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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 Impact Investing 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.
Paul Graham
Co-Founder & Partner of Y Combinator
Paul Graham is a co-founder of Y Combinator, a startup accelerator in Mountain View, California. He is also a programmer, venture capitalist, and essayist. Graham is the author of On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and Hackers & Painters (2004). In 1995, he and Robert Morris started Viaweb, the first ASP, which in 1998 became Yahoo! Store. In 2002, he discovered a simple spam filtering algorithm that inspired the current generation of filters. Graham has obtained a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy from Cornell University. He earned an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Applied Sciences with specialization in computer sciences from Harvard University, and studied painting at Rhode Island School of Design and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence.
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About Y Combinator, Yahoo! Store: Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a wide range of startups twice a year.
Paul Buchheit
Managing Partner of Y Combinator
Paul Buchheit co-founded social network aggregator [FriendFeed](/organization/friendfeed), along with three other former [Google](/organization/google) employees. He is also an investor in FriendFeed and participated in a $5 million Series A round in February 2008. He was the 23rd employee at Google, where he created [Gmail](/product/gmail) and implemented many of its innovative features. He developed the original prototype of [Google AdSense](/product/google-adsense), and was responsible for Google’s famous “Don’t be evil” motto in a meeting.
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Michael Seibel
Managing Director and Partner of Y Combinator
Michael Seibel is a Partner at YC and CEO of YC’s startup accelerator. He was the cofounder and CEO Justin.tv and Socialcam. Socialcam sold to Autodesk in 2012 and under the leadership of Emmett Shear, Justin.tv became Twitch.tv and sold to Amazon in 2014. Before getting into startups, he spent a year as the finance director for a US Senate campaign and in 2005, Michael graduated from Yale University with a BA in political science.
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Harjeet Taggar
Group Partner of Y Combinator
Harj Taggar is co-founder and CEO of Triplebyte, a platform for finding and hiring great technical talent. Triplebyte is used by hundreds of companies from large enterprises like Apple, Adobe and American Express through to Series A and later stage startups. They recently closed a $35 million Series B from YC Continuity and Founders Fund. Harj was previously the first partner brought on at Y Combinator since its founding, joining in 2010. He worked on scaling YC from funding tens of companies per year to hundreds. He has also angel invested in a number of startups including Instacart, Coinbase and Opendoor. He first moved to San Francisco from London after starting his first company, Auctomatic, while in college. Auctomatic was funded by Y Combinator in 2007 and acquired by Live Current Media.
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Gustaf Alstromer
Group Partner of Y Combinator
Gustaf Alstromer is a partner at Y Combinator. Before joining Y Combinator he spent 4.5 years at Airbnb where he worked as a Product Lead on the Growth team, a team he helped start in 2012.
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About Tictail, Y Combinator: Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a wide range of startups twice a year.
Eric Migicovsky
Partner of Y Combinator
Eric Migicovsky is a Partner at Y Combinator. He founded Pebble Technology (YC W11), which was acquired by Fitbit in 2016. While studying engineering at the University of Waterloo in 2008, Eric began building smartwatches with a group of friends. In April 2012, Eric and his team launched Pebble on Kickstarter, where it became the most successful crowdfunded project in Kickstarter’s history. Pebble sold over 2,000,000 watches.
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Tim Brady
Partner of Y Combinator
Prior to Imagine, Tim was Board Member of QuestBridge, an educational startup company that helps bright low-income high school students gain admissions and financial aid to many of the nation’s best colleges. Previously to that, he spent eight years at Yahoo! Inc. during which time he held several positions, the last of which was as the company’s Chief Product Officer. After the two founders, Tim was Yahoo’s first employee. He played a key role in successfully managing all marketing, operation and business development to launch Yahoo! commercially, and to help make Yahoo! into one of the most recognized brands and successful businesses on the Internet. From writing the business plan that attracted the first venture capital financing to helping scale the business, he helped lead the company through multiple stages, challenges and opportunities. Prior to Yahoo!, Tim spent three years with Motorola in Tokyo. He holds an M.B.A. from Harvard University and a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
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Adora Cheung
Partner of Y Combinator
Adora Cheung is currently a partner at Y Combinator. She previously served as the CEO and Co-Founder of Homejoy Inc. and was on the Board of the Homejoy Foundation. Prior to Homejoy, Adora worked at Slide (acquired by Google) as a lead Product Manager where she had the opportunity to learn about startups. When Adora left Slide to start her own company she joined forces with her brother Aaron Cheung to form Pathjoy, a startup connecting life coaches to clients online. With Pathjoy the duo were accepted to the Y-Combinator, a prestigious incubator in Mountain View. After two years the duo founded Homejoy in July 2012 and since then Adora has successfully grown the Homejoy team from just her and her brother, to a team of over 120 employees and platform that serve hundreds of thousands of households in over 30 cities across the US, Canada, UK, and Germany. Adora holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Rochester and Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Clemson University.
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Trevor Blackwell
Partner of Y Combinator
Trevor Blackwell a partner at Y Combinator. He is the founder of Anybots, where he developed the first dynamically balancing biped robot. He has published papers on congestion control in high speed wide area networks, signaling protocol architecture, and file system performance. Together with Paul Graham, Robert Morris, and Jessica Livingston, he founded Y Combinator in 2005.
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Jonathan Levy
Partner of Y Combinator
Jon Levy previously counseled public and private technology companies as an attorney for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati. He also ran ThinkEquity’s private placement department and worked as a Managing Director at Merriman Curhan & Ford. Jon earned a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, and a B.A. in English Literature and Religious Studies from Wesleyan University.
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Brad Flora
Group Partner of Y Combinator
Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience. Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern.
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Carolynn Levy
Partner of Y Combinator
Carolynn Levy is a partner at Y Combinator. She was previously at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati, where she helped hundreds of startups with legal questions. She has a BA in political science from UCLA and JD from the USF School of Law, and is a member of the State Bar of California.
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Dalton Caldwell
Partner and Managing Director of Y Combinator
Dalton Caldwell is a Partner and the Head of Admissions at Y Combinator. He was the cofounder and CEO of imeem (acquired by MySpace in 2009), and the cofounder and CEO of App.net. He has a BS in Symbolic Systems and a BA in Psychology from Stanford University.
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Geoff Ralston
President and Partner of Y Combinator
Geoff Ralston is the Founder & Partner of Imagine K 12. Geoff has been an Investor in, Board Member of, and Advisor to a variety of start-up companies, mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is also the President and Partner at Y Combinator. From 2002-2009 Geoff was the Chief Executive Officer of Lala Media, Inc., an innovative cloud music start-up in Palo Alto that was purchased by Apple in December of 2009. Geoff worked at Yahoo! from 1997-2005 after their 1997 acquisition of Four11 Corp. At Four11 Geoff was the VP of Engineering and led the creation of Yahoo! Mail’s predecessor, RocketMail. At Yahoo! Geoff was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Communications Business Unit and then served as the company’s Chief Product Officer from 2003-2005. Prior to Four11, Geoff was the creator of the popular LookUP! Internet white pages and do-it-yourself home page service. Geoff holds a BA in Computer Science from Dartmouth College. An MS in Computer Science from Stanford University. An MBA from INSEAD, the European Institute of Business Administration.
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Kirsty Nathoo
Partner, CFO of Y Combinator
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Surbhi Sarna
Group Partner of Y Combinator
When she was 13, Surbhi Sarna was a patient. It was then that she realised she wanted to fill the void in female-health innovation. Her start-up, nVision Medical, which addresses early detection of ovarian cancer, recently sold to Boston Scientific for $275m. Previous to the acquisition, Surbhi secured $17m in venture-led funding. Surbhi has authored numerous patents and has been an invited speaker at universities including UCSF and Harvard. She has been featured in publications such as Bloomberg, Entrepreneur magazine and Gigaom, and was named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for 2014.
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Jessica Livingston
Partner of Y Combinator
Jessica Livingston is a founding partner at Y Combinator. She is also the organizer of Startup School, the big annual startup conference, and the author of Founders at Work, a collection of interviews with successful startup founders. Y Combinator was the first of the new startup “incubators” that fund a bunch of startups at once. Since 2005 YC has funded over 560 companies, including Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, and Reddit.
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Jared Friedman
Group Partner of Y Combinator
Jared Friedman is a partner at Y Combinator in San Francisco, where he invests in and helps startups. Previously, Jared was co-founder and CTO at Scribd, a top 100 web property. He studied computer science at Harvard University.
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Aaron Epstein
Group Partner of Y Combinator
Aaron co-founded Creative Market in 2012 to help independent creators around the world make a living doing what they love. He has nearly two decades of experience founding and leading startups through bootstrapping, fundraising, Y Combinator, acquisition, spinout, and everything in between. He also supports other founders as a Part-time Partner at Y Combinator, and has a degree in Business from the University of Maryland.
