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
Howard Morgan
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
New York - City, U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Dopamine Labs:
$1200000 (Seed Round)
• X1 Technologies:
(Venture Round)
• X1 Technologies:
$10000000 (Venture Round)
• The Climate Corporation:
$4300000 (Seed Round)
• Jean Ray:
(Seed Round)
• Genetika+:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Lidwave:
$10000000 (Seed)
• Garden:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Star Catcher:
$12000000 (Seed)
• HATCH:
$3000000 (Seed)
• HATCH:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• CurbWaste:
$10000000 (Series A)
• CurbWaste:
$4000000 (Seed)
• CurbWaste:
$6000000 (Seed)
• OrdinalsBot:
$1000000 (Seed)
• UpdateAI:
$2000000 (Seed)
• EeroQ:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Fairtility:
$15000000 (Series A)
• LexCheck:
$5000000 (Seed)
• LexCheck:
$3000000 (Seed)
• NeuroKaire:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Aktivate:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Tiny Organics:
$11000000 (Series A)
• Norbert Health:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Merlin Labs:
$25000000 (Series A)
• Moxie:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Moxie:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• Base Operations:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Cambrian Asset Management:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Hum Capital:
$9000000 (Seed)
• MyndYou:
$4000000 (Series A)
• MyndYou:
(Seed)
• Concertio:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Lightning Labs:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Invisible Technologies:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Boundless Mind:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Pepo:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Numerai:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Abra:
$13000000 (Series A)
• Abra:
$2000000 (Series A)
• Spoon University:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Envelop VR:
$2000000 (Seed)
• GumGum:
$26000000 (Series C)
• GumGum:
$7000000 (Series B)
• GumGum:
$3000000 (Series A)
• GumGum:
$1000000 (Series A)
• NeuroVigil:
(Series B)
• Gem:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Gem:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Gem:
$2000000 (Seed)
• DogVacay:
$25000000 (Series B)
• DogVacay:
$15000000 (Series B)
• DogVacay:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Bezar:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Augury:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Pinrose:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Nimble TV:
$5000000 (Series A)
• NiftyThrifty:
$2000000 (Series Unknown)
• Fab:
$110000000 (Series C)
• Fab:
$40000000 (Series B)
• Fab:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Fab:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Fab:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Truveris:
$10000000 (Series B)
• Truveris:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Altruik:
$3000000 (Series B)
• Altruik:
$5000000 (Series A)
• TechForward:
$4000000 (Series B)
• TechForward:
$800000 (Debt Financing)
• TechForward:
$1000000 (Series A)
• TechForward:
(Series A)
• X1 Discovery:
(Series Unknown)
• X1 Discovery:
$10000000 (Series Unknown)
• Ambient Devices:
$5000000 (Series B)
• Ambient Devices:
$2000000 (Series Unknown)
• The Climate Corporation (Bayer Crop Science):
$4000000 (Seed)
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.
Sean Jacobsohn
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Businesses Solutions • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Future Of Work • Human Resources • Real Estate (& Construction) • Mobility • Woman Focused
Description
Co-President of @harvard-business-school Angels. Venture Partner at Emergence Capital. Former VP of BD at @cornerstone-ondemand and @wageworks (both had IPOs).
Izhar Armony
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Developer tools • Online Social
Description
General Partner at CRV
Most Interested In
AI as applied to the real-world: autonomous vehicles, cyber security, demand forecasting, etc.
Also any SaaS application (B2B only)
Focused on Seed and A's only
Not Interested In
Not interested in Consumer software, FinTech, HC IT, Bio.
