Venture capital firms

Ms. Annie Lamont serves as a Managing Partner at Oak HC/FT. She also serves as an Advisor at Mansa Capital. She serves on the Boards of Acculynk, Aspire, Benefitfocus, Candescent, Castlight Health, Freshbooks, Hometeam, ILS, Poynt, Precision for Medicine, Quartet, VillageMD & xG Health Solutions. Prior investments include athenahealth, American Esoteric Laboratories (SHL acquired), Argus (Verisk acquired), CareMedic (Ingenix acquired), CLARiENT (GE acquired), Harbor Payments (AmEx acquired), Health Dialog (BUPA acquired), Odyssey, Oak Tree/Oxford, NetSpend (TSYS acquired), PayFlex (Aetna acquired), PharMEDium (CD&R acquired), Point Carbon (Thomson Reuters acquired), Psychiatric Solutions, TxVia (Google acquired) & United BioSource (Medco Health Solutions acquired). She also serves on the board of HCA Holdings and is a member of The Advisory Council for the Financial Solutions Lab. She served on the Stanford University Board of Trustees and on the Executive Board of the NVCA. Annie graduated from Stanford University.

Mr. Tom Hughes is a Co-Founder and serves as Advisor at Idealab. Hefounded Idealab with Bill Gross and Marcia Goodstein in 1996. Prior to working at Idealab, he worked with high-tech clients including IBM and Lotus on corporate and brand identity design and management as well as packaging systems and software interface design. Before starting his own design firm, he was picked by Steve Jobs to be Apple's worldwide creative director for Business Products. He was responsible for creating the Macintosh product identity and supporting its introduction in 1985. Following Apple, Lotus Development Corporation hired Tom to build an in-house design team to develop and support a new corporate identity and packaging system. Previously, he was Senior Art Director at Polaroid, working with its founder, Dr. Land, on corporate projects and product introductions. His work is included in the Smithsonian collection and has been internationally recognized. Awards include AIGA, Communications Arts Magazine, Print Magazine, and IDEA.

Act One is an early stage investor with a track record of success, having already returned total investments in its first fund twice over, that backs capital-efficient companies with demonstrated founder-market fit (an expertise in their industry and the software solutions it needs). The firm was founded in 2016 by entrepreneurs Michael Silton and Alejandro Guerrero, who have been working together for more than a decade starting at the UCLA VC Fund. Michael is a three-time software founder with an exit and a unicorn IPO. Alejandro is a first-generation Mexican-American startup founder who has become one of the most visible and fastest rising emerging managers in America, where only 3% of investment partners are of Latinx descent. Michael and Alejandro’s experience as software company founders allows them to help portfolio founders build scalable businesses while connecting with a network that helps bring in early customers. 70% of Act One’s portfolio companies were founded by women and/or people of color.

Mr. Mark Hastings serves as Managing Director & Head of Providence Strategic Growth at Providence Equity Partners. Mr. Hastings is currently a director of Abacus Data Systems, Burning Glass Technologies, GlobalTranz, Netsurion, PaySimple, Skybox Security, SnapApp and Vertical Knowledge. Prior to joining Providence in 2013, Mr. Hastings most recently served as managing partner and founder of Garvin Hill Capital Partners. Prior to spinning out of CIBC to form Garvin Hill in 2009, Mr. Hastings led CIBC's technology-focused growth equity team in the United States. At CIBC, he developed the successful investment strategy and recruited the team. He was the primary deal originator and investment team leader. Prior to joining CIBC, he was a principal and general partner at BCI Partners. Mr. Hastings started his investment career at Edison Ventures. He received a Master of Business Administration from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Bachelor of Arts from Colorado College.

Full In is a $200m growth equity firm that focuses primarily on software, mobile, and online marketplace investments. We evaluate companies globally but have a sweet spot for US, European, and Israeli markets. We are excited to partner with companies who are showing signs of product market fit but might benefit from an expert or two in go-to-market strategy and/or in sales and marketing. We love working actively with companies to really earn our seat at the table. Above all, we care most about the people we will be working with and the passion they bring to their craft. Our focus: As growth-stage investors, Full In invests in companies with demonstrated product-market fit and rapid growth trajectory. Among many other factors, we love to to look at track record and momentum as key indicators of long-term sustainable business models. Full In Partners is a part of Beyond the Billion, a pledge campaign aimed at mobilizing a global consortium committed to invest $1 BILLION in women founders.

