Top 50 Big Data Angel Investors in October 2024
A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Big data startups. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Big data companies. This investor list updates every month.Top 50 Big Data Angel Investors in October 2024
Investor | Big Data investments |
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Auren Hoffman | 9 |
Jaan Tallinn | 7 |
Anthony Goldbloom | 7 |
Ullas Naik | 7 |
Lee Linden | 7 |
Elad Gil | 7 |
Daren Cotter | 6 |
Jackson Moses | 6 |
Eric Schmidt | 6 |
Kevin Mahaffey | 6 |
Andreas Mihalovits | 6 |
Mark Cuban | 6 |
Scott Banister | 6 |
Sam Altman | 6 |
Daniel Gross | 5 |
Harris Barton | 5 |
Bill Tai | 5 |
Dave McClure | 5 |
Tim Draper | 5 |
Alexis Ohanian | 5 |
David Tisch | 5 |
Rajan Anandan | 5 |
Rajan Anandan | 5 |
Slava Agafonov | 4 |
Scott Sandell | 4 |
Will Martin | 4 |
Vinny Lingham | 4 |
Jason Calacanis | 4 |
Benjamin Ling | 4 |
David Beyer | 4 |
Lachy Groom | 4 |
Farzad (Zod) Nazem | 4 |
Max Levchin | 4 |
Morris Wheeler | 4 |
Kiyoshi Nishikawa | 4 |
Nat Friedman | 4 |
Jonah Goodhart | 4 |
Charles Zedlewski | 4 |
Will Brooks | 4 |
Diane Greene | 4 |
Wally Wang | 4 |
Jim Eberlin | 4 |
Hampus Jakobsson | 4 |
Gokul Rajaram | 4 |
Wally Wang | 4 |
Ronald Conway | 4 |
Paul Buchheit | 4 |
Rachel Sheinbein | 4 |
Carlos Blanco | 3 |
Mattias Miksche | 3 |
Auren Hoffman is the CEO and Chief Historian of SafeGraph and he was the CEO of Rapleaf.
Auren holds a B.S.E. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the UC Berkeley. He writes a blog called Summation.
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Investment focus
- Software, Analytics, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Ex Parte — Ex Parte uses artificial intelligence, machine learning, and natural language processing to give customers the information they need to make better decisions and achieve a competitive advantage. Consider it Moneyball for a market that is >20 times the size of Major League Baseball.
- Calypso AI — CalypsoAI combines industry-leading AI testing and human-in-the-loop decision making to give you the confidence you need to push AI projects into production.
- Sincera — Sincera provides novel signal data to the most innovative companies in advertising technology.
Jaan Tallinn is the Co-Founder of the Centre for Study of Existential Risk and Future of Life Institute.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Estonia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Aerones — Robotic wind turbine service company offering maintenance, inspection and repairs worldwide. Reduce downtime and improve the efficiency of your wind park
- Anthropic — An AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
- TENYX — Discover innovative solutions for digital transformation at Tenyx. Explore our cutting-edge technology services designed to drive business growth and elevate your digital presence.
Anthony Goldbloom is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Kaggle.com. He is also the Founder Partner at Founder Collective.
Forbes has twice named Anthony one of the 30 under 30 in technology, the MIT Technology Review has named him as one of the 35 Innovators Under 35 and the University of Melbourne has given Anthony an Alumni ofDistinction Award.
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Investment focus
- Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Predibase — State-of-the-art machine learning for engineers and data practitioners as easy as writing a SQL query
- TrueFoundry — TrueFoundry provides Data Scientists and ML Engineers with the fastest framework for Post Model Pipeline. Using best DevOps practices, we enable instant monitored endpoints for models in 15 minutes!
- Galileo — The Single Platform for Generative AI Evaluation and Observability
Ullas Naik is the Founder & General Partner at Streamlined Ventures.
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Investment focus
- Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Mexico, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Vise — Vise automates investment management for financial advisors using artificial intelligence. Vise has built a full-stack platform spanning the entire lifecycle of the advisor-client relationship, including designing personalized portfolios for clients, managing portfolios, and providing on-going intelligence. By doing so, Vise helps financialadvisors focus on their most valuable resource -- their client relationships.Vise was founded in 2016 by Samir Vasavada and Runik Mehrotra in New York, New York.
- Sunshine — Sunshine is a digital lifestyle service that learns and predicts your feelings based on your environment, location, and time of day and provides personalized advice for your wellbeing.
- Love.com — Love is a healthcare company that considers community input while creating new therapies.
Lee is a Managing Partner at Quiet Capital. He 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 that allowed smartphone users to instantly send real gifts to others without the burdenof physical mailing addresses. Karma was acquired by Facebook in early 2012. Prior to Karma, Lee founded Tapjoy and piloted the company to its 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 an 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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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Logistics
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Kinema — A social cinema platform for filmmakers and community builders
- Airhouse — Airhouse is the first all-in-one logistics platform for modern direct-to-consumer ecommerce companies. Launch a complex fulfillment operation in seconds.
- Jupiter — Explore our full line of vegan hair products for dandruff & dry scalp. Take our dermatologist-designed quiz to get your personalized regimen today.
Elad Gil is the Co-Founder of Color Genomics. He previously worked at Twitter as a Vice President. Elad Gil attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Magic — Teaching AI to act in its natural environment, the computer.
- Harvey — Harvey builds custom LLMs for elite law firms to tackle the most complex legal challenges across every practice area, jurisdiction and legal system in the world.
- Applied Intuition — Applied Intuition enables engineering and product development teams to safely develop, test, and deploy autonomous vehicles at scale.
Daren was the Founder and CEO of InboxDollars, an online marketing company that connects consumers and advertisers in a way that benefits both. He founded the company as a Freshman in college in 2000 and bootstrapped the company to more than $25 million in annual revenues. InboxDollars was acquired by Prodege in 2019. Daren is active in the MNstart-up community as an investor, advisor and mentor.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- AnyCreek — AnyCreek is a platform that facilitates the booking of outdoor adventures such as fishing or hunting trips. It aims to connect adventure-seekers with guides and outfitters, providing a space for them to discover and book the best outdoor experiences. The platform is designed to be guide-friendly, empowering guides and outfitters to reach a wideraudience.
