Howard Morgan is co-founder and partner in First Round Capital, a seed stage venture capital investment firm specializing in information technologies.
He began working with Idealab in 1996 and serves on their board. He has more than 30 years of experience with more than two hundred high-tech entrepreneurial ventures.
He serves on the boards of Fab.com, Single Platform, GumGum, Energy Innovations and other private companies.
Howard was Professor of Decision Sciences at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and Professor of Computer Science at the Moore School for almost 15 years.
He a Trustee of Cold Spring Harbor Labs and Math For America and is a respected author.
He received the Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 1997.
Howard received his Ph.D. in operations research from Cornell University in 1968 and his B.S. from the City University of New York in 1965.
Chamath Palihapitiya
Investing in Media • Education • FinTec...
Palo Alto , San Franc..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• OroWealth:
$1600000
• Journal:
$1500000 (Seed Round)
• LotusFlare Inc:
$6000000 (Series A)
• LotusFlare Inc:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Mitra Chem:
$40000000 (Series B)
• Mitra Chem:
$20000000 (Series A)
• Flock:
$38000000 (Series B)
• Flock:
$17000000 (Series A)
• Syapse:
$35000000 (Series Unknown)
• Syapse:
$30000000 (Series F)
• Syapse:
$30000000 (Series D)
• Syapse:
$25000000 (Series C)
• Syapse:
$10000000 (Series B)
• Syapse:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Palmetto Clean Technology:
$380000000 (Series C)
• Perimeter Medical Imaging:
$38000000 (Post Ipo Equity)
Chamath Palihapitiya is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Social Capital. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer at Social Capital Hedosophia. He is also the Chariman of Lotusflare. He is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Remote Health Services. He served as Chairman at Integrated Plasmonics. He also serves as Chairman at Athos Works. He is also a Co-Owner and serves as Board Member at Golden State Warriors. He previously founded and served as General Partner at Embarcadero Ventures. He also served as a Board Member at ezhome. He was the VP of product marketing, operations, Growth, Mobile and International & & Head of User Growth of Facebook. He is a board member at BitYota, Groq, Future Shorts, 9021 PHO Restaurants, Remind101, Confer Health, Ezetap Mobile Solutions, Lemon, Treehouse Island, Crushpath, Captricity and Treehouse Island. He served as the principal of Mayfield Fund. He focused on consumer internet, advertising and media investments. Prior to this, he spent five years with AOL, most recently served as the VP and general manager of the Desktop Messaging group with overall responsibility for the AIM and ICQ businesses. Prior to his role as the Head of AIM and ICQ, He served as VP of Business Operations for AOL's broadband subscription service helping to build the business to over $1 billion in revenue. He also co-founded and launched a Music Video-On-Demand (VOD) Channel to both critical and user acclaim, garnering successive Emmy nominations in 2005 and 2006. Earlier, he held management positions with internet music pioneers Spinner.com (AOL) and Winamp (AOL). He is a Member of the Investment Committee of fbFund. He attended the University of Waterloo, where he graduated first class honors with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering. He serves as an executive chairman at MAD Apparel. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at Remote Health Services.
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.
Yuval Ariav
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Boston , San Francisc..., U.S.A. - Israel
Previous Investments
• Next Silicon:
(Seed Round)
• Bionaut Labs:
$43000000 (Series B)
• Bionaut Labs:
(Seed)
• Tia:
$24000000 (Series A)
• Tia:
(Seed)
• AI Reverie:
(Series A)
• AI Reverie:
(Seed)
• Alectio:
(Pre-Seed)
• Alectio:
$600000 (Pre Seed)
• Halcyon Health:
(Seed)
• Wayve.ai:
(Series A)
• Wayve.ai:
(Seed)
• Ono Food Co.:
(Pre-Seed)
• Culture Biosciences:
$6000000 (Series Unknown)
• Culture Biosciences:
(seed)
• Fort Robotics:
(Seed)
• RunwayML:
(Seed)
• Bionaut:
(Seed)
• Ursa Space:
(Seed)
• Bench:
(Seed)
• Nilus:
$9000000 (Seed)
• CardinalOps:
$18000000 (Series A)
• CardinalOps:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Jiga:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Breeze:
(Seed)
• Sightful:
$28000000 (Seed)
• NextSilicon:
$51000000 (Series B)
• NextSilicon:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Approve.com:
$5000000 (Seed)
• FlipOS:
$4000000 (Seed)
• FundGuard:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Assured Allies:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Remesh:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Remesh:
$2300000 (Seed)
Yuval Ariav
Boston - San Francisco Bay Area - New York, U.S.A. - Israel
Fifteen years of experience as an Internet entrepreneur who has built, operated and sold Internet media companies.
