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.
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 - South San Francisco - California, U.S.A. - Canada
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • BioTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer • Productivity
Alex Kolicich serves as Co-Founding Partner at 8VC. Prior to joining 8VC, He is a Board Member at Senti Bio. He was a Partner at Formation 8. He is also a Board Member and Advisor at Chatous. He serves as Advisor at Street Contxt. Previously, he served as Principal at Mithril Capital Management. Previously, Kolicich worked as an engineer and early-product advisor at Clarium, Palantir, and Google. He was an early member of the Clarium Capital quantitative engineering team and close advisor for the early Palantir team; advising on product design and contributing to the product. At Google Research, Kolicich worked on Google Street-Views before and during launch. Preceding Street-Views, also at Google, he worked on the development and launch of the Google Checkout product. He received a B.SE in Software Engineering from the University of Waterloo and a Masters in Econometrics from the University of Toronto.
New York, U.S.A.
BioTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness)
Dr. Adam Goulburn served as Partner at Lux Capital. He serves as Board Member at Eikon Therapeutics, Plexium and Mahana Therapeutics. He serves as Board Member at Drone Racing League. He served as Board member at Kallyope. He is based in the firm's New York headquarters and focuses on broad investment opportunities in healthcare IT, services, mobile health, and therapeutics. He was a Board Member of Authorea, Variant Bio & 3Scan. He has worked extensively with a number of Lux portfolio companies including Kala Pharmaceuticals and Genocea Biosciences. He is also a mentor for healthcare IT incubators Blueprint Health and Healthbox. Before joining Lux, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of Neuroscience at Weill Cornell Medical College, researching regenerative medicine in association with brain disorders including schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease. Originally from Australia, he has dual undergraduate degrees in Commerce and Science and subsequently completed his Ph.D. at the Australian Stem Cell Centre, having been chosen as a highly selective Premier Scholar. He has published in numerous peer-reviewed scientific journals. Prior to joining Lux in 2011, he received his Ph.D. in neuroscience from Weill Cornell Medical College. He also serves as Board Member at Vesta Healthcare. He serves as Board Member at Rivet Health and rd. MD. He is a Co-Founder of Cajal Neuroscience.
New York - Boston - Massachusetts, U.S.A. - Russia - Israel
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Developer tools • Messaging • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Partner at Flint Capital
Sergey Gribov is a Co-Founder & serves as a Vice President, Strategy at AB Systems. He also serves as Partner at Flint Capital. He is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at StartUp Access. He is an experienced serial entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in IT, software development, customer support, operations and general management. He held a wide range of technical positions from hands-on ones to such roles as CTO and CIO in biotech, finance, telecommunications (VoIP) and e-commerce. Sergey's diverse background enables him to bring perspective from different industries. Sergey is one of the founders of AB Systems, a software company in Enterprise Assets Management space. He is also the President of Webiki, a virtual world for kids, as well as the Managing Director at Minerva Capital Partners. Sergey earned an MBA from Sloan Fellows program at MIT Sloan School of Management. He also has B.S. in Computer Science Cum Laude from Beer-Sheva University in Negev.
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San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
FinTech (& Financials services) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness)
Most Interested In
Any hustlers building software startups! We are usually the first institutional VC check into a round.
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Sales (& Marketing) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure)
Alex Bard serves as Partner at Redpoint Ventures. He also served as Chief Executive Officer & Board Member at Campaign Monitor. He served as the Executive Vice President & General Manager in Salesforce.com. He has been a part of the founding team of 4 internet start ups including eShare Technologies (Customer Service Software, 1996-1999), eAssist Global Solutions (Customer Service Software, 1999-2004), Goowy Media (Widget Analytics Platform, 2004-2008) and Assistly (Customer Service Software, 2009 - Now). He has held executive roles including Vice President Customer Solutions - eShare, VP Sales / Marketing - eAssist, CEO - Goowy, VP Products AOL, and is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Assistly. He is also an advisor / investor in several start-ups including Watercooler, Offandaway, Foodzie and Irata labs (acquired by IGN). Previously, he was an Advisor at True Ventures. He is also an angel investor. He is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who has sold companies to Salesforce and AOL. He also serves as an Angel Investor.