- Coldcart — Coldcart is a technology platform which orchestrates, optimizes and scales frozen and refrigerated parcel logistics for leading D2C and B2B companies - unlocking unprecedented new efficiencies in perishable parcel logistics.
- Refr Sports — Welcome to Refr Sports, the world's fastest growing assigning solution. Our comprehensive suite of services saves you time and money while allowing you to be the assignor people love to work with.
A successful serial entrepreneur and early defense tech investor, Jackson Moses currently serves as the Founder and Managing Partner of Silent Ventures, an early stage venture firm that invests in exceptional founders building unrivaled aerospace, defense, and national security startups. He also founded and manages Silent Capital, a privatesyndicate that provides its members exclusive access to leading multi-stage defense and frontier tech deals. Additionally, Jackson serves as a Senior Advisor to the founding teams of Castelion and Privateer Space.Prior to founding Silent Ventures, Jackson founded and served as VP of Partnerships at MainStreet: the first tech company to make R&D tax credits accessible to startups and SMBs via industry-leading workflows and integrations. As a founding executive, he was responsible for developing go-to-market strategies, building a world-class sales organization, managing business development initiatives, and scaling annual revenue to over $30M. To date, MainStreet has employed hundreds of people and helped 2,000+ startups claim over $150M in tax savings, collectively extending their runway by centuries.Prior to founding MainStreet, Jackson founded and served as Chairman & CEO of Spectrum Labs (enterprise AIaaS), which was acquired by ActiveFence after last being valued at $137M. Spectrum Labs pioneered multimodal LLMs, specifically a series of proprietary GPT foundation models, designed to make digital communities more profitable for Fortune 500 owners, marketers, influencers, and their users. Its customer base spanned gaming, dating, and social media, and included Tencent (TCEHY), Pinterest (NYSE: PINS), Grindr (NYSE: GRND), Yik Yak, Wildlife Studios, and The Meet Group, among others.Prior to founding Spectrum Labs, Jackson worked in sales (Lynda.com), customer operations, and executive recruiting at LinkedIn (acquired by Microsoft). Prior to this, he worked as a Market Research Analyst at Cisco where he evaluated industry trends, new investment opportunities, and emerging threats to Cisco’s core business lines.
Having raised $120M+ across his two companies, Jackson actively advises startups, venture firms, and family offices on private sector aerospace and defense tech trends, investment opportunities, and capital allocation strategies. He serves as a Venture Partner to several large firms and has sourced deals for 8VC, a16z, Airbus Ventures, Tribe Capital, Quiet Capital, Susa Ventures, Lavrock Ventures, First In, Cubit Capital, and defense primes.Jackson holds two B.A. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley where he studied Economics, with a concentration in monetary policy, and Political Science, with a concentration in game theory.Personal: www.jacksonmoses.com | Work: www.silentvc.com | Syndicate: www.silentcapital.vc
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Investment focus
- Aerospace, Artificial Intelligence, National Security
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Rivet — Rivet is a corporate & personal tax prep firm, designed to make tax season less taxing. Because everybody deserves a tax prep firm that they love.
- Pilgrim — Pioneering a biologically enhanced future for humanity.
- Impulse Space — Economical and nimble last-mile space payload delivery
Eric Schmidt is the founding partner of the Schmidt Family Foundation. He previously worked at Alphabet Inc. as an Executive Chairman and Technical Advisor. Eric Schmidt attended Princeton University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Canada, France
Portfolio highlights
- Asari AI — Co-invent the future.
- Magic — Teaching AI to act in its natural environment, the computer.
- Forest Neurotech — Forest Neurotech is creating a new ultrasound-based BCI that can sense and modify the entire brain without piercing it.
Kevin Patrick Mahaffey is the Founder of Lookout and SNR. He is also the Executive Chairman of Stork Club and an Investor.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- bem — Engineering teams use bem to transform any data point into whatever shape they need.
- Resquared — Resquared has everything you need and more to reach local businesses. Contact data on every local business, optimized email and social outreach tools, and step-by-step built-in playbooks.
- Token Security — Token is the new approach designed for the identity boom era. Introducing Machine-First Identity Security.
Andreas is a German serial entrepreneur and angel investor having invested in more than 150 international startups.Andreas co-founded his first internet company Omniga in 1999 and, after reaching profitability within 2 years, grew it to a venture builder focused on B2C subscription models with more than 200 employees when he stepped back from hisactive roles in 2012.In the same year Andreas started investing in startups and later also got engaged in the Spanish ecosystem as the founder of Marbella Tech Angels, a network of more than 160 investors, founders & mentors living around Marbella. Andreas is also co-founder of the Global Super Angels Club, a platform for angel investors usually investing six-figure euro amounts in startups, supporting its more than 70 members to improve their deal flow and speed up their search for like-minded co-investors.Andreas received several awards incl. the Best European Early Stage Investor 2018 award from the European Business Angel Network (EBAN) and the Best Business Angel 2020 award at the Spanish National Business Angel Conference.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Spain, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- BRICKBRO — Currently, Brickbro is one of the leading real estate transactional platforms in the spanish market.
- Xceed — Go out and live the best night events, parties & festivals at top clubs, bars and restaurants from around the world. Guest lists, tickets & VIP bottle service.
- GigPig — Book gigs. Get Gigs. No messing. Supporting venues and artists all the way with live music management.
Mark Cuban is the founder of Fireside, Chairman and Founding Partner of AXS TV, and the Owner of Dallas Mavericks. He previously worked at Broadcast.com as a Co-Founder. Mark Cuban attended the Indiana University Bloomington.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Allstar — Allstar is a gaming company that believes every gamer can become a content creator, with the right tools. The company is driven by its mission is to make the everyday gamer the star of their greatest esports moments through technology that enables them to effortlessly create, discover, and share their own professional quality esports highlights.
- DIRT Research Technologies — DIRT is an AI-powered content measurement engine enabling AI models to recognize, evaluate, and generate content that grabs attention and predicts engagement. Linking human attention to images and videos, we teach models to understand what people are most interested in engaging with, watching, and playing. At DIRT, what you make matters. We makesure it connects.
- TransCrypts — We all have that file box where we throw all our important documents. Our goal at TransCrypts is to make that box digital and have all the documents secured through the blockchain. We currently offer industry leading privacy and security standards on our file storage and sharing platform and have solutions for individuals all the way to enterprises.