EchoVC is a technology-focused early-stage VC firm focused on unapologetically investing in underrepresented founders and underserved markets. We invest in secrets that become obvious with the benefit of hindsight. Our mission is to be the Sequoia Capital for underestimated founders and markets. Our firm finances entrepreneurial inspiration in diverse founding teams. We are a VC fund unapologetically investing in women, underrepresented founders (particularly of African descent), and underserved POC markets, backing bold ideas and business models that harness the power of technology to deliver value to mass markets. We are sector agnostic and currently invest from our offices in Africa, the U.S., and the UK. Our current portfolio comprises companies delivering value in the following sectors: Smart planet, health and human services, emerging fintech, The Next Frontier, commerce, media and entertainment, access to energy, sustainable mobility, and connectivity, among other themes.

Mr. Tyler Peterson serves as Vice President at Triangle Peak Partners. Prior to Triangle Peak, he spent seven years at Google where he held various product strategy and finance positions. Most recently, he focused on new product development for YouTube monetization. Additionally, he has led strategy and finance groups in the Google+ and Google Maps businesses. Earlier in his career, Tyler worked across a variety of Google products including: AdWords, AdSense, Gmail, Google Checkout, Google TV Ads, and more. He has advised country managers how to scale teams internationally, built new products from idea to hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, and been a lead analyst on multi-billion dollar businesses. He is also a Mentor for Acceleprise, a Washington DC based accelerator focused on enterprise technology. Tyler graduated from Claremont McKenna College with a BA in Economics and History, and he holds an MBA from UCLA Anderson. He serves as board observer at StayNTouch.

Insight Partners

New York, United States

Jerry Murdock is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director of Insight Venture Partners. He played a leading role in defining the company's investment strategy and was primarily responsible for the development of many of the firms portfolio investments. From 1988 to 1995, Mr. Murdock was a founder and director of the Aspen Technology Group. Mr. Murdock graduated with a degree in Political Science from San Diego State University and subsequently worked at the Georgetown Center for Strategic & International Studies (now known as CSIS), where he was a contributor to the export competitiveness project. His work was published in The Export Competitive Series: Comparative Analysis of Export Policy, United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Canada and Japan. Mr. Murdock is a member of the Board of Trustees of both The Santa Fe Institute and The Aspen Institute and is a co-founder of For The Forest. He is also the Board Member at FuzeBox Software and Truecaller.

http://btn.vc/ is a seed-stage venture platform targeting first-quartile returns by leading investments nationally in high-impact software companies (i.e., with potential for multi-$100m exits). Favored sectors include edtech, fintech, healthtech, climate change, and culture-based markets. We are very intentional about broadening access to capital markets: all our founder/CEOs are diverse (75% Black, 75% Women, others Latinx, Asian). Our partners have decades of venture experience managing multiple funds, building companies worth over $19b. Our fund team is largely diverse (85% Black, 60% Women). We are generally first institutional investors in our companies, leading/co-leading seed rounds of about $2m-$3m at valuations in the $5m-$15m range. Companies should run on this capital for 18-24 months, generating about $1m in revenue. We’ll then help them secure up-round follow-on financing to fuel growth from our network of over 100 co-investors (over $4b to date).

Mr. Hugh Crean serves as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at General Catalyst Partners. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at Vhoto. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Farecast. Mr. Crean focuses on all stages of consumer online businesses. He is the former President of Farecast. He joined the Microsoft search team as General Manager and Principal Engineering Manager focused on development and launch of Bing Travel. Before Farecast, he was Senior Vice President of Business Development at National Leisure Group (NLG). Before NLG, he served as Vice President of Product and Corporate Development with Priceline and as Vice President of Strategic Analysis for Citigroup's Advanced Development. Before Citigroup, he also held positions in equity research at DLJ, corporate finance at Viacom and corporate audit at AC Nielsen/Dun & Bradstreet. He is a graduate of Boston College. He serves as Board member at Luxury Retreats International.

