Best Startup
At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based Partner operating in the Venture Capital space. If you think a Partner is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Avichal Garg
Managing Partner of Electric Capital
Avichal is Managing Partner at Electric Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive. Avichal sold two companies and was most recently Director of Product at Facebook, which acquired his company Spool in 2012. He previously worked at Google on search ranking and ads ranking, is part-time at YCombinator, and an active angel investor. Avichal’s firm, Electric Capital, focuses on cryptocurrencies that are rooted in technological utility. Electric performs deep technological diligence, such as compiling code, profiling nodes, and analyzing blockchains with in-house software. The founders of Electric have started and sold five companies, have been investing in cryptocurrencies since 2013, and are investors in Anchor, Bitwise, Chia, Coda, dYdX, Dfinity, Oasis, Thunder and many other crypto projects.
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About Electric Capital: Electric Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on the cryptocurrency, blockchain, fintech, and marketplaces industries.
Rashaun Williams
General Partner of Manhattan Venture Partners
Rashaun Williams is a former investment banker turned venture capitalist focused on tech, consumer products & media companies. With over 100 investments under his belt and over 20 exits, Mr. Williams is currently a general partner in the MVP All-Star Fund which is a late stage tech fund. Previously he founded venture capital fund Queensbridge Venture Partners where he invested in companies like Coinbase, Casper, Ring, PillPack, Lyft & Dropbox. Over the last 15 years he has been primarily responsible for bringing capital to emerging, diverse and alternative markets while working at Wall Street firms such as Goldman Sachs, Wachovia Securities & Deutsche Bank. In 2007 he founded Dixsville Partners, a private equity fund investing in infrastructure development and mineral companies in West Africa. In 2014 he founded and raised capital for venture capital fund Queensbridge Venture Partners with partners including hip hop icon Nas. Mr. Williams has successfully started, invested in and exited several companies. With a passion for financial literacy and entrepreneurship Mr. Williams founded the Kemet Institute in 2001, a non-profit focused on providing free financial literacy, entrepreneurship and life skills classes to under-served communities and schools. In 2015 he was appointed to the Board of Trustees for Fisk University. He is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi, Inc. and summa cum laude graduate of Morehouse College.
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About Manhattan Venture Partners, Morehouse College, MVP All-Star Fund, Value Investment Group: Principal investor and advisory solution to private venture backed technology companies and their shareholders.
Jared Carmel
Managing Partner of Manhattan Venture Partners
As a pioneer in the development of the secondary market for pre-IPO technology companies, Jared helps shareholders with their liquidity and diversification needs; Simultaneously providing investors access to well-capitalized, disruptive, venture-backed companies that we refer to as “Tomorrow’s IPOs Today™”. Jared’s involvement has helped produce over $5 billion of invested capital with >45 exits including: DraftKings ($DKNG), Facebook ($FB), Twitter ($TWTR), Pinterest ($PINS), Lyft ($LYFT), Airbnb ($ABB), Spotify ($SPOT), Alibaba ($BABA), DocuSign ($DOCU), Coinbase ($COIN), Asana ($ASAN), SoFi ($SOFI), MoneyLion ($ML), and Palantir ($PLTR). Other select pre-IPO investments include Epic Games, Turo, Lime, Transfix, Instacart, and Udemy. Jared is often quoted by leading financial news organizations such as CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, CNN, MarketWatch, The Telegraph, and Business Insider. Over the last twenty years, Jared has worked on various assignments, including early and late-stage venture capital, SPACs, private investment in public equity (PIPE), M&A projects, and secondary direct stock offerings. The aforementioned has led to extensive investment banking experience, business operations, acquisition integration, and board work. Jared Carmel graduated with a BA from the University at Buffalo School of Informatics. For all media inquiries, please reach out using the following email address: info@mvp.vc
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About Manhattan Venture Partners, MVP All-Star Fund, The MVP Foundation: Principal investor and advisory solution to private venture backed technology companies and their shareholders.
Bradley Fishman
Managing Partner of Manhattan Venture Partners
Manhattan Venture Partners “MVP” is a research-driven merchant-banking firm focused on the emerging secondary market for late-stage private technology companies. We facilitate direct and managed secondary investment opportunities, deploy capital as principals, and provide advisory services. Act as a partner and work with companies, angel and venture capital investors, executives and current/former employees to provide them the liquidity and diversification that they need and want in a professional and efficient manner. MVP also provides our clients with accurate, timely and innovative research into the companies and sectors we cover. To that end we established an experienced team of analysts, researchers, economists and industry veterans that focus exclusively on private companies with a proven track record of success.
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About Manhattan Venture Partners, MVP All-Star Fund: Principal investor and advisory solution to private venture backed technology companies and their shareholders.
Andrea Walne
Partner of Manhattan Venture Partners
Andrea Lamari Walne is a Partner at Manhattan Venture Partners (“MVP”), a research-driven merchant bank and venture fund focused on the secondary market for late-stage, pre-IPO companies. She leads the San Francisco regional office and is responsible for overseeing the firm’s growing West Coast presence and team. Working directly with more than 100 late-stage private companies, Walne has facilitated over $10 billion worth of transactions for mid and late-stage private companies. As one of the first female executives in the space, Walne has been leading private company liquidity in the secondary market since its early days, beginning her career as a co-founder of Forge (previously Equidate). Prior to joining MVP, she led the Liquidity Solutions team at Carta (previously eShares). Before Carta, she spent three years as the West Coast director for NASDAQ Private Market. a division of Nasdaq, Inc., where she ran business development for this unit, bolstering Nasdaq’s’s presence by supporting late-stage, pre-IPO companies before they listed on the exchange. She has facilitated transactions for companies such as Slack, Uber, Stitch Fix, and PagerDuty.
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About Manhattan Venture Partners: Principal investor and advisory solution to private venture backed technology companies and their shareholders.
Eric Brachfeld
Managing Partner of Manhattan Venture Partners
Eric has more than 27 years of experience as an investment banker and entrepreneur and has provided financial and strategic advice and structuring transactions for a broad range of companies and investors. Prior to launching Manhattan Venture Partners, Eric was a Partner at Citizen VC, Inc., a financial technology and investment firm, where he led the firm’s investment banking efforts. Prior to Citizen VC, Eric cofounded Gentry New York, which he merged with GSV Financial Group. At GSV FG, Eric was head of investment banking and CEO of Gentry Securities, their broker-dealer subsidiary. Prior to GSV FG, Eric cofounded and led investment banking efforts at Ledgemont Capital Group and Indigo Ventures, firms which raised capital for and invested in early and growth stage companies. Prior to those firms, Eric was an Associate and then General Partner at McFarland Dewey & Co., a boutique investment banking firm. Eric began his career at McKinney Advertising. Eric received a BA in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA, with Honors, from the Stern School of Business, New York University. He holds FINRA Series 7, Series 63, Series 24, Series 79, Series 87 and Series 99 licenses.
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About Manhattan Venture Partners, MVP All-Star Fund: Principal investor and advisory solution to private venture backed technology companies and their shareholders.
Kevin Cohen
Partner of Manhattan Venture Partners
Kevin has more than 17 years experience in the financial services industry. Prior to joining Manhattan Venture Partners, Kevin was a Senior Vice President at Wedbush Securities Inc. and Head of the Private Company Strategies Group. Kevin oversaw all of the group’s secondary market activities, including brokered transactions, managed funds, and principal investments. Prior to creating the Private Company Strategies group, Kevin was a Vice President in Institutional Equity Sales and Trading at Wedbush Securities Inc. He spent over 10 years as a position trader providing technical and fundamental analysis to the firm’s institutional clients and focusing on technology, social media, gaming, and e-commerce. During this period, Kevin also consistently traded the firm’s capital for a profit while providing best execution services to his clients. Prior to joining Wedbush Securities Inc., Kevin was an analyst for Merrill Lynch’s Capital Management Group. The group provided portfolio management services to central banks and sovereign wealth funds with minimum investments of $25 million. Kevin earned his BBA from Washington University in St. Louis. Kevin holds FINRA Series 7, Series 63, Series 65, and Series 55 licenses.
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About Manhattan Venture Partners: Principal investor and advisory solution to private venture backed technology companies and their shareholders.
Nicholas Gupta
Partner of Manhattan Venture Partners
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Bryan Rosenblatt
Partner of Craft Ventures
Bryan Rosenblatt (born July 4, 1989 in New York, New York, United States) is an American Venture Capitalist and entrepreneur. He is a Partner at Craft Ventures, a venture firm with over $2 billion AUM started by David Sacks. He is also a founder of Riverside Ventures which he started in 2017.
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About Craft Ventures: Craft Ventures is an early-stage venture fund specializing in the craft of building great companies.
