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Singapore - Nairobi Kenya - San Francisco (CA), Singapore
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Payments • Mobile Apps • Investment Management • Online Social
Founding Partner at @io, @golden-gate-ventures, @savannah-fund, & @presence Capital. Previously CEO of @lefora, @meetro & paragon5
Toronto Ontario Canada - Toronto On Canada - Toronto (Ontario) - Toronto, Canada, Canada
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • BioTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Material Science • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Investment Management
Jesse Rasch is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Hedgewood. He is the co-founder and past Chairman & CEO of WebHosting.com and InQuent Technologies. He co-founded CareGuide. InQuent provides private label hosting solutions to telecommunications customers including Bell Canada, KPN, Telecom New Zealand, PCCW, AT&T, Comcast, & Cox Communications. WebHosting.Com was one of the largest business web hosting companies in the world. In 2000, Rasch sold InQuent and WebHosting.Com to AT&T. In 2002, Rasch orchestrated a management team acquisition of InQuent from AT&T. Rasch successfully sold InQuent once more in 2003. InQuent was merged with Network Solutions and is now part of publicly traded web.com. Rasch is widely credited with establishing the white label web hosting market segment that is a significant component of the $95 billion annual web hosting market. VerticalScope, which Rasch co-founded, develops and acquires online media and community properties. VerticalScope's network of websites is visited by over 85,000,000 people per month. VerticalScope's automotive publishing division, the Modified Automotive Group, was acquired by KKR / Primedia in 2007. Torstar acquired 56% of VerticalScope in 2015. Rasch is a proponent of venture philanthropy and is active in encouraging entrepreneurs to participate in strategic philanthropy. He established the Jesse & Julie Rasch Foundation in 2000 to invest in causes that reflect Rasch's broad charitable interests. In 2001, Rasch was awarded the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. He has been featured in Time Magazine, The Globe & Mail, Canadian Business, The National Post, Network World, Macleans, and on CBC, CTV, Global, City-TV, BNN, and many other print, televised, and radio media. He was a founding member of the Canadian E-Business Opportunities Roundtable, a joint private and public sector advisory group on e-business in Canada.
Massachusetts - Boston (MA), U.S.A.
IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Cloud Services (& Cloud Infrastructure) • Investment Management • Mobile • Consumer
Santo Politi is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Spark Capital. He has led Spark's investments in eToro, Convert Media, Genie, Oculus, Orchard, Qriously, Storenvy, Triggit and Zazma. He also led Spark's previous investments in Adap.TV (acquired by AOL), Admeld (acquired by Google), CT-100/CNET (acquired by CBS), IPWireless (acquired by General Dynamics), KickApps (acquired by KIT Digital), Lexity (acquired by Yahoo!) and OneRiot (acquired by Walmart). He served as a board member of 5Min (acquired by AOL) and thePlatform (acquired by Comcast). He was previously a Partner at Charles River Ventures (CRV) where he led investments in BigBand Networks (NASDAQ: BBND), Broadbus Technologies (acquired by Motorola) and Groove Mobile (acquired by LiveWire). Prior to Charles River Ventures, he served as President of New Media for Blockbuster Entertainment (NYSE: BBI). He also previously co-founded BT Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm affiliated with Bankers Trust where he led successful investments in Aether Systems (NASDAQ: AETH), DigitalThink (NASDAQ: DTHK) and Novatel Wireless (NASDAQ: NVTL). He previously held various engineering and management positions at Matsushita Electric Industrial, Panasonic and Weston Instruments. He holds an MBA in finance from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from NJIT and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Bogazici University in Istanbul, Turkey. He serves as a Board member at Qriously, PreVeil, Uncommon and Lightmatter.
Chicago Illinois - Northbrook Illinois - Illinois - Utah, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Investment Management
Partner at Origin Ventures - early stage venture firm in Chicago focused on e-commerce, software, and digital media. Ex-Feedburner, Ex-Google, Ex-Twitter.
San Francisco (CA) - Atlanta (GA) - San Francisco, California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Developer tools • Mobile • Online Social
Most Interested In
Point of inflection investor in consumer internet and enterprise software. Heavy focus in online marketplaces, fintech, and developer tools.
Not Interested In
Clean Tech. Healthcare.