Mr. Vamsi Sistla serves as Operating Advisor & Operating Partner at Laconia Capital Group. He is an innovative technologist with over 18 years of experience in the Television, Digital Media & Financial industries. He has built various enterprise quality software and technology (Web and Mobile) platforms. Vamsi currently serves as CTO for OfferBoard and Technical Advisor to various early stage startups. Previously, Vamsi co-founded – Telvetto (2nd Screen Social TV Platform), Mogozz (Mobile Events Platforms) and Captivision Networks (iTV Educational Channel). Vamsi is an active Angel investor in ARC Angels, Eniac Ventures (1 & 3) and TIE SV Angels. He is also active in social & impact enterprises as a mentor (Microsoft Ventures, The Unreasonable Institute, TechStars London IoT Spring 2013 Session, 37Angels and Americas Amazing Teens Project), advisor to various early stage startups and a board member (The Good Life Organization & Chaupal India).

Mr. Michael Berolzheimer is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer of Bee Partners. Michael began his career in finance at DLJ/Credit Suisse, working in alternative asset management (private equity, venture capital and hedge funds). After two years in investment banking he was recruited by his lead client, Harvest Partners, to focus exclusively on Private Equity. He completed his first angel investment deal with Bear Naked Granola shortly after joining Harvest Partners, and he never looked back. Michael is known for his empathy and understanding for entrepreneurs-- based on his meeting and overcoming their same challenges in his own startups. He possesses an uncanny ability to network and bring together the right players for each project Bee Partners engages with. Perhaps most importantly, he grasps the big picture situation quickly, he identifies and sizes up opportunity, and sees the clearest path to success.

Mike Frandsen is vice president at Workday and oversees product management, quality assurance and product delivery. Prior to joining Workday, he was CEO at Potenco, a green energy startup. Before Potenco, Mike was CEO at TradePoint Solutions, a provider of SaaS-based retail promotion management applications. He led TradePoint from delivery of a successful product prototype to the sale of the company to DemandTec in 2006. Preceding TradePoint, he was at PeopleSoft for seven years in various leadership roles, including vice president and general manager of supply chain management. He began his career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) specializing in software strategy, product planning, development and customer support. He holds a bachelor of science degree in business from the University of Colorado. He is also certified in planning and inventory management and resource management by the American Production and Inventory Control Society.

Versatile Venture Capital backs early-stage companies which help investors generate alpha and succeed. For example, we’re investors (via prior funds) in alternative data, investment research, back-office tech, marketplaces for private companies, and salestech to help gather assets. Our typical check size is $200,000 to $1,000,000. We lead rounds and will also co-invest. We are an aggressive user of technology internally to manage the firm and make better investments. We manage PEVCtech, a community for family offices, private equity funds, and VCs focused on using technology and analytics to make better investments in private companies. We also manage Founders’ Next Move, a community for founders researching their next move: launching a new company; angel investing/becoming a VC; scouting for investments; buying a company; joining boards; consulting; participating in expert networks; serving as an interim executive; or just getting a job.

Mr. Paul Ciriello is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Fairhaven Capital Partners. He founded TD Capital Ventures in 2001. His past investments include: iPhrase (acq NYSE: IBM), Softricity (acq NASDAQ: MSFT), Cloakware (acq JSE: NPN), SiGe Semiconductor (acq NASDAQ: SWKS) and Third Screen Media (acq NYSE: TWX). Paul’s current investments include: Springpad in Cambridge, MA and YottaMark in Redwood City, CA. Previously, Paul was an executive at Fidelity Investments in Boston where he was the President of Fidelity Interactive, Founder and President of Proxy Edge, Inc. (acq: ADP), President of The Water Street Project and President of Fidelity Capital Technology. Earlier, Paul was a Senior Policy Advisor at the US EPA, and a US Presidential Management Intern. He earned an MPA from Northeastern University, where he was a University Fellow and a US Public Research Fellow. Paul received a BA in Political Science from SUNY at Buffalo.

