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Timothy DraperDraperTimothyMale
Draper Associates
Venture Capital
Founder & Managing Partner
+1 (650) 234-8637
tim@draper.vcwww.draper.vc
+1 (650) 347-3234
Mr. Timothy Draper is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Draper Associates. He serves as Limited Partner at Good AI Capital. He serves as Board Member at Sense.chat. He serves as Board Observer at DigiBuild. He serves as Board Member at Mat3ra. He previously served as Board Member at Kubos. He is also the Founder and serves as Board Member at Draper Venture Network. He also serves as Special Limited Partner at Draper Dragon. He serves as Advisor at Halogen Ventures, Republic, and Aragon One. He serves as Special Limited Partner AND Board Member Draper Goren Holm. He serves as Advisor at Move37. He is also a Co-Founding Partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson. He also served as Mentor at Boost VC. He also serves as Investment Committee Member at Draper Nexus. He was also an Advisory General Partner at Timberline Venture Partners. He is a Co-Founder & Head Riskmaster at Draper University. He was also a Co-founder and Managing Director at Draper Triangle Ventures. He served as Board Observer at PubMatic. His original suggestion to use "viral marketing" in web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and YahooMail and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique by hundreds of businesses. He serves as Advisor at Bagaveev. On behalf of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, He serves on the boards of OpenNode, DoAt, Glam, Meebo, Prosper, SocialText, and DFJ Plug 'N Play companies. DFJ's previous successes include Skype (EBAY), Overture.com (YHOO), Baidu (BIDU), Parametric Technology (PMTC), Hotmail (MSFT), PLX Technologies (PLXT), Preview Travel (TVLY), Digidesign (AVID), and others. He founded or co-founded DFJ ePlanet (global), Draper Fisher Jurvetson Gotham(NYC), Zone Ventures (LA), Epic Ventures (Salt Lake City), Draper Atlantic (Reston), Draper Triangle (Pittsburg), Timberline Ventures (Portland), Polaris Fund (Anchorage), DFJ Frontier (Sacramento and Santa Barbara), DFJ Vina Capital (Vietnam), and DFJ DragonFund (Shanghai). As an advocate for entrepreneurs and free markets, he is regularly featured as a keynote speaker in entrepreneurial conferences throughout the world, has been recognized as a leader in his field through numerous awards and honors, and has frequent TV, radio, and headline appearances. He was #52 on the list of the 100 most influential Harvard Alumni, and #7 on the Forbes Midas List. He was named Always-On's #1 top venture capital dealmaker for 2008. He was awarded the Commonwealth Club's Distinguished Citizen Award for achievements in green and sustainable energy. Previously, he served on the California State Board of Education. In November of 2000, He launched a statewide cyber-initiative on school choice for the California General Election. He was a member of Singapore's International Economic Council and Ukraine's Orange Circle. He serves as Mentor at Alchemist Accelerator. He was on the Board of U.C. Berkeley's Haas School of Business. He serves as an Advisor at Wavemaker Partners. He also served as Board Member at EverythingMe. He also serves as Managing Partner at Draper Cygnus. He is an Angel Investor. He also serves as President of the Draper Foundation. He serves as Advisor at Kloudless.
Harvard Business School, Stanford University
San Mateo, CA
55 East 3rd Avenue
San Mateo
California
94401
United States
AmericasNorth America84961045711
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Naval RavikantRavikantNavalMaleRepublic
Funding/Crowdfunding Platform
Advisor
+1 (801) 713-3508
navalr@angel.cowww.republic.com
Mr. Naval Ravikant is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at AngelList. He serves as Investment Committee Member at Maiden Lane. He Co-Founded the MetaStable. He co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at Vast. He serves as an Advisor at bloXroute Labs. He served as Advisor at Anchorage Digital. He also serves as Advisor at Stellar Development Foundation. He is an Advisor at Republic, Anchorage, and StarkWare. He is an Investment Committee Member of Maiden Lane. He is also an Angel Investor. He Co-Founded Epinions. He also served as an Executive at Now Ventures. he served as Advisor at BranchOut.
Dartmouth CollegeNew York, NY
149 East 23rd, 5th Avenue
Suite 2001
New York
New York
10010
United States
AmericasNorth America234233283
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Vinod KhoslaKhoslaVinodMaleKhosla VenturesVenture CapitalCo-Founder & Partner
+1 (650) 376-8500
vk@khoslaventures.com
www.khoslaventures.com
+1 (650) 926-9590
Mr. Vinod Khosla is a Co-Founder and serves as a Partner at Khosla Ventures. He is also the Founder of Asera. He serves as an Advisor at Academia, DevRev, and Deep Genomics. He serves as a Board Member at Ghost and Breakthrough Energy Ventures. He serves as an Advisor and Board Member of Berkshire Grey. He serves as Board Member at AliveCor. He serves as Board Member at Glydways, Q Bio, and WorkWhile. He is a Board Member & Advisor at Helium (Database Software). He was a Board Member of Learning Health and Oscar. He is a Co-Founder of Khosla Impact. He previously served as the Board Member and an Advisor at Post Intelligence. He was one of the three founders of Daisy Systems, which was the first significant computer-aided design system for electrical engineers. He is also a founding board member of the Indian School of Business. His current passion is social entrepreneurship, with a special emphasis on microfinance as a poverty alleviation tool. He is a supporter of many microfinance organizations in India and Africa. He has been experimenting with education and global housing. He is the Founder of Khosla Impact and an Advisor at HealthTap. He also serves as a board member at GreatPoint Energy, MyLikes, Gamgee, and Verayo. He also serves as Board Member at Sakti3. He is an Advisor at WaveOne and MetaMind. He is a Board Observer of Viome. He also served as Mentor at Alchemist Accelerator. He is an Angel Investor. He served as a Board Member at Verayo and QuantumScape. He serves as Advisor at Hello Heart.
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Indian Institute of Technology
Menlo Park, CA
2128 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park
California
94025
United States
AmericasNorth America10330528917
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Alexis Ohanian Sr.
OhanianAlexisMaleSeven Seven SixVenture Capital
Co-Founder & General Partner
+1 (314) 644-2563
aohanian@sevensevensix.com
www.sevensevensix.com
Mr. Alexis Ohanian is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Seven Seven Six. He is the Founder of Das Kapital Capital. He is a tech founder, builder, and investor. He's written a national bestselling book, Without Their Permission, and co-founded initialized capital and Reddit. In 2020, he founded Seven Seven Six, a new software-enabled venture firm focused on people, culture, and community. He is also an advocate for paid family leave, Business Dad to Alexis Olympia Ohanian, Jr.
University of Virginia
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
6231 PGA Boulevard
Suite 104-380
Palm Beach Gardens
Florida33418
United States
AmericasNorth America730222847
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Douglas Ellenoff JD
EllenoffDouglasMaleNextplatPublic Company
Vice Chairman and Chief Business Development Strategist
+1 (305) 686-3250
dellenoff@orbsat.com
www.nextplat.com
Mr. Douglas Ellenoff serves as Vice Chairman and Chief Business Development Strategist at Nextplat. He serves as Board Member, Vice Chairman, and Chief Business Development Strategist at Orbsat. He also serves as a Partner at Ellenoff Grossman & Schole. Mr. Douglas Ellenoff serves as General Partner at ESQvest. Mr. Douglas Ellenoff serves as General Partner at ESQvest. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at LawCloud. He is a corporate and securities attorney with a specialty in business transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate financings. He has represented public companies in connection with their initial public offerings, secondary offerings, regulatory compliance, as well as, strategic initiatives, and general corporate governance matters. During his career, he has represented numerous broker-dealers, venture capital investor groups, and many corporations involved in the capital formation process. He is a member of Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP since its founding in 1992, is a corporate and securities attorney with a specialty in business transactions and corporate financings. Mr. Ellenoff has represented public companies in connection with their initial public offerings, secondary public offerings, regulatory compliance as well as general corporate governance matters. During his career, he has represented numerous broker-dealers, venture capital investor groups, and many corporations involved in the capital formation process. Mr. Ellenoff has taken a leadership role in the emerging crowdfunding industry, which was signed into law by President Obama on April 5, 2012. In addition to regular meetings and interactions on behalf of the leading trade association which the Firm represents, (CFIRA, the Crowdfunding Intermediary Regulatory Advocates) with the SEC and FINRA in discussing the proposed rules which the SEC and FINRA must approve before crowdfunding becomes lawful in the US, the Firm has sponsored conferences, webinars and has been invited to speak at numerous events on the topic. The Firm is already actively engaged with clients (funding portals, broker-dealers, technology solution providers, software developers, investors, and entrepreneurs). Mr. Ellenoff received a Juris Doctor degree from Fordham Law School and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Vassar College.
Fordham Law School, Vassar College
Coconut Grove, FL
3250 Mary Street
Suite 410
Coconut Grove
Florida33133
United States
AmericasNorth America22934288
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Douglas Spear JD
SpearDouglasMale
Greenlight Financial Technology
Private CompanyChief Legal Officer
+1 (404) 322-6266
doug.spear@greenlight.me
www.greenlight.com
+1 (404) 322-6388
Mr. Douglas Spear serves as Chief Legal Officer at Greenlight (Other Financial Services). He serves as Managing Director at Service Provider Capital. He is a Partner at Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough and leader of the Firm's Emerging Growth and Venture Capital practice, also serves as Managing Director at Service Provider Capital. He and his team work proactively with emerging and growth-stage technology companies in various sectors, venture capital firms, and angel investors to solve their business and legal problems in a practical and efficient manner. He is extremely active in start-up communities in the Southeast and beyond, working closely with founders, investors, and other advisors to help build growing companies in various industries. He also has experience in representing clients in merger and acquisition transactions, private placements, and various forms of debt financing. As an Adjunct Professor at Emory University School of Law, he teaches the Venture Capital Law course. In 1998, He earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Pittsburgh and received his Bachelor of Arts, with honors, in 1995 from the University of Pennsylvania.
University of Pittsburgh, University of Pennsylvania
Atlanta, GA
303 Peachtree Street Northeast
Suite 4300
AtlantaGeorgia30308
United States
AmericasNorth America29032852
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Keith Rabois JDRaboisKeithMaleFounders FundVenture CapitalPartner
+1 (415) 230-5800
keith@foundersfund.com
www.foundersfund.com
+1 (415) 230-5801
Mr. Keith Rabois serves as Partner at Founders Fund. He serves as a Board Member at Pulley. He is an Investor of Ramp (Financial Software). He serves as Board Member at Found. He serves as a Board Member at The Org, Royal Markets, Forward, Searchlight.ai, Fam, Kiddom, Eight Sleep, Ghost, Up&Up, Bungalow, Yelp [NYSE: YELP], Xoom [NASDAQ: XOOM], Ramp, Affirm, Truework, Teespring, IfOnly, and Even. He served as a Board Member at Jetty. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Executive Chairman at Opendoor. He is also a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at the Open store. He served as Board Member at Homebase, Virtual Kitchen, and American Football. He also serves as Board Member at Stellar Development Foundation. He is a Co-Founder of Y Ventures. He served as Managing Director at Khosla Ventures. He also serves as an Advisor at Resolute Ventures. His focus at the firm includes consumer Internet, education, enterprise, financial services, and digital health. He served as Advisor at Cue. He served as Board Member at Reddit and HealthTap. Since joining KV, he's led investments in Stripe, Thoughtspot, and Teespring among many others. He started the real estate startup OpenDoor, which aims to transform the process of selling a home through technology. He has a unique and unparalleled track record as an entrepreneur, executive, and investor. Over the last decade, he has forged several of the most important new social and commerce platforms. He served as Senior Executive at PayPal [NASDAQ: PYPL, later acquired by EBAY]. He served in influential roles at LinkedIn [NYSE: LNKD]. He served as Chief Operating Officer of Square. Simultaneously, he also invested in other like-minded entrepreneurs with early stakes in YouTube [acquired by GOOG], Yammer [acquired by MSFT], Palantir, Lyft, Airbnb, Eventbrite, and Quora. He served as Board Observer at Olive. Earlier in his career, He was a litigator at the preeminent Wall Street law firm Sullivan and Cromwell, after clerking for the United States Court of Appeals for the fifth circuit. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Stanford University and a Juris Doctor degree with honors from Harvard University. He is also an angel investor. He served as a Board Member at Piazza.
Harvard Law School, Stanford University
San Francisco, CA
One Letterman Drive
Building D, 5th Floor
San Francisco
California
94129
United States
AmericasNorth America24267322512
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Brad FeldFeldBradMaleFoundry GroupVenture CapitalPartner & Co-Founder
+1 (303) 642-4050
brad@foundrymakes.com
www.foundry.vc
+1 (303) 642-4001
Mr. Bradley Feld is a Co-Founder & serves as Partner at Foundry Group. He is a Co-Founder & serves as Chairman at Energize Colorado. He also serves as Advisor and Investor at Oui Capital. He serves as Board Member at Global EIR and FullContact. He served as Board Member at Yesware. He also serves as Board Observer at Bolster. He served as Board Member at Misty Robotics. Mr. Feld has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur for over 30 years. He also is a Co-Founder of GAN. He served as Board Member at Taunt. Before co-founding Foundry Group, he co-founded Mobius Venture Capital and before that, founded Intensity Ventures. Mr. Feld is a Co-Founder and serves as Board Member at Techstars.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Boulder, CO
1050 Walnut Street
Suite 210
Boulder
Colorado
80302
United States
AmericasNorth America19256621115
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Gokul RajaramRajaramGokulMalePinterestPublic CompanyBoard Member
+1 (650) 253-0000
gokul@doordash.com
www.pinterest.com
+1 (650) 253-0001
Mr. Gokul Rajaram serves as Board Member at Pinterest. He served as Advisor at FetchRev. He also serves as Advisor at Hypersonix and Tau Ventures. He served as Advisor at Rafay. He serves as Advisor at Upside, HoneyBricks, Turing.com & Commerce.js. He served as Caviar Lead at Square. He also serves as Board Member and Advisor at BirdEye. He serves as Board Member at Course Hero. He serves as an Advisor at InvolveSoft & Mio. He also serves as Advisor at DevRev and Good AI Capital. He also serves as a Partner at Firebolt Ventures and Board Member at Pinterest. He also serves as Advisor at Demandsphere He served as Board Member at Dragoneer Growth Opportunities and Dragoneer Growth Opportunities II. He also served as Advisor at Ribbon. He is a Product Lead at Caviar. He also serves as Advisor at Compound. He also serves as an entrepreneur-in-residence at Merus Capital. He served as Fund Advisor at Jungle Ventures. He also served as the Product Director of Ads for Facebook. He also served as Advisor at Orgami Logic. He was a Founder of Chai Labs. He has extensive experience across a broad range of Internet technologies, including video, contextual, searches, and mobile advertising. He served as Product Management Director of Google AdSense. He led AdSense product management at Google from January 2003 to November 2007. He has extensive experience in the online advertising industry. He launched Google AdSense for Video, which provided video publishers the ability to embed contextual ads directly into their video players. He also helped drive a number of Google's acquisitions, including DoubleClick, AdScape, and dMarc. He has held diverse roles at Onetta and Sycamore Networks. He has an M.B.A. from MIT Sloan School of Management, an M.S. in Computer Science from UT Austin, and a BTech in Computer Science from IIT Kanpur. He also served as Advisor at Scout Ventures. He is also an Angel Investor. He currently serves on the executive team at DoorDash, where he leads Caviar, a premium food ordering service. Prior to DoorDash, he worked at Square, where he led several product development teams and served on Square's executive team. Prior to Square, he served as Product Director of Ads at Facebook, where he helped Facebook transition its advertising business to become mobile-first. Earlier in his career, Rajaram served as a Product Management Director for Google AdSense, where he helped launch the product and grow it into a substantial portion of Google's business. Rajaram holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, where he was awarded the President of India's Gold Medal for being class valedictorian. He also holds an M.B.A. from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Master of Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. He serves as Board Member at The Trade Desk. He serves as Board Member at Skolaro. He serves as an Advisor at Nexla.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Texas, Indian Institute of Technology
San Francisco, CA
651 Brannan Street
San Francisco
California
94107
United States
AmericasNorth America825322241
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Saeed AmidiAmidiSaeedMale
Plug and Play Tech Center
Accelerator/Incubator
Founder & Chief Executive Officer
+1 (408) 524-1400
saeed@plugandplaytechcenter.com
www.plugandplaytechcenter.com
Mr. Saeed Amidi is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Plug and Play Tech Center. He served as Advisory Board Member at eCounterfeit Alliance. Mr. Amidi is a Co-Founder and Founding General Partner at Amidi Group. He also held the position of General Partner in Amidzad. The fund has been investing in technology companies for over 15 years and holds successful investments in over 70 technology companies, some of which are: PayPal, Powerset, Danger, Bix, Powerset, DropBox, Lending Club, Zoosk, etc. A serial entrepreneur and a seasoned executive with over 28 years of experience in founding, operating and growing successful companies. He has successfully started and grown businesses both nationally, as well as internationally, in countries like Spain, Germany, France, and Austria. Saeed's current passion is inspiring and helping entrepreneurs and startups out of universities. His objective is to identify great entrepreneurs with a passion to execute on their ideas. Saeed is an active member of the technology community and a frequent contributor to numerous charitable foundations. He is also an active member of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO), a world-class network of Fortune 500 CEOs, accomplished serial entrepreneurs, and veteran financial executives. He is an Angel Investor. He serves as Advisor & Board Member at GuardKnox. He serves as Board Member at Mobilender.
Menlo CollegeSunnyvale, CA
440 North Wolfe Road
Sunnyvale
California
94085
United States
AmericasNorth America224552334
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Jean-Francois Clavier
Clavier
Jean-Francois
MaleUncork CapitalVenture Capital
Founder & Managing Partner
+1 (650) 688-1801
jeff@uncorkcapital.com
www.uncorkcapital.com
+1 (650) 475-3937
Mr. Jean-Francois Clavier is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Uncork Capital. He serves as Board Member at Loft Orbital, Messari, and Arch Systems. An early angel investor in Web 2.0, Mr. Clavier and his team have backed successful startups like Mint (Intuit), Kongregate (GameStop), Brightroll (Yahoo), LiveRamp (Acxiom), Milo (eBay), Wildfire (Google), Bleacher Report (Turner), Gnip (Twitter), Fitbit (NYSE: FIT), Eventbrite, Sendgrid, Poshmark, Hired and Vungle. The portfolio has also seen acquisitions by Groupon, Twitter, Facebook, Yahoo, and AOL. Born, raised, and educated in France, Jeff graduated with an MS in CS. He joined Effix, a fintech startup, as one of the initial developers while still at school and eventually led it as CTO. After 5 years, Reuters acquired the company and Jeff expanded his remit to several product and development organizations in Europe and the USA. In 2000, he moved to Silicon Valley as General Partner for RVC, the $450M venture fund of Reuters. Jeff was appointed on the board of the National Venture Capital Association in 2015, a 4-year mandate. In the Uncork portfolio, he sits on the boards of Arch Systems, DocSend, Intermix, Pi Charging, Scroll, and other stealth companies. He is a veteran of the Forbes Midas List of top venture capitalists in the world. One of the early VC bloggers in 2004, Jeff is now a popular conference speaker and social media/TV commentator.
