Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Local commerce • Online Social
Description
Tony Conrad is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at About.me. He also is an Angel Investor. Conrad serves as Partner at True Ventures. He served as General Partner at VSP Capital. He also serves as Board Member at High Fidelity. He is the Founder of AOL Ventures. He was Chief Executive Officer & Co-Founder of about.me (acquired by Aol in December 2010). He serves on the Board of Directors of Automattic (WordPress), appssavvy, StockTwits, RescueTime, PastFuture (GDGT), 20x200, FREEjit, Small Batch (Typekit), WeGame and led True's investment MakerBot & Plancast. He also serves as a Special Advisor to AOL Ventures. Previously, he co-founded Sphere which was acquired by AOL in April, 2008. In addition, he has served on the Board of Directors for Oddpost (acquired by Yahoo), Iconoculture, MusicNow (acquired by Circuit City) and Centive (acquired by Xactly). He also played an active role managing investments in Post Communications (NASDAQ: NTVS), QuinStreet (NASDAQ: QNST), Danger (acquired by Microsoft), Sabrix and Stonyfield Farms (acquired by Groupe Danone). He is also a Board Member at Smarterer. He also served as a Board Member at appssavvy. He served as Board Member at KISSmetrics. He holds a BS (Bachelor of Science) in Telecommunications from Indiana University.
Chris Sacca
Investing in Businesses Solutions • CleanTec...
Montana, U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Toymail:
$600000
• Gowalla:
$8300000 (Series B)
• Flair:
(Series Unknown)
• Flair:
$8000000 (Series A)
• Flair:
$2000000 (Series Unknown)
• Tender Food:
$11000000 (Series A)
• Tender Food:
$12000000 (Seed)
• Cloover:
$6000000 (Seed)
• SolarSquare Energy:
$4000000 (Series Unknown)
• SolarSquare Energy:
$12000000 (Series A)
• SolarSquare Energy:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Quilt:
$33000000 (Series A)
• Quilt:
$9000000 (Seed)
• Mosa Meat:
$42000000 (Series Unknown)
• Mosa Meat:
$2000000 (Series A)
• Lilac Solutions:
$150000000 (Series C)
• Lilac Solutions:
$150000000 (Series B)
• River:
$40000000 (Series B)
• River:
$15000000 (Series B)
• River:
$11000000 (Series A)
• Arc Boats:
$70000000 (Series B)
• Arc Boats:
$30000000 (Series A)
• Arc Boats:
(Seed)
• Gridware:
$11000000 (Seed)
• Woodoo:
$31000000 (Seed)
• Novalith Technologies:
$15000000 (Series A)
• Lun:
$11000000 (Seed)
• Living Carbon:
$21000000 (Series A)
• Detect:
(Series C)
• Enode:
$15000000 (Series A)
• Fuse Energy:
$79000000 (Series Unknown)
• Tomorrow Farms:
$9000000 (Seed)
• Antora Energy:
$50000000 (Series A)
• Cover:
$60000000 (Series B)
• SIMULATE:
$50000000 (Series B)
• Kinema:
$2000000 (Seed)
• TerraTrue:
$15000000 (Series A)
• TerraTrue:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Stensul:
$16000000 (Series B)
• Stensul:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Pachama:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Automattic:
$300000000 (Series D)
• Automattic:
$160000000 (Series C)
• Commonwealth Fusion:
$120000000 (Series A)
• Swayable:
(Seed)
• Linear Labs:
$5000000 (Seed)
• Boundless Mind:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Brightwheel:
$600000 (Seed)
• The Happy Home Company:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Rent Like a Champion:
(Seed)
• Dubsmash:
$6000000 (Series A)
• OpenDNS:
$35000000 (Series C)
• Medium:
$25000000 (Series A)
• Liftopia:
$5000000 (Series D)
• Liftopia:
$1000000 (Series C)
• Heavybit:
(Undisclosed)
• Chewse:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Getable:
$2000000 (Seed)
• FOBO:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Streak:
$2000000 (Convertible Note)
• 9GAG:
$3000000 (Seed)
• VHX:
$1000000 (Seed)
• StyleSeat:
$780000 (Seed)
• Gumroad:
$1000000 (Seed)
• RecordSetter:
$1000000 (Series A)
• RecordSetter:
(Angel)
• X (formerly Twitter):
$400000000 (Series G)
• X (formerly Twitter):
$5000000 (Series A)
• Embedly:
$450000 (Seed)
• Milk:
$2000000 (Angel)
• Message Bus:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Kickstarter:
$10000000 (Series Unknown)
• AdGrok:
$470000 (Angel)
• dotCloud:
$800000 (Angel)
• Docker:
$800000 (Angel)
• 1000memories:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Uber:
$11000000 (Series A)
• Uber:
$1000000 (Angel)
• Instagram:
$7000000 (Series A)
• Instagram:
$500000 (Seed)
• FanBridge:
$2000000 (Series A)
• FanBridge:
$350000 (Seed)
• AeroFS:
(Seed)
• GroupSpaces:
$1000000 (Series Unknown)
• Hello Chair:
$880000 (Series Unknown)
• Hello Chair:
$15000 (Seed)
• Optimizely:
$1000000 (Angel)
• Posterous:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Backupify:
$900000 (Seed)