Brendan Wales serves as Partner at e.ventures. Brendan joined e.ventures in March of 2012 and specializes in investing in online marketplaces, fin-tech, developer tools and open source software. He has worked on e.ventures' investments in Shipt (Acquired by Target), CodeFights, Test.AI, StackShare.io, Segment, App Annie, Acorns, When I Work, Shutl (Acquired by ebay), Everything But The House, Spothero, Nativo and HireAthena and is also actively involved with existing investments NGINX, Upsight, and Housecall. As a part of the e.ventures' team that leverages big data for deal origination, Brendan has been closely involved in the firm's development and utilization of in-house technology built to discover growing internet enabled companies. Prior to joining e.ventures, Brendan was an early employee at 500 Startups backed ZOZI, a leading SAAS booking platform for Tour and Activity Providers. He started his career at Sun Life Financial, a Fortune 500 financial services company, and has also started two consumer internet startups. Brendan earned a B.A. in Finance from the University of Georgia.
San Francisco California - Palo Alto (CA) - Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cloud Services (& Cloud Infrastructure) • Mobile Apps • Investment Management • Mobile • Online Social
Salil Deshpande serves as Managing Director at Bain Capital Ventures. He is an Advisor of Quantum Metric. He is a Board Member of Rentomojo, Aria Systems, RedisDB, Iron.io, Typesafe, Eventful and Hazelcast. He is a former general partner with San Francisco-based Bay Partners. He holds a B.S. from Cornell University and M.S. from Stanford University. He serves as board member at ScaleArc and Rollbar.
San Francisco California - Valley California - - Palo Alto (CA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • BioTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Sales (& Marketing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Robotics • Investment Management
Founder @oni-systems • Worked at @true-ventures, @mohr-davidow-ventures • Studied at @university-of-alberta
Chicago Illinois - Pittsburgh Pennsylvania - Boston Massachusetts - Palm Beach Florida - - Toronto On Canada - San Francisco, California - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Cloud Services (& Cloud Infrastructure) • Mobile Apps • Investment Management • Mobile • Online Social
Most Interested In
Great products and great people Artificial intelligence Machine Learning Deep Learning 5G Software Defined Networking WiFi Security Behavioral analytics Authentication Mobile Apps Millennial Video Messing eSports IoT Drones Cloud Infrastructure APIs Containers Micro-services DevOps SaaS
Not Interested In
Pre revenues EU or Latam has a higher bar for us; USA, AU, Asia is much easier Big data and storage can be challenging for us to invest in. Want a management team that can scale.
Emerging Growth Equity Investor for tech enabled services Married to great woman and parenting two great kids Love Tri's, food and movies
San Francisco, California - New York (NY) - Los Angeles (CA) - San Francisco (CA) - Menlo Park (CA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • PropTech • IT (& TMT) • Media • BioTech • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Gaming (& eSports) • Autonomous vehicles (& Cars) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Material Science • Payments • Robotics • Aerospace (& Defense) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Investment Management • Mobile • Mobility • Consumer
General Partner at Canaan Partners
San Francisco (CA) - Palo Alto, California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Mobile Apps • Investment Management • Online Social
Partner @true-ventures • CEO @automattic • CEO @oddpost • VP @yahoo • Founder @sphere-surphace • CS @stanford-university
San Francisco, California - New York (NY), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • Analytics • Distributed workforce • Logistics (& Distribution) • Robotics • Consumer
Partner at Bedrock Capital. Formerly Founders Fund.
San Mateo California - Palo Alto (CA) - San Francisco Bay Area, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • Cloud Services (& Cloud Infrastructure) • Investment Management • Mobile • Consumer
General Partner at @emergence-capital-partners
San Francisco California - Valley California - Mountain View California - Menlo Park, California - San Francisco Bay Area (CA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Cloud Infrastructure) • Local commerce • Payments • Mobile Apps • Mobile • Online Social
Most Interested In
XG Ventures® is focused primarily on the consumer internet, including the mobile, video, gaming, social media, and online media sectors.
