing In

Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Consumer

Description

Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners

Brandon Tidwell

Utah - Salt Lake City, U.S.A.

Investing In

Businesses Solutions • Consumer

Description

Co-Founder, Managing Director at Signal Peak Ventures

Co-Founder, General Partner at Signal Peak Ventures

Ken Elefant

San Francisco Bay Area - Lehi Utah - Menlo Park California - Palo Alto, U.S.A.

Investing In

Businesses Solutions • Web Security (& Privacy)

Description

Managing Partner at Sorenson Ventures - Recognized by Marketwatch in 2017 as one of the most connected people in Tech

Partner and Co-Founder at Sorenson Ventures

Chris Barbin

San Francisco Bay Area - Illinois - Menlo Park California, U.S.A.

Investing In

Businesses Solutions • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Online Social • Consumer

Description

Venture Partner at GGV Capital

Jake Saper

San Francisco California - San Francisco Bay Area - San Mateo California - ‌, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Sales (& Marketing) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data)

Description

Most Interested In

ML-powered B2B apps; high usage, product-led growth B2B apps

Not Interested In

Consumer; hardware; biotech

Homan Yuen

Palo Alto California - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.

Investing In

Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Robotics • Mobility

Description

Most Interested In

Any company who has a significant technology barrier to their business. Software, hardware, B2B, B2C, healthcare, etc.

Not Interested In

While there's nothing wrong with companies which don't have a strong technical moat, it's not where our expertise lies. So if the business is purely network effect and user-based growth without technical barriers, we don't focus on those companies. We also do not do pharma or therapeutic biotech because we don't have expertise in those areas.

Samir Kaul

Menlo Park California - San Francisco Bay Area - Valley California - San Francisco California - Clean tech / environment, U.S.A.

Investing In

BioTech • Businesses Solutions • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Food & Beverage • Impact • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness)

Description

Samir Kaul is the Founding General Partner at Khosla Ventures. He serves as a Board Member at Vicarious Surgical. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Board Member at Calera as well as Sakti3. Previously, he was a member of Flagship Ventures, a venture capital firm, from 2002 to May 2006. Prior to Flagship, he worked at The Institute for Genomic Research. He currently serves on the board of directors of Amyris and on the boards of directors of several private companies. He focuses on sustainability investing including food and agriculture. He has been a leading investor in Hampton Creek Food, Sand Hill Foods, OSCAR Health, Soraa and View, among many others. A number of Samir's investments have achieved significant results including Ausra (acquired by AREVA) and NanoH20, acquired by LG Chem.

Jon Auerbach

Cambridge Massachusetts - Boston Massachusetts - Palo Alto California Palo Alto California, U.S.A.

Investing In

Businesses Solutions • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Online Social • Consumer

Description

Board Member at Lola

VC at CRV. Frmly WSJ reporter (Pulitzer nominee). Focus on mobile and ad tech. Exits: Quattro, Starent, CCTV, @optasite.

Nakul Mandan

San Francisco Bay Area - Palo Alto California - Menlo Park California - San Francisco California, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Developer tools • Consumer

Description

Early Stage VC @ Audacious Ventures

Most Interested In

SaaS, B2B marketplaces, professional communities/LinkedIn for vertical markets, Prosumer

Not Interested In

Hardware

Investor at @lightspeed-venture-partners

Morgan Flager

Austin Texas, U.S.A.

Investing In

Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce)

Description

I've been a partner with Silverton since 2006. Prior to Silverton, I worked with FTV Capital in San Francisco. I was a entrepreneur with Kintana and Ingrian.

Dan Rosen

San Francisco Bay Area - Menlo Park California - Seattle Washington - Oakland California - Berkeley California - San Francisco California, U.S.A.

Investing In

Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Advertising • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Local commerce • Payments

Description

Most Interested In

Interested in technology-based, digital innovations that will help shape the future of Retail and Financial Services.

Founding GP at @commerce-ventures. Formerly at Highland Capital. Focus on Mobile, Commerce, Payments, Retail.

Erik Benson

Seattle Washington - Washington D.C, U.S.A.

Investing In

Businesses Solutions • Gaming (& eSports)

Description

early stage VC

Erik Benson serves as Partner at Voyager Capital. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Board Member at Lighter Capital. He focuses on market-changing technologies and disruptive business models, concentrating his efforts on working with seed- and early-stage companies based in the Pacific Northwest. He also serves as Advisor of Chirpify. He serves as a Board Member at SheerID. He currently represents Voyager on the board of directors of Act-On Software, Anova Data, Lighter Capital, Lytics, Rio SEO, SheerID, Shiftboard , Make.tv and SkyWard. He was previously responsible for Voyager's investments in aQuantive (acquired by Microsoft), Blue Box (acquired by IBM), Capital Stream (acquired by HCL Technologies), Covario (acquired by Dentsu Aegis), Elemental Technologies (acquired by Amazon Web Services), Geoloqi (acquired by ESRI) and Kryptiq (acquired by Surescripts). Prior to Voyager, he was a seed investor for Seattle-based WRF Capital after holding leadership roles at Mimix, a pioneer in the area of motion capture and animation software. He started his career in New York for a predecessor bank to JPMorgan Chase, advising and financing private equity clients. He received a BA in Economics from Pacific Lutheran University in 1990 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1997.

