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Palo Alto - Menlo Park - California, U.S.A.
Contact this investorsBusinesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Advertising • Online Social
General Partner @ Andreessen Horowitz
Menlo Park - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Contact this investorsBusinesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Consumer
Grew up in Cape Town. Came to @stanford-university in 1998. Joined @paypal in 2000 & became CFO. Joined Sequoia in 2003. Invested in @youtube in 2005.
Palo Alto - San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A.
Contact this investorsSoftware (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Hospitality (& Events) • Businesses Solutions • Consumer
Most Interested In
Products that solve meaningful problems for consumers. Includes: Marketplaces, communication platforms, productivity tools, financial services, ed
Not Interested In
I love authentic founders and products that stand out and uniquely solve a problem. I tend not to be excited by many enterprise problems.
Menlo Park - Redwood City - California, U.S.A. - India
Contact this investorsBusinesses Solutions • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Online Social • Consumer
Founder, Managing Director, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Ravi Mhatre serves as Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. He serves as Board Member at Cloudpassage and Exabeam. Ravi is also a Co-Founder and serves as Partner and Managing Director at Lightspeed India Partners Advisors. He is also a Board Observer at Natera. His current investments include Nutanix, Appdynamics, Natera, Mulesoft, Sailpoint, Edgespring, TheFind and Kixeye. He has also served as a board member or board observer for numerous successful venture-backed companies including net.Genesis (NTGX), Verio (VRIO), Qubole, Riverbed (RVBD), Lifeminders (LFMN), Kosmix (acquired by Walmart), TutorVista (acquired by Pearson), Virsa (acquired by SAP), Waveset (acquired by Oracle), Rapsphere (acquired by Appsense), Masergy (acquired by Abry) and Webspective (acquired by Inktomi), and has been recognized on the Forbes Midas List of top venture capital investors. Ravi has also served on the Board of Directors of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs Forum) in Silicon Valley, as a VC advisory board member to DeVenCI, the Department of Defense's start-up technology acquisition forum, and as a judge for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year competition. Ravi holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and a BA in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
New York, U.S.A.
Contact this investorsSoftware (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • A.I. (& Big Data) • GovTech • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Online Social
Partner at Venrock
Most Interested In
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
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Contact this investorsSoftware (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Local commerce
Jason Pressman is a Co- Founder and serves as Managing Director & Partner at Shasta Ventures. He also is an Angel Investor. He serves as the Board of Directors at Deep Sentinel. He leads the enterprise practice at Shasta Ventures and invests across a range of sectors including enterprise software, SaaS, cloud and consumer services. A company builder who played an integral role in the development of one of today's largest online businesses, Jason acts as a thought partner, advocate and counselor to entrepreneurs looking to take their companies from initial proof of product-market fit to industry dominance. As a partner at Shasta, Jason has been an active investor in cloud computing, with an emphasis on next-generation applications, systems management and open source software. His previous investments include Makara (acquired by RedHat) and iConclude (acquired by Opsware). Jason currently serves on the boards of application performance management startup Crittercism, Scala open source software platform Typesafe and SaaS subscription billing company Zuora, as well as local social guide Nextdoor and mobile platform Smule. Prior to joining Shasta in 2005, Jason was Vice President, Strategy and Operations at venture-backed Walmart.com, where he took the online retailer from zero to large scale revenue in five years. His experience growing that business into one of largest retailers online informs his understanding of how to thoughtfully scale fast-growing businesses, as well as how to use software to improve operations. Previously, Jason worked as an investment banker to venture-backed companies at Alex.Brown. Jason earned an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BS in Finance from University of Maryland.
New York, U.S.A.
Contact this investorsSoftware (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • IoT (& Wearables)
Hayley Barna is a Venture Partner at First Round Capital based in New York. Prior to joining First Round she co-founded Birchbox, the leading beauty and grooming retailer seed funded by First Round in 2010. She served as Co-CEO at Birchbox for five years from conception and launch to growing the business to over a million monthly subscribers. She raised over $70M in venture capital, expanded the business internationally and launched new businesses and channels like men's and retail stores. Hayley oversaw key functions including marketing, operations, strategy and technology. Before launching Birchbox in 2010, Hayley received her MBA from Harvard Business School. She started her career as a strategy consultant at Bain & Company in New York. She also spent time at two very different ends of the retail spectrum through her roles in strategy at Christie’s in Hong Kong and product management at Amazon in Seattle. In addition to her current role at First Round, Hayley is a board member at Birchbox, RAB Lighting and Madison Reed.