Michael Tam
Partner of Craft Ventures
Michael is a partner at Craft on the investment team, based in Los Angeles. Prior to joining Craft, he was an investor at Crosscut, where he led investments at the seed stage. As an operator, Michael managed Uber’s business in Southern California markets and launched L., a direct to consumer brand acquired by Procter & Gamble. Michael began his career in venture at Bullpen Capital. Previously, he worked at BofA Merrill Lynch’s tech investment banking group and began his career at PwC. Michael serves on the investment committee of the USC Marshall Fund, which invests in startups in the Southern California tech ecosystem.
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About Craft Ventures: Craft Ventures is an early-stage venture fund specializing in the craft of building great companies.
Lainy Painter
Partner of Craft Ventures
Elena is an associate in Battery Ventures’ Menlo Park office. At Battery, she focuses on venture and growth investments in the software and Internet sectors. Previously, Elena worked at Gainsight, a Battery Ventures portfolio company that offers customer success solutions to B2B companies. There, she helped lead business operations and strategy across the organization, including initiatives to grow services revenue and drive product adoption. Prior to that, Elena worked at Goldman Sachs on the technology, media and telecom investment banking team, advising companies including PayPal, LinkedIn, Zendesk and 2U. Elena graduated summa cum laude from The College of William and Mary. She received a BA in finance and a minor in economics.
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About Craft Ventures: Craft Ventures is an early-stage venture fund specializing in the craft of building great companies.
Bill Lee
Co-Founder and General Partner of Craft Ventures
Bill Lee was CEO and co-founder of Remarq, a Benchmark Capital-backed collaboration company. At Remarq, Bill guided the company in its development of a complete end-to-end Internet messaging and collaboration platform. Before its acquisition by Critical Path in March 2000, the company developed high-volume messaging platforms for sites such as eBay, Sun, Novell, and Amazon. The company raised over $43 million in venture and debt financing. Bill has been appointed by the Mayor of San Jose to the Redevelopment Committee of San Jose. Bill also graduated Beta Gamma Sigma from UC Berkeley with a B.S. in accounting/finance and received a JD/MBA from UCLA.
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About Craft Ventures, West Coast Holdings: Craft Ventures is an early-stage venture fund specializing in the craft of building great companies.
Brian Murray
Partner & COO of Craft Ventures
Brian leads Craft’s investment team. As one of the first employees at Craft, Brian built the infrastructure that powers the firm’s investment process and hired a talented team to expand Craft’s growing portfolio. Prior to joining Craft, Brian was the VP of Business Operations at Zenefits where he led many of the company’s largest, cross-functional initiatives. Brian spearheaded Zenefit’s transition to a pure SaaS business, established the company’s most important channel partnerships, and led the compliance overhaul of its benefits management product. Previously, Brian was the VP of Sales and Customer Success at Cotap (acquired by ServiceMax) where he led sales, marketing, and post-sales efforts.
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About Cabal, Craft Ventures: Craft Ventures is an early-stage venture fund specializing in the craft of building great companies.
Jeff Fluhr
Co-Founder and General Partner of Craft Ventures
Jeff is co-founder and general partner at Craft. He has been a successful tech entrepreneur and investor for two decades. While at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Fluhr entered the annual business plan competition with the idea of creating a trusted and transparent marketplace where fans could buy and sell tickets for sporting events and concerts. Fluhr dropped out of school and co-founded StubHub in March 2000. By 2007, StubHub had over 400 employees, more than $600 million of gross merchandise volume and partnerships with many professional and college sports teams. Fluhr served as CEO of StubHub until it was acquired by eBay for $310 million in 2007.
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About Craft Ventures: Craft Ventures is an early-stage venture fund specializing in the craft of building great companies.
Joe Cheung
Operating Partner – Talent of Craft Ventures
Joseph is currently the Talent Partner at Craft Ventures, previously Recruiting Talent Consultant@Sequoia Capital, @eero, @Greylock Partner’s Talent Team, lead recruiting efforts at Medium. He has also held the position of Director of Recruiting at the Yammer Division of Microsoft Office. During his time at Yammer he lead efforts in aggressively growing the organization from 55 to over 430 employees globally which led to the eventual acquisition by Microsoft for $1.2 billion dollars. Previous to Yammer, Joseph held recruiting positions at Google, Microsoft, Netflix and Salesforce.com where he supported teams such as Hotmail, Quality Engineering and Streaming Infrastructure Teams at Netflix, the entire Research and Development Organization at Salesforce.com, and Japanese Product Focused Teams as well as other confidential product teams at Google.
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About Craft Ventures: Craft Ventures is an early-stage venture fund specializing in the craft of building great companies.
Ashton Kutcher
General Partner of Sound Ventures
Ashton Kutcher is an actor, investor, entrepreneur, producer and philanthropist. Kutcher has been named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World,” as well as being honored by Vanity Fair ‘s “New Establishment List,” which identifies the top 50 of an innovative new breed of buccaneering visionaries, engineering prodigies and entrepreneurs. Twice, Kutcher was named one of Forbes magazine’s “World’s Most Powerful Celebrities,” as well as one of Fast Company magazine’s “Most Creative People.” Kutcher has been investing in technology for over a decade, both as an angel investor and a founding partner of A-Grade Investments and Sound Ventures. His fund portfolio includes Airbnb, Uber, Flexport, Brex, Robinhood, Bird, Airtable and Affirm among others. Kutcher is also the co-founder of Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children (www.thorn.org). Thorn drives technology innovation to fight the sexual exploitation of children. Kutcher currently stars in the Netflix original series, The Ranch. He also serves as Executive Producer. Until 2015, Kutcher starred in the CBS comedy series Two and a Half Men. The show ranked as the second most-watched comedy on all of network television. Kutcher first gained recognition as Michael Kelso on the Fox series That 70’s Show, and went on to star in a variety of box office hits on the big screen – including What Happens In Vegas with Cameron Diaz, The Guardian with Kevin Costner, No Strings Attached with Natalie Portman and the cult hit Dude, Where’s My Car. Kutcher served as co-creator and producer of MTV’s hit series, “Punk’d,” and The CW’s reality series “Beauty and the Geek” and “True Beauty.” He has also produced films such as No Strings Attached, Killers and The Butterfly Effect. Additionally, Kutcher co-founded APlus, a digital media company devoted to spreading the message of positive journalism, a kind of storytelling that focuses on our shared humanity. In 2016, APlus was purchased by Chicken Soup for the Soul.
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About A Plus, A-Grade Investments, RechargeStore, Sound Ventures, Thorn: Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in the technology sector.
Effie Epstein
Managing Partner of Sound Ventures
Effie is the Managing Partner of Sound Ventures, an LA-based venture capital fund founded by Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary.
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About Sound Ventures: Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in the technology sector.
Alexis Ohanian
Founder & General Partner of Seven Seven Six
Alexis Ohanian, born April 24, 1983, is an entrepreneur and investor in Brooklyn, NY, best known as the co-founder and executive chair of reddit, a platform for online communities to share links and have discussions. While he learned his earliest lessons in leadership and web design from his high school Quake 2 clan and Everquest guild, Alexis continued his official studies at the University of Virginia, where he met his future co-founder Steve Huffman during freshman year move-in day. This would lead to the founding of reddit, which he recounted along with many lessons for entrepreneurs, in his national bestseller, Without Their Permission. At UVA, Alexis majored in business and history with a minor in German. Though he had originally planned to become an immigration lawyer, he experienced an epiphany in his junior year (while sitting in a Waffle House) that led him to the realization that he didn’t want to practice law. Instead he convinced his best friend Steve to start a company with him. The pair traveled to Cambridge, MA during their senior year spring break to hear Paul Graham give a talk titled “How to Start a Startup.” After the lecture, Alexis invited Graham out for a drink so he and Steve could pitch Graham on their business idea. Graham agreed, loved the idea, and suggested they apply to a new seed stage venture firm he’d launched called Y Combinator. Alexis and Steve’s original plan was to build an infrastructure that would allow people to order food from their cell phones. Though the idea was rejected, Alexis and Steve were invited to join the first class of Y Combinator, on the condition that they’d come up with a new concept. The next idea they pitched to Graham would become reddit.com.
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About breadpig, Seven Seven Six: Seven Seven Six is a venture capital firm that primarily seeks to invest in seed rounds.
Katelin Holloway
Founding Partner of Seven Seven Six
Katelin is a founding partner at Alexis Ohanian’s venture capital firm Seven Seven Six. Having spent her early career at Pixar Animation Studios, she transferred her culture building skills from film to tech, dedicating over a decade to developing teams as a senior executive at some of the internet’s most influential startups, including Klout and Reddit. In early 2020, Katelin made the leap from operator to investor, helping entrepreneurs and the broader venture ecosystem evolve their diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging practices, creating new opportunities and access to wealth for people and products typically underrepresented in the tech industry. As an investor, she is passionate about funding and supporting the companies that will shape the future of work, life, sustainability, and the delicate balance that enables us to thrive. Throughout the course of her career, the one common denominator remains: enabling people through belonging to create beautiful, innovative products that move the world.
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About Seven Seven Six: Seven Seven Six is a venture capital firm that primarily seeks to invest in seed rounds.
