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
Dalton Caldwell
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Fintech: applications built on top of open banking, Saas with integrated fintech products, embedded finance plays.
Insurtech: new risk with new data sets; infrastructure, embedded insurance plays
Not Interested In
If you don't feel you have any link or connection to financial services (in a broad definition), then its probably not an opportunity for me
Ronald Bouganim is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Govtech Fund. He serves as the Board Member at SeamlessDocs and SmartProcure. Before founding the Govtech Fund, Ron was an active angel investor and advisor, having worked closely with more than twenty startups including ShareThrough, HelloSign, PagerDuty, and Close.io. Ron has also been actively involved with a number of nonprofits as a donor, adviser and board member including Kiva, Full Circle Fund, Endeavor, Presidio Knolls School and Code For America.
Nitin Sharma
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Hendrik Brandis is a Co-Founder and Partner of Earlybird. Hendrik's current domain focus is web-enabled services.
Hendrik is a Board Member of EVCA (European Private Equity & Venture Capital Association) and past Chairman of the EVCA Venture Capital Platform Council.
Hendrik brings together long standing investment, operational and entrepreneurial experience. Hendrik was a Board Member of element 5 AG, where he was a driving force behind the sale to Digital River (NASDAQ:DRIV), dooyoo.de AG (Berlin) which was sold to leguide.com S.A and Dianoema S.p.A., which listed on the Borsa Italiana (Milan: NOE.MI).
Hendrik currently serves on the boards of Earlybird portfolio companies B2X Care Solutions GmbH (Munich), carpooling.com GmbH (Munich), Simfy AG (Cologne) and nfon (Munich).
Hendrik gained his entrepreneurial experience as a Co-Founder of GMM, a group of private investors focusing on buy-outs of mid-sized companies and gained his operational experience as Project Manager in the Technology Department of Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm (now Daimler-Chrysler Aerospace) focusing on the design and innovative manufacturing processes of composite aircraft structures.
Previously, Hendrik was a Partner with McKinsey & Co., in their Munich and Madrid offices where he led McKinsey's small and mid-sized company initiative and participated in creating McKinsey New Venture.
Hendrik attended the Technical University of Munich and holds a Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc. equivalent) and Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering.
Taylor McLemore
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Denver - Colorado, U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Escalate USA:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Escalate USA:
$120000 (Pre Seed)
• MFGWorx:
(Pre Seed)
• Gritly:
(Pre Seed)
• EmpiricaLab:
$120000 (Pre Seed)
• Recruiting Innovation:
(Pre Seed)
• Spatial Guide:
(Pre Seed)
• Access Mode:
(Pre Seed)
• The AI Education Project:
(Pre Seed)
• Metta Space:
(Angel)
• VirgilHR:
$2000000 (Pre Seed)
• Everprep:
(Pre Seed)
• Skylyte:
(Pre Seed)
• FutureFit AI:
$5000000 (Seed)
• VersaWare:
$300000 (Pre Seed)
• ion Learning:
(Pre Seed)
• PitchMe:
(Seed)
• Chamba:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Divercity.io:
$120000 (Seed)
• PeduL:
(Seed)
• Clusiv:
$860000 (Pre Seed)
• TiLT:
$120000 (Seed)
• Turing School of Software & Design:
$120000 (Seed)
Exotic Orange & Angels Partners: Turning Financial Simplicity Into Investment Success