Scott is an American entrepreneur and angel investor. He is best known as a co-founder of IronPort and an early advisor and board member at PayPal.Scott Banister started his career as a pioneer in the email business. He was Founder and VP of Technology at ListBot, the largest ASP for business email list hosting. ListBot was acquired byMicrosoft. After ListBot, Scott spent his time working with other start-ups as a board member and investor. These start-ups include eVoice, creator of the first email-enabled home voicemail service, which was acquired by AOL in 2001. He served as VP of Ideas at idealab!, where he contributed numerous innovations, including the unique bid-for-placement search engine model that powers Overture. In December 2000, with Scott Weiss, Banister co-founded IronPort, an email appliance provider that was acquired in 2007 by Cisco for US$830 million.Scott Banister is co-founder and Chairman of Other private equity investments include Zappos.com, LiveOps, Facebook, Hi5.com, Tagged.com, iLike, and Causes.com.Banister attended University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, from which he dropped out in 1996 to move to Silicon Valley. He currently lives in Half Moon Bay, California with his wife Cyan.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Arcee.ai — Learn how Arcee helps you build your own LLMs in your own cloud.
- Stell — Stell is a platform that digitizes the relationship between aerospace companies and their suppliers with a living specification workflow
- Together AI — Together will enable researchers, developers & companies to leverage and improve artificial intelligence with an intuitive data, models & computation platform.
Sam Altman is the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI. He is a Partner of Apollo Projects. Altman was the president of Y Combinator from 2016 through 2019.
Sam Altman attended Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Ghana
Portfolio highlights
- GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
- APEX — Use Apex AI Security Platform to drive your organisation at the speed of AI, agentlessly. Unleash AI securely, with visibility, detection, and remediation. (156c)
- ValueBase — This page discusses the history of ValueBase, what brought us together and why we decided that accurate appraisal was important. It also explains why we focus on mass appraisal and statistical techniques like regression.
Daniel Gross is the Co-Founder of Pioneer. He previously worked at Y Combinator as a Head of AI.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Magic — Teaching AI to act in its natural environment, the computer.
- Grid Status — Grid Status offers an open platform for understanding what is happening on the electrical grid. Grid Status provides organized and dependable data, allowing the next generation of energy innovators to focus on developing innovative solutions rather than maintaining their own complex data pipelines.
- Consensus — Consensus uses AI to extract and summarize scientific insights from peer-reviewed sources. For any question, what's the Consensus?
Harris Barton As the founder and managing director of H. Barton Asset Management, Harris Barton actively manages a $30 million fund that specializes in providing investment capital to up-and-coming VC-backed technology startups. Prior to H. Barton Asset Management, Mr. Barton was a founding partner of HRJ Capital, an investment firm specializing inprivate equity funds.Mr. Barton became a private equity investor during his football career, where as an All-Pro offensive lineman for the San Francisco 49ers he earned three Super Bowl wins. Today, he brings the same passion, dedication and teamwork to both his financial and philanthropic endeavors. In 2004, Mr. Barton founded Champion Charities with his friend and former NFL teammate Ronnie Lott. Dedicated to eradicating brain cancer and helping those afflicted with the disease, the charity has raised more than $7 million for research and patient care. Embracing his mantra of “always give back,” Mr. Barton also focuses his energy on helping and inspiring disadvantaged youth through motivational speeches, volunteer programs and fundraising events. Mr. Barton holds a BA in Finance from the University of North Carolina.
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Investment focus
- Software, Big Data, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Aside — Aside is the company that builds cloud-based platforms. Daffy Charitable is its first not-for-profit community platform.
- Spectrum Labs — Spectrum Lab's AI-based content moderation platform identifies 40+ toxic behaviors across all languages, text, and voice, enabling Trust & Safety teams to collapse content moderation costs by 50% and increase detection of brand-destroying behaviors by 10x.
- Fairing — Zero party data at speed & scale, for DTC brands on Shopify and beyond. 10x faster survey insights for marketing attribution, personalization, CRO & more
Bill Tai is the Chairman of the Board, Co-Founder, and Founding Investor of Treasure Data. He previously worked at Maxthon International Limited as a Chairman of the Board. Bill Tai attended Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- MicroTau — Solving human problems with nature’s surfaces.
- Fairmatic — Powered by data and AI, focused on rewarding fleet safety with savings. Finally, a smarter insurance option designed to put fleets in control.
- Fathom — Instantly summarizes your meetings so you can focus on the conversation instead of taking notes.
Dave McClure is the founder of Practical Venture Capital and has been an investor and entrepreneur in Silicon Valley for over twenty-five years. Previously he was the founding partner of 500 Startups, a global VC firm and startup accelerator with over $500M in assets under management. Dave has invested in hundreds of companies around the world,including more than 15 unicorns and 5 IPOs. He was named by Forbes as one of the top VCs in the world in 2016 and 2017 (Forbes Midas List). Before 500 Startups, Dave worked at Founders Fund and PayPal, and he graduated from the Johns Hopkins University in 1988 with a BS in engineering and applied mathematics.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Ezra AI — Ezra provides full-body MRI screening for potential early cancer and abnormalities in up to 13 organs. Book a scan today.
- Tribal — Tribal Credit is a corporate charge card specially designed for startups in emerging markets. Using a proprietary AI-driven approval process, the San Francisco based startup provides small and medium companies with access to payments and complete control over their spending. Founded by serial entrepreneurs, data scientists and fintech execs whohave built and led startups in both emerging markets and Silicon Valley, the startup aspires to bridge the business financial inclusion gap between the two. Tribal Credit is backed by BECO Capital, Global Ventures, Endure Capital, 500 Startups, Rising Tide Fund, AR Ventures, Off The Grid Ventures, RiseUp, and Tribe Capital.
- Terraformation — Terraformation creates partnerships to scale reforestation with hardware, software, and knowledge based solutions.
Tim Draper is the Founding Partner of Draper Associates. He attended Harvard Business School.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- GALY — Saving Our Planet by Transitioning the World to Cellular Agriculture
- Buupass — BuuPass is Kenya's market leader for online bus booking. We enable travelers to reserve seats and make payments in a convenient and timely way. Try BuuPass today!
- Zest Protocol — Zest Protocol enables users to put their Bitcoin to work. Earn more BTC, or borrow against your BTC.
