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.
Jerry Yang serves as Founding Partner at AME Cloud Ventures. Yang also serves as Special Partner at Neotribe Ventures. He serves as Investor of BirdEye. He also serves as an Independent Director at Workday and Advisor at Radius. He is the Founding Partner at AME Cloud Ventures. He serves as Board Observer and Senior Advisor at Didi Kuaidi. Since March 2012, he has worked with and invests in technology entrepreneurs as the founding partner of AME Cloud Ventures, his innovation investment firm. He is also a co-founder of Yahoo! Inc., where he served as a director from March 1995 to January 2012, and as Chief Executive Officer from June 2007 to January 2009. He also led Yahoo!'s investments in Yahoo Japan and Alibaba Group Holding Limited, and he is a currently a director of Alibaba Group, where he has served on the board from October 2005 to January 2012 and from September 2014 to the present. He is also a director of Lenovo, Inc. where he has served on the board since November 2014. From July 2000 to November 2012, he was a member of Cisco Systems, Inc.'s Board of Directors, and he was a director of Yahoo! Japan from January 1996 to January 2012. He also is a director of various private companies and foundations. He received a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, where he served as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees from June 2005 until September 2016. He is also an Angel Investor. He serves as Board Member at Docker
Rich Wong
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Businesses Solutions • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Online Social • Consumer
Description
General Partner at VC firm, Accel. Led investment and serve on BoDs of: Atlassian (TEAM), Checkr (background check API), UIPath (PATH - Leader in Robotic Process Automation), MidDesk (Business identity API), Dovetail (market research repository), Process.St (workflow collaboration), Instabug (mobile development/APM), Truora (LatinAm Identity API), and PYN (Human Capital & Employee Comms Software).Previously served on the BoD of the National Venture Capital Association, and is a Life Member of the Council For Foreign RelationsVolunteer Organizations: - MIT's Center for Entrepreneurship Advisory BoD- University of Chicago Advisory Council - Harris School of Public Policy- The MIT Corporation - Visiting Committee for the Political Science Department- The MIT Corporation - Visiting Committee for the Economics DepartmentPrevious investments/exits include: - Airwatch (mobile device mgmt leader acq by VMWare)- Admob (early mobile advertising leader, acq by Google)- Bettercloud (majority investment by Vista Equity)- MoPub (mobile adv leader, acq by Twitter)- Parature (early SaaS leader in customer support, acq by Microsoft)- Dealer.com (SMB SaaS player acq by DealerTrack)- Nextbit (acq by Razer)- ServiceChannel (acq by Fortive)- Swiftkey (acq by Microsoft)- Rovio (IPO - ROVIO.HE)- SunRun (IPO - RUN) - 3LM (mobile enterprise player, acq by Google)
Yodfat Harel Buchris
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Tel Aviv, Israel
Previous Investments
• Hunters:
(early stage)
• Namogoo:
(mid stage)
• Sharegain:
(mid stage)
• SQream:
(late stage)
• YP and 6 Partners LTD.:
• Tamares Capital Ltd.:
• Harel-Hertz Investment House:
(early stage)
• Illumina Ventures:
(mid stage)
• Fluent BioSciences Inc.:
(early stage)
• Stealth Biotech Startup:
(early stage)
• Stealth Startup:
• Ribometrix:
• DNA Script:
(mid stage)
• Biota Technology:
(early stage)
• Authomize:
$16000000 (Series A)
• Authomize:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Imagene AI:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Authomize (Now part of Delinea):
$16000000 (Series A)
• Authomize (Now part of Delinea):
$6000000 (Seed)
Media • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Consumer
Description
Rick Heitzmann is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at FirstMark Capital. He focuses on consumer and enterprise investments in media, advertising technology, gaming, mobile, and data services. Rick has led investments in market leaders in commerce (StubHub, acquired by eBay), gaming (Riot Games, acquired by Tencent), data services (First Advantage, NASDAQ: FADV; acquired by First American), advertising technology (TapAd), media (Pinterest), and more. Prior to founding FirstMark, Rick was an entrepreneur including being a founding member of the senior management team at First Advantage which he helped grow and sell to First American (NYSE: FAF). He serves on the Board of Directors of the New York Venture Capital Association. Rick holds a B.S. from Georgetown University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He also serves as Board Member at Dashlane, Grid Mobile and Playnomics.
Alan Jones
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Media • Energy • Sales (& Marketing) • Entertainment (& Sports) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Advertising • Future Of Work • Impact • Robotics • Aerospace (& Defense) • Woman Focused • Film Production (& Distribution)
Description
Startup founder coach
Startup founder coach
Most Interested In
Raising a first fund right now, pre-seed and seed focus, looking at world-class product and technical teams out of Australia and New Zealand when the fund comes online. See http://m8.ventures
Not Interested In
Anything relying on an addictive pathway to build growth, engagement or sales.
Growth at @BlueChilliGroup • founder @TheNewAgencyAU • Worked at @yahoo, @microsoft • Charter investor in @startmate @pollenizer @blackbird-ventures
Media • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • Consumer
Description
Klaus Hommels is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Lakestar. He also serves as Board Member at Factory Works. He is one of the leading European business angels and is or has been involved in numerous successful internet investments including QXL/Tradus, Skype, Facebook, king.com, StarDoll, Xing and spotify. He served as Board Member at Klarna. Klaus invests in promising start-ups that have the potential to become major players in the internet space.
Xavier Lazarus
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Founder @double-m-partners @Mull Capital • Worked at @rbc-capital-markets, @City of LA • Studied at @university-of-michigan, @Thunderbird @Univ of Denver
Yuval Shachar
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
How to connect with Angel Investors in the Media industry?
In the Media industry, angel investors such as Troy Carter, Chris Sacca, and Ron Conway are highly active. These investors focus on startups offering innovative solutions in digital media, content creation, and media distribution. Troy Carter, known for his work with artists like Lady Gaga, invests in media startups that bridge entertainment and technology. Chris Sacca, an early investor in Twitter and Uber, looks for disruptive media technologies with strong growth potential. Ron Conway, with investments in companies like Google and Facebook, seeks out startups that can transform the media landscape. To connect with these investors, attend media tech conferences, digital media expos, and networking events where they are likely to be present. Utilize platforms like AngelList and LinkedIn to identify and reach out to potential investors. When pitching, emphasize how your media solution addresses key challenges, such as improving content delivery, enhancing user engagement, or optimizing media monetization. Highlight any traction you’ve gained, such as partnerships with media companies, user growth, or successful content 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 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 advertising, subscription fees, or content licensing, will further strengthen your pitch. Leveraging endorsements or case studies from media industry experts can also enhance your credibility.
Case Studies: Successful Funding Rounds with Angel Investors on Angels Partners
Exotic Orange & Angels Partners: Turning Financial Simplicity Into Investment Success