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Ralph Gootee
Visiting Partner of Y Combinator
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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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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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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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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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Eric Schmidt
Founding Partner of Innovation Endeavors
Eric Schmidt has served as the Executive Chairman of Alphabet’s board of directors since October 2015. He has served as the Executive Chairman of Google’s board of directors since April 2011 and as a member of Google’s board of directors since March 2001. From July 2001 to April 2011, Eric served as Google’s Chief Executive Officer. He was the chairman of Google’s board of directors from March 2001 to April 2004, and again from April 2007 to April 2011. Prior to joining Google, from April 1997 to November 2001, Eric served as chairman of the board of directors of Novell, Inc., a computer networking company, and, from April 1997 to July 2001, as the Chief Executive Officer of Novell. From 1983 until March 1997, Eric held various positions at Sun Microsystems, Inc., a supplier of network computing solutions, including Chief Technology Officer from February 1994 to March 1997, and President of Sun Technology Enterprises from February 1991 until February 1994. Eric was previously a director of Apple Inc., a designer, manufacturer, and marketer of personal computers and related products, from 2006 to 2009. Eric holds a Doctoral degree and a Master of Science degree in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from Princeton University.
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Scott Brady
Partner of Innovation Endeavors
Scott Brady is Managing Partner at Innovation Endeavors.
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Dror Berman
Founding Partner of Innovation Endeavors
Dror Berman is the Managing partner at Innovation Endeavors.
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About Color, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Formlabs, Innovation Endeavors, Kong, SoFi, StoryBox, Uber, Upstart, Zymergen: Innovation Endeavors invests in visionary founders, transformational technology, and emergent ecosystems for a new world.
Rick Scanlon
Founding Partner of Innovation Endeavors
Rick Scanlon is a Partner of Marker and has been with the firm since its inception in 2011. Rick joined Marker after he returned to the U.S. from Singapore, where he lived for more than 15 years. In 2003 while in Singapore, Rick co-founded Crescent Point Group, an Asian private equity firm, and served as a Managing Partner of the firm until 2011. Rick’s first investment was leading the Series A round of AirAsia, a company that went on to achieve extraordinary success by making flying possible for everyone in Asia. Prior to Crescent Point, he was employed in the investment banking departments of Morgan Stanley, First Boston and Credit Suisse in New York, Singapore and Beijing. Rick holds a BA (cum laude) from Middlebury College where he studied Art and Physics. He serves on the Middlebury College Board of Trustees.
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Harpinder Singh
Partner of Innovation Endeavors
Harpi has been an entrepreneur in the internet and wireless space. He is currently the co-founder and VP of Product & Marketing for Project Slice. Previously he was the co-founder and Sr. VP Marketing at FiberTower, a leading independent provider of backhaul to wireless carriers. He also held software development roles building internet infrastructure and transaction processing software at Oracle and Bull-Honeywell. He holds an MBA from Stanford University, an MS in Computer Science from Indiana University and a BS in Computer Science from Institute of Technology, BHU, India.
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Sam Smith-Eppsteiner
Partner of Innovation Endeavors
Sam Smith-Eppsteiner is a partner at Innovation Endeavors. When it comes to investing, Sam gravitates toward ideas that leverage emerging technology, growing datasets, and accelerating learning cycles to improve real-world infrastructure. She’s interested in transportation, logistics, construction, and food & agriculture. Sam is eager to partner with founders who are taking new approaches to alleviate some of humanity’s most difficult challenges in these spaces. Sam has experience across multiple industries, from grocery to semiconductors to agriculture, and wide-ranging functions, from product development and market research to pricing to sales strategy. This is Sam’s second tenure with Innovation Endeavors. She was previously with the firm from 2015-2017 and she worked closely with Plenty, ClearMetal, Citrine, CommonSense Robotics, Canvas, and Vicarious Surgical. Her insights on food and agriculture were instrumental in shaping the firm’s first ecosystem, Farm2050. Previously, Sam was a management consultant for Bain & Company in San Francisco, where she worked on strategy, cost assessment, and M&A for clients across tech, retail, food, and private equity. While at Bain she led its non-profit consulting group Inspire, Inc. in San Francisco, where she advised cleantech and education organizations in Nicaragua and Afghanistan. Sam also worked as a Product Manager at social enterprise Kigali Farms in Rwanda where she worked to increase farmer income and fight malnutrition. Sam holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where she worked as a Product Manager at an autonomous vehicle company and a medical research AI startup. She also mapped a strategy for the future of work in Missouri. In addition, Sam holds a BA in Political Science from Stanford University, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa. Sam lives in San Francisco. In her spare time, you can find her hiking among Redwoods, attempting a new yoga posture, or perfecting her kale salad recipe.
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About Innovation Endeavors: Innovation Endeavors invests in visionary founders, transformational technology, and emergent ecosystems for a new world.
Bridget Storm
Partner & Chief Financial Officer of Innovation Endeavors
Bridget is the Chief Financial Officer and a Partner in our Palo Alto office. Bridget joined Innovation Endeavors in 2019. For the past two years, Bridget has been consulting with various businesses in the Bay Area. Prior to that, she was the CFO at Makena Capital Management, a $20B global multi-class investment management firm. Bridget has a master’s degree from Washington State University and a bachelor’s degree from Gonzaga University. Bridget has her CPA and CMA designations. Bridget lives in the Bay Area where she enjoys life in general including spending time in the outdoors and spending time with her family.
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About Innovation Endeavors: Innovation Endeavors invests in visionary founders, transformational technology, and emergent ecosystems for a new world.
Daniel Goldstein
Partner of Innovation Endeavors
Daniel Goldstein is a partner at Innovation Endeavors. She is the founder and leader of our firm’s Growth & Partnership team, which is committed to helping young companies become more successful, while architecting vibrant, mutually-supportive ecosystems around them. A natural at building and fostering long-term relationships, Daniel is a firm believer that the best way to be of service is to bring people together who can solve problems for one another. Whether it’s introducing the founder of a promising startup to a Fortune 500 executive, producing a content-rich, 200+-person summit for CISOs and CMOs in New York, or hosting a delegation of global leaders on a week-long tour of the Israeli tech scene, Daniel makes it possible for people who share the same interests to bridge the gap between friendship and partnership. Since joining Innovation Endeavors in 2013, Daniel and her team have made ~2,000 strategic introductions; hosted more than 100 events, including industry summits, demo days and intimate dinners — all of which have helped our companies generate more than $100 million in revenue. Prior to joining Innovation Endeavors, Daniel was head of business development at Red Onion Games. The daughter of a psychotherapist and a tech entrepreneur, Daniel has a keen understanding of the people who work at the cutting-edge of technology. She earned a BA in communications from IDC Herzliya and graduated from the Zell Entrepreneurship Program at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.
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Lee Linden
Managing Partner of Quiet Capital
Lee is an entrepreneur and early stage investor. Previously, he lead Facebook’s emerging initiatives in commerce, including Gifts and the Facebook Card. Lee founded Karma, a breakthrough mobile commerce platform which allowed smartphone users to instantly send real gifts to others without the burden of physical mailing addresses. Karma was acquired by Facebook in early 2012. Prior to Karma, Lee founded Tapjoy and piloted the company to it’s position as a leading mobile advertising platform which today touches more than 1 billion devices. He began Tapjoy by co-creating multiple top mobile games for iOS/Android and subsequently unraveling the potential of mobile advertising and app distribution at scale. Earlier, Lee worked for venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins and helped launch the iFund, a $100M investment vehicle focused on smartphone application platforms. Lee originally began his career working in product development at Microsoft, where he co-created the Windows Home Server division and shipped the first version of that product to market. Lee holds a MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and a BA in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan. He grew up in the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan and today lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area. Lee has been a featured speaker at universities, conferences, and panels worldwide and has received numerous awards for his work including 30 under 30 Best Young Tech Entrepreneur by Bloomberg Businessweek 2012, 100 Most Creative People in Business by Fast Company in 2012, and The Silicon Valley 100 by Business Insider 2013.
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Nick Adams
Venture Partner of AME Cloud Ventures
Nick manages AME Cloud’s early stage investments. Prior to AME Cloud, Nick spent five years in China and India, where he lead business development for Cloud Valley and founded a web travel company and a software-services company. Nick earned his Masters in Engineering from Imperial College.
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Neil Mehta
Founder, Managing Partner of Greenoaks
Neil Mehta is the founder and a managing partner of Greenoaks Capital. Greenoaks is a leading investment firm focused on internet and technology businesses. Greenoaks makes concentrated, long-term investments in enduring businesses globally.
