Venture capital firms

Tekton Ventures

Venture CapitalSan Francisco, United States

Mr. Jai Choi is the Co-Founder at Tekton Ventures. He also serves as Venture Partner at Partech Ventures. He joined Partech International in 2006 and focuses on early stage opportunities in Internet, Software and Mobile. He has spent most of his career as a serial entrepreneur and early stage investor. Jai is currently a founder of Tekton Ventures, a seed stage venture fund focused on helping founders build and grow their early stage companies. Jai has invested in a number of companies at the seed stage including UserVoice, Coupang, TasteMakerX, EatClub, DoodleDeals(Plum District), Schoolfeed, etc. Jai was also a founder of PeerPong, a cloud-based semantic search company acquired by FormSpring.me in early 2011. Prior to Partech, Jai was a partner with IGNITE Ventures, a $250M venture fund and advisory group with strategic limited partners from major Asia-based technology conglomerates. Jai has extensive experience advising and working with major Asia-based technology companies on new growth platforms, new business formation, joint venture, and M&A. Jai started his career in management consulting at PA Consulting Group, focused on market-related and operational issues for major telecom and energy companies. Jai received a Bachelor Science from University of Southern California.

Icon Ventures

Venture CapitalPalo Alto, United States

Mr. Paul Sallaberry serves as Venture Partner at Icon Ventures. He serves as the Chairman of the Board at Seal Software. He was a Member of the Board of Directors for Quest Software, an information technology and systems management company that recently became a part of Dell. He provided strategic guidance to Quest as it developed, manufactured, and supported software used in a variety of industries. In addition, he serves on the Board of Directors of Acquia, a commercial open-source software company that concentrates on products and services for Drupal. Mr. Sallaberry also sits on the Board of Advisors for PureStorage , Liquid Robotics, and Calypso Software. Aside from his work as a board member, he holds a spot on the University of California, Davis Graduate School of Management Dean’s Advisory Council and the Board of Trustees of the UC Davis Foundation. He is also a Trustee of Sacred Heart Schools and a Venture Partner at Jafco Ventures. Before taking up his current duties, he spent eleven years with Veritas Software, now Symantec, as Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations. Earlier in his career, he worked with software companies such as Oracle, Applied Data Research, and Dorado Software. He holds a degree from the University of California, Davis.

Acrew Capital

Venture CapitalSan Francisco, United States

Acrew DCF is a new growth stage investment fund from Acrew Capital, that aims to diversify the ownership and leadership of leading growth stage companies through value added capital. Acrew DCF has been created to bring more diverse shareholders to later-stage investments of companies that are IPO bound, in turn increasing representation of women and PoC leaders in the ownership of such companies. Acrew DCF also strives to help our portfolio companies diversify their boards, executive teams, and perspectives by tapping into the unique network of diverse leaders who are involved as Equity Partners or Community Leaders in the DCF. We aim to have a triple bottom line impact by providing strong investor returns, improving company performance, and expanding the investable assets for diverse individual angel investors. For Growth Stage Companies: Acrew DCF targets investments of $5-$15m in growth stage equity financings. We are valued-added co-investors alongside lead growth investors. We help market leading companies at a critical point in their lifecycle. We increase representation and diversity of the shareholder base through a single vehicle. We provide unique access to Acrew DCF’s network of Diverse Leaders to help diversify boards, exec teams, and perspectives.

Battery Ventures

Venture CapitalBoston, United States

Mr. Neeraj Agrawal serves as a General Partner at Battery Ventures. He serves as Board Member at Sprinklr Japan. He also serves as a Board Member at Brightree, Glassdoor, Yesware, Catchpoint, Pendo.io and Chef. Mr. Agrawal was a founding investor in BladeLogic (NASDAQ: BLOG, acquired by BMC). In addition to BladeLogic, Mr. Agrawal's 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, Mr. Agrawal worked as a product manager at Real Networks, an operating executive at SkyTV and a management consultant with Booz-Allen. Mr. Agrawal 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, an active advisor to several local entrepreneurs, and has been named numerous times to the Forbes Midas List, which ranks the top 100 venture capitalists around the world.