We are a team of venture capitalists who are obsessively focused on alignment with founders. Everything we do at Aligned Partners centers around enabling great outcomes for our founders and investors. To do so, we have crafted an investment approach that uniquely serves the needs of capital-efficient companies. In particular, we believe that: - Aligning the interests of founders and investors works better for everyone. When we’re all pulling the oars in the same direction, we can accomplish great things with fewer obstacles. - Higher efficiency yields higher returns. Entrepreneurship is, at its essence, about resourcefulness. Companies that achieve their goals in a resource-efficient manner provide high value to their founders and investors alike. - Sustainable growth is a side effect of creating real value for customers. Great companies deeply understand their customers and offer them exceptional, targeted value propositions.

Mr. Edgar Bronfman serves as Senior Advisor and Special Limited Partner at Luminari Capital. He serves as Managing Partner at Accretive. He is the Director at IAC/Interactivecorp. He also serves as Chairman at BIM. He served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Warner Music Group (NYSE: WMG), one of the world's largest music companies and home to a collection of the best-known record labels in the music industry (2004-2012). He also serves as Chairman at Endeavor Global. In 2004, Mr. Bronfman led a private investment group in its acquisition of WMG from Time Warner and, in 2005, led the company's initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange. Mr. Bronfman currently serves as Chairman of the Board of Endeavor Global, an international non-profit development organization and serves as General Partner at Accretive, a venture capital firm specializing in the business process outsourcing area.

We make investments that reflect the way the world actually looks. As a female-led fund with a portfolio that’s 65% women- and minority-owned, TMV represents an opportunity for a more inclusive society and culture. We are committed to investing in diverse companies because it’s simply good business. We pledge to put more capitalistic power into the hands of women and people who are BIPOC (Black, indigenous, and people of color). Our terrain: Purpose-driven founders reimagining. The way we work: We invest in companies that help both workers and entrepreneurs cultivate talent. Logistics and mobility: We invest in companies creating transparency and efficiency around global trade and movement. Sustainable solutions: We invest in the circular economy. The Care Economy: We invest in companies broadening access to care. Fintech: We invest in companies enabling equal access and education in finance.

Illuminate’s focus is on finding, funding and accelerating great founders in the B2B/enterprise cloud and mobile computing space. We focus on companies building SaaS applications as well as solutions that leverage data and mobility to improve business results. We seek innovative ideas led by talented teams - frequently bringing together diverse perspectives that marry “creative destruction” with new technologies to solve old problems in new ways. Illuminate is typically a startup’s first institutional investor, but can also be a fit for an established company seeking its first equity financing. Our sweet spot is series seed rounds - filling the gap between angel capital and larger funding rounds of traditional VCs. When the timing is right, we collaborate with the best large-scale firms for the next round of financing, but we love lean startups that preserve flexibility in their early years.

Mr. Pietro Dova is a Co-Founding Partner at XG Ventures. He was Corporate Controller and Finance Director at Google from 2001 to 2007. He was partly responsible for the Google IPO and roadshow, and directed Google's operational and transactional accounting responsibilities worldwide. Immediately prior to joining Google, Pietro was CFO of Employeeservice.com. From 1996 to 1999, Pietro was VP Finance of Quote.com, an early online pioneer providing financial news and stock information to active investors. Pietro began his career in technology in 1988 at Oracle Corporation and held various executive finance positions through 1992. From 1993 to 1996 Pietro headed Fulcrum Technologies' European finance operations based in Paris, France. Pietro received his undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering from Imperial College, London and his Masters in Management from M.I.T.'s Sloan School of Management.

Mr. Neil Chheda is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Romulus Capital. He is an entrepreneur. He has a passion for building product and teams. He focuses on investments in internet, mobile, and healthcare companies. Before Romulus, Neil was a product manager at Zynga. He built products features for Farmville, which has since reached tens of millions of users and become one of the most successful internet products in history. Prior to Zynga, he founded and successfully sold a healthcare company that designs new anesthesiology service solutions to outpatient centers. Neil founded and managed a boutique private equity firm to invest in niche healthcare markets. He has also spent time at McKinsey & Company and Kleiner Perkins, where he focused in healthcare and technology industries. Neil received an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Political Science from Yale University.