Alexis Ohanian is the President and Founder of 776 Foundation. He previously worked at reddit as an Executive Chair and Board Member. Alexis Ohanian attended the University of Virginia.
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Investment focus
- Software, Blockchain, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Shef — Enter code FIRST10 at checkout and save $10 on your first order
- TMRW Sports — TMRW is a sports company that focuses on progressive approaches to sports, media, and technology. Using advances in technology, the company launches golf leagues and holds a series of stadium events to provide people with growing approaches to sports and entertainment.
- Pulp Culture — Pulp Culture is hard pressed juice, enhanced by superfoods and adaptogens, that supports active, healthy lifestyles.
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 shopdirectly 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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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, France, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Vengo — Vengo is a software and media company that engages consumers and collects data by combining interactive digital media with point-of-purchase. Selected from 270 companies as "NYC Next Idea 2012," Vengo's next-generation vending machines enable brands such as Trident, Snapple, Dentyne, and Sour Patch Kids to re-engage consumers whilegenerating attractive unit economics (expect six-month payback on new units). Vengo already has established partnerships with Mondelez (one of the largest snack food companies), Snapple, Verizon, CC Vending (second-largest NYC vending machine provider), and Creative Mobile Technologies (NYC taxis). Vengo was founded in 2012 and headquartered in Long Island City, New York.
- Keychain — Keychain is a rapidly growing platform dedicated to connecting brands and retailers with the best manufacturing partners worldwide. At Keychain, we utilize AI to streamline the process of finding and vetting manufacturers, making the supply chain more transparent and efficient.
- Even.com — Even offers an affordable on-demand pay product that allows employees to access their paychecks when they need it most—without confusing, hidden, or predatory fees. With a proven track record of reducing employee turnover and increasing retention and productivity, Even is the highest-rated on-demand pay app and has helped employees save more than$82 million to date.
As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- NAYAN — NAYAN visual AI monitors and identifies real-time road events. NAYAN AI supports businesses and authorities by offering actionable insights on visual events, to make the world a safer place.
- Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
- mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.
As part of the leadership team at Sequoia Capital India, Rajan is focusing on developing its early-stage program Surge, into the world's top scale-up program for startups by acting as an investment advisor and mentor to the programme's founders. Surge aims to engineer rapid early progress for startups, by enabling disproportionateaccess to capital, talent, network and decades of company-building knowledge. Rajan's deep understanding of technology, operating expertise and a track record of growing tech businesses across the region will help Surge's founders scale and build the businesses of tomorrow.Prior to Sequoia, as Head of Google India and Southeast Asia, Rajan played a key role in expanding the regions internet ecosystem while accelerating Google's innovation and growth units. He is also a prolific angel investor who has backed a large number of successful startups at very early stages. Rajan also led Microsoft and Dell in India and was earlier a Partner at McKinsey & Company in Chicago.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- India, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- NAYAN — NAYAN visual AI monitors and identifies real-time road events. NAYAN AI supports businesses and authorities by offering actionable insights on visual events, to make the world a safer place.
- Omnify — Automate your business and simplify your life with Omnify's all-in-one online booking system that streamlines your operations through one simple dashboard.
- mirrAR — mirrAR your go to augmented reality company for ECommerce. Experience our platform, solutions & AR software. Transform shopping with augmented reality in E-commerce.
Technical leader and architect in enterprise software including S&P 500 customers for Microsoft. Built web portals for IBM with Team International, created medical FDA-approved devices with Medtronic over Global Logic. , and certified phone station in telecom business over the globe with Alcatel over Altron. Excellent background in distributedsystems, artificial intelligence, and Big Data. Passionate about tuning robust, high-performance systems that scale well. Two Master's degrees in Technical Management from Foster School of Business - The University of Washington in the USA and also computer science masters from Kharkiv Aerospace University in Ukraine. Slava received customer obsessions awards in Microsoft and always acting as a bridge from business to technology with a pioneering spirit. Viacheslav is passionate about leadership roles on strategic and impact projects with metrics-driven, high-performance, and scalable development. Expert in lean software development - it means rapid, agile prototyping with development cycles that fail fast to learn quickly and to apply innovative solutions in iterations. Clients hire me to develop new software products for innovative markets that are rapidly growing. They know that the best products come from great empathy and customer insights, but also require courage, hard work, and perseverance.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Battery, Big Data
- Pre-Seed
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Energsoft — Prescriptive battery analytics software as a service across industries to enable help to select the safest and most efficient batteries for any Business or R&D.
Scott Sandell is Managing General Partner at NEA. A General Partner since 2000, and Co-Managing General Partner from 2015 - 2017, Scott served as head of the firm’s technology investing practice for 10 years and has led NEA’s China investing activities for over a decade. Since joining the firm in 1996, he has personally led investments inindustry-transforming companies like Bloom Energy, Data Domain, Fusion-io, Salesforce.com, Tableau Software, WebEx, and Workday. Scott is one of only four investors named to the Forbes Midas List every year since 2007, with 24 technology companies in his portfolio having successfully completed public offerings or mergers.Scott is currently a director of Bloom Energy (NYSE: BE) and a number of private companies including Automation Anywhere, Branch, Cloudflare, Coursera, Enigma, Expanse (fka Qadium), Hello Alfred, One Concern, Robinhood, Sentons, Transfix, and WaterBit. Other previous investments include Fusion-io (acquired by SanDisk), Neoteris (acquired by Juniper Networks), NetIQ (acquired by Attachmate Corporation), Playdom (acquired by Disney), and Spreadtrum Communications (acquired by Tsinghua Unigroup).
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- United States, Germany, China
Portfolio highlights
Will Martin - Founder and Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bequest — Digital estate planning made easy for professionals and individuals. Securely protect online accounts, cryptocurrencies, emails, media, documents and more.
- Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
- Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
Vinny Lingham is Co-Founder & CEO at Civic. He was the founder and CEO of Gyft, a mobile gift card app that allows customers to buy, store, send and redeem gift cards conveniently from their mobile device.
He is also the founder of Yola.com, a web development and hosting company that enables users without prior programming knowledge to developwebsites.
Vinny is the recipient of numerous awards, including Top Young ICT Entrepreneur in Africa (2006) and was also a finalist for Men’s Health Best Man (2009) and ICT Personality of the Year in South Africa (2008). He also previously founded Clicks2Customers, which also won the Top Technology Company award in South Africa in 2006.