Tabreez Verjee

Venture CapitalUnited States

Mr. Saad Khan is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at Uprising. He also serves on the advisory board for start-up Lending Club, and is a founding member of the FilmAngels. Previously he sat on the board of directors for Blekko, Luminate and Jobvite, a company that developed an on-demand recruitment application to drive and manage talent acquisition for small to mid-sized enterprises. He served as Partner at CMEA Capital. Prior to joining CMEA, he was a Venture Partner and led the advisory services group at Garage Technology Ventures (GTV), a seed stage venture fund. During his career at Garage, he focused on emerging technology investments in the software and digital media space, working closely with many companies including TripleHop (acquired by ORCL), cFares, and Savage Beast (Pandora). Before GTV, he worked for the IBM alphaWorks group in Cupertino, CA, focusing on commercializing IBM R&D. he also worked for the Strategic Planning and Business Development Groups at the Walt Disney Company, helping to develop the strategic and operating plans for ABC, ESPN and Disney's e-businesses. He received a B.S. degree in Symbolic Systems and an A.B in Economics with Honors in Science, Technology, and Society from Stanford University.

MBF Healthcare Partners

Private Equity, Venture CapitalCoral Gables, United States

Dr. Phillip Frost serves as an Advisor at MBF Healthcare Partners. He presently serves as Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of OPKO Health, Inc. (NYSE: OPK), a specialty pharmaceutical company. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of TEVA Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. (NASDAQ: TEVA), Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services, Inc. (AMEX: LTS), and Prolor Biotech, Inc. (AMEX: PBTH) while also serving as a Director of Castle Brands, Inc. (AMEX: ROX). Previously, he served as Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer of IVAX Corporation (AMEX: IVX) until its sale to TEVA for $8.5 billion, and Director of Continucare Corp. (NYSE: CNU) prior to its sale to Metropolitan Health Networks Inc. (AMEX: MDF). He also served as Chairman on the Board of Directors of IVAX Diagnostic (AMEX: IVD), and as Co-Vice Chairman of the American Stock Exchange (NYSE: NYX) and Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC). He serves on the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, is a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Miami, Governor of Tel Aviv University, Chairman of Temple Emanu-El, and is a Trustee of each of the Scripps Research Institutes, the Miami Jewish Home for the Aged, and Mount Sinai Medical Center.

Harrison Metal Capital

Venture CapitalSan Francisco, United States

Mr. Michael Dearing is the Founder at Harrison Metal Capital. He serves as the Board Member & Advisor at Signal Sciences. He also serves as an Advisor at Kepha Partners. He currently teaches at Stanford University. Previously, he spent more than six years at eBay. As SVP & General Merchandise Manager of eBay North America, he was responsible for more than $1.7B in annual revenues and nearly $20B in gross merchandise sales across thousands of merchandise categories. He also led the development of many of the features and services of the eBay.com site including Buy It Now, eBay Stores, ProStores, and Want It Now. Mr. Michael also designed and built the company's first onsite, direct, and product marketing teams to leverage the world's largest database of online consumer activity. Prior to eBay, he held leadership positions at Industrial Shoe Warehouse, The Walt Disney Company and Bain & Company. He also serves as a Board Member at Grand Rounds, Flite, Good Eggs, ZipZapPlay, MoPub, Metaresolverand 500px and Adstack. Mr. Dearing joined the d.school faculty at Stanford University. He holds an AB in Economics with a focus in economic history from Brown University, as well as an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School.

Supplychange

Private Equity, Venture CapitalLos Angeles, United States

Culture and climate - the defining forces of our time - are deeply impacting the future of food. Supply Change Capital invests in early stage food and agricultural technology businesses who are responding to seismic culture and climate shifts occurring in the $6 trillion food industry. With 15 investments in Fund I as of 2Q2023, 80% of the portfolio is led by female, Black, and Latinx founders. At the firm level, Supply Change Capital is impactful by design. The firm is led by two women, with 50% Latina ownership. With combined careers in food, tech, and investing, managing partners Noramay Cadena and Shayna Harris lead the team at Supply Change Capital. Noramay is a Boeing aerospace engineer turned investor who previously launched an early-stage venture fund that invested in more than 20 manufacturing and supply chain companies. Shayna has extensive executive experience at venture-backed startups and also at the global food company Mars. She has developed sustainable food strategies in over 20 countries. The duo met at MIT Sloan in 2009. Supply Change champions a community-first approach. This helps build deal flow, nurture co-investment relationships, and advance equity in venture capital opportunities and beyond.