Not pursuing later stage deals
Jesse aper
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Santa Monica , Los An..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• theSkimm:
$12000000
• Humble Tea:
• itselectric:
$7000000 (Seed)
• itselectric:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Flourish:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Flourish:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Live Tinted:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Live Tinted:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Preemadonna:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Preemadonna:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Preemadonna:
(Seed)
• Preemadonna:
(Seed)
• Preemadonna:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Preemadonna:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Preemadonna:
$1100000 (Seed Round)
• Preemadonna:
$1100000 (Seed Round)
• Trust & Will:
$15000000 (Series B)
• Trust & Will:
$15000000 (Series B)
• Trust & Will:
$6000000 (Series A)
• Trust & Will:
$6000000 (Series A)
• Trust & Will:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Trust & Will:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Vurbl:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Vurbl:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Armoire:
$2000000 (Series Unknown)
• Armoire:
$2000000 (Series Unknown)
• Armoire:
$3000000 (Series Unknown)
• Armoire:
$3000000 (Series Unknown)
• StyleRow:
$4000000 (Seed)
• StyleRow:
$4000000 (Seed)
• StyleRow:
$620000 (Seed)
• StyleRow:
$620000 (Seed)
• Blue Fever:
$480000 (Pre Seed)
• Blue Fever:
$480000 (Pre Seed)
• Barn & Willow:
$1000000 (Series Unknown)
• Barn & Willow:
$1000000 (Series Unknown)
• BlockCypher:
$3000000 (Seed)
• BlockCypher:
$3000000 (Seed)
• VIDA:
$1000000 (Seed)
• VIDA:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Laurel & Wolf:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Laurel & Wolf:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Move Loot:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Move Loot:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Carbon38:
$1000000 (Series Unknown)
• Carbon38:
$1000000 (Series Unknown)
• Carbon38:
$1000000 (Venture Round)
• Carbon38:
$1000000 (Venture Round)
Jesse aper
Santa Monica - Los Angeles / Southern California, U.S.A.
Jesse Draper serves as Founding Partner at Halogen Ventures. Draper is the Founder of The Valley Girl Show and also serves as its Chief Executive Officer. She is also an Angel Investor. She is the Advisor at Youngry. She is also the creator and host of the television series The Valley Girl Show. Previously a Nickelodeon star, Draper has used her comedic talents to bring an approachable feel to the technology world, has produced and distributed over 300 interviews with some of the greatest minds in technology and beyond (including; Ted Turner, Mark Cuban, Sheryl Sandberg, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Jessica Alba, MC Hammer and Eric Schmidt) and was listed by Marie Claire magazine as one of the '50 Most Connected Women in America'. USA Today called the show "Must see startup TV". Draper is a contributor to Marie Claire, SV Magazine, Mashable, Forbes.com, and is a regular investor and tech personality on shows including 'The Katie Couric Show', Fox's 'Good Day LA', CNBC's 'Who Wants to Be the Next Millionaire Inventor?' & Freeform'sStartup U. She proudly sits on the board of directors of Werk, the advisory board of Bizworld and is on the Chairman's board of SurfAir. Draper supports the Parkinson's Institute and is very involved with growing UCLA's female entrepreneurship community. She is a new mom, a graduate of UCLA and a Kappa Kappa Gamma.Previously a Nickelodeon star, Draper has used her comedic talents to bring an approachable feel to the technology world, has produced and distributed over 300 interviews with some of the greatest minds in technology and beyond (including; Ted Turner, Mark Cuban, Sheryl Sandberg, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Jessica Alba, MC Hammer and Eric Schmidt) and was listed by Marie Claire magazine as one of the '50 Most Connected Women in America'. USA Today called the show "Must see startup TV". Draper is a contributor to Marie Claire, SV Magazine, Mashable, Forbes.com, and is a regular investor and tech personality on shows including 'The Katie Couric Show', Fox's 'Good Day LA', CNBC's 'Who Wants to Be the Next Millionaire Inventor?' & Freeform'sStartup U. She proudly sits on the board of directors of Werk, the advisory board of Bizworld and is on the Chairman's board of SurfAir. Draper supports the Parkinson's Institute and is very involved with growing UCLA's female entrepreneurship community. She is a graduate of UCLA and a Kappa Kappa Gamma.