Mr. Matt Turck serves as Managing Director at FirstMark Capital. He invests across a broad range of enterprise and consumer startups. Prior to FirstMark, he was a Managing Director at Bloomberg Ventures, the investment and incubation arm of Bloomberg LP, which he helped start. Previously, Matt was the co-founder of TripleHop Technologies, a venture-backed enterprise search software startup that was acquired by Oracle. Matt is passionate about building communities, and organizes two large monthly events, Data Driven NYC (which focuses on data-driven startups and Big Data) and Hardwired NYC (which focuses on the Internet of Things, 3D printing, and wearable computing). Matt graduated from Sciences-Po Paris and holds a master of laws (LL.M.) from Yale Law School. He also serves as Member of Investment Committee at Digital Currency Group. He serves as a Board Member at frame.ai.

We invest all over North America in companies that have $0-$50MM in revenue, with initial investments that range from $500K-$5MM. What we look for: Experienced management teams, specifically at least one of the following: domain expertise, channel expertise, stage expertise, previous exits. Balanced teams with complementary skill sets. Purpose-driven brands. Platform brands looking to dominate an entire category or show up in multiple categories. Superior product performance. A pipeline of product and business model innovation. Solving a real problem in a $1Bn+ category. Competitive unit economics at scale. Quality co-investors: good partners that are experienced in this stage, category, or channel. Deal terms that make sense. We underwrite deals for a minimum 50% IRR, which means that there’s typically a pathway to the value of the company doubling in the next 12-24 months.

Fusion Fund backs early-stage entrepreneurs building forward-thinking companies with technical and data advantages in their business models. We are actively looking for companies in the industrial, enterprise, and healthcare application spaces and for founders with direct experience and expertise in those areas. We have invested all across the United States and target companies who are at pre-seed, seed, and Series A. The DNA of the firm is rooted in the team’s technical and entrepreneurial background. As former technical operators who have previously started, ran, and sold companies, we know what it takes to build successful enterprises and how to overcome challenges specific to those building technology businesses. Fusion Fund is a part of Beyond the Billion, a pledge campaign aimed at mobilizing a global consortium committed to invest $1 BILLION in women founders.

Mr. Mike Jackson serves as Partner at The Westly Group. Prior to joining, he was founder and CEO of Village Green Energy, a retailer of renewable electricity production to households and businesses. Previously, he managed research in India and China at the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at Stanford University, where he wrote on the impact of global coal, oil, and natural gas markets on energy choices in the developing world. In addition to his work in energy, Mr. Jackson chairs an internal board for Variety Children’s Charity of Northern California, where he leads efforts to bring young professionals into the charity as volunteers and future donors. Mr. Jackson holds a master’s degree in Energy Engineering and a bachelor’s degree in Biology and Earth Systems, all from Stanford University. He serves as a Board Observer at RapidSOS.

Social Capital

Palo Alto, United States

Mr. Thomas Layton serves as a Board Partner at Social Capital. He was Chief Executive Officer of Metaweb Technologies since June 2007. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of OpenTable from 2001 to June 4, 2007. He co-founded MAPLight. He co-founded CitySearch and served as its President and Chief Operating Officer from November 1995 to June 1999. He also serves as a Board Member at Doxo. He served at Score Learning as the Chief Financial Officer from April 1994 to October 1995 and as its President and Chief Operating Officer from March 1995 to October 1995. He served as a Vice President and General Manager of MicroFinancial and from 1986 to 1988, he served as a Consultant at Boston Consulting Group. He holds an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University and a BS from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Mr. Steven Xi is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Eastlink Capital. He is formerly a Regional Director of Riverwood Capital. At Riverwood, he has focused on investments in internet, software/IT services and digital media in China. Prior to joining Riverwood, Steven was a Managing Director at The Hina Group Fund I, where he focused on expansion-stage investments in the technology and digital media space. Before joining Hina, Steven co-founded and managed an ecommerce start-up with locations in the Silicon Valley and Beijing. Prior to his entrepreneurial experience, Steven spent six and half years in investment banking and principal investment, in both New York and Hong Kong. Steven started his investment banking career with CSFB in New York and served as the head of China Investment Banking for Kleinwort Benson in Hong Kong.