Merus Capital

Venture CapitalUnited States

Mr. Peter Hsing is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at Merus Capital. Peter has over 20 years of technology industry experience. Before co-founding Merus, Peter was Managing Director of the Corporate Strategy Group at Microsoft, where he led a team in identifying and evaluating several $1 billion+ growth opportunities. Under his mandate, he and his team successfully committed Microsoft to investing in Cloud services, from the acquisition of Microsoft's first SaaS offering to driving the strategic and business cases for Azure and Exchange Online. Peter was also a member of Microsoft's Corporate Development team focused on online consumer services, digital media, and interactive entertainment in the U.S. and Asia. Prior to joining Microsoft, Peter was an Associate in JP Morgan's Telecom, Media & Technology investment banking group and Private Placements team in Hong Kong and a management consultant with Price Waterhouse in their Dispute Analysis and Corporate Recovery Services group. He started his career in technology in 1988 as a marketing intern with IBM. Peter holds an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Columbia University.

Chicago Ventures

Venture CapitalChicago, United States

Mr. Stuart Larkins serves as Co-Founder, Investment Committee Member & Partner at Chicago Ventures. He is an Internet entrepreneur and digital marketing expert with more than fifteen years of experience leading Internet companies and start-up organizations. Mr. Stuart is a Co-Founder and Partner of Chicago Ventures. He was Senior Vice President and part of the founding management team at Performics. During his eight years at Performics, he helped lead the business through rapid growth and subsequent acquisitions by Doubleclick, Hellman & Friedman, Google, and Publicis. He was also involved in many online advertising industry groups and associations, such as the IAB, Yahoo Search Advertiser Council, MSN Search Committee, and the Google SEM Council. In addition to his involvement with the Chicago Ventures, Mr. Larkins is the Founder and Managing Partner of Twin Capital, where he is an investor in early-stage interactive marketing service and technology companies. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Shedd Aquarium, a member of the Economic Club of Chicago, and a member of the Springboard Foundation. He holds a B.S. in Economics from Southern Methodist University.

main street capital corporation

Venture CapitalHouston, United States

Main Street is a principal investment firm that primarily provides customized long-term debt and equity capital solutions to lower middle market companies and debt capital to private companies owned by or in the process of being acquired by a private equity fund. Main Street's portfolio investments are typically made to support management buyouts, recapitalizations, growth financings, refinancings and acquisitions of companies that operate in diverse industry sectors. Main Street seeks to partner with entrepreneurs, business owners and management teams and generally provides customized "one-stop" debt and equity financing solutions within its lower middle market investment strategy. Main Street seeks to partner with private equity fund sponsors and primarily invests in secured debt investments in its private loan investment strategy. Main Street's lower middle market portfolio companies generally have annual revenues between $10 million and $150 million. Main Street's private loan portfolio companies generally have annual revenues between $25 million and $500 million. Main Street's common stock trades on the New York Stock Exchange ("NYSE") under the symbol "MAIN."

AlphaPrime Ventures

Venture CapitalNew York, United States

Mr. Alessandro Piol serves as Partner and is a Co-Founder at AlphaPrime Ventures. Mr. Piol is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Vedanta Capital. He serves as an Advisor at U-Start. He led investments in Arbortext (acquired by PTC), Cadis (Aspect Development), Cast Iron Systems (IBM), Digital Persona, LogLogic (TIBCO), ONI Systems (IPO in 2000), Portal Software (IPO in 1999), Torrent Networking (Ericsson), and Verisign (IPO in 1997) among others. In 1991, he co-founded AT&T Ventures where he led investments in BBN Planet (Verizon), Classic Sports Network (now ESPN Classic), Multex (IPO in 1999), Redgate Communications (AOL), and Spectrum HoloByte (Microprose/Hasbro). In 1995, Alessandro became a partner at Invesco Private Capital. Before working as a venture capitalist, Alessandro spent several years developing compilers in Fortran, co-founded the AT&T-backed graphics supercomputing business Pixel Machines, and worked as director of Strategic Partnerships for AT&T Computer Systems. Alessandro received an MBA from the Harvard Business School in 1985. He received an MS and BS in Computer Science from Columbia University in 1982 and 1979, respectively.