Travis Mason
Operating Partner of Seven Seven Six
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About Seven Seven Six: Seven Seven Six is a venture capital firm that primarily seeks to invest in seed rounds.
William Guillouard
Venture Partner of FJ Labs
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About FJ Labs: FJ Labs is a stage-agnostic investment firm that focuses on marketplaces and consumer facing startups.
Scott Shleifer
Partner of Tiger Global Management
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About Tiger Global Management: Tiger Global Management is an investment firm that deploys capital globally in both public and private markets.
Chase Coleman
Partner of Tiger Global Management
Chase Coleman is the partner of Tiger Global Management LLC (previously known as Tiger Technology Management LLC) in 2001.
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About Tiger Global Management: Tiger Global Management is an investment firm that deploys capital globally in both public and private markets.
Justin Kan
General Partner & Co-Founder of Goat Capital
Justin Kan is the CEO and co-founder of Atrium, a technology company and corporate law firm providing fast, transparent, and price-predictable business and legal services to startups. As a founder of multiple companies and an investor in hundreds more, Justin involuntarily became a power user of corporate legal services. Justin’s mixed experiences with traditional law firms and billing practices inspired him to reimagine the delivery of legal services with a better client experience as his guide. At Atrium, Justin is chief visionary and leads a team of talented executives in developing a technology platform for legal professionals to meet client needs responsively, and rethinking and refining how services are packaged and priced so that legal spend is clear, transparent, and predictable for client legal budgets. The Atrium corporate law firm employs experienced startup lawyers who are attuned to the needs of Atrium’s client base of emerging companies. Prior to Atrium, Justin was a partner at Y Combinator, the preeminent startup accelerator. Justin was a co-founder of Justin.tv, which became Twitch, the popular video game streaming platform (acquired by Amazon in 2014); Exec, an on-demand errand service (acquired by Handybook in 2014); Socialcam, a mobile app for sharing video (acquired by Autodesk in 2012); and Kiko, the first Ajax web calendar. Justin is a prolific angel investor and mentor to startup founders. He is a graduate of Yale University.
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About Goat Capital, Zero-F: Goat Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies.
Robin Chan
Co-Founder & General Partner of Goat Capital
Robin Chan joined Goat Capital Founder and General Partner in 2020.
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About Bird, Expa, Goat Capital, Operation Masks, Operator, Square: Goat Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies.
Tim Draper
Founder and Managing Partner of Draper Associates
Timothy Draper is founding partner of leading venture capital firms Draper Associates and DFJ. Tim’s original suggestion to use “viral marketing” in web-based e-mail to geometrically spread an Internet product to its market was instrumental to the successes of Hotmail and other web-based email providers and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique by hundreds of businesses. Tim launched the DFJ Global Network, an international network of early-stage venture capital funds with offices in over 30 cities around the globe. Tim founded or co-founded DFJ ePlanet (global), Draper Fisher Jurvetson Gotham (NYC), Zone Ventures (LA), Epic Ventures (Salt Lake City), Draper Atlantic (Reston), Draper Triangle (Pittsburg), Timberline Ventures (Portland), Polaris Fund (Anchorage), DFJ Frontier (Sacramento and Santa Barbara), DFJ Vina Capital (Vietnam), Draper Nexus (Tokyo), and DFJ DragonFund (Shanghai). Tim recently launched “Six Californias,” a statewide initiative to create six new states and dissolve a failed one in California. Previously, Tim served on the California State Board of Education. In November of 2000, Tim launched a statewide cyber-initiative on school choice for the California General Election. Tim was a Member of Singapore’s International Economic Council and Ukraine’s Orange Circle. Tim was on the Board of U.C. Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Tim was ranked 52 on the list of the 100 most influential Harvard Alumni, and seven on the Forbes Midas List. Tim was named Always-On #1 top venture capital deal maker. Tim was awarded the Commonwealth Club’s Distinguished Citizen Award for achievements in green and sustainable energy. To further encourage entrepreneurship, Tim started BizWorld.org, a non-profit for children to learn entrepreneurship, Draper University of Heroes, a school for entrepreneurs 18-28 and he leads SixCalifornias, an initiative to improve the governance of California. Tim has a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Bancor, DDF, DFJ DragonFund, DFJ VinaCapital, Draper Associates, Draper Athena, Draper Dragon, Draper University Ventures, ePlanet Capital, Gotham Ventures, SpeedUPAfrica, Threshold, VenturesLab, Zone Ventures: Draper Associates is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in industry-transforming companies.
Andrew Tang
Partner of Draper Associates
Andrew Tang joined the Power Assure Board of Directors in 2011. He is a Managing Director of ABB Technology Ventures (ATV). Andrew has over 15 years of operating, R&D, investment banking and investing experience in the IT industry and focuses on clean technology and industrial applications. Prior to joining ATV, he was a founding Managing Director of the DFJ DragonFund China, Draper Fisher Jurvetson’s sole China affiliate venture capital fund. Andrew has led and managed investments in Miartech, Mobim, Yeepay, Broadbus (MOT), Imago Scientific, Zettacom (IDTI), Packet Video, NuTool (ASMI), Santur, and Corrent. Most recently, he was a partner and member of the investment committee at Infineon Ventures. Prior to Infineon Ventures, he was an investment banker with Credit Suisse First Boston’s technology group in Palo Alto. He worked on the Magma IPO (LAVA), as well as numerous M&A transactions. Before CSFB, Andrew was a senior engineer and marketing manager at Intel Corporation where he was responsible for chip design and market enablement for the Pentium and Itanium processors. He also holds one US patent for silicon germanium thin-film transistor applications. Andrew holds an MBA from the Wharton School, as well as MSEE and BSEE degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and University of Texas at Austin, respectively.
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About Draper Associates, Draper Dragon, Draper University, Draper University Ventures: Draper Associates is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in industry-transforming companies.
Nasir Jones
Partner and Co-Founder of QueensBridge Venture Partners
Nas, byname of Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, also called Nasty Nas, (born September 14, 1973, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American rapper and songwriter who became a dominant voice in 1990s East Coast hip-hop. Nas built a reputation as an expressive chronicler of inner-city street life. Nasir Jones, the son of a jazz musician, grew up in public housing in Queens, New York. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and searched for a creative outlet, finally settling on hip-hop. His breakthrough came in 1992, when his song “Half Time” (credited to Nasty Nas) appeared on the sound track to the film Zebrahead. Columbia Records soon signed him to a contract. His debut recording as Nas, Illmatic (1994), drew widespread acclaim for its poetic narration of hard-edged inner-city life. The more pop-oriented approach of It Was Written (1996) helped that album reach an even wider audience than its predecessor but ignited a recurring tension in Nas’s career between the appetite of the pop audience and the demands of hip-hop purists. He maintained his commercial appeal with I Am… (1999), although by that time he had also become embroiled in a public feud with fellow rapper Jay-Z over which of the two was the preeminent voice in East Coast hip-hop. The schism inspired Stillmatic (2001), which many fans considered a return to form. The two rappers publicly settled their differences in 2005, and shortly thereafter Nas signed with Def Jam, of which Jay-Z was president at the time. Nas’s penchant for provocation marked Hip Hop Is Dead (2006) and an untitled follow-up (2008), while Life Is Good (2012) struck an introspective tone. He also notably collaborated with reggae musician Damian Marley (the youngest son of Bob Marley) on the album Distant Relatives (2010). Nas also made occasional film appearances, notably in Belly (1998), a crime drama in which he starred opposite rapper DMX, and Black Nativity (2013), an adaptation of Langston Hughes’s gospel play.
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About Emagen Investment Group, Inc., QueensBridge Venture Partners, Uncle Sam Loves Me, LLC: QueensBridge Venture Partners invests in technology companies in highly competitive and visible markets.
Anand Murthy
Partner of QueensBridge Venture Partners
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About QueensBridge Venture Partners, Young & Reckless: QueensBridge Venture Partners invests in technology companies in highly competitive and visible markets.
Ronald Conway
Founder & Co-Managing Partner of SV Angel
Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail. Ronald was previously with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from 1973-1979, and Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO from 1979-1990. He eventually took Altos public in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991-1995. PTS went on to be acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft. Ronald has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg, Brightmail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content (acquired by Yahoo!), Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder). Ronald was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top deal-makers in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ronald is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation. Ronald is also featured in Gary Rivlin’s book _The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ronald Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, described as ‘the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley.
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About Applied Intuition, FWD.us, Personal Training Systems, Smart Tech Foundation, SV Angel: SV Angel is an angel firm that helps startups with business development, financing, M&A, and other strategic advice.
Robert Pollak
Partner of SV Angel
Robert Pollak is a General Partner at SV Angel. He joined in 2011 and is responsible for all aspects of running the firm. At SV Angel, Robert has originated investments in and works particularly closely with Fundbox, iCracked, Delighted and Dronebase. Prior to SV Angel, Robert worked for a multi-family office within Morgan Stanley, that focused on VCs, late-stage technology companies, and entrepreneurs. He also worked at Arnold & Porter LLP on large-scale M&A transactions in their anti-trust group. Robert graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in Economics and Foreign Affairs.