San Francisco, CA
500 Second Street
Third Floor
San Francisco
California
94107
United States
AmericasNorth America524012258
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Joshua Kopelman
KopelmanJoshuaMale
First Round Capital
Venture CapitalPartner
+1 (610) 834-7686
josh@firstround.com
www.firstround.com
Mr. Joshua Kopelman serves as a Partner at First Round Capital. He is a Co-Founding Partner at First Close Partners He serves as Board Member at Notion. He also serves as Board Member at KiwiCo, Loyal, Boulder Care, Vitable Health, and Wonderschool. He serves as a Board Observer at NED Biosystems and Spring Discovery. He has been an active entrepreneur and investor in the internet industry since its commercialization. He serves as a Board Member at Metric Insights. He previously served as Board Member at Curalate, Clover Health, and Amino Payments. In 1992, while he was a student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, co-founded Infonautics Corporation. He founded Half.com in July 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. He co-founded First Round Capital in 2004 to reinvent seed-stage investing. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree cum laude in Entrepreneurial Management and Marketing from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also an Angel Investor. He served as Fund Management Partner at Startup PHL. He also serves as Board Member at Vital Software (Healthcare Technology Systems). He is the Founding Partner at First Close Capital Partners.
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
Philadelphia, PA
2400 Market Street
Suite 237
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
19103
United States
AmericasNorth America13240221212
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Scott BelskyBelskyScottMaleAdobe SystemsPublic Company
Chief Product Officer & Executive Vice President, Creative Cloud
+1 (415) 684-7217
sbelsky@adobe.com
www.adobe.com
+1 (408) 537-6000
Mr. Scott Belsky serves as Chief Product Officer & Executive Vice President, Creative Cloud at Adobe Systems. He joined Adobe in December 2017 as Chief Product Officer and Executive Vice President, Creative Cloud. Prior to joining Adobe in December 2017, Belsky was a venture investor at Benchmark in San Francisco from February 2016 to December 2017. Prior to Benchmark, Belsky led Adobe's mobile strategy for Creative Cloud from December 2012 to January 2016, having joined the company through the acquisition of Behance. Belsky co-founded Behance in 2006 and served as its CEO for over 6 years. He is an early advisor and investor to Pinterest, Uber, and Warby Parker among other early-stage companies, and co-founded and serves on the board of Prefer, a referrals platform that empowers the careers of independent professionals. Mr. Belsky also serves on the advisory board of Cornell University's Entrepreneurship Program and as President of the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum board of trustees. He also serves Advisor at Northstar and Fiddler.
Harvard Business School, Cornell University
San Jose, CA
345 Park Avenue
San Jose
California
95110-2704
United States
AmericasNorth America22292220
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Marc BenioffBenioffMarcMaleSalesforcePublic Company
Co-Founder, Co-Chief Executive Officer & Chairman
+1 (415) 901-7000
marc@salesforce.com
www.salesforce.com
+1 (415) 901-7040
Mr. Marc Benioff is a Co-Founder and serves as Co-Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at Salesforce. He is the Founder of TIME Ventures. He serves as a Board Member at SilviaTerra. He was the Owner of Efficient Capacity. He served as Advisor at Brandcast. He co-founded Salesforce in 1999. He has been widely recognized for his visionary leadership and pioneering innovations. Mr. Benioff is also a member of the World Economic Forum Board of Trustees. He also serves as Board Member and Advisor at BirdEye. He created the 1-1-1 model of philanthropy, which leverages the resources of Salesforce to improve communities around the world. Before launching Salesforce, he spent 13 years at Oracle Corporation. He founded his first company, Liberty Software, which created video games, at the age of 15. He also worked as an assembly language programmer in Apple Computer's Macintosh Division. Mr. Benioff received a B.S. in Business Administration in 1986 and an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters in 2014 from the University of Southern California. He is the author of three books, including the national bestseller, Behind the Cloud. He is also an Angel Investor. He served as an Advisor at DoubleRock.
University of Southern California (USC)
San Francisco, CA
Salesforce Tower
415 Mission Street, 3rd Floor
San Francisco
California
94105
United States
AmericasNorth America422732152
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Kishore GanjiGanjiKishoreMaleAstir VenturesVenture CapitalCo-Founder
+1 (732) 310-9200
kishore@astir.vcwww.astir.vc
Mr. Kishore Ganji is a Co-Founder of Astir Ventures. He serves as Board Member at Pangean Global Services. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at ASTIR IT Solutions. He also serves as an Advisor at GetVantage. He also serves as an Executive at Hyderabad Angels. He serves as Board Member at Minko. He served as a Board Member at Innovapptive. He also serves as Board Member at Glii. Prior to starting Astir, He worked for PWC, IBM, and Pfizer in Business Intelligence practices, focusing mainly on Customer Analytics and health care. Before this, he worked for Hewlett-Packard. In addition to his role as CEO of Astir, He serves as the President of the Small and Medium Enterprise Consortium (SMEC), a consortium of over 300 technology companies. SMEC promotes the sustainable development of these small and mid-sized businesses and is growing rapidly both here in the United States and abroad. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Osmania University. He also has an MBA in Sales and Marketing from the Terry School of Business at the University of Georgia. In addition, he was recognized by NJBIZ as one of the top Forty under 40 high-achieving business leaders in New Jersey in 2008, and in 2010 was a finalist in the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award. He is also an Angel Investor. He also serves as Advisor at NRI Startup India. He also serves as Board Member at Pangea Global Services.
University of Georgia, Osmania University
San Jose, CA
4320 Stevens Creek Boulevard
Suite 229
San Jose
California
95129
United States
AmericasNorth America42252216
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David CohenCohenDavidTechstars
Accelerator/Incubator
Co-Founder & Chairman
+1 (646) 493-3937
david.cohen@techstars.com
www.techstars.com
Mr. David Cohen is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at Techstars. Mr. David Cohen is a Co-Founder of Patriot Boot Camp. Previously, he served as Managing Partner and Co-Chief Executive Officer at Techstars. He also is a Co-Founder of GAN. He served as Board Member at ConnXus, TVision and Distil Networks. He serves as Advisor and Board Observer at SaaSOptics. He is also a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Bullet Time GP. Previously, he was a founder of several software and web technology companies. He was the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Pinpoint Technologies which was acquired by ZOLL Medical Corporation (NASDAQ: ZOLL) in 1999. He was also the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of earFeeder.com, a music service that was sold to SonicSwap.com in 2006. He is also active at the University of Colorado, serving as a Member of the Board of Advisors of the Computer Science Department, the Entrepreneurial Advisory Board at Silicon Flatirons, and the Board of Advisors of the Deming Center Venture Fund. He is also a member of the selection committee for Venture Capital in the Rockies and runs the Colorado chapter of the Open Angel Forum. He currently serves as an Advisor at Epic Playground. He served as an Advisor at Keebitz. He is a Board Member at SendGrid, Casabots, PivotDesk, and Conspire. He also is a member of the Advisory Board at Hilltop Venture Partners and an Advisor at V1.vc. He serves as Advisor at Firebrand Ventures. He also serves as an Executive at Barclays Accelerator.
University of Central Florida
Boulder, CO
1050 Walnut Street
Suite 202
Boulder
Colorado
80302
United States
AmericasNorth America4221220210
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John FrankelFrankelJohnMale
ff Venture Capital
Venture CapitalFounding Partner
+1 (212) 518-4967
john@ffvc.comwww.ffvc.com
+1 (973) 488-7117
Mr. John Frankel serves as Founding Partner at ff Venture Capital. He also serves as a Board Member at Softdrive, Opencare, Manna, Civic Eagle, and Zenith Aerospace. He serves as Board Member at Lynq, HoneyBee, Burro, Tensorflight, New Age Meats, and Respeecher. He serves as Board Observer at Mosaic. He served as a Board Member at SignUp.com. He founded ff Venture Capital in 2008 and has been a seed- and early-stage investor since late 1999. He served as Board Member at Distil Networks and Top Flight Technologies. He focuses on advising and growing technology and technology-enabled companies across emerging industries, including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, drones, enterprise software, crowdfunding, and data analytics, among others. He has served on the boards of more than 35 companies and has led investments in more than 80 companies, including Cornerstone OnDemand (CSOD), Indiegogo, Ionic Security, Unikey, Skycatch, Plated, 500px, PebblePost, and Owlet. He also sits on The NYU Tandon School of Engineering's Board of Overseers. He started his business career in London with Arthur Andersen having earned a Master of Arts from New College, Oxford, where he studied Mathematics, Philosophy, and Logic. He is a Fellow Chartered Accountant of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He served as Board Member at Parse.ly.
University of OxfordNew York, NY
The Empire State Building
350 5th Avenue, Suite 4215
New York
New York
10018
United States
AmericasNorth America25220118310
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Mike EdelhartEdelhartMikeMaleSocial StartsVenture CapitalManaging Partner
+1 (415) 699-7646
mike@socialstarts.com
www.socialstarts.com
+1 (415) 520-0384
Mr. Mike Edelhart serves as Managing Partner at Social Starts. He also serves as Managing Partner at Ataraxia (VC). He became widely known in tech circles as the original Executive Editor of PC Magazine and founding editor of other Ziff-Davis computer magazines, as well as the Ziff testing lab, testing software, and other operations. Mike rose to be the Executive Vice President of Ziff-Davis. In addition to his Social Starts role, Mike leads The Tomorrow Project, LLC, our companion operating company, which produces The Pivot Conference focused on big brands coping with the Social Construct. Mike was Managing Director and founder of First30 Services, a launch accelerator for early-stage companies. He has held CEO and executive management positions at a range of start-ups and tech companies, including Olive Software, Inman News, Zinio, and Third Age Media. Mike was a partner at Redleaf, a VC firm. Earlier in this career, at SoftBank, Mike directed content for the Seybold, Interop, and Comdex conferences and launched new businesses. He has also worked as an Internet strategies consultant to Bloomberg, Reuters, AARP, and other major media and Internet companies. The author of more than 25 books, Mike earned a BSc in journalism from the University of Northern Colorado.
University of Northern Colorado
San Francisco, CA
San Francisco
California
United States
AmericasNorth America22022125
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David MorinMorinDavidMaleOffline VenturesVenture Capital
Co-Founder & Managing Director
+1 (415) 806-5000
dave@morin.com
www.offline.vc
Mr. Dave Morin is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at serves as Offline Ventures. He Co-Founded and served as a Partner at Slow Ventures. He served as Advisor at Herb. He co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer and Director at Path. Mr. Morin was a Senior Platform Manager at Facebook and a Mentor at TechStars. Mr. Morin is a visionary entrepreneur, technologist, and businessman. Previously, he held positions at Apple, including a Manager of Creation and Collaboration and a Manager of Student Marketing. Mr. Morin also founded a design-focused technology and internet software company called DM Design Studios in college. He has appeared in publications such as The Economist, Wired, CNN, BusinessWeek, Money, Business 2.0, TechCrunch, CNET, Silicon Alley Insider, The Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, The San Francisco Chronicle, VentureBeat, and others. Mr. Morin is a passionate and well-received speaker and has delivered keynotes and participated in events worldwide such as South by Southwest, Future of Web Apps, Web 2.0 Expo, Le Web, SNAP Summit, Microsoft MIX, O'Reilly Foo Camp, Facebook f8, and the worldwide syndicate of Facebook Developer Garages. His focus on innovation, vision, and technology strategy has involved extensive interaction with the global market at large. He served as Board Member at Eventbrite. Mr. Morin received a degree in Economics and Business Administration from the University of Colorado at Boulder. Also, he serves as Advisor at Stacks.
University of Colorado
Mill Valley, CA
Mill Valley
California
94941
United States
AmericasNorth America21312064
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Fabrice GrindaGrindaFabriceMale
Global Technology Acquisition I
Public Company
Founder & Executive Chairman
+1 (323) 577-9874
fabrice@fjlabs.com
www.gtac.io
Mr. Fabrice Grinda serves as a Co-Founding Partner of FJ Labs.. He is the Founder and serves as Executive Chairman at Global Technology Acquisition I. He is also serves as Executive at Latitud, He serves as Advisor at Runway Venture Partners. He co-founded Kangaroo Village. He serves as Chairman of the Board at Kushim. He serves as Executive Chairman and Advisor at Seafair. He serves as Board Member at Rebag and Properly. He is an Angel Investor. He serves as Industry Advisor at DN Capital. He served as a Board Member of Merlin. He also served as a Partner at True Global Ventures. He served as an Advisor for Job and Talent. Previously he was a Co-Chief Executive Officer of OLX, Inc. Prior to OLX, he was the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Zingy Inc. In 1998, he co-founded and was the Chief Executive Officer at Aucland. Prior to that, he worked as a Business Consultant for McKinsey & Company. He is an Investor at Knock.
Princeton UniversityNew York, NY
19 West 24th Street
10th Floor
New York
New York
10010
United States
AmericasNorth America521211967
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Charlie Songhurst
Songhurst
CharlieMaleAcequia CapitalAngel GroupPartner
+1 (425) 706-4219
c-songhurst@acecap.com
www.acecap.com
Mr. Charlie Songhurst serves as a Partner at Acequia Capital. He serves as Investment Partner at Nyca Partners. He is an Angel Investor. He serves Advisor at Aplo, 8VC, Legalist, and Veratrak. He also serves as Board Member at Beauhurst, CodeSignal, and Rigetti. He serves as Advisor and Board Member at Bear Robotics. He previously served as Board Member at Proteus Digital Health, Transit Capital and SafeGraph. He also served as Advisor at OpenGov, and Mighty AI. He is the Founder and serves as a Partner of Katana Capital, a long-short equity hedge fund. He also runs the Songhurst Group, which holds assets in a variety of private companies. He ran corporate strategy for Microsoft and focused on partnering and M&A. He was involved in the Yahoo acquisition and commercial deal, and the Skype acquisition. Before running the corporate strategy, he was focused on the emergence of Google and the growth of the search industry. Prior, he was an analyst at McKinsey & Company in London. He received a bachelor's degree from Oxford University in politics, philosophy, and economics.
University of OxfordSeattle, WA
1711 Evergreen Place
Seattle
Washington
98122
United States
AmericasNorth America421021954
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Matthew OckoOckoMatthewMaleDCVCVenture Capital
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
+1 (415) 840-7337
matt@dcvc.com
www.dcvc.com
+1 (415) 840-7342
Mr. Matthew Ocko is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Data Collective. He also serves as Investment Committee Member at Elevate NZ Venture Fund. He served as Board Member at Nervana Systems. Previously, he was a Board Member of BlueTalon, Auransa, 3Scan, Agenovir, and Declara. He serves as Advisor at Store. He serves as a Local Partner at Mass Innovations. He serves as a Board Member at Kentik, Agility Robotics, Capella Space, Primer, Atomwise, and Reach Labs. He served as an Advisor at Kenshoo and Board Member at Tradeshift. He was also the Managing Director at Archimedes Capital. He also sits on the Board of Fortem Technologies, Rocket Lab, Cofactor Genomics, Jupiter, and Pierson Labs. He also served as an Advisor of Blockchain Capital. He also serves as Managing Director at Archimedes Capital, served as an Advisor at Instart Logic & Signifyd, and as Partner at Sevin Rosen Funds., a sourcing partner in SRB Partners Fund, has worked with Sevin Rosen since 2002. For SRB Partners Fund, Matt will focus on deals in the data center, enterprise, big data (including analytics, machine learning, sensor platforms, and deep vertical applications), and Web 2.0 (large-scale software platforms). He has been active in helping develop China's venture capital and technology regulatory framework for two decades and his 1996 lecture to the Central Committee Party School on Venture Capital with a Chinese Face has been widely distributed at all levels of government in China. He also serves as an Advisor at Instart Logic. He holds a BA in physics from Yale University. He is also an Angel Investor. He also served as Venture Partner at Sevin Rosen Funds. He served as a Board member at Vium. He is also an Angel Investor. he served as Advisor at BranchOut.
Yale UniversityPalo Alto, CA
270 University Avenue
Palo Alto
California
94301
United States
AmericasNorth America1721011809
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Lee FixelFixelLeeMaleAdditionVenture CapitalFounder
+1 (212) 359-0660
lee@addition.com
www.addition.com
Mr. Lee Fixel is the Founder of Addition, an investment firm focused on early and growth-stage companies. He serves as Board Member at Built Technologies, SuperOps, Kaskada, Tend, Stedi, Relay, Chainalysis, Hugging Face, Charlie Health, proteanTecs, The Michael J. Fox Foundation, Washington University in St. Louis, and Primer. He serves as Angel Investor at Lee Fixel. Mr. Fixel was previously a Partner at Tiger Global Management, LLC, where he was head of the firm's private equity business. He has backed companies including Peloton, Stripe, Spotify, Roblox, Flipkart, Freshworks, Warby Parker, MercadoLibre, Facebook and LinkedIn. Mr. Fixel earned a B.S. in business administration, finance, and accounting from Washington University in St. Louis and is a CFA charter holder. He serves on the board of trustees of his alma mater and is a director of the Michael J. Fox Foundation. With his wife, Lauren, Mr. Fixel founded the Lauren and Lee Fixel Family Foundation. Through this foundation, Mr. Fixel established the Norman Fixel Institute for Neurological Diseases at the University of Florida Health, a clinical care and research institute focused on advancing diagnosis and treatment for Parkinson's disease and other neurological disorders.
London School of Economics and Political Science, Washington University
New York, NY
65 East 55th Street
36th Floor
New York
New York
10022
United States
AmericasNorth America13207118111
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Garry TanTanGarryMale
Initialized Capital Management
Venture Capital
Co - Founder & Partner
+1 (415) 493-8264
garry@initialized.com
www.initialized.com
Mr. Garry Tan is a Co-Founder and serves as a Partner at Initialized Capital. He serves as Board Member at TigerEye Labs. He served as Board Member at Trunk. He served as Advisor at Bitaccess. He serves as a Board Member at Standard Cognition, Career Karma, Bodyport, Helm, and Tagstand. He serves as Partner at Y Combinator. He is part of the board of various startups including Privacy Labs. He also serves as Board Member at Salus Labs and True Link Financial. Previously, he was the Co-Founder of Posterous, which was funded by Y Combinator in 2008 and acquired by Twitter in 2012. He served as an Advisor at Summon. Before that, he was employee #10 at Palantir, where he was a founding member of the engineering team for Palantir Finance and also designed Palantir's logo. He also served as Strategic Advisor at UniCareer. He is also an angel investor. He received a Bachelor of Science from Stanford University.
