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
Greg Castle
Investing in A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain ...
San Francisco Bay Are..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Flock Group:
• Marxent:
$10000000 (Series B)
• ZeroTier, Inc.:
$2000000 (Series Unknown)
• 3D Cloud by Marxent:
$10000000 (Series B)
• Oculus:
$16000000 (Series A)
• Airfold:
$4000000 (Seed)
• JigSpace:
$13000000 (Series Unknown)
• ZeroMark:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Fondo:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Framework:
$18000000 (Series A)
• Framework:
$9000000 (Seed)
• Cquence:
(Seed)
• Osso VR:
$27000000 (Series B)
• Osso VR:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Simulon:
$500000 (Pre Seed)
• ZeroTier:
$2000000 (Series Unknown)
• Oze:
$700000 (Seed)
• WasteHero:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Restream:
$50000000 (Series A)
• Mesh++:
(Seed)
• Onebrief:
(Seed)
• Onebrief:
(Seed)
• Spiketrap:
$3000000 (Seed)
• App Academy:
(Seed)
• Addressable:
(Seed)
• Looking Glass Factory:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Looking Glass Factory:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Antara Health:
(Series Unknown)
• 6D.ai:
$3000000 (Seed)
• 6D.ai:
(Seed)
• Rec Room:
$15000000 (Series B)
• Rec Room:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Lightform:
$9000000 (Series A)
• Lightform:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Equally:
(Seed)
• RosieReality:
$2000000 (Seed)
• RosieReality:
$700000 (Seed)
• WeatherCheck:
(Seed)
• LightOn:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Phiar Technologies:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Twizted Design:
(Seed)
• Vantage Point:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Supermedium:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Catalog:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Catalog:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Sketchfab:
$3000000 (Series Unknown)
• Orderful:
(Seed)
• Sourcify:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Iron Ox:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Iron Ox:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• Flock Safety:
$120000 (Seed)
• Anduril Industries:
(Seed)
• Advano:
(Seed)
• SmartyPans:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Dishcraft Robotics:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Vivid Vision:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Reduced Energy Microsystems:
$2000000 (Seed Round)
Greg Castle is the Founder & serves as Managing Partner at Anorak Ventures. He serves as the Advisor at UploadVR. Prior to Anorak, Greg was an active angel investor with 30 investments counting two exits including Oculus, which was acquired by Facebook for $2bln. With strong ties to the VR/AR community, Greg focuses much of his time investing in and mentoring startups in this sector. Previously, Greg led marketing for the popular game development company Scaleform and for Autodesk's Game Technology Group.
Rajat Bhageria
Investing in A.I. (& Big Data) • Robotics
San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Afore Capital:
• Chef Robotics:
• Kiwi:
(early stage)
• Prototype Capital:
(mid stage)
• Indiegogo:
(late stage)
• Kairos Society:
(late stage)
• Red & Blue Ventures:
(early stage)
• ThirdEye Technologies, Inc. (Acquired in 2017):
(early stage)
Roboticist, Founder, CEO at Chef Robotics (We're hiring!)
Roboticist, Founder, CEO at Chef Robotics (We're hiring!)
Founder @thirdeye • Managing Partner @prototype-capital • @forbes Contributor • Author of What High School Didn't Teach Me • Studied at @wharton-school
Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services)
Description
Adjunct Professor at Columbia University - SIPA and Yeshiva University Sy Syms School of Business
Investor, Board Member and Adjunct Professor
Managing Director at @blumberg-capital
Linked In Description:
Bruce has 28 years experience as a venture capital investor, entrepreneur, technology investment banker and corporate attorney. Prior to joining Blumberg Capital in 1998, Bruce co-founded and held several senior management positions within technology companies including Charles River Computers. Bruce also structured and managed early-stage technology transactions at Hambrecht & Quist, Mayer Brown & Platt and Bankers Trust Company. A native of New York, Bruce earned his BA in Finance and Communications, cum laude, from Yeshiva University, and his MBA and JD from Fordham University.
Bruce serves as a member or observer on the Board of Directors of Arcadia Data, BioCatch, Braze, CaseStack, Coverhound, Credorax, DoubleVerify, HootSuite, Medigate, Revionics, Roam Analytics, SeaLights and WorkJam.
Past investments: Nolio – Acquired by CA Technologies, Mobsmith – Acquired by Rubicon, Bringit – Acquired by International Gaming Technology [IGT], Mertado – Acquired by Groupon [GRPN], Nutanix - IPO [NTNX], ZipZapPlay – Acquired by Electronic Arts [ERTS], eVoice – Acquired by AOL [TWX], PureSight – Acquired by Boston Communications Group [BCGI], Vista Research – Acquired by McGraw Hill [MHP], IP Infusion – Acquired by ACCESS CO., LTD [TSE: 4813], GO Networks – Acquired by NextWave Wireless [WAVEX], and Siperian – Acquired by [INFA].
Specialties: Early stage venture capital, investing in mobile, SaaS and digitization of the services economy.
Dror Berman is a Co-Founding Partner at Innovation Endeavors. He is a Board Member of Vicarious Surgical. He is also a Board Member of Team8. Prior to joining Innovation Endeavors, he worked on global search products with Yahoo, spearheaded an R&D team at NICE Systems, and led business development for an Israeli CE retailer. Berman has an MBA from Stanford, and graduated cum laude in Computer Science and Bioinformatics from Ben Gurion University in Israel.
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.
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.