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About SV Angel: SV Angel is an angel firm that helps startups with business development, financing, M&A, and other strategic advice.
Steven Lee
Partner of SV Angel
Steven was one of Twitter’s first employees focused on monetization analytics. During his 4+ years on Twitter’s Global Market Insight & Analytics team, he helped the group grow to 45+ people covering 11+ countries. Steven partnered with over 15 Fortune Global 500 companies like Samsung to analyze and optimize return on investment. He also worked on measuring Twitter’s platform usage for key real‐time events like the Super Bowl and World Cup. Steven graduated from New York University with a bachelor’s degree in economics. While at NYU, Steven was a four‐year member of the NCAA Fencing team and competed in national tournaments during the offseason. He was also a tutor for America Reads. Steven lives in San Francisco, and enjoys good eats, photography, reading, rooting for his hometown Los Angeles sports teams, and traveling.
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About SV Angel: SV Angel is an angel firm that helps startups with business development, financing, M&A, and other strategic advice.
Topher Conway
Co-Managing Partner of SV Angel
Topher Conway is a Co-Managing Partner of SV Angel. Topher joined SV Angel in 2009, coming from a background in Business Development and Sales at EQAL. At SV Angel, he works particularly close with Flexport, Dapper Labs, Stripe, BetterUp, Coinbase, DoorDash, and Deel. He was included in Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 in 2015. Topher studied History at UCLA and is a member of the UCLA VC Fund, helping foster entrepreneurship at the University. Philanthropically, Topher is involved in a wide range of organizations including Family House, College Track, THORN Foundation, Giffords.org, TGR Foundation, and Team RWB.
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About SV Angel: SV Angel is an angel firm that helps startups with business development, financing, M&A, and other strategic advice.
Beth Turner
General Partner of SV Angel
Beth Turner is a General Partner at SV Angel. Prior to joining, Beth ran operations and invested with a family office focused on seed stage opportunities, investing in companies such as Clover Health, Flatiron Health, LifeLock, and Blue Apron. Prior to this, Beth was managing director of a consulting firm and worked with an international NGO with an operational focus in East Africa. Prior to this, Beth was an early employee at the ad-tech startup Adaptly and worked with one of Israel’s first startups, Netafim. She is a Siemens Westinghouse Scholar, has spoken at TEDx and The World Space Conference, the youngest person to ever record an asteroid occultation, and a musician (performing the national anthem for NBA/NFL, with the Houston Grand Opera, and on an album with Albany records). Beth graduated from MIT with a major in Civil and Environmental Engineering and minors in Physics and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS).
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About SV Angel: SV Angel is an angel firm that helps startups with business development, financing, M&A, and other strategic advice.
Cyan Banister
Venture Partner, The Frontier of Long Journey Ventures
Cyan Banister is a partner at Founders Fund, where she invests across sectors and stages with a particular interest in augmented reality, fertility, heavily regulated industries and businesses that help people with basic skills find meaningful work. Prior to joining Founders Fund, Cyan was an active angel investor with a portfolio including Uber, Thumbtack, SpaceX, Postmates, EShares, Affirm and Niantic, creator of Pokémon GO. A self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, Cyan has held a number of technical leadership positions throughout her career. As an early employee at IronPort, which was acquired by Cisco, Cyan oversaw support infrastructure and performance for a global customer base. She has a passion for the arts and is a voracious film, documentary and media consumer.
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About Long Journey Ventures, Signal Media Project, Thankroll: Long Journey Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm focused on early and new investments.
Pascal Levy-Garboua
Venture Partner of Long Journey Ventures
Pascal Levy-Garboua is an angel investor, founder, and operator. He is currently VP. Business Development at Checkr, where he joined as their first executive and Employee #9. Previously, he was CEO/Cofounder at SixDoors, Cofounder at VirtuOz (acquired by Nuance Communications) and VP Product at IQ Engines (Acquired by Yahoo). He started his career at eBay in France. Pascal invested in 85+ Companies including Checkr, Wag, Womply, Origin, RealtyShares, and Caviar (Acquired by Square).
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About Long Journey Ventures: Long Journey Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm focused on early and new investments.
Ram Shriram
Founder & Managing Partner of Sherpalo Ventures
Ram Shriram has served as a member of our board of directors since September 1998. Ram has been a managing partner of Sherpalo Ventures, LLC, an angel venture investment company, since January 2000. From August 1998 to September 1999, Ram served as Vice President of Business Development at Amazon.com, Inc., an e-commerce company. Prior to that, Ram served as President at Junglee Corporation, a provider of database technology, which was acquired by Amazon.com in 1998. Ram was an early member of the executive team at Netscape Communications Corporation. Ram is also on the board of trustees of Stanford University. Ram holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from the University of Madras, India.
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About Sherpalo Ventures: Sherpalo is a mentor capital firm that supports the development and commercialization of early-stage disruptive new technologies.
Hans Tung
Managing Partner of GGV Capital
Hans Tung is the Managing Partner of GGV Capital.
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About GGV Capital: GGV Capital is a global venture capital firm that invests in local founders.
Jeff Richards
Managing Partner of GGV Capital
A Managing Partner at GGV Capital, Jeff joined the firm in 2008 after spending 13 years as an entrepreneur and operating executive in the US and Asia. Prior to joining GGV, Jeff founded two venture-backed companies, one a success and one a “huge failure” in his own words – “I learned a lot.” His background as an entrepreneur gives him a unique perspective on the challenges of starting and running a venture-backed company, and he works closely with the GGV Talent team on Founders + Leaders. Jeff focuses on the Software and Internet sectors, and currently sits on the boards of or is a board observer at BigCommerce, one of the top ecommerce software platforms, Boxed, a rising star in the ecommerce space, Brightwheel, the leading SaaS provider for the early education vertical, Gladly, a next generation SaaS platform for customer care, Percolate, a leading marketing SaaS platform for global brands,PlushCare, a mobile platform for consumer healthcare, Reebonz, Southeast Asia’s leader in luxury ecommerce, Slice, a market network for the pizza industry, and Tile, the platform for location. Jeff also led GGV’s investments in Appirio (acquired in 2016 by Wipro), BlueKai (acquired in 2014 by Oracle), Buddy Media (acquired in 2012 by Salesforce), Citrus Lane (acquired in 2014 by Care.com), Evolv (acquired in 2014 by Cornerstone OnDemand), Flipboard, HotelTonight, ShiftGig, Voicera and Zylo, and has been actively involved in GGV’s investments in Domo, OpenDoor, Square and Wish. Prior to joining GGV, Jeff founded two software companies: R4, a supply chain SaaS business acquired by VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN), and QuantumShift, a telecom software business backed by Texas Pacific Group (TPG). Earlier in his career, Jeff worked in Asia and Latin America with PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Jeff graduated from Dartmouth College, where he was a four-year letterman on the basketball team and is on the Advisory Board for the Dartmouth Entrepreneur Network (DEN). Jeff is a frequent guest on CNBC and often writes on topics like startup management and leadership, venture-backed IPOs and shifts in tech trends across the US and China. Follow Jeff on Twitter @jrichlive or check out his LinkedIn profile for more information.
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Glenn Solomon
Managing Partner of GGV Capital
Glenn Solomon is a venture capitalist. He is a partner at [GGV Capital](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ggv-capital), a venture capital firm that invests in the U.S. and China. Since 2006, Solomon has worked with entrepreneurs and leaders at companies where he has led GGV’s investments such as Zendesk (NYSE: ZEN), Pandora (NYSE: P), Successfactors (NYSE: SFSF/Acq by SAP), Isilon (NASDAQ: ISLN/Acq by EMC), Nimble Storage (NYSE: NMBL), Quinstreet (NASDAQ: QNST), Square, Conviva, Domo, AlienVault, HashiCorp, and Gridstore. He also assists his partners on other GGV investments such as Appirio, BlueKai, Buddy Media, China Talent Group (CTG), MediaV, Tujia, and Qunar. Prior to GGV, Solomon was a general partner with Partech International, where he led investments in Broadbase Software, Datacenter Technologies, Digital Island, Pentasafe, and Vignette (NASDAQ:VIGN). Earlier in his career, he worked with [Goldman Sachs](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/goldman-sachs) and also with SPO Partners, a San Francisco-based private investment partnership. Glenn Solomon graduated from [Stanford University](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/stanford-university), where he majored in tennis, starting on three NCAA championship tennis teams, and he also earned an M.B.A from Stanford where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.
