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New York - San Francisco Bay Area - Boston - Atherton, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Future Of Work • Human Resources • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness)
Most Interested In
I am passionate about b2b saas companies focused on the future of work and healthcare technology
Not Interested In
I typically do not do consumer deals
Gary Swart serves as Partner at Polaris Partners. He represents Polaris on the boards of Quantcast, CliQr and SimplyInsured. He is a mentor at Alchemist Accelerator. Until April 2014, Gary was the CEO of oDesk, the world's largest online workplace with more than 1B in work through the platform from over 1 million clients and 5 million freelancers. Gary guided the company to industry-leadership and through a merger with Elance, while serving as a leading voice for the future of work and the emerging online work industry. Gary is deeply passionate about helping entrepreneurs build their businesses, and regularly shares his insights with fellow businesspeople and anyone crafting their career. Prior to oDesk, Gary's career grew from early entrepreneurial ventures, to a top executive position at IBM. Throughout, he has excelled at building high-performance, innovative and exceptionally loyal tea
Mountain View - Malaysia, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Media • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Advertising • Developer tools • Real Estate (& Construction)
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.
San Francisco Bay Area - LatAm (Latin ) - California, U.S.A. - Canada
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Future Of Work • Real Estate (& Construction)
Partner @homebrew. Formerly VP Product at @twitter, ex-Google PM, ex-Partner at @battery-ventures. Penn educated. Vegas raised.
Palo Alto - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Sales (& Marketing) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Advertising • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Robotics • Woman Focused
Most Interested In
I'm an early-stage technology B2B venture capital investor, investing in enterprise-facing tech startups driving transformation in the Future of Work in and across industry verticals with innovative new business models and typically a unique combination of technology and people. Industry interests include logistics, food, transportation, e-commerce, education, healthcare, oil &gas and more. Geographic focus single or hybrid-located startups across N. America.
Not Interested In
Am not currently investing in semiconductor or capital-intensive hardware startups, and not focused on consumer
Co-Founder and General Partner of Moment Ventures, seed & early stage VC firm in Palo Alto. We investing in startups building the Infrastructure of Everything.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Robotics • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Online Social
Most Interested In
Co's that apply tech/data/AI to cut material costs out of large, non-traditional tech industries either via "full-stack" offerings or marketplaces. Robotics. Smart SaaS. Consumer applications (viral or transactional).
Not Interested In
Trad. software w/ limited data/network effects or long sales cycles to classic IT buyers. Hardware w/o recurring revenue. Incremental improvements.
Chris Farmer is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at SignalFire. He also is an Angel Investor. He also served as Advisor at Stuph. He focuses on investments in consumer Internet, software and mobile with particular emphasis on seed stage investments and working with Entrepreneurs-In-Residence to launch new businesses. Previously, he was a Partner with General Catalyst Partners, where he led the seed program and a Vice President with Bessemer Venture Partners where he led investments in digital media & mobile companies. Prior to BVP, he was a consultant with Bain & Co where he advised on large scale technology buyouts. Prior to Bain, he spearheaded the successful turnaround of Skybitz, a wireless enabled SaaS company, where he served as led Product Management, Finance & Business Development. Earlier in his career, he founded an investment advisory firm for angel investors & private equity funds and served as a Venture Advisor to an early stage venture capital fund where he led investments in SkyBitz and Applied Semantics (acquired by Google). He started his career on Wall Street in the private equity group of Cowen & Company. He received a BA in International Relations & Business from Tufts University & the Fletcher School of Diplomacy.
New York - South San Francisco - San Francisco Bay Area - Toronto (Ontario), U.S.A. - Canada
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Sales (& Marketing) • Blockchain (& Cryptos)
Most Interested In
Applications that leverage conversational interfaces and messaging platforms to facilitate more targeted, topical and frequent customer-company engagements.
Not Interested In
Anything competing against a strong open-source alternative.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Sales (& Marketing) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data)
Most Interested In
ML-powered B2B apps; high usage, product-led growth B2B apps
Not Interested In
Consumer; hardware; biotech
St. Louis - Missouri, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Sales (& Marketing) • Consumer
Brian Matthews is a Co-founder and a General Partner at Cultivation Capital. In addition, he is a General Partner and mentor at SixThirty FinTech accelerator, as well as, a founder of River City Internet Group (www.rcig.net). River City Internet Group is an Internet holding company that focuses on software, Internet access, and hosting products. Brian is a serial entrepreneur having co-founded and assisted in the sale of the following technology companies: Primary Network to Mpower Communications (MPWR) in 2000, Primary Webworks to Perficient (PRFT) in 2001, CDM Fantasy Sports to Liberty Media (LCAPA) in 2006, and IntraISP to Clearwire Communications (CLWR) in 2007. Brian continues to focus on investments in early stage companies and sits on the boards of LockerDome, TopOpps, Aisle411, Hatchbuck, Tunespeak, SixThirty, Hostirian, and Friends of T-REX.