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Benny Peretz
Managing Partner of Greenoaks
Benny Peretz is a Managing Partner of Greenoaks Capital. Prior to Greenoaks Capital, Benny co-founded WRKSHP, a leading mobile gaming company. Benny previously invested in public and private businesses globally with D.E. Shaw & Co., L.P. Benny holds a BSc from the Wharton School and BAS from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Greenoaks: Greenoaks is a global investment firm specializing in technology companies.
Benjamin Ling
Founder and General Partner of Bling Capital
Ben Ling is a founder and partner at Bling Capital. Previously he was an Investment Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he is focused on mobile and Internet, marketplace, consumer health and data businesses. He is an accomplished executive and angel investor, with senior operating roles at Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Badoo. His personal investments include Square, Palantir, Quora, and PracticeFusion, Fab, DogVacay, and he holds advisory roles at Pinterest and Pulse. Ben currently serves on the board of Wattpad, Tapingo, Academia.edu, TheHunt, Quantopian, and Pymetrics. At Google, he was Google’s Senior Director of Search Products and Local Business Products, including overseeing Images, Videos, Books, News and Finance. At YouTube, he was Senior Director of Partnerships and Platform, responsible for Music, Movies, Sports, News, as well as Mobile, TV, and API partnerships. In his first role at Google, Ben was the founder and GM of Google’s Commerce group, including Google Wallet and Shopping. At Facebook, Ben was Director of Facebook Platform overseeing the Facebook developer ecosystem, and led product, marketing, developer operations, partner solutions, and helped build Facebook Connect, which has helped Facebook grow across the web. Ben holds a Ph.D. and Master’s in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration from UC Berkeley. Ben is a Department of Defense Fellow and recipient of UC Berkeley’s Bechtel Achievement Award (Top graduating senior in College of Engineering).
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Carter Adamson
Partner of Atomico
Carter is a Partner at Atomico and helps portfolio companies to scale their products, operations and teams so that they can become global market leaders. He is a board advisor to Uniplaces, and also works closely with Gympass, Clutter, Compass & Masterclass. A startup junkie to the core, Carter has worked for a number of different companies at all stages of their development. He co-founded the online music service Rdio, and Sum, a health and wellness wearable startup. He was head of product at Skype, a senior program manager at ICQ whilst they were hitting their stride, and was director of product strategy at AOL during its peak. A lifelong skateboarder, Carter still wears Vans but is now often mistaken for a Staples salesperson. Raised in Virginia Beach (an archipelago of the world-famous “Redneck Riviera”), he has an English degree from Vassar. He is a published writer and lives in Brooklyn with his two sons where he likes to raise chickens in his backyard. Carter also speaks French and Spanish proficiently.
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About Atomico: Atomico is an international investment firm that focuses on helping disruptive technology companies scale globally.
Jason Epstein
Affiliate Partner of Stonecourt Capital
Jason Epstein, an affiliate partner at Stonecourt Capital, is an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and philanthropist who has identified and developed profitable business models for a multitude of struggling companies, turning them into high-value firms. He currently sits on the Board of Harmonix Music Systems, EG7 Games, and Cold Iron Studios. Previously, Mr. Epstein was the Managing Partner of a private equity firm which he helped grow to $12.3 billion in assets under management. He also founded eLink Communications in 1998, when he was just 20 years old. As CEO, he helped raise nearly $100 million across a dozen cities. Mr. Epstein is committed to making value-driven investments and works closely with his alma mater Tufts University, Moon Valley Nurseries, and Change Summer. Most recently, he and his wife partnered with Tufts to develop a graduate certificate in Environmental Social Governance (ESG) investing. Mr. Epstein and his wife live in New York City with their three children.
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About Daybreak Game Company, Stonecourt Capital: Stonecourt Capital is a private equity firm focused on transformational investments across a range of industries.
Eric Kwan
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Locus Ventures
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About Applied Intuition, Ironclad, Lob, Locus Ventures, Meesho, Notable Labs, Razorpay, Standard Cognition: Locus Ventures is a seed fund that invests in passionate founders looking to build important, world-changing companies.
Perry Tam
Founder & Managing Partner of Locus Ventures
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About Locus Ventures: Locus Ventures is a seed fund that invests in passionate founders looking to build important, world-changing companies.
Wesley Chan
Managing Director, General Partner of Felicis Ventures
Wesley Chan is a Managing Director and General Partner at Felicis Ventures. He founded Google Analytics and Google Voice, built Google’s early advertising system, built Google Venture’s early investment team, and holds 17 US patents for his fundamental contributions in designing many of Google’s most widely-used services. Wesley is an investor and coach to some of the world’s most successful startups. He led investment rounds and holds board or observer seats in Canva, Guild Education, Turvo, CultureAmp, Okera, Hyperscience, Guideline, and Dialpad. He also led investments in Ring (exited for $1B+ to AMZN), Flexport, Carta, Checkr, Gusto, ZipLine, Orca Bio, Whole Biome, Skip the Dishes (exited to Just Eats/JE), and YES (exited to TWTR). Wesley was also one of the earliest General Partners at GV (Google Ventures), where he built the investment team, led many of GV’s investments and held board or observer seats in Angelist, Aptelligent (exited to VMWare), iPerian (exited to BMS), and Dialpad. Wesley was also one of the first checks into Plaid, RobinHood, Gusto, Optimizely, HelloSign (exited to DropBox), DataPad (exited to Cloudera), Freshplum (exited to TWTR), Namo Media (exited to TWTR), and Parse (exited to FB). He is a recipient of Google’s Founders Award–the company’s most prestigious recognition–for leading the development of Google’s early client efforts, which led to the creation of Google Chrome. Wesley worked at HP Labs as a senior software engineer and as a sponsored fellow at Microsoft Research. He holds Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from MIT where he completed his graduate thesis at the Media Laboratory. Technology Review magazine featured Wesley as a “Top 35 Under 35” innovator. Wesley’s accomplishments have been covered by the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, CNN, and Fortune, and his story as a product founder is featured in Steven Levy’s best-selling Google book, “In The Plex.”
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About Felicis Ventures: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Niki Pezeshki
General Partner of Felicis Ventures
Niki Pezeshki is a Partner on the investment team at Felicis Ventures. At Felicis, Niki has sourced and continues to work closely with the firm’s investments in Guild Education, Guideline, Trusted Health, Modus, Cleo, Octave, FarmWise, DoNotPay, and SentiLink. Prior to joining Felicis, he was on the investment team at Summit Partners, a tech-focused growth equity firm in Menlo Park. Before Summit, Niki lived in Austin, TX and was on the investment team at Vista Equity Partners, a private equity firm focused on investing in software and technology-enabled businesses. He also had a brief stint at the Climate Corporation (a former Felicis portfolio company), where he focused on sales strategy and operations. Niki received a BS in Business Administration with Honors from the University of Southern California. He continues to be actively involved with the USC Value Investing Group.
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About Felicis Ventures: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Sundeep Peechu
Managing Director, General Partner of Felicis Ventures
Sundeep Peechu is a Managing Director, General Partner at Felicis. He’s currently excited about re-invention of security and insurance and further developments in crypto and machine learning. Investor in ActiveHours (Earnin), Counsyl, BitPay, Gigster, Ginkgo Bioworks, HealthIQ, Matterport, Plaid, Pindrop, Recursion, Spoke, Troops, Top Hat, Wish and a few others. Prior to joining Felicis in 2010, he held various product roles at Intel within the software division. Sundeep joined Intel through the acquisition of Sarvega, where he was an early employee responsible for the design of the security infrastructure. He also had brief stints at NEA where he focused on mobile and emerging markets and at Simbol Mining where he developed key initiatives around the production of battery materials. Sundeep has a Bachelors in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, an M.S in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Earnin, Felicis Ventures, Pindrop, Top Hat: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Aydin Senkut
Founder & Managing Partner of Felicis Ventures
Aydin Senkut is the Founder and Managing Partner of Felicis Ventures. An original super angel turned multi-stage investor, he has been named on the Forbes Midas List for the past seven years (2014-2020) as well as the New York Times Top 20 Venture Capitalists list for the past four years (2016-2019). His recent focus areas include consumerization of enterprise, security, cloud optimization, and longevity. He is well-known as an early backer of a number of iconic companies including Shopify (NYSE:SHOP), Fitbit (NYSE:FIT), Rovio (HEL:ROVIO), Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), Pluralsight (NASDAQ:PS), Guardant Health (NASDAQ:GH), Credit Karma (acquired by Intuit), SoundHound & Vicarious. Prior to starting Felicis Ventures, Aydin was a Senior Manager at Google responsible for strategic partner development and account management in Asia Pacific, including Japan. Aydin joined Google in 1999 as its first Product Manager to launch Google’s first 10 international sites, its first online search licensing products, and its first Safe Search. He then became the first International Sales Manager at Google, responsible for worldwide licensing deals. Before joining Google, Aydin was the Product Manager for Data Visualization and Data Mining software MineSet at SGI. He received a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with Honors from Boston University. He also earned an MBA in Marketing from the Wharton School and a master’s degree in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania. He is an avid pilot, loves playing tennis, and speaks five languages: English, German, French, Portuguese, and Turkish.
