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, U.S.A. - Australia - U.K. - Europe: Germany, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, Romania, Netherlands, Belgium, Czech Republic, Greece, Portugal, Sweden, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Slovakia, Norway, Ireland, Luxembourg, Mal
Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Gaming (& eSports) • Mobile Apps • Online Social
Co-Founder / Partner / CTO at InReach Ventures
Boca Raton - Florida, U.S.A. - Canada - Israel
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • Analytics • Future Of Work • Mobile Apps • LegalTech • Mobility • Consumer • Woman Focused
Most Interested In
We invest in promising, capital efficient, post-revenue startups raising Seed or Series A rounds. More info here: http://www.forefrontvp.com
Not Interested In
This article provides some insights about why we choose not to invest in certain companies: https://goo.gl/ZoZwtz.
Palo Alto - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Mobile Apps • Mobility
Joe Kraus serves as Board Member at Lime. Joe Kraus serves as General Partner at GV. He has been a Partner at Google Ventures since 2009, focusing on investments in mobile, gaming, and local services. He also serves on the Board of PeerSpace. He previously served as the Board Member and an Advisor at Post Intelligence. Before moving in to Ventures, Joe held multiple product management roles at Google, including Blogger, Picasa, Sites, Friend Connect, and OpenSocial. He co-founded JotSpot in 2004, a wiki company that was acquired by Google in 2006. In 1993, Joe co-founded Excite, an early Internet search engine. During his tenure, he held multiple positions in the company, including leadership roles in product, business development, and marketing. In addition, Joe has been an active angel investor in multiple companies, including LinkedIn, Aardvark (sold to Google in 2010), Kongregate, and OpenCandy and he serves on the board of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF.org). Joe has a BA from Stanford University.
Palo Alto - California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Mobile Apps • Mobility • Consumer
Simon Rothman serves as Venture Partner at Greylock Partners. He is also an Angel Investor. He joined Greylock in 2011 as an Executive-in-Residence and was promoted to Partner in 2013. He invests in entrepreneurs building consumer networks and platforms. His area of focus includes network effects businesses, transaction-based startups, and mobile apps with a specialty around marketplaces. He has served as an advisor to many marketplaces and networks including Lyft, Wanelo, Poshmark, Tango, and others. Simon is also leading Greylock's $100 million commitment to marketplace investments. Rothman is an early pioneer of online marketplaces and network effect businesses having joined eBay when it was a small, US collectibles auction business. He helped scale eBay to nearly 200 million users generating over $40 billion in merchandise sales. While at eBay he founded eBay Motors and served as its Global Vice President. In addition to founding and running eBay Motors, he was responsible for eBay's US Operations. The $10 billion business unit covered the P&L's for all US categories except media. He also serves as Board Member at Trove. He also serves as a Board member at Ritual Social.
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Gaming (& eSports) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Future Of Work • Payments • Mobile Apps • Consumer • Woman Focused
VP of Messenger, Facebook Inc.
Co-Founder at NFX
Hong Kong, U.S.A.
Education • Businesses Solutions • Entertainment (& Sports) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Gaming (& eSports) • Mobile Apps • Nanotechnology • Consumer • Woman Focused
Founder @outblaze, @animoca ⢠Investor @dopplr, @machinima, @fuel-2 , @miq
Menlo Park - California, U.S.A.
Businesses Solutions • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Mobile Apps
GP & CEO @social-leverage Group of Companies, 12+ years Angel Investing, Former President & COO NASDAQ traded $NTRL. Hockey, Skiing, Golf, Lax, Family 7/8s CDN
San Carlos California, U.S.A. - South Korea - Global: U.S.A., Australia, Canada, Germany, U.K., Israel, France, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Luxembourg, Malta, Iceland
FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Mobile Apps • Consumer
CEO at Atinum Investment
Mr. Lee was the Co-Founder of MyFitnessPal. He also serves as Advisor, Healthcare at Tau Ventures.
New York, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • Robotics • Mobile Apps • Mobility • Nanotechnology • Woman Focused
General Partner, LDV Capital
Most Interested In
Investing in people building visual technology businesses with deep domain expertise, passion to solve problems and the entrepreneurial DNA to succeed.
Not Interested In
We only invest in Visual Technologies which typically leverage computer vision, machine learning and artificial intelligence across the full tech stack for businesses or consumers.