He has previously served on marketing advisory boards for Nasdaq listed Valueclick and Yahoo, was also selected as an Endeavor “High Impact Entrepreneur” in 2006. Vinny studied a B.Com (Information Systems) at the University of Cape Town.
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- Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- United States, South Africa, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Glif — Interoperable tools for the Filecoin network
- Afterparty — Afterparty is a technology company behind the new Web3 platform enabling creators to directly monetize and manage NFT collector relationships
- Collectibles.com — Collectibles is the Home of Collectors: Cards, Comics, Coins, Stamps and more. Connect with Likeminds, Trade and Showoff your Collection for free
Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University.
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- Software, Internet, E-Commerce
- Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- United States, Australia, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
- Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
- Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.
Ben Ling is 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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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Hedge — Hedge develops a protocol that provides access to liquidity for assets on all chains.
- Hedge Labs — Hedge Labs is a software development company that provides a decentralized liquidity platform. The company is based in Miami, Florida.
- Merlin Labs — Merlin is the aviation technology company propelling the future of fully autonomous flight.
David is a Partner of Amplify Partners and co-founder of Chartio.com.Before joining Amplify Partners, David spent time as both a venture-backed entrepreneur and an early-stage investor. He began his career in technology as the co-founder and CEO of Chartio.com, a pioneering provider of cloud-based data visualization and analytics. He wassubsequently part of the founding team at Patients Know Best, one of the world’s leading cloud-based personal health record companies. David has been a prolific investor and advisor to entrepreneurs. He has personally invested in more than 50 early-stage companies, including Zymergen, Skycatch, Caribou Biosciences, Rigetti Computing, Casetext, Ginkgo Bioworks, Function of Beauty, Cruise Automation, and Bugcrowd. In addition, he currently serves on the advisory council of Bayes Impact, a nonprofit organization that deploys data science to solve important social challenges.He attended Brown University.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Airtable — Airtable is a cloud-based software company that offers an easy-to-use online platform for creating and sharing relational databases.It brings the database out of the realm of power users and into the mainstream, creating a new type of flexible but sophisticated productivity tool that anyone can use. Airtable gives end-users the ability to createand share their own workflows for everything from managing an editorial calendar to planning a major event. The platform helps create flexible checklists, organize collections or ideas, and manage customers or contacts as well as offers a variety of templates ranging from home improvement to store inventory, enabling users to build custom applications without any prior coding experience.The company was founded by Andrew Ofstad, Emmett Nicholas, and Howie Liu in 2013 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
- Astranis — Four billion people still have no internet access. Astranis is here to change that. We're making small satellites for geostationary orbit, recently signed a contract to triple the satellite internet capacity of Alaska, and raised our Series A from Andreessen Horowitz.
- Ginkgo Bioworks — Ginkgo Bioworks is a biotechnology firm. It is a developer of biological engineering products and custom microbes across multiple markets. It designs, engineer, develops, tests, and licenses organisms. It discovers molecules in flavors, sweeteners, cosmetic ingredients, crop treatments, and pharmaceuticals. It also provides probiotic bacteria toprotect the body from dangerous infections, and it generates libraries of molecules. It serves cultured ingredients, carbon mitigation, probiotics, and natural product discovery markets.
Lachy Groom
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Formation Bio — Building the pharma company of the future.
- Weights — Weights is a social AI Creation Platform. Create audio, images, chat, and more for free, and share with your friends!
- Zepto — India's fastest grocery delivery service.
Farzad (Zod) Nazem has been a prolific angel investor and advisor to tech startup companies since his retirement from Yahoo! in 2007. He has invested in more than 60 early stage companies, and sits on the boards of Hand Foundation, and The Nueva School. His area of investment is about two thirds Big Data and Cloud platforms, and one third Healthand Medical. He was the Executive Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer of Yahoo from 1996 to mid 2007. He helped acquire and integrate over 50 companies and managed over six thousand engineers representing half of the company's employees. Between 1985 and 1996, Mr. Nazem held various software development and management positions at Oracle Corporation culminating in his role as Vice President of Media and Web Server Division. His tenure at Oracle also included membership in the company's Product Division Management Committee, which set overall strategy for Oracle products. Previously, Mr. Nazem was recruited from California Polytechnic State University by Rolm Corporation to be a software engineer in the VLCBX division. At age 19, he earned a B.S. degree in Computer Science with highest honors.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Analytics, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Emailage — Emailage is a developer of fraud prevention and identity verification technology used to make transactions easier and secure. The company provides multi-faceted predictive solutions with email at the core through key partnerships, proprietary data, and advanced machine-learning technology. It proprietary algorithms in order to provide real-timealerts of risky transactions and delivers a risk score and enable companies to realize significant savings from identifying and stopping fraudulent transactions and improve customer experience.
- Ceevra — Ceevra is an advanced 3D visualization technology for surgeons. Using AI and other innovative computing techniques, Ceevra generates brilliant 3D digital models from standard CT scans and MRIs. Surgeons use the Ceevra 3D models to help educate and counsel patients, to decide on the best surgical approach, and to gain important insights whileoperating.
- TigerGraph — TigerGraph is a platform for advanced analytics and machine learning on connected data. Based on the industry’s first and only distributed native graph database, TigerGraph’s proven technology supports advanced analytics and machine learning applications such as fraud detection, anti-money laundering (AML), entity resolution, customer 360,recommendations, knowledge graph, cybersecurity, supply chain, IoT, and network analysis. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California, USA. Start free with tigergraph.com/cloud.
Max Levchin is the Founder and CEO of Affirm. He previously worked at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau as an Advisory Board Member. Max Levchin attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Bland AI — Transform your enterprise communication with Bland AI. Automate inbound and outbound phone calls using AI that sounds human. Perfect for sales, customer support, and operations with customizable voices and seamless integrations.
- CoPilot — CoPilot is pioneering Assisted Commerce for big-ticket purchases – starting with cars. You are the one spending the money - shouldn't you have an expert on your side? We founded CoPilot to make that a reality. For the average car buyer, who is not a car expert or enthusiast, car shopping can be a time consuming, frustrating process that leavespeople feeling alone and disadvantaged. CoPilot is changing this dynamic. Like a trusted friend who is knowledgeable about cars, knows where to look and what to buy, CoPilot provides car shoppers with an expert partner who empowers them to discover the perfect car at the best possible price with ease and confidence.
