Our team is dedicated to scouting
investors from all around the world.
FinTech, Hardware, SaaS … we diversify our portfolio of
investors to give you the best chance to find startup investors.
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
New York, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Robotics • Online Social
Most Interested In
INVESTMENT AND ADVICE FROM THE TRENCHES© C2 Ventures was founded on the belief that early stage companies need more than capital. C2 Ventures provides capital, content, time and experience to provide first in class service to our portfolio clients. We are most interested in early stage companies looking to collaborate. We want to become part of your team; to work with you as you begin the fundraising process to reach your goals. We want to provide investment advice from the trenches.
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We work with competitive startups through our limited partnerships with Techstars, Bowery Capital, and NYC’s most active angles. We focus on a company’s drive, attitude, and of course, smart idea. We are focused on Seed-level investments for mobile data, consumer techs, and fintech. We are not interested in teams that are looking for money but no advice. We truly believe in rolling up our sleeves and working with our portfolio.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Local commerce • Online Social
Tony Conrad is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at About.me. He also is an Angel Investor. Conrad serves as Partner at True Ventures. He served as General Partner at VSP Capital. He also serves as Board Member at High Fidelity. He is the Founder of AOL Ventures. He was Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of about.me (acquired by Aol in December 2010). He serves on the Board of Directors of Automattic (WordPress), appssavvy, StockTwits, RescueTime, PastFuture (GDGT), 20x200, FREEjit, Small Batch (Typekit), WeGame and led True's investment MakerBot & Plancast. He also serves as a Special Advisor to AOL Ventures. Previously, he co-founded Sphere which was acquired by AOL in April, 2008. In addition, he has served on the Board of Directors for Oddpost (acquired by Yahoo), Iconoculture, MusicNow (acquired by Circuit City) and Centive (acquired by Xactly). He also played an active role managing investments in Post Communications (NASDAQ: NTVS), QuinStreet (NASDAQ: QNST), Danger (acquired by Microsoft), Sabrix and Stonyfield Farms (acquired by Groupe Danone). He is also a Board Member at Smarterer. He also served as a Board Member at appssavvy. He served as Board Member at KISSmetrics. He holds a BS (Bachelor of Science) in Telecommunications from Indiana University.
Palo Alto - California, U.S.A.
Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Robotics • Mobility • Nanotechnology
CEO & Managing Partner
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Partner at Next47
San Francisco Bay Area - San Jose - California, U.S.A. - India
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools
CEO at Cadence Design Systems | Chairman at Walden International
Most Interested In
semiconductor/components, cloud/edge infrastructure, data management and security, and AI/machine machine learning
Lip-Bu Tan serves as Chairman of the Board at SambaNova Systems. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Cadence Design Systems. He also serves as chairman of Walden International, a venture capital firm he founded in 1987. Prior to founding Walden, he was Vice President at Chappell & Co. and held management positions at EDS Nuclear and ECHO Energy. He serves on the board of directors of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., Quantenna Communications, Inc., and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), as well as the boards of the Electronic System Design Alliance (ESD Alliance) and the Global Semiconductor Association (GSA). He also serves on the Board of Trustees and the School of Engineering Dean's Council at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He is the recipient of the 2016 GSA Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award. He received an M.S. in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981, an MBA from the University of San Francisco in 1983, and a B.S. from Nanyang University in Singapore in 1978.
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Developer tools • Online Social • Consumer
Founder Root Ventures. Early Stage Venture. Ex-CTO turned Hardware Hacker Investor. CS @columbia-university-1 Always searching espresso || food || beer
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 - Palo Alto - California, U.S.A. - Sweden
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Developer tools • Future Of Work • Logistics (& Distribution) • Material Science • Online Social
Leading teams launching new mobile apps and brands
Most Interested In
I invest in a broad range of companies, from consumer, to enterprise, to fintech, to healthtech, and hardtech as well. At the very core my thesis is to invest in exceptional founders tackling expansive markets. If that's what you're building, I'd love to hear from you!