Stanford University
San Francisco, CA
464 Tehama Street
San Francisco
California
94103
United States
AmericasNorth America919811749
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Gary Vaynerchuk
Vaynerchuk
GaryMaleVaynerMediaPrivate Company
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman
+1 (212) 535-2185
gary.vaynerchuk@vaynermedia.com
www.vaynermedia.com
Mr. Gary Vaynerchuk is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer & Chairman at VaynerMedia. He is the Founder of VeeFriends. He served as an Advisory Board Member at HubSpot. He is the Founder and serves as Board Member and Chairman at VCR Group. He serves as Board Member at Tracer. He also serves as Board Member at Gymshark. He is the chairman of VaynerX, a modern-day media and communications holding company, and the active CEO of VaynerMedia, a full-service advertising agency servicing Fortune 100 clients across the company's 4 locations. In addition to VaynerMedia, VaynerX also includes Gallery Media Group, which houses women's lifestyle brand PureWow and men's lifestyle brand ONE37pm. In addition to running VaynerMedia, he also serves as a partner in the athlete representation agency VaynerSports and cannabis-focused branding and marketing agency Green Street. He co-founded the restaurant-reservation app, Resy, which was acquired by American Express in 2019, as well as Empathy Wines, which was acquired by Constellation Brands in 2020. He is a board/advisory member of Ad Council and Pencils of Promise and is a longtime Well Member of Charity: Water. He is a highly sought-after public speaker, a 5-time New York Times bestselling author, as well as a prolific angel investor with early investments in companies such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo, and Uber. He is currently the subject of DailyVee, an online documentary series highlighting what it's like to be a CEO and public figure in today's digital world, as well the host of The GaryVee Audio Experience, a top 100 global podcast, and host of #AskGaryVee, a business and advice Q&A show which can be found on both YouTube and Facebook. He also appeared as a judge in Apple's first original series "Planet of the Apps" alongside Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba, and Will.i.am. Mr. Vaynerchuk is a Co-Founder & serves as Board Member at Candy Digital. He serves as the Board of Directors at Bojangles' Inc. He serves as an Advisor at Politiscope. He serves as an Advisor at Penrose Hill. He is a Co-Founder and serves as a Partner at Vayner/RSE. He is also a Co-Founder of Brave Ventures and Empathy wines. He rose to prominence in the late '90s after establishing one of the first e-commerce wine sites, WineLibrary helping his father grow the family business from 4 to 60MM in sales. He is also one of the most sought-after public speakers alive today. He is a venture capitalist, a 4-time New York Times bestselling author, and an early investor in companies such as Twitter, Tumblr, Venmo, and Uber. He has been named to both Crain's and Fortune's 40 Under 40 lists. He is currently the subject of DailyVee, an online documentary series highlighting what it's like to be a CEO and public figure in today's digital world. He is also the host of #AskGaryVee, a business and advice Q&A show online. He has a degree from Mount Ida College. He is an Angel Investor. He served as Advisor at Firstleaf.
New York, NY
10 Hudson Yards
25th Floor
New York
New York
10001
United States
AmericasNorth America819081692
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John HarthorneHarthorneJohnMale
Two Lanterns Venture Partners
Venture Capital
Founder & Managing Director
+1 (617) 454-4340
john@2l.vcwww.2l.vc
Mr. John Harthorne is the Founder and serves as Managing Director at Two Lanterns Venture Partners. He serves as Board Observer at DriveU.auto. He serves as Board Member at LEX, LabCentral. He serves as a Global Board Of Directors at MassChallenge.He was Co-Founder and served as Chief Executive Officer at MassChallenge. He earned his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 2007. While at school, he won Grand Prize in the 2007 MIT $100K Business Plan Competition and received the 2007 Patrick J. McGovern Award for impact on quality and visibility of entrepreneurship at MIT. He also led the 10th annual MIT Global Startup Workshop (GSW) held in Trondheim, Norway. The Boston Business Journal has identified him as one of Boston's 50 Most Influential Business Leaders alongside the CEOs of Akamai Technologies, Blue Cross Blue Shield, and the Boston Celtics. The World Economic Forum also elected Him as one of the 2013 Young Global Leaders alongside Chelsea Clinton and Tony Hsieh, and Ernst & Young voted him as Social Entrepreneur of the Year in New England for 2013.
MIT (Sloan), Bowdoin College
Newton, MA
1 Cotswold Terrace
Newton
Massachusetts
2459
United States
AmericasNorth America418811821
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Ashton KutcherKutcherAshtonMaleSound VenturesVenture Capital
Co-Founder & General Partner
+1 (310) 867-7169
ak@sound-ventures.com
www.soundventures.com
Mr. Ashton Kutcher is a Co-Founder & serves as General Partner at Sound Ventures. He serves as Advisor at Cruz Foam, 8VC, Social Native and Mark43. He is a Co-Founder and served as Co-Head at A-Grade Investments. He is also a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at A Plus. He also co-founded Katalyst Network.
University of IowaBeverly Hills, CA
9350 Civic Center Drive
Suite 100
Beverly Hills
California
90210
United States
AmericasNorth America18611755
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Hans TungTungHansMaleGGV CapitalVenture CapitalManaging Partner
+1 (650) 475-2150
htung@ggvc.com
www.ggvc.com
+1 (650) 475-2151
Mr. Hans Tung serves as Managing Partner at GGV Capital. He serves as Board Member at Minerva. He served as Advisor at Progression Fund. He is a Managing Partner at GGV Capital, focusing on early-stage investments across the global digital economy ecosystem. He served as Board Member at Curse and Modak. He is consistently recognized among the top venture capital investors in the world, having been named to the Forbes Midas list for nine consecutive years from 2013-to 2021, most recently ranking #3. He has also been named to the New York Times/CB Insights Top 100 Venture Capitalists list four times from 2016-to 2019, most recently at #18 and recognized among the top 100 Asian Americans by Gold House from 2018-to 2020. He oversees the GGV's DE&I initiatives and he is also the co-host of the popular podcast, "Evolving for the Next Billion" on entrepreneurship in the US, China, India, SE Asia and Latin America. His portfolio includes 18 unicorns, many of them invested at an early stage and now valued at more than $1 billion. The public portfolio includes Affirm, Airbnb, Coinbase, Divvy Homes, Peloton, Poshmark, Slack, Wish and Xiaomi and the private unicorn portfolio includes Bytedance, Bowery Farming, Frubana, Function of Beauty, Ibotta, Loggi, Offerup, Rupeek, StockX, Udaan, Vedantu and Xiaohongshu. His ' global portfolio at GGV spans six cities across the US as well as three continents: Foodtech: Bowery Farming, Frubana, Gro Intelligence, Grubmarket, Loggi, Odeko, Shelf Engine, Communication/Social: Chief, Fishbowl, musical.ly / Bytedance, Otter.ai, Slack, Snappy, TheMighty, Valence, Xiaohongshu Fintech: Affirm, Divvy Homes, IDwall, Karat, Rupeek, Stori, Turtlemint Fitness & Digital Health: Khealth, Peloton Edtech: Labster, Vedantu B2B2C / SMBtech: Khatabook, Udaan Ecommerce: Airbnb, Function of Beauty, Lively, Offerup, Poshmark, StockX, Winky Lux, Wish, Yami
MIT (Sloan), Stanford University
Menlo Park, CA
3000 Sand Hill Road
Building 4, Suite 230
Menlo Park
California
94025
United States
AmericasNorth America26186114316
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John Doerr IIIDoerrJohnMaleAlphabetPublic Company
Board Member & Member of Leadership Development and Compensation Committee
+1 (650) 253-0000
john@abc.xyzwww.abc.xyz
+1 (302) 636-5454
Mr. L. John Doerr serves as Board Member & Member of the Leadership Development and Compensation Committee at Alphabet. Mr. John Doerr serves as Chairman of the Advisory Board & Managing Member at Kleiner Perkins. He serves as Board Member at Flipboard. He cofounded Glass Collective. He serves as Vice President at Benificus Foundation. He served as Board Member at Bloom Energy. Doerr serves as Board Member at Truecaller, BetterWorks, and DoorDash. He also serves as Board Member at Asapp. He is a Board Member of Bloom Energy. He also serves as a Board Member at Breakthrough Energy Ventures. He served as Board Member at Shyp. He serves as an advisor at Tempus. He serves as a Board Member & Member of the Leadership Development and Compensation Committee at Alphabet. He joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1980 and has since backed some of the world's most successful entrepreneurs, including Larry Page, Sergey Brin, and Eric Schmidt of Google; Jeff Bezos of Amazon.com, and Scott Cook and Bill Campbell of Intuit. His passion is helping entrepreneurs create the "Next Big Thing" in mobile and social networks, Greentech innovation, education, and economic development. Ventures sponsored by him have created more than 200,000 new jobs. He serves on the boards of Amyris, Google, and Zynga, as well as several private technology ventures. He also led KPCB's investment in Twitter. His technology career began in 1974 at Intel, just as the chipmaker was inventing the groundbreaking 8080 microprocessor. During his Intel years, he held roles in engineering, marketing, management, and sales. He also learned about operating excellence from Intel co-founder Andy Grove - insight that he continues to share with entrepreneurs today. These include NewSchools.org, TechNet.org, the Climate Reality Project, and ONE.org. He earned B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from Rice University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He also holds several patents for computer memory devices. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of U.S. President Barack Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness. He is the Co-Founder and serves as Board Member at NewSchools Venture Fund. He serves as Board Member at Essence Group Holdings. He is also an angel investor. He served as Board Member at QuantumScape. He served as Board Member at Tradesy.
Harvard University, Rice University
Mountain View, CA
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View
California
94043
United States
AmericasNorth America18186114421
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Lip-Bu TanTanLip-BuMaleCelesta CapitalVenture Capital
Co-Founding Managing Partner
+1 (415) 765-7100
lipbu@celesta.vc
www.celesta.vc
Mr. Lip-Bu Tan is a Co-Founding Managing Partner of Celesta Capital. He serves as Chairman of the Board at Cadence Design Systems. He is the Founder and serves as Chairman & Director at Walden International. He served as Board Member at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He served as Board Member at NUVIA, Tagore Technology, and Credo. He served as Strategic Advisor at IndusAge Partners. He served as Chairman at SambaNova Systems and Innovium. He served as Board Member at Aurasemi. He serves as Board Member at SiMa ai and Fungible. He also serves as Board Member at Komprise, Credo Semiconductor, Katana Graph, Lightbits Labs, Exotanium, Prosimo, ProteanTecs, Vayyarand, Quantenna Communications, Speedata, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC), Electronic System Design Alliance (ESD Alliance) and the Global Semiconductor Association (GSA DustPhotonics, Ittiam Systems, Nominating, Governance, and Social Responsibility Committee and Technology Committee at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He served as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Cadence Design Systems. He served as Board Member at Advanced Micro-Fabrication Equipment, and HiDeep. Prior to founding Walden, he served as Vice President at Chappell & Co. and held management positions at EDS Nuclear and ECHO Energy. 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.
University of San Francisco, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Nanyang Technological University
San Francisco, CA
1 California Street
Suite 1750
San Francisco
California
94111
United States
AmericasNorth America26185513617
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Semil ShahShahSemilMale
Haystack Management Company
Venture CapitalFounder & Partner
+1 (650) 234-8300
semil@haystack.vc
haystack.vc
Mr. Semil Shah is the Founder and serves as Partner at Haystack. Shah serves as Board Member at Nubix. He served as a Venture Partner at GGV Capital. He also serves as Board Member and Advisor at BirdEye. He serves as Venture Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. He serves on the advisory boards of The Alpha Network and StrictlyVC. He is also a former consultant for several venture capital firms, including General Catalyst, Trinity Ventures, and GGV Capital, among others. His notable AI investments include AirMap, an airspace services provider that focuses on providing accurate airspace information for building unmanned aircraft, drones, and applications; Iris Automation, which helps industrial drones avoid collision; and SkySafe, which provides drone defense and airspace control solutions. Semil holds a bachelor's degree from the University of Michigan and a Master's degree from Harvard University.
Harvard University, University of Michigan
San Francisco, CA
548 Market Street
PMB 75231
San Francisco
California
94104-5401
United States
AmericasNorth America217921686
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Mitchell KaporKaporMitchellMaleKapor CapitalVenture CapitalCo-Founder
+1 (510) 488-6616
mitch@kaporcapital.com
www.kaporcapital.com
Mr. Mitchell Kapor is a Co-Founder at Kapor Capital. Mr. Kapor is a Co-Founder and serves as a Partner at Ideal Investments. He is a pioneer of the personal computing industry and a longtime startup investor. He founded Lotus Development Corporation and designed Lotus 1-2-3. He serves as Advisor at The Human Diagnosis Project. He is the co-founder of The Electronic Frontier Foundation, which protects freedom and privacy on the Internet, and served as the founding Chair of Mozilla, the creator of the Firefox web browser. His successful early investments in the Internet sector and in streaming media and virtual reality earned him a reputation for seeing around corners. Along with his wife Freada Kapor Klein, for the past decade at Kapor Capital, Mr. Kapor has developed a vision and practice of investing in tech startups that close gaps of access, opportunity, or outcome for low-income communities and communities of color and on founders from underrepresented groups. Through the work of the Kapor Center for Social Impact, Mr. Kapor and Freada take a comprehensive approach to remove barriers in education and the workplace for all and fixing the leaks at every stage of the tech pipeline. He has served as advisor at Hingeto.. Mr. Kapor serves on the board of SMASH, a non-profit founded by Freada to help underrepresented scholars hone their STEM knowledge while building the networks and skills for careers in tech and the sciences. He served as Advisor at EdCast. He serves as President and Co-Chairman at Kapor Center for Social Impact.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Yale University
Oakland, CA
2148 Broadway
Oakland
California
94612
United States
AmericasNorth America617431611
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Benjamin Ling Ph.D
LingBenjaminMaleBling CapitalVenture Capital
Founder & General Partner
+1 (650) 224-4865
bling@blingcap.com
www.blingcap.com
Dr. Benjamin Ling is the Founder and serves as General Partner at Bling Capital. He serves as Advisor at Chowbus. He serves as Advisor at Ignition. He serves as Board Observer at Tempo. He has backed 10 "unicorn" billion-dollar companies, with the best yet to come. He serves as Board Member at Nubrakes & Alcove. Previously, he was a General Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he focused on consumer, Internet, mobile, marketplace, SaaS, and consumer health businesses. There, he led investments in Wattpad, Tapingo, Gitlab, True Accord, and Webflow, among many others. Previously, he served in senior operating roles at Google, YouTube and Facebook. He also is an active angel investor with early stakes in Airtable, Lyft, Square, Palantir, Quora, Gusto, Udemy, and others. While at Google, he served as Senior Director of Search and Local Business Products, which included overseeing Google Images, Videos, Books, News, and Finance. At YouTube, he was Senior Director of Partnerships and Platforms, where he was responsible for music, movies, sports, and news, as well as mobile, television, and API partnerships. In his first role at Google, he was the founder and general manager of Google's commerce group, which includes Google Wallet and Google Shopping. At Facebook, he was the first director of the Facebook platform and oversaw the development of the company's developer ecosystem. He also led product, marketing, developer operations, and partner solutions. He played a crucial role in developing Facebook Connect, which helped grow Facebook across the web. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (EECS) from UC Berkeley and an M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Stanford University. He is a Department of Defense fellow and a recipient of UC Berkeley's Bechtel Achievement Award, given to the top graduating senior from the College of Engineering. He serves as Board Member at Rebuild Health.
Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley
Miami, FLMiamiFlorida
United States
AmericasNorth America817311509
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David Tisch JDTischDavidMaleBoxGroupVenture Capital
Co-Founder, Investor & Managing Partner
+1 (917) 261-4357
david@boxgroup.com
www.boxgroup.com
Mr. David Tisch is a Co-Founder and serves as Investor and Managing Partner at BoxGroup. He is also the co-founder of TechStars NYC and previously served as Managing Director of the program. David was named to NYC Mayor Bloomberg's Advisory Council on Technology and serves on the Investor Board of Venture for America. He is also a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal 'The Accelerators' online blog. Prior to joining TechStars, David served as Executive Vice President of Interactive Strategies at kgb, a global information services company. While at KGB, David founded and lead Knowmore.com, a social aggregation startup within kgb. David has a B.A. in American History from the University of Pennsylvania and a J.D. from New York University School of Law. He served as Executive at Trigger.nyc. He also serves as Chairman at Good Dog.
New York University School of Law, University of Pennsylvania
New York, NY
99 University Place
3rd Floor
New York
New York
10003
United States
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Michael Maples Jr.
MaplesMichaelMaleFloodgate FundVenture CapitalCo-Founding Partner
+1 (650) 204-7990
mike@floodgate.com
www.floodgate.com
Mr. Michael Maples is a Co-Founding Partner of Floodgate Fund. He is a Board Member of Swivel, AirGarage, and SBR Health. Before becoming a full-time investor, Mike was an entrepreneur and operating executive who worked in a variety of senior management roles in high-growth companies. His background spans a variety of markets including consumer technology, small business, and enterprise, and he has led various functions in product development, marketing, business development, and corporate strategy. Mike began his technology career in high school when he started a software company that developed games and educational products for the original IBM PC. He has been passionate about the technology industry ever since. He serves as Board Member at Tapatalk. Mike co-founded Motive, the world's leading broadband software company in 1997, and played key roles in its growth from raw start-up through sales of more than $75 million. Motive was one of the only successful technology IPOs in 2004, and the most successful infrastructure software IPO for the prior three years. At Motive, Mike was General Manager of Motive's Corporate Business Unit, as well as Chief Marketing and Strategy Officer. Prior to Motive, Mike was responsible for worldwide product marketing at Tivoli Systems, where he managed the company's product portfolio from its early-stage development through its 1995 IPO and growth to a $750M line of business within the IBM Software Group. Mike began his professional career at Silicon Graphics, where he served in business development and product marketing roles. He holds an Engineering degree from Stanford University, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and a guest lecturer on entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School, Stanford University, Princeton University, and the University of Texas. He also serves as a Board Member of SwiftTest, Egnyte and Reputation.com. He also served as Board Member at DoubleDutch and Sharethrough. He serves as Board Member at IRL, Stipple and Almanac.