Not Interested In
healthcare
Founding Partner, XG Ventures
San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Mobile Apps • Investment Management • Mobile • Online Social
Founder @lumia-capital • Worked at @focus-ventures @oracle-corporation, @ncr-1 @siebel-systems • Studied at @wharton-school, @emory-university
Menlo Park California - New Delhi India - Valley California - San Francisco, California - Cloud infrastructure - Health & hospital services, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • CleanTech • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Cloud Services (& Cloud Infrastructure) • Material Science • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Mobile Apps • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Investment Management • Online Social • Consumer
Ravi Mhatre serves as Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. He serves as Board Member at Cloudpassage and Exabeam. Ravi is also a Co-Founder and serves as Partner and Managing Director at Lightspeed India Partners Advisors. He is also a Board Observer at Natera. His current investments include Nutanix, Appdynamics, Natera, Mulesoft, Sailpoint, Edgespring, TheFind and Kixeye. He has also served as a board member or board observer for numerous successful venture-backed companies including net.Genesis (NTGX), Verio (VRIO), Qubole, Riverbed (RVBD), Lifeminders (LFMN), Kosmix (acquired by Walmart), TutorVista (acquired by Pearson), Virsa (acquired by SAP), Waveset (acquired by Oracle), Rapsphere (acquired by Appsense), Masergy (acquired by Abry) and Webspective (acquired by Inktomi), and has been recognized on the Forbes Midas List of top venture capital investors. Ravi has also served on the Board of Directors of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs Forum) in Silicon Valley, as a VC advisory board member to DeVenCI, the Department of Defense's start-up technology acquisition forum, and as a judge for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year competition. Ravi holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and a BA in Economics from Stanford University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
San Francisco California - Palo Alto California - Menlo Park, California - Seattle / Portland, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Cloud Services (& Cloud Infrastructure) • Material Science • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Mobile Apps
Most Interested In
I'm looking for bold founders going after big, audacious ideas. I'm personally passionate about SaaS/cloud, especially business applications.
Not Interested In
I'm not interested in anything related to adtech.
Partner at @dfj, a venture capital firm based in Silicon Valley. Lead our efforts in SaaS and Enterprise IT. Also active in Consumer and Mobile.
San Francisco California - Menlo Park (CA) - Los Altos, California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Cloud Infrastructure) • Developer tools • Local commerce • Mobile Apps • Online Social
Mike Dauber serves as a General Partner at Amplify Partners. He served as Principal at Battery Ventures. He has been involved with Continuuity, a stealth big data startup born out of Battery's Entrepreneur in Residence program, since the company's inception and is also engaged with Calxeda, Nutanix and RelateIQ. He is also on the teams that invested in Delphix and Splunk (NASDAQ: SPLK). A hardware engineer at Velio Communications early in his career, Mike went on to hold Sales, Business Development and Marketing roles at Altera and Xilinx prior to joining Battery. During this time, Mike was responsible for developing product vision, defining launch strategies and managing business development programs at major communications OEWhile in Sales, Mike served as the account manager for Cisco. He earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. Mike contributes to Battery's infrastructure blog and also speaks frequently at industry conferences.
Tokyo Japan - San Mateo California - Valley California - San Mateo, California, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Cloud Infrastructure) • Impact • Logistics (& Distribution) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Mobility
DNX Ventures
Mitch has been in the venture capital industry for over 20 years and has backed over 40 startup companies including Swell (Acquired by Apple),W.I.S Technologies (Acquired by Micronas), LiveRamp (NYSE: RAMP), and Fortinet(NASDAQ: FTNT). Mitch has worked for years networking to promote business expansion between Asia and the US. With his comprehensive background, he leverages his experience of collaborating with numerous entrepreneurs to help portfolio companies grow. Among the many fields DNX invests in, he has a special passion for Enterprise Services and Fintech. At DNX, He has led investments in PayJoy and SafeGraph, and serves on the boards of Banzai, Creadits, Paystand and Peatix. Mitch is also an entrepreneur. Prior to building DNX, he started a US investment operation for a Japanese venture capital firm from the ground up. Mitch holds a BC, International Business from Curtin University in Australia and an MA, Economics from Boston University
Santa Barbara California - - , U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Mobile
Jonathan Siegel is the Founder and serves as Chairman at Xenon Ventures. Siegel also serves as Principal at Right Ventures. Jonathan is also the founder of 4 Internet companies: ELC Technologies (acquired by PriceGrabber's Kamran Pourzanjani), RightCart (acquired by Buy.com), RightScale, and RightSignature. In 2010, Jonathan joined Accel Partners London before returning to San Francisco in March 2011. He has been on Amazon's Web Services customer advisory board since 2008. Jonathan speaks frequently on mobile and cloud computing. He is passionate about supporting founders of early-stage tech start-ups.