Pascal Levy-Garboua

San Francisco Bay Area - Valley California - San Francisco California - California United Sta, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Consumer

Description

Entrepreneurial Mind

Not Interested In

I don't invest in: - Adtech - Functional SaaS (SaaS for Marketing/Sales/Customer Support/HR) - Consumer Electronics - Consumer Social - Productivity

Pascal Levy-Garboua serves as the Vice President, Business Development at Checkr. He was an Advisor at RealtyShares. He also co-founded SixDoors and served as its CEO.

Chris Sacca

Truckee California - San Francisco Bay Area - Los Angeles California - Montana, U.S.A.

Investing In

Businesses Solutions • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Developer tools • Local commerce • Online Social • Consumer

Description

Christopher Sacca is the Founder and serves as Chairman at Lowercase Capital. Sacca is an Angel Investor. He served as Software Engineer at Ellucian. He managed a portfolio of over fifty consumer web, mobile, and wireless technology start-ups as well as an array of mature enterprises through his holding company, Lowercase Capital. While primarily known for its investments in seed and early stage technology companies like Twitter, Uber, Instagram, and Kickstarter, Lowercase has quietly become one of the largest venture funds in the United States. Previously, Chris served as Head of Special Initiatives at Google Inc. In that role, among other responsibilities, he founded and headed up the alternative access and wireless divisions. His most visible projects include Google's 700MHz and TV white spaces spectrum initiatives, the company's groundbreaking data center in Oregon and Google's free citywide WiFi network in Mountain View, CA. Chris also spearheaded many of Google's business development and M&A transactions and was on the founding team of the company's New Business Development organization. Before joining Google, Chris held a number of executive roles at one of the world's largest streaming and digital media distribution companies, Speedera Networks (acquired by Akamai Technologies), and was ultimately responsible for their legal and corporate development efforts. Prior to Speedera, Chris was an attorney with the Silicon Valley law firm of Fenwick & West where he handled venture capital, mergers & acquisitions, and licensing transactions for technology clients such as Macromedia, VeriSign, and Kleiner Perkins. In 2012, Chris continued his work as a National Finance Committee member, a host of the technology roundtable series, and as a Co-Chair of Tech for Obama. The Wall Street Journal cited Chris as "possibly the most influential businessman in America." Chris graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center where he was a member of The Tax Lawyer law review and was honored as the school's Philip A. Ryan and Ralph J. Gilbert Memorial Scholar. He also graduated cum laude from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and was an Edmund Evans Memorial Scholar as well as a Weeks Family Foundation Scholar. He is an an Angel Investor. He also serves as an Adivsor at Lookout. He is an Investor at Docker.

David Arcara

Washington (DC) - Boston (MA) - New York (NY) - ‌, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Analytics • Future Of Work • Logistics (& Distribution) • Real Estate (& Construction)

Description

Board Member at Noteworth

David Arcara is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at Laconia Capital Group. He serves as a Board Member at Ocrolus. He served as a Member at New York Angels. He is the co-managing member of the General Partner and the Management Company. Arcara has over 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur and general manager of young high-growth and turnaround media and marketing businesses, both digital and traditional. Arcara has raised, either as lead entrepreneur or as part of the founding team, nearly $100 million dollars of angel and venture funding. In 2010, Arcara founded Rubber Soul Ventures to contribute his personal capital and operational expertise to emerging digital technology companies and entrepreneurs. Rubber Soul Ventures currently has a portfolio of over a dozen early stage ventures based primarily in the Northeast corridor including LeagueApps, LocalVox, Page Science and Wymsee. Arcara was also the co-founder of TalkSix, a consumer facing interactive streaming video start-up with a significant B-to-B component. Arcara has also served as General Manager of Imaginova Corporation's digital publishing division, including the flagship property Space.com, founded by CNN's Lou Dobbs and former astronaut Neil Armstrong. Earlier in Arcara's career, he co-founded Alliance Custom Communications, to create custom content for marketers seeking to enhance their brands' customer engagement. Arcara was ultimately approached by Random House Publishing to re-launch and lead the business as Random House Custom Media. Arcara was also a co-founder of UGO Networks, which ultimately consisted of over 500 independent affiliate web publishers reaching over 15 million users a month and became one of the nation's largest 18 to 34 male-targeted online entertainment content networks. The UGO founding team was among those pioneering the concept of an online ad-supported publishing network. Arcara served as UGO's Executive Vice President and led multiple operating functions including affiliate network development, sales, and marketing. UGO was purchased by Hearst Corporation in 2006 for approximately $100 million. In 1992, Arcara formed DJA Media, Inc., which focused on turning around underperforming radio stations by improving product and sales. In 1996, DJA Media formed Radio Enterprise, Inc., a joint venture with Clear Channel Communications, through which Clear Channel provided financing to allow Radio Enterprise to expand to a total of four stations under Arcara's leadership. Radio Enterprise was sold to Clear Channel in 1998 after more than doubling its asset value at the peak of government-deregulated consolidation. Arcara is a member of New York Angels, one of the country's leading angel investor organizations, as well as Harvard Business School Angels. He is a graduate of the University of Colorado, Boulder, where he earned a BA in Philosophy, and holds his MBA from Harvard Business School.