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About Felicis Ventures, Guideline, Paravision: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Viviana Faga
General Partner of Felicis Ventures
Viviana Faga is the General Partner at Felicis Ventures.
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About Felicis Ventures: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Dasha Maggio
Partner & Head of Founder Success of Felicis Ventures
Dasha Maggio is the Partner and Head of Founder Success at Felicis Ventures.
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About Felicis Ventures: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Victoria Treyger
General Partner and Managing Director of Felicis Ventures
Victoria is passionate about building great brands and scaling revenue through innovative sales and marketing. She joined Kabbage because she loved the opportunity to leverage technology and data to transform how financial services are delivered to customers.
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About Felicis Ventures: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Katie Riester
Partner, Investor Relations of Felicis Ventures
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About Felicis Ventures: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Alexis Abrams
Partner and General counsel of Felicis Ventures
Alexis Abrams is the Partner and General Counsel at Felicis Ventures.
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About Felicis Ventures, General Catalyst: Felicis invests in seed through Series C stage companies across multiple sectors, industries, and frontier tech.
Don Stalter
Partner of Global Founders Capital
Don Stalter is a partner at Global Founders Capital. He is also a board member at various companies including Shipwell, Cedar AI, and Neighborhood Goods.
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About Global Founders Capital: GFC is a globally oriented, stage agnostic venture fund that empowers gifted entrepreneurs.
Sarra Zayani
Partner of Global Founders Capital
Based in Los Angeles, Sarra is a Partner at Global Founders Capital (GFC). Prior to joining GFC, Sarra was an investor at Greycroft in New York. Sarra also worked at the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA), where she focused on private equity and venture capital fund commitments and co-investments. She started her career in investment banking at Nomura in London, advising consumer and retail companies. Sarra holds an MSc in Strategic Management from HEC Paris and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Global Founders Capital: GFC is a globally oriented, stage agnostic venture fund that empowers gifted entrepreneurs.
Steve Sarracino
Founder and Partner of Activant Capital
Steven Sarracino is the founder of Activant Capital. He has been investing in exciting growth businesses for over a decade. Over his career, Steve has invested more than $2 billion of equity across a broad range of technology companies. Prior to founding Activant, Steve founded a consulting firm focused on commerce technology, where he advised, invested in, and was a member of the board of directors of some of the world’s leading commerce technology companies including hybris and iCongo. Previously Steve helped open the technology investing office at American Capital, Ltd. in Palo Alto, CA. Steve also worked at McKinsey & Co. in their Hong Kong office. He began his career in mergers and acquisitions at Robertson Stephens in San Francisco, CA. Steve has an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He attended Southern Methodist University for his undergraduate degree, where he received a BBA in Finance with a minor in History.
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About Activant Capital: Activant is a global investment firm that partners with high-growth companies that are transforming commerce.
Erik de Stefanis
Partner of Interlace Ventures
Erik de Stefanis is a Partner at Interlace Ventures, founder of Gen Z Ventures, and partner at DVC.
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About Crescite Ventures, Gen Z Ventures, Interlace Ventures: Interlace Ventures is an early-stage and seed-stage fund investing in the Future of Commerce.
Joseph Sartre
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Interlace Ventures
Joseph is a Managing Partner at Interlace Ventures and Bleu Capital. He led investments in companies such as Cargo and Fordays. Former operator in the technology and FMCG space, he spent five years in China managing finance for Evian Asia Pacific and then leading sales for Evian China.
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About Bleu Capital, Interlace Ventures: Interlace Ventures is an early-stage and seed-stage fund investing in the Future of Commerce.
Vincent Diallo
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Interlace Ventures
Vincent Diallo serves as the Managing Partner at Interlace Ventures and Bleu Capital. Diallo served as the Chief Financial Officer at Sinodis (Shanghai) from 2011 to 2015. He worked for 7 years at Deloitte. Diallo has cross industry exposure from manufacturing to distribution.
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About Bleu Capital, Interlace Ventures: Interlace Ventures is an early-stage and seed-stage fund investing in the Future of Commerce.
Greg Rosen
Venture Partner of BoxGroup
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About BoxGroup: BoxGroup is an early-stage investment fund that invests in technology companies.
David Tisch
Founder & Managing Partner of BoxGroup
David Tisch is the Managing Partner of BoxGroup, a New York City-based early stage investment fund. BoxGroup is an investor in over 200 seed-stage companies, including Vine, Blue Apron, Sunrise, Warby Parker, Harry’s, Oscar, Behance, Handy and more. David is also the co-founder and Chairman of Spring, a mobile marketplace where customers shop directly within the app from a curated community of brands. Spring was named by Apple as one of the Best Apps of 2014. In 2014, David was named Head of Startup Studio at Cornell Tech, the University’s New York City-based graduate campus focused on digital technologies and the information economy. He is also Entrepreneur in Residence for Wharton’s Entrepreneurship Program. David is the co-founder of TechStars NYC and has served on numerous boards, including Mayor Bloomberg’s Advisory Council on Technology, the Investor Board of Venture for America, and the Entrepreneurship board at NYU. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and New York University School of Law, and currently lives in New York City
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About BoxGroup, Cornell Tech, Techstars: BoxGroup is an early-stage investment fund that invests in technology companies.
Adam Rothenberg
Partner of BoxGroup
Adam Rothenberg is a Partner at BoxGroup, a New York City based investment fund. BoxGroup invests in talented entrepreneurs building disruptive technology companies and with visions to create the next generation of category defining businesses. BoxGroup is an investor in over 120 seed stage technology companies including Vine, GroupMe, Blue Apron, BarkBox, Warby Parker, Harry’s, Oscar, Flatiron Health, DataMinr, Behance, Handybook, IFTTT, SmartThings and more. Adam Rothenberg is a Co-founder and Partner of BoxGroup, a New York City based early stage venture capital fund. BoxGroup invests in pre-seed and seed rounds with the goal of backing talented entrepreneurs building disruptive technology companies and with visions to create the next generation of category defining businesses. Investments include Blue Apron, Trello, PillPack, Flatiron Health, Sunrise, Warby Parker, Harry’s, Oscar, Behance, Smart Things, Stripe and more. Adam was previously the Director of TechStars in New York City. TechStars is a mentorship-driven seed stage accelerator program. Prior to joining TechStars, Adam spent 4 years investing in the public markets at a hedge fund in New York City. Adam attended The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania where he concentrated in Finance and minored in Fine Arts. Adam is a native New Yorker.
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About BoxGroup: BoxGroup is an early-stage investment fund that invests in technology companies.
Nimi Katragadda
Partner of BoxGroup
Nimi Katragadda is an investor at BoxGroup, which is a seed stage venture fund that invests in entrepreneurs building companies with visions to create the next generation of category defining businesses. Prior to joining BoxGroup, Katragadda worked at Google and J.P. Morgan. She holds a MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics from Harvard.
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About BoxGroup: BoxGroup is an early-stage investment fund that invests in technology companies.
James Zukin
Founding Partner of Houlihan Lokey
Mr. Zukin is the Co-Founder of Houlihan Lokey. Mr. Zukin has served on the faculty of various World Bank, IFC, and IMF conferences. He serves as a delegate to the Paris Club meetings involving the private sector. He has also delivered keynote speeches at the NAST and TIE conferences. In 2004, he formed Houlihan Lokey’s Sovereign Advisory Services practice, whose clients include Antigua & Barbuda, Belize, the Dominican Republic, Liberia, the Republic of Iraq and the Russian Federation. Mr. Zukin often presents on Chinese M&A and restructuring issues to various Chinese officials, including the China Securities Regulatory Commission (CSRC), the Chinese Banking Regulatory Commission (CBRC) and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council (SASAC). He frequently speaks at business conferences in the United States and Asia on M&A, financial restructuring and shareholder liquidity, among other topics. He has delivered keynote addresses at the UCLA Anderson School of Management/Wilbur K. Woo Greater China Business Conference and also at Indianapolis University for their “U.S.-China Business Cooperation Conference” in Bloomington, Ind. Mr. Zukin earned a B.A. with honors in economics and English (poetry) from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About Houlihan Lokey: Houlihan Lokey is a global investment bank that focuses on capital markets, financial restructuring, valuation, and strategic consulting.