- Black Ore Technologies — Black Ore's Tax Autopilot is the first AI tax platform for CPAs, offering complete 1040 tax preparation automation to tax professionals, so they can focus on growing their firm.
Morris Wheeler began his career on Wall Street after studying Economics and Computer Science at The University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and earning his JD at Yale Law School.Early on in his venture capital career, he specialized in computer software and media deals. From there as CEO he led the team that created and managed an online mediadistribution company with the founders of MTV, Island Records and Gateway Computers. Over the past decade, Mr. Wheeler has managed a diverse venture capital and private equity portfolio, and served as Chairman and CEO of Cohesant, a definitely non-digital company that extends the life of aging water infrastructure. During his tenure, Cohesant's public investors enjoyed a 28% annualized return .
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Investment focus
- Software, Big Data, B2B
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Keen — Keen is a fully managed event streaming platform built on Apache Kafka. Start streaming in minutes with 30 days free.
- Notion — Notion is a DIY smart monitoring system empowering home and property owners to be proactive in monitoring their spaces and most valued possessions. Powered by a multifunctional sensor and app, Notion monitors for opening doors and windows, sounding smoke/CO alarms, water leaks, and temperature changes.
- ExpenseBot — ExpenseBot is a developer of an expense management platform used to make business expense reporting easier. The company's software automates the process of filling out expense reports by pulling in information from calendar apps, e-mail, credit card purchase reports, and even a phone’s GPS software. It’s powered by artificial intelligencesoftware that can remind users to file expense actions like meals or a commute.ExpenseBot was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.
After working at KDD Corporation (Currently known as KDDI Corporation), Kiyoshi Nishikawa next went to work at Arthur D. Little Inc. in the United States, where he became inspired to start his own company. After returning to Japan, he established a Japanese corporation of the world’s largest Internet company, America On Line, LLC. Later andbased on this experience and the relationships he developed, he founded the first Internet business incubator, NETAGE, Inc. After serving as the President and CEO of NETAGE Group, he later became and still serves as the Chairman of ngi group, inc. Kiyoshi was one of the main entrepreneurs responsible for proposing and realization of “Shibuya Bit Valley Concept†and is well known for his various speeches and writings. He is a graduate of the Department of Education at Tokyo University.
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Investment focus
- News, Social Media, Big Data
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
- PoliPoli — PoliPoli is a next-generation politics co-creation platform where you can participate like a game. Politicians from all over Japan post their policies in an easy-to-understand manner, and those who sympathize can enjoy working on the "missions" necessary to realize the policies.
- Astroscale — Astroscale is the first private company with a vision to secure the safe and sustainable development of space for the benefit of future generations, and the only company solely dedicated to on-orbit servicing across all orbits.
- TECHFUND — TechFund is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation and seed stage investments. The company is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
Nat Friedman is an entrepreneur and developer. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Nat Friedman has two degrees from MIT and has been writing software for 27 years. Nat Friedman is passionate about building products that delight customers with love and attention to detail.In 1999, he co-founded Ximian with Miguel de Icaza. Natwas a co-founder and chairman of the GNOME Foundation. At Novell, Nat ran engineering for a $110M product and served as CTO of the Linux business.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, India
Portfolio highlights
- Magic — Teaching AI to act in its natural environment, the computer.
- Grid Status — Grid Status offers an open platform for understanding what is happening on the electrical grid. Grid Status provides organized and dependable data, allowing the next generation of energy innovators to focus on developing innovative solutions rather than maintaining their own complex data pipelines.
- Consensus — Consensus uses AI to extract and summarize scientific insights from peer-reviewed sources. For any question, what's the Consensus?
Jonah Goodhart is the Co-founder at Montauk Labs.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Marketing
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Symitri — Symitri is the integrated privacy firewall and real-time data cleanroom for the open web.
- Key — Key provides a unique method to making significant professional relationships while also promoting career advancement, financial well-being, and work-life balance
- Sincera — Sincera provides novel signal data to the most innovative companies in advertising technology.
Charles is a business and product leader with 20 years of experience building, advising and investing in category-defining platform companies.Most recently Charles served as Chief Operating Officer at Temporal Technologies, the leader in durable execution systems where he built and led all the company’s go-to-market and product functions whilecreating the category and launching the commercial product. In less than 3 years Temporal grew its users, customers, revenues and value by 20-100 times.Prior to Temporal Technologies, Charles spent nearly 10 years building Cloudera first as the product leader and subsequently as general manager for Cloudera’s 3 high growth business units. As the longest serving member of the leadership team, Charles helped Cloudera grow from a pre-product startup with less than $10 million in funding to a multi-product public company with nearly $800 million in ARR.
Charles has advised or invested in other notable platform companies and investors including Airbyte, Baseten, Huggingface, Streamsets and Y Combinator.Charles has an undergraduate degree from Carleton College and a master’s from MIT and lives in San Francisco.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Cyprus, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- Baseten — Baseten is the ML Application Builder for data science teams. Ship full-stack apps in minutes. No frontend, backend, or infrastructure knowledge required.
- Vectara — SaaS
- Numbers Station — Numbers station is a software development platform that enables artificial intelligence workflows.
Will Brooks - Founder & Director @ Portfolio Ventures
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Investment focus
- Financial Services, FinTech, Software
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Bequest — Digital estate planning made easy for professionals and individuals. Securely protect online accounts, cryptocurrencies, emails, media, documents and more.
- Disputed — FinLegal is legaltech for the business of disputes. Our solutions allow you to fund and insure your litigation through litigation funding and after-the-event insurance, automate volume and class actions and get more clients through working with marketing service providers.
- Robin AI — Robin AI is a legal tech company based in London, made up of engineers, lawyers, scientists and operations specialists.
Diane Greene is the Chairman of the Corporation at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Attended University of California, Berkeley.
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Investment focus
- Software, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Unit21 — Unit21 helps protect businesses against adversaries through a simple API and dashboard for detecting and managing money laundering, fraud, and other sophisticated risks across multiple industries.
- Meter — Meter provides internet infrastructure for businesses. Its full-stack approach combines hardware, software, and operations so that any company can seamlessly run on a reliable and modern network. Its goal is to make secure enterprise-grade networks more accessible, and to help innovative organizations get and stay online seamlessly. Fullstacksambition is to turn Meter’s infrastructure into a turnkey utility––when a company moves into any commercial space, the internet and WiFi just works.