@ldv-labs, @ldv-capital, Founder @digital-railroad, Mentor: 500startups, Seedcamp, NYSeed, Tetuan Valley [Madrid] , Mindthebridge.org [Italy], Techpeaks
Philadelphia - Boston - Miami Beach - Austin - London - Sunnyvale - Redwood City - Palo Alto - Menlo Park - Cupertino - San Jose - Santa Clara - Mountain View - San Francisco Bay Area - Brooklyn - New York, U.S.A. - U.K.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Analytics • Payments • Robotics • Mobile Apps • Consumer • Woman Focused
Most Interested In
Fintech & DeFi
Mumbai Maharashtra, India - U.S.A.
FinTech (& Financials services) • Mobile Apps
3x Entrepreneur, Angel Investor and Mentor
Sumit Gupta is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer & Board Member at Boom. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at BASH Gaming. He also serves as Advisor at Rolocule Games. Previous to BitRhymes, he was VP Strategy and Business Development at Monetize Media. Previous to that, he was founding team member at Business Signatures and played a key role in product and sales strategy, and eventually to a successful acquisition. He served as Advisor at MyActivityPal. He is an Angel Investor. He holds an MS (Master of Science) from the University of Missouri. He also has a BS (Bachelor of Science) from the Indian Institute of Technology.
Irvine California - Newport Beach California - Geneva Switzerland - London - New York City (NY) - Valley California - Western Europe - - Tehran Iran - Southern California California - Paris (France), U.S.A.
Hospitality (& Events) • Education • Sales (& Marketing) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Impact • Messaging • Payments • Mobile Apps
Dr. Amir Banifatemi serves as Managing Director at K5 Ventures. Dr. Banifatemi serves as an Advisor at Compass and serves as Board Member at Aura Labs. He also serves as Board Member and Advisor at Fusion Brakes. He is a successful entrepreneur whose work experience includes more than 14 years of advising startups. His focus has always been identifying and developing future and emerging technologies that can impact society with special emphasis on predictive business intelligence, knowledge sharing & education, and real-time technologies. Amir likes to work with startups on their product strategy, pricing, business model, go-to-market, and fund raising. Amir is currently a member and President of the Tech Coast Angels Orange County and actively involved with venture funds and angel investors to help continuous and sustained funding of startups. He is also an Angel Investor.
San Francisco California - Valley California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • AR/VR • Material Science • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Mobile Apps
Maurice Werdegar serves as Investment Partner, Chief Executive Officer and President at Western Technology Investment. He also served as Advisor on Venture Capital Investments at Major League Baseball Ventures. He also serves as an Advisor at SparkLabs Global Ventures. His background includes positions as a Venture Partner at Outlook Ventures, an early stage venture firm, and Chief Investment Officer at MetaMarkets, an online mutual fund company. Maurice also founded and served as CEO of Left at Albuquerque, a venture-backed chain of restaurants. Prior to business school, Maurice worked in corporate finance at Robertson Stephens. Maurice holds both a BA and MBA from Stanford University.
City - Saratoga - California, U.S.A. - Mexico
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Mobile Apps • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobility • Consumer • Woman Focused
Eric Perez-Grovas is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner of Jaguar Ventures. He also is an Angel Investor. He is a Co-Founder of Gaudena and serves as its Board Member. He co-founded Viajamex and serves as its Chairman.
Seattle Washington - Oregon - Canada Seattle, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Food & Beverage • Payments • Mobile Apps • Productivity
Heather Redman is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at Flying Fish Partners. She serves as Advisor at 9Mile Labs. Redman also serves as a Board Member at Beneficial State Bank. Previously, Redman served as Vice President, Business Operations & General Counsel at Indix. She was Senior Vice President at Summit Power Group and Executive and Senior Vice President at each of AtomShockwave, Inc., Getty Images, Inc., and PhotoDisc, Inc. While at PhotoDisc and Atom, she led the negotiations for the successful sale of these companies and negotiated many acquisitions on the buy side. She was also General Counsel of Getty Images, a publicly traded company, and managed that company's listing on NASDAQ. Her career has had equal parts business and law, and has included heading product development and acquisition for Atom, wind power development and project financing for Summit and COO positions. She is experienced in corporate development and finance, business development and intellectual property strategy. She is a consummate networker. She serves as the Vice Chair of the Washington Technology Industry Association board and the Chair of the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce Board of Trustees. She has served on the boards of several privately held companies and many industry associations and non-profit companies as well as on numerous advisory boards. She is active in local and national policy and politics. She is also an investor and Advisor in TechStars, 9 Mile Labs, Founders' Co-op, Alliance of Angels and makes approximately ten of her own independent angel investments per year. She is also a Regent of Washington State University (WSU). She holds a JD (with distinction) from Stanford and her BA from Reed.