Chicago, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Entertainment (& Sports) • Advertising • Developer tools • Impact • Local commerce • Online Social
Stuart Larkins is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner & Investment Committee Member at Chicago Ventures. He is an Internet entrepreneur and digital marketing expert with more than fifteen years of experience leading Internet companies and start-up organizations. Stuart is a Co-Founder and Partner of Chicago Ventures. He was Senior Vice President and part of the founding management team at Performics. During his eight years at Performics, he helped lead the business through rapid growth and subsequent acquisitions by Doubleclick, Hellman & Friedman, Google, and Publicis. He was also involved in many online advertising industry groups and associations, such as the IAB, Yahoo Search Advertiser Council, MSN Search Committee, and the Google SEM Council. In addition to his involvement with the Chicago Ventures, Larkins is the Founder and Managing Partner of Twin Capital, where he is an investor in early-stage interactive marketing service and technology companies. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Shedd Aquarium, a member of the Economic Club of Chicago, and a member of the Springboard Foundation as well as Performline. He holds a B.S. in Economics from Southern Methodist University. He served as Board Member at Spring.
Menlo Park - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Messaging
Rajeev Batra serves as a General Partner at Mayfield Fund. He currently serves as board of director for Skilljar, TrustRadius, Cloud9, Red Beacon, ServiceMax and Viralheat, AgilOne and is a board observer of WideOrbit. He has held various business and technical roles at Siebel Systems, Scopus Technology and Open Environment Corporation (OEC), which pioneered three-tier computing and service oriented architecture. He was also on the founding team of NetNumina Solutions, an IT consulting firm, which was acquired by Keane. Prior to joining Mayfield, he was at American Capital Strategies (NASDAQ: ACAS), Mobius Venture Capital (fka Softbank Venture Capital), and Austin Ventures. He received an MBA from Harvard Business School, a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and a BSEE Honors from the University of Maryland, College Park, where he serves on the Board of Visitors of the A. James Clark School of Engineering.
Palo Alto - Woodside - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure)
Eric Chin serves as Partner at Crosslink Capital. He also serves as Board Observer at True&Co. He joined Crosslink in 2010 and focuses on Internet, software, and cloud infrastructure companies. He leads the Crosslink Capital Seed program and is also co-founder and president of alpha, the entrepreneurial networking club for more than 500 founders and CEOs. He brings several years of experience as a successful entrepreneur and venture capital investor. Prior to Crosslink, Eric was a partner at Artiman Ventures and Bay Partners focusing on Internet & software investments, some of which include Opsource (NTT), Invensense (INVN), InterAct and Dropcam. Eric's startup experience includes co-founding the Internet server software company WebSpective (INKT), and co-founding TelASIC Communications (MTI). In addition, his operating experience includes business development at Mainspring (IBM) and at MILCOM (Military Commercial Technologies) where he focused on finding and commercializing next generation technologies out of the military, aerospace and Defense Labs. He also serves as Board Member at NodeSource.
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Online Social
Founder, Baseline Ventures & Early Stage Seed Investor
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Sales (& Marketing) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure)
Alex Bard serves as Partner at Redpoint Ventures. He also served as Chief Executive Officer & Board Member at Campaign Monitor. He served as the Executive Vice President & General Manager in Salesforce.com. He has been a part of the founding team of 4 internet start ups including eShare Technologies (Customer Service Software, 1996-1999), eAssist Global Solutions (Customer Service Software, 1999-2004), Goowy Media (Widget Analytics Platform, 2004-2008) and Assistly (Customer Service Software, 2009 - Now). He has held executive roles including Vice President Customer Solutions - eShare, VP Sales / Marketing - eAssist, CEO - Goowy, VP Products AOL, and is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Assistly. He is also an advisor / investor in several start-ups including Watercooler, Offandaway, Foodzie and Irata labs (acquired by IGN). Previously, he was an Advisor at True Ventures. He is also an angel investor. He is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who has sold companies to Salesforce and AOL. He also serves as an Angel Investor.
