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
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.
Alex Bard
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Alex Bard serves as Partner at Redpoint Ventures. He also served as Chief Executive Officer & Board Member at Campaign Monitor. He served as the Executive Vice President & General Manager in Salesforce.com. He has been a part of the founding team of 4 internet start ups including eShare Technologies (Customer Service Software, 1996-1999), eAssist Global Solutions (Customer Service Software, 1999-2004), Goowy Media (Widget Analytics Platform, 2004-2008) and Assistly (Customer Service Software, 2009 - Now). He has held executive roles including Vice President Customer Solutions - eShare, VP Sales / Marketing - eAssist, CEO - Goowy, VP Products AOL, and is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Assistly. He is also an advisor / investor in several start-ups including Watercooler, Offandaway, Foodzie and Irata labs (acquired by IGN). Previously, he was an Advisor at True Ventures. He is also an angel investor. He is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who has sold companies to Salesforce and AOL. He also serves as an Angel Investor.
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.
Building something new in New Orleans. More to come!
Previously VC @ Pritzker Group Venture Capital.
Investments:
- Apprentice (Series A)
- Specright (Seed, Series A)
- Coinbase (Series D)
- Vettery (Seed)
- Parabol (Seed)
- Visibly (Seed)
- Catalytic (Seed)
- Extend (Seed)
- OpenPath (Seed)
- SMS Assist (Series A)
- Cue (Series A)
- Backlot Cars (Series A)
- G2Crowd (Series A)
- Mindshow (Series A)
- Bird (Series C)
- VIV (Series A)
- X.Ai (Seed)
- IrisVR (Series A)
- Mapbox (Series B)
- Project44 (Series B)
- Dronebase (Series A)
- Airmap (Series A)
- Spothero (Seed)
- Augmentir (Seed)
- Repurpose (Seed)
Lucile CORNET
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Julien-David Nitlech serves as a Partner at Iris Capital. He joined Iris Capital in 2013, is mainly focused on early-stage investments in France/Europe, with an expertise in cloud computing, big data, software and mobile. He currently sits on the Boards of Directors of Agorize, Mailjet, Shift Technology and V3D (France). Prior to joining Iris Capital, Nitlech launched and grew the European activities of Apperian, a US start-up that develops and markets a cloud-based mobile application management platform. He started his career in business development for Orange US activities, then led the signature of strategic partnerships between Orange and key vendors on convergence of communications. Nitlech headed Orange's portfolio of fixed and mobile devices on B2C and B2B markets worldwide, and contributed to establishing the Orange/DT joint venture, BuyIn. He is a graduate from Ecole Polytechnique and Telecom ParisTech (Paris, France).
Lip-Bu Tan
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
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.
Florian Heinemann
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Berlin, Germany
Previous Investments
• Homeday:
$23300000 (Later stage VC)
• misterb&b:
$8500000 (Early stage VC)
• Comtravo:
$8500000 (Early stage VC)
• Wonderbly:
$8500000 (Later stage VC)
• Horizn Studios:
$6000000 (Early stage VC)
• Qunomedical:
$2000000 (Later stage VC)
• Peergrade:
$1500000 (Later stage VC)
• Lampenwelt:
(Later stage VC)
• Helloprint:
(Later stage VC)
• Contorion:
(Later stage VC)
• GotPhoto / fotograf.de:
(Seed)
• GotPhoto / fotograf.de:
(Seed)
• Mindfuel:
$4000000 (Seed)
• Yoummday GmbH:
$34000000 (Series Unknown)
• itravel:
$14000000 (Convertible Note)
• itravel:
$2000000 (Angel)
• Trade Republic:
$900000000 (Series C)
• Trade Republic:
$75000000 (Series B)
• Trade Republic:
$12000000 (Series A)
• Unicorn Workspaces:
$7000000 (Series Unknown)
• Unicorn Workspaces:
(Seed)
• CrossEngage:
$8000000 (Series Unknown)
• CrossEngage:
$1000000 (Series A)
• CrossEngage:
$6000000 (Series Unknown)
• CrossEngage:
(Seed)
• LIQID Investments:
$39000000 (Series C)
• LIQID Investments:
$5000000 (Series B)
• LIQID Investments:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Opinary:
$4000000 (Series Unknown)
• CODE University of Applied Sciences:
(Series Unknown)
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • Hospitality (& Events) • Media • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Sales (& Marketing) • Future Of Work • Music
Description
