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San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data)
Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Congruent Ventures
Mr. Abraham Yokell is a Co-Founder & serves as Managing Partner at Congruent Ventures. He also serves as Board Member at AMP Robotics, Modumate, Omnidian, Solidspac3, and Blueprint Power. He serves as Board Observer at Dispatch Goods. He serves as Board Member & Advisor at Evergrow. He serves as an Advisor at Leap. He is an Angel Investor. He oversees Congruent's investments in Amply Power, Camus, For Days, Hippo Harvest, Hopthru, Kingfield, Lightship, Milk Run, Optimoroute, Phase Genomics, Raptor Map, Span.IO, Thrilling, and Vector among others. He has over 17 years of investment experience, having invested across sectors with an emphasis on deep tech and business model innovation.
Previously, he served as a Partner at Rockport Capital. he joined Rockport as an Associate and moved from Boston to help spearhead the opening of RockPort's Menlo Park office in 2007.758r. While at Rockport, he was involved in over 50 transactions across 22 companies in the sustainability ecosystem, focusing on hardware/software, financing, and business model innovation. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Economics, with minors in Chemistry and Biology.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
BioTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • A.I. (& Big Data) • Developer tools • Aerospace (& Defense)
Peter Thiel is a technology entrepreneur and investor.He first gained attention for innovations in banking and startup finance. Today he is known as the mentor of the PayPal mafia of entrepreneurs, as well as for his warnings of a coming technology deficit with severe economic consequences. He works to accelerate innovation to prevent such a crisis by identifying and funding promising technology ideas and by guiding successful companies to scale and dominate their industries. In 1998,Thiel made e-commerce easier, faster, and more secure by co-founding and leading PayPal, which now has more than 128 million active financial accounts. In 2002, he sold PayPal to eBay and founded a global macro fund, Clarium.In 2004, he co-founded Palantir Technologies, which offers platforms for finance companies and intelligence, defense, and law enforcement communities to integrate, visualize, and analyze the world’s information. In the same year, he made the first outside investment in Facebook, a social networking hub that now has more than a billion million active members. He serves on its board. Building on his personal success as a venture capital investor, Thiel co-founded and manages Founders Fund, a leading Silicon Valley venture capital fund that has pioneered new methods of venture financing that benefit founders. Through Founders Fund, as well as through his private investing, he has helped the next generation of tech companies, such as SpaceX, LinkedIn, Yelp, RoboteX, and Spotify. And in 2012 he co-founded Mithril Capital Management, an international technology investment fund.Thiel established and funds the Thiel Foundation, which promotes freedom in all its forms. He sponsors the Committee to Protect Journalists, The Seasteading Institute, and the Human Rights Foundation. He funds the artificial intelligence research of theMachine Intelligence Research Institute. He also aids work against violence through theOslo Freedom Forum and through the research of philosopher René Girard, which is extended and promulgated by Imitatio. He also promotes better health by funding the longevity research of Dr. Cynthia Kenyon and the SENS Research Foundation.Thiel created the 20 Under 20 Thiel Fellowship, which nurtures the tech visionaries of tomorrow. And he formed Breakout Labs to help independent scientists, engineers, and inventors advance their most radical ideas. Thiel earned a B.A. in philosophy from Stanford University and a J.D. from Stanford Law School, where he occasionally teaches on globalization and technology and serves on the board of overseers of the Hoover Institution. His articles have appeared in Policy Review and the Wall Street Journal. He co-produced the film Thank You for Smoking, was rated a master by the United States Chess Federation, and received the Innovation Award from the Economist in 2010. He lives in San Francisco.
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Hospitality (& Events) • Education • Energy • Food & Beverage • GovTech
Clara is a co-founder and Managing Partner of the Urban Innovation Fund. The Urban Innovation Fund is a venture capital firm that invests in transformative urban technology. It provides seed capital and regulatory expertise to entrepreneurs solving our toughest urban challenges – helping them grow into tomorrow’s most valued companies. Clara previously co-founded Tumml, an urban ventures accelerator. During the last three years, Tumml has incubated 33 startups, who have raised $37M+ in funding and launched products/ services for over 2.2M people. In 2014, Forbes listed her as one of its “30 Under 30” for Social Entrepreneurship. Clara’s work energizing urban entrepreneurship has been featured in numerous press outlets, including Forbes, TechCrunch, and the Silicon Valley Business Journal, among others. Clara earned her MBA from MIT Sloan and her BA from NYU.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • A.I. (& Big Data) • Developer tools • GovTech • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Managing Director at Y Combinator
Wyoming, U.S.A.
FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • A.I. (& Big Data) • Aerospace (& Defense) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Consumer
Partner to Breakthrough Scientific Inventors
Menlo Park, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • AgroTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • CleanTech • Logistics (& Distribution) • Mobility
Partner at G2VP / Partner at Kleiner Perkins Green Growth Fund
Partner at G2VP / Partner at Kleiner Perkins Green Growth Fund
San Francisco Bay Area - Oakland - California, U.S.A.
AgroTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • IoT (& Wearables) • CleanTech • Logistics (& Distribution) • Robotics • Mobility • Woman Focused
Partner at Third Sphere
Learning to think/build/invest in innovation. 2013 VFA Fellow, Duke alum, previously w/ @vtfcapital , @techstars, & @first-round-capital. Now @pinoccio
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Energy • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Gaming (& eSports) • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Mobility • Woman Focused
Sam Altman serves as Partner & President at Y Combinator. He is a Board Member at Boom. He was co-founder and CEO of Loopt, which was funded by Y Combinator in 2005 and acquired by Green Dot in 2012. At Green Dot, he was the CTO and is now on the Board of Directors. Sam also founded Hydrazine Capital. He studied computer science at Stanford, and while there worked in the AI lab.
New York City, U.S.A.
BioTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Material Science • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Robotics • DeepTech • Woman Focused
Managing Director at Coast to Crest Fund
Most Interested In
Early Stage Hard Tech in AI, Robotics, Life Sciences, Secure Platforms, Quantum Computing, and Energy.
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Education • Energy • CleanTech • Mobility
Most Interested In
• Personal transportation using energy other than oil • Primary education • Energy storage • Urban farming • Decentralized utilities • Large-scale water desalinization • New nuclear technologies • Government policy on energy, education, transportation and water
Atlanta - Georgia, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • A.I. (& Big Data) • Developer tools • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Payments • Woman Focused
Most Interested In
InsurTech, Frontier Tech, Dev Tools, Infrastructure, Legal Tech, Enterprise SaaS
Not Interested In
Hardware, Medical Devices, BioTech
San Francisco Bay Area - Atlanta - Georgia, U.S.A.
Energy • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Robotics • DeepTech • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer • Woman Focused
Co-Founder @ResoluteVC : We lead super early pre-seed and seed rounds.
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
AgroTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • CleanTech • Food & Beverage • Robotics • Mobility
Most Interested In
De-commoditization of food, flattening of supply chains bringing producers closer to consumers, electrification of everything, end of cars in cities, commercial applications of autonomy, clean air and clean water.
Menlo Park California - San Francisco California - Valley California - Campbell, California, U.S.A.
AgroTech • Energy • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Mobility
Venture Capitalist - Building the Industrial Future at 40 North Ventures
Ann Arbor - Detroit - Denver - San Mateo - Menlo Park - Los Angeles - New York - Palo Alto - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Energy • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Impact • Robotics • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Nanotechnology • Consumer
Conscious Leadership Coach & Trainer / 2x Startup founder / Co-founder at Fearless Ventures
Most Interested In
We're excited about companies that are leveraging fundamental changes in the world to create meaningful companies that improve people's lives. We want to back the most significant companies of tomorrow, and help them operate as conscious, win-for-all businesses. Some of the fundamental changes we're intrigued by include: - AI - Robotics & automation - AR/VR - Genetics & preventive health - Blockchain - BrainTech & mental health - Sustainability / renewable energy - Mindfulness / consciousness
Not Interested In
We're not interested in ad tech or products that further the cycle of consumerism. We're not interested in entrepreneurs who don't value personal and leadership development.
Co-founder, @worklife . Previously, startup CEO coach and culture consultant. Founder, Wellsphere (acq. by IAC/Sequoia-backed HealthCentral), Unleashed.