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Saurabh Gupta
Managing Partner of DST Global
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Charlie Noyes
Investment Partner of Paradigm
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Daniel Robinson
Research Partner of Paradigm
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Keith Lenden
Venture Partner of ARCH Venture Partners
Mr. Lenden is a senior advisor to Autobahn Therapeutics. He is also a co-founder In addition to his role at Autobahn, Mr. Lenden is a venture partner at ARCH Venture Partners. Mr.Lenden is a seasoned entrepreneur and leader in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries with a proven track record in company formation, executive and project leadership, corporate development and product and market strategy. Mr. Lenden was a co-founder of Receptos, Inc., a multiple sclerosis biology and GPCR drug discovery company acquired by Celgene (now BMS), Abide Therapeutics, Inc., a cannabinoid biology and serine hydrolase drug discovery company acquired by H. Lundbeck A/S, and Boundless Bio, Inc., an ecDNA cancer biology and drug discovery company. Mr. Lenden has served in a wide range of executive and product leadership roles for both public and private biopharmaceutical companies over the years, including Esperion Therapeutics, Inc., Maxygen, Inc., Acologix, Inc. and Genteric, Inc. Mr. Lenden started his career in biotechnology as a consultant at LEK Consulting. Mr. Lenden holds an MBA from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley where he was selected as a Price Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies Venture Capital Fellow. Mr. Lenden also holds and A.B. and B.E. from the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College. Mr. Lenden is a Kauffman Fellow where he received the Jeff Timmons Leadership Award.
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About ARCH Venture Partners, Autobahn Therapeutics, Boundless Bio: ARCH is an early-stage venture firm that focuses on life science discoveries to prevent, detect, and cure disease.
Scott Minick
Venture Partner of ARCH Venture Partners
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Thomas Daniel
Venture Partner of ARCH Venture Partners
Thomas O. Daniel was President, Global Research and Early Development at Celgene Corporation over the last decade, as the company emerged as a leader in defining new mechanisms for drug action, established industry leading collaborative networks, and advanced and commercialized innovative medicines in oncology and inflammatory diseases. He previously served as Chief Scientific Officer and Director of AmbRx, as Vice President of Research at Amgen, and as Senior Vice President of Discovery Research at Immunex Corporation. Tom is currently a director at Juno Therapeutics and Zafgen, Inc. He is founding director of Catalysis Advisors and is a venture partner at Arch Venture Partners. He serves on the Biomedical Science Advisory Board of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, is a member of the Therapeutic Advisory Board of aTyr Pharma and is a senior advisor to BlackThorn Therapeutics. A nephrologist and former academic investigator, Tom was previously C.M. Hakim Professor of Medicine and Cell Biology at Vanderbilt. He earned his medical degree from the University of Texas, Southwestern, trained in molecular genetics at UTSW, and completed a medical residency at Massachusetts General Hospital.
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About ARCH Venture Partners: ARCH is an early-stage venture firm that focuses on life science discoveries to prevent, detect, and cure disease.
Tom Brennan
Venture Partner of ARCH Venture Partners
Tom Brennan joined ARCH as a Venture Partner. He has special focus on ARCH activities at Sandia National Laboratories and Los Alamos National Laboratory. During his first year with ARCH, he served as an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), a position supported by a Department of Energy grant awarded to ARCH early in 2008. Mr. Brennan began his career as a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell Labs, then joined Sandia in 1986 where he became a senior member of the technical staff focused on the material growth of III-V semiconductor materials and devices. Mr. Brennan’s work included the growth of some of the first ‘vertical cavity surface-emitting laser’ (VCSEL) material at Sandia and in the U.S., and the development of new and unique VCSEL manufacturing techniques. In 1994, Mr. Brennan and a colleague from SNL collaborated with ARCH Managing Directors, Clint Bybee and Keith Crandell, to license the VCSEL technology from SNL and co-founded MicroOptical Devices. Mr. Brennan was Co-President of MODE through December 1997 when EMCORE Corp. acquired MicroOptical Devices and established a new business unit called EMCORE Photovoltaics, which Mr. Brennan started-up and led as its General Manager. In 2001, Mr. Brennan was named President and CEO of Zia Laser, a spin-out from the Center for High Technology Materials at the University of New Mexico, which developed quantum dot laser diodes. He also served as Chairman of Medical Lighting Solutions, which uses solid state lighting to treat disease. Mr. Brennan holds an A.S. in Chemistry from the Florida Institute of Technology, a B.S. in Biochemistry from Monmouth College, and an M.S. in Material Science from Steven’s Institute of Technology. He has published more than 120 articles and holds twelve patents issued and pending.
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About ARCH Venture Partners: ARCH is an early-stage venture firm that focuses on life science discoveries to prevent, detect, and cure disease.
Calvin Broadus
General Partner and Founder of Casa Verde Capital
For more than two decades, multi-platinum entertainment icon Snoop Dogg has raised the bar as a global entertainer and innovator. With more than 35 million albums sold worldwide, Snoop Dogg continues to pave the way in the entertainment industry, serving as a mentor to new and established artists. From his YouTube original series “GGN News,” to his investments in tech companies like Secret, Reddit and Robinhood, to his philanthropic work with the Snoop Youth Football League, Snoop’s successful ventures within music, film, fashion, television and technology set him apart as a cultural icon.
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About Casa Verde Capital, MERRY JANE: Casa Verde Capital is a venture capital firm specialized in seed investments.
Karan Wadhera
Managing Partner of Casa Verde Capital
Karan Wadhera is a Managing Partner at Casa Verde Capital. He is an experienced finance professional and investor, as well as an advisor for several young companies. Spending over a decade in Asia as a senior executive with Goldman Sachs and Nomura, he has had significant international experience. Karan holds a BA in Finance from Babson College.
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About Casa Verde Capital, Cayke: Casa Verde Capital is a venture capital firm specialized in seed investments.
Ted Chung
General Partner of Casa Verde Capital
Ted Chung is media entrepreneur and visionary based in Los Angeles, CA. Chung is Snoop Dogg’s business partner and co-investor in technology, media, film and entertainment ventures. An industry veteran, Chung is the Founder of Cashmere Agency, a lifestyle-marketing company specializing in identifying trends in popular culture, with a focus on multicultural millennials, and Founder of Stampede Management, an artist and producer management company. Ted graduated from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania with a specialization in Entertainment Marketing. He is an avid traveler and enjoys collecting music memorabilia and hot sauces from around the world.
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About Casa Verde Capital, Cashmere Agency, MERRY JANE, Stampede Management: Casa Verde Capital is a venture capital firm specialized in seed investments.
Matt Mazzeo
General Partner of Coatue
Matthew Mazzeo is the General Partner at Coatue Management.
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About Coatue: Coatue invests in public and private equity markets focusing on the technology, media, and telecommunications industries.
Michael Gilroy
General Partner of Coatue
Michael invests in entrepreneurs building enterprise software and fintech companies. He is interested in talking to founders building the next generation enterprise tools and fintechs solving the structural issues in finance. Deeply passionate about building the entrepreneurial community in fintech, Michael launched Canaan’s FinTech Central in 2015, a quarterly event series covering trends in fintech. Previously, Michael advised technology companies with GCA Savvian and Matrix Capital. He received a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Arielle Zuckerberg
Partner of Coatue
Arielle Zuckerberg the youngest sister of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is joining Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in October 2015, in a bid by the firm to inject youth and diversity into its line-up of partners. (TechCrunch)
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About Coatue: Coatue invests in public and private equity markets focusing on the technology, media, and telecommunications industries.
Jamie McGurk
Managing Partner of Coatue
Jamie McGurk is a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, a venture capital firm focused on identifying and funding world-class entrepreneurs in spanning both enterprise and consumer technology. Jamie has been focused on the technology space for his entire 15 year career, funding, advising and supporting management teams with revolutionary ideas. Jamie’s expertise spans M&A and capital raising in both public and private markets and is also an active angel investor in several emerging technology companies.
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About Coatue: Coatue invests in public and private equity markets focusing on the technology, media, and telecommunications industries.
Luca Schmid
General Partner of Coatue
Luca Schmid is the Partner at Coatue.
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About Coatue: Coatue invests in public and private equity markets focusing on the technology, media, and telecommunications industries.
Caryn Marooney
General Partner of Coatue
Caryn Marooney is General Partner at Coatue Management. She sits on the boards of Zendesk and Elastic. Prior to Coatue, Caryn spent over 8 years in operating roles at Facebook where she oversaw communications for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus. Prior to Facebook, Caryn co-founded The OutCast Agency where she worked with companies of every size, from early stages onward, including Salesforce.com, Amazon, Netflix and VMware. Caryn is originally from New York City and holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University.
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About Coatue: Coatue invests in public and private equity markets focusing on the technology, media, and telecommunications industries.
Kris Fredrickson
Managing Partner of Coatue
Kris Fredrickson is Managing Partner at Coatue.
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About Coatue, Curology: Coatue invests in public and private equity markets focusing on the technology, media, and telecommunications industries.
Sebastian Duesterhoeft
General Partner of Coatue
Sebastian Duesterhoeft is working as a General Partner at Coatue.