Harvard Business School, Stanford University
Menlo Park, CA
506 Santa Cruz Avenue
Suite 200
Menlo Park
California
94025
United States
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Joseph Lonsdale
LonsdaleJosephMaleAnduinPrivate Company
Co-Founder & Chairman
+1 (877) 665-5255
jlonsdale@anduintransact.com
www.anduintransact.com
Mr. Joseph Lonsdale is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at Anduin. He serves as Investor at Diagram Ventures. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Executive Chairman at Opto Investments. He serves as Advisor at Domain Money, Marathon Ventures, and Nimbus Health. He was a Co-Founder and served as General Partner at Formation 8. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Board Member & Advisor at Esper. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at OpenGov. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Board Member at Quaestor. He serves as an Advisory Board Member of Epirus, Wish & Socotra. He also served as Board Member at Nines, Glow, BlueVoyant, BuildZoom, and Radius Intelligence. He also serves as Advisor at iFly.vc. He serves as Managing Partner at 8VC. He is also a Co-Founder of Terminal. He is also a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at Affinity. He is an Investor at Oscar. He serves on several boards including Zenreach, OpenGov, Illumio, Radius, and Hyperloop-One. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at Addepar. He is a Co-Founder of Palantir, a multi-billion dollar global software company best known for its work in defense and finance. Before that, he founded OpenGov. He was also a Co-Founder and served as President at Anduin Ventures. Previously, he was an Early Executive at Peter Thiel's Clarium Capital, which grew into a large global macro hedge fund. He also worked with the financial arm of PayPal while he was at Stanford. He served as Advisor at Greenoaks Capital. He is also an Angel Investor. He served as Advisor at Prime Movers Lab. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford in 2003.
Stanford University
San Francisco, CA
540 Howard Street
2nd Floor
San Francisco
California
94105
United States
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Samir KaulKaulSamirMaleKhosla VenturesVenture Capital
Co-Founding Partner & Managing Director
+1 (650) 376-8500
samir@khoslaventures.com
www.khoslaventures.com
+1 (650) 926-9590
Mr. Samir Kaul is a Co-Founding Partner and serves as Managing Director at Khosla Ventures. He serves as Board Member at B8ta, Neurotrack, Traba, and Varda Space Industries. He also served as a Board Member at SunBorne Energy. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Khosla Ventures Acquisition Co. II. He also serves as Board Member at Mirvish. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Khosla Ventures Acquisition. He serves as Board Member at IgGenix, Eligo Bioscience, Rightway, Siolta Therapeutics, State-space, Yes Health, Lightship (Los Angeles), Impossible Foods, and Valo. He is a Board Member of Vicarious Surgical, Amyris, and Cipher. He was a Co-Founder and Board Member of Calera as well as Sakti3. He was a Board Member of Coskata. Previously, he was a member of Flagship Ventures, a venture capital firm, from 2002 to May 2006. Prior to Flagship, he worked at The Institute for Genomic Research. He has been a leading investor in Hampton Creek Food, Sand Hill Foods, OSCAR Health, Soraa, and View, among many others. A number of his investments have achieved significant results including Ausra (acquired by AREVA) and NanoH20, acquired by LG Chem. He was a Board Member of View. He previously served as a Board Member at Boosted USA and Tarana.
Harvard Business School, University of Michigan, University of Maryland
Menlo Park, CA
2128 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park
California
94025
United States
AmericasNorth America28163411913
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David Sacks JDSacksDavidMaleCraft VenturesVenture Capital
Co-Founder & General Partner
+1 (415) 231-2853
david@craftventures.com
www.craftventures.com
Mr. David Sacks is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Craft Ventures. Previously, he served as Chairman at Harbor Platform. He served as Board Member at Datasembly and Cabana. He serves as Advisor and Board Member at BitGo. He serves as an Advisor at Trynow. He was a Co-Founder of Riverside Ventures. He serves as Board Member at Vendr, MyHeritage, Clickup, Trellis, Sourcegraph, OpenPhone Technologies, Inc, Scratchpad, and Bird Rides. He serves as Board Observer at SentiLink. He served as Advisor at Radius Intelligence. He serves as Advisor at 0xa and Kloudless. He has been a successful tech entrepreneur and investor for two decades. He founded and served as Chief Executive Officer at Yammer, which was acquired by Microsoft for $1.2 billion in 2012. Previously, he served as Chief Operating Officer and Product Leader at PayPal during the famed "PayPal Mafia" founding era. He also served as Interim Chief Executive Officer at Zenefits in 2016. He produced the award-winning independent movie Thank You For Smoking. AngelList's Naval Ravikant has called David "the world's best product strategist." He served as Board Member at Scribd. He serves as Board Member at Roboflow.
University of Chicago, Stanford University
San Francisco, CA
855 Front Street
San Francisco
California
94111
United States
AmericasNorth America1316031336
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Nathaniel TurnerTurnerNathanielMale
Clover Health (Former)
Public CompanyBoard Member
+1 (888) 328-6694
nat@flatironhealth.com
www.cloverhealth.com
Mr. Nathaniel Turner is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at Flatiron. He serves as Executive Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Collectors Universe. Mr. Turner serves as Board Member at OneOncology. He is also an Angel Investor. He served as Board Member at Sema4. He also serves as Executive Chairman at Collectors Universe. Mr. Turner oversees all initiatives across provider solutions, clinical oncology, business development, sales operations, legal and other corporate functions. Before co-founding Flatiron Health, he was co-founder and CEO of Invite Media, an advertising technology company based in NYC. Invite Media built the industry's first enterprise advertising platform for buying and optimizing online media in real-time. He also serves as a General Partner at Operator Partners. Invite Media was acquired by Google in 2010. Prior to Invite Media, Mr. Turner started numerous internet companies and also worked at Say Media and First Round Capital. An active angel investor, he has invested in over 30 technology startups throughout the country, including Bell Biosystems, Clover Health, Color Genomics, Doctor Evidence, Gravie, Notable Labs, Oscar and Quarter Health. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree cum laude in economics with concentrations in entrepreneurship and marketing from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Turner also serves as Advisor at Great Oaks Venture Capital. He served as Advisory Board Member at Integrated CBD.
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
Santa Ana, CA
1610 East Saint Andrew Place
Santa Ana
California
92705
United States
AmericasNorth America31602154
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RoseAnn Rosenthal
RosenthalRoseAnnFemale
The Innovation Space
Accelerator/Incubator
Managing Director
+1 (215) 972-6700
roseann@innovationspace.org
www.innovationspace.org
Ms. RoseAnn Rosenthal serves as the Managing Director of The First Fund at The Innovation Space. Ms. Rosenthal also serves as Chief Executive Officer Emeritus at Ben Franklin Technology Partner of Southeastern Pennsylvania. Ms. Rosenthal has over forty-five years of experience in economic development, business investment, and regional planning. With a current portfolio of over 200 technology companies, she has led Ben Franklin since 1996, growing its reputation and impact through innovative partnerships and a solid track record of seeding hundreds of southeastern Pennsylvania's technology leaders across all areas of technology. She helped design and launch the region's Health Care Innovation Collaborative, an open innovation model unifying universities, corporations, investors, healthcare providers, and insurers in the development of new solutions; and catalyzed the development and launch of ImpactPHL, a regional alliance focused on the growth of the Greater Philadelphia's impact economy.
Temple UniversityWilmington, DE
200 Powder Mill Road
Building E500
Wilmington
Delaware
19803
United States
AmericasNorth America15821515
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Mark Stevens JDStevensMarkMaleFenwick & WestLaw FirmPartner, Corporate
+1 (650) 335-7257
mstevens@fenwick.com
www.fenwick.com
Mr. Mark Stevens serves as Partner, Corporate at Fenwick & West. He works with emerging companies, investment banks, and venture capital, and other technology investors on complex corporate and transactional matters, as well as with mature companies in their tech-related initiatives. As a lawyer and a business principal, Mark has led teams handling merger, acquisition, and divestiture transactions with a total announced value well in excess of $50 billion. He has directed dozens of initial public offerings and hundreds of strategic alliance transactions, ranging from technology and distribution partnerships to multinational joint venture transactions.
Northwestern University, Santa Clara University
Mountain View, CA
801 California Street
Mountain View
California
94041
United States
AmericasNorth America1561155
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Max LevchinLevchinMaxMaleAffirmPublic Company
Chief Executive Officer & Chairman
+1 (855) 423-3729
max.levchin@affirm.com
www.affirm.com
Mr. Max Levchin is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer & Chairman at Affirm. He served as Board Member at Unity. He is a Co-Founder and serves as a Partner at SciFi VC. He Co-Founded PayPal Holdings. He serves as Board Member at Polywork, Unity Technologies, MixPanel and Quid. He serves as the Executive Chairman at Upwards Labs Holdings. He is an Advisor of Anchorage. He was an Advisor of Crunchyroll. Prior to Affirm, he co-founded and was the Chairman of Glow. Prior to that, he co-founded and served as General Partner at SciFi VC, a venture capital firm. In 2004, he founded Slide, a personal media-sharing service for social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook, which he sold to Google in August 2010. Also in 2004, he helped start Yelp, where he was the first investor and Chairman of the Board from 2004 until 2015. He served as a Board member at Emerald Cloud Lab, Yahoo!, Yelp and Evernote. In 2002, he was named to the Technology Review TR100 as one of the top 100 innovators in the world as well as Innovator of the Year. He earned his Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champagne. He also serves as Investment Partner at Nyca Partners. Mr. Levchin serves as Advisor at SignalFire. He is an Angel Investor.
University of Illinois
San Francisco, CA
650 California Street
Floor 12
San Francisco
California
94108
United States
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Neeraj AgrawalAgrawalNeerajMaleBattery VenturesVenture CapitalGeneral Partner
+1 (617) 948-3600
nagrawal@battery.com
www.battery.com
+1 (617) 948-3601
Mr. Neeraj Agrawal serves as Board Member at Tealium. He serves as Board Member at Workato & Compt. He serves as General Partner at Battery Ventures. He severs as Board Member at Dataiku. He is a Board Member of LogRocket, Braze, Level AI, Sprinklr Japan, Clubhouse Software, Brightree, Yesware, Catchpoint, Pendo.io and Tundra. Previously, he served as Board Member at Chef Software and SmarterHQ. He was a founding Investor in BladeLogic (NASDAQ: BLOG, acquired by BMC). In addition to BladeLogic, his investments include Applimation (acquired by Informatica), Bazaarvoice (NASDAQ: BV), Brightree, Consona (acquired by Vista Equity Partners), Guidewire Software (NASDAQ: GWRE), Internet Brands (acquired by Hellman & Friedman), LifeMed Media, Marketo (NASDAQ: MKTO), Mass Relevance, Omniture (acquired by Adobe), RealPage (NASDAQ: RP), Sprinklr, Tealium, VSS Monitoring (acquired by Danaher), Wayfair (formerly CSN Stores) and Yesware. Prior to Battery, he worked as a Product Manager at Real Networks. He holds an Engineering degree in Computer Science from Cornell University as well as an MBA with honors from the Harvard Business School. He is a Charter Member of TiE.
Harvard Business School, Cornell University
Boston, MA
One Marina Park Drive
Suite 1100
Boston
Massachusetts
2210
United States
AmericasNorth America18152111913
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Michelangelo Volpi
Volpi
Michelangelo
MaleIndex VenturesVenture CapitalPartner
+44 20 7154 2015
volpim@indexventures.com
www.indexventures.com
Mr. Michelangelo Volpi serves as Partner at Index Ventures. He served as Board Member at Zuora. He serves as Board Member at Clumio, Temporal Technologies and Hebbia. He served as Board Member at Scuba. She joined Index in 2009, to help establish the firm's San Francisco office with Danny Rimer. He serves as Board Member at Scale AI, Abacus.AI, and Elemental. He served as Board Member at ArthurAI and Optimizely. He invests primarily in infrastructure, open-source, and artificial intelligence companies. He's currently serving the boards of Aurora, Enforce, Cockroach Labs, Confluent, Covariant.ai, Elastic, Kong, Sonos, Starburst, Lookout, Cohere, and Wealthfront. Mike was previously a director of Blue Bottle Coffee, Hortonworks, and he currently serves on the board for Fiat Chrysler Automotive. He held several executive positions prior to Index, including Chief Strategy Officer and SVP/GM of Cisco's routing business. He managed a P&L in excess of $10 billion in revenues, and his team was responsible for the acquisition of over 70 companies, some of which were multi-billion deals. He has a B.S in mechanical engineering and an M.S. in manufacturing systems engineering from Stanford, and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He currently serves on the Global Advisory Board of Stanford's Knight Hennessy Scholars program. He also serves as Board Member at ClickHouse.
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
San Francisco, CA
139 Townsend Street
Suite 505
San Francisco
California
94107
United States
AmericasNorth America26150310616
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Scott SandellSandellScottMale
New Enterprise Associates
Venture Capital
Managing General Partner, Enterprise, Consumers
+1 (650) 332-2151
ssandell@nea.com
www.nea.com
+1 (650) 687-1854
Mr. Scott Sandell serves as Managing General Partner, Enterprise, and Consumer at New Enterprise Associates. He serves as Advisor at Media Predict. He served as a Board Member at Fetchr & Inkitt. Merge and Tuya Smart. He served as Advisor at BloomReach. He serves as Advisor at Four Rivers Group. He served as Board Member at Datrium. He served as a Board Member at Automation Anywhere and Divvy. He served as a Board Member at UnifyID, Expanse, and CareZone. He serves as Board Member at Alfred. He served as Board Member at BlueJeans. He serves as a Board Member of One Concern, Robinhood, and Tableau Software. Since joining the firm in 1996, he has personally led investments in industry-transforming companies like Bloom Energy, Data Domain, Fusion-io, Salesforce.com, Tableau Software, WebEx, and Workday. He is among the most frequently named investors on the Forbes Midas List, with 22 technology companies in his portfolio having successfully completed public offerings or mergers. In addition to his focus on information technology and alternative energy investments, he leads NEA's investing activities in China. He is currently a director of a number of private companies including Bloom Energy, Branch Metrics, Captora, CloudFlare, Coursera, Green Chef, Sentons, and Tuya. Other previous investments include Fusion-io (acquired by SanDisk), Neoteris (acquired by Juniper Networks), NetIQ (acquired by Attachmate Corporation), Playdom (acquired by Disney), and Spreadtrum Communications (acquired by Tsinghua Unigroup). Prior to joining NEA, he was a Product Manager at Microsoft, where he worked on Windows 95. Before joining Microsoft, he was the first salesperson at C-ATS Software and later co-founded and ran the company's European subsidiary. He began his career at the Boston Consulting Group. He holds an MBA from Stanford and an AB in Engineering Sciences from Dartmouth College. He also serves on the Board of Overseers for the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth and is a former Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) (2014-2015). He served as a Board Member at Bitglass.
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Dartmouth College
Menlo Park, CA
2855 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park
California
94025
United States
AmericasNorth America13150211715
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Michael MoritzMoritzMichaelMaleSequoia CapitalVenture CapitalPartner & Chairman
+1 (650) 854-3927
moritz@sequoiacap.com
www.sequoiacap.com
Mr. Michael Moritz serves as Partner & Chairman at Sequoia Capital. He serves as Board Member at Watershed and WireScreen. He is a Co-Founder and serves as President and Chief Financial Officer at Crankstart Foundation. He also serves as Board Member at Stripe. He serves as Chairman at Klarnaand Instacart. He serves as Board Member at Pocket Outdoor Media. He was a Board Member at Flipagram. He joined LinkedIn's board of directors in January 2011. He has been a Managing Member of venture capital firm Sequoia Capital since 1986 and has served as Sequoia Capital's chair since 2012. He currently serves on the board of directors for a number of public and private companies, including Stripe, Green Dot Corporation, Sugar, and [24]7.ai Customer. Previously, he was a member of the board of directors at various public companies, including Google, PayPal, Red Envelope, Saba Software, Flextronics, Yahoo!, and Zappos. He is a venture capitalist at Sequoia Capital focusing on software and services investments. Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 1986, he served on the boards of Flextronics International, Google, Yahoo!, and PayPal. He is the co-founder of Technologic Partners, a publications and events firm that was acquired by Dow Jones & Company. He was also the former Bureau Chief of Times, San Francisco. He also serves as a board member at Luxim Corporation, Magic, and PopSugar. He holds an M.A. in Modern History from the University of Oxford. He is an Angel Investor. He holds other degrees from Wharton School and the University of Oxford. He also served as Board Member at Charlotte Tilbury Beauty.
Stockholm School of Economics, University of Oxford
Menlo Park, CA
2800 Sand Hill Road
Suite 101
Menlo Park
California
94025
United States
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Steve AndersonAndersonSteveMaleSoFiPublic CompanyBoard Member
+1 (415) 722-1224
steve@baselinev.com
www.sofi.com
Mr. Steve Anderson serves as Board Member at SoFi. Mr. Steve Anderson serves as Advisor and Board Member at Figure Technologies. He is the Founder of Baseline Ventures. He serves as Board Member at UserVoice. He also serves as Board Member at LucidLink, CybeReady, Dishcraft Robotics, Giftly, Loansnap, Librato, Karuna Labs and RStudio. He serves as an Advisor at Figure. He also serves on the Board of Social Finance and Gild. At Baseline, he focuses on helping founders build and grow their early-stage companies into change-affecting enterprises. Among his successes are his investments in OMGPOP, Instagram, Taskrabbit, Stumbleupon, Heroku and Path. Before founding Baseline, he was a Senior Director at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, he was a Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers. He holds Bachelor's degrees in Physics and Business from the University of Washington and an MBA from Stanford University. He also served as Board Member at nWay and Liftoff. He also serves as Advisor at Provenance (Financial Software).
Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of Washington
San Francisco, CA
234 First Street
San Francisco
California
94105
United States
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Promod Haque Ph.D
HaquePromodMale
Norwest Venture Partners
Venture CapitalManaging Partner
+1 (650) 321-8000
phaque@nvp.com
www.nvp.com
Dr. Promod Haque serves as Managing Partner at Norwest Venture Partners. He served as Board Member at CognitiveScale and Sulekha. He serves as a Partner at Still Capital Partners. He also served as an Advisor at Voyager Capital. He is a Board Member of Prevedere, Simpplr, and Vanu. He served as a Board Member at Yatra and Appnomic. He also serves as a Board Member at CollabNet, OnDisplay, and CareCloud. He joined NVP in 1990 and has invested in more than 60 companies since he began his venture career, producing nearly $30B in exit values to date. More than 20 of his portfolio companies have gone public and nearly 35 have been acquired (or have gone public and been acquired). Mr. Haque was ranked as a top investor on the annual Forbes Midas List for nine years and in 2004, Forbes named him the #1 venture capitalist based on performance over the previous decade. In 2006, he was presented with a Global Leadership award from NASSCOM, and he was recently honored with the 2011 SV Forum Visionary Award based on his outstanding achievements and contributions to the technology industry. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Delhi, India. He holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Northwestern University and an MBA from Northwestern's Kellogg Graduate School of Management, where he serves on the advisory board. He also serves as the Board Member at FireEye and Veveo. He also serves as a board member of Apigee. He also serves as a board member of Health Catalyst. He also serves on the board of Apprity. He also serves as a Board Member at Slash Next. He serves as Board Member at Cotribute.