Seattle - Washington, U.S.A.
Contact this investorsBioTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure)
Managing Director, Madrona Venture Group
Santa Monica - Los Angeles / Southern California, U.S.A.
Contact this investorsSoftware (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Consumer • Woman Focused
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.
San Francisco Bay Area - Philadelphia - Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Contact this investorsSoftware (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • Consumer • Woman Focused
Partner, First Round Capital
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.
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Contact this investorsSoftware (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.
San Francisco Bay Area - California, U.S.A. - Canada
Contact this investorsRetail (& E-Commerce) • Consumer
Kirsten Green is the Founder and serves as a Managing Director & General Partner at Forerunner Ventures. She also serves as the Board Member at Rockets of Awesome, Draper James, Glossier and Outdoor Voices. Kirsten Green is the Founder and serves as Managing Director at Forerunner Ventures. Previously, she was an adviser to TSG Consumer Partners. Before founding Forerunner Ventures, Kirsten was an analyst in the equity research department at Banc of America Securities (Montgomery Securities). Prior to that, she was an associate at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Kirsten graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Business Economics, and she holds a CPA license and a CFA certification. Kirsten serves on the board and executive committee of the Full Circle Fund.
California is a global powerhouse in the startup and investment ecosystem, home to Silicon Valley, the world's leading tech hub. With a concentration of talent, innovation, and capital, it serves as the epicenter for startups across various sectors. Cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego are known for fostering entrepreneurial spirit, supported by prestigious universities like Stanford and UC Berkeley.
The state's startup scene thrives on technology, life sciences, clean energy, and entertainment. Silicon Valley is renowned for tech and software, while Los Angeles is a hub for media and entertainment startups. San Diego excels in biotechnology and life sciences, driven by institutions like UC San Diego.
California boasts a vibrant angel investor community, with groups such as Tech Coast Angels and Sand Hill Angels providing vital early-stage funding. These investors often offer mentorship and industry connections, crucial for emerging startups.
Home to leading venture capital firms like Sequoia Capital and Andreessen Horowitz, California offers unparalleled access to venture funding. These firms are instrumental in scaling startups, providing not just capital but strategic guidance and networking opportunities.
The investment climate in California is robust, characterized by a high tolerance for risk and a focus on disruptive innovation. The state's regulatory environment is generally supportive, though it requires navigating complex legal and financial frameworks.
California provides extensive support through accelerators like Y Combinator and 500 Startups, offering programs that help startups refine their business models and scale. Co-working spaces and incubators further nurture early-stage ventures.
As technology continues to evolve, California is poised to remain at the forefront of the startup ecosystem. With increasing emphasis on sustainability and diversity, the state is likely to see growth in green tech and inclusive entrepreneurship, ensuring its continued relevance and leadership in global innovation.
California hosts some of the most renowned angel investors, including Ron Conway, known for his investments in Google and Facebook, and Naval Ravikant, co-founder of AngelList. These investors are vital in providing early-stage funding and mentorship to startups, often acting as a bridge to larger venture capital rounds.
California is home to many leading venture capital firms like Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, and Kleiner Perkins. These firms have been instrumental in funding and nurturing some of the most successful tech companies in the world, such as Airbnb, Uber, and Twitter, providing both capital and strategic guidance.
Angel investors typically invest between $25,000 and $100,000 per startup, focusing on seed and early-stage companies with high growth potential. Venture capital firms, on the other hand, invest in larger rounds, ranging from several million to hundreds of millions of dollars, targeting a wide range of industries including tech, healthcare, and biotech.
Active angel investors in California often have portfolios comprising hundreds of investments, while leading venture capital firms typically manage dozens of investments annually. This high volume ensures a diversified approach, mitigating risks and maximizing potential returns.
The investment market in California is expected to remain robust, driven by continuous innovation and a thriving startup ecosystem. Emerging sectors such as artificial intelligence, clean energy, and fintech are anticipated to attract significant interest and funding from both angels and VCs in the coming years.
Beyond financial investment, California's angel investors and venture capitalists are known for their active involvement in mentorship. They provide invaluable advice, network connections, and strategic insights, helping startups navigate the challenges of scaling and market entry.
The state of California offers various initiatives and programs that support entrepreneurship, including tax incentives and grants. Additionally, institutions like the University of California and Stanford University play a crucial role in fostering innovation through research and incubation programs.
California remains a prime destination for startup funding, boasting a vibrant community of angel investors and venture capital firms. With a strong support system and a forward-looking investment landscape, startups in California are well-positioned to thrive and drive future technological advancements.
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