Engineering Capital

Venture CapitalPalo Alto, United States

Mr. Ashmeet Sidana serves as Founder, Managing Partner & Chief Engineer at Engineering Capital. He served as a General Partner at Foundation Capital. He is a seasoned executive who came to Foundation Capital with a combination of 15 years of experience ranging from startups to establishing companies. His experience spans engineering, sales, marketing and product management. Most recently, he was at VMware where as Dir. of Product Management he was responsible for multiple products including Virtual SMP, P2V and their flagship product, ESX Server. At VMware, he helped grow ESX Server from early pilots to widespread worldwide deployment in mission critical systems by Fortune 500 companies. Prior to VMware, Mr. Sidana was CEO of Sidana Systems, a successful enterprise-software company that pioneered Docsan for publishing very-large (terabyte) documents. He bootstrapped Sidana Systems from inception through growth and to its acquisition by Doclinx. He served as the Board Member at Simply Hired. He is presently a board member at FreeWheel Media. He began his professional career at Hewlett-Packard and later Silicon Graphics, holding various technology roles.

Brightventures

Venture CapitalNew York, United States

Bright Ventures Fund I invests up to $1M each in Pre Seed and Seed-stage venture in fin-tech, digital health and the future of work. Our expertise is Inclusive Innovation: identifying and scaling ventures that have inclusion as a market-winning competitive advantage.Bright Ventures’ fund is supported by a broader platform launched in 2014. The Bright Ventures Platform is an Inclusive Innovation Strategy Group, which delivers executive coaching, strategic advisory services, and training programs for founders, investors and operators globally. It is the premiere partner for leveraging inclusion as a competitive advantage in the innovation economy. Bright Ventures Fund I applies a thematic focus on inclusion using our proprietary Inclusive Innovation framework to invest in the teams and companies in fintech, digital health, and the future of work. Ventures in this category have innovative leaders, teams, and products that drive alpha in markets with massive TAM, serve overlooked consumers and win institutional partners. We use our proven expertise in sourcing, scaling and evaluating inclusive ventures to see early signals that others miss.

Harbinger Ventures

Venture CapitalUnited States

Harbinger Ventures works exclusively with early-stage consumer brands that are led by exceptional female founders or mixed-gender founder founding teams, and incentivizes collaboration amongst its portfolio companies by giving each entrepreneur an equity stake in the portfolio. We invest behind visionaries who will be successful with or without us, but where our partnership can accelerate and enhance their strategy. We build our portfolio with purpose. Our investments are more than a collection of brands; it represents a cohesive vision and is composed of companies whose strategies are well-suited to reinforcing each other. With an unusually concentrated portfolio, we are able to foster an atmosphere of trust and collaboration not only between Harbinger and its investment strategy companies but among the companies themselves, driving fast-paced growth across the portfolio. We hold ourselves accountable to our values. Gender diverse leadership drives better results. It’s also more fun, more challenging and ultimately more interesting. We work with brands who both share this vision and are willing to embrace the opportunity it presents.

dynaexec - dynamic executives

Venture CapitalUnited States

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Accion Venture Lab

Venture CapitalUnited States

Early-stage startups often lack access to the capital and support they need to grow. Accion’s seed-stage investment initiative, Accion Venture Lab, provides financial and post-investment support to address these needs. Investing since 2012, and backed by third party commercial and impact investors since the launch of our fund in 2019, we typically invest U.S. $500,000 in seed-stage startups and can continue to support companies as they grow through follow-on capital that drives scale. Accion Venture Lab is an active and engaged investor, creating value in our portfolio by providing investees with strategic and operational support across a broad range of functional areas. We look for startups that are leveraging new technologies, data, and analytical tools to acquire, engage, and serve previously underserved individuals and small businesses. We like innovative customer engagement models that blend tech and touch to create seamless user experiences. We are excited about new approaches that focus on financial health and building financial capabilities as they provide critical products and services to consumers.

Rethink Food is tackling an existential problem: our planet will need to feed 2 billion more people by 2050, while human activity and climate change shrink our arable land by the day. We invest in technologies that leverage data to increase agricultural yields, unlock scientific breakthroughs to deliver better nutrition, and utilize materials and processes that will build a sustainable food supply chain. Led by Rini Greenfield, a former Tiger Management fund manager, and Brad Jakeman, the former President of Global Beverages at PepsiCo, Rethink brings a combination of investment sophistication and industry experience. We have built a board of industry experts who are able to advise our companies on food science, regulatory processes, supply chain, data analysis, and sales. Our experience accelerates the growth of companies using data, software, automation, and biotechnology to Digitize the Food System. We are raising a $100mm Fund for early-stage investments across precision agriculture, novel ingredients, sustainable distribution, waste reduction, packaging technology, and food as medicine.