Mr. Elliott Bisnow is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Summit. He serves as Venture Partner at Learn Capital. He represents Summit within the general partnership. As Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Summit, Elliott oversees their annual gatherings, which Forbes called "The Davos of Generation Y," and President Clinton called "A gift to the United States and the world." Elliott is the Co-Founder of The Get Well Soon Tour, which brings world famous musicians to perform in hospitals for sick children. Elliott serves as a Founding Board Member of the United Nations Foundation's Global Entrepreneurs Council. Elliott is also the Co-Founder of Bisnow Media Corporation with his dad, Mark, which is the largest publisher of commercial real estate news in America and one of the largest business conference producers in America.

True Wealth Ventures invests in women-led companies with healthy or sustainability impacts at the core of their value propositions. Formed in 2015 by Founding General Partner Sara Brand, True Wealth Ventures, with General Partner Kerry Rupp, is an Austin-headquartered venture capital firm that invests exclusively in women-led companies. True Wealth Ventures investment thesis is women-led companies perform better financially, yet remain an untapped market. We like to be the first institutional investors at an early stage (usually Series Seed) with first checks up to $1M, and we often take a board seat. We generally reserve the majority of our investment capital for follow-on investments. We look for companies where the founders see an acquisition exit opportunity within 5 years at a valuation of $100 million or more.

Mr. Philip O'Connor serves as Managing Partner at Blackhorn Ventures. He led the company from early prototyping and seed financing, to securing a large strategic partner for an in-field pilot treatment plant. For the past five years Philip has been an investor and advisor focusing on water technology, energy, and bioscience. Philip's interest in early stage ventures started with his appreciation for the natural world. This grew with his first job out of college, working at The Biomimicry Institute in Montana, which helped team engineers with biologists to create the next generation of clean technologies. Philip has a diverse educational background, which includes studies in America, England, Switzerland, China, and New Zealand, and an MBA in Sustainable Management from Presidio Graduate School.

Mr. Geoff Judge serves as a Partner at iNovia Capital. He is also the Board Member at Collective. He serves as an Advisor at Transactis. A co-founder of 24/7 Media, he guided the company to a public offering in August 1998. 24/7 was later acquired by WPP in 2007 for $649MM. He was at iMarket prior, where he was the CMO. He spent 9 years at American Express in the Card Division in several roles including VP and GM, Travel & Corp. Insurance Group. He was an investor in IndustryBrains (sold to Marchex), on the Board of Fetchback (sold to GSI), Oggifinogi (sold to Collective) and current board member of Global Cash Access (NYSE: GCA). He's a founding board member of Children for Children, and a Trustee for the Sacred Heart School in Manhattan for 6 years. He served as Advisor at ClickFacts.

Mr. Darren Bechtel is the Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at Brick & Mortar Ventures. He brings over 7 years of engineering, product and architectural design, and construction management professional experience to the Brick & Mortar team, as well as over 8 years of venture investing as the founder and managing director of South Park Ventures. Darren is a Stanford-trained engineer and MBA who remains closely connected to the young Stanford entrepreneurial community as the founder and developer of Soma CoLab, a San Francisco-based co-working and incubator space for Stanford alumni. Darren is involved in the boards of six startup companies and serves as a technology innovation advisor to the Bechtel Group, a global leader in engineering, construction, and project management.

Mr. Daniel Darling is the Founder and serves as Managing Director at Darling Ventures. He has more than 7 years of background in product and market strategy for mobile and adtech companies in the US, Australia and Japan. Daniel started his career in digital advertising and moved progressively into mobile product development before launching Darling Ventures in 2013. He has founded companies, grown startups to acquisition and led product innovation at public technology corporations. He is a specialist in business strategy and bringing products to market for mobile technology companies. Daniel has a degree in Economics and Social Sciences form The University of Sydney as well as executive education from both Berkeley HAAS and Stanford GSB. He doesn't wear khaki VC pants.