Richard D’Amore
General Partner of North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity
Rich D’Amore has almost three decades of experience in the venture business. Rich D’Amore has been with North Bridge since the company’s inception in 1994. Before co-founding North Bridge, he spent fourteen years at Hambro International Equity Partners, establishing the firm’s Boston office. His investments have been split between early stage projects and special situations. Before joining Hambro in 1982, he worked as a consultant at Bain and Company and was a Certified Public Accountant with Arthur Young and Company. Rich received a BS from Northeastern, summa cum laude, in 1975. He also has an MBA from Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration where he was a Baker Scholar. A dedicated supporter of higher education, he is on the Board of Trustees at Northeastern University, where he promotes innovation and research that can drive economic growth.
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About North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity: North Bridge provides seed-to-growth stage funding for businesses in several sectors such as software, communications and infrastructure.
Paul Santinelli
Managing General Partner of North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity
Paul Santinelli focuses on investments in open source, software, security, Internet applications and infrastructure & communications. Previously, he served as director of Red Hat Network and was responsible for product definition, strategy, engineering, product management, marketing and lifecycle management for the company’s flagship software services offering. Paul also served as the director of global information systems and technology during his tenure at Red Hat. Prior to Red Hat, Paul was founder and CEO of NOCpulse, a Silicon Valley software start-up focused on delivering the next generation enterprise systems management platform. NOCpulse was acquired by Red Hat in October 2002. While at NOCpulse, Paul was nominated for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award of 2002. Previously, Paul was chief technology officer of Global Center and Vice President of technology for Global Crossing, a telecommunications company that built and operated the world’s first independent global fiber optic network. During the past twelve years, Paul has held various engineering, product management and marketing positions in companies including Red Hat, IBM, Lotus Development and Compuware. Before joining North Bridge, Paul served on the advisory boards of Arrowpoint Communications (acquired by Cisco), Inflow, Kiva Software (acquired by Netscape), Mobility.net (acquired by Software.com) and One Secure (acquired by Netscreen). Paul has a BS from Emerson College in Boston.
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About North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity: North Bridge provides seed-to-growth stage funding for businesses in several sectors such as software, communications and infrastructure.
Ed Anderson
Founder & Managing Partner of North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity
For the past 25 years, Ed Anderson has provided financing and advised entrepreneurs who are focused on building game-changing companies. Ed’s involvement almost always starts with a modest seed investment. Over the past three decades, Ed has had the good fortune to be involved as a seed or first round investor and director in some of the communications industry’s most successful start-ups including: Arris Networks (Cascade), Arrowpoint Communications (public), Broadband Access Systems (ADC Telecom), Camiant Networks (Tekelec), Cascade Communications (public), NetCore Systems (Tellabs), New Oak Communications (Bay Networks), Redstone Communications (Siemens), Sonus Networks (public), Spring Tide Networks (Lucent), Starent Networks (public), Sycamore Networks (public), SQA (public), Wellfleet Communications (public) and Winphoria Networks (Motorola). Ed is a graduate of the University of Denver and Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He has numerous philanthropic interests outside of North Bridge.
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About North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity: North Bridge provides seed-to-growth stage funding for businesses in several sectors such as software, communications and infrastructure.
Jeff McCarthy
General Partner of North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity
Jeff McCarthy, General Partner, has a successful entrepreneurial track record in communications. As an investor he focuses mainly on materials. When Jeff joined North Bridge Venture Partners in 1998, he was well known to the company’s founding partners through his leadership roles at two early, successful companies within the North Bridge portfolio Cadia Networks and New Oak Communications and at Wellfleet Communications, an investment of the North Bridge founder. He was CEO of New Oak Communications, a leading provider of VPN switches, when the company was acquired by Bay Networks (a Nortel line of business). Subsequently, North Bridge acquired Jeff.
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About G20 Ventures, North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity, North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity: North Bridge provides seed-to-growth stage funding for businesses in several sectors such as software, communications and infrastructure.
Bill Burgess
Operating Partner of North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity
Bill has 25 years of experience in venture capital and corporate finance. Prior to joining ABS Ventures in 2001, he was Managing Director and Global Head of Deutsche Bank Venture Partners. He has also served as Vice Chairman of Global Corporate Finance at Deutsche Bank, and Global Co-Head of Industry Groups Investment Banking and Head of Technology Investment Banking at Alex. Brown and Sons. Bill serves as Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the New England Aquarium and Trustee and Treasurer of St. Mark’s School. He received his BA from Dartmouth College and MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About ABS Ventures, North Bridge Venture Partners & Growth Equity, Simply Made Apps: North Bridge provides seed-to-growth stage funding for businesses in several sectors such as software, communications and infrastructure.
Annelies Gamble
Partner of Scribble Ventures
Prior to joining WTI in 2016, Annelies was at Dropbox where she rotated through a number of roles, including sales, user operations, partnerships and then eventually helped start the Product Analytics team. Before Dropbox, she worked in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications group at Barclays. Annelies graduated from Yale in 2013.
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About Scribble Ventures: Scribble Ventures is an early-stage investment fund that focuses on Pre-Seed through Series A.
Jesse Middleton
General Partner of Flybridge
Jesse is a GP at Flybridge Capital and a co-founder of The Community Fund. His expertise lies in business development, community building, product, and fundraising. Jesse was on the founding team of WeWork and a part of the global WeWork community. He attended Drexel University.
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About Benny, Commsor, Eight Sleep, fitmob, Flybridge, inDinero, Jackpocket, Morsel, Rukkus, Skillist, Squire, Studio, The Community Fund, Wethos, WeWork Labs: Flybridge is a seed-stage venture capital firm investing with entrepreneurs to leverage the power of the community.
Chip Hazard
General Partner of Flybridge
Full-time VC who thinks infrastructure software and AI is hip, part-time family Uber driver, photographer, and dogcatcher. Co-Founder and Investment Partner at XFactor Ventures.
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About Datalogue, Einblick, Flybridge, Scitara, StackHawk, XFactor Ventures: Flybridge is a seed-stage venture capital firm investing with entrepreneurs to leverage the power of the community.
David Aronoff
General Partner of Flybridge
David Aronoff is the Director Board Of Directors of Draper .
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About Chiratae Ventures, Flybridge, Minim, University of Vermont: Flybridge is a seed-stage venture capital firm investing with entrepreneurs to leverage the power of the community.
Jeff Bussgang
General Partner and Co-Founder of Flybridge
Jeff Bussgang is the General Partner and Co-Founder of Flybridge Capital Partners. He has a master’s degree in Business and Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School.
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About BloXroute Labs, Bowery Farming, Cartera Commerce, FalconX, Flybridge, Global EIR, Hack.Diversity, Harvard Business School, Hedron, Infracommerce, Plastiq, The Graduate Syndicate, Upromise: Flybridge is a seed-stage venture capital firm investing with entrepreneurs to leverage the power of the community.
Anna Palmer
General Partner of Flybridge
Anna is an entrepreneur with over four years in the start-up space. She holds a B.A. from Eureka College in Communications, Political Science, and History, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She has founded two non-profit organizations, served on three non-profit boards, and currently is an active volunteer for BUILD, an entrepreneurship program for high school students.
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About Dough, Fashion Project, Flybridge, Wondermile, XFactor Ventures: Flybridge is a seed-stage venture capital firm investing with entrepreneurs to leverage the power of the community.
Somesh Dash
General Partner of Institutional Venture Partners
Somesh Dash joined Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) in March of 2005. He focuses primarily on later-stage investments in Internet, software, wireless, and technology-enabled services companies. Somesh actively participated in IVP’s investments in AddThis, Akamai (AKAM), AppDynamics, At Road (TRMB), Ayasdi, Business Insider, CafePress (PRSS), Care.com, ComScore (SCOR), Datalogix, Danger (MSFT), Digital River (DRIV), Dropbox, FleetMatics (FLTX), Gaia Online, H5, Hipmunk, Klout, LivingSocial, Loopnet (CSGP), MotoSport (LINTA), MySQL (ORCL), Netflix (NFLX), Personal Capital, Quigo (TWX), Shazam, TuneIn, and Zynga (ZNGA). Prior to joining IVP, Somesh was an Analyst in the Corporate Finance Division of Credit Suisse’s Technology Investment Banking Group. While at Credit Suisse, Somesh focused on strategic financing initiatives for a number of public and private technology companies. Prior to joining Credit Suisse, Somesh worked for Luxmi Capital, an early stage venture capital fund focused on digital media investments. He also worked for the Corporate Development Division of Sony Entertainment Television (SET) in Mumbai, India. Somesh is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley and the Stanford Center for Philanthropy and Civil Society (PACS). He is also currently a member of the Partnership for a New American Economy, a nonprofit initiative focused on skilled immigration reform, and co-chaired the March for Innovation (#iMarch). He is a term member of the Council of Foreign Relations. He was formerly a member of the Haas Alumni Board and Haas Development Board at UC Berkeley. Somesh earned a B.S. in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business at the University of California at Berkeley and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
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About Institutional Venture Partners: Institutional Venture Partners is a later-stage venture capital firm that focuses on technology and media companies.
