Jeff Jordan is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joining a16z, Jeff was president and CEO of OpenTable, which he took public in 2009. Before OpenTable, he was president of PayPal and the SVP and GM of eBay North America. Follow him on his blog (http://jeff.a16z.com/) and on Twitter @jeff_jordan.
Zaw Thet
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
San Francisco Bay Are..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Alice:
$1100000 (Seed Round)
• Remrise:
$8199999 (Early stage VC)
• Mozart Data:
$4000000 (Early stage VC)
• Landis:
$2000000 (Seed Round)
• Signia Venture Partners:
(late stage)
• Bitski:
• Crosscut Ventures:
(mid stage)
• plyfe:
• Palindrome Advisors:
• 4INFO (AdHaven):
(early stage)
• GetInventory:
• Exer Labs:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Exer Labs:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Exer Labs:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Hello Alice:
$1000000 (Seed)
• StatX:
$3000000 (Seed)
• STRIVR:
$5000000 (Seed)
• ApplePie Capital:
$16000000 (Series B)
• ApplePie Capital:
$6000000 (Series A)
• ApplePie Capital:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Nativo:
$20000000 (Series B)
• Nativo:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Boxed:
$25000000 (Series B)
• Boxed:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Hall:
$6000000 (Series A)
• HaulerDeals:
$1000000 (Seed)
Zaw Thet
San Francisco Bay Area - Denver - Colorado, U.S.A.
Jason Pressman is a Co- Founder and serves as Managing Director & Partner at Shasta Ventures. He also is an Angel Investor. He serves as the Board of Directors at Deep Sentinel. He leads the enterprise practice at Shasta Ventures and invests across a range of sectors including enterprise software, SaaS, cloud and consumer services. A company builder who played an integral role in the development of one of today's largest online businesses, Jason acts as a thought partner, advocate and counselor to entrepreneurs looking to take their companies from initial proof of product-market fit to industry dominance. As a partner at Shasta, Jason has been an active investor in cloud computing, with an emphasis on next-generation applications, systems management and open source software. His previous investments include Makara (acquired by RedHat) and iConclude (acquired by Opsware). Jason currently serves on the boards of application performance management startup Crittercism, Scala open source software platform Typesafe and SaaS subscription billing company Zuora, as well as local social guide Nextdoor and mobile platform Smule. Prior to joining Shasta in 2005, Jason was Vice President, Strategy and Operations at venture-backed Walmart.com, where he took the online retailer from zero to large scale revenue in five years. His experience growing that business into one of largest retailers online informs his understanding of how to thoughtfully scale fast-growing businesses, as well as how to use software to improve operations. Previously, Jason worked as an investment banker to venture-backed companies at Alex.Brown. Jason earned an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BS in Finance from University of Maryland.
Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Future Of Work • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobility
Description
Partner at Index Ventures
Martin Mignot serves as a Partner at Index Ventures. He also serves as Advisory Board Member at TheFamily. He specialises in SaaS, marketplaces, bitcoin and mobile. He worked on 50+ transactions to date, including Assistly, Auxmoney, BaseCRM, Cloud.com, Codecademy, DimDim, Factual, Farfetch, Flipboard, Funding Circle, Gluster, HouseTrip, Just Eat, Lookout, Nasty Gal, Notonthehighstreet, onefinestay, PeoplePerHour, TrustPilot, Soluto and SoundCloud. He is actively looking after Index's investments in Algolia, Capitaine Train, Drivy, Rad and Swiftkey. Prior to joining Index, Martin was in the TMT team at UBS Investment Bank and cofounded the beauty subscription business Boudoir Prive (acquired by Joliebox/Birchbox) and a student web radio service.
Brian Hirsch
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
New York City, U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Zibby:
$13500000 (Venture Round)
• Zibby:
$12500000 (Series B)
• Zibby:
$10000000 (Series A)
• PebblePost:
$25000000 (Later stage VC)
• Quantum Circuits:
$18000000 (Early stage VC)
• ACV Auctions:
$15000000 (Later stage VC)
• Backtrace:
$5000000 (Early stage VC)
• clean.io:
$5000000 (Early stage VC)
• Hive:
$4000000 (Later stage VC)
• Penrose Hill:
$4000000 (Early stage VC)
• Ozobot & Evollve:
$3000000 (Early stage VC)
• LoftSmart:
$2750000 (Later stage VC)
• escapex:
(early stage)
• Opternative:
(early stage)
• Mobile Commons:
(late stage)
• Tribeca Venture Partners:
(early stage)
• Flat World Education:
(early stage)
• Crossboard Mobile:
(early stage)
• Actuate:
$12000000 (Series B)
• Actuate:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Fuel Me:
$18000000 (Series A)
• Circuit:
$11000000 (Series A)
• Crafty:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Vivvi:
$15000000 (Series B)
• Procurated:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Suzy:
$12000000 (Series C)
• Suzy:
$5000000 (Series C)
• Suzy:
$5000000 (Series B)
• Suzy:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Domio:
$50000000 (Series B)
• Domio:
$12000000 (Series A)
• ACV:
$150000000 (Series E)
• ACV:
$93000000 (Series D)
• ACV:
$31000000 (Series C)
• ACV:
$15000000 (Series B)
• ACV:
$5000000 (Series A)
• AiCure:
$25000000 (Series C)
• AiCure:
$15000000 (Series B)
• AiCure:
$12000000 (Series A)
• HoneyBook:
$28000000 (Series C)
• ShopKeep:
$65000000 (Series E)
• ShopKeep:
$35000000 (Series D)
• ShopKeep:
$25000000 (Series C)
• ShopKeep:
$10000000 (Series B)
• ShopKeep:
$2000000 (Series A)
• Visibly:
$9000000 (Series B)
• Visibly:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Visibly:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Cuebiq:
$27000000 (Series B)
• Mighty:
$9000000 (Series A)
• Mighty:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Thinkful:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Truveris:
$25000000 (Series D)
• Truveris:
$10000000 (Series B)
• Truveris:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Katapult:
$14000000 (Series Unknown)
• Katapult:
$13000000 (Series B)
• Katapult:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Ozobot:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Lendio:
$19000000 (Series D)
• Lendio:
$22000000 (Series C)
• Lendio:
$5000000 (Series B)
• Lendio:
$6000000 (Series A)
• CommonBond:
$30000000 (Series C)
• CommonBond:
$36000000 (Series B)
• CommonBond:
$100000000 (Debt Financing)
• CommonBond:
$9000000 (Series A)
• AlphaSense:
$33000000 (Series A)
• MakersKit:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Strut Learning:
$10000000 (Series Unknown)
• Strut Learning:
$15000000 (Series B)
• Strut Learning:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Just Sing It:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Coinsetter:
$500000 (Seed)
• Spanfeller Media Group:
$5000000 (Series Unknown)
Brian Hirsch is the Founder & Managing Partner of Tribeca Venture Partners
Most Interested In
We are primarily a NY focused firm with over 90% of capital deployed locally.