New York - Los Angeles - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • FinTech (& Financials services) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Chad Byers is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Susa Ventures. Prior to Susa, Chad served on the management team at Integrate.com as the Sr. Director of Platform, managing the buildout and sales of AdHQ, a unified platform that allowed agencies and brands to manage all of their performance advertising spend through a single dashboard. While in operating roles, Chad was also an active angel investor, building a portfolio of close to 10 companies including Momentum Machines, Locality (Centzy), and True&co. Before Integrate, Chad spent close to four years at Silver Spring Networks, a leading Smart Grid technology provider. He started in Strategic Marketing, building business models for the adoption of the technology by electric utility companies, and eventually ended up writing and leading a winning $15M Department of Energy grant to build the world's first Smart Grid-enabled residential solar inverters. Before Silver Spring, Chad spent time at Bloom Energy, a high profile venture-backed fuel cell company.
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • FinTech (& Financials services) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Consumer
General Partner at Canvas Ventures, investing in marketplace and consumer and software companies
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Consumer • Woman Focused
Managing Partner at Afore Capital | Founding Product Manager for Android Nexus
Gaurav Jain is a Co-Founder at Afore Capital. Jain also serves as Principal at Founder Collective. He has deep expertise in building software platforms from the ground up. He was one of the earliest Product Managers for Android. As the lead Product Manager for the Nexus One product line, he launched the first Google experience device on AT&T. He received the Founders Award, highest employee achievement award at Google for his significant contribution to the growth and success of the Android platform. Jain was also the Founding Product Manager for Google+ Enterprise, where he was responsible for crafting Google's social strategy for its enterprise customers. Jain built the founding team for Google+ Enterprise and helped launched the first version of the product. The product is now available to Google's 5 million enterprise customers. He co-founded the Impact Entrepreneurship Group in his first year of undergrad. Impact is now one of the largest non-profits in Canada promoting entrepreneurship. He is also an active mentor at MassChallenge, Canadian Technology Accelerator and Shad Valley. Jain received a Bachelors of Software Engineering (with distinction) from the University of Waterloo in Canada and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Palo Alto - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Businesses Solutions • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Partner at Accel
Accel,
Sequoia Capital,
Broadview International,
Oracle Corp,
Stanford MBA,
MIT MSEE/BSEE
Specialties: Venture capital and growth equity investing with focus on Internet, digital media, software, and services.
Boulder - Denver - Salt Lake City - Provo - Minneapolis - Indianapolis - Madison - Milwaukee - Detroit - St. Paul - Ann Arbor - Chicago - Minnesota, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • AgroTech • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Developer tools • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Woman Focused
Most Interested In
We focus more on the insight of the founders than our insights, so we're most excited to learn how you think the world should be different and how we can help you make that change happen.
Not Interested In
Startups without a connection to The Rockies and The North regions of the US.
Palo Alto - San Francisco Bay Area - New York - Atherton, U.S.A.
Media • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Developer tools • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Craig Sherman serves as Managing Director at Meritech Capital Partners. He focuses primarily on digital media and consumer services. Craig has led the firm's investments in Evernote, Zulily, Lynda.com and Ariosa Diagnostics. Prior to Meritech, Craig was Chief Executive Officer of Gaia Interactive, which he grew from a 1/2 million to over a 20 million monthly visitor pioneer in social games and online communities. Prior to joining Gaia, Craig served as an EIR at Benchmark Capital. Previously, Craig was Chief Operating Officer of Ancestry.com (ACOM), where he helped lead the company's pivot from a free family social network to a family history subscription service and grew the company from under $10 million to $150 million in sales and from tens of millions in losses to tens of millions in profits. Before Ancestry.com, Craig held senior positions at AIG: he was head of marketing and internet for all of AIG's Japanese and Korean divisions totaling over $5 billion in sales; and the general manager of AIG's property management software subsidiary, a $90 million sales company whose growth rate quadrupled during Craig's tenure. Previous to AIG, Craig was Chief Executive Officer of Cendant Japan, a joint venture startup he founded with Cendant and Mitsubishi Corporation that he helped grow from inception to over $20 million in sales and profitability. Before that, he worked in product, marketing, finance and operations roles at Cendant during its growth from less than a $1 billion to over a $40 billion public company. Craig has personally invested in over a dozen startups including Ancestry, SurveyMonkey, Zillow and Zipcar. In addition, Craig has held independent board and advisory roles with Homestead (prior to its sale to Intuit), Kongregate (GameStop), Logoworks (Hewlett Packard), Netquote (BankRate), and Photobucket (Fox). He graduated magna cum laude from Princeton University. He also serves as Board Member at Rev. He serves as Board Member at Roblox.