• Graphicly:
$1000000 (Series A)
• Cardpool:
(Seed)
• Twilio:
$4000000 (Series A)
• Lookout:
$6000000 (Series A)
• Gowalla (acquired by facebook):
$8000000 (Series B)
Businesses Solutions • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Developer tools • Local commerce • Online Social • Consumer
Description
Christopher Sacca is the Founder and serves as Chairman at Lowercase Capital. Sacca is an Angel Investor. He served as Software Engineer at Ellucian. He managed a portfolio of over fifty consumer web, mobile, and wireless technology start-ups as well as an array of mature enterprises through his holding company, Lowercase Capital. While primarily known for its investments in seed and early stage technology companies like Twitter, Uber, Instagram, and Kickstarter, Lowercase has quietly become one of the largest venture funds in the United States. Previously, Chris served as Head of Special Initiatives at Google Inc. In that role, among other responsibilities, he founded and headed up the alternative access and wireless divisions. His most visible projects include Google's 700MHz and TV white spaces spectrum initiatives, the company's groundbreaking data center in Oregon and Google's free citywide WiFi network in Mountain View, CA. Chris also spearheaded many of Google's business development and M&A transactions and was on the founding team of the company's New Business Development organization. Before joining Google, Chris held a number of executive roles at one of the world's largest streaming and digital media distribution companies, Speedera Networks (acquired by Akamai Technologies), and was ultimately responsible for their legal and corporate development efforts. Prior to Speedera, Chris was an attorney with the Silicon Valley law firm of Fenwick & West where he handled venture capital, mergers & acquisitions, and licensing transactions for technology clients such as Macromedia, VeriSign, and Kleiner Perkins. In 2012, Chris continued his work as a National Finance Committee member, a host of the technology roundtable series, and as a Co-Chair of Tech for Obama. The Wall Street Journal cited Chris as "possibly the most influential businessman in America." Chris graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center where he was a member of The Tax Lawyer law review and was honored as the school's Philip A. Ryan and Ralph J. Gilbert Memorial Scholar. He also graduated cum laude from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and was an Edmund Evans Memorial Scholar as well as a Weeks Family Foundation Scholar. He is an an Angel Investor. He also serves as an Adivsor at Lookout. He is an Investor at Docker.
Seed investor. Managing Partner at @summit-partners for 25+ years. Invest in sectors spanning consumer and enterprise wherever data is disrupting an old market.
Stephen DeBerry
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Stephen DeBerry is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Bronze VC. He served as Partner at Kapor Capital. He invests in vehicles that align strong financial returns with positive social impact. Before joining Kapor Capital, he was an Investment Director at Omidyar Network, the mission-based investment firm started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife, Pam. He has been a frequent organizer and speaker at industry conferences and his investments have focused on pioneering new categories such as social lending. Some of his previous investments include: CircleLending (now Virgin Money), Prosper, InnoCentive and more recently Etherpad, Cardpool, Edulender and PayNearMe. He earned a Bachelor's degree in Anthropology with highest honors from UCLA as well as a Master's degree in Social Anthropology and MBA from the University of Oxford. He is a British Marshall Scholar and a Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute. He served as Board Member at Proven.
Jason Calacanis
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Chairman, Finger Group and Upper90 Capital Management
Jason Finger serves as Chief Executive Officer & Chairman of the Board at LiveAuctioneers. He serves as Chairman at Upper90. He served as Managing Member at Oxygen Capital Partners. Jason Finger serves as Board Member at LiveAuctioneers and StartUpHealthHoldings. Finger also serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Citysearch. He oversees the CityGrid advertising network and its owned and operated websites, including Citysearch, Urbanspoon, Insider Pages, and Buzz Labs. He co-founded SeamlessWeb in 1999, and was responsible for growing the company's presence to 22 cities throughout the U.S. and London. He is also an Angel Investor.