Brian Hirsch is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Tribeca Venture Partners. He is a Board Member at Thinkful. He is also a Board Member at Lendio. Prior to starting Tribeca Venture Partners, Brian was a founder and Managing Director of GSA Venture Partners, formerly the venture arm of Greenhill & Co (NYSE: GHL). Prior to GSAVP, Brian was a Principal at Sterling Venture Partners and a Vice President at ABN AMRO Private Equity. Brian has invested across a broad number of sectors during his career including fintech, edtech, mobile, healthcare, online marketing and media/publishing. Brian has a BA in economics and American studies from Brandeis University. "When I was ten years old while most kids were reading comic books I was reading all of my father's business magazines. I mostly enjoyed reading the long profile stories of entrepreneurs that were building great companies against all odds. It was the 1980's and entrepreneurs like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Scott McNealy and Scott Cook were changing the world through technology. What fascinated me was the process of taking an idea and transforming it into a reality.
Motti Vaknin
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Most Interested In
Consumer-facing e-businesses, including marketplaces, e-tailers, SaaS and SME-focused software companies targeting local markets in CEE & Turkey. Enterprise technology innovators with roots in CEE & Turkey.
Not Interested In
Life sciences, material science, clean tech
Cem Sertoglu serves as Partner at Earlybird Venture Capital. He has several years of experience as an Investor, focusing web-enabled services and consumer internet. Previously, he was a Partner at iLab Ventures, Co-Founder and CEO at Mondus.com, Founder & CEO at SelectMinds and Vice President at Farmer & Company. Pioneering the technology investment sector in Turkey since its inception with his personal investment vehicle Young Turk Ventures, his investments include propertyfinder.ae, Wikimart.ru, Civic Solar, Gittigidiyor.com (Turkey's leading online auctions portal), Yemeksepeti.com (Turkey's leading food order platform) and Grupanya (Turkey's leading daily deal website). He holds a BA in Economics from University of Texas (Austin). He served as Board Member at Fite and Grupanya.
Michael Brehm is a Co-Founder at Rebate Networks. Brehm is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Redstone Digital. Prior to this he was Executive Director of studiVZ, at the time Germany's largest social network. Before starting in the technology sector he began his career at Merrill Lynch in the M&A division. He obtained his Business degree from WHU (Germany) and EGADE (Mexico) and also studied at CEIBS (China) where he learned Mandarin. Alongside being a Partner at Redstone Michael is an active angel investor in more than 20 companies like: Kreditech, Atheneum Partners or Inventorum.
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
How to connect with Angel Investors in the Retail industry?
In the Retail & E-Commerce industry, angel investors such as Chris Sacca, Alexis Ohanian, and Peter Thiel are prominent figures. These investors focus on startups offering innovative solutions in online retail, e-commerce platforms, and digital marketplaces. Chris Sacca, known for his early investments in Twitter and Uber, looks for disruptive retail solutions with strong growth potential. Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, invests in startups that leverage technology to improve the retail experience. Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal and Palantir Technologies, seeks out companies that provide scalable and efficient e-commerce solutions. To connect with these investors, attend retail tech conferences, e-commerce expos, and networking events such as Shoptalk, Retail Innovation Conference, and NRF Retail’s Big Show. Utilize platforms like AngelList and LinkedIn to identify and reach out to potential investors. When pitching, emphasize how your retail or e-commerce solution addresses key challenges, such as improving customer experience, enhancing operational efficiency, or optimizing supply chains. Highlight any traction you’ve gained, such as partnerships with retailers, user growth, or positive feedback from customers. Building relationships through initial informal meetings or discussions at industry panels can help establish trust with these investors. Demonstrating the impact of your technology 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 product sales, subscription fees, or service contracts, will further strengthen your pitch. Leveraging endorsements or case studies from retail or e-commerce experts can also enhance your credibility.
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