Josh Kopelman
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
San Francisco Bay Are..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Jean Ray:
(Seed Round)
• Candid Health:
$29000000 (Series B)
• Candid Health:
$16000000 (Series A)
• Vitable Health:
$16000000 (Series A)
• Vitable Health:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Pomelo Care:
$46000000 (Series B)
• Pomelo Care:
$33000000 (Series A)
• Eigen Therapeutics:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Merlin Labs:
$110000000 (Series B)
• Merlin Labs:
$25000000 (Series A)
• Merlin Labs:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Boulder Care:
$36000000 (Series B)
• Boulder Care:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Canonic Security:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Pinwheel:
$50000000 (Series B)
• Pinwheel:
$20000000 (Series A)
• Pinwheel:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Mythic Therapeutics:
$100000000 (Series B)
• Kandji:
$100000000 (Series C)
• Kandji:
$60000000 (Series B)
• Kandji:
$21000000 (Series A)
• Kandji:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Kandji:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Vital:
$15000000 (Series A)
• Vital:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Root AI:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Root AI:
$2000000 (Seed)
• RenoFi:
$6000000 (Series A)
• RenoFi:
$750000 (Seed)
• Snackpass:
$24000000 (Series A)
• Snackpass:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Notion:
$18000000 (Series A)
• Notion:
(Angel)
• Whose Your Landlord:
(Seed)
• Athenascope:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Spring Discovery:
$18000000 (Series A)
• Spring Discovery:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Gregor Diagnostics:
$900000 (Seed)
• Swivel:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Upserve:
(Series Unknown)
• Upserve:
$20000000 (Series C)
• Upserve:
$12000000 (Series B)
• Upserve:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Upserve:
$880000 (Angel)
• Houwzer:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Upstart:
$33000000 (Series D)
• Upstart:
$35000000 (Series C)
• Upstart:
$6000000 (Series A)
• Upstart:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Grokker:
$7000000 (Series B)
• Grokker:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Grokker:
$6000000 (Series A)
• Clover Health:
$160000000 (Series C)
• Clover Health:
$35000000 (Series B)
• Clover Health:
$100000000 (Series A)
• Zodiac:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Curalate:
$28000000 (Series C)
• Curalate:
$9000000 (Series B)
• Curalate:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Curalate:
$750000 (Seed)
• The Black Tux:
$25000000 (Series B)
• The Black Tux:
$10000000 (Series A)
• The Black Tux:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Drop:
$40000000 (Series B)
• Drop:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Drop:
$1000000 (Seed)
• ModCloth:
$15000000 (Series C)
• ModCloth:
$25000000 (Series C)
• ModCloth:
$20000000 (Series B)
• ModCloth:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Jelli:
$21000000 (Series B)
• Jelli:
$9000000 (Series Unknown)
• Jelli:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Jelli:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Boxed:
$25000000 (Series B)
• Boxed:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Zoomin:
$8000000 (Series Unknown)
• Zoomin:
$12000000 (Series Unknown)
• Zoomin:
$850000 (Seed)
• Flatiron Health:
$130000000 (Series B)
• Flatiron Health:
$8000000 (Series A)
• OnDeck:
$77000000 (Series E)
• OnDeck:
$42000000 (Series D)
• OnDeck:
$10000000 (Series B)
• Monetate:
$8000000 (Series C)
• Monetate:
$5000000 (Series A)
• Monetate:
$600000 (Seed)
• PandoDaily:
$3000000 (Seed)
• SavingStar:
$9000000 (Series D)
• SavingStar:
$9000000 (Series C)
• SavingStar:
$7000000 (Series B)
• SavingStar:
$2000000 (Series A)
• Mashery:
$10000000 (Series Unknown)
• Mashery:
$11000000 (Series D)
• Mashery:
$6000000 (Series C)
• Mashery:
$7000000 (Series B)
• Mashery:
$1000000 (Series A)
• Mashery:
(Seed)
• Gumroad:
$1000000 (Seed)
• tlee.com:
$1000000 (Series Unknown)
• AppNexus:
$50000000 (Series C)
• AppNexus:
$5000000 (Series B)
• AppNexus:
$8000000 (Series B)
• AppNexus:
$3000000 (Seed)
• BigDeal:
$5000000 (Series Unknown)
• Aster Data Systems:
$17000000 (Series B)
• Aster Data Systems:
$5000000 (Series A)
• Aster Data Systems:
$1000000 (Angel)
• Bazaarvoice:
$9000000 (Series B)
• Bazaarvoice:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Feedster:
(Series A)
• Adchemy:
$1000000 (Series A)
• InstaMed:
$800000 (Seed)
• Delicious:
(Seed)
• LinkedIn:
$5000000 (Series A)
• TurnTide:
$750000 (Series A)
• IronPort Systems:
$17000000 (Series B)
• Boomi:
$900000 (Angel)
• Liveops:
$1000000 (Series A)
Josh Kopelman
San Francisco Bay Area - Philadelphia - Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • Consumer • Woman Focused
Description
Partner, First Round Capital
Founding Partner, @first-round-capital; Founder @half-com (sold to EBay)
Linked In Description:
Josh is a founding Partner at First Round Capital, a seed-stage technology venture fund. Josh has been an active entrepreneur and investor in the Internet industry since its commercialization.