Ulu Ventures is a seed-stage venture firm investing primarily in enterprise IT, smart data and the opportunities created by Stanford and broader Silicon Valley tech ecosystems. Ulu seeks to invest in diverse founder teams with deep insights and big ideas using a straightforward sequence of information gathering, risk assessment, and due diligence to advance prospects through our pipeline. Adhering to a principled, repeatable decision-making process helps reduce cognitive bias in our investment decisions and makes Ulu’s founders among the most diverse in the industry. In all phases of our data-driven, decision analysis process, we seek to be transparent to entrepreneurs and limited partners. Our approach and point of view make Ulu Ventures unique among venture firms.

The first VC firm designed for the new era of builders and creators. We’re operators with a deep network of creators, we’re developer evangelists, product designers and engineers. We’re backed by the founders of Cameo, Spotify, Twitch, Zoom and platforms built for builders, creators, and individual contributors. Our advisors include Arianna Huffington, Michael Ovitz, Sophia Amoruso, Eric Yuan and other disruptors across all industries. We help technical teams with the not so technical stuff. You’re never too early. We meet founders early, typically before they leave their last thing. We don’t wait for a lead investor, we introduce you to them. We look for emerging trends. We typically find them on Discord, Reddit, and sometimes Animal Crossing. We create community.

Mr. David Ryan serves as Founding Managing Partner at Mission Ventures. He has venture capital experience focusing on early-stage information technology and service companies. Prior to Mission Ventures, beginning in 1983, he served as General Partner of Copley Venture Partners, a Boston-based venture capital firm focused on early-stage investing in information technology, business services and healthcare. Prior to Copley, Mr. Ryan held positions in strategic planning, business development and plant modernization with Medusa Corp, a Midwest-based manufacturer of industrial materials. He is board member of Nirvanix. He holds a Bachelor's degree from Northeastern University and a Master's degree in Business Administration from Case Western Reserve University.

Visible Hands is a venture capital firm that funds and empowers exceptional underrepresented founders launching high-growth startups. Our firm’s investment strategy capitalizes on a “talent arbitrage.” We believe capital markets are inefficient: talented founders are sidelined at the earliest stage, where institutional funding opportunities are lacking most for underrepresented founders. We source founders at scale through our proprietary accelerator programs, where we de-risk and add value through intensive portfolio support. At pre-seed, our timing allows us to buy these companies at a discount before product market fit and other metrics are priced in. Visible Hands is sector agnostic. Our top industries are B2B Saas, creator tools, and digital health.

CRV

San Francisco, United States

Mr. Rafael Corrales serves as General Partner at Charles River Ventures. He brings operating and founding CEO experience from the world of early stage startups. He has led CRV's investments in Amino as well as two currently stealth companies. He also sourced CRV's investments in companies like PillPack and Airtable. Before becoming an investing partner, he became a personal shareholder in the very first round of five startups: Instacart, Blockchain, Luxe, Webflow, and Clearbit. Prior to CRV, he was the founding CEO of LearnBoost, a company which was acquired by WordPress as the largest of their first 12 acquisitions. His team's open source libraries have cumulatively been downloaded over 160 million times and helped popularize Node.JS

Mr. Randall Kaplan is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner at JUMP Investors. He served as Chairman at mPath and Breakthrough Products. Randall is a serial entrepreneur and an active investor. Since its formation in 1999, JUMP has invested in a variety of real estate companies, private equity funds, hedge funds and more than 40 early-stage technology companies including Avamar Technologies (acquired by EMC), Business.com (acquired by R. Donnelley), Community Connect (acquired by Radio One), Google, GSX Group (acquired by Open Text), L90 (acquired by Intermix), mPath, Postini (acquired by Google), Seagate, UrgentRx, and ViaFone(acquired by Extended Systems). He is the Owner and serves as Chief Executive Officer at CollarCard.