Gary M. Lauder

Venture Capital

Mr. Gary Lauder is a Co-Founder and serves as a Managing Director at Lauder Partners. He has been a venture capitalist since 1985, investing in over 80 private companies. He is also Chairman of ActiveVideo Networks. Other directorships: OnLive, net2tv, Promptu, MediaFriends and ShotSpotter. Investments are primarily in television/IPTV technology and WWW arenas. In the 1980's, he worked at the venture firms of Aetna, Jacobs & Ramo Technology Ventures, as well as Wolfensohn Associates. He holds a BA in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania; a BS in Economics from the Wharton School; and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is the co-creator of the Aspen Institute's Socrates Society with Laura, his wife. He is a member of the inaugural class of the Aspen Institute's Henry Crown Fellowship Program. He has had a working cable modem (usually) in his home since 1994. He is co-inventor of 12 patents, has spoken at over 100 industry forums, and, since 1992, has published several articles about the future of the cable industry...that he still stands by.

Vertex Ventures US

Venture CapitalTel Aviv, United States

Dr. Sandeep Bhadra serves as a Partner at Vertex Ventures US. He joined Vertex in 2017 and focuses primarily on cloud infrastructure, data-driven business applications and cybersecurity. At 21, as a freshly minted electrical engineer, he helped set up and operate India's first WiFi hotspot and felt how transformative technology could be for business users, how hard infrastructure was to operate at scale and how demanding business buyers could be. Most recently, he was a Principal at Menlo Ventures where he focused on investments in infrastructure and data/machine-learning driven applications-my investments there include Platform9, Signifyd, Unravel Data and Clarifai. Prior to that, he was with Cisco's Corporate Development team learning how a market leader uses inorganic strategies to grow and transform itself. While there he worked on Cisco's investments in MapR, Platfora, Moogsoft and acquisitions of Metacloud, tail-f and Memoir Systems. He holds both a B.Tech from IIT Madras and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin in Electrical Engineering, and an MBA from INSEAD.

Capital Factory

Venture CapitalAustin, United States

Mr. Gordon Daugherty serves as a Managing Director at Capital Factory. He spent eight years in the videoconferencing industry, including four years as President of an Israeli-based company that grew from $5M to $36M in a short few years and went public on the Euronext stock market. He has served in an executive capacity over most company functions, but with emphasis on marketing, sales, business development and M&A. He ran corporate development and strategy for Austin-based NetQoS, who grew rapidly to more than $55M in revenue before being acquired by CA Technologies for $200M and was a founding advisor for digital advertising pioneer MediaMind, who reached $65M in revenue and a NASDAQ IPO in 2010 at a $192M valuation. Through his advisory practice, Shockwave Innovations, and as Managing Director for Austin's Capital Factory startup accelerator, Gordon is an active angel investor, VC and startup advisor. He is currently a board member for Austin-based technology companies SwimTopia, Riskpulse and Chiron Health. He received his Computer Science degree from Baylor University.

1Sharpe Ventures

Venture CapitalUnited States

1Sharpe Ventures (1SV) is an early-stage venture fund backing founders reimagining FinTech, PropTech and the trillion-dollar built world industries: construction, real estate, hospitality, commerce, logistics, and climate. We invest in category-defining businesses transforming the picks and shovels of how we experience, transact, and own real estate. Our team has founded multiple billion-dollar venture-backed tech companies (like Roofstock, Lessen, Kiavi, Azibo) in addition to billion-dollar real estate portfolios. We saw a gap in scalable, strategic capital for proptech founders in the earliest stages, so we built a platform based off of our experience in the trenches. We are investing out of $90M fund in pre-seed, seed, and series A rounds – typical check size if $1-$2M and we can lead or follow. Our venture fund is connected to the broader 1Sharpe Capital, a $3Bn+ asset management firm investing in real estate and credit – which brings an in-house sandbox of real estate assets, access to capital markets, and a deep bench of real estate, lending, and operating expertise.