Los Angeles - California, U.S.A.
Media • FinTech (& Financials services) • Advertising • Mobile Apps • Online Social
Co-CEO & Co-Founder of FabFitFun
Daniel Broukhim is a Co-Founder and serves as Co-Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer at FabFitFun. Prior to starting FabFitFun, Daniel co-founded Charlie, a media agency that did client services work for political and entertainment clients, as well as having spent time working in the hedge fund and textile industry. Daniel graduated from Berkeley in 2010 with a degree in Political Science, where he founded a chapter of the Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and created and taught a class on Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm, and from the UCLA School of Law with a JD in 2013. In addition to his current work at FabFitFun, Daniel is an active angel investor, avid backgammon player and sports enthusiast. He holds JD in Law from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and BA in Political Science from University of California, Berkeley.
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Mobile Apps • Online Social
Managing Partner at Structure Capital
Jillian Manus is an experienced banking and media executive, a technology investor and entrepreneur. She is Managing Partner of an early stage Silicon Valley venture fund, Structure Capital. Branded "Architects of the Zero Waste Economy" they invest in underutilized assets and excess capacity.
Ms. Manus serves on numerous boards including: Stanford University Digital Health board, Stanford University School of Medicine Board of Fellows, Advisory Board of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, NASDAQ Entrepreneurial Center Board of Directors, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and Communities in Schools.
Prior to Structure Capital, Ms. Manus was Founder of Broad Strategy, Manus Media and Global Goal Sports Management. She served as Co- Director of TMT for Credit Suisse Zurich, and Director of Development for Universal and Warner Bros and Associate Publisher of the national publication Upside, reporting on the financial strategies of the technology industry.
As a frequent global public speaker, Ms. Manus provides business and political commentary in the media, primarily on CNBC’s Squawk Alley and Bloomberg Business news. She also co-hosts Spotify's Media’s business podcast “The Pitch."
Ms. Manus attended The University of Oxford & NYU, where she served on the Board of Trustees. Throughout her careers, she has been a strong advocate for inclusion and diversity, frequently speaking on the topic of "Investing in Values, not Just Valuations."
New York City - New York New York - Newark, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Entertainment (& Sports) • AR/VR • Mobile Apps
CEO of FUBU and The Shark Group | TV Personality on ABC Shark Tank
Daymond John is a Co-Founder and serves as President & Chief Executive Officer at Fubu. John served as an Advisor at Innovation Capital Advisors. Previously, he served as a Board Member at Resultly. In 2009, Daymond became co-star on ABC's hit series Shark Tank, where aspiring entrepreneurs present their companies to a panel of successful business icons to raise capital. Daymond invested in several of the companies on the show and has emerged as a spokesman for active angel investing. In 2007, Daymond released his first book, Display of Power, the story of how he built FUBU into a global fashion power. In 2010, his second book, The Brand Within, examines the loyalty-based relationships that brands and celebrities seek to establish with their customers and fans.
Herzliya, Israel - Czech Republic - U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Mobile Apps • Online Social
Managing Partner, Benson Oak Ventures
Robert Cohen serves as the Chief Strategy Officer at Lending Express. Robert co-founded WhatWine and also served as its Director. He serves as the Executive Chairman at SaferPass. He serves as the Managing Partner at Benson Oak Capital and Benson Oak Ventures. He is actively involved in the monitoring of all BOC investments, serving on the supervisory boards of AVG Technologies, Bochemie and Grapo Technologies. He has served on AVG's board since 2003 and handled all strategic financing issues for the company from 2004 until late 2005, during which time he implemented the financial function at AVG, and executed its first corporate acquisitions. He has a Master's Degree in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and a Bachelor's Degree from the University Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business. He serves as a Board Member at KZen.
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Human Resources • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Mobile Apps • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer
Entrepreneur, CEO, Board Member | Stanford Board Trustee | Henry Crown Fellow | World Economic Forum YGL
Entrepreneur, Board Member, Investor | Stanford Board Trustee |
Lily Sarafan serves as Chief Executive Officer at Home Care Assistance. She is a Board member of Counsyl and Thumbtack. She is an Advisor of Kambria.