In 1992, while he was a student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, Josh co-founded Infonautics Corporation – and took it public on the NASDAQ stock exchange in 1996. Josh founded Half.com in July of 1999, and led it to become one of the largest sellers of used books, movies and music in the world. Half.com was acquired by eBay in July 2000 -- and Josh remained with eBay for three years, running the Half.com business unit and growing eBay’s Media marketplace to almost half a billion dollars in annual gross merchandise sales. In late 2003 Josh helped to found TurnTide, an anti-spam company that created the world's first anti-spam router. TurnTide was acquired by Symantec just six months later.
Josh founded First Round Capital in 2004 to reinvent seed-stage investing. And since that time the firm has invested in over 350 emerging technology startups – becoming one of the most active venture capital firms in the country. Josh was ranked 3rd on the 2018 New York Times list of Top Venture Capitalists and consistently ranks in the top 20 of the Forbes Midas List of the top 100 tech investors. Josh has been named as one of the top ten ‘angel investors’ in the United States by Newsweek magazine, one of "Tech's New Kingmakers" by Business 2.0 magazine and a "Rising VC Star" by Fortune magazine. Josh also is the proud winner of a second place ribbon in the 2011 Nantucket Watermelon Eating competition.
Josh is an inventor on sixteen U.S. Patents for his work in Internet technology. In June 2000, he was awarded Ernst and Young’s prestigious “Entrepreneur of the Year” award for the Greater Philadelphia region.
Josh earned a Bachelor of Science degree cum laude in Entrepreneurial Management and Marketing from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Marlon C Nichols
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
San Francisco Bay Are..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Edge Delta:
$3000000 (Seed Round)
• GridRaster:
$2400000 (Seed Round)
• Tactyc:
• Exponential Exchange:
$7000000 (Seed)
• StoreCash:
$4000000 (Seed)
• StoreCash:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Fin:
$7000000 (Seed)
• LOST iN:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Shekel Mobility:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Exponential Markets:
$9000000 (Seed)
• PredictionStrike:
$10000000 (Series A)
• PredictionStrike:
$3000000 (Seed)
• PredictionStrike:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Mansa:
$8000000 (Seed)
• Zevvy:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Stears:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Spleet:
$3000000 (Seed)
• AMP Global Technologies:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Big Cabal Media:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Afya Rekod:
$2000000 (Seed)
• SOTE:
$4000000 (Seed)
• SOTE:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Rares.io:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Ryff:
$12000000 (Series Unknown)
• Ryff:
$5000000 (Series Unknown)
• OCX Cognition:
(Seed)
• Yobe:
(Seed)
• LIT Videobooks:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Pipe:
$250000000 (Series Unknown)
• Pipe:
$10000000 (Seed)
• Pipe:
$6000000 (Seed Round)
• Pipe:
$6000000 (Seed)
• PureStream Trading Technologies:
$14000000 (Series A)
• Everywhere Apparel:
$3000000 (Seed)
• FINESSE:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Bridgefy:
(Seed)
• Antara Health:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Ocean Freight Exchange:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Good Money:
$30000000 (Series A)
• Encantos:
$800000 (Pre Seed)
• Firefly:
$22000000 (Seed)
• Firefly:
$22000000 (Seed Round)