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About Coatue, Coatue: Coatue invests in public and private equity markets focusing on the technology, media, and telecommunications industries.
Andy Chen
Partner of Coatue
Andy Chen is a Partner at Coatue Ventures, an early-stage venture fund within Coatue Management. He is an investor in Persona, Figma, Scale, Chime, Placement, and many others. Prior to Coatue, Andy was a partner at Kleiner Perkins and was responsible for driving the firm’s executive recruiting strategy. He advised their entrepreneurs around all areas of talent in order to recruit the best team and to build iconic companies. He was also responsible for the KPCB Fellows Program, an initiative aimed at developing and mentoring the next generations of leaders. Before joining KPCB, Andy was an analyst at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) covering science, technology and weapons. In this role, he provided intelligence to senior U.S. policymakers, including the president of the United States. Earlier in his career, Andy built and led the contingency recruiting practice at Riviera Partners, a leading recruiting firm that specializes in building teams for high-growth startups. Andy earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering and applied plasma physics from the University of California, San Diego.
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About Coatue, Persona: Coatue invests in public and private equity markets focusing on the technology, media, and telecommunications industries.
David Schneider
General Partner of Coatue
David Schneider has served as ServiceNow’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Services since June 2011. Prior to joining ServiceNow, Schneider served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales of the backup recovery systems division of EMC from July 2009 to June 2011. From January 2004 to July 2009, Schneider held senior positions at Data Domain, most recently Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Prior to joining Data Domain, he served as Vice President of Alliances, Channel and OEM Sales for Borland Software from January 2003 to December 2003. From May 2002 to January 2003, Schneider served as Vice President of Western United States Sales for TogetherSoft Corporation (later acquired by Borland Software). From January 1999 to May 2002, he was Western Regional Manager at Iona Technologies, Inc., an infrastructure software company. Schneider holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine.
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About Coatue: Coatue invests in public and private equity markets focusing on the technology, media, and telecommunications industries.
Lucas Swisher
General Partner of Coatue
Lucas Swisher is the General Partner at Coatue Management.
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About Coatue, UiPath: Coatue invests in public and private equity markets focusing on the technology, media, and telecommunications industries.
Yan-David Erlich
General Partner of Coatue
Yan-David Erlich is the Founder & CEO of Parsable (formerly known as Wearable Intelligence), a Silicon Valley based company transforming the lives, productivity, and safety for the 70% of the global workforce whose jobs aren’t performed at a desk. Parsable is replacing paper & walkie talkies with Sera: a collaboration app for industrial teams. With it, enterprises can digitize their procedures and have their mobile workforce collaboratively execute them for the first time. Parsable is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, First Round Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, and a handful of angels. Mr. Erlich is also a Managing Partner at Outlier Ventures (a micro seed fund), and a founding Venture Partner at MuckerLab, Los Angeles’ premier startup accelerator. Prior, Mr. Erlich was the Founder & CEO of ChoiceVendor, which was acquired by LinkedIn (LNKD) in 2010. He was also the Founder & CEO of Mogad, which was acquired by iSkoot (now a division of Qualcomm: QCOM) in 2008, and the Founder of Happiness Engines. Yan-David has been an Entrepreneur in Residence at Matrix Partners, Trinity Ventures, and Battery Ventures. He started his career with software engineering and product management roles at both Google and Microsoft and holds Bachelor of Science degrees in both Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering from Rice University and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business (class of ’05). Yan-David enjoys advising other entrepreneurs and counts himself fortunate to have been involved since the early stages with companies including Mixer Labs (acq Twitter), Thumbtack, MasterClass, CircleUp, Twenty20, and Vidme. Mr. Erlich has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, Fox, The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.
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About Coatue, MuckerLab, Outlier Ventures, Weights & Biases: Coatue invests in public and private equity markets focusing on the technology, media, and telecommunications industries.
Garry Tan
Managing Partner of Initialized Capital
Garry is a designer, engineer, and founder turned early stage investor, co-founding Initialized Capital in 2012. The firm has invested at the earliest stages of companies like Coinbase, Flexport, Instacart, and Cruise. Prior to Initialized, Garry spent nearly 5 years as a partner at Y Combinator, advising and funding more than 1,000 companies and founders. He was co-founder of YC-backed blog platform Posterous (acquired by Twitter in 2012) and previously worked at Palantir as a founding member of the engineering team. He also designed Palantir’s logo. Garry holds a BS in Computer Systems Engineering from Stanford University.
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About Initialized Capital, SapientNitro: Initialized Capital is an early-stage VC firm focused on helping software engineers and designers with their first seed checks.
Parul Singh
Partner of Initialized Capital
Parul Singh is a product-driven founder and investor with a background in engineering, product strategy, and analytics. Parul spent the past five years on the investing team at Founder Collective, a tech-focused, early-stage seed fund where she covered Boston and NYC, evaluated over 3,000 companies, and spearheaded the firm’s investments in Embark Veterinary, Broadlume, Running Tide, HumanFirst, Flume Health, and HealthNote. Prior to investing, she spent close to a decade as an engineer and product manager at the NYTimes.com, Inc. and Fast Company, and she was the founder of a learning analytics company. At Initialized, Parul will focus her investing efforts on software companies, with a special interest in the areas of healthtech, SaaS, and analytics. Parul has an undergraduate degree from Harvard College and an MBA from MIT.
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About Initialized Capital: Initialized Capital is an early-stage VC firm focused on helping software engineers and designers with their first seed checks.
Jennifer Wolf
President & Partner of Initialized Capital
I’m President and Partner at Initialized Capital, an early-stage Venture Capital Firm with $1B assets under management. At Initialized I’m responsible for hiring and managing the team on both the investment and operations sides of the business. I invest in companies that have an intriguing product or design challenge, usually in the e-commerce marketplace, enterprise saas, and data science spaces. I also advise our portfolio companies on product strategy/roadmaps, product design and user research, how to build and manage teams, and how to resolve conflicts. I have been a product executive at several B2B and B2C startups, from early-stage to growth stage. Prior to Initialized I was Chief Product Officer at Reserve, an Expa-funded hospitality platform that connects restaurants and diners. I also founded a boutique consultancy where I delivered successful projects for companies like Apple, Twitter, Chase, Nordstrom and Starwood Hotels. Before that I helped create the User Experience practice at Sapient and helped open its Milan, Italy office.
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About Initialized Capital: Initialized Capital is an early-stage VC firm focused on helping software engineers and designers with their first seed checks.
Alda Leu Dennis
General Partner of Initialized Capital
Alda is a General Partner at Initialized Capital. She brings over a decade of investing and legal experience to both Initialized and our portfolio companies. Prior to joining Initialized, she was a managing partner at 137 Ventures where she led investments in Planet Labs, Wish, Coupang, CourseHero, and Work Market (acquired by ADP). Additionally, she made personal early-stage investments in companies such as Maven, Common Networks, Legalzoom (acquired by Permira), SpaceX, and Osaro. Previously she was COO at Airtime, General Counsel at Founders Fund, Assistant General Counsel at Peter Thiel’s Clarium Capital Management, and practiced as a litigator for IP disputes at WSGR. She graduated from Stanford with BAs in economics and political science, and a JD from UCLA.
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About Initialized Capital: Initialized Capital is an early-stage VC firm focused on helping software engineers and designers with their first seed checks.
Kim-Mai Cutler
Partner of Initialized Capital
Kim-Mai Cutler is a partner at Initialized Capital, an early-stage venture firm that has roughly $500M under management and has been a seed investor in companies including Coinbase, Instacart and Patreon. Before that, she was a journalist for more than 10 years, working at publications including TechCrunch, Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal.
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About Initialized Capital: Initialized Capital is an early-stage VC firm focused on helping software engineers and designers with their first seed checks.
Brett Gibson
General Partner of Initialized Capital
Brett brings a career of shipping software to venture. He co-founded the blog platforms Posthaven and Posterous (acquired by Twitter) and later wrote software for Y Combinator, building their essential internal software systems. He was also a founder of the social news platform Slinkset, which was funded by YC in Summer 2008, and DrawHere, a browser drawing startup acquired by DeviantArt in 2006. He graduated with a BA in philosophy from University of California, Santa Barbara.
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About Initialized Capital: Initialized Capital is an early-stage VC firm focused on helping software engineers and designers with their first seed checks.
Kevin Efrusy
Partner of Accel
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About Accel, African Leadership University, BeeTech, Despegar, Flash, Gympass, Kovi, Neoway, Nuvemshop, QuintoAndar, The Efrusy Family Foundation, Zubale: Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.