Adam Schwartz
Investing in Media • Education • Busine...
New York, U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Akiflow:
$1800000 (Seed Round)
• TrueFort:
$30000000 (Later Stage VC)
• Superhuman:
$33000000 (Later Stage VC)
• HoneyBook:
$28000000 (Later Stage VC)
• Clean Plate Restaurants:
(Early Stage VC)
• Bento (California):
$1500000 (Seed Round)
• SkyKick:
$10000000 (Early Stage VC)
• Poshmark:
$25000000 (Later Stage VC)
• REscour:
$1300000 (Seed Round)
• Soothe:
$1700000 (Seed Round)
• Nomiku:
(Angel)
• Butterfleye:
$230000 (Seed Round)
• Vault12:
$1480000 (Seed Round)
• Stacks (Software Development Applications):
$1500000 (Seed Round)
Adam Schwartz is the Founder serves as Chief Executive Officer at Articulate Global. He is an Advisor of Merida Capital Partners. He is a Board Member of New Frontier Data. He founded Articulate in 2002 with a vision to create innovative technologies that make it easier for the world to learn. Under his direction, Articulate has grown from a groundbreaking idea into an award-winning company that was recognized by Deloitte as one of the fastest-growing technology companies in North America. Schwartz is an active angel investor in more than 100 innovative tech companies and serves on the boards of Embedly, Videolicious, and others.
Amal Dokhan
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
David Weekly serves as Product Manager, Rapid Rollout at Alphabet. The team's mandate is to create new tools, technologies, business models, and datasets that change the economics of planning, building, and deploying high speed Internet everywhere. Their customers are both internal to Google and external.
David also leads the Google Crisis Access Response Team (GoCART) to rebuild communications networks after a wide-scale emergency and have represented Google to the Congressional Subcommittee on Emergency Preparedness. In addition to his work at Google, David is the founder of Neuron.VC and drone.vc, the world's first drone focused investment fund, using an AngelList syndicate to invest in early-to-midstage unmanned civilian aircraft companies and related key technologies and services. David is also an official Mentor for a few incubator programs, including InnoBlue, Women 2.0 Labs, 500 Startups, Founder Institute, and i/o ventures. Notably, David was the founder of Mexico.vc, Silicon Valley's first seed program for Mexican-based Internet startups, in 2011. He served as General Partner for the fund. In August 2012, the firm was merged into 500 Startups.
John Tan
Investing in Hospitality (& Events) • AgroTe...
Singapore, U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Collision 8:
(early stage)
• BWB Ventures:
• Controlled Commodity:
(early stage)
• Ninja Van:
• 8capita:
• Saturday Kids:
(early stage)
• The Real Deal Inc:
• Orita Sinclair School of Design, New Media & the Arts:
(late stage)
How to connect with Angel Investors in the Local Commerce industry?
In the Local Commerce industry, angel investors such as Tim Ferriss, Chris Sacca, and Naval Ravikant are highly active. These investors focus on startups offering innovative solutions in local retail, community marketplaces, and hyperlocal services. Tim Ferriss, an author and entrepreneur, invests in local commerce startups that leverage technology to enhance customer experience and business efficiency. Chris Sacca, founder of Lowercase Capital, looks for companies that provide scalable and impactful local commerce solutions. Naval Ravikant, co-founder of AngelList, seeks out startups with strong community engagement and local business support. To connect with these investors, attend local commerce conferences, retail expos, and networking events such as ShopTalk, Localogy, and Retail Innovation Conference. Utilize platforms like AngelList and LinkedIn to identify and reach out to potential investors. When pitching, emphasize how your local commerce solution addresses key challenges, such as improving customer acquisition, enhancing business operations, or supporting local economies. Highlight any traction you’ve gained, such as partnerships with local businesses, user growth, or positive feedback from customers. Building relationships through initial informal meetings or discussions at industry panels can help establish trust with these investors. Demonstrating the impact of your technology or service through case studies or user testimonials 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 transaction fees, subscription fees, or service contracts, will further strengthen your pitch. Leveraging endorsements or case studies from local commerce experts can also enhance your credibility.
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