How to find Active Angel Investors investing in Restaurants

Brian Garrett

San Francisco California - Los Angeles California - Venice Italy, United States

Investing In

IT (& TMT) • Media • Entertainment (& Sports) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Investment Management • Mobile • Restaurants

Description

ex-Entrepreneur and Seed-Stage investor in LA

ex-Entrepreneur and Seed-Stage investor in LA

Linked In Description:

Brian Garrett is the Co-Founder and Managing Director of Crosscut. Brian is very active in the Los Angeles start-up community and currently works actively with the following companies: GumGum, Verve Mobile, Reaction Commerce, Jyve, Sales Pro Quo, The BlackTux, Narvar, Omaze, Robin Care, Foray, Fuzzy, Umbra Lab, Fastdata.io and Saber es Poder. With over 20 years of both investing and operating/entrepreneurial experience, Brian tries to bring humility and empathy to the lonely plight of starting and scaling start-up companies and works tirelessly to help his entrepreneurs succeed. Prior to co-founding Crosscut, Brian was a Partner at Palomar Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Santa Monica, California. Mr. Garrett joined Palomar in 2001 and played an active role in managing and investing two funds over 6 years totaling more than $400 million. While at Palomar, he was the sponsor of and/or an active board member in nine Palomar portfolio companies, including successes such as Entone (a video on demand company that sold to Harmonic), Lombardi (business process management software that sold to IBM) and Datallegro (data warehouse appliance company sold to Microsoft in 2008). Prior to Palomar, Brian was the Director of Business Development at Niku Corporation. Prior to Niku, Brian worked at a boutique strategy consulting firm called R.B. Webber & Company. Brian worked with numerous early-stage technology companies including CommerceOne, Inktomi, Sagent, Aurum and Broadbase. Brian received his MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business and he graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Industrial Engineering. Specialties: Entrepreneurial focus: Fashion/Tech/Media/Commerce. Investing Focus: Crosscut focuses primarily on seed-stage opportunities in consumer/digital media across Southern California.

Toivo Annus

Tallinn Harjumaa Estonia, Singapore

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Gaming (& eSports) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Infrastructure) • Food & Beverage • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Mobile Apps • Consumer • Restaurants

Description

Toivo Annus is a Co-Founder at Ambient Sound Investments. He built ASI's technology investment side after leaving Skype and has spent last few years among diverse startup fields ranging from high-power semiconductors to virtual worlds and back, seeing around 30 investments from ASI during the last 5 years and investing in around 5 companies personally. He was the Co-founder of Skype where he built and managed engineering organization, based in Tallinn, Estonia, being responsible for the hiring, engineering processes in general and delivery of the core p2p functional component until Ebay acquired the company in late 2005. He has led number of smaller technology teams prior to Skype.

Zak Holdsworth

New Zealand - ; San Francisco California ; California - U.S.A. - Walnut - San Leandro - Roswell - CA, United States

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Developer tools • Food & Beverage • Aerospace (& Defense) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Restaurants

Description

Mr. Zak Holdsworth is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Hint Health. He has previously worked with WellnessFX.

Ankit Nagori

Bengaluru Karnataka, India

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Hospitality (& Events) • Education • AgroTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Advertising • Food & Beverage • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Mobile Apps • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Music • Mobile • Pets • Online Social • Consumer • Restaurants • Productivity

Description

Ankit Nagori is a Co-Founder of CureFit. Mr, Nagori is also a Board Member at Wooplr. He co-founded CULT Fitness. Nagori previously served as the Chief Business Officer at Flipkart. Previously he also served as the Senior Vice President at Flipkart.

Nir Liberboim

New York City (NY),

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobile • Restaurants

Description

Nir Liberboim is a Co-Founder at DGNL Ventures. He also is an Angel Investor. He was also the Founder of Uprise Ventures. He has been an active entrepreneur and investor in the consumer space for over 10 years. He founded Uprise Ventures to seed groundbreaking, consumer-facing ideas and work alongside passionate entrepreneurs who are creating meaningful, lasting businesses. Nir is most excited by consumer ideas that disrupt traditional business models and leverage key influencers to build brand awareness and drive adoption. Nir's professional background includes venture capital at Polaris Partners, strategy consulting at McKinsey & Company (Consumer & Retail), investment banking at Goldman Sachs (Technology & Media) and brand management at L'Oreal. Nir is a graduate of Harvard Business School and The University of Texas at Austin.

