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Menlo Park - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Consumer
Grew up in Cape Town. Came to @stanford-university in 1998. Joined @paypal in 2000 & became CFO. Joined Sequoia in 2003. Invested in @youtube in 2005.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Norwest Venture Partners
consumer Internet investments @ @norwest-venture-partners
previously co-founded Spree Network & SocialMD; M&A banker at @evercore Partners
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - South Korea
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Hospitality (& Events) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Entertainment (& Sports) • Gaming (& eSports) • Developer tools • Future Of Work • Online Social • Woman Focused
Most Interested In
Active in fintech, e-sports, marketplaces, cross-border. But always prefer to invest in people who make me become aware about large problems.
Not Interested In
Businesses that are capital intensive prior to launch and especially businesses with long feedback loop cycles (pure hardware, etc.)
Partner at @500startups and heading up our $15M Korea specific fund, 500 Kimchi. Started a couple co's (bootstrapped & venture). Big fan of #ELaMF and #JFDI.
Palo Alto - California, U.S.A. - Singapore - Russia
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Developer tools • Future Of Work • Woman Focused
Love companies with network effects!
Most Interested In
Focused on companies with network effects. Marketplaces, networks, software and communication platforms, AR, VR, IoT, connected cars, AI, b2b, b2c
Not Interested In
Not investing in traditional e-commerce (with physical goods, logistics, inventory etc), payments, ad tech, cybersecurity, esports and games.
Founder @ivi-ru, @frontier-ventures • ex-Managing Partner at @ru-Net• Investor @chope.com, @expert360.com, @Profi.ru, @ivi-ru etc • @harvard-business-school
New York, U.S.A.
Media • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Laurel Touby is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Supernode Ventures. She is the Founder and Chief Executive Odfficer at Mediabistro. During her time as Chief Executive Officer, she pulled the company through two recessions, pivoted, managed growth with minimal resources and developed audience via guerrilla and social marketing (before that term existed). Users subscribe to mediabistro's many services, which include online education, employment classifieds, conferences (offline), events (offline), forums, and industry-specific blogs, such as the popular TVNewser. Following the sale of the company for $23 mm to Jupitermedia, Laurel remained with the company through June, 2011. Laurel began investing in seed-stage startups, including: AdYapper, Appboy, Apploi, Buddie, Clef, CreativeWorx, Fashion GPS, Learn Immersive and Pivit. She is an LP in Lowercase Ventures (with holdings in Twitter, Uber, etc.) and in Pershing Square, among others. Laurel is active as a public speaker and hosted "Secrets of Successful Startups" on CBS Interactive. An inveterate connector, Laurel touches the entrepreneurial community in various ways, including via her monthly co-hosted Cereal Entrepreneurs breakfast, Flatiron Investor meetings and Startup Digital Dinners. She lives in a loft in Silicon Alley and is married to Jon Fine, Author of "Your Band Sucks" and Executive Editor of Inc. Magazine. She has served as an Advisor at HoneyCo Homes.
San Francisco Bay Area - Albany - London - Miami, U.S.A. - China
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Analytics • Payments • Consumer • Productivity
Partner at HOF Capital
CEO @ care.coach (we're hiring!)
San Francisco Bay Area - New York - Delray Beach - Florida, U.S.A. - Canada
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Analytics • Payments • Robotics
Partner at ValueStream Ventures
Greg Neufeld is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner at ValueStream Ventures. He also serves as an Advisor & Investor at ChartIQ. Greg co-managed a series of investment funds at SI Capital Management trading market index futures and options, before leaving to pursue entrepreneurship including stints at FailStation and as the co-founder of Freespeech, a consumer mobile messaging app.
Austin - San Francisco Bay Area - Los Angeles - New York - Miami - Seattle - Durham - Boulder - Denver - Boston - Washington - San Diego - Orange - Texas, U.S.A. - U.K. - Sweden
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Future Of Work • Real Estate (& Construction) • Woman Focused
General Partner Rubicon Venture Capital / Author The Entrepreneurial Bible to Venture Capital (McGraw Hill) Twitter: @RomansVentures www.linkedin.com/in/romans/
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.
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.
Los Altos - Menlo Park - San Francisco Bay Area - Palo Alto - California, U.S.A.
Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Online Social • Consumer
Consumer VC @ Menlo Ventures
Mission: help entrepreneurs solve important problems at scale.
Lead @ Roku, Uber, JUMP, IMVU, Siri, TeleNav, YuMe, PlaySpan
Founder and former CEO of Handle (www.handle.today)
Istanbul, U.S.A. - Germany
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Hospitality (& Events) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Insurance (& InsurTech)
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.
Sao Paulo - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - Brazil
FinTech (& Financials services) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Gaming (& eSports) • Messaging • Consumer
Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Mindset Ventures | Professor at Insper
Currently CEO at Acelera Partners, enhancing the entrepreneurship ecosystem in Brazil and Partner at Mindset Ventures, investing in startups from Israel and USA
New York, U.S.A.
FinTech (& Financials services) • Payments
Managing Director, Shasta Ventures
Nyca Partners is a venture capital and advisory firm which specializes in seed, early stage and later stage investments. The firm is exclusively focused on applying innovation in financial services into the global financial system. The firm was incorporated in 2014 and is based in New York, New York.
New York, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Gaming (& eSports) • Payments • Online Social • Consumer
VC at Greycroft | fmr Head of Corporate Development & Strategy at Pinterest.
Works at @greycroft-partners, @mckinsey-company • Studied at @stanford-university, @stanford-graduate-school-of-business
San Francisco Bay Area - Austin - Texas, U.S.A. - Canada
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Online Social • Consumer
partner @formation-8. Claremont McKenna graduate. Originally from Iowa City, IA
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Developer tools • Consumer
Early Stage VC @ Audacious Ventures
Most Interested In
SaaS, B2B marketplaces, professional communities/LinkedIn for vertical markets, Prosumer
Not Interested In
Hardware
Investor at @lightspeed-venture-partners
San Francisco Bay Area - Los Altos - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Advertising • Analytics • Food & Beverage • GovTech • Impact • Local commerce • Messaging
Benjamin Horowitz is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He also serves as a Board Member at United Masters, Sisu, Okta and Magnet Syste He was a co-founder and CEO of Opsware (formerly Loudcloud), which was acquired by HP in 2007 and was appointed vice president and general manager of Business Technology Optimization for Software at HP. Earlier, he was vice president and general manager of America Online's E-commerce Platform division. Previously, he ran several product divisions at Netscape Communications. He also served as vice president of Netscape's widely acclaimed Directory and Security product line. Before joining Netscape in July 1995, he held various senior product marketing positions at Lotus Development Corporation. He also serves as Board Observer at Gainspeed. He has a BA in Computer Science from Columbia University and an MS in Computer Science from UCLA. He serves on the board of many companies including Foursquare, SnapLogic,Tidemark Systems and Databricks, Jawbone, Lytro, Magnet Systems, Nicira, 3dna, Tidemark, medium & SignalFuse. He is also the Co-Founder of usermind. He also serves as Advisor at A.Capital Ventures.