Ajay Vashee
General Partner of Institutional Venture Partners
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About Institutional Venture Partners: Institutional Venture Partners is a later-stage venture capital firm that focuses on technology and media companies.
Parsa Saljoughian
Partner of Institutional Venture Partners
Parsa Saljoughian joined IVP in August 2012. He focuses primarily on identifying and evaluating later-stage investments in high growth companies across a variety of sectors including enterprise software, Internet, and mobile. Parsa actively worked on IVP’s investments in AdRoll, App Annie, Datalogix (ORCL), Dropcam (GOOG), Indiegogo, SoundCloud, Supercell (SoftBank), Uproxx, Vessel (VZN), Whip Networks, and Wikia. Parsa previously worked at Snap Inc as a Growth Product Manager and consulted with SoundCloud on several special projects. Earlier in his career, he worked in the technology investment banking division of ThinkEquity LLC. Parsa was involved in strategic and financing transactions for a variety of companies including Active Network, Angie’s List, and Zillow. Parsa holds an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he served as Co-President of the VC Club, as well as a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley, where he graduated with Highest Honors.
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About Institutional Venture Partners: Institutional Venture Partners is a later-stage venture capital firm that focuses on technology and media companies.
Sandy Miller
General Partner of Institutional Venture Partners
Sandy Miller is a General Partner at Institutional Venture Partners (IVP). He focuses on later-stage venture and growth equity investments in technology, Internet and digital media companies. As the lifecycle of care needs continues to grow and expand for today’s families, Sandy was naturally drawn to Care.com’s mission to solve these challenges by connecting families with care providers via its service, which is the largest online care destination in the world. Sandy has more than 35 years of venture capital and technology investment banking experience and has served on over 20 public, private, and philanthropic boards. Sandy is one of only eight venture capitalists who have been included in all of the Forbes Midas Lists of the “Top 100 Venture Capitalists in the World” since 2107. Prior to IVP, Sandy was a Senior Partner with 3i, a global venture capital firm, where he established and managed 3i’s later-stage technology investing business in the United States. Earlier in his career, Sandy was a leading technology investment banker. He co-founded Thomas Weisel Partners, and was a Senior Partner at Montgomery Securities where he led the technology group. Prior to Montgomery, he was a Managing Director and opened the San Francisco technology investment banking offices for Merrill Lynch and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. Sandy was also a Manager of Strategy Consulting at Bain & Company and a securities lawyer at Pillsbury Winthrop. In addition to Care.com, Sandy serves as a Board Member of the Cantor Art Center (Stanford University Art Museum) and the University of Virginia Art Museum. He has also been a Trustee and Board Member at the University of Virginia, the Stanford Graduate School of Business, the Stanford Law School, the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, the American Conservatory Theater and Grace Episcopal Cathedral. Sandy holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia (Phi Beta Kappa) and an M.B.A. and J.D. from Stanford University.
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About Institutional Venture Partners: Institutional Venture Partners is a later-stage venture capital firm that focuses on technology and media companies.
Todd Chaffee
Managing Director & General Partner of Institutional Venture Partners
Todd Chaffee joined IVP as a Managing Director and General Partner in March 2000. He focuses on venture capital investments in rapidly growing media, travel, and technology companies. Todd has been recognized by Forbes and The New York Times as one of the world’s top venture capitalists. He is ranked #6 on the Forbes Midas List of Top 10 Founder VCs and has appeared on every Forbes Midas List for the past eight years. He was also selected for the New York Times / CB Insights List of Top 100 Venture Capitalists and the Morgan Stanley / AlwaysOn Top 100 VC List. Todd is known for his investments in such high profile companies such as HomeAway (AWAY), Kayak (PCLN), Netflix (NFLX), Twitter (TWTR), and Yahoo (YHOO). He has also led investments in AdRoll, Akamai (AKAM), ArcSight (HPQ), Ariba (ARBA), Business Insider (Axel Springer), Compass, ComScore (SCOR), CyberSource (CYBS), Digital River (DRIV), Domo, Epiphany (EPNY), Extensity (EXTN), General Assembly, H5 Technologies, Hipmunk, InphoMatch (SAP), Inspirato, Klarna, LivingSocial, LoopNet (CSGP), Mobile 365 (SAP), Mobileway (SAP), Nuance Communications (NUAN), Omniture (ADBE), Open Market (OMKT), Pandora (P), Trintech (TTPA), VeriSign (VRSN), Verisity (VRST), Vessel, and Whip Networks. Todd was also the supporting partner for IVP’s investments in Advent Software (ADVS), Artisan Components (ARTI), At Road (TRMB), Business.com (DEXO), CafePress (PRSS), Carbonite (CARB), Concur Technologies (CNQR), Danger (MSFT), Datalogix, Dropcam, MarkMonitor (TRI), Mindbody, One Kings Lane, Personal Capital, POPSUGAR, Quigo Technologies (TWX), RetailMeNot (SALE), Snapchat, SoundCloud, The Honest Company, Tripwire (Thoma Bravo), TuneIn, Websense (WBSN), Yodlee, ZEFR, and ZipRecruiter. Prior to IVP, Todd was Executive Vice President of Visa International. His responsibilities included overseeing the Advanced Technology, Strategic Planning, Corporate Development, and Equity Investment divisions for Visa. He was also the President of Visa Marketplace, Inc. (Visa’s investment subsidiary) and managed Visa’s global technology investment portfolio. Under Todd’s leadership, Visa’s venture capital operation generated more than $1.2 billion in gains and his investments produced a 32.8x multiple of invested capital with an IRR of 243.4%. Todd joined Visa in 1994 as Senior Vice President of Advanced Payment Systems. After establishing and growing Visa’s highly successful venture capital business, he was promoted to Executive Vice President of Visa International, becoming the youngest Executive Vice President in Visa’s history. Prior to Visa, Todd held management positions at Fortune 500 companies such as American Express and TRW Information Systems Group. During his career, he also founded Grand Expeditions, Inc., a global luxury and adventure travel company with revenues in excess of $200 million. Todd earned a B.S. with honors from the University of Minnesota Carlson Business School. He also completed the Stanford Graduate Business School Advanced Management Program and the Harvard Business School Venture Capital Program.
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About Institutional Venture Partners: Institutional Venture Partners is a later-stage venture capital firm that focuses on technology and media companies.
Jules Maltz
General Partner of Institutional Venture Partners
Jules Maltz joined Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) in August 2008 and has over 10 years of venture capital and start-up experience. He focuses on later-stage venture investments in rapidly growing Internet and software companies. Jules led IVP’s investments in Buddy Media and Dropbox and was actively involved in IVP’s investments in LivingSocial, Marketo, Ngmoco (DeNA), Spiceworks, Sugar, Twitter and Yext. Jules currently serves on the board of directors of Buddy Media, H5 and Yext. Prior to IVP, Jules worked for 3i, a leading global venture capital firm. He evaluated early and later-stage Internet, mobile and software investments, and he completed transactions for companies such as BlueLithium, Fotolog, Omniture (ADBE) and Trovix.
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Tom Loverro
General Partner of Institutional Venture Partners
Tom is a Vice President at Institutional Venture Partners. Tom was previously a Principal at RRE Ventures, a leading early stage venture firm, where he worked on investments in Avant, Base, CollectiveHealth, CoverHound, OnDeck (ONDK), and Trumaker among others. Tom began his career at Goldman Sachs & Co., where he advised technology, media, and telecommunications clients on M&A and corporate finance. Following Goldman, he joined RRE as an Analyst. Tom’s involvement in RRE portfolio company Drobo led to him joining the company full-time where he took responsibility for the company’s marketing. He rejoined RRE following his M.B.A. Tom holds an M.B.A. from the Kellogg School of Management, where he was an Austin Scholar, and a B.A. from Stanford University, where he graduated with Distinction.
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Cack Wilhelm
Partner of Institutional Venture Partners
Cack joined Scale Venture Partners in 2014 and focuses on investments in next-generation enterprise software companies, with a particular emphasis on the cloud infrastructure, big data, DevOps, and security sectors. Cack’s recent efforts have led to Scale investments in mobile database company Realm and cloud analytics infrastructure company Treasure Data. Prior to joining Scale Venture Partners, Cack was an enterprise sales representative, first at Oracle selling databases and data integration tools, and later at Cloudera, where she sold the management application for Apache Hadoop to early-adopters in the push toward distributed parallel computing. Cack was initially drawn to the technology and software sectors while at Montgomery & Company, where she helped advise on software acquisitions and capital raises. Cack holds a M.B.A from The University of Chicago – Booth School of Business and a B.A. from Princeton University. Cack is a dedicated runner, racing professionally for Nike for two years at the 5,000m distance and competing in 12 of 12 athletic seasons at Princeton (Cross-Country, Indoor Track and Outdoor Track). While at Princeton she was named the Princeton Female Athlete of the Year and was a 7-time All-America recipient.
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Steve Harrick
General Partner of Institutional Venture Partners
Steve Harrick joined Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) as a General Partner in October 2001 and has over 17 years of venture capital experience. Steve focuses on investing in later-stage technology companies with exceptional growth potential. Specifically, Steve targets Internet, communications and technology-enabled services companies which have the potential to become leaders in their respective markets. Steve enjoys working closely with committed entrepreneurs to help create businesses that are both respected and revolutionary. Steve was recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of the top 100 venture capitalists in the world by his inclusion in the 2009, 2012 and 2013 Forbes Midas List. He was also recognized by AlwaysOn as one of the top 100 venture capitalists by his inclusion in the AlwaysOn 2009 VC 100 List. Steve led IVP’s investments in Aerohive Networks (HIVE), AppDynamics, Aster Data (TDC), Ayasdi, Business.com (DEXO), CafePress (PRSS), eHealth (EHTH), Eucalyptus Systems (HPQ), LegalZoom, MarkMonitor (TRI), MySQL (ORCL), Personal Capital, Pure Storage, RGB Networks (Imagine), Spiceworks, Sumo Logic, Teros (CTXS), ThreatStream, Tripwire (Thoma Bravo), and Varolii (NUAN). He was actively involved in IVP’s investments in ArcSight (HPQ), Buddy Media (CRM), Danger (MSFT), LivingSocial, and Yext. Steve currently serves on the Board of Directors of Ayasdi, Personal Capital, and Spiceworks. Before joining IVP, Steve worked for the Internet Capital Group (ICG). As Vice President of Acquisitions, his responsibilities included identifying and executing strategic acquisitions, generating partner company liquidity and providing strategic and operational advice to management teams. Steve focused on enterprise applications and infrastructure while at ICG and was involved in the expansion and successful sale of both of Centrimed and EmployeeLife. Prior to ICG, Steve worked for Highland Capital Partners in Boston, Massachusetts. At Highland, his focus on Internet technologies and software led to several successful investments, including Gamesville, Raindance, RoweCom and Webline Communications. Steve’s success in venture investing on both the East and West Coast allows him to provide valuable guidance to management teams within IVP’s portfolio. Before entering the venture capital industry in 1997, Steve worked in New Business Development for Netscape Communications in Mountain View, California and in Mergers and Acquisitions for Morgan Stanley in New York, New York. Steve earned a B.A. in History from Yale University and an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School.
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Dennis Phelps
General Partner of Institutional Venture Partners
Dennis Phelps joined Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) in October 2001 and has over fifteen years of experience in technology-related finance. He focuses primarily on growth capital investments in software, Internet, mobile, wireless and digital media companies, as well as select public market opportunities. Dennis was recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of the top 100 venture capitalists in the world by his inclusion in the 2009 Forbes Midas List. He was also recognized by AlwaysOn as one of the top 100 venture capitalists by his inclusion in the AlwaysOn 2009 VC 100 List. Dennis led IVP’s investments in Advent Software (ADVS), Chordiant Software (CHRD), DoubleVerify, Dust Networks, Quigo Technologies (TWX), Shazam, SuccessFactors (SFSF), Sugar, SupportSoft (SPRT), Synchronoss Technologies (SNCR), Yext and Yodlee, and he has been actively involved with the firm’s investments in Buddy Media, Business.com (DEXO), Gaia Online, HomeAway (AWAY), Kayak, Marketo, Mobile 365 (SAP), MySQL (ORCL) and Twitter. He currently serves as a board director or observer for DoubleVerify, Dust Networks, Shazam, Sugar, Yext and Yodlee. Prior to IVP, Dennis spent several years with Battery Ventures and the Internet Capital Group (ICG). At Battery, he managed the firm’s West Coast software deal sourcing program, executed new investments in emerging software and Internet companies and worked closely with portfolio company management teams. His investments at Battery included two financial software companies, Corillian (FISV) and eCredit.com, each of which generated several multiples of return on invested capital. In November 1999, Dennis was recruited from Battery to ICG, where he was a key member of ICG’s West Coast Acquisitions team. As Director of Acquisitions, he was responsible for identifying and executing strategic acquisitions, providing partner company management teams with operational and financial assistance, managing business development initiatives and generating portfolio liquidity. Earlier in his career, Dennis worked in corporate finance with Hambrecht & Quist, a technology-focused investment bank, where he assisted a diverse variety of technology clients with public equity offerings, private placements and mergers and acquisitions. His transaction experience included IPOs for some of the Bay Area’s leading technology companies, including Advent Software (ADVS), CNET (CBS) and MacroVision (MVSN).Dennis earned a B.A. with honors in Government & Economics from Dartmouth College.
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Eric Liaw
General Partner of Institutional Venture Partners
Eric Liaw joined Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) in 2011. He is focused primarily on later-stage investments in high growth companies across a variety of sectors including enterprise software, Internet, and mobile. Eric serves as a Board Director or Observer for IVP portfolio companies AdRoll, The Honest Company, Mindbody, OnDeck, RetailMeNot (SALE), Supercell, Wikia, and ZipRecruiter and led IVP’s investments in GitHub and Klarna. He previously served as a Board Director for Dropcam (Nest). Prior to joining IVP, Eric was with Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV) where he completed minority and control investments in private and public companies across the Internet and software sectors. Eric was actively involved in originating, executing and managing a number of investments, including: Adknowledge, Altiris (acquired by Symantec), eHarmony, Fandango (acquired by Comcast), Global Market Insite (acquired by WPP), Intelligent Beauty, Netflix (NFLX), TechTarget (TTGT), Tiny Prints (acquired by Shutterfly), Webroot Software, and Zillow (Z). Earlier in his career, Eric was a member of Morgan Stanley’s Technology Investment Banking Group. During his time at Morgan Stanley, Eric was involved in strategic and financing transactions valued at over $4 billion for clients across multiple technology sectors, including C|Net, Crystal Decisions, JD Edwards, Hewlett-Packard, Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) and others. Eric also held technical and marketing positions with Trend Micro and Canon Software Publishing. Eric holds a B.A. in Economics with a minor in Computer Science and an M.S. in Management Science and Engineering, both from Stanford University.
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Norm Fogelsong
Advisory Partner of Institutional Venture Partners
Norm Fogelsong joined Institutional Venture Partners (IVP) in March 1989. With more than 30 years of high-technology venture capital and growth equity experience, he emphasizes investments in private later-stage companies and in select public market opportunities. Norm has led investments in Artisan Components (ARTI), Aspect Communications, Compaq Computers (CPQ), Concur Technologies (CNQR), Convex Computers (CNVX), Cortina Systems (IPHI), Danger (MFST), Dataminr, InphoMatch (SAP), Integrated Circuit Works (CY), Lam Research (LRCX), Marketo (MKTO), Mindbody (MB), MobileIron (MOBL), Platinum Software (PSQL), Polycom (PLCM), SkyStream Networks (ERIC), TelCom Semiconductor (TLCM), and Websense (WBSN). Norm was recognized by AlwaysOn as one of the top 100 venture capitalists by his inclusion in the AlwaysOn 2013 VC 100 List. Norm also actively participated in venture investments in Akamai (AKAM), Amgen (AMGN), At Road (TRMB), Applied Biosystems (ABI), Chordiant (CHRD), ComScore (SCOR), Cypress Semiconductor (CY), Digital River (DRIV), Genentech (DNA), Linear Technology (LLTC), LoopNet (CSGP), LSI (LSI), MIPS Computer Systems (MIPS), Quantum (QTM), Silicon Graphics (SGI), SuccessFactors (SFSF), SupportSoft (SPRT), Synchronoss Technologies (SNCR), 3COM (COMS), Verisity (VRST), and Zynga (ZNGA). For Cortina Systems, Norm arranged a $132 million investment syndicate, and the proceeds were used to buy a $100 million division that was being spun out of Intel. His most recent investments include Mindbody, the largest global provider of online business management software to the beauty, health, and wellness industry, MobileIron, the leader in Mobile IT security and management for apps, content, and devices, and Dataminr, a New York-based real-time information discovery company. Norm began his career as a computer programmer at Hewlett-Packard. He then worked as a management consultant with McKinsey & Company where he specialized in strategic planning. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA) and has served the local community as the Treasurer of the Children’s Health Council, the Secretary of the Churchill Club, the Founder of the Kona Jazz Festival and as a member of the Major Gifts Committees at Menlo School and Stanford University. Norm earned a B.S. in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University (Phi Beta Kappa), an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a J.D. from Harvard Law School.