New York City (NY) - Redwood City California - Palo Alto California - Menlo Park California - Mountain View California - San Jose California - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • CleanTech • A.I. (& Big Data) • Cloud Services (& Cloud Infrastructure) • Material Science • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Mobile Apps • Investment Management • Mobile • Online Social • Consumer
General tech geek & growth stage venture investor @ DFJ
New York City (NY) - San Francisco California - Cambridge Massachusetts - Boston Massachusetts - Annapolis Maryland - Chevy Chase Maryland - Washington (DC) - Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • BioTech • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • Energy • Retail (& E-Commerce) • A.I. (& Big Data) • HealthTech (& Fitness) • Web Security (& Privacy) • Gaming (& eSports) • Advertising • Analytics • Cloud Services (& Cloud Infrastructure) • Logistics (& Distribution) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Real Estate (& Construction) • Online Social
Partner at NEA. Previously investor at North Bridge Venture Partners, Product Designer by background.
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • Gaming (& eSports)
early stage VC
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Media • Education • FinTech (& Financials services) • Hardware (& Manufacturing) • A.I. (& Big Data) • DeepTech • Mobile • Consumer
NextView Ventures is a seed stage venture capital firm focused on internet enabled innovation. The founders' backgrounds combine both operating and entrepreneurial experience at leading internet properties and institutional investing experience at leading venture capital firms. Although the firm operated in stealth mode for several months, NextView has assembled a portfolio of seed stage investments in 'internet enabled innovation.' The investments span a range of rapidly growing sectors including consumer internet, SaaS, and technology-enabled services. NextView will typically invest $250K - $500K in seed financings with a total round size between a few hundred thousand dollars to a couple million. The firm will invest in the best opportunities regardless of geography, focuses mainly on the U.S. east coast. In July of 2014, NextView closed its second fund, NextView Ventures II at $40M.
Boston Massachusetts - Social mobile - Cambridge, Massachusetts - Cambridge, Massachusetts with an additional office in New York, New York, U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • IT (& TMT) • Businesses Solutions • A.I. (& Big Data) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Mobile Apps • DeepTech • Healthcare (& Wellness) • Mobile • Online Social
Eric Paley is the Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Founder Collective. He also serves as a Board member at Blissfully Tech, Embark, 10% Happier and New England Venture Capital Association. He also co-founded Brontes Technologies to market innovative technology to dentists. He also serves as a Board Member at Integral Ad Science. Previously, Eric was the CEO and a co-founder of Brontes Technologies, which was acquired in 2006 by 3M. Investors in Brontes included David Frankel (Founder Collective), Bain Capital Ventures, Charles River Ventures and Flybridge Capital Partners. Eric is an angel investor in a number of companies including Magazine Radar, OPOWER, and TrialPay and also served as a senior advisor to Flybridge Capital Partners. Eric was previously co-founder and CEO of Abstract Edge, a web application and marketing company in New York. Eric graduated Magna Cum Laude, from Dartmouth College and with High Distinction, as a Baker Scholar, from the Harvard Business School.
Sacramento California - Palo Alto California - Menlo Park California - San Jose California - San Francisco (CA), U.S.A.
Software (Web Marketplace Saas..) • BioTech • Businesses Solutions • IoT (& Wearables) • A.I. (& Big Data) • Medical Devices (& Hospital Services) • Investment Management • Mobile • Consumer
SaaS evangelist, crossfitter, boba tea drinker, ESPN fanatic. @RingCentral, UCaaS, CCaaS (01/2004: 155776)
Specialties: Winning, Leadership, Risk Taking, Revenue+Profit Growth, Sales Optimization, Sales Strategy and Management, Strategic Planning, Turnaround Management, Competitive Analysis, Contracts/Price Negotiations, Change Management, Visionary. Big Data, Cloud Computing, Cloud Infrastructure, Cloud Management, Cloud Storage, Collaboration, Unified Communications, Email Marketing, Enterprise Software, Location Based Services, Mobile, Mobile Payments, Productivity, SaaS, Social CRM, Social Media Platforms, Enterprise Instant Messaging, Web Conferencing, Enterprise Social Software, SaaS, Customer Experience, Reputation Management