CEO at Cadence Design Systems | Chairman at Walden International
Most Interested In
semiconductor/components, cloud/edge infrastructure, data management and security, and AI/machine machine learning
Lip-Bu Tan serves as Chairman of the Board at SambaNova Systems. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Cadence Design Systems. He also serves as chairman of Walden International, a venture capital firm he founded in 1987. Prior to founding Walden, he was Vice President at Chappell & Co. and held management positions at EDS Nuclear and ECHO Energy. He serves on the board of directors of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co., Quantenna Communications, Inc., and Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), as well as the boards of the Electronic System Design Alliance (ESD Alliance) and the Global Semiconductor Association (GSA). He also serves on the Board of Trustees and the School of Engineering Dean's Council at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). He is the recipient of the 2016 GSA Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership Award. He received an M.S. in nuclear engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981, an MBA from the University of San Francisco in 1983, and a B.S. from Nanyang University in Singapore in 1978.
Brian Singerman
Investing in BioTech • Businesses Solutions ...
San Francisco Bay Are..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Cloud9 (Movies, Music and Entertainment):
$25000000
• Brave BitGo BitPay:
• AltSchool:
$100000000 (Series B)
• AltSchool:
$33000000 (Series A)
• The Climate Corporation:
$50000000 (Series C)
• Nucleus:
$5600000 (Early stage VC)
• Brave:
$4500000 (Seed Round)
• Cabin:
$3300000 (Seed Round)
• Real Savvy:
$2710000 (Early stage VC)
• Grabr:
$2700000 (Seed Round)
• Shipamax:
$2500000 (Seed Round)
• BrandYourself:
$2000000 (Early stage VC)
• Mira:
$1000000 (Seed Round)
• Unbound:
(Seed Round)
• Wish:
$500000000 (Series F)
• Wish:
$50000000 (Series C)
• Oculus:
$16000000 (Series A)
• Chronosphere:
$120000000 (Series C)
• Chronosphere:
$170000000 (Series C)
• Inworld AI:
$50000000 (Series A)
• Traba:
$20000000 (Series A)
• Traba:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Garner Health:
$45000000 (Series B)
• Garner Health:
$13000000 (Series A)
• Calibrate:
$100000000 (Series B)
• Modern Health:
$74000000 (Series D)
• Modern Health:
$51000000 (Series C)
• Modern Health:
$31000000 (Series B)
• Nerd Street Gamers:
$12000000 (Series Unknown)
• Oscar Health:
$140000000 (Private Equity)
• Oscar Health:
$170000000 (Series Unknown)
• Oscar Health:
$400000000 (Private Equity)
• Oscar Health:
$150000000 (Series C)
• Oscar Health:
$80000000 (Series B)
• Oscar Health:
$30000000 (Series A)
• Oscar Health:
$40000000 (Series A)
• Affirm:
$500000000 (Series G)
• Affirm:
$300000000 (Series F)
• Affirm:
$200000000 (Series E)
• Affirm:
$100000000 (Series D)
• Solugen:
$32000000 (Series B)
• Triplebyte:
$35000000 (Series B)
• Ritual:
$25000000 (Series B)
• Ritual:
$11000000 (Series A)
• Cloud9:
$50000000 (Series B)
• Cloud9:
$25000000 (Series A)
• Cloud9:
$3000000 (Seed)
• ContextLogic:
$500000000 (Series F)
• ContextLogic:
$50000000 (Series C)
• Stemcentrx:
$250000000 (Series G)
• Stemcentrx:
$200000000 (Series F)
• Stemcentrx:
$42000000 (Series D)
• Learner-Centered Collaborative:
$100000000 (Series B)
• Learner-Centered Collaborative:
$33000000 (Series A)
• Postmates:
$35000000 (Series C)
• Postmates:
$5000000 (Series A)
• Postmates:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Misfit Wearables:
$40000000 (Series C)
• Misfit Wearables:
$15000000 (Series B)
• Misfit Wearables:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Natera:
$55000000 (Series E)
• The Climate Corporation (Bayer Crop Science):
$50000000 (Series C)
Brian Singerman serves as Partner at Founders Fund. He also serves on the board at Affirm, Postmates, AltSchool, Oscar Health, Cloud9 and Emerald Therapeutics. Previously, he served on the board at Misfit Wearables. In 2004, he was recruited in Google where he spent the next four years as an engineer and executive, where (among other projects) he founded the personal web portal, iGoogle. He graduated from Stanford University with a Bachelors of Science in Computer Science.
Three decades as an entrepreneur and hands on investor
Investor for 20 years in teams (@zynga, XenSource/CTRX @facebook, Datamirror/IBM, Fortinet/FTNT, Tango, @metaweb, D-Wave) solving hard problems for large markets.
How to connect with Angel Investors in the A.I. industry?
In the AI & Big Data industry, angel investors such as Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, and Reid Hoffman are highly active. These investors focus on startups offering innovative solutions in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data analytics. Peter Thiel, co-founder of Palantir Technologies, invests in AI startups that have the potential to revolutionize data analysis and intelligence. Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, looks for companies that leverage AI to solve complex problems and create new opportunities. Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn, seeks out startups with scalable AI solutions and strong network effects. To connect with these investors, attend AI and big data conferences, tech expos, and networking events such as NeurIPS, AI Summit, and Strata Data Conference. Utilize platforms like AngelList and LinkedIn to identify and reach out to potential investors. When pitching, emphasize how your AI or big data solution addresses key challenges, such as improving data analysis, enhancing decision-making, or automating processes. Highlight any traction you’ve gained, such as partnerships with tech companies, user growth, or successful pilot projects. 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, licensing, or service contracts, will further strengthen your pitch. Leveraging endorsements or case studies from AI or big data experts can also enhance your credibility.
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