- Pilot — Meet your dedicated finance team. Pilot handles your bookkeeping, taxes, forecasting and more. See why thousands of businesses trust Pilot.
Wally Wang is the Founding Managing Partner of Silicon Valley-based early-stage venture fund SAV(Scale Asia Ventures), focused on Enterprise Software and AI-enabled Vertical Industries. SAV invests in expat-founded enterprise-focused technologies and scales them globally. Fund backers include prominent family offices, and publicly-tradedconglomerates in the U.S. as well as S. Korea, Japan, and Singapore. Selected portfolios include CloudVector(acq. by NASDAQ: IMPV), Array, Subtle Medical, Weaviate, Portside, CAST AI, Pangea Cyber and Great Expectations.Before SAV, Wally led Asian conglomerate Fosun(AUM $100B) and an Asian family office(AUM $10B) in venture investments in the U.S. and served on the boards of portfolios with over $300M in capital deployed. His successful exists include Digital Ocean(NYSE: DOCN), Reposify(acq. by NASDAQ: CRWD).Wally started his career as a PM at Microsoft Bing in Asia. He later built data platforms at Pebble(Y Combinator W11) and Misfit in Silicon Valley, both of which were merged as critical infrastructure into Google’s Wear OS. Wally has spent over a decade in enterprise software and A.I. space as a product and business executive, including Lattice Engines in MarTech(acq. by NYSE: DNB) and DataVisor in FinTech(Sequoia & NEA-backed).Wally studied machine learning in the Ph.D. program at NYU Stern School of Business and was a visiting scholar at CMU School of Computer Science. He is also an advisor of UC Berkeley SkyDeck and SFSU. Wally was a speaker at New York Venture Summit, and Asia PE-VC Summit and was recognized as Global 100 Outstanding Chinese by Forbes in 2022.
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Investment focus
- Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Spain, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- FeatureBase — FeatureBase is a real-time database built on bitmaps. It is designed primarily for speed and horizontal scalability, and is particularly well-suited for workloads that require many real-time updates, inserts, and deletes on massive datasets.
- Speedscale — Speedscale helps Kubernetes engineering teams validate how new code will perform under production-like workload conditions. Speedscale can collect and replay API traffic, introduce chaos, and measure the golden signals of latency, throughput, saturation and errors before the code is released. Speedscale Traffic Replay is an alternative to legacytesting approaches which take days or weeks to run and do not scale well for modern architectures.
- Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
Jim Eberlin founded Gainsight by discovering a new opportunity to ensure customers were adopting products as well as using them to their fullest potential.He discovered this, in part, due to the recurring revenue model of his previous company that he founded, Host Analytics. At Host Analytics, Jim and co-founder, Sreedhar Peddineni built a leadingSaaS corporate performance management company. Prior to Host Analytics, Jim was co-founder and CEO of Tapestry Computing FAS, a top 20 Oracle consulting firm specializing in financial analytics and ERP software implementations. Jim led Tapestry to a successful acquisition by Braun Consulting/Fair Isaac. Jim’s companies have been published in books such as Renting Business Applications, by Mary Lacity and Getting Partnering Right, by Neil Racham, author of Spin Selling.
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Investment focus
- Big Data, Analytics, CRM
- Seed, Funding Round
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- TopOPPS — TopOPPS delivers clarity, efficiency and predictability to the sales forecast, sales pipeline, and sales process, resulting in more wins and faster sales cycles. Sales executives are provided a dynamic forecast showing which deals are real and how to fill gaps to meet the budgeted sales number. Sales representatives are coached and aligned onsales process. TopOPPS predictive analytics transforms sales pipeline confusion into Sales Pipeline Reality.
- Juristat — Juristat patent analytics and workflow automation tools help IP professionals streamline prosecution tasks and make strategic, data-driven business decisions.
Hampus Jakobsson is a General Partner at early stage climate tech venture fund Pale Blue Dot.Prior to co-founding Pale Blue Dot, Hampus was a Venture Partner at science fund Blue Yard and a prolific angel investor with >100 angel investments. He co-founded of The Astonishing Tribe (acquired by Blackberry in 2010 for $150m). He left Blackberry2012 to found Brisk.io a sales productivity tool which folded 2016.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Software, Mobile
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Sweden, Denmark, United States
Portfolio highlights
- ClimateView — ClimateView is a Swedish climate action technology company that helps cities transform climate planning into progress. We combine data, agent-based modelling and interface design to help cities successfully manage the transition to zero carbon economies.
- Mojo — Clinical-grade, AI-powered sperm analysis from the comfort of home. Test your sperm count, motility, morphology and much more with the Mojo kit. Check your fertility from home at low cost - without the need for clinic visits and awkward waiting rooms.
- Volta Greentech — Battling global warming by reducing methane emissions from cows
Gokul Rajaram is the Product and Business Helper at Doordash and currently in Pinterest and Coinbase as board member.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, India, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- teachme.to — Teachme.to is a community of learners discovering lessons for everything.
- Slingshot AI — Slingshot is an AI research company driven by our mission to exponentially increase global access to mental healthcare.We’re developing technology to help humans feel and perform better, be more connected, and adapt to the future in a time where the demand for mental health support far exceeds providers by 10,000:1, and the large-scale changesahead are unprecedented.By leveraging AI to delve deep into human psychology, we expect to learn something about human nature that no humans have before, in order to help people change their minds.Based in NYC and London, our cross-disciplinary team of researchers, engineers, and broader mental health experts is dedicated to building tools that empower individuals to take on any challenge that arises.
- Haus — Automated incrementality experiments and durable, cookieless attribution to help brands make informed investment decisions.