Northwestern University (Kellogg), Northwestern University, Delhi University, India
Palo Alto, CA
525 University Avenue
Suite 800
Palo Alto
California
94301
United States
AmericasNorth America9147312411
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David ShapiroShapiroDavidMaleAlumni VenturesVenture Capital
Managing Partner Blue Ivy Ventures
+1 (603) 518-8112
david@av.vcwww.av.vc
Mr. David Shapiro serves as Managing Partner Blue Ivy Ventures at Alumni Ventures. He has over 25 years of experience as an investor, advisor, and board member, with expertise across early and late-stage venture capital, growth investing, and secondary deals, as well as in technology operations and entrepreneurship. Before joining the Alumni Ventures Group, he was Senior VP of Corporate Development and Business Development for DataXu, a marketer-aligned data, and analytics company. Prior to his time at DataXu, he was a Director with the global venture and private equity firm 3i and a Managing Partner at Great Point Capital (established to manage a venture portfolio spun off from 3i.) He received his BA in History from Yale in 1991, and an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth in 2000.
Dartmouth College (Tuck), Yale University
Manchester, NH
670 North Commercial Street
Suite 403
Manchester
New Hampshire
3101
United States
AmericasNorth America144111231
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Salil Deshpande
Deshpande
SalilMale
Uncorrelated Ventures
Venture CapitalGeneral Partner
+1 (650) 551-1600
salil@uncorrelated.com
uncorrelated.com
Mr. Salil Deshpande serves as General Partner at Uncorrelated Ventures. He served as a Managing Director at Bain Capital Ventures. He serves as a Board Member at Redis. He serves as a Board Member at Dgraph Labs. He serves as Executive, Fund Management at Blockchain Ventures (CVC). He serves as Board Member at Gradle. He serves as a Board Member at Blitzz and RentoMojo. He serves as an Advisor of Quantum Metric. He serves as a Board Member at Aria Systems, RedisDB, Typesafe, Eventful and Hazelcast. He served as Board Observer at oak9. He served as Board Observer at Zero Hash. Earlier, he served as Board Member at PurePlay. He was a Board Member of Lightbend. He served as Board Member at Iron.io. 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 a board member at ScaleArc and Rollbar. He is also an Angel Investor. He serves as Advisor at RudderStack. He served as Board Member at Sysdig.
Stanford University, Cornell University
San Francisco, CA
548 Market Street
Suite 34015
San Francisco
California
94104
United States
AmericasNorth America914221208
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Howard LindzonLindzonHowardMaleSocial LeverageVenture Capital
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
+1 (602) 315-8920
howard@socialleverage.com
www.socialleverage.com
Mr. Howard Lindzon is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Social Leverage. He serves as Advisor at Shift. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer at Social Leverage Acquisition Corp. He serves as Board Member at Tixologi and Cosaic. He serves as Board Member at Civic. He heads Fintech investments for the fund. He served as Board Member at Stackin' & eToro. He is a member of the Investment Committee and works with founder networks and venture teams to lead deal flow for the firm. His unique insights and reputation in the Fintech community help Social Leverage's most innovative portfolio companies gain access to influential leaders in Tech, driving new product development and new market opportunities. He has been an active early-stage investor for over 25 years, notably founding Wallstrip (acquired by CBS) and social networking site Stocktwits. Previously, he was a Principal and Partner at Knights Bridge Capital Partners and ran Lindzon Capital Partners, an event-driven, long/short equity investment fund. He also served as a Principal & Partner at Knight's Bridge Capital Partners. He currently serves as Chairman at Stocktwits and a Board Observer to Rally Road.
Thunderbird School of Global Management, University of Western Ontario, American Graduate School of International Management, Arizona State University
Scottsdale, AZ
8390 East Via de Venture
Suite F110
Scottsdale
Arizona85258
United States
AmericasNorth America414131275
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Theodore Schlein
SchleinTheodoreMaleKleiner PerkinsVenture CapitalPartner
+1 (650) 233-2750
teds@kpcb.com
www.kleinerperkins.com
+1 (650) 233-0300
Mr. Theodore Schlein serves as Partner at Kleiner Perkins. He served as Board Member at Inspirato. He serves as the Board Member at BedRock Systems, Area 1 Security and Interos. He joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1996 and focuses on early-stage technology companies in the enterprise software and infrastructure markets, including ventures within the networking and consumer security arenas. Mr. Schlein has led KPCB's involvement in a number of successful investments, including Mandiant (acquired by Fire Eye), Chegg (CHGG), IPO, LifeLock (LOCK), IPO; Jive Software (JIVE), IPO; ArcSight (ARST), IPO, sold to HP; Beijing Venustech (002439:Shenzhen),IPO; Corio (CRIO), sold to IBM; Extensity (EXTN), sold to GEAC; Fortify Software, sold to HP; Internet Security Systems (ISSX), sold to IBM; and Oakley Networks, sold to Raytheon. Mr. Schlein was the founding CEO of Fortify Software, a pioneer in the software security market and now an HP company. He serves on the board of directors of 3VR, Area 1 Security, Alien Vault, Chegg, FullStory, Ionic Security, IronNet Cybersecurity, IronPlanet, Jive Software, Reputation.com, Shape Security, Synack and Trusona. Additionally, Mr. Schlein oversees KPCB's investments in Bit9, Endgame Systems and Segment. Before joining KPCB, Mr. Schlein served as vice president, Enterprise Solutions at Symantec. One of Symantec's early employees, he played an instrumental role in the company's growth and dominance as a global software leader. Mr. Schlein led Symantec's successful move into the software utilities market, as well as the launch of its commercial anti-virus solution, an offering that quickly emerged as the industry gold standard. Mr. Schlein is the former chairman of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA), a national alliance advocating the role of venture investing in job creation, technology innovation and economic development. He is also the former president of the Western Association of Venture Capitalists and the founder of DoD sponsored DeVenCI program. He currently serves on the board of overseers of the Engineering School at the University of Pennsylvania and sits on the Board of Trustees at InQTel. Mr. Schlein frequently participates as an opinion leader in public, private and government forums, providing perspectives on security technology, related investments and market adoption trends. Mr. Schlein holds a B.A. degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He served as a Board member at Ayasdi, Rebellion Defense and Jask. He served as a Board Member at Endgame. Mr. Schlein served as board member at shape security.
University of Pennsylvania
Menlo Park, CA
2750 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park
California
94025
United States
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Jonathan Callaghan
CallaghanJonathanMaleTrue VenturesVenture CapitalCo-Founder
+1 (650) 319-2150
jon@trueventures.com
www.trueventures.com
Mr. Jonathan Callaghan is a Co-Founder at True Ventures. He serves as Board Member at Peloton (Recreational Goods). He also served as Board Member at Sofar Ocean, Cloverpop and The Yes. He serves as Board Member at Madison Reed. He was a Board Member of Peloton and Keep Holdings. He serves as Board Member at NoRedInk. He served as a Board Member at Ginger.io. He served as the Chairman at National Venture Capital Association. He served as Advisor at Sherpa. He has founded three of his own companies and has been in the venture capital business since 1991. He founded his first company, Mountain Bike Outfitters, Inc in 1986. He started his venture career as an associate at Summit Partners and then joined AOL's Greenhouse, the venture capital/incubator for AOL. He joined the internet market early by joining CMGi's @Ventures group in 1996. Before founding True, he was a Managing Director at Globespan Capital. He received a BA in Government from Dartmouth College and an MBA, with distinction, from Harvard Business School. He is a Board Member of Murj. He served as a Board Member at 3DR and DropLabs.
Harvard Business School, Dartmouth College
Palo Alto, CA
575 High Street
Palo Alto
California
94301
United States
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Bryan Roberts Ph.D
RobertsBryanMaleLyraPrivate Company
Co-Founder & Board Member
+1 (877) 505-7147
bryan@lyrahealth.com
www.lyrahealth.com
Dr. Bryan Roberts is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman of Castlight Health, Inc. He also serves as Partner at Venrock. He served as Board Member at Hua Medicine, Adavium Medical, Achaogen, Intarcia and SmithRx. He also serves as a Board Member at The Public Health Company, Encoded Therapeutics, Comet Medicine, TidePool, PowerVision, Mythic Therapeutics, and Devoted Health. Dr. Roberts joined Venrock, a venture capital investment firm, in 1997. From 1989 to 1992, Dr. Roberts worked in the corporate finance department of Kidder, Peabody & Co., a brokerage company. Dr. Roberts also currently serves as the chairman of the board and director of several private companies. Dr. Roberts previously served on the board of directors of publicly-traded Athenahealth, Inc. from 1999 to 2009, XenoPort, Inc., from 2000 to 2007, Sirna Therapeutics, Inc. from 2003 to 2007, Vitae Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from 2001 to 2016, Zeltiq Aethetics, Inc. from 2008 to 2016 and Ironwood Pharmaceuticals, Inc. from 2001 to 2016. Dr. Roberts holds a B.A. in Chemistry from Dartmouth College and a Ph.D. in Chemistry and Chemical Biology from Harvard University. Dr. Roberts brings to our board of directors substantial experience in the life sciences industry, having served on the board of directors of several private and public companies. He also serves as the Chairman of the Board of Fate Therapeutics. Dr. Roberts is also a Co-Founder of Castlight Health. He also serves as a Board member at Inscripta. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Need.
Harvard University, Dartmouth College
Burlingame, CA
287 Lorton Avenue
Burlingame
California
94010
United States
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Peter WagnerWagnerPeterMale
Wing Venture Capital
Venture CapitalCo-Founding Partner
+1 (650) 316-8300
peter@wing.vcwww.wing.vc
Mr. Peter Wagner is a Co-Founding Partner of Wing Venture Partners. He serves as a Board Member at Gong. He served as Board Member at BlueJeans and Lumigo. He serves as Board Member at Pinecone, Hydrolix, Upsolver, Juvo, Tigera, Ordr, and StepZen. He serves as a Board Observer at Valtix. He has led investments in dozens of early-stage companies, more than 25 of which have gone on to complete IPO's or successful acquisitions. These companies include Nimble Storage, Fusion-io, Redback Networks, Riverbed, Arrowpoint Communications, Infinera, Peribit, Topspin, Omneon, and most recently, Opower, to name a few. He served as Board Member at Acetti Software and Cumulus. He currently works with a private company portfolio that includes Blue Jeans Network, Qwilt, Jut, Platfora, CloudPhysics, Primary Data, and Moogsoft, among others. Before founding Wing, he helped lead Accel Partners for 15 years as Managing Partner. Prior to joining Accel, he was a line manager at Silicon Graphics, responsible for several generations of digital media and graphics workstation products. He previously worked with McKinsey and Company and began his career as a physicist working in nuclear fusion research and aerospace. He holds an AB in Physics from Harvard College, summa cum laude, and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.
Harvard Business School, Harvard University
Palo Alto, CA
480 Lytton Avenue
Palo Alto
California
94301
United States
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Kevin HartzHartzKevinMaleTwoPublic Company
Chief Executive Officer & Founder
+1 (415) 963-4055
kevin@a-star.co
Kevin E. Hartz is the Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at A* Capital. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer & Founder at Two. He also serves as Executive Chairman & Co-Founder at Eventbrite. Prior to that, he was the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Xoom. He received a Bachelor of Arts and Science degree in History and Applied Earth Sciences from Stanford University and a Master's degree from University College, Oxford University.
Stanford University, University of Oxford
San Francisco, CA
16 Funston Avenue
Suite A
San Francisco
California
94129
United States
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Matthew MurphyMurphyMatthewMaleMenlo VenturesVenture CapitalPartner
+1 (650) 854-8540
matt@menlovc.com
www.menlovc.com
+1 (650) 854-7059
Mr. Matthew Murphy serves as Board Member at Finch. He serves as Borad Member at Canvas. He serves as Partner at Menlo Ventures. He served as Board Member at Observable, Fleetsmith, Clarifai, Alloy Technolgies, ScoutRFP and 6 River Systems, Vivun. He serves as Board Member at Airbase, HOVER, Datameer, Harness.io, Envoy, Carta, and Zylo. He focuses on multi-stage investments across enterprise infrastructure and mobile-first applications. He works closely with the management teams of AppDynamics, Drawbridge, Egnyte, InsideSales.com, InstartLogic, PernixData, Puppet Labs, SessionM, Shazam, Simplivity. Previously, he was a General Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers for over 15 years. In addition to investing in the companies above, he was an observer at Google (from initial investment to IPO), launched the iFund in '08 (a collaborative initiative with Apple to build the defining applications on the iOS platform), and led KPCB's investments in AutoNavi (Nasdaq: AMAP, 2010) and Aerohive Networks (Nasdaq: HIVE, 2014). He also served as a director at Shopkick (acquired by SK Planet 2014), Ocarina Networks (acquired by Dell in 2010), and Peakstream (acquired by Google in 2008). Before joining KPCB, he worked at semiconductor startup Netboost (acquired by Intel) where he led product management and prior to that at Sun Microsystems, where he led business development for the Network Systems Group and was a product line manager for networking platforms. He also worked in strategic and technical consulting for a number of years at Booz Allen Hamilton and Accenture. He holds a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Tufts University and an M.B.A. from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. He serves as Vice Chairman of the Stanford University Engineering Venture Fund, is on the Board of Advisors for the Tufts University Electrical Engineering School. He served as Partner Emeritus and Advisor at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. He served as Board Member at Veriflow Systems and Usermind.
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Tufts University
San Francisco, CA
524 2nd Street
San Francisco
California
94107
United States
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Amish JaniJaniAmishMaleFirstMark CapitalVenture Capital
Co-Founder and Partner
+1 (212) 792-2200
ajani@firstmarkcap.com
www.firstmarkcap.com
+1 (212) 792-2222
Mr. Amish Jani serves as Board Member at TraceLink. He is a Co-Founder and serves as a Partner at FirstMark Capital. He served as a Board Member at Subkit and ROLI. He also served as Board Member at Frame.io. He served as Board Member at Schoology, Tasting Room, Optimus Ride, and Engagio. He serves as Board Member at Loop, Kepler, TraceLink, InVisionApp, Lumosity, Brooklinen, StraighterLine, Gravie, Bonusly, Knewton, and ZILLA Security. He served as a Board Member at Klara. He invests broadly across the cloud and Internet landscape, including sectors such as mobile, commerce, education, healthcare, online marketing, and infrastructure software. Prior to founding FirstMark Capital, he served as a Partner with Pequot Ventures. He holds both a B.S. and an M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He serves as Board Member at Bluecore.
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)
New York, NY
100 5th Avenue
New York
New York
10011
United States
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David CowanCowanDavidMale
Bessemer Venture Partners
Venture CapitalPartner
+1 (650) 853-7000
david@bvp.comwww.bvp.com
Mr. David Cowan serves as a Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners. He serves as Board Member at Iris Automation. He serves as Board Member and Board Observer Contractbook. and Advisor at Iris Automation. He serves as Board Member at Team8, CyberGRX, Reputation.com, Smule, DroneDeploy, and Bastille Networks. He served as Board Member at Auth0. His historical portfolio includes Ciena, Hotjobs, Blue Nile, LinkedIn, LifeLock, PSI-Net, Qualys, and over a dozen other IPOs, as well as many large acquisitions such as Twitch, Postini, Cyota, Tripwire, Netli, Playdom, Dropcam, and Skybox Imaging. He served as Board Member at Distil Networks. He serves as an Advisor at Propy. His current portfolio - spanning startups founded in the U.S., Argentina, Singapore, Israel, New Zealand, and Scotland - includes Getinsured, Smule, Twilio, Rocket Lab, iSight Partners, Spire Global, and Zapier. He served as Board Member at Zoosk. During his tenure at BVP. He co-founded three cybersecurity companies incubated in our offices: VeriSign (IPO), where he served as initial Chairman and CFO; Good Technology (fka Visto, acquired by Blackberry) where he served as CEO, and Defense.net (acquired by F5). Forbes ranked him #6 on the Midas List and tied for 4th in the Midas List of Hall of Fame. He is a Trustee of the Richard Dawkins Foundation for Reason and Science. You can read his blog at WhoHasTimeForThis?, follow him on Twitter (@davidcowan) or see him perform with his men's a capella singing group Voices in Harmony. He also serves as a Board Member at Claroty. He was an Advisor at Reef Capital Ventures. Mr. Cowan earned an A.B. in math and computer science and an MBA degree, both from Harvard University He served as a Board Member at Endgame.
Harvard Business School, Harvard University
Redwood City, CA
889 Winslow Street
Suite 500
Redwood City
California
94063
United States
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Matthew McIlwain
McIlwainMatthewMale
Madrona Venture Group
Venture CapitalManaging Director
+1 (206) 674-3000
matt@madrona.com
www.madrona.com
+1 (206) 674-8703
Mr. Matthew McIlwain serves as the Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group. He serves as Board Member at Proof Diagnostics. He also serves as Board Member at Smartsheet and Modulus Therapeutics. He served as Board Member at Suplari. He served as a Board Member at Xnor.ai. He also serves as an Advisor at Garden City (Georgia). He serves as the Chairman of the Board at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. He is a Board Observer at Accolade. He also serves as an Executive at Fruition Ventures. He is a Board Member at OctoML, Amperity, TraceMe, 2nd Watch, Animoto, Apptio, GraphLab,Mixpo, Placed, Qumulo, and Skytap. He served as Igneous at Igneous, Before joining Madrona in 2000, he was vice president of the business process for the Genuine Parts Company (NYSE: GPC), a Fortune 250 company. He also was an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company, concentrating on strategy and marketing, and prior to that worked in investment banking at Credit Suisse. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College, holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a Master's in Public Policy from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He served as Board Member at Domicile and ExtraHop. He serves as Board Member at A-Alpha Bio. He serves as Board Member at Read AI.
Harvard Business School, Dartmouth College
Seattle, WA
999 Third Avenue
34th Floor
Seattle
Washington
98104
United States
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Oren ZeevZeevOrenMaleZeev VenturesVenture CapitalFounding Partner
+1 (650) 383-7170
oren_z@zeevventures.com
www.zeevventures.com
Mr. Oren Zeev is the Founding Partner of Zeev Ventures. He serves as Board Member at Themis-Tech. He also serves as Board Member at Veev and Exodigo. He also serves as Advisor at Sure Ventures. He also serves as Board Member at DataRails, Open base, Sunbit, HomeLight, UP9, TripActions, Next Insurance, Trip.com and Uncommon & Houzz. He served as Board Member at Reali. He has backed successful companies like Houzz, Audible, Chegg, and others who are redefining their respective industries. He backs two or three companies per year and makes significant investments in each. He served as a Board member at Infolinks.