Moment Ventures

Venture CapitalPalo Alto, United States

Mr. Clint Chao is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Moment Ventures. He is also a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at Formative Ventures. He invests in emerging technologies start-ups in areas such as communications, wireless, and next-generation Internet solutions. He brings years of start-up operating experience including marketing, sales and business development to Formative Ventures. Prior to co-founding Formative Ventures, he served as vice president of marketing, sales, and business development at SkyStream Networks (acquired by Tandberg TV). Under his leadership, SkyStream formed partnerships with industry leaders such as AOL Time Warner, HP, Microsoft, RealNetworks, Lucent Technologies, Mitsubishi, and Philips. He served as a Board Member at SOASTA. He has also served as senior director of marketing at C-Cube Microsystems and held numerous sales and sales management positions at Motorola Semiconductor. He earned a bachelor of science degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California at Berkeley.

Agilent Technologies

Corporate VCUnited States

Herman Verrelst serves as General Manager - Clinical Applications Division at Agilent Technologies. He served as the Chief Executive Officer at Cartagenia. He also serves as Board Member at icoMetrix. Herman Verrelst is an experienced entrepreneur and business manager, with a specific background in the set up and management of high-tech companies and university spin-offs. In the past, he has been CEO, director and business unit manager in a number of software/bioinformatics based ventures, in the areas of gene expression based cancer biomarkers, medical imaging and pre-operative planning software and financial crime and compliance solutions. He received a master’s degree in engineering from the K.U.Leuven in 1996 and spent 4 years as a researcher and project coordinator at the same university focusing on artificial intelligence and various applications of advanced data analytics. He served as Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director at Data4S. He served as the CEO of Medicim. He graduated from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Slow Ventures

Venture CapitalSan Francisco, United States

Mr. Kevin Colleran serves as Managing Partner and is the Co-Founder of Slow Ventures. He also serves as an Advisor at General Catalyst Partners. He serves as a board member at Chatous and SocialRadar. Mr. Colleran was one of the first 10 Facebook employees and its first salesperson. Prior to Facebook, Colleran had been a lifelong entrepreneur winning many National Entrepreneur of the Year awards. Kevin's various internet companies included StartingPage.com, LiveService.com and PhotoMasterpieces. While in college in Boston, Colleran co-Founded BlabberForce Enterprises, a company that recruited student entrepreneurs on college campuses (called 'Blabbermouths') and gave them the tools to start their own grassroots marketing companies on their own campuses. After college, Colleran worked as a consultant with BMG Music in NY where he launched a music sponsorship company that focused on artists signed to the Arista and RCA record labels. Kevin received a BA in Business Management and Marketing from Babson College. He serves as Mentor at Rough Draft Ventures.

Kickstart Fund

Venture CapitalSalt Lake City, United States

Mr. Clarke Miyasaki serves as General Partner at Kickstart Seed Fund. He is also a Board Member at Wireless Advanced Vehicle Electrification. He previously served as a Board Member at Dsco. He has a history of success in start-up and early-stage investment environments. Most recently, Clarke served as the Global Vice President of Business Development at Skullcandy, which went public in July 2011 (NASDAQ: SKUL). Clarke joined Skullcandy in early 2008 when there were 18 employees and keyed several initiatives that helped grow the company to over $230 million in revenue in 2011. Prior to Skullcandy, Clarke was the Vice President of Business Development at Logoworks, which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $57 million in April 2007. Clarke joined on the ground floor of Logoworks and developed several strategic partnerships that spurred Logoworks rapid growth and positioned it for a successful sale to HP. Some of the partnerships included Staples, eBay, Network Solutions, HP, Legalzoom and Intuit. Clarke was at Logoworks from August 2004 - April 2008.

Information Venture Partners

Venture CapitalToronto, Canada

Our team of experienced venture capital investors is intimately acquainted and exclusively focused on investing in B2B fintech and enterprise SaaS companies selling to financial services. Our founding team invested together while at RBC Venture Partners for over a decade. In 2014, they purchased the remaining companies in that portfolio, with the support of leading institutional investors to create our first independent fund. In 2016, we raised our second $106M fund. We invested in fintech and enterprise SaaS before it became a buzzword, and have invested across multiple economic cycles - we know a thing or two about the rollercoaster ride of building a company. We invested during the dot com era. We stayed the course, making investments and supporting our portfolio through the global financial crisis. Today, we are still excited to invest in the next generation of entrepreneurs. Information Venture 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.