Wally Wang is the Founding Managing Partner of Silicon Valley-based early-stage venture fund SAV(Scale Asia Ventures), focused on Enterprise Software and AI-enabled Vertical Industries. SAV invests in expat-founded enterprise-focused technologies and scales them globally. Fund backers include prominent family offices, and publicly-tradedconglomerates in the U.S. as well as S. Korea, Japan, and Singapore. Selected portfolios include CloudVector(acq. by NASDAQ: IMPV), Array, Subtle Medical, Weaviate, Portside, CAST AI, Pangea Cyber and Great Expectations.Before SAV, Wally led Asian conglomerate Fosun(AUM $100B) and an Asian family office(AUM $10B) in venture investments in the U.S. and served on the boards of portfolios with over $300M in capital deployed. His successful exists include Digital Ocean(NYSE: DOCN), Reposify(acq. by NASDAQ: CRWD).Wally started his career as a PM at Microsoft Bing in Asia. He later built data platforms at Pebble(Y Combinator W11) and Misfit in Silicon Valley, both of which were merged as critical infrastructure into Google’s Wear OS. Wally has spent over a decade in enterprise software and A.I. space as a product and business executive, including Lattice Engines in MarTech(acq. by NYSE: DNB) and DataVisor in FinTech(Sequoia & NEA-backed).Wally studied machine learning in the Ph.D. program at NYU Stern School of Business and was a visiting scholar at CMU School of Computer Science. He is also an advisor of UC Berkeley SkyDeck and SFSU. Wally was a speaker at New York Venture Summit, and Asia PE-VC Summit and was recognized as Global 100 Outstanding Chinese by Forbes in 2022.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Poland
Portfolio highlights
- FeatureBase — FeatureBase is a real-time database built on bitmaps. It is designed primarily for speed and horizontal scalability, and is particularly well-suited for workloads that require many real-time updates, inserts, and deletes on massive datasets.
- Speedscale — Speedscale helps Kubernetes engineering teams validate how new code will perform under production-like workload conditions. Speedscale can collect and replay API traffic, introduce chaos, and measure the golden signals of latency, throughput, saturation and errors before the code is released. Speedscale Traffic Replay is an alternative to legacytesting approaches which take days or weeks to run and do not scale well for modern architectures.
- Golden — Golden is a developer of a self-constructing knowledge database used to accelerate discovery and education. The company uses and leverages human effort by using machine intelligence to make the process of gathering and communicating knowledge simpler.It combines a powerful search across several entities with fine-grain alerts to stay on top ofchanges, and semi-automatic research assistance for gaps in knowledge that enable people in organizations to stay current, understand and leverage the latest trends in their industry.
Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail.Ronald was previously with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from1973-1979, and Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO from 1979-1990. He eventually took Altos public in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991-1995. PTS went on to be acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft.Ronald has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg, Brightmail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content (acquired by Yahoo!), Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder).Ronald was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top deal-makers in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ronald is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation.Ronald is also featured in Gary Rivlin's book _The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ronald Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, described as 'the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley.
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- Software, Social Media, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Angel
- United States, Canada, Denmark
Portfolio highlights
- Kumo.AI — Kumo is a platform that uses artificial intelligence to help businesses make predictions from their data, like customer churn or product purchases.
- Synapticure — The era of personalized care is finally coming to ALS. Synapticure will give all ALS patients access to the best care while fueling the advancement of personalized treatments for every type of ALS.
- Tomorrow Farms — Tomorrow Farms is a food technology company on a mission to fuel the sustainable food revolution with irresistible food and beverage brands.
Paul Buchheit co-founded social network aggregator FriendFeed, along with three other former 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 and implemented many of its innovative features. He developed the originalprototype of Google AdSense, and was responsible for Google's famous "Don't be evil" motto in a meeting.
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- Software, Health Care, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, Canada, India
Portfolio highlights
- SiPhox Health — SiPhox offers a handheld testing device with RNA/DNA and protein testing for point-of-care and At-Home solutions. The company's kit is made by multiplexing RNA, antibody, and antigen tests on a single silicon photonic chip which is amplified by plasmon resonance and silicon photonic resonator readout, enabling users to undertake tests fordisease safely and in a disposable point-of-care and at-home manner.SiPhox was founded in 2020 and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
- Character.ai — Meet AIs that feel alive. Chat with anyone, anywhere, anytime. Experience the power of super-intelligent chat bots that hear you, understand you, and remember you.
- Perplexity AI — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.
Rachel Sheinbein is the Angel Invester at The Independent. She attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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- Health Care, Mobile, SaaS
- Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- Voxeet — Voxeet enables WebRTC with crystal clear 3D surround sound, audio, and video experience and is particularly optimized for a mobile user.Voxeet is now clearly positioned as the leading real-time collaboration platform (cPaaS) that enables WebRTC with the only highly secure, crystal clear 3D surround-sound, audio, and video experience. After beingnamed a Gartner Cool Vendor 2016, we were just recognized as the 2017 "Hot Vendor" in Unified Communications and Collaboration (watch 1 min video) by Aragon Research. Their API library also enables screen sharing, presentation mode, broadcasting, call recording, translation, messaging, scheduling, and more.
- Topknot — Learn about yourself, make plans, take action.
- Parrable — Parrable is a privacy-friendly identification platform. At the core of its technology is Parrable's proprietary and deterministic identification technology (patents pending) that unifies the user's profile across a given device connecting multiple browsers and apps together without the use of Personally Identifiable Information(PII). Parrable’s identification solution also solves the issue of third-party cookie restrictions in Safari. Given that identity is at the core of what is required for people-based marketing, Parrable provides visibility for marketers into 43% of the U.S. smartphone market that is currently unavailable for them (iOS Safari) where Apple smartphones yield the highest conversion rate. Parrable's Vision Product applies Artificial Intelligence to its existing technology using data (e.g. audience, conversion, click, intender data) to weigh buying decisions. This further enables marketers to reach the right user with the right message at the optimal time maximizing ROI.
Carlos Blanco is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Profe.com, Chairman and Co-Founder of PropTEX, and Co-founder of Casum. He is a former Co-founder at Verone. He attendedCarlos Blanco is a serial entrepreneur who specializes in multimedia, telecommunications, and project management. He has founded a number of companies which includeServiFutbol.com, New- Info, Diser 2000, OACE Servicios Informáticos, Insap Consulting, Grupo ITnet, First Tuesday, Akamon Entertainment, Conector Startup Accelerator, and more. Blanco also works as a mentor, speaker, lecturer, and moderator at various institutions and events.Blanco holds master’s degrees from the University of Navarra, the University of Pompeu Fabra, and the University of Autònoma de Barcelona.
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- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- Spain, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
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Mattias Miksche - Angel Investor & Chairman @ Hem
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- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- Sweden
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- Anotherblock — access music ownership in the world's biggest tracks.
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