INSEAD, Israel Institute of Technology
Palo Alto, CA
555 Bryant Street
Suite 811
Palo Alto
California
94301
United States
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Albert Wenger Ph.D
WengerAlbertMale
Union Square Ventures
Venture CapitalPartner
+1 (212) 994-7880
albert@usv.comwww.usv.com
+1 (212) 994-7399
Dr. Albert Wenger serves as a Partner at Union Square Ventures. He also serves as a Board Member at Shippo, Zanskar, Blockstack, Code Climate, Foursquare, Shapeways, Shippo, Sift, Simscale, Skillshare, Top Hat, and Wattpad. He serves as Board Member at Otis Wealth, Clarifai, Dwolla, The Human Diagnosis Project, goTenna, and Viam Robotics. He is also an Advisor at ChangeX and Remora. He is also an Angel Investor. As an entrepreneur, he has founded or co-founded five companies, including a management consulting firm (in Germany), a hosted data analytics company, a technology subsidiary for Telebanc (now E*Tradebank), and most recently, DailyLit. Previously, he also served as the president of del.icio.us. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard College in economics and computer science and holds a Ph.D. in Information Technology from MIT.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Harvard University
New York, NY
817 Broadway
14th Floor
New York
New York
10003
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Stephen CaseCaseStephenMaleRevolution/ROTRVenture Capital
Founder, Partner, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman
+1 (202) 292-2400
stevecase2009@comcast.net
www.revolution.com
+1 (202) 776-1498
Mr. Stephen Case is the Founder and serves as Partner, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman at Revolution/ROTR. He Case serves as Board Member at Maui Land & Pineapple Company. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer, and Partner at Revolution. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at The Case Foundation. Mr. Case served as Advisor Echo360. Mr. Case is one of America's best-known and most accomplished entrepreneurs and a pioneer in making the Internet part of everyday life. For the past 15 years, Steve's focus has been on starting and scaling Revolution, the Washington DC-based investment firm that now backs entrepreneurs at every stage of their development. Revolution Growth has invested nearly $1 billion in growth-stage companies including Sweetgreen, Tempus, Tala, DraftKings, and Clear. Revolution Ventures has backed more than two dozen venture-stage companies, including Framebridge, Policygenius, and Bloomscape. The Rise of the Rest Seed Fund has invested in more than 130 startups in over 70 U.S. cities, in partnership with many of America's most successful entrepreneurs and investors. Mr. Case's entrepreneurial career began in 1985 when he co-founded America Online (AOL). Under Steve's leadership, AOL became the world's largest and most valuable Internet company, helping to drive the worldwide adoption of a medium that has transformed business and society. AOL was the first Internet company to go public, and the best-performing stocks of the 1990s, delivering an 11,616% return to shareholders. At its peak, nearly half of Internet users in the United States used AOL. In 2000, He negotiated the largest merger in business history, bringing together AOL and Time Warner in a transaction that gave AOL shareholders a majority stake in the combined company. To facilitate the merger, Mr. Case agreed to step down as CEO when the merger closed. His passion for helping entrepreneurs remains his driving force. He was the founding chair of the Startup America Partnership-an effort launched at the White House in 2011 to accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship throughout the nation. He also was the founding co-chair of the National Advisory Council on Innovation & Entrepreneurship, and a member of President Obama's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, where he chaired the subcommittee on entrepreneurship. Mr. Case has been a leading voice in shaping government policy on issues related to entrepreneurship, working across the aisle to advance public policies that expand access to capital and talent. He was instrumental in passing the JOBS (Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act and the Investing in Opportunities Act and is active in advocating on behalf of immigration reform and legislation that supports and accelerates the emergence of startup ecosystems in rising cities. Mr. Case also serves as the Chairman of the Executive Committee & Member of the compensation, Human Resources, Investment, Strategy, Innovation, and Technology Committee of the Smithsonian Institution, the world's largest museum, and research complex. In this role, Mr. Case leads the Board of Regents' efforts to increase the Institution's reach, impact, and relevance. Together the Cases have invested in hundreds of organizations, initiatives, and partnerships with a focus on leveraging the Internet and entrepreneurial approaches to strengthen the social sector. In 2010, Mr. Case and Jean joined The Giving Pledge and publicly reaffirmed their commitment to giving away the majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes. Mr. Case is also the author of the New York Times bestselling book, The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future. In it, Case recounted many of the lessons he learned from building businesses and outlined the growing importance of place, policy, and partnerships.
Williams CollegeWashington, DC
1717 Rhode Island Avenue, Northwest
Suite 1000, 10th Floor
Washington
District of Columbia
20036
United States
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Meyer MalkaMalkaMeyerMaleRibbit CapitalVenture Capital
Founder & Managing Partner
+1 (650) 485-3758
micky@ribbitcap.com
www.ribbitcap.com
Mr. Meyer Rais serves as Executive at Latitud. Mr. Meyer is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner of Ribbit Capital. He was a Co-Founder and served as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Ribbit LEAP. He serves as Board Member at Provenance (Financial Software), Xapo, BharatPe, Compara Online, Dreamplug Technologies, Brex, Vouch Insurance and Health IQ. He served as Board Member at Nubank and Credit Karma. He was an Advisor and Board Member of BTCJam. He served as Board Member at GuiaBolso. He serves as Board Member at LendingHome. He is also served as a Board Member and Co-Founder of Lemon. After two decades of experience as an investor and serial entrepreneur, he started Heptagon Group, a broker/dealer at the age of 19. He intends to use Ribbit as an agent for change in the ossified and slow-to-change financial services category. The combination of his deep understanding of the financial services sector, the technologies that drive it, and the access to capital that Ribbit offers, are providing global entrepreneurs with the access and know-how required to create the transformative businesses of the future. He is currently the co-founder and the chairman of Lemon, an innovative wallet-in-the-cloud service that enables users to track and manage their expenses. Through that, they can become smarter and more successful consumers of financial services. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Wonga, a company that is showing banks how lending is done, by offering short-term financing with dazzling speed, convenience and flexibility. He also serves as a director of Peixe Urbano, the first and largest Latin American local commerce website. He was a Board Member of Youdazzle. He serves as Board Member at Vise.
Palo Alto, CA
364 University Avenue
Palo Alto
California
94301
United States
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Roger EhrenbergEhrenbergRogerMale
IA Ventures (Former)
Venture Capital
Founder & Managing Partner
+1 (855) 463-6775
roger@ebergcapital.com
www.iaventures.com
Mr. Roger Ehrenberg serves as Partner at Eberg Capital. He served as Board Member at Ethyca. He Founded and served as Managing Partner at IA Ventures. He also serves as Board Member at Direct Match. He serves as the Board Observer & Advisor at Signifyd. He currently sits on the Boards of DataSift, Metamarkets, Sight Machine, Octane, The Trade Desk, Wise and Twice and is a Board Observer of MemSQL. He also served as a Board Observer at savingstar. He served as a Board Member at PlaceIQ. Formerly, he served on the boards of Buddy Media, Global Bay Mobile Technologies, Magnetic, Recorded Future and Simple. Prior to forming IA Ventures, Roger was an active angel investor through IA Capital Partners, a seed-stage investment firm focused on digital media and financial technology. From 2004 to 2009, Roger seeded 40 companies, including bit.ly, Buddy Media (acquired by Salesforce), Invite Media (acquired by Google), Magnetic, TicketFly, TheLadders, TubeMogul (IPO) and TweetDeck (acquired by Twitter). Earlier in his career, Roger served as President and Chief Executive Officer at DB Advisors, Deutsche Bank's internal hedge fund trading platform. Before DB Advisors, Roger was Global Co-head of Deutsche Bank's Strategic Equity Transactions Group. As an Investment Banker and Managing Director at Citibank, Roger held a variety of roles in the Capital Structuring, Derivatives and Mergers & Acquisitions Divisions. Roger holds an MBA in Finance, Accounting and Management from Columbia Business School and a BBA in Finance, Economics and Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan. He is also an Angel investor.
Columbia Business School, University of Michigan
San Francisco, CA
534 Fourth Street
San Francisco
California
94107
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Jeffrey FagnanFagnanJeffreyMaleMaiden LaneVenture Capital
Co-Founder & Investment Committee Member
+1 (617) 277-4150
nivi@venturehacks.com
www.maidenlane.com
Mr. Jeffrey Fagnan is a Co-Founder and served as Investment Committee Member at Maiden Lane. He is a Co-Founder & serves as Board Member & President at TUGG. He is a Co-Founding Partner at Accomplice VC. He serves as a Board Member at Recorded Future, FreshBooks, Insight Squared and Threat Stack. He previously served as a Board Member at Skillz, Pagecloud, and Veracode. He also served on the boards of AngelList, Grockit, LearnBoost, Keas, Hopper, Databox, Pioneers of the Inevitable, LuckyLabs, Advanced Electron Beams and Reddo Mobility. He founded Maiden Lane Ventures, TUGG.Org, and Maiden. He is an Advisor to PeriscopeUP. He earned an MBA, with distinction, from the William E. Simon Graduate School of Business at the University of Rochester, and a bachelor's degree from the University of Alaska. He serves as Board Member at Hopper and CoinList. He served as Board Member at ZOE.
University of Rochester
San Francisco, CA
170 Clara Street
San Francisco
California
94107
United States
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Swaroop KolluriKolluriSwaroopMale
Neotribe Ventures
Venture Capital
Co-Founder & Managing Director
+1 (786) 505-4888
swaroop@neotribeventures.com
www.neotribe.com
Mr. Swaroop Kolluri is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at Neotribe Ventures. He served as Advisor at Global Ventures (Dubai). He also serves as Board Member at Correlia Biosystems, Metalenz, BillionToOne, StepZen, Console, Vendiaand, and Theta Lake. He served as Board Member at Novatium, Pluribus Networks and Illusive Networks, Heliogen, ClearMotion, BillionToOne, and Empirico. He is also a Board Member and an Advisor of Cyence. He serves as Advisor at Four Rivers Group. He was a Board Member of Metromile and Aerospike. He served as a General Partner at New Enterprise Associates and Board Member at OANDA. He served as Board Member at Infiot. He joined NEA in 2006 as a General Partner and focuses on information technology and energy technology investments. He serves on several boards for NEA portfolio companies. Prior to NEA, he was Executive VP and GM for the Security Products Group at Juniper Networks, after NetScreen's acquisition by Juniper in 2004. He served briefly as GM of NetScreen's Secure Access Products after NetScreen's acquisition of Neoteris in 2003. He was President and CEO of Neoteris, the leader of the SSL-based Application Security Gateway market, where his leadership resulted in multiple corporate and product milestones. He co-founded Healtheon/WebMD, and initially managed engineering before moving through key operational and general management roles, and eventually Senior VP and GM of Provider Services. Previously, he worked at Silicon Graphics, Inc. (SGI) managing developer products and later high-profile Interactive TV projects. He earned a B.Tech. (M.E.) from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, and an M.S. in Operations Research from SUNY, Buffalo, NY. He also serves as Board Member at Metrika. He serves as a Managing Director, Advisor & Board Member at ClimateAI.
University of Buffalo, Indian Institute of Technology
Menlo Park, CA
2744 Sand Hill Road
Suite 150
Menlo Park
California
94025
United States
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Cyan BanisterBanisterCyanFemaleAI FoundationPrivate CompanyBoard Member
+1 (650) 989-6408
sbanister@ironport.com
www.aifoundation.com
Ms. Cyan Banister serves as Board Member at AI Foundation. She is a Co-Founder of Aconite (Application Software). She serves as a General Partner, The Frontier at Long Journey Ventures. She also serves as Advisor at Turing.com & Comeback Capital. She Co-Founded Signal Media Project. Prior to joining Founders Fund, Cyan was an active Angel Investor with a portfolio including Uber, Thumbtack, SpaceX, EShares, Postmates and Affirm. A self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, Cyan has held a number of technical leadership positions throughout her career. As an early employee at IronPort, which was acquired by Cisco, Cyan oversaw support infrastructure and performance for a global customer base. Cyan has a passion for the arts and is a voracious film, documentary and media consumer. She co-founded and served as Editor-in-Chief at Zivity. She also served as Advisor at Hinge Capital. She also serves on the Board of The AI Foundation. She also served as an Advisor at Smooth Terminal.
Las Vegas, NV
6795 Edmond Street
Suite 110
Las Vegas
Nevada89118
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José FelicianoFelicianoJoséMale
Clearlake Capital Group
PE/Buyout
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
+1 (310) 400-8800
jfeliciano@clearlake.com
clearlake.com
Mr. José Feliciano serves as Co-Founder & Managing Partner at Clearlake Capital Group. He also serves as Advisor at Act One Ventures, Board Member at Better For You Holdings, Chairman of the Board at GlobeLTR Energy, Co-Chairman and board member at Janus International Group, Board of Trustee at Leland Stanford Junior University, and Co-Chairman of the Board of Smart Sand. He is a Board member of the Smithsonian Institution. He is also a Co-Founder at Kwanza Jones & José E. Feliciano Supercharged Initiative. Previously, he served as Board Member at AmQuip Crane, IronGate Energy Services, JetSmarter, Lytx, MYCOM OSI, and Platinum Energy Solutions. He also served as Chairman at Futuris Automotive and Knight Energy Services and as a Partner at Tennenbaum Capital Partners. He is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Firm. Prior to co-founding Clearlake, he was a Partner and member of the investment committee at Tennenbaum Capital Partners, a private investment firm focused on special situations and credit investments. Before joining Tennenbaum, he served as Chief Financial Officer of govWorks, Inc., payments and other services provided to the public sector, where he managed the finance, corporate development, and human resource functions. Prior to govWorks, Inc., he worked in investment banking in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Finance Groups at Goldman, Sachs & Co, and he also was a private equity investor in Latin America Enterprise Fund. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of several Clearlake portfolio companies, including BakeMark, the Better for You companies, Gravity, IXS, Janus International, Knight Energy Services, Pretium, PrimeSource, Smart Sand, Sunbelt Supply, TEAM Technologies, Unifrax, WellPet, and Wheel Pros. He also serves on the Boards of Directors of Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights and the Robert Toigo Foundation, both non-profit organizations. He graduated with High Honors from Princeton University, where he received a B.S. in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. He received his M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Princeton University
Santa Monica, CA
233 Wilshire Boulevard
Suite 800
Santa Monica
California
90401
United States
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Brian Gordon JDGordonBrianMale
McDermott Will & Emery
Law FirmPartner
+1 (404) 260-8535
brian@serviceprovidercapital.com
www.mwe.com
+1 (404) 393-5260
Mr. Brian Gordon serves as a Partner at McDermott Will & Emery. Mr. Brian Gordon serves as an Executive at Service Provider Capital. He was also a Partner at DLA Piper. He represents venture-backed technology companies in acquisitions, financing transactions, the negotiation of credit facilities, corporate governance, employment, and equity compensation matters, and the resolution of day-to-day legal issues. A significant part of Brian's practice is the representation of private equity funds in the acquisition and disposition of portfolio companies, in both control and non-control transactions. He also routinely serves as counsel to strategic buyers and sellers in M&A transactions. Brian has a sub-specialty in representing restaurant and retail groups in private equity and acquisition transactions. Brian has a sub-specialty in representing restaurant and retail groups in private equity and acquisition transactions.
Harvard Law School, Harvard University
Atlanta, GA
1180 Peachtree Street, North East
Suite 3350
AtlantaGeorgia30309
United States
AmericasNorth America12421211
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Ian SigalowSigalowIanMaleGreycroftVenture Capital
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
+1 (212) 756-3508
ian@greycroft.com
www.greycroft.com
+1 (212) 832-0117
Mr. Ian Sigalow is a Co-Founder and serves as a Managing Partner at Greycroft. He He served as a Board Member at Rhapsody. He served as Board Member at Ceros and Medly Pharmacy. He serves as Board Member at Branch Insurance, Knock, Fuzzy & Humming Homes and Amplify. He serves as Advisor at ClosedLoop.ai. He also serves as a Board Member at Ergatta and at Landing. Since launching the firm in 2006, he led Greycroft's investments in Braintree (acquired by eBay), Buddy Media (acquired by Salesforce), DataPlusMath (acquired by LiveRamp), Plated (acquired by Albertsons), Shipt (acquired by Target), and Venmo (acquired by Braintree) among many others. Prior to Greycroft, he founded StrongData, a pioneer in payment encryption, and spent several years as a venture capitalist with Boston Millennia Partners. He has a Bachelors's degree from MIT and an MBA from the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He served as a Board Member at Public.com. Vet and Mercato. He served as Board Member at Partnerize. He serves as Board Member at ZergNet.
Columbia Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
New York, NY
292 Madison Avenue
8th Floor
New York
New York
10017
United States
AmericasNorth America1912419212
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Jordan FliegelFliegelJordanMaleFightCampPrivate CompanyAdvisor
+1 (213) 785-3372
jordan@coachup.com
www.joinfightcamp.com
Mr. Jordan Fliegel serves as Advisor at FightCamp. He serves as Managing Director at Techstars. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Founders First. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at Bridge Boys. He is a Co-Founder and serves as President & Chairman at CoachUp. He serves as Chairman of Athletes of Valor. He serves as an Advisory Board Member at Botkeeper. He is an Angel Investor.
Tel Aviv University, Bowdoin College
Costa Mesa, CA
936 West 17th Street
Suite 1400
Costa Mesa
California
92627
United States
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Lee LindenLindenLeeMale
Reinvent Technology Partners Z
Private CompanyBoard Member
+1 (415) 766-6900
lee@quiet.com
z.reinventtechnologypartners.com
Mr. Lee Linden serves as Board Member at Reinvent Technology Partners. He serves as Managing Partner at Quiet Capital. He serves as Advisory Board Member at Preface Ventures. He serves as Industry Advisor at DN Capital. He serves as Board Member at Industrious & Spruce Health. He serves as an Advisor at Infinitus, Homebrew, and Taskade. He is an Angel Investor. He served as Head of eCommerce at Facebook. He is a Strategic Advisor of Lumia Capital. Prior to Facebook, He was the Co-Founder and served as Chief Executive Officer at Karma. He Co-Founded Crystalroot and Tapjoy. He also serves as a Board Director or in a formal advisory role for a number of companies. As a proven investor and well-recognized serial founder and CEO for a diverse set of businesses, he is often called upon by a wide range of entrepreneurs looking for strategic and tactical advice. He received his BA from the University of Michigan and his MBA from Stanford University.
Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of Michigan
New York, NY
215 Park Avenue
Floor 11
New York
New York
10003
United States
AmericasNorth America212411133
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Nihal MehtaMehtaNihalMaleEniac VenturesVenture Capital
Co-Founder & General Partner
+1 (646) 391-7818
nihal@eniac.vcwww.eniac.vc
Mr. Nihal Mehta is a Co-Founder & General Partner at Eniac Ventures. Mr. Nihal Mehta co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Local Response. He also served as Advisor at Sports Icon. He serves as Board Member at Fuzzy. He also serves as an Advisor and Board Member at MaestroQA. He serves as Advisor at Breezy. He is also a Co-Founding Partner at India Internet Fund. He also served as a Member of the Advisory Board at Blue Cloud Ventures. He serves as an Advisor at Inter Mobile Ventures. Nihal has several years of experience in innovating marketing technologies through founding five startups to date. Nihal is currently the Executive Chairman and Co-Founder of LocalResponse, which helps marketers respond to real-time consumer intent. Prior to LocalResponse, (which pivoted from buzzd, a leading real-time city guide), Nihal founded ipsh!, one of the first full-service mobile marketing agencies in 2001, which he sold to Omnicom (NYSE: OMC) in 2005. Nihal is a noted expert in the emerging adoption of mobile technologies for media properties and consumer brands. Named one of the "25 People Every New Founder Should Meet in New York Tech" and a top "25 Up-And-Coming Startup CEO in New York" in 2012 by Business Insider, a 2012 AlwaysOn "Power Player NYC," a top 10 NYC 'Game Changer' in the 2010 New York Enterprise Report, one of twenty RCR Wireless News 'Mobile Movers and Shakers' in 2008, a BusinessWeek 'M-Commerce Baron' in 2006 and named one of AdAge's 'Top 20 Marketers in Their 20s' in 2005. Nihal graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Philosophy and a BSE in Computer Science. He is also an Angel Investor. He also serves as a Board Member at Alloy. He served as Board Member and Advisor at Lokast and as an Advisor at Findable. He is also an Angel Investor.