Foundation Capital

Venture CapitalBerlin, United States

Mr. Jonathan Ehrlich serves as Partner at Foundation Capital. He concentrates on identifying and investing in early-stage consumer, mobile, small business-oriented startups and technologies. Jonathan has deep experience building fast-growing startups. From 2009 to 2011, he ran Marketing for Facebook where he led the company's consumer and brand marketing efforts. Prior to his career at Facebook, he was the executive vice president, online, at Indigo Books & Music, Canada’s largest book retailer, where he was responsible for building the online business to over $100 million. Jonathan also co-founded Utah Street Labs, backed by Foundation, Google and Relay Ventures and Mobshop, backed by Marc Andreessen, Visa and GE. He also spent several years as an EIR at Albright Ventures (now Relay Ventures). Jonathan began his career in Advertising and Consumer Packaged Goods, working for McCann: Erikson and Unilever respectively. He holds an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business and a BA in Political Science from the University of Western Ontario.

Collidecap

Venture CapitalNew York, United States

Collide Capital is a Black-owned VC firm ushering in a new era of venture capital where opportunities go to the most deserving, not the most privileged. The firm is led by two GPs who founded AfroTech and BLCK VC, and combines institutional training from Goldman Sachs, Bain & Co, Harvard Business School, and Stanford Graduate School of Business. Following their top-quartile proof-of-concept fund, they set out to raise a $40M Fund 1 and successfully closed an oversubscribed vehicle with $66M in AUM. This fund is backed by a diverse array of LPs from Big Tech (Alphabet, Twitter), Private Equity (General Catalyst, Lightspeed, Bain Capital, Insight Partners), Philanthropy (Weinberg Foundation, George Kaiser Family Foundation), and Institutional Banking (Bank of America & Citi). The portfolio consists of 40+ companies with over 80% led by Black, Latine, and Female founders, and the Collide Capital team works to equip their founders with the resources, knowledge networks, and hands-on operational support for a successful exit.

Authentic Ventures

Venture CapitalOakland, United States

Authentic Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm based in Oakland. The firm was founded in 2016, and invests in Pre-Seed through Series B companies that are solving the world’s hardest problems with diverse teams. We invest primarily in B2B software with a particular focus on AI and Machine Learning, Vertically focused Software, FinTech, and selective Consumer subscription companies. We have a strong focus on investing in companies that are led by diverse teams. Engaging great founders seeking to solve some of our world’s hardest problems might be the single greatest challenge of our generation. Wherever and whoever they are - we endeavor to find them. Solutions to the world’s hard problems are more likely to come from diverse teams. To many, this talent is invisible. Our mission is to seek out and engage with this talent. Authentic has built a differentiated and diverse network that over-indexes to women and people of color who are extremely accomplished yet underrepresented in traditional funding circles.

Oak Investment Partners

Venture CapitalGreenwich, United States

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.

Razor's Edge Ventures

Venture CapitalUnited States

Ms. Peggy Styer is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Razor's Edge Ventures. Additionally she serves as Chief Executive Officer at Raytheon Blackbird Technologies and as an Advisor at ICX Media. Before Razor's Edge, she was the CEO and Chairman of the Board of Blackbird Technologies, a company she co-founded with Steve Pann and Richard Moxley. She oversaw the record-setting sale of Blackbird to Raytheon Corporation, a $427 million deal that closed in November 2014. From 2003-2007, Peggy simultaneously served as CEO of Blackbird and RavenWing, an affiliated company, leading both companies to substantial growth and profitability before selling RavenWing to Boeing in 2008. Earlier in her career, Peggy co-founded and served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at Merex, Inc. before it was sold to Infodata Systems, Inc. in 1996. Peggy earned a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from California State University and a MS degree in Technology Management from the University of Maryland.

Transmedia Capital

Venture CapitalSan Francisco, United States

Mr. Peter Boboff serves as General Partner at Transmedia Capital. He was a Co-Founder and served as Managing Director at Kicklabs. He has been in the early stage venture business for more than 14 years. Peter has invested in more than 50 startups including top search engines Baidu (China), Yandex (Russia), C2B (Inktomi) and more recently: Domo, Percolate, Kiip and Levelup. Previously, Peter was the founder and CEO of Pakana Corporation, a venture-funded company focused on online marketplaces. In 1998, he was a Managing Partner at Whittman-Hart (WHIT), a $1 billion global IT solutions provider. Prior, he was a founder and CEO of Axis Consulting, a leading systems integrator specializing in Internet and ERP solutions, which was a self-funded venture that was acquired by Whittman-Hart in 1997 in a deal valued at $60M. After relocating from Australia in 1991, Peter began his US career as a consultant with Charles Schwab & Co. He holds a BS degree in Mathematics from the Western Australian Institute of Technology.