Ping Li
General Partner of Accel
Ping Li joined Accel in 2004 and focuses on investing in business software applications and cloud native technology platforms. He is the lead investor and board member at Jelly.ai, Split.io, Sysdig, Snyk and Trifacta. Ping is also active in cybersecurity as an investor at Code42, Illumio, Lookout Mobile Security, and Tenable Network Security (NASDAQ). He was responsible for numerous past investments with notable exits, including Arista (NASDAQ), Blue Jeans (acquired by Verizon), Cloudera (NYSE), Demisto (acquired by Palo Alto Networks), Heptio (acquired by VMware), Nimble Storage (NYSE), RelateIQ (acquired by Salesforce), Semmle (acquired by MSFT/GitHub), and Sumo Logic (NASDAQ). Prior to Accel, Ping served as product line manager and director of corporate development at Juniper Networks. He started his technology career in Asia working for Singapore Telecom and Goldman Sachs Asia’s technology practice. Ping advises the Accel Scholars program at Stanford University, where he works with Ph.D. students learning about entrepreneurship. Ping is from New Jersey and graduated from Harvard and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Accel: Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.
Vas Natarajan
Partner of Accel
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About Accel: Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.
Nate Niparko
Partner of Accel
Nate Niparko joined Accel in 2011 and focuses on enterprise software and infrastructure technology companies. He represents Accel on the boards of Algolia, BrowserStack, Ethos, G2 Crowd, and RiskRecon, and is also actively involved in Accel’s investments in CrowdStrike, Tenable, PagerDuty, and Hootsuite. Nate has also spent time as a technical product manager at Amazon Web Services. Nate is from Baltimore, Maryland and graduated from Dartmouth, Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering, and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Accel: Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.
Ethan Choi
Partner of Accel
Ethan Choi joined Accel in 2018 and focuses on software, consumer internet, and online marketplace businesses. He represents Accel on the boards of 1Password and Invoca, and helped lead Accel’s investment in Bird. Prior to Accel, Ethan worked at Spectrum Equity, where he led investments in and served in board roles at Lucid Software and PicMonkey. He also worked on investments in Headspace, Jimdo, and Prezi, and was actively involved with lynda.com. Ethan also spent time at Domo Technologies and Dell EMC, helping with product development and strategy. Ethan is from Sydney, Australia and graduated from Brigham Young University.
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About Accel: Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.
Ryan Sweeney
General Partner of Accel
Ryan Sweeney joined Accel in 2009. He is the first outside investor and board member in a number of leading SaaS and enterprise software companies like Atlassian (TEAM), Qualtrics (acquired by SAP), Squarespace, PagerDuty, and Xero (XERO). Ryan is also active with innovative consumer startups like Bevy, GOAT, goPuff, and VSCO. He was also responsible for numerous investments with notable exits, including AirWatch (acquired by VMware), Braintree/Venmo (acquired by PayPal), Groupon (public), Lynda.com (acquired by LinkedIn), Lightspeed (acquired by CPqD), OzForex (public), and Simility (acquired by PayPal). Ryan grew up in South Jersey, trusts the process, and graduated from Notre Dame and Harvard Business School.
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About Accel, Responsory: Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.
Steve Loughlin
Partner of Accel
Steve joined Accel in 2016.
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About Accel: Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.
Sameer Gandhi
Partner of Accel
Sameer Gandhi joined Accel in 2008 and focuses on consumer, cloud/saas, and media companies. Sameer is responsible for Accel’s investments in Aura, Bonobos (acquired by Walmart), CrowdStrike (CRWD), Diapers.com (acquired by Amazon), DJI, Dropbox (DBX), Dropcam (acquired by Google), Flipkart (acquired by Walmart), Jet (acquired by Walmart), Freshworks, Plex, Sonatype (acquired by Vista), Spotify (SPOT), and Venmo (acquired by Braintree/PayPal).
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Jeff Rothschild
Consulting Partner of Accel
Jeff Rothschild joined Accel as an advisor and venture partner in 1999. Most notably, Jeff was the VP of Infrastructure Engineering at Facebook from 2005 to 2010. Jeff joined Facebook shortly after the Accel investment and focused on scaling, availability and performance of the site. He was Facebook’s first VP Engineering and established a number of functional organizations within the company including User Operations, Site Integrity, Data Analytics and Infrastructure Engineering. Before Facebook, Jeff was the cofounder of Veritas Software, which became the leading storage management software company with annual sales of more than $1.5B. He also cofounded the online gaming company Mpath/Hearme, and has contributed to the development of Accel portfolio companies including Walmart.com and Rhapsody Networks. Jeff started his career at Honeywell and Intel, where he worked on the development of the Intel 3805 mainframe storage system. After leaving Intel, he developed a consultancy focused on network storage technologies and worked with Locus Computing on the development of AT&T’s DOS-Merge and Sun’s PC-NFS redirector. Jeff has a BS in Psychology and a MS in Computer Science, both from Vanderbilt University.
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Alex Estevez
Venture Partner of Accel
Alex Estevez is the Chief Financial Officer at Atlassian.
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Dinesh Katiyar
Partner of Accel
Board Member at MindTickle, ADLPartner & Zinier. Partner at Accel.
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Ben Fletcher
Partner of Accel
Ben Fletcher joined Accel in 2016 and focuses on software, internet services, and mobile technology companies. Since joining Accel, Ben has helped source and lead Accel’s investments in Ada, BetterCloud, BrowserStack, Checkr, Galileo, Guru, MessageBird, Opal, Podium, Webflow, and World View. Prior to Accel, Ben worked on Google’s corporate development team, where he helped manage mergers, acquisitions, and investments. At Google, Ben led numerous transactions in a number of different verticals including, communications, collaboration software, vertical software, robotics, and developer tools. Prior to Google, Ben worked in finance and partnerships at Apple. Ben is from Vienna, Virginia and graduated from Brigham Young University.
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Matt Weigand
Partner of Accel
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Maya S. Noeth
Partner of Accel
Maya Noeth joined Accel in 2018 and leads the firm’s growth-stage consumer technology investing efforts. She invests across the entire B2C and B2B2C landscape, including within the digital media, eServices, eCommerce, travel, gaming, and health & wellness verticals, and across internet, mobile, marketplace, and subscription platforms. Maya helped source and lead Accel’s investments in Bumble and goPuff, and represents Accel on Bumble’s board. Prior to Accel, Maya spent seven years at TCV, where she invested in businesses including Facebook, Netflix, Spotify, LinkedIn, Airbnb, Electronic Arts, TripAdvisor, Rent the Runway, Rover, GoFundMe, VICE Media, Klook, and more. Prior to TCV, Maya was the fourth employee at Paperless Post, where she served as Chief Financial Officer. Maya began her career in TMT banking at Morgan Stanley. She has also spent time doing early stage investing at Thrive Capital. Maya graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Business School.
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Daniel Levine
Partner of Accel
Daniel Levine first joined Accel in 2010. He focuses on product-first startups aimed at consumers, developers, and bottoms-up business users. Dan led Accel’s investments in Gem, Mux, Numeracy (acquired by Snowflake), ReadMe, Scale, Searchlight, Sentry, and Vercel. He also works with the teams at Bird, Checkr, Heptio (acquired by VMware), MessageBird, Rylo (acquired by VSCO), Trifacta, and others. Dan re-joined Accel after spending time at Dropbox, where he worked on the platform team. He helped open the platform to third-party developers and launched and managed many of the company’s developer-facing initiatives. Earlier, Dan co-founded Chartio, a Y Combinator-backed (S10) startup in the data visualization space, and prior to Chartio, worked on CrunchBase at TechCrunch. Dan is from Washington, DC and graduated from Yale.
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Andrew Braccia
General Partner of Accel
Andrew Braccia joined Accel in 2007 and focuses on consumer-oriented mobile and web services companies. He was an early investor and on the boards of Slack (public), lynda.com (acquired by LinkedIn), Squarespace, Vox Media, Cornershop (acquired by Uber), MyFitnessPal (acquired by Under Armour), Hotel Tonight (acquired by Airbnb), Cloudera (public), Anchor.fm (acquired by Spotify), Gametime, and UserTesting. He also works closely with the teams at Braintree (acquired by PayPal), Etsy (public), Xero (public), and PagerDuty (public). Prior to joining Accel, Andrew spent close to a decade in a variety of executive positions at Yahoo!. Andrew is from Santa Rosa, California and graduated from the University of Arizona.
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Amit Kumar
Partners of Accel
Amit Kumar joined Accel in 2016 and focuses on next-generation infrastructure, security, and enterprise software startups. He also helps lead Accel’s early-stage efforts around healthcare.
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Casey Aylward
Partner of Accel
Casey is an early-stage investor at Accel focused on infrastructure, developer tools, and security. Before investing, she was a software engineer at Pinterest. Casey worked on various engineering teams that built viral social features, our commerce platform and popular pin/board organization tools. Previously, she worked on both the engineering and business development teams at URX, a developer-focused mobile ad company that was acquired by Pinterest.