University of Pennsylvania
New York, NY
584 Broadway
Suite 301
New York
New York
10012
United States
AmericasNorth America4124210610
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Auren HoffmanHoffmanAurenMaleFlex CapitalVenture Capital
Co-Founder & General Partner
+1 (415) 336-3465
auren.hoffman@flexcapital.com
www.flexcapital.com
Mr. Auren Hoffman is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Flex Capital. He is a Co-Founder of Titledock. He serves as Chairman, President & Manager at Connector Ventures. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer, President & Board Member at SafeGraph. He served as Advisor at Chameleon, People Data Labs & Sendbloom. He is also an Advisor of SignalFire. He also served as a Venture Advisor at Draper Nexus. He cofounded and served as Chief Executive Officer at LiveRamp. From 2003-2006, He was the Chairman of Stonebrick Group and Chairman of the Connector Group (Silicon Valley 100). Previously, he founded and sold three Internet companies before age 30: BridgePath (sold in 2002), Kyber Systems (sold in 1997) and GetRelevant (sold in 2002). He earlier co-founded and was a Board Member at AdRocket. He is the Founder of the Dialog Retreat. He holds a BS in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from UC Berkeley. He is an Advisor at Sendbloom
University of California, Berkeley
San Francisco, CA
36 Palm Avenue
San Francisco
California
94118
United States
AmericasNorth America21224114
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Brian HirschHirschBrianMale
Tribeca Venture Partners
Venture Capital
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
+1 (212) 966-9334
brian@tribecavp.com
www.tribecavp.com
Mr. Brian Hirsch is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Tribeca Venture Partners. He served as Board Member at Truveris, Actuate, Bakpax, Vivvi, Lendio, Circuit, and Crafty. He served as Board Member at Domio, RealDirect, and Katapult. Prior to starting Tribeca Venture Partners, he was a founder and Managing Director of GSA Venture Partners, formerly the venture arm of Greenhill & Co (NYSE: GHL). He served as Board Member at CommonBond. Prior to GSAVP, he was a Principal at Sterling Venture Partners and a Vice President at ABN AMRO Private Equity. He has invested across a broad number of sectors during his career including fintech, edtech, mobile, healthcare, online marketing, and media/publishing. He has a BA in economics and American studies from Brandeis University. "When I was ten years old while most kids were reading comic books I was reading all of my father's business magazines. I mostly enjoyed reading the long profile stories of entrepreneurs that were building great companies against all odds. It was the 1980s and entrepreneurs like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Scott McNealy, and Scott Cook were changing the world through technology. What fascinated me was the process of taking an idea and transforming it into a reality. He serves as a Board Observer at AlphaSense. He serves as Board Observer & Board Member at AiCure.
Brandeis UniversityNew York, NY
99 Hudson Street
15th Floor
New York
New York
10013
United States
AmericasNorth America1412211033
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Theresia GouwGouwTheresiaFemaleAcrew CapitalVenture CapitalCo-Founding Partner
+1 (650) 798-4188
tgouw@acrewcapital.com
www.acrewcapital.com
Ms. Theresia Gouw is a Co-Founding Partner of Acrew Capital. She serves on an Investment Advisory Committee at Concrete Rose Capital. She is the Co-Founding Partner at First Close Partners. She serves as Board Member at Ketch, Arthur, and HYCU. She also serves as Treasurer of the Board at Brown University. She serves as Advisory Board Member at Non-Sibi Ventures. She was a Co-Founder at Aspect Ventures. She also serves as Board Member and Observer at The Muse. She served as the Director at National Venture Capital Association Aspect invests across sectors but has particular expertise in cybersecurity, enterprise software, and solutions targeting the future of work, and digital health. Prior to Aspect, She was a Managing General Partner at Accel. As an entrepreneur, She was the founding Vice President of Business Development and Sales at Release Software, a venture-backed company that provided SaaS to enable digital rights management and payment technologies for the software industry. Earlier, she worked at Bain & Company and as a product manager at Silicon Graphics. She holds an ScB in Engineering from Brown University, magna cum laude, and an MBA from Stanford University. She serves as Treasurer of Brown University's Corporation board, Vice-Chair of Donorschoose.org, and at Stanford co-teaches a course on Venture Capital at the GSB. She also serves on the GSB Advisory Council and DAPER investment fund. She is a first-generation immigrant and a passionate supporter of educational causes that support immigration and diversity in STEM. In November 2016, she gave a TEDx talk titled "How Entrepreneurs Can Help the American Dream get its Mojo Back". She also serves as Board Member at Observable, Solv Health, and ShieldX. She holds a BS in Engineering from Brown University and an MBA from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Brown University, Stanford Graduate School of Business
Palo Alto, CA
471 Emerson Street
Palo Alto
California
94301
United States
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Jeremy LiewLiewJeremyMale
Lightspeed Venture Partners
Venture CapitalPartner
+1 (650) 234-8300
jeremy@lsvp.com
www.lsvp.com
+1 (650) 234-8333
Mr. Jeremy Liew served as Board Member at Interlace. He serves as a Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. He serves as Board Member at Arena Club. He serves as a Board Member at Rothy's & Distractify. Previously, he served as a Board Member at Art of Sport. He served as a Board Member at LedgerX, Hollar, and Dote. He serves as a Board Member at Interlace and Brigit. He was a Board Member of Cheddar, and Seventh Spark. He also served as Board Member at HQ Trivia. Mr. Liew invests primarily in the Internet and mobile sectors, with a particular interest in social media, commerce, gaming, and methods for increasing monetization. He joined in early 2006. Previously, he was with AOL, first as SVP of Corporate Development and Chief of Staff to the CEO and then as General Manager of Netscape. Mr. Liew joined AOL from InterActiveCorp (originally USA Networks), where he was VP of Strategic Planning. While there, he was responsible for acquisitions, divestitures, and investments in TV Networks, consumer Internet companies, and online travel companies. Mr. Liew started working in the consumer Internet industry as an early employee of CitySearch in 1996, where he held a variety of sales management, operational, and business development roles. Mr. Liew is also a Board Member at Affirm, VarageSale, HQ Trivia, and Special Guest App. He served as Board Member at Kixeye. He formerly served on the Board of Whisper. He was also a management consultant at McKinsey & Company. He holds an MBA from Stanford and a BA/BSc from the Australian National University in Linguistics and Pure Mathematics. He serves as Board Member at United Dwelling. He served as Board Member at Wintermute.
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Australian National University, National University
Menlo Park, CA
2200 Sand Hill Road
Menlo Park
California
94025
United States
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Bandel CaranoCaranoBandelMale
Oak Investment Partners
Venture CapitalManaging Partner
+1 (650) 614-3700
bandel@oakvc.com
www.oakinv.com
Mr. Bandel Carano serves as Managing Partner at Oak Investment Partners. He also serves as a Member of the Advisory Board at The Cambria Group. He served as a board member at MobiTV and he is currently on the Boards of Airspan Networks, Centric Software, NeoPhotonics, NextNav, Sundrop Fuels, and nLight. He has also led investments in and/or served on the Boards of 2Wire, Avici, CoreTek, Endwave, Fiber Tower, Good Technology, Kratos Defense & Security Solutions, Netopia, Phononic Devices, Picture Tel, Polycom, Presidio, Protean Electric, Qtera, Sentient Networks, SmartDrive, Solarflare Communications, Tegic, Trapeze Networks, Wellfleet, Entropic, Illustra/Informix, Sybase, Tele Atlas, Actel, Airgo Networks, CommQuest, Kenet, Level 5, NanoH2O, NemeriX, Newport Media, Resonext, SMIC, Synaptics, Virata, Interconnectix, Parametric, Synopsys, Tensilica, Wavestream, and Zayo. Prior to Oak, he joined Morgan Stanley's Venture Capital Group in 1983. He was responsible for advising Morgan Stanley on high-tech new business development, as well as sponsoring venture investments. He received BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. He served as Board Member at Norse. He currently serves on the Investment Advisory Board of the Stanford Engineering Venture Fund.
Stanford UniversityPalo Alto, CA
525 University Avenue
Suite 1300
Palo Alto
California
94301
United States
AmericasNorth America612011029
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Barry Grossman JD
Grossman
BarryMale
Ellenoff Grossman & Schole
Law Firm
Attorney, Partner & Co-Founder
+1 (212) 370-1300
barry.grossman@egsllp.com
www.egsllp.com
+1 (212) 370-7889
Mr. Barry Grossman serves as General Partner at ESQvest. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Attorney & Partner at Ellenoff Grossman & Schole. He is a General Partner at ESQvest since its founding in 2014. He is also a member of Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP Firm since its founding in 1992, and is a corporate/tax attorney who specializes in business transactions as well as tax matters. Mr. Grossman's practice focuses on representing emerging growth companies and investment banks in initial public offerings, follow-on public offerings, shelf takedowns, registered direct placements, PIPEs and other private placements (144A, Reg D, Reg A, Reg S, etc.) as well as general securities (including 34 Act filings) and corporate matters. Mr. Grossman's transactional experience includes public and private financings, structuring sales and acquisitions of companies, mergers and reorganizations, and organizing partnerships. Mr. Grossman also regularly represents public companies regarding their SEC regulatory matters and NYSE or NASDAQ requirements. As a member of Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP, he has been involved in over 300 public financings representing issuers and underwriters.
New York University School of Law, Georgetown University, SUNY Albany
New York, NY
1345 Avenue of the Americas
New York
New York
10105
United States
AmericasNorth America1202118
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Blake PattonPattonBlakeMale
Tech Square Ventures
Venture Capital
Founder & Managing General Partner
+1 (404) 206-2653
blake@techsquareventures.com
www.techsquareventures.com
Mr. Blake Patton is the Founder and serves as Managing General Partner at Tech Square Ventures. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at Pointivo. He also is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing General Partner and Member of the Board of Directors at Engage VC. Prior to founding Tech Square Ventures, Blake was General Manager of the Advanced Technology Development Center (ATDC) at Georgia Tech - named by Forbes as one of the "Top 12 Incubators Changing the World". Prior to leading ATDC, he served as President & COO of Interactive Advisory Software and EVP of iXL, an internet services company that he joined through the acquisition of Swan Media and was part of the executive team that grew the company from startup to over $300 million in annualized revenue and an IPO. He started his career as an Associate at SEI Corporation. Blake is an active leader in the technology community, serving on the boards of Engage, the Center for American Entrepreneurship (former Chairman), Georgia Advanced Technology Ventures (GATV), and High Tech Ministries. He also serves on the advisory boards of ATDC and Georgia Tech's Cowan-Turner Center for Servant Leadership. Blake is a former Chairman of Venture Atlanta, a Georgia Tech Alumni Association Trustee, a Georgia Research Alliance Industry Fellow, and a member of the selection committee for the NC State Chancellor's Innovation Fund. Blake also teaches Entrepreneurial Finance at Georgia Tech's Scheller College of Business. Blake earned a Bachelor of Industrial and Systems Engineering degree from Georgia Tech, where he was captain of the swim team. He was inducted into the Georgia Tech College of Engineering's Council of Outstanding Young Engineering Alumni and previously served on the Georgia Tech Advisory Board. He serves as Board Member at Speedscale, Saleo, FortifyData, Yesler, and Slip Robotics.
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA
75 5th Street Northwest
Suite 3070
AtlantaGeorgia30308
United States
AmericasNorth America912031064
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Richard Heitzmann
Heitzmann
RichardMaleFirstMark CapitalVenture Capital
Co-Founder and Partner
+1 (212) 792-2200
rheitzmann@firstmarkcap.com
www.firstmarkcap.com
+1 (212) 792-2222
Mr. Richard Heitzmann is a Co-Founder and serves as a Partner at FirstMark Capital. He also served as Chief Executive Officer & Director at FirstMark Acquisition Corp. III. He serves as Board Member at Legacy, Roman Health Ventures, ezra, Omaze, New York Venture Capital Association, Dashlane, Grid Mobile, Playnomics, and Merlin. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer & Board Member at FirstMark Horizon Acquisition and at FirstMark Acquisition Corp. II. He served as Board Member at Proletariat. He focuses on consumer and enterprise investments in media, advertising technology, gaming, mobile, and data services. He 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, He 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 holds a B.S. from Georgetown University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He served as Board Member at Aura. He served as Advisor in Symphony Commerce
Georgetown University, Harvard Business School
New York, NY
100 5th Avenue
New York
New York
10011
United States
AmericasNorth America1212049311
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Jeffrey JordanJordanJeffreyMaleLimePrivate CompanyBoard Member
+1 (888) 546-3345
jjordan@a16z.com
www.li.me
Mr. Jeffrey Jordan serves as Managing Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. He serves as Board Member at Lime, Prisms of Reality, Wonderschool, Shef and Codi. He serves as Board Member & Member of Nominating and Corporate Governance Committee at Pinterest He served as President at Paypal. He also serves as a Board Observer at Belong and Lookout. Previously he served as President and Chief Executive Officer at OpenTable and as Board Member at Hatch Loyalty. He served as Advisor & Board Member at PatientPing. Before moving to PayPal, he served as senior vice president and general manager of eBay North America for five years. He graduated with a BA from Amherst College and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He also served as a Board Member at BloomReach. He also serves as a Board Member of Belly, Zoosk, and Crowdtilt & Yummly. Jeff holds an MBA from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, where he also serves on the Advisory Council. He received a BA in Political Science and Psychology from Amherst College. He serves as Advisor at Openbay.
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Amherst College
San Francisco, CA
85 2nd Street
Suite 100
San Francisco
California
94105
United States
AmericasNorth America1511918814
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Roelof BothaBothaRoelofMaleSequoia CapitalVenture Capital
Executive, Seed/Early Growth
+1 (650) 854-3927
rbotha@sequoiacap.com
www.sequoiacap.com
Mr. Roelof Botha serves as Executive, Seed/Early Growth at Sequoia Capital. He serves as Board Member at Unity. He serves as Board Member & Member of Audit Committee at Unity. He focuses on Internet, services, and software investments. He serves as Board Member at Landis, Pendulum Therapeutics and Mmhmm. He serves as Board Member & Member of the Compensation Committee at Eventbrite, Evernote, Inside.com, MongoDB, Natera (NTRA), Plain Vanilla, Square (SQ), Unity Technologies, Weebly. He is also involved with Sequoia Capital portfolio companies including AssureX and Mapillary. Previously, he was a Director of Whisper, YouTube.com (GOOG), Insider Pages (IACI), Meebo (GOOG), TokBox (Telefonica Digital), Nimbula (ORCL), Tumblr (YHOO), Jawbone, and Xoom (XOOM), and led Sequoia's investment in Instagram (FB). Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2003, he served as the Chief Financial Officer of PayPal (PYPL), an online payments company. Earlier, he worked as a management consultant for McKinsey & Company. He is a certified actuary (Fellow of the Faculty of Actuaries). He also serves as a Board member at Bird. He serves as a Board Observer at cambridge epigenetix.
Stanford Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town
Menlo Park, CA
2800 Sand Hill Road
Suite 101
Menlo Park
California
94025
United States
AmericasNorth America1211928024
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Aileen LeeLeeAileenFemaleCowboy VenturesVenture Capital
Founder & Managing Partner
+1 (650) 400-0232
aileen@cowboy.vc
www.cowboy.vc
Ms. Aileen Lee is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Cowboy Ventures. She is also a Co-Founder of All Raise. She served as Board Member at Abstract. She also serves as Board Member and Advisor at True and Co. She also serves as Board Member at The Landing and Hone Group. She has many years of experience helping start ups build products customers love, and helping companies scale, both as an investor and operator. Prior to Cowboy, she joined the venture firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1999. At KPCB she worked hands-on with a range of consumer, enterprise, media and greentech companies including Bloom Energy, Blue Nile (NILE), Good Technology (acquired by MOT), One Kings Lane, Plum District, Rent the Runway, Shopkick, Tellme (acquired by MSFT), and Trendyol. During that time she was also founding CEO of RMG Networks (RMGN), the leading digital out-of-home media company, backed by KPCB. Aileen has also held operating roles at Gap Inc., The North Face and Odwalla and started her career at Morgan Stanley. She has degrees from MIT, Harvard Business School, and Millburn High School.
Harvard Business School, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Palo Alto, CA
525 Lytton Avenue
Palo Alto
California
94301
United States
AmericasNorth America411819813
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Kalyan VepuriVepuriKalyanMale
Hero (Electronics B2C)
Private Company
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
+1 (866) 463-5550
kal@herohealth.com
www.herohealth.com
Mr. Kalyan Vepuri is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Hero. He serves as Board Member & Advisor at Quip NYC. He serves as Advisor at Domain Money. He is the Founder & Owner and serves as Chairman at Brainchild Holdings. Before he had even started college, he was advising a telecommunications company on cellular-spectrum purchases. And just two years after graduating from Duke in 2003, with a triple major in electrical engineering, computer science and economics, he sold enough spectrum to begin his life as an angel investor. In 2009, he founded Brainchild as a holding company and base of operations. He serves as Board Member at BioRez and Quip. He serves as Advisor at Dataminr.
Duke UniversityNew York, NY
85 Broad Street
17th Floor
New York
New York
10004
United States
AmericasNorth America31182111
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Andrew McLoughlin
McLoughlin
AndrewMaleUncork CapitalVenture CapitalManaging Partner
+1 (650) 688-1801
andrew@uncorkcapital.com
www.uncorkcapital.com
+1 (650) 475-3937
Mr. Andrew McLoughlin serves as Managing Partner at Uncork Capital. He serves as Advisor at Tailscale. He is a Board Member at Aizon, Alchemy Cloud, Coder (Software Development Applications), Craft (Media and Information Services), Crossbeam, Huckleberry, Identify3D and Torii. He is a Board Observer at CodeSee, neo. tax, LaunchDarkly, GreatHorn, He also serves as Board Member at Simplifeye. He is an Advisor at Founders Forum for Good. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Board Member at Huddle. He invests in early-stage software startups that help businesses operate like the best companies in the world either by building better, selling more, or operating more effectively. Prior to joining Uncork in 2015, Andy was co-founder of Huddle, a London-based enterprise collaboration platform that was acquired in 2017. He was also an active angel investor with a personal portfolio of 40+ startups including Intercom; Tray.io, Pipedrive; Bugsnag; Apiary; Buffer; Secret Escapes; Calm; and Postmates. Born and raised in the UK, Andy holds a BA with honors in Economics from the University of Sheffield. He is a co-founder and US Trustee of the Founders Pledge and was awarded an OBE in the 2015 Queen's birthday honors list for services to the UK technology industry. He served as Board Member at Test.ai.