Dr. Florian Heinemann is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Project A Ventures. He also serves as Board Member at kfzteile24 and Lost My Name. He also serves as Advisory Board Member at Onlineprinters. He is the Managing Director of Shirtagram. He is responsible for the areas of marketing, CRM and business intelligence. Before co-founding Project A, he was managing director of Rocket Internet holding the same areas of responsibility (2007-2012). During his time at Rocket, he was mainly involved in TopTarif, eDarling, and Zalando/Bigfoot. Prior to Rocket, Florian was co-founder and managing director of JustBooks/AbeBooks being in charge of marketing and product (1999-2002, exit to Amazon). Then, he was co-heading the online marketing department of Jamba! and the online dating portal iLove (2003-2005, exit to Verisign). In 2006, he was co-founder of the online marketplace antibodies-online.com. Moreover, he has been an investor/business angel in more than 40 startups, e.g. AdScale, Ladenzeile, Netmoms and Tradoria. Florian holds a doctorate's degree in innovation management/entrepreneurship from RWTH Aachen University. He was a visiting scholar at the Wharton School. His research has been published in leading international journals, such as Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Product Innovation Management, Journal of International Marketing and Zeitschrift fur Betriebswirtschaft. He is an Angel Investor.
Jerry Yang
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
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
Simon Rothman
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Simon Rothman serves as Venture Partner at Greylock Partners. He is also an Angel Investor. He joined Greylock in 2011 as an Executive-in-Residence and was promoted to Partner in 2013. He invests in entrepreneurs building consumer networks and platforms. His area of focus includes network effects businesses, transaction-based startups, and mobile apps with a specialty around marketplaces. He has served as an advisor to many marketplaces and networks including Lyft, Wanelo, Poshmark, Tango, and others. Simon is also leading Greylock's $100 million commitment to marketplace investments. Rothman is an early pioneer of online marketplaces and network effect businesses having joined eBay when it was a small, US collectibles auction business. He helped scale eBay to nearly 200 million users generating over $40 billion in merchandise sales. While at eBay he founded eBay Motors and served as its Global Vice President. In addition to founding and running eBay Motors, he was responsible for eBay's US Operations. The $10 billion business unit covered the P&L's for all US categories except media. He also serves as Board Member at Trove. He also serves as a Board member at Ritual Social.
How to connect with Angel Investors in the Software industry?
In the Software (Web Marketplace, SaaS, etc.) industry, prominent angel investors include Jason Lemkin, David Sacks, and Jason Calacanis. These investors have a keen interest in startups offering innovative SaaS solutions, enterprise software, and online marketplaces. Jason Lemkin, known for his SaaStr community, has invested in numerous SaaS startups and provides valuable mentorship to founders. David Sacks, co-founder of Yammer and former COO of PayPal, invests in high-growth SaaS companies and enterprise software solutions. Jason Calacanis, an early investor in Uber and Robinhood, looks for disruptive software startups with strong market potential. To connect with these investors, attend SaaS and tech conferences like SaaStr Annual, Collision, and Web Summit. Networking events, demo days, and industry meetups are also valuable opportunities. Utilize platforms like AngelList and LinkedIn to identify and reach out to these investors. When pitching, focus on demonstrating your product's unique value proposition, market potential, and revenue growth. Highlight key metrics such as user acquisition, retention rates, and customer testimonials. Personalize your outreach by referencing the investor’s previous investments and explaining how your startup aligns with their investment thesis. Building a strong relationship through initial informal meetings or discussions can help establish trust and credibility. Demonstrate your knowledge of the industry, competitive landscape, and growth strategies to make a compelling case for investment.
Case Studies: Successful Funding Rounds with Angel Investors on Angels Partners
Exotic Orange & Angels Partners: Turning Financial Simplicity Into Investment Success