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Alex Lim
Partner of Institutional Venture Partners
Alex Lim is a Partner at IVP.
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Louisa Xu
Partner of Institutional Venture Partners
Louisa Xu is a Partner of Institutional Venture Partners.
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Jonathan Sokoloff
Managing Partner of Leonard Green & Partners
Jonathan is the Managing Partner at Leonard Green & Partners, L.P. Jon joined LGP in 1990. Previously Jon was a Managing Director in corporate finance at Drexel, which he joined in 1985. Prior to Drexel, Jon was a Principal of Hambrecht & Quist, and prior to that, he was with Woodman, Kirkpatrick & Gilbreath (which subsequently merged with Hambrecht & Quist) and Merrill Lynch & Co. Jon presently serves on the Board of Directors of Advantage Sales & Marketing, Inc., BJ’s Wholesale Club, Inc., The Container Store, J. Crew Group, Inc., Jetro Cash & Carry, Inc., Jo-Ann Stores, LLC, The Pure Group, Shake Shack, The Sports Authority, Inc., The Tire Rack, Inc., Topshop/Topman Holdings, Ltd., Union Square Hospitality Group, LLC, and Whole Foods Market, Inc. Jon has served on the Board of Directors of Arrow Group Industries, Inc., Authentic Brands Group, LLC, Big 5 Sporting Goods Corporation, The Brickman Group, Ltd., Carr-Gottstein Foods Co., David’s Bridal, Inc., Diamond Triumph Auto Glass, Inc., Dollar Financial Group, Inc., MC Sporting Goods, Rite Aid Corporation, Rival Manufacturing Co., Thrifty PayLess Holdings, Inc., Tourneau, Inc., Tuboscope, Inc., Vans, Inc., Varsity Brands, Inc., and White Cap Industries, Inc. Jon serves on the Williams College Endowment Committee for Private Equity Investment. Jon earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Williams College.
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Jeff Rinehart
Partner of City Light Capital
Jeff is a Partner at City Light Capital. Jeff’s career began at Capital One (NYSE: COF), where he spent over a decade leading data science and analytics teams across the organization. In his last role, Jeff was VP of Marketing Strategy for US Card where he oversaw a high nine-figure marketing budget across all online and offline marketing channels. Following his time at Capital One, Jeff joined 2U (Nasdaq: TWOU) as their CMO in early 2011. Jeff was part of the core leadership team that grew 2U from a venture-backed startup, through a successful public offering on the NASDAQ in 2014. After 2U, Jeff joined American University as an Executive in Residence and professor in 2016. He also acted as an advisor, Board member and even interim CMO for multiple early-stage start-ups before joining City Light Capital as a partner in 2018.
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Josh Cohen
Founder & Partner of City Light Capital
JOSH COHEN IS ON A MISSION TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE VIA CAPITALISM. HE BELIEVES THAT HOW YOU MAKE MONEY (AND WHAT YOU DO WITH IT ONCE YOU HAVE IT) MATTERS AND WANTS TO HELP IMPROVE THE WORLD, NOW. When considering how he wanted to be remembered, Josh turned to impact investing before it had a name, combining his experience as a venture capitalist, technology company executive, and family office CIO with his values. Thus, the idea for City Light was born: partnering with experienced entrepreneurs using technology to generate significant financial returns while having a measurable social impact. As a father of three boys, Josh’s sense of urgency to address issues such as education for underserved communities, tackling the global climate crises and keeping families safe has only continued to grow. It is this commitment that makes his work more than a passion, but a calling. Prior to founding City Light, Josh led direct investments for a Greenwich CT-based family office, worked in venture capital for a family office based in St. Louis, was a Partner in a private debt fund, and was the Director of Business Development for Mobility Electronics (NASDAQ: IGOI). He began his career as an investment banker in the technology group of Deutsche Banc Alex Brown in San Francisco. Josh co-founded (and is a Board member of) The ImPact, a member network whose mission is to inspire families to make impact investments more effectively. In addition, he is on the investment committee for a family office based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Josh sits on the Board of Directors for Ready Responders and is an advisor to OhmConnect, Trilogy, and Straighterline. Josh previously held advisory roles with 2U (Nasdaq: TWOU), Shotspotter (Nasdaq: SSTI) and Practice (Acquired by Instructure: INST). He is a frequent speaker on the topic of impact investing.
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Tom Groos
Partner of City Light Capital
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Monica Brand Engel
Co-founder and Managing Partner of Quona Capital
Monica Brand Engel is the Co-founder and Managing Partner at Quona Capital.
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Jonathan Whittle
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Quona Capital
Jonathan Whittle is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Quona Capital.
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Jason Krikorian
General Partner of DCM Ventures
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Dixon Doll
Co-Founder, General Partner Emeritus of DCM Ventures
Dixon currently serves as a General Partner for Impact Venture Capital, and for more than 35 years has influenced and guided entrepreneurs, investors and executives in the computer, communications, and internet industries. In the mid 1980s, Dixon cofounded the VC industry’s first fund focused on telecom while at Accel Partners. Following his tenure at Accel, Dixon founded DCM, formerly (Doll Capital Management), where he built a top global VC firm with offices in Silicon Valley, Beijing and Tokyo. DCM is widely regarded as the first Silicon Valley venture firm to successfully invest in China, Japan and the US. His diverse experience also includes strategy consulting, teaching, authoring two books, regular Bloomberg Television appearances, economic policy leadership, non-profit fundraising, a TED Talk, and innovative philanthropic accomplishments. Dixon was named to the Forbes Midas List for four consecutive years and received the 2013 Special Achievement Award in VC from the International Business Forum. He was elected to the Board of the National Venture Capital Association in 2005 serving on the Executive Committee and as Chairman in 2008/9. Under Dixon’s leadership, the NVCA developed a widely embraced set of recommendations (NVCA 4-Pillar Plan) to stimulate liquidity in the U.S. venture capital industry. This plan resulted in bipartisan Congressional support for new job creation legislation and simplification of the IPO process for young emerging companies. Known as the JOBS Act, President Obama signed it into law in 2012.
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Kyle Lui
Partner of DCM Ventures
Investor at hims & hers. Board Member & Series B Investor at Fountain. Partner at DCM Ventures.
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David Chao
Co-Founder & General Partner of DCM Ventures
David K Chao joined DCM Ventures as General Partner and Cofounder.
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André Levi
Chief Financial Officer & Partner of DCM Ventures
André Levi leads DCM’s Finance team, which is responsible for the financial reporting and analysis of the firm’s investment funds as well as the day-to-day management of global firm-wide finance matters. André is also involved with the planning and execution relating to DCM’s investment activity and portfolio company financial transactions. In addition, André serves in an advisory capacity to DCM’s domestic and international portfolio company management teams, providing operational and financial guidance and assistance. André has over 14 years of professional experience in the financial services sector. Prior to joining DCM, André was an Assurance Manager with PricewaterhouseCoopers providing audit and business advisory services to numerous venture capital funds and technology companies. Previously, André was the Contributing Editor for the Closed-End Fund Digest, a prestigious investment newsletter subscribed by both institutional and individual investors, where he covered closed-end equity funds focused on the emerging markets of Latin America and the “Asian Tigers”. André is a Certified Public Accountant (California) and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the CFA Institute.
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Rudolph Rehm
Finance Partner of DCM Ventures
He currently serves as DCM’s Finance Partner.
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Matt Bonner
Chief Operating Officer and Legal Partner of DCM Ventures
As Legal and Operations Partner, Matt Bonner is responsible for all legal matters with respect to DCM’s investments, fund operations and domestic and international regulatory compliance. In addition, Matt oversees the firm’s global operations and administration. Matt is actively involved with the structuring, planning, negotiation and execution relating to DCM’s investment activity and various transactions involving the firm’s portfolio companies. Matt serves in an advisory capacity to DCM’s portfolio company management teams regarding legal and regulatory matters. Prior to joining DCM, Matt spent 8 years working as a corporate and securities attorney with Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP, focusing on the representation of venture capital funds, venture and institutional investors, emerging growth private and public companies. Previously, Matt spent 5 years with Ernst & Young working in their tax department in both the Securities Group (New York, NY) and Financial Services Group (San Francisco, CA). Matt is a member of the State Bar of California and is also a Certified Public Accountant (California). Matt lives in Woodside with his wife and two daughters and is an active member of the community, including serving on the Board of Directors of the Woodside School Foundation.
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