In 1998, Brett co-founded Intermix Media, which launched several online businesses including Myspace.com, Skilljam.com and Alena.com.
Brett sold Intermix to NewsCorp in 2005 for $680M. Brett was the President and Chairman of Adknowledge.com, a behavioral-based advertising technology company, which he helped grow from $40M in revenue to over $300M in revenue and $55M of EBITDA. He recently joined on as CEO of Sensa.
Brett is a highly respected internet executive, an active angel investor (e.g., Demand Media) and a pillar in the SoCal Tech Community.
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
Mike J
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Menlo Park , San Fran..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Gainsight:
$52000000 (Series E)
• AT&T CyberSecurity:
(Secondary Market)
• AppDynamics:
(Secondary Market)
• Poshmark:
$25000000 (Series D)
• Dollar Shave Club:
$91000000 (Series D)
• Dollar Shave Club:
(Secondary Market)
• Dollar Shave Club:
(Secondary Market)
• DoorDash:
$40000000 (Series B)
• Twilio:
(Secondary Market)
• Workday Adaptive Planning:
(Secondary Market)
• Rakuten Rewards:
(Secondary Market)
• BarkBox:
$2000000 (Seed)
Mike J
Menlo Park - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Rob Go is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at NextView Ventures. He has dedicated his career as an investor and operator to internet enabled innovation. Previously, Rob was a venture capitalist at Spark Capital. Before joining Spark Capital, Rob held product roles at Ebay, and was the North America Business Unit owner for "Finding". In this role, he helped to launch over 20 products that significantly enhanced Ebay's search, browse, and merchandising capabilities. Rob began his career at The Parthenon Group, a boutique strategy consulting firm. He was a member of the firm's Private Equity practice, and focused on the consumer and retail industries. Additionally, he has held product management roles at Fidelity Investments, BzzAgent, and helped to found Letslink.jp, one of the first social networking sites outside of the United States. Rob holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Duke University.
How to connect with Angel Investors in the HealthTech industry?
In the HealthTech & Fitness industry, angel investors such as Vinod Khosla, Esther Dyson, and Mark Cuban are prominent figures. These investors focus on startups offering innovative solutions in digital health, fitness technology, and wellness platforms. Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, invests in HealthTech startups that have the potential to significantly improve healthcare delivery and patient outcomes. Esther Dyson, an entrepreneur and investor, looks for companies that leverage technology to enhance health and wellness. Mark Cuban, owner of the Dallas Mavericks and a renowned entrepreneur, seeks out startups that provide scalable and impactful fitness solutions. To connect with these investors, attend HealthTech conferences, fitness expos, and networking events such as HLTH, CES, and Health 2.0. Utilize platforms like AngelList and LinkedIn to identify and reach out to potential investors. When pitching, emphasize how your HealthTech or fitness solution addresses key challenges, such as improving patient care, enhancing fitness tracking, or promoting wellness. Highlight any traction you’ve gained, such as partnerships with healthcare providers, user growth, or positive feedback from early adopters. 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 pilot programs 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 subscription fees, product sales, or service contracts, will further strengthen your pitch. Leveraging endorsements or case studies from HealthTech or fitness experts can also enhance your credibility.
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