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Tracy Sedlock
Chief Operating Partner of Accel
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Richard Wong
General Partner of Accel
Rich Wong joined Accel as a partner in 2006. Rich led Accel’s investments and currently serves on the Boards of Atlassian (TEAM), Checkr, Instabug, Pyn, Qwilt, ServiceChannel, Tune and UiPath. Rich also serves on the National Venture Capital Association Board of Directors. Rich previously led Accel’s investments in AirWatch (acquired by VMware), Angry Birds/Rovio (ROVIO.HE), MoPub (acquired by Twitter), AdMob (acquired by Google), Dealer.com (acquired by Cox), Osmo (acquired by BYJUs), Parature (acquired by Microsoft), Sunrun (RUN), SwiftKey (acquired by Microsoft), and 3LM (acquired by Motorola). In non-profit and volunteer roles, Rich serves on The MIT Corporation Development Committee, the Corporation Visiting Committee for MIT’s Political Science Department, and the Advisory Board for the MIT Trust Center for Entrepreneurship. Rich previously worked as an operator as EVP/GM of Products for mobile pioneer, Openwave Systems and CMO of Covad Communications. Rich started his career as a brand manager at Procter & Gamble and at McKinsey. Rich grew up in Santa Rosa, California and has a Materials Science & Engineering degree and Masters in Management from MIT.
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Joe Schoendorf
Partner of Accel
Joe Schoendorf has been active in high technology industries for nearly forty years. Joe is a member and strategic partner of the World Economic Forum and has served as a consultant to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in Japan. He is able to help our portfolio management establish significant strategic global relationships in the US, Europe and Asia with a strong focus on China and Japan. Joe has participated as a Board member in industry pioneers such as Macromedia (Authorware). Joe joined Accel in 1988. Previously he was the Vice President of Marketing for Apple Computer. Before that he was Executive Vice President for Worldwide Sales and Marketing for Ungermann-Bass and a member of the Office of the President. Prior to that he was the CEO of Industrial Networking, a joint venture of Ungermann-Bass and General Electric. Joe came to Silicon Valley in 1966. During an eighteen year career at Hewlett Packard he held numerous computer marketing and sales positions including Group Marketing Manager, General Manager of Business Development and General Manager of the Corporate Account Division overseeing all worldwide large accounts. Joe holds a B.S.E.E. degree from Purdue University and has served on the Dean’s Advisory Council at Purdue’s Krannert School of Business. Joe and his wife Nancy, also a venture capitalist, live in Palo Alto with their daughter Megan. Their other daughter Kathryn is living in Washington, D.C. and works for NPR. Besides his family Joe’s passions are travel, long distance bike riding and wine collecting.
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Arun Mathew
Partner of Accel
Arun Mathew joined Accel in 2009 and leads growth investments in the enterprise, security, and infrastructure markets. Arun works closely with 1Password, BetterCloud, Code42, Dealer.com (acquired by DealerTrack), ForgeRock, G2 Crowd, PagerDuty, Qualtrics (acquired by SAP), ServiceChannel, Squarespace, Tenable (TENB), Webflow, XebiaLabs, and Yapstone. Arun also leads the firm’s Tech Council initiatives and spends time in India, where he is active with Accel’s investments in Flipkart, BookMyShow, Ola, and Freshworks. Arun is from Nashville, Tennessee and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Arthur Patterson
Founding Partner Emeritus of Accel
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John Locke
Partner of Accel
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Miles Clements
Principal and Partner of Accel
Miles Clements joined Accel in 2009 and helps lead the firm’s growth fund. He focuses on SaaS companies driving automation of core business processes, collaboration tools helping to reimagine workflows for the modern enterprise, and messaging platforms for the cloud-native workplace. He has helped lead Accel’s investments in Atlassian (TEAM), Bird, Bumble, DJI, Guru, Hudl, lynda.com (acquired by LinkedIn), MessageBird, Miro, Podium, SeatGeek, and UiPath. Previously Miles worked in product management at lynda.com. Miles is from New Orleans, Louisiana and graduated from the University of Virginia and Harvard Business School.
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Eric Wolford
Venture Partner of Accel
Eric Wolford Is The Venture Partner at Accel Partners.
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Jim Swartz
Founding Partner of Accel
Jim Swartz founded Accel with Arthur Patterson in 1983. Over 50 years in venture capital, Jim has been a lead director of more than 50 successful companies. He was instrumental as a founder/mentor of Accel London and in the founding of Meritech Capital. Before founding Accel, Jim was the founding general partner of Adler & Company, which he started with Fred Adler in 1978 after his tenure as a vice president of Citicorp Venture Capital. A long time industry leader, Jim is a former chairman of the National Venture Capital Association and the 2007 recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award. He serves as Chairman of the Swartz Foundation and the Christian Center of Park City, director emeritus of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Foundation, Trustee of the Sundance Institute, Co-Chairman of MVYouth, and Chairman of the President’s Global Advisory Council of Carnegie Mellon University. Jim’s philanthropic initiatives include dozens of academic, arts, athletic, health, scholarship, and social impact programs including founding Impact Partners, the leading funder of social impact documentaries, and winning an Oscar for Producing the 2018 Best Documentary, Icarus. Jim grew up in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, graduated from Harvard in Engineering and has a M.S. in Industrial Administration and an Honorary Doctorate from Carnegie Mellon, where he sponsors the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship.
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Amy Saper
Partner of Accel
Amy Saper joined Accel in 2019 and focuses on companies building delightful user experiences that target consumers, businesses, and developers. Previously, Amy spent time at Stripe. As the second marketing hire, she helped build and grow the Product Marketing team, leading global product launches across Stripe’s suite of products. Prior to Stripe, Amy launched products and countries at Twitter, as she helped the company scale from a pre-revenue startup to a public company over the course of four years. Amy works closely with the teams at Gem, Middesk, Deserve, and Radar. Prior to Accel, Amy was also an active angel investor, investing in and advising early stage companies in industries including e-commerce, health and wellness, and SaaS. Originally from Palo Alto, California, Amy graduated from Stanford University and Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Jim Flach
Venture Partner of Accel
Jim Flach has held a wide range of positions in the communications and software industries in which he has worked for over thirty years. A partner with Accel for ten years, he was formerly Chairman of Agile Networks (Lucent), Netlink (Cabletron), Sentient Networks (Cisco), Teleos Communications (Madge Networks), and Vivo Software. Jim has served as CEO of Terraspring, Teleos, Bandwidth9, Hybrid Networks, Redback Networks, and Sentient Networks. He also serves on the board of Bandwidth9, CenterBeam, GoDigital Telecommunications, Hybrid Networks, P-Cube, Primarion, Vertical Networks, and Terraspring. Previously, Jim was Vice President of Intel where he was General Manager of the Personal Computer Enhancement Division. He came to Intel in 1989 when Intel acquired his communications company, Jupiter Technology, where he had been CEO since 1986. Prior to joining Intel, Jim held numerous business and technical positions during a seventeen-year career at Xerox Corporation, including Vice President of Systems Engineering, and Vice President and General Manager of the Network Systems Business Unit, and was responsible for the worldwide P&L of the Xerox Network business. Jim holds a B.S. degree in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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Peter Clarke
Talent Partner of Accel
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Jason Ewell
Operating Partner of Insight Partners
Jason leads TravelClick’s global product team, which includes reservations, business intelligence, media, web, and guest management product lines. He focuses on assisting hotels increase revenue, reduce costs, and improve performance through our complete suite of hotel solutions. He has 18 years of experience specializing in digital media, marketing, and partnerships for small and mid-sized companies in the travel, ecommerce, and financial services industries. Jason spent 14 years with American Express, where he led digital customer acquisition for the OPEN Small Business Group, and managed travel product and distribution partnerships for the Global Commercial Card group. Jason received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Gary Survis
Operating Partner of Insight Partners
Gary Survis is the Chief Marketing Officer of Syncsort, leading Syncsort’s global Big Data integration marketing team. Gary is a seasoned marketing executive with experience combining traditional and digital marketing tools to provide practical solutions to today’s marketing challenges. Before joining Syncsort, Gary was Founder and “Chief Buzz Officer” at Practical Digital Marketing. Prior to that, he was COO of Geoscape Solar, a firm specializing in residential, commercial and non-profit solar projects. Gary holds a BA in Business from University of Pennsylvania-Wharton, and an MBA in marketing from NYU Stern School. He is also currently a Lecturer at the Wharton School and a Senior Fellow at Wharton’s Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership.
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Pablo Dominguez
Operating Partner of Insight Partners
Pablo Dominguez is an operations executive with experience in working across global internet, technology, software, and communications industries. He is the vice president of global business operations at [AppNexus](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/appnexus), a technology company enabling cloud-based software platform enables and optimizes programmatic online advertising. Previously, he served the same company as was the vice president of sales enablement and operations. Prior to AppNexus, Dominguez worked at [ADP](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/adp#/entity), holding various leadership roles in global sales operations and compensation. He was also the director of global sales compensation at [Avaya](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/avaya). Dominguez holds a bachelor’s degree in management information systems and international economics from [The University of Texas](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/the-university-of-texas-at-austin#/entity) at Austin and an MBA in global businesses and strategy from [New York University](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/new-york-university#/entity).
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