Ron Johnson

San Francisco Bay Area California, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Businesses Solutions • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Food & Beverage • Mobile Apps • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Consumer • Restaurants

Description

Serial Entrepreneur

YuChiang C.

; San Francisco California ; Dallas Texas ; California - U.S.A. - Long Beach - San Mateo - New York - Culver City, United States

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Entertainment (& Sports) • Gaming (& eSports) • Restaurants • Film Production (& Distribution)

Description

Mr. YuChiang Cheng serves as Chief Product Officer at Zwift. He served as President at Topgolf Media. He is also an Angel Investor. He serves as Advisor at Boom (Entertainment Software). He was a Co-Founder of World Golf Tour and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and Board Member. Mr. Cheng serves as Vice President of Product Marketing & Corporate Development of IGT/Wagerworks Inc., where he was instrumental in securing business clients such as Virgin Games, World Poker Tour and BskyB. Mr. Cheng serves as Director of World Golf Tour Inc.

Abdur Chowdhury

San Francisco California ; California - U.S.A. - New York - District of Columbia - NY - CA - Mill Valley, United States

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Food & Beverage • Human Resources • Mobile • Online Social • Restaurants

Description

Dr. Abdur Chowdhury is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Aura. He is also an Angel Investor.

Kotaro Chiba

Tokyo, Japan

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Hospitality (& Events) • Education • AgroTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Blockchain (& Cryptos) • Gaming (& eSports) • Analytics • AR/VR • Food & Beverage • Payments • Mobile Apps • Consumer • Restaurants

Description

Kotaro Chiba is the founder of ChibaDojo Fund. Kotaro Chiba attended Keio University.

Sean Black

Pennsylvania - New York New York - San Francisco California - Philadelphia Pennsylvania - Ne, U.S.A.

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Hospitality (& Events) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Food & Beverage • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Investment Management • Mobile • Restaurants

Description

Sean Black is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Knock. He was an Advisor of Correlation Ventures and SeatGeek. He is the Investor and Advisor of Peach. He founded and served as Chief Executive Officer at SalesCrunch. Prior to this, he co-founded and served as VP, Sales at Trulia, where he was part of the founding team that built Trulia into what is now the second largest consumer real estate site in the US. Prior to Trulia, he served as Vice President, Sales at The Corcoran Group, the large real estate firm in New York. In 2000, he founded online auto insurance portal Everymile.com while in business school. In 1999, he sold his first business Europro, a $3.5M nutrition supplement company in Europe. Between 1997 and 1999, he developed new business and investment opportunities for the Franciscans at the Vatican in Rome. He received his MBA with a concentration in Entrepreneurship from Babson College. His business plan for Everymile was one of five out of 20 to be awarded office space in the Babson business hatchery. He received his Bachelors in Business from The Pennsylvania State University.

Prof Wolf Michael Nietzer . . LLM.

Heilbronn, Germany

Investing In

Media • Food & Beverage • Restaurants

Description

Dr. Wolf Nietzer is the Founder & serves as Partner Nietzer at Wolfman.One. He also serves as Chairman at Condero. He earned MBA and LLM as part of his education. He is particularly active in corporate and commercial law, corporate acquisitions and sales, international commercial law, contract law, US corporate law and due diligence.

Pankaj Chaddah

Gurgaon Haryana, India

Investing In

Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Education • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cosmetics (& Fashion) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Analytics • AR/VR • Food & Beverage • Insurance (& InsurTech) • Mobile Apps • Mobile • Consumer • Restaurants • Productivity

Description

Pankaj Chaddah is a Co-Founder and Board Member of Zomato. Prior to Zomato, he worked with Bain and Company. In his current role, he oversees sales and operations for Zomato in local and international markets. He has also been responsible for all mobile development and distribution across platfor He completed his B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology.