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
Jason Pressman
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Jason Pressman is a Co- Founder and serves as Managing Director & Partner at Shasta Ventures. He also is an Angel Investor. He serves as the Board of Directors at Deep Sentinel. He leads the enterprise practice at Shasta Ventures and invests across a range of sectors including enterprise software, SaaS, cloud and consumer services. A company builder who played an integral role in the development of one of today's largest online businesses, Jason acts as a thought partner, advocate and counselor to entrepreneurs looking to take their companies from initial proof of product-market fit to industry dominance. As a partner at Shasta, Jason has been an active investor in cloud computing, with an emphasis on next-generation applications, systems management and open source software. His previous investments include Makara (acquired by RedHat) and iConclude (acquired by Opsware). Jason currently serves on the boards of application performance management startup Crittercism, Scala open source software platform Typesafe and SaaS subscription billing company Zuora, as well as local social guide Nextdoor and mobile platform Smule. Prior to joining Shasta in 2005, Jason was Vice President, Strategy and Operations at venture-backed Walmart.com, where he took the online retailer from zero to large scale revenue in five years. His experience growing that business into one of largest retailers online informs his understanding of how to thoughtfully scale fast-growing businesses, as well as how to use software to improve operations. Previously, Jason worked as an investment banker to venture-backed companies at Alex.Brown. Jason earned an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business and a BS in Finance from University of Maryland.
Hayley Bay Barna
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Hayley Barna is a Venture Partner at First Round Capital based in New York. Prior to joining First Round she co-founded Birchbox, the leading beauty and grooming retailer seed funded by First Round in 2010.
She served as Co-CEO at Birchbox for five years from conception and launch to growing the business to over a million monthly subscribers. She raised over $70M in venture capital, expanded the business internationally and launched new businesses and channels like men's and retail stores. Hayley oversaw key functions including marketing, operations, strategy and technology.
Before launching Birchbox in 2010, Hayley received her MBA from Harvard Business School. She started her career as a strategy consultant at Bain & Company in New York. She also spent time at two very different ends of the retail spectrum through her roles in strategy at Christie’s in Hong Kong and product management at Amazon in Seattle.
In addition to her current role at First Round, Hayley is a board member at Birchbox, RAB Lighting and Madison Reed.
Jesse aper
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
Santa Monica , Los An..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• theSkimm:
$12000000
• Humble Tea:
• itselectric:
$7000000 (Seed)
• itselectric:
$7000000 (Seed)
• Flourish:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Flourish:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Live Tinted:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Live Tinted:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Preemadonna:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Preemadonna:
$6000000 (Seed)
• Preemadonna:
(Seed)
• Preemadonna:
(Seed)
• Preemadonna:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Preemadonna:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Preemadonna:
$1100000 (Seed Round)
• Preemadonna:
$1100000 (Seed Round)
• Trust & Will:
$15000000 (Series B)
• Trust & Will:
$15000000 (Series B)
• Trust & Will:
$6000000 (Series A)
• Trust & Will:
$6000000 (Series A)
• Trust & Will:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Trust & Will:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Vurbl:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Vurbl:
$1000000 (Pre Seed)
• Armoire:
$2000000 (Series Unknown)
• Armoire:
$2000000 (Series Unknown)
• Armoire:
$3000000 (Series Unknown)
• Armoire:
$3000000 (Series Unknown)
• StyleRow:
$4000000 (Seed)
• StyleRow:
$4000000 (Seed)
• StyleRow:
$620000 (Seed)
• StyleRow:
$620000 (Seed)
• Blue Fever:
$480000 (Pre Seed)
• Blue Fever:
$480000 (Pre Seed)
• Barn & Willow:
$1000000 (Series Unknown)
• Barn & Willow:
$1000000 (Series Unknown)
• BlockCypher:
$3000000 (Seed)
• BlockCypher:
$3000000 (Seed)
• VIDA:
$1000000 (Seed)
• VIDA:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Laurel & Wolf:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Laurel & Wolf:
$1000000 (Seed)
• Move Loot:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Move Loot:
$3000000 (Seed)
• Carbon38:
$1000000 (Series Unknown)
• Carbon38:
$1000000 (Series Unknown)
• Carbon38:
$1000000 (Venture Round)
• Carbon38:
$1000000 (Venture Round)
Jesse aper
Santa Monica - Los Angeles / Southern California, U.S.A.
Jesse Draper serves as Founding Partner at Halogen Ventures. Draper is the Founder of The Valley Girl Show and also serves as its Chief Executive Officer. She is also an Angel Investor. She is the Advisor at Youngry. She is also the creator and host of the television series The Valley Girl Show. Previously a Nickelodeon star, Draper has used her comedic talents to bring an approachable feel to the technology world, has produced and distributed over 300 interviews with some of the greatest minds in technology and beyond (including; Ted Turner, Mark Cuban, Sheryl Sandberg, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Jessica Alba, MC Hammer and Eric Schmidt) and was listed by Marie Claire magazine as one of the '50 Most Connected Women in America'. USA Today called the show "Must see startup TV". Draper is a contributor to Marie Claire, SV Magazine, Mashable, Forbes.com, and is a regular investor and tech personality on shows including 'The Katie Couric Show', Fox's 'Good Day LA', CNBC's 'Who Wants to Be the Next Millionaire Inventor?' & Freeform'sStartup U. She proudly sits on the board of directors of Werk, the advisory board of Bizworld and is on the Chairman's board of SurfAir. Draper supports the Parkinson's Institute and is very involved with growing UCLA's female entrepreneurship community. She is a new mom, a graduate of UCLA and a Kappa Kappa Gamma.Previously a Nickelodeon star, Draper has used her comedic talents to bring an approachable feel to the technology world, has produced and distributed over 300 interviews with some of the greatest minds in technology and beyond (including; Ted Turner, Mark Cuban, Sheryl Sandberg, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, Jessica Alba, MC Hammer and Eric Schmidt) and was listed by Marie Claire magazine as one of the '50 Most Connected Women in America'. USA Today called the show "Must see startup TV". Draper is a contributor to Marie Claire, SV Magazine, Mashable, Forbes.com, and is a regular investor and tech personality on shows including 'The Katie Couric Show', Fox's 'Good Day LA', CNBC's 'Who Wants to Be the Next Millionaire Inventor?' & Freeform'sStartup U. She proudly sits on the board of directors of Werk, the advisory board of Bizworld and is on the Chairman's board of SurfAir. Draper supports the Parkinson's Institute and is very involved with growing UCLA's female entrepreneurship community. She is a graduate of UCLA and a Kappa Kappa Gamma.
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.
Deepak Kamra
Investing in Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) &b...
San Francisco Bay Are..., U.S.A.
Previous Investments
• Beeline Bikes:
$2920000
• Apartment List:
$50000000 (Later stage VC)
• Leanplum:
$47000000 (Later stage VC)
• Ladder:
$30000000 (Later stage VC)
• MindTickle:
$27000000 (Later stage VC)
• Quantum Circuits:
$18000000 (Early stage VC)
• Uncommon Co.:
$18000000 (Early stage VC)
• UrbanSitter:
$17000000 (Later stage VC)
• ClimaCell Inc.:
$15000000 (Early stage VC)
• Genome Medical:
$11000000 (Early stage VC)
• Arbe Robotics:
$9000000 (Early stage VC)
• Pathios Therapeutics:
$8800000 (Early stage VC)
• ExecThread:
$6500000 (Later stage VC)
• BoostUp.ai:
$6250000 (Early stage VC)
• Mynd:
$5000000 (Later stage VC)
• Homeis:
$4000000 (Seed Round)
• Node:
$6000000 (Series Unknown)
• Node:
$16000000 (Series Unknown)
• Node:
$11000000 (Series A)
• Node:
$8000000 (Seed)
• Kustomer:
$35000000 (Series C)
• Kustomer:
$26000000 (Series B)
• Kustomer:
$10000000 (Series A)
• Wove:
$9000000 (Series A)
• Imanis Data:
$14000000 (Series B)
• Imanis Data:
$12000000 (Series A)
• Ascendify:
$11000000 (Series A)
• Turo:
$100000000 (Series D)
• Turo:
$25000000 (Series B)
• Capella Space:
(Seed)
• World View Enterprises:
$15000000 (Series B)
• AdverCar:
$2000000 (Seed)
• Terra Bella:
$70000000 (Series C)
• Skybox Imaging:
$70000000 (Series Unknown)
• Zoosk:
$21000000 (Series E)
• Zoosk:
$30000000 (Series D)
• Zoosk:
$6000000 (Series C)
• Zoosk:
$4000000 (Series B)
• GroundWork:
$5000000 (Series D)
• GroundWork:
$13000000 (Series C)
• GroundWork:
$9000000 (Series B)
• GroundWork:
$3000000 (Series A)
• ON24:
$8000000 (Series Unknown)
• ON24:
$3000000 (Series Unknown)
• ON24:
$25000000 (Series B)
• ON24:
$6000000 (Series A)
• Aperto Networks:
$20000000 (Series F)
• Aperto Networks:
$19000000 (Series E)
• Aperto Networks:
$26000000 (Series E)
• Aperto Networks:
$17000000 (Series E)
• Aperto Networks:
$20000000 (Series D)
• Aperto Networks:
$22000000 (Series C)
• Bharat Matrimony:
$12000000 (Series B)
• Bharat Matrimony:
$9000000 (Series A)
• Zmanda:
$8000000 (Series B)
• Zmanda:
$5000000 (Series A)
• Blackfoot:
$3000000 (Series A)
• Kinecta:
$12000000 (Series B)
• iPrint:
$8000000 (Series B)
• Electric Classifieds, Inc.:
$2000000 (Angel)
Deepak Kamra
San Francisco Bay Area - Menlo Park - California, U.S.A.
Deepak Kamra serves as General Partner at Canaan Partners. He also is an Angel Investor. He has been with Canaan Partners for over 20 years and focuses on investments in digital media and software. He served as Board Member at Alltranmedia. He led Canaan's early investment in DoubleClick, the Internet's first and leading online advertising solution; Match.com, the first subscription-based dating site; voice-over-IP infrastructure company Acme Packet (acq. by Oracle), and SuccessFactors (acq. by SAP). Deepak currently sits on the boards of ON24, the global leader of webcasting and video communications solutions, Zoosk, the largest social dating network in the world, and Skybox Imaging, a next-generation satellite company. Before joining Canaan, Deepak was on the startup team at Aspect Communications, a pioneer in call center technologies, which he helped lead to a successful IPO in 1990. Prior to Aspect, Deepak held strategic roles at ROLM Corp. and TRW Datacomm International. Deepak received a BA from Carleton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He served on the board of the National Venture Capital Association from 2008 to 2012 and was included on the Forbes Midas List in 2008 and 2009. In his spare time, he is involved in several microfinance initiatives to spur economic growth in developing nations and has served as Chairman of the Investment Committee at Deutsche Bank's Global Commercial Microfinance Consortium.
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
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