Not Interested In
Cold pizza
Andy Chen serves as Chief Executive Officer at Aspiro and Preview Networks. He serves as Board Member at Falcon Social. Andy Chen served as the Chief Executive Officer at Wimp Music. He is a venture partner at Vectr Ventures. He served as Chairman at VideofyMe.
San Francisco Bay Area - Herzliya, Israel - U.S.A.
Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • IoT (& Wearables) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools
Most Interested In
Everything deep technology for enterprise use, highly focused on AI/BD for enterprises, next gen cloud / virtualization / DC, not afraid of HW investments.
Not Interested In
Consumer, Media, Med-Tech, Green-Tech, Social, Apps
Stockholm, Sweden - U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Consumer
Johan Brenner is a high-net-worth individual based in Palo Alto, California. He primarily invests in technology and growth companies. Currently, Johan is a General Partner with Creandum in Stockholm. His prior experience includes time at Balderton Capital (previously Benchmark Europe) working with investments such as LiveBookings, Habbo Hotel, Rebtel, Zopa and others.
San Francisco Bay Area - Los Angeles - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Online Social • Productivity
Seth Berman is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Susa Ventures. Prior to Susa, Seth worked at The Richemont Group, doing strategic marketing across their brand portfolio for nine years. Richemont is a publicly traded company on the Swiss stock exchange (CFR:VX) which owns luxury brands that include Cartier, Mont Blanc, and Chloe. Seth used non-traditional marketing tactics to grow brands by creating cultural awareness and purpose behind Richemont products. He has worked with Richemont's investments doing idea exchange and re-focusing management with strategic planning. His previous experience includes launching Formula 1 Racing in the United States. Seth graduated from the University of Colorado Leeds School of Business in 2000.
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A. - China
BioTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Robotics • Aerospace (& Defense) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Cyril Ebersweiler serves as Managing Director, HAX and General Partner at SOSV. A hardware investor, visionary and serial entrepreneur, Cyril was SOSV's first general partner to run an accelerator, starting Chinaccelerator, the first mentorship-driven seed-funding program in China. He then went on to found HAX - the world's first and largest hardware accelerator - in 2012, along with HAX China and HAX Growth. Cyril is a mentor to Techstars and 500 Startups, and a founding member of the Global Accelerator Network. He is one of the world's most prolific investors in the hardware space, with 80+ investments. Cyril is a frequent speaker at events such as TechCrunch Disrupt, Makercon, Solidcon, Pioneers, The New Context Conference, AdTech, GMIC, and many others. He is an occasional guest writer at Techcrunch, and has been featured in The Economist, Popular Mechanics, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Huffington Post, Wired and more. He served as the Board Member at Nextly. He serves as Board Member in Formlabs.
Palo Alto - Menlo Park - California, U.S.A.
Hardware (& Manufacturing) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Robotics • DeepTech • Mobility • Nanotechnology
Data Scientist -> Entrepreneur -> Angel Investor & VC
Most Interested In
robotics, enterprise IT and cybersecurity
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Logistics (& Distribution)
Partner at BMW i Ventures
Most Interested In
We invest in purpose-driven entrepreneurs building high-performance companies, across hardware, software in transportation, manufacturing, supply chain and sustainability.
Tel Aviv, Israel - U.S.A.
FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Insurance (& InsurTech)
Managing Director, GM Israel and Europe, Verizon Ventures
General Partner at State of Mind Ventures (SOMV)
San Francisco Bay Area - Boulder - Colorado, U.S.A. - Canada
Media • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Mobile Apps • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Founder and General Partner at Moxxie Ventures
Los Angeles - New York - Palo Alto - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Future Of Work • GovTech • Robotics • Aerospace (& Defense)
Most Interested In
Ethan is a Partner based in our Palo Alto office where he invests across sectors, with a particular focus on building new platforms with hard engineering. His current interests include aerospace/defense, autonomy/robotics, high-performance computing, and new ways to build software faster with machine learning.