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.
Jason Pressman
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
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.
Santo Politi is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Spark Capital. He has led Spark's investments in eToro, Convert Media, Genie, Oculus, Orchard, Qriously, Storenvy, Triggit and Zazma. He also led Spark's previous investments in Adap.TV (acquired by AOL), Admeld (acquired by Google), CT-100/CNET (acquired by CBS), IPWireless (acquired by General Dynamics), KickApps (acquired by KIT Digital), Lexity (acquired by Yahoo!) and OneRiot (acquired by Walmart). He served as a board member of 5Min (acquired by AOL) and thePlatform (acquired by Comcast). He was previously a Partner at Charles River Ventures (CRV) where he led investments in BigBand Networks (NASDAQ: BBND), Broadbus Technologies (acquired by Motorola) and Groove Mobile (acquired by LiveWire). Prior to Charles River Ventures, he served as President of New Media for Blockbuster Entertainment (NYSE: BBI). He also previously co-founded BT Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm affiliated with Bankers Trust where he led successful investments in Aether Systems (NASDAQ: AETH), DigitalThink (NASDAQ: DTHK) and Novatel Wireless (NASDAQ: NVTL). He previously held various engineering and management positions at Matsushita Electric Industrial, Panasonic and Weston Instruments. He holds an MBA in finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from NJIT and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey. He serves as a Board member at Qriously, PreVeil, Uncommon and Lightmatter.
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.
Josh Elman
Investing in Media • Retail (& E-Commerce) &...
Washington , New York..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• GoMeta:
$3000000 (Seed Round)
• OTPless:
$3000000 (Seed)
• EarlyDay:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Double:
$9000000 (Series A)
• Nova:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Ladder:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Kinema:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Reface:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Northstar:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Jam:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Hub:
$20000000 (Series Unknown)
• TruStory:
$3000000 (Seed Round)
• TruStory:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Mammoth Media:
$13000000 (Series A)
• Trimian:
$3000000 (Series Unknown)
• Discord:
$50000000 (Series D)
• Discord:
$20000000 (Series C)
• Houseparty:
$52000000 (Series C)
• Houseparty:
$14000000 (Series B)
• Koji:
$3000000 (Pre Seed)
• Medium:
$57000000 (Series B)
• Medium:
$25000000 (Series A)
• Flogg:
(Seed)
• Nextdoor:
$110000000 (Series D)
• Nextdoor:
$60000000 (Series Unknown)
• Nextdoor:
$22000000 (Series B)
• Nextdoor:
$19000000 (Series Unknown)
• Complex Polygon:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Jelly HQ:
(Series B)
• Jelly HQ:
(Series A)
• SmartThings:
$13000000 (Series A)
• tbh:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Tracks.by:
(Seed)
• Treehouse:
$600000 (Seed)
• BranchOut:
$6000000 (Series A)
Josh Elman
Washington - New York - Seattle - Los Angeles - San Francisco Bay Area - Menlo Park - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Hospitality (& Events) • Media • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Future Of Work • Music
Description
Dr. Florian Heinemann is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Project A Ventures. He also serves as Board Member at kfzteile24 and Lost My Name. He also serves as Advisory Board Member at Onlineprinters. He is the Managing Director of Shirtagram. He is responsible for the areas of marketing, CRM and business intelligence. Before co-founding Project A, he was managing director of Rocket Internet holding the same areas of responsibility (2007-2012). During his time at Rocket, he was mainly involved in TopTarif, eDarling, and Zalando/Bigfoot. Prior to Rocket, Florian was co-founder and managing director of JustBooks/AbeBooks being in charge of marketing and product (1999-2002, exit to Amazon). Then, he was co-heading the online marketing department of Jamba! and the online dating portal iLove (2003-2005, exit to Verisign). In 2006, he was co-founder of the online marketplace antibodies-online.com. Moreover, he has been an investor/business angel in more than 40 startups, e.g. AdScale, Ladenzeile, Netmoms and Tradoria. Florian holds a doctorate's degree in innovation management/entrepreneurship from RWTH Aachen University. He was a visiting scholar at the Wharton School. His research has been published in leading international journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of International Marketing and Zeitschrift fur Betriebswirtschaft. He is an Angel Investor.
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
Josh Goldman
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
San Francisco Bay Are..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Catapult VC:
(mid stage)
• Cabin Technologies:
• Drop:
(late stage)
• Omega Venture Partners:
(early stage)
• Bizly:
(early stage)
• Butterfleye Inc.:
(mid stage)
• Kanler:
(early stage)
• Kwik:
• Lovepop:
(early stage)
• Managed by Q:
(early stage)
• Rappi:
(early stage)
• Stay Wanderful:
• Truebill:
(early stage)
• trusted:
• Confident Cannabis:
(early stage)
• Casper Sleep:
(early stage)
• Inlet Technologies:
(early stage)
• PremierGuide:
• Lumos Labs:
$32000000 (Series D)
• Lumos Labs:
$33000000 (Series C)
• Lumos Labs:
$3100000 (Series A)
• NinthDecimal:
(Series E)
• NinthDecimal:
$7000000 (Series E)
• NinthDecimal:
$20000000 (Series Unknown)
• JoyRun:
$9000000 (Series A)
• Bloomberg Second Measure:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Medallia Agent Connect:
$15000000 (Series C)
• Medallia Agent Connect:
$15000000 (Series B)
• ModCloth:
$15000000 (Series C)
• ModCloth:
$25000000 (Series C)
• IFTTT:
$30000000 (Series B)
• Sojern:
$10000000 (Series C)
• Sojern:
$8000000 (Series B)
• Sojern:
$9000000 (Series Unknown)
• Sojern:
$16000000 (Series A)
• Quirky:
$79000000 (Series D)
• Quirky:
$16000000 (Series B)
• Quirky:
(Series Unknown)
• Lumosity:
$32000000 (Series D)
• Lumosity:
$33000000 (Series C)
• Lumosity:
$3000000 (Series A)
• TreatFeed:
$5000000 (Series A)
• RetailMeNot:
$90000000 (Series B)
• Snapfinger:
$7000000 (Series B)
• NearbyNow:
$12000000 (Series Unknown)
• Retrevo:
$8000000 (Series B)
• Retrevo:
$3000000 (Series A)
Josh Goldman
San Francisco Bay Area - Palo Alto - Saratoga - California, U.S.A.
9 yrs as GP @norwest Venture Partners.
Repeat entrepreneur & CEO.
>$6bn in realized M&A + IPO gains for companies i ran, invested in, or served on the Board.
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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