Our team is dedicated to scouting
investors from all around the world.
FinTech, Hardware, SaaS … we diversify our portfolio of
investors to give you the best chance to find startup investors.
New York - Los Angeles - San Francisco Bay Area - Portland - Miami - Florida, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer • Productivity
Most Interested In
We focus on companies with strong long-term competitive advantages (network effects, proprietary data, economies of scale, etc). Mostly b2b.
Not Interested In
We're open to any company with good moat potential. We do a lot of b2b investing. On the b2c side, we typically look for companies that monetize users directly rather than through ads.
Leo Polovets is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Susa Ventures. In 2003, Leo was the 2nd non-founding engineer at LinkedIn, where he helped build many core features like LinkedIn Jobs and LinkedIn Groups. After LinkedIn, he developed payment fraud detection systems at Google, then spent four years building much of the core data processing infrastructure at Factual. Leo left Factual in late 2012 to join Susa Ventures and focus on venture capital. He's also an angel investor in companies including DataFox, Lumoid, and Momentum Machines. Leo holds a BS with Honors degree from Caltech, and in 2002, he was one of three members of Caltech's world finalist ACM International Programming Contest team.
St. Louis - Missouri, U.S.A.
BioTech • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer • Pharmaceutical (& Medicine)
Managing Director at Thompson Street Capital Partners
Private Equity & Seed Investor • Director @tscp-1 • Worked @bodley-group @goldman-sachs IBD FIG • Studied @stanford @wharton-school • @fundersclub Panel
San Francisco Bay Area - South San Francisco - California, U.S.A. - Canada
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • BioTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer • Productivity
Alex Kolicich serves as Co-Founding Partner at 8VC. Prior to joining 8VC, He is a Board Member at Senti Bio. He was a Partner at Formation 8. He is also a Board Member and Advisor at Chatous. He serves as Advisor at Street Contxt. Previously, he served as Principal at Mithril Capital Management. Previously, Kolicich worked as an engineer and early-product advisor at Clarium, Palantir, and Google. He was an early member of the Clarium Capital quantitative engineering team and close advisor for the early Palantir team; advising on product design and contributing to the product. At Google Research, Kolicich worked on Google Street-Views before and during launch. Preceding Street-Views, also at Google, he worked on the development and launch of the Google Checkout product. He received a B.SE in Software Engineering from the University of Waterloo and a Masters in Econometrics from the University of Toronto.
London, U.K. - U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Founded Markco Media recently acquired by Monitise plc for £55m, also an investor and founder of several other start ups all viewable at www.fuel.ventures
Palo Alto - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A. - U.K. - South Korea - Japan
PropTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • IoT (& Wearables) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Developer tools • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
CEO and Founding Partner at 500 Startups
Los Angeles - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Businesses Solutions • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness)
Partner at Pritzker Group Venture Capital
VC @Pritzker Group Venture Capital
San Francisco Bay Area - New York - Chicago - California, U.S.A. - U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Partner, Broadhaven Ventures at Broadhaven Capital Partners
Partner, Broadhaven Ventures at Broadhaven Capital Partners
Senior Vice President, iCapital Network | Special Advisor, Panorama Point Partners | Fmr Director, Mosaic | Fmr Goldman Sachs PSI | Founder, NextGenEngage
New York, U.S.A.
BioTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness)
Dr. Adam Goulburn served as Partner at Lux Capital. He serves as Board Member at Eikon Therapeutics, Plexium and Mahana Therapeutics. He serves as Board Member at Drone Racing League. He served as Board member at Kallyope. He is based in the firm's New York headquarters and focuses on broad investment opportunities in healthcare IT, services, mobile health, and therapeutics. He was a Board Member of Authorea, Variant Bio & 3Scan. He has worked extensively with a number of Lux portfolio companies including Kala Pharmaceuticals and Genocea Biosciences. He is also a mentor for healthcare IT incubators Blueprint Health and Healthbox. Before joining Lux, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College, researching regenerative medicine in association with brain disorders including schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. Originally from Australia, he has dual undergraduate degrees in Commerce and Science and subsequently completed his Ph.D. at the Australian Stem Cell Centre, having been chosen as a highly selective Premier Scholar. He has published in numerous peer-reviewed scientific journals. Prior to joining Lux in 2011, he received his Ph.D. in neuroscience from Weill Cornell Medical College. He also serves as Board Member at Vesta Healthcare. He serves as Board Member at Rivet Health and rd. MD. He is a Co-Founder of Cajal Neuroscience.
Menlo Park - South San Francisco - California, U.S.A.
PropTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness)
Co-Founder and General Partner at Canvas Ventures
New York - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Online Social • Consumer
Most Interested In
I am always interested in founders looking to make a difference in the world, and who don't follow the beaten path. We describe it as the weird and wonderful - founders pursuing businesses that don't fit neatly into any bucket.
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
FinTech (& Financials services) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness)
Most Interested In
Any hustlers building software startups! We are usually the first institutional VC check into a round.
San Francisco Bay Area - Virginia, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Advertising • Analytics • Developer tools • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness)
Most Interested In
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New York - Los Angeles - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • FinTech (& Financials services) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Chad Byers is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Susa Ventures. Prior to Susa, Chad served on the management team at Integrate.com as the Sr. Director of Platform, managing the buildout and sales of AdHQ, a unified platform that allowed agencies and brands to manage all of their performance advertising spend through a single dashboard. While in operating roles, Chad was also an active angel investor, building a portfolio of close to 10 companies including Momentum Machines, Locality (Centzy), and True&co. Before Integrate, Chad spent close to four years at Silver Spring Networks, a leading Smart Grid technology provider. He started in Strategic Marketing, building business models for the adoption of the technology by electric utility companies, and eventually ended up writing and leading a winning $15M Department of Energy grant to build the world's first Smart Grid-enabled residential solar inverters. Before Silver Spring, Chad spent time at Bloom Energy, a high profile venture-backed fuel cell company.
Palo Alto - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
BioTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer • Pharmaceutical (& Medicine)
Munich Re Ventures
Partner at AV8 Ventures
San Francisco Bay Area - Mountain View - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Messaging • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Partner at Accel
San Francisco Bay Area - Menlo Park - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • IoT (& Wearables) • CleanTech • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Analytics • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Online Social
Managing Partner at WestWave Capital and General Partner at Foundation Capital
Palo Alto - San Francisco Bay Area - New York - Atherton, U.S.A.
Media • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Developer tools • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Craig Sherman serves as Managing Director at Meritech Capital Partners. He focuses primarily on digital media and consumer services. Craig has led the firm's investments in Evernote, Zulily, Lynda.com and Ariosa Diagnostics. Prior to Meritech, Craig was Chief Executive Officer of Gaia Interactive, which he grew from a 1/2 million to over a 20 million monthly visitor pioneer in social games and online communities. Prior to joining Gaia, Craig served as an EIR at Benchmark Capital. Previously, Craig was Chief Operating Officer of Ancestry.com (ACOM), where he helped lead the company's pivot from a free family social network to a family history subscription service and grew the company from under $10 million to $150 million in sales and from tens of millions in losses to tens of millions in profits. Before Ancestry.com, Craig held senior positions at AIG: he was head of marketing and internet for all of AIG's Japanese and Korean divisions totaling over $5 billion in sales; and the general manager of AIG's property management software subsidiary, a $90 million sales company whose growth rate quadrupled during Craig's tenure. Previous to AIG, Craig was Chief Executive Officer of Cendant Japan, a joint venture startup he founded with Cendant and Mitsubishi Corporation that he helped grow from inception to over $20 million in sales and profitability. Before that, he worked in product, marketing, finance and operations roles at Cendant during its growth from less than a $1 billion to over a $40 billion public company. Craig has personally invested in over a dozen startups including Ancestry, SurveyMonkey, Zillow and Zipcar. In addition, Craig has held independent board and advisory roles with Homestead (prior to its sale to Intuit), Kongregate (GameStop), Logoworks (Hewlett Packard), Netquote (BankRate), and Photobucket (Fox). He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University. He also serves as Board Member at Rev. He serves as Board Member at Roblox.
New York, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness)
Mitchell Green is a Managing Partner and Partner at Lead Edge Capital, LLC. He also founded Lead Edge Capital, LLC. He serves as a Senior Analyst at Eastern Advisors LLC. Mitchell Green primarily invests in public and private companies in the consumer, internet, software, and digital media sectors in Asia and the U.S. He joined Eastern Advisors LLC in 2008. Prior to founding Eastern Advisors Private Investments, Mitchell Green was an investor and Analyst at Bessemer Venture Partners and he worked at UBS Investment Bank in the Mergers & Acquisitions Group. He has a decade of technology and consumer venture capital/ growth equity investing and operating experience. He is a formerly nationally ranked alpine ski racer. Mitchell Green holds an M.B.A. degree in Marketing from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in Economics from Williams College.
Philadelphia, U.S.A. - India
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness)
Managing Partner at Osage University Partners
Founded Vista Ventures, consulting firm for impact investors and start-ups; former exec at investment fund, consulted in microfinance in Asia, Africa, Latam