Clayton Associates is a venture capital and angel group firm which operates as a subsidiary of Aviv Financing. It specializes in seed, early stage and later stage investments. The firm operates under the platforms of Bullpen Ventures, FCA Venture Partners and Rolling Hills Ventures where Bullpen Ventures provides incubation services, FCA Venture Partners manages the venture capital investments and Rolling Hills Ventures is associated with the angel investments. The firm as a whole seeks to invest in companies operating in the information technology, healthcare, mobile app development, software and digital media sectors. It was founded in 1996 and is based in Brentwood, Tennessee with an additional office in Nashville, Tennessee.

Green Cow Venture Capital [GCVC] is an early-stage venture fund based in San Francisco and New York City. Green Cow Venture Capital invests at the seed and Series A stage into dynamic founders that combine unparalleled drive, talent, and diverse perspective to solve problems around scarcity and inefficiency in global markets, particularly leveraging technologies like AI, ML and robotics. While we like our founders to be tackling global market problems, we currently require them to have an entity domiciled in the United States (typically Delaware C-Corp). Green Cow Venture Capital is a part of Beyond the Billion, a pledge campaign aimed at mobilizing a global consortium committed to invest $1 BILLION in women founders.

IP Group's core business is the creation of value for its shareholders and partners through the commercialisation of intellectual property originating from research intensive institutions. Their strength lies in managing this process from finding suitable intellectual property to commercialise to either helping develop businesses and create value out of them, or identifying and establishing appropriate commercial partnerships to do so. IP Group's extensive expertise in this area combined with its inside knowledge of both industry and finance have enabled the group to create a formidable track record of consistently delivering excellent results for their companies, for their partners and for their shareholders.

A-Force Ventures is an early-stage fund that invests in female-led consumer internet and mobile startups. We are proud to invest in and support some of the smartest and most passionate entrepreneurs who are creating groundbreaking products and services that make our lives better, more connected, and more fulfilling. 1) We focus on investing in startups with a female founder or who are active in female dominant marketplaces; 2) We target early-stage investments (seed and pre-seed) in the consumer lifestyle sector across travel, health, entertainment, consumer products, dating, fashion, and education; and 3) The key traits we look for in our founders are hustle, passion, curiosity, and deep market knowledge.

DiverseCity Ventures accelerates positive social, economic, and/or environmental impact through entrepreneurship. We do so through two primary vehicles: • DiverseCity Ventures LLC, an impact-oriented venture capital firm, invests primarily in pre-seed technology-driven companies with large addressable markets, product-market fit, a dynamic founding team, and high probability of outsized returns. • DiverseCity Ventures Inc., a non-profit arm, fosters collaboration within the innovation economy while training, incubating, and supporting early stage entrepreneurs. We advise pre-seed and seed-staged companies and strive to close the funding gap that disproportionately disadvantages under-represented founders.

We’re more than just investors. We’re trendspotters, strategists, and advisors. And we’re more than that, too. We’re proud parents, style aficionados, wellness gurus, artists, dreamers, urbanites, nature lovers, chefs, gourmands, cinephiles, musicians, comedians, oddballs, wanderers, leaders, teachers, and learners. Our vision for tomorrow comes from our empathy for today. In an industry obsessed with trailblazing, we go one step further: We meet the consumer where they’re going. That makes us unique - and we’re here to share that insight with founders. When big thinkers are poised on the brink of transforming consumer culture, they become more than just founders, or CEOs, or investors, or entrepreneurs.

Mr. David Shen serves as Director of West Coast Operations at LaunchCapital. He serves as President at David Shen Ventures. He serves as an Advisor at Distribute. He is a mentor and strategist to internet/tech/mobile startups of all sorts, with a focus on product/UX strategy and development. He is focusing on investments in the Bay area and NYC. Prior to joining the LaunchCapital team, he was an angel investor since 2006. He was an early Yahoo! employee where he ran UX for almost 9 years and has worked on physical products at Apple and frogdesign. He holds BS degree in Computer and Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and MS degree in Computer Science from Stanford University.