• Phiar Technologies:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Airspace:
$20000000 (Series B)
• Airspace:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Mayvenn:
$23000000 (Series B)
• Mayvenn:
(Convertible Note)
• Mayvenn:
$10000000 (Series A)
• PlayVS:
$15000000 (Series A)
• mSURVEY:
$4000000 (Series A)
• mSURVEY:
(Seed)
• mSURVEY:
(Seed)
• Blavity:
(Seed)
• Blavity:
(Seed Round)
• Ready Responders:
(Seed Round)
• Ready:
$700000 (Seed)
• Wonderschool:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Wonderschool:
(Seed Round)
• Wonderschool:
(Seed)
• Skurt:
(Convertible Note)
• Skurt:
$10000000 (Series A)
• One Preschool:
(Seed Round)
• MessageYes (formerly ReplyYes):
$7000000 (Series A)
• MessageYes (formerly ReplyYes):
$6500000 (Series A)
• Thrive Market:
$110000000 (Series B)
• Thrive Market:
$30000000 (Series A)
• Hingeto:
(Seed Round)
• Hingeto:
(Seed)
• mSurvey:
(Seed Round)
• Sidestep:
$900000 (Seed)
Marlon C Nichols
San Francisco Bay Area - Los Angeles - California, U.S.A.
Andrew Parker serves as General Partner at Spero Ventures. He joined the investment team in June 2010. He is an Angel Investor. He was a member of the investment team at Union Square Ventures for four years, first as an Analyst and later as an Associate. During that tenure, he supported the partners as they developed their portfolio from seven to thirty names, and sourced the investment opportunities in Heyzap and Foursquare. Prior to Union Square Ventures, Parker was a Producer at Homestead Technologies where he designed web interfaces, managed the realization of the designs through the dev-cycle, and conducted user experience testing. Prior to Homestead, he worked for Groupspace.org as a Developer on a web service for asynchronous online deliberation, built on the LAMP stack. A graduate from Stanford in 2005, Parker received his B.S. in Symbolic Systems, which is a hybrid of Computer Science and Cognitive Psychology.
Motti Vaknin
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
How to connect with Angel Investors in the Software industry?
In the Software (Web Marketplace, SaaS, etc.) industry, prominent angel investors include Jason Lemkin, David Sacks, and Jason Calacanis. These investors have a keen interest in startups offering innovative SaaS solutions, enterprise software, and online marketplaces. Jason Lemkin, known for his SaaStr community, has invested in numerous SaaS startups and provides valuable mentorship to founders. David Sacks, co-founder of Yammer and former COO of PayPal, invests in high-growth SaaS companies and enterprise software solutions. Jason Calacanis, an early investor in Uber and Robinhood, looks for disruptive software startups with strong market potential. To connect with these investors, attend SaaS and tech conferences like SaaStr Annual, Collision, and Web Summit. Networking events, demo days, and industry meetups are also valuable opportunities. Utilize platforms like AngelList and LinkedIn to identify and reach out to these investors. When pitching, focus on demonstrating your product's unique value proposition, market potential, and revenue growth. Highlight key metrics such as user acquisition, retention rates, and customer testimonials. Personalize your outreach by referencing the investor’s previous investments and explaining how your startup aligns with their investment thesis. Building a strong relationship through initial informal meetings or discussions can help establish trust and credibility. Demonstrate your knowledge of the industry, competitive landscape, and growth strategies to make a compelling case for investment.
Case Studies: Successful Funding Rounds with Angel Investors on Angels Partners
Exotic Orange & Angels Partners: Turning Financial Simplicity Into Investment Success
