1. Applications solving large and non-obvious problems in data-intensive industries
2. ML-driven applications that have found a path to an initial data advantage and have the potential to create a definitive intelligence advantage
3. Business operations platforms for SMB vendors who have never had a good one, esp that are driven by mobile, esp that drive payment flow
4. Large-scale applications and HW/SW systems that sell into government
Not Interested In
I like to be surprised by things I think I may not be interested in and so try not to rule anything out.
Partner @venrock • Investor @claralending, @Centricient, @dataminr, @care, @gilt Groupe • Studied at @stanford-university, @university-of-oxford-2
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.
Founding Managing Partner at Glilot Capital Partners
Arik Kleinstein is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Glilot Capital Partners. He serves as Board Member at Solebit, Intsights and Dojo-Labs. He also served as Board Member at Armeron. He served as the chief financial officer at InterCure. Kleinstein served as an assistant director and investment manager for the bank provident funds at Bank Tefachot. He served as the chief financial officer at VideoCodes and a Board Member at CyberX. Kleinstein headed finance and operations at ECtel North America. He served for five years in an elite technology unit of the Israeli army where he led planning, budgeting, MIS and logistical tea He also serves as a board member at Porticor and Insightera.
Michael Kim
Investing in PropTech • Education • Bus...
Seoul, Korea
Previous Investments
• Silicon Valley Data Science:
$3100000 (Series 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.
Managing Director and Co-founder at Pioneer Square Labs
Geoff Entress serves as Co-Founder & Managing Director at Pioneer Square Labs. He serves as a Board member at WhitePages.com. He is a Co-Founder and serves as a Managing Director at Pioneer Square Labs. He serves as Board Member at Hiya. He also served as Vice Chairman at Alliance of Angels.He is a Board Member at LiquidPlanner. In addition to his angel activities, he had spent the last two years as a Venture Partner at Voyager Capital and the eight years prior to that as an investment team member at Madrona Venture Group. He currently sits on the board of directors of drugstore.com (NASDAQ GM: DSCM) and several private companies. He is a graduate of The University of Michigan Law School, the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Notre Dame.
Jerry Yang
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • IT (& TMT) • Hospitality (& Events) • Media • Education • BioTech • AgroTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Entertainment (& Sports) • IoT (& Wearables) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Analytics • AR/VR • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Future Of Work • Food & Beverage • Human Resources • Impact • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Payments • Robotics • Mobile Apps • Aerospace (& Defense) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Music • Investment Management • LegalTech • Mobile • Mobility • Online Social • Consumer • Oil & Gas (& Mining) • Industrials • Film Production (& Distribution) • Semiconductors
Description
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.
Sriram Krishnan
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Digits:
(Series A)
• mParticle:
$35000000 (Series C)
• Gregarious, Inc.:
$5400000 (Seed Round)
• Gregarious Inc.:
$5400000 (Seed Round)
• Wardrobe:
$1500000 (Seed Round)
• Wardrobe:
$1500000 (Pre Seed Round)
• Airbase:
$60000000 (Series B)
• Centered:
$4000000 (Series Unknown)
• Hopin:
$450000000 (Series D)
• Hopin:
$400000000 (Series C)
• Most Days:
$3000000 (Seed)
• UtilizeCore:
$17000000 (Series A)
• UtilizeCore:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Cycle App:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Oyster:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Goldcast:
$10000000 (Seed)
• Canvas:
$2000000 (Angel)
• TranZact:
$7000000 (Series A)
• CreditBook:
$11000000 (Seed)
• Massive:
$11000000 (Seed)
• Akudo:
$4000000 (Seed)
• inai:
$4000000 (Seed)
• MergeQueue:
$130000 (Pre Seed)
• Syndicate:
$800000 (Seed)
• Typedream:
(Seed)
• Greg:
$5000000 (Seed)
• BukuWarung:
(Seed)
• Flux:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Grain:
$4000000 (Seed Round)
• Grain:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Postmoda:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• Akash Systems:
$15000000 (Series A)
• Akash Systems:
$3000000 (Seed)
• CRED:
$25000000 (Series A)
• Maude:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Sweet:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Alter:
(Angel)
• Port of Mokha:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Clue:
(Seed)
• Atlys:
$20000000 (Series B)
• Atlys:
$12000000 (Series A)
• Atlys:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Story Protocol:
$80000000 (Series B)
• Story Protocol:
$25000000 (Series A)
• Pimlico:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Demox Labs:
$5000000 (Pre Seed)
• Zarta:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Here Not There Labs:
$26000000 (Series A)
• Post News:
(Seed)
• Rye:
$14000000 (Seed)
• Lasso Labs:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Juno:
$18000000 (Series A)
• Polywork:
$28000000 (Series B)
• Polywork:
$13000000 (Series A)
• CreatorDAO:
$20000000 (Seed)
• Intros AI:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Lightspark:
(Series A)
• Logseq:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Kindred:
$8000000 (Seed)
• Entri:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Prologue:
$23000000 (Series A)
• Aviator:
(Pre Seed)
• Sukha:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Cortex:
$15000000 (Series A)
• Kippa:
$3000000 (Pre Seed)
• Practice:
$10000000 (Seed)
• LoveLocal (formerly m.Paani):
$19000000 (Series B)
Sriram Krishnan serves as a Vice President, Global Markets at Humin. Sriram also serves as Head of International Growth at Tinder. He managed new market expansion into/in APAC at Spotify. Before Spotify, he worked in management consulting and in technology startups in Europe and Asia. Sriram also serves as an Advisor at YouStake. He studied at the National University of Singapore and Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Sweden. He also co-founded Cosmify. He served as Advisor at Jackson Square Ventures.
Lior Litwak
Investing in FinTech (& Financials services) &bul...
How to connect with Angel Investors in the FinTech industry?
In the FinTech & Financial Services industry, prominent angel investors include Chris Sacca, Alexis Ohanian, and Max Levchin. These investors focus on startups offering innovative solutions in financial technology, digital payments, and personal finance management. Chris Sacca, known for his early investments in Twitter and Uber, looks for disruptive FinTech solutions with strong growth potential. Alexis Ohanian, co-founder of Reddit, invests in startups that leverage technology to improve financial services. Max Levchin, co-founder of PayPal and Affirm, seeks out companies that provide scalable and efficient financial solutions. To connect with these investors, attend FinTech conferences, financial services expos, and networking events such as Money20/20, Finovate, and LendIt Fintech. Utilize platforms like AngelList and LinkedIn to identify and reach out to potential investors. When pitching, emphasize how your FinTech solution addresses key challenges in the financial industry, such as improving transaction efficiency, enhancing financial inclusion, or reducing costs. Highlight any traction you’ve gained, such as partnerships with financial institutions, user growth, or regulatory approvals. 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 transaction fees, subscription fees, or licensing, will further strengthen your pitch. Leveraging endorsements or case studies from financial experts can also enhance your credibility.
Case Studies: Successful Funding Rounds with Angel Investors on Angels Partners
Exotic Orange & Angels Partners: Turning Financial Simplicity Into Investment Success
