AgroTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Material Science • Woman Focused
Description
Vinod Khosla is the Founder at Khosla Ventures. He also served as Board Member at Learning Health & Oscar. He is a Co-Founder of Khosla Impact. He previously served as the Board Member and an Advisor at Post Intelligence. He was one of the three founders of Daisy Systems, which was the first significant computer-aided design system for electrical engineers. The company went on to achieve significant revenue, profits, and an IPO, but Khosla, driven by the frustration of having to design the computer hardware on which the Daisy software needed to be built, started the standards-based Sun Microsystems in 1982 to build workstations for software developers. At Sun he pioneered "open systems" and RISC processors. Sun was funded by longtime friend and board member John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. In 1986 Vinod switched sides and joined Kleiner Perkins, where he was and continues to be a general partner of KPCB funds through KPX. Khosla is a charter member of TiE, a not-for-profit global network of entrepreneurs and professionals founded in 1992 that now has more than forty chapters in nine countries. He is also a founding board member of the Indian School of Business. His current passion is social entrepreneurship, with a special emphasis on microfinance as a poverty alleviation tool. He is a supporter of many microfinance organizations in India and Africa. He has been experimenting with education and global housing. He is the Founder of Khosla Impact and a Advisory at HealthTap. He also serves as a board member at GreatPoint Energy, MyLikes, Gamgee and Verayo. He is an Advisor at Academia and The Breakthrough Energy Coalition. He also serves as Board Member at Sakti3. He is the Advisor at MetaMind. He also serves as the Board Member at Viome. He also serves as Mentor at Alchemist Accelerator. He is an Angel Investor.
Noam Kaiser
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
I focus on Early and Growth stage opportunities in the Enterprise SaaS, Cloud solution and infrastructure, Dev and DevOps Tools, Data Center and Semiconductors.
Not Interested In
Cleantech, Agritech.
Motti Vaknin
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Eitan is a founding partner of TLV Partners. He currently focuses on Mobile, IoT, Marketing Analytics and Fintech. His passion is working with great entrepreneurs and helping them build their dream.
Eitan invested and partnered with the founders of Check (acquired by INTU), Videosurf (acquired by MSFT), AppsFlyer, Duda, 3DV (acquired by MSFT), Sckipio and Neura.
Previously Eitan was a General Partner at Pitango Venture Capital and led Pitango’s Silicon Valley activity since 2007. Before that he was part of the founding team of an internet startup focused on bringing the internet to the elderly and held Executive positions at Elbit Systems. Eitan holds an MBA from the University of Michigan. Eitan also served as a Pilot in the Israeli Air Force.
Tim O'Reilly is the Founder and serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at O'Reilly Media. He also serves as Partner at O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures and a Strategic Partner at Ekistic Ventures. He is an Advisor at Automat.ai. He is thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. The company also publishes online through the O'Reilly Network and hosts conferences on technology topics. He holds a BA in Classics from Harvard University.
Steve Berg
Investing in A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Securit...
New York City, U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Uplevel:
$5320000
• MontyCloud:
(early stage)
• TrueFort, Inc.:
(mid stage)
• Lytical Ventures, LLC:
(early stage)
• Antecedent Ventures:
(early stage)
• RTP Ventures:
(early stage)
• Punk, Ziegel & Company (now Ladenburg Thalmann Co.):
Auren Hoffman and I have combined our investing activity and launched Flex Capital.
Seed -- We have made 140 investments to date and are targeting 5-10 companies over the next 12 months.
Early Growth Stage -- We are investing in growth companies that are typically in the $100 million to $400 million valuation range. We're focused on companies that will dominate their respective markets and generally investing in companies that have $10M - $100M revenue run rates.
Not Interested In
We are primarily interested in software business models. If you are not a software business then we likely won't be interested.
Tod Sacerdoti serves as Founder & Chief Executive Officer at Turbo Ventures. He founded and served as a Chief Executive Officer at BrightRoll, the leading provider of digital video advertising services. He is an Angel Investor. He is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Turbo Ventures. He also serves as Advisor at Ridge Ventures. Under his direction, BrightRoll has grown from conception into the world's largest and most trusted video ad platform and a leader in digital video advertising. Prior to founding BrightRoll, Tod served as the director of revenue at Plaxo, one of the fastest growing Internet companies in history. He also led business development at Spoke Software, an Internet pioneer in sales and marketing efficiency solutions and also held positions at Interscope, Geffen and A&M Records, a division of the Universal Music Group. Prior to this, he worked as an investment banker in the Internet marketing group at Robertson Stephens. He received the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year 2013 Award in the advertising technology category for Northern California and won the 2013 Stevie Award for innovator of the year in computer software. He holds a BA in Economics from Yale University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He serves as Advisor at Synapse Partners.
Jerry Yang
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
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
Sean Dempsey
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Real software solving real problems; enterprise software; algorithmic-intensive applications; AI; vertical-focused SaaS
Not Interested In
We don't invest in consumer businesses
Sean Dempsey is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at Merus Capital. He also is an Angel Investor. Before co-founding Merus, Sean was a Principal of Corporate Development at Google, responsible for acquisitions and investments including Android, YouTube, and Postini. Prior to Google, he spent over six years at Microsoft in the Corporate Development team. At Microsoft, he led over 40 acquisitions and investments including Bungie, the creator of the Xbox hit Halo. In addition to M&A, Sean was part of the original team to drive Microsoft's living room strategy which ultimately became the Xbox game console. His areas of focus at Google and Microsoft included consumer web services, online and traditional advertising, online video, gaming and enterprise SaaS. Before joining Microsoft, he spent two years in technology Mergers & Acquisitions at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell in Menlo Park and was a Research Analyst at the Jennings Group in San Francisco. Outside of Merus, Sean is an avid trail runner and is doing his small part in keeping the Bay Area trails alive and well through his involvement on the Board of the Peninsula Open Space Trust. He is also an Advisory Board Member of the Kravis Leadership Institute at Claremont McKenna College where he graduated with degrees in Economics/Environment/Politics and French.