Los Angeles - Santa Barbara - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Human Resources • Woman Focused
Most Interested In
100% focused on B2B Software, broadly defined: applications, infra, SMB, enterprise, subscription, usage-based, vertical, horizontal, etc.
Not Interested In
We don't invest in consumer, we rarely invest in hardware,
Menlo Park - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Hospitality (& Events) • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Entertainment (& Sports) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Neil Tolaney serves as a Principal & Head of Consumer Internet Investing at Francisco Partners. Prior to joining Francisco Partners in 2016, Neil was Managing Director of PersonalizationMall.com, an e-commerce category leader of personalized gifts. Neil was previously Vice President at Technology Crossover Ventures ("TCV"), where he helped lead investments in Facebook, AppNexus and Minted. Prior to TCV, Neil was Director of Strategic Development at LegalZoom.com, where he led initiatives across business development, corporate development and financial planning and analysis. Neil began his career as an Associate at Polaris Venture Partners and an investment banking Analyst at Banc of America Securities.
Menlo Park - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Consumer • Woman Focused
General Partner at IVP
Tom Loverro joined IVP in April 2015. He focuses on investing in later-stage, high-growth consumer and enterprise companies. Tom was recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of venture capital’s up-and-comers by his inclusion in the 2019 Midas Brink List. Tom currently serves as a Board Director or Observer for Attentive, Coinbase, HashiCorp, NerdWallet and Podium. He was actively involved in sourcing, executing, and managing investments in Amplitude, Datadog (DDOG), GitHub (MSFT), IEX, OnDeck (ONDK) and Tanium. Tom was previously a Principal at RRE Ventures, a leading early-stage venture firm, based in New York. Tom began his career at Goldman Sachs & Co. in technology, media, and telecommunications investment banking. Following Goldman, he joined RRE as an Analyst. Tom’s involvement in RRE portfolio company Drobo led to him joining the company full-time where he led Marketing. Tom holds an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management, where he was an Austin Scholar, and a B.A. from Stanford University, where he graduated with Distinction.
Boston Massachusets - San Francisco Bay Area - Palo Alto California - Menlo Park California - San Francisco California San Francisco California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Sales (& Marketing) • Online Social • Consumer
Dana Stalder serves as General Partner at Matrix Partners. He is a Board Member at Apartment List. Dana left PayPal in 2008 to join Matrix Partners, where he invests in software and Internet businesses that target consumers as well as corporations. He is a board member at Gilt Groupe, iRise, minuteKEY, Polyvore, QuinStreet, textPlus, Work4 Labs, Zendesk, Bugsnag, Poynt and ZestFinance. Dana joined eBay in 2001. As Vice President of Internet Marketing, Dana managed the company's global customer acquisition strategy and a multi-hundred million-dollar Internet marketing budget, where his responsibilities included running eBay's search engine marketing and search engine optimization initiatives. Dana was also responsible for eBay's Strategic Partnership Group, which generated more than several hundred million in revenue from third party partnerships and media sales. In 2004, Dana joined PayPal, where he managed all business operations, including product, sales, marketing and, eventually, technology. Dana started PayPal's international business from scratch, and led PayPal's expansion beyond the eBay platform onto other online retail sites. He also initiated a number of other startup projects, including PayPal Mobile and the PayPal Developer Platform.
Toronto (Ontario) - Austin - Chicago - Midwest - Illinois, U.S.A. - Canada
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • BioTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • Sales (& Marketing) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Payments
Founder and Managing Partner at Motivate Venture Capital
Most Interested In
Solutions to problems that accelerating longevity will create.
Not Interested In
Adtech, med devices, pharma
David Wieland is a Co-Founder and serves as Co-Chairman & Investment Committee Member at IrishAngels. He is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Endowment Research Group. He is a member of the Investment Committee and is Chair of the firm's Venture Capital Investments. He is responsible for corporate strategy, capital raising, deal sourcing, and investment due diligence. He is Chairman of the Board at RIVS, a software company, and he is positioning the firm for an exit. Prior thereto, Wieland was CEO of Innflux and Powersurge Technologies, where he founded, grew, and sold both companies. He earned his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and an MBA from the Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management. He also serves as Board Member at IrishAngels Ventures.
New York, U.S.A.
FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Payments • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
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