University of Sheffield
San Francisco, CA
500 Second Street
Third Floor
San Francisco
California
94107
United States
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Nathan McDonald
McDonaldNathanMaleKeiretsu CapitalVenture Capital
Chief Executive Officer, Managing Partner & Board Member
+1 (206) 255-8870
nathan@keiretsucapital.com
www.keiretsucapital.com
Mr. Nathan McDonald serves as Chief Executive Officer, Managing Partner & Board Member at Keiretsu Capital. He served as President, Northwest at Keiretsu Forum. He serves as Advisor at Nufabrx. He serves as Strategic Advisor at Linqto. He brings a unique entrepreneurial business and organizational development background developed during years of hands-on, active leadership and operational experience. As one of the Northwest's leading organizers of entrepreneurial and investor relations-focused media and funding events, he has facilitated scores of engagements and successfully promoted hundreds of privately financed high-growth companies. In June 2014, He became CEO of Keiretsu Capital with the mission of fostering closer ties between Keiretsu Forum angels, the institutional investor community and Keiretsu Forum portfolio companies. Keiretsu Capital provides access to proprietary deal flow by investing alongside the angels, providing additional capital to complete rounds and acting to source follow on capital where appropriate. Nathan co-founded and currently serves as Chairman of the Northwest Region of the Keiretsu Forum global angel investment group. He wrote the business plan and designed the organizational structure, which led to the initial license agreement with global Keiretsu Forum. He recruited the team, implemented policies and procedures, designed, and coordinated multi-faceted events. As part of his overall regional growth strategy, he created and implemented controlled expansion activities in Seattle, Bellevue, Boise, Portland, Spokane, Victoria and Vancouver, B.C. Nathan's leadership and personal networking skills combined to quickly build the region into the fastest growing angel investment group in the nation, adding over 650 investor members and facilitating over $164 million in funding for over 240 companies. In 2004, Nathan became Managing Director of Venture Velocity, a business growth consulting organization. He recruited a talent pool of executive-level consultants from among the most successful and fastest growing companies in the region. Nathan has been a moving force in building and shaping investor networks for two emerging fund managers including The University Funds and Pacific West Land. Nathan has dedicated much of his career to stimulating growth-stage capital investment including as lead organizer for the Northwest's most successful venture funding conference, raising over $30 million for 15 growth companies. As Co-founder and Managing Director of the Investment Forum, he produced the highest quality educational programs, social events, and investment forums in the region in collaboration with more than thirty-five industry groups and hundreds of different sponsors. Nathan co-founded an industry leading showcase event and media piece, which attracted over 500 of the region's most influential investors and CEO's to recognize and celebrate their accomplishments. Nathan is a graduate of University of Washington Michael G. Foster Business School with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration & Finance with an emphasis in entrepreneurial leadership and venture finance.
University of Washington
Seattle, WA
2815 Eastlake Avenue East
Suite 300
Seattle
Washington
98102
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Peter Kellner JDKellnerPeterMale
Richmond Global Compass
Hedge Fund
Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Chairman
+1 (305) 403-0112
peter.kellner@rgcompass.com
www.rgcompass.com
Mr. Peter Kellner is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at Richmond Global Compass. He served as Board Member at Market Realist. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Board Member, Emeritus at Endeavor Global. He also is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Richmond Global Ventures.Mr. Kellner is a Co-Founder of Jumiya and serves as its Investor. He also serves as an Advisor at Primus Capital Partners. He co-founded Hungary's Environmental Management & Law Association (EMLA), one of Central Europe's leading NGOs developing environmental law and policy. Kellner serves on the boards of Obopay, Inc., AdChina, Inc., and YoBrand, Inc., and nonprofits Endeavor and Ashoka Youth Venture. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and was selected as a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum. He holds a B.A. from Princeton University and was a Fulbright Scholar in Hungary before earning a J.D. from Yale Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is also an Angel Investor. He serves as Board Member at Kueski. He served as Board Member at Rubicon.
Harvard Business School, Yale Law School, Princeton University
New York, NY
900 Third Avenue
Suite 1401
New York
New York
10022
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Adrian Fenty JDFentyAdrianMale
MaC Venture Capital
Venture Capital
Co-Founder & Managing General Partner
+1 (650) 838-4436
adrian@macventurecapital.com
macventurecapital.com
Mr. Adrian Fenty is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing General Partner at MaC Venture Capital. He is a General Partner at MVentures. He serves as Board Observer at Finli. He serves as Board Member at Capital Canary and Preveta. He served as Advisor at uKnow.com & Prepared. He serves as Board Member at GridRaster and Wyvern. He also serves as a General Partner at Macro Ventures. He also serves as a Managing General Partner at MaC Venture Capital. He was a Special Advisor of Counselytics. He also serves as Advisor at Cabana Ventures. He serves as a Principal at Leeds Novamark Capital. He also served as Special Advisor at Andreessen Horowitz. His focus areas include fundraising for Leeds Novamark and sourcing new investment opportunities for both Leeds Novamark and Leeds Equity Partners. Previously, he was the Mayor of the District of Columbia. Before being elected Mayor in 2006, he served for six years on the D.C. Council, where he was first elected in 2000. He also served as an Advisor at OpenGov. He also serves as an Advisor at Athena Security.
Howard University, Oberlin College
Los Angeles, CA
6255 Sunset Blvd.
Suite 1110
Los Angeles
California
90028
United States
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Jeff RichardsRichardsJeffMaleGGV CapitalVenture CapitalManaging Partner
+1 (650) 475-2150
jrichards@ggvc.com
www.ggvc.com
+1 (650) 475-2151
Mr. Jeff Richards serves as Managing Partner at GGV Capital. He joined the firm in 2008 after spending 13 years as an entrepreneur and operating executive in the US and Asia. He served as Board Member at PlushCare. He serves as Board Member at Realm, Fairmarkit, Curebase, Homebase and Vic.ai. He focuses on the Internet, Software and Mobile sectors and currently sits on the boards of BIG COMMERCE, Boxed, Gladly, Percolate, Electric AI, Reebonz, Belong and Tile. He led GGV's investments in Appirio (acquired in 2016 by WiPro), BlueKai (acquired in 2014 by Oracle), Buddy Media (acquired in 2012 by Salesforce.com), Citrus Lane (acquired in 2014 by Care.com), Evolv (acquired in 2014 by Cornerstone OnDemand), Flipboard, HOTELTONIGHT, Quixey, SHIFTGIG, Spreecast and Zylo and is actively involved in GGV's investments in Domo, Grab, Opendoor, Slack, Square and Wish. Prior to joining GGV, he founded two software companies (R4, acquired by VeriSign and QuantumShift) and spent three years as an executive at VeriSign. He graduated from Dartmouth College, where he was a four year letterman on the varsity basketball team. He servess as Board Member at Slice and Zylo.
Dartmouth CollegeMenlo Park, CA
3000 Sand Hill Road
Building 4, Suite 230
Menlo Park
California
94025
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Mark SusterSusterMarkMaleUpfront VenturesVenture CapitalPartner
+1 (310) 785-5100
msuster@upfront.com
www.upfront.com
Mr. Mark Suster serves as Board Member at SonicEnergy. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Build-Online.com. He serves as Partner at Upfront Ventures. He serves as Board Member at Density, SonicEnergy, VADE and InfoSum. In addition, he is a Board Member at CognitiveLogic. He previously served on the Board of Kyriba. Before joining Upfront Mr. Suster served as Vice President of Product Management at Salesforce.com following its acquisition of Koral, where Mr. Suster was Founder and CEO. Prior to Koral, Mr. Suster was Founder and CEO of BuildOnline, a European SaaS company that was acquired by SWORD Group. Earlier in his career, he spent nearly ten years working for Accenture in Europe, Japan and the U.S. Mr. Suster looks to invest in passionate entrepreneurs in early-stage technology businesses. His interests include Digital Content and Distribution, AdTech, Consumer Internet and SaaS businesses and he has deep operating experience having started and sold his last two companies. Mr. Suster received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from the University of California, San Diego and his Master of Business Administration from the University of Chicago.
University of Chicago, University of California, San Diego
Santa Monica, CA
1314 7th Street
Suite 600
Santa Monica
California
90401
United States
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Charles HudsonHudsonCharlesMale
Precursor Ventures
Venture Capital
Founder & Managing Partner
+1 (650) 249-0905
charles@precursorvc.com
precursorvc.com
Mr. Charles Hudson is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner of Precursor Ventures. He also serves as an Advisor at Ajim Capital. He also serves as an Advisor at Path Ahead Ventures. He serves as Advisor at Fuse Inventory. He served as Board Member at TakeLesson, Populus and Encantos Media Studios, PBC. He served as an Advisor at Bamboo. He served as Board Member at Fixt. He served as Board Member and Advisor at Tulip. He also served as Venture Partner at Uncork Capital. He is a Board Member of Pico Networks. He serves as Interim Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Kahuna. He also serves as Venture Advisor at 500 startups. He also served as Founding Strategic Advisor at Acrew Capital. He was the co-founder and CEO of Bionic Panda Games, a mobile games startup based in San Francisco, CA. Prior to joining SoftTech VC and co-founding Bionic Panda Games, he was the vice president of business development for Serious Business until the company was acquired by Zynga in February 2010. Prior to Serious Business, he was the senior director for business development at Gaia Interactive, an online hangout and virtual world for teens. Prior to Gaia, he worked in New Business Development at Google and focused on new partnership opportunities for early-stage products in the advertising, mobile and e-commerce markets. He also serves as a board member at Lightside Games and Special Guest App. He holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in Economics and Spanish from Stanford University. He founded and served as Managing Partner at 3rd Power. He also served as a Consultant at WebMediaBrands. He serves as an Advisor at Range. He also served as Board Member at 8tracks. He also served as Board Member at Kahuna.
Stanford Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
San Francisco, CA
580 Pacific Avenue
San Francisco
California
94133
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Dharmesh Thakker
ThakkerDharmeshMaleBattery VenturesVenture CapitalGeneral Partner
+1 (650) 372-3939
dthakker@battery.com
www.battery.com
+1 (650) 372-3930
Mr. Dharmesh Thakker serves as General Partner at Battery Ventures. He serves as Advisor at Neuron7. He serves as Board Member at LinearB, and Theta Lake. He serves as Board Observer at CardinalOps. He served as Board Member at Reflektion, Ordr, Gong.io., Contrast Security, GuardSquare, Rahein and Matillion.He served as Board Member at Bridgecrew and Sensu. He serves as a Board Observer at Enlighted, Elasticbox, and MongoDB. He serves as Board Observer at Fungible. He previously served as a Managing Director at Intel Capital. He also served as Board Advisor at Vigilent. He is actively involved on the board of DynamicOps, Guavus Analytics. He joined Intel Capital from Advanced Technology Ventures where he supported Enterprise Software and Cleantech investments, including Omneon Storage (Harmonic), Qumu (Rimage), Nuventix, and Actifio. At Keynote Systems (KEYN), he launched performance management solutions for many of the world's leading video, mobile and web apps. He was also an early team member at InterNetwork (acquired by FinePoint) and Peakstone (acquired by Entrust) leading OEM and channel sales with HP, Exodus, and IBM. He received his MBA from Wharton and a BS in Electrical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin. He is on the Advisory Board for The University of Texas Commercialization Office as well as other industry groups including TiE Angels and VentureBeat. He serves as Board Member at StreamSets.
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton), University of Texas
Menlo Park, CA
2882 Sand Hill Road
Suite 280
Menlo Park
California
94025
United States
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Rory O'DriscollO'DriscollRoryMale
Scale Venture Partners
Venture CapitalPartner
+1 (650) 378-6000
rory@scalevp.com
www.scalevp.com
+1 (650) 378-6040
Mr. Rory O'Driscoll serves as Partner at Scale Venture Partners. Previously, he served as Board Member at Viz.ai, Chef Software and Box (BOX). He has been investing in enterprise software for the past 25 years. An active investor in the rise of SaaS and the wider transition of enterprise computing to the cloud, Rory led investments in Bill.com (BILL), Box (BOX), DocuSign (DOCU), ExactTarget (ET; Acq: SFDC), Omniture (OMTR; Acq: ADBE) and Placeware (Acq: MSFT) among others. Currently, Rory is focused on investing in frontier tech for the enterprise and business applications powered by AI. He currently sits on the board of directors at Bill.com (BILL), VergeSense, Cognata, DroneDeploy, Forter, Locus Robotics, Flatfile, OM1, OneLogin, Pantheon, Papaya Global, Socure, Soft Robotics, Solvvy, and WalkMe. Rory has been recognized by the Forbes Midas List and AlwaysOn Power Players in Venture Capital for his investments. He holds a BSc from the London School of Economics. He served as Board Member at Wrike.
London School of Economics and Political Science
Foster City, CA
950 Tower Lane
Suite 1150
Foster City
California
94404
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Ryan HelonHelonRyanMaleClarivoyPrivate CompanyBoard Member
+1 (614) 487-3635
ryan@rev1ventures.com
www.clarivoy.com
Mr. Ryan Helon serves as Board Member at Clarivoy. He served as Board Member at Inmobly. He serves as Board Observer at HealthPlan Data Solutions. He also serves as Executive Vice President, Investment Funds at Rev1 Ventures. He also serves as Managing Director at Nationwide Mutual Capital and Board Member at Healthy Roster. He serves as Board Member at Basking Biosciences. He manages the concept and seed investment funds. He works with Rev1 Venture Advisory teams and clients on due diligence, valuation, investment terms, closing, and portfolio management. He serves on the Boards of multiple portfolio companies and on the Boards of Trustees of Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions and Columbus Montessori Education Center where he serves as Board President. He holds MBA in Finance and Strategy and BS in Business Administration from Ohio State University.
Ohio State UniversityColumbus, OH
1275 Kinnear Road
Columbus
Ohio43212
United States
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Ajay AgarwalAgarwalAjayMale
Argyle (Business/Productivity Software)
Private CompanyBoard Member
+1 (234) 276-0312
aa@argyle.comargyle.com
Mr. Ajay Agarwal serves as a Board member at Argyle. He is also a Partner at Bain Capital Ventures. He serves as Board Member at Captora, Reprise, Clockwise, Clari, BUILD, Vention, VoiceOps, and ShipBob. Earlier, he served as Board Member at Gainsight and Inrix. He leads the Bay Area offices for Bain Capital Ventures, where he focuses on early-stage application software and SaaS investing. Prior to Bain Capital Ventures, he was an early employee at Trilogy, where the head of sales and marketing grew annual revenues to $300 million. He leads the Bay Area offices for Bain Capital Ventures, where he focuses on early-stage application software and SaaS investing. Prior to joining Bain Capital Ventures in 2003, he was head of sales and marketing at Trilogy, where he grew annual revenues to $300 million. Previously, he was a consultant with the Los Angeles office of McKinsey & Company. He has a BS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He also holds a patent for the "Method and Apparatus of Configuration Solutions." At Bain Capital Ventures, his passion is working with early-stage founders on team-building, culture, iteration of product-market fit, and scaling the early go-to-market operations. His primary investment themes include commerce enablement, the revolution of the sales and marketing functions, and the use of big data and machine learning to transform business applications. In 2012 and 2013, he was named to the Forbes Midas List of Top 100 Venture Capital Investors. Previously he served as Advisor at Symphony Commerce
Harvard Business School, Stanford University
New York, NY
33 West 19th Street
4th Floor
New York
New York
10011
United States
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Deborah QuazzoQuazzoDeborahFemaleGSV VenturesVenture CapitalManaging Partner
+1 (415) 757-5634
dquazzo@gsv.com
www.gsv.ventures
Ms. Deborah Quazzo serves as Managing Partner at GSV Ventures. She serves as Board Member at Lightneer. She serves as a Board Member at Disco. She serves as Board Member at Class plus. She served as Board Member at Simplilearn & Fairygodboss. Ms. Quazzo serves as an Advisor at Stride Funding. She also served as Advisor at Fingerprint. It is a venture fund investing in education and workforce skills technologies that are disrupting the $7 Trillion sectors. In addition, she is the Co-founder of the ASU+GSV Summit. Now in its 12th year, the ASU+GSV Summit celebrates innovations and innovators across the global "preK to Gray" learning and talent landscape and attracts over 5,500 attendees. Deborah currently serves on the boards of Aakash Educational Services Ltd (leading tutoring and test preparation company in India), Ascend Learning (a portfolio company of Blackstone and CCCP), ClassEDU, Create and Learn, Degreed, The Educational Testing Service (ETS), Intellispark, Mighty, PhotoMath, QuillBot, Remind, Stride, Turnitin (an Advance Communications company) and Valenture Institute. She is a board observer at CLI Studios, CreativeLive, Lightneer, Outlier.org, RaiseMe, and Toucan. She is a member of the boards of The Common Ground Foundation, The Falling Walls Digital Education Jury Board, The Khan Academy Thought Leadership Council, The New Profit Prophets Education Advisory Group, Oriental Education Institute (OEI), Steppenwolf Theatre Company, and The Strada Institute for the Future of Work Advisory Committee. She previously served on the board of a number of education organizations including The Chicago Board of Education (CPS) and KIPP: Chicago. Deborah graduated cum laude with a BA in history from Princeton University in 1982 and an MBA from Harvard University in 1987. He served as Board Member and Advisor at Mighty Labs.
Harvard Business School, Princeton University
San Francisco, CA
171 2nd Street
San Francisco
California
94105
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Lawrence BohnBohnLawrenceMaleGeneral CatalystVenture Capital
Executive, Investments
+1 (617) 234-7000
lbohn@generalcatalyst.com
www.generalcatalyst.com
+1 (617) 234-7040
Mr. Lawrence Bohn serves as Executive, Investments at General Catalyst. He is an Angel Investor. He served as Board Member at OzVision & Julia Computing. He serves as Board Observer at Alyce. He serves as Board Member at Section4, Zageno, and airSlate. He was also a Board Observer and Advisor at Tesora. He served as Board Member at Clarabridge. His areas of interest include open source, cloud-based computing, advanced software/hardware systems, and SaaS business models. Before joining GC, Larry was President of PC DOCS and subsequently CEO of NetGenesis, he took both companies public. He served as SVP of Marketing and Business Development at Interleaf and was a founder and the first president of OASIS. He also serves as Board Member at Feedvisor and OM1. He was a Board Member at Hubspot. He also serves as a Board member at GoodData & Tidelift. He serves as Board Member at Logz.io.
Clark University, University of Massachusetts
Cambridge, MA
20 University Road
Fourth Floor
Cambridge
Massachusetts
2138
United States
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