Businesses Solutions • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Analytics • Future Of Work
Description
CEO & Chairman at Kespry
George Mathew serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Kespry. He serves as Angel Investor at George Mathew. He served as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Alteryx, where he oversees marketing, products, and strategy for the company. He joined Alteryx, bringing over 16 years of executive leadership experience in enterprise technology, software-as-a-service, and e-commerce. Most recently, he was the group vice-president & general manager for Business Intelligence (BI) at SAP BusinessObjects, the fastest growing business in SAP's diverse portfolio. His broad experience in leading product management and market strategy at the world's largest BI solution provider is helping to further accelerate exponential growth at Alteryx, while the business enjoys the highest customer success rate in the industry. His insights into the rapidly changing customer requirements within the enterprise BI software market are also helping Alteryx and its growing community of users to achieve unprecedented improvements in operational efficiencies and returns on investment. During his leadership tenure at SAP, he led the BusinessObjects Explorer team, introducing pervasive, in-memory analytics to the market. Prior to this achievement and through SAP's acquisition of Business Objects, he managed SAP's portfolio strategy in the Office of the CEO. Prior to SAP, he was an early member of salesforce.com where he focused on technical account management, M&A, and field services. Early in his career, he was a founding member of Fort Point Partners, a management consultancy that delivered large-scale e-commerce systems to leading consumer retail & financial services institutions. This intellectual capital eventually became the A/B testing & optimization product for Omniture (an Adobe company). He holds a Bachelor of Science in Neurobiology from Cornell University and a Masters in Business Administration from Duke University, where he was a Fuqua Scholar.
Frank Gruber
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
San Diego , Los Angel..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• HashRabbit:
$1650000 (Seed Round)
• The Shelf:
$1390000 (Seed Round)
• Shearshare:
(Seed)
• SoLo Funds Inc.:
$1200000 (Venture Round)
• Klickly:
(Seed)
• Paracosm:
$3300000 (Seed Round)
• CTGT:
(Seed)
• Wallabi:
(Seed)
• CameraEye:
(Seed)
• BodyMatter:
(Series A)
• SixAI:
(Seed)
• Gravity AI:
$1000 (Seed)
• Aquacycl:
(Series A)
• Aquacycl:
(Seed)
• GoShare:
(Note)
• GoShare:
(Seed)
• Mercato:
$26000000 (Series A)
• Ateios:
$1300000 (Seed)
• Nanome:
(Seed)
• Nanome:
(Note)
• GoMeta:
$90000 (Series A)
• GoMeta:
$3100000 (Seed Round)
• GoMeta:
$200000 (Convertible Promissory Note)
• CourseKey:
$5600000 (Series A)
• CureMetrix:
(Series A)
• Labfellows:
(Seed)
• AttackIQ:
$8800000 (Series A)
• Cloudbeds:
$3100000 (Series A)
• Grolltex:
(Seed)
• Doctible:
$700000 (Seed Round)
• Mogl:
(Series B)
• MixMode:
(Seed)
• CleverPet:
(Seed)
Frank Gruber
San Diego - Los Angeles / Southern California, U.S.A.
Andy White is an Angel Investor. White is the Founder of Millennial Technology. He served as a Partner at VegasTechFund. He holds a BS in Marketing from Southern Illinois University.
Focused on "intelligent enterprise" - B2B startups leveraging proprietary data to deliver compounding value to their customers. Often, not always, AI.
Not Interested In
No consumer, no life sciences. Media/entertainment/sports pretty unlikely.
Jocelyn Goldfein serves as Managing Director at Zetta Venture Partners. She also serves as Angel Investor at Jocelyn Goldfein. She also served as Board Member at Zycada Networks. She spent seven years as an engineering leader at VMware and four years at Facebook. She even interned at Netscape. In 2014, she started angel investing as a "DIY entrepreneur-in-residence" program -- a way to connect with entrepreneurs, learn, and find inspiration for her next startup. As an angel investor, she's backed over 20 startups with an emphasis on infrastructure and AI. She serves on several boards, including Harvey Mudd College, and is a visiting lecturer at Stanford University, where she received her BS in Computer Science.
How to connect with Angel Investors in the Analytics industry?
In the Analytics industry, angel investors such as Tim Ferriss, Naval Ravikant, and Reid Hoffman are highly active. These investors focus on startups offering innovative solutions in data analytics, business intelligence, and predictive analytics. Tim Ferriss, an author and entrepreneur, invests in analytics startups that leverage technology to provide actionable insights and improve decision-making. Naval Ravikant, co-founder of AngelList, looks for companies that offer scalable and efficient data analytics solutions. Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, seeks out startups with strong data capabilities and business intelligence tools. To connect with these investors, attend analytics conferences, data science expos, and networking events such as Strata Data Conference, Predictive Analytics World, and Data Science Conference. Utilize platforms like AngelList and LinkedIn to identify and reach out to potential investors. When pitching, emphasize how your analytics solution addresses key challenges, such as improving data accuracy, enhancing decision-making, or optimizing business processes. Highlight any traction you’ve gained, such as partnerships with enterprises, user growth, 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 or service through case studies or user testimonials 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 subscription fees, licensing, or service contracts, will further strengthen your pitch. Leveraging endorsements or case studies from data analytics experts can also enhance your credibility.
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