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A. - India
HealthTech (& Fitness) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Partner at Maveron LLC
New York - Los Angeles - California, U.S.A. - Germany - Brazil
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Developer tools • Logistics (& Distribution) • Payments • Mobility • Consumer
Managing Partner-Branded Strategic Hospitality-Hospitality,Technology,Innovation & Capital
Managing Partner-Branded Strategic Hospitality-Hospitality,Technology,Innovation & Capital
Philadelphia, U.S.A. - India
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness)
Managing Partner at Osage University Partners
Founded Vista Ventures, consulting firm for impact investors and start-ups; former exec at investment fund, consulted in microfinance in Asia, Africa, Latam
New York, U.S.A.
BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Anton Levy serves as Managing Director and Global Head of Internet & Technology at General Atlantic. He heads General Atlantic's global Internet & Technology practice and serves on the firm's Investment and Executive Committees. Since joining GA in 1998, he has worked on investments around the globe and across various sectors. Over the last 8 years, he has focused on building out GA's global Internet & Technology sector. He is currently a director of Squarespace, SnapAV, Acumen Brands, Klarna, Red Ventures, Gilt Groupe and Web.com, and manages a number of GA's other investments in the Internet, marketing services and media areas. He is a former director of AKQA, Dice Holdings, Mercado Libre, Network Solutions and Zantaz Corporation. He also led the firm's investments in Alibaba Group and Facebook. Before joining GA, Anton was an investment banker with Morgan Stanley & Co., where he worked with the firm's technology clients. Anton is involved with several educational and not-for-profit organizations, including currently serving as Chairman of Streetwise Partners and as a trustee of WNYC (New York Public Radio) and University of Virginia's Endowment (UVIMCO). Anton earned his B.S. from the University of Virginia, with degrees in Finance and Computer Science, and his M.B.A. from Columbia University Graduate School of Business, graduating both with highest honors. Levy also serves as Board Member at A Place for Mom.
San Francisco Bay Area - Los Angeles, U.S.A. - Singapore - Brazil
BioTech • Businesses Solutions • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Developer tools • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobility • Consumer
Eduardo Saverin is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at B Capital Group. He is a Co-Founder of Facebook. He also co-founded Velos Partners, a private equity firm based in Los Angeles and serves as its Chairman. He serves on the board of Carro, Connexions Asia and Ninja Van. He also serves as Advisor at Golden Gate Ventures.
Colorado, U.S.A.
Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Bill Miller is the founder and Managing Partner of Miller Investment Management. Bill is responsible for the overall investment strategy of both the venture and hedge funds. He is an active board member in a majority of the venture portfolio companies, where he leverages his experiences as an entrepreneur and investor to help companies make strategic decisions and grow their business. Bill co-founded StorageNetworks, a cloud data storage company, in 1997. The company grew to $125 million in revenues and completed an IPO in 2000, reaching a peak market cap of $16 billion. Bill has invested in 25 start-up companies over the past 15 years with 10 successful exits. Bill’s career also includes experience in the semiconductor industry and data storage sales. He has a BS in Chemistry from the University of Illinois.
Los Angeles - Turlock - California, U.S.A. - Italy
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer • Productivity
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.
Menlo Park - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Gaming (& eSports) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Future Of Work • Online Social • Consumer
Most Interested In
Marketplaces, commerce brands, cloud, ML/AI enabled Enterprise SaaS, Blockchain
Not Interested In
Ad Tech
Investing in breakaway growth companies in technology. Angel investor. Founder of @alpha-2 (http://on.wsj.com/iHk2nk)