Act One Ventures

Venture CapitalLos Angeles, United States

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.

Foolventures

Venture CapitalAlexandria, United States

We’re an early stage, technology-focused venture capital fund, powered by The Motley Fool’s brand, investing approach and communities. We consider early stage to be young, growing companies with operating businesses and initial customers. Often, these companies fall into the category of “Series A,” but we recognize that those labels are fluid. While not all of our companies will initially be focused on revenue, many will join the portfolio with between $500K and $5M of annualized revenue. Technology-focused does not simply mean that a company employs technology in the business. It’s rare that one does not. We look for situations where founders are leveraging technology to create a clear competitive advantage and to disrupt their industry. We have a particular interest in the areas of finance, culture, people, and business processes. Motley Fool Ventures is a part of Beyond the Billion, a pledge campaign aimed at mobilizing a global consortium committed to invest $1 BILLION in women founders.

Providence Equity Partners - Growth

Venture Capital

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 Partners

Private Equity, Venture CapitalNew York, United States

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 Partners

Venture CapitalLagos, Nigeria

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.

Sigma Partners

Venture CapitalCampbell, United States

Mr. Robert Davoli serves as a Managing Director at Sigma Prime Ventures. He also serves as a Board of Director at VIRTUSA. From February 1993 to September 1994, Mr. Davoli was president and chief executive officer of Epoch Systems, Inc., a vendor of client-server data management software products. From 1990 to 1992, Mr. Davoli served as an executive officer of Sybase, Inc. (which AnchorAnchoracquired SQL Solutions). In 1985, Mr. Davoli founded SQL Solutions, a purveyor of services and tools for the relational database market where he was president and chief executive officer from 1985 to 1990. Mr. Davoli holds a B.A. in History from Ricker College and studied Computer Science at Northeastern University for two years. Mr. Davoli brings to the board of directors his broad entrepreneurial experience, his extensive experience in the technology industry and his service as a director of the Company since 2000, which affords him unique perspectives on our growth and evolution.

Insight Partners

Venture CapitalNew 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.

Btn

Venture CapitalPittsburgh, United States

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).

incub8 ventures

Venture CapitalSan Jose, United States

We are a VC Firm as well as an Incubation Center for Technology Startups in the early stages with offices in the Silicon Valley and Hyderabad, India. As a Startup founder, you can simply walk in with your Idea and build it right here leveraging the following facilities/services we offer in a very efficient way - Co-working space with all the comforts needed to be highly productive - Centralized Air-Conditioning (entire building) - Two Elevators for easy movement across all the floors- One Conference Hall (60 seats) - Two Meeting Rooms (20 seats) - Several Small Meeting Rooms (8 seats) - Gym sophisticated equipment, Trainer, Showers & Lockers - Guest Rooms (1 Executive suite with kitchen, 2 deluxe rooms)- Executive Lounge - Terrace for Meetups with a Large Screen Projector- Ready access to Freelancer Community - Direct access to the Silicon Valley startup ecosystem - Support for Digital Marketing - Support for Customer Acquisition- Support for Idea Validation

General Catalyst

Venture CapitalPalo Alto, United States

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.

Laconia Capital Group

Venture CapitalNew York, United States

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).

Bee Partners

Venture CapitalSan Francisco, United States

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.

NextView Ventures

Venture CapitalBoston, United States

Mr. Rob Go is a Co-Founder and serves as Partner at NextView Ventures. He has dedicated his career as an investor and operator to internet enabled innovation. Previously, Rob was a venture capitalist at Spark Capital. Before joining Spark Capital, Rob held product roles at Ebay, and was the North America Business Unit owner for "Finding". In this role, he helped to launch over 20 products that significantly enhanced Ebay's search, browse, and merchandising capabilities. Rob began his career at The Parthenon Group, a boutique strategy consulting firm. He was a member of the firm's Private Equity practice, and focused on the consumer and retail industries. Additionally, he has held product management roles at Fidelity Investments, BzzAgent, and helped to found Letslink.jp, one of the first social networking sites outside of the United States. Rob holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Duke University.

Workday Ventures

Corporate VCPleasanton, United States

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.