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Top 50 Email Angel Investors in United States in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 50 angel investors that invest in Email startups based in United states. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Email companies from United states. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Email Angel Investors in United States in January 2025

Investor	Email United States investments
Scott Banister	4
Auren Hoffman	3
Max Levchin	3
Geoff Ralston	3
Karl Mehta	3
Wayne Chang	3
Jeremie Berrebi	3
Esther Dyson	3
Arjun Sethi	3
Elad Gil	2
Terrence Rohan	2
Tom Axbey	2
Joe Caruso	2
David Tisch	2
Michael Wilens	2
Michael Perone	2
Ben Lilienthal	2
Daniel Scrivner	2
Darian Shirazi	2
Jonathan Abrams	2
Chris Dixon	2
Joe Liemandt	2
Dave Morin	2
Ash Patel	2
Walter Winshall	2
Christian Hernandez	2
Mark Rose	2
Armando Mann	2
Eric R. Schnadig	2
Eric Ries	2
Bill Guthy	2
Drew Houston	2
Amir Banifatemi	2
Matt Brezina	2
Paul Grewal	2
Christopher Lynch	2
Lachy Groom	2
Cyan Banister	2
Ken Kastner	1
Paul Copplestone	1
Siqi Chen	1
Jay Gould	1
Suresh Nihalani	1
Leslie Murdock	1
Peter Gassner	1
Marc Bushala	1
Allen Nance	1
Avichal Garg	1
Timothy Ferriss	1
Jay Meattle	1

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Geoff Ralston is the President, CEO, and Partner of Y Combinator. He previously worked at Imagine K12 as a Founder. Geoff Ralston attended INSEAD.

Investment focus

Software, Education, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, India, Senegal

Portfolio highlights

Elpha — Elpha is where women succeed at work together. Become a member to access daily conversations with experts, insider job opportunities, and a lot of women talking candidly about work and life. Plus membership is free!
Aesthetic — Aesthetic is the easiest way to discover and purchase NFTs across chains.
Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.

Karl Mehta is a serial entrepreneur, investor, engineer, and civil servant with over 20 years of experience in founding, building, and funding technology companies in the U.S. and international markets. He is currently Founder & CEO of EdCast Inc., a next-generation knowledge platform and former Venture Partner at Menlo Ventures. He isFounder of Silicon Valley based tech-driven non-profit, CodeforIndia.org and serves on several non-profit boards for education impact worldwide.Previously, he was the Founder & CEO of PlaySpan Inc., acquired in the March of 2011 by Visa Inc. (NYSE:V), the world's largest payment network. PlaySpan is a global leader in payments and monetization for digital media, mobile apps, social networks, and online games. Karl served as a White House Presidential Innovation Fellow, selected by the Obama Administration during the inaugural 2012-13 term. He was also recently appointed by Governor Brown to the Workforce Investment Board of the State of California. In 2010, Karl won the "Entrepreneur of the Year" award for Northern California from Ernst & Young. Karl is on the boards of Simpa Networks Inc., and the Chapman University Center for Entrepreneurship and advisor board of Intel Capital.He is co-author of the book 'Financial Inclusion at the Bottom of the Pyramid" https://www.amazon.com/Financial-Inclusion-at-Bottom-Pyramid/dp/1460265521/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1486813387&sr=8-1&keywords=financial+inclusion+at+the+bottom+of+the+pyramid

Investment focus

Email, Messaging, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, India, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Clip — Clip is changing card acceptance in Mexico, offering different models of portable card-reading hardware to accept all credit and debit cards as well as other solutions. More than a device to accept all cards, Clip is an ally focused on empowering Mexican businesses.
Earn.com — We're building a token-based social network, where senders pay users in digital currency to complete tasks and reply to emails. If we're successful, it will be one of the first major applications of digital currency for the regular user.
Ten Machines Corp. — Ten Machines Corp. is a New York-based developer of an anonymous messaging app for everyday emotional release

Wayne Chang is the Founder and CEO of Patented.ai. He previously worked at Crashlytics as a Co-Founder and Chairman. Wayne Chang attended the University of Massachusetts.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

T2 — T2 is in early alpha. 280 character text, replies, and likes - that's it for now. Browse content now and sign up for the waitlist.
Mural — Mural enables financial teams to manage crypto payouts and invoices for employees, contractors, and vendors worldwide.
CryptoTaxCalculator — Online Crypto Tax Calculator with support for over 400 integrations. $49 for all financial years. Money Back Guarantee.

Jeremie Berrebi is the CEO and Founder of MeetB. He previously worked at Fresh Planet as a Co-Founder. Jeremie Berrebi attended Yeshiva Netivot Olam.

Investment focus

Mobile, SaaS, Software
Seed, Angel
United States, France, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Aniways — Aniways has an SDK for adding "intelligence and interaction" to mobile communication services, giving any chat/IM/social networking service an amazing way to monetize their traffic. Aniways allows users to easily add dynamic, expressive and fun emoticons to their conversations.
Optix — Optix is the only coworking space automation software that enables you to automate, optimize, grow and engage your community.
Immediately — Immediately is mobile sales enablement, designed for the always-on workforce.Sales can no longer be a 9-5 job; over 70% of lost deals are due to slow reaction time. Immediately brings the full sales workflow into one mobile app designed to enable capturing opportunities and closing deals in real time. From getting intelligence on leads, tosending instrumented emails, to making and logging phone calls and updating opportunity status. Immediately is the sales rep’s best weapon. We plug into Google Apps and Salesforce to integrate seamlessly with existing workflows.We believe the future of sales is not CRM, but a beautiful data-driven, highly automated, and platform-agnostic integrated sales experience. Creating it is our passion. Our customer is the closer - and we believe that in sales, everyone should be a closer.

Esther Dyson - Founder @ Way to Wellville

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Medical
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Canada, Russian Federation

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.
Way — Way combines intuitive eating with behavior science for mindful habits. 73.5% of app users report transformed thinking post-program.
Openwater — OPENWATER - THE FUTURE OF NEURAL DIAGNOSTICS IN THE PALM OF YOUR HAND.

Arjun Sethi is the Co-CEO of Kraken Digital Asset Exchange. He attended the University of Maryland.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Nibiru Chain — Nibiru is a smart contract ecosystem with a high-performance, EVM-equivalent execution layer. Nibiru is engineered to meet the growing demand for versatile, scalable, and easy-to-use Web3 applications.
DAOLens — Tasks, Proposals, Bounties, and Payouts in one place
Kapital — Kapital empowers SMBs with a tech-banking platform giving visibility and control of their treasury, and their employees

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
Decagon — Trusted by world-class companies, Decagon is the most advanced AI platform for customer support.
Braintrust Data — The end-to-end platform for building world-class AI products

Terrence Rohan is a seed investor, and the Managing Director of Otherwise, a new type of Angel Fund. Terrence's early stage investments include Figma, Notion, Hugging Face, Vanta, Robinhood, Patreon, Front, Pachama, Justworks, Circle, and Browser Company, among others. He has been ranked by Forbes as part of the Midas Brink list.Beforebecoming an investor, Terrence Rohan held various roles in product marketing and development at Google and YouTube. He holds an MS in Management from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, an MS in Philosophy from The London School of Economics and Political Science, and a BA in Philosophy from Colgate University.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada, Sweden

Portfolio highlights

Fazeshift — Fazeshift is a developer of an invoice and financial management platform for businesses. The platform works with the existing tools to automate invoicing, cash application, and collections.
Wordware — A collaborative prompt engineering IDE
Infinite Machine — Infinite Machine is to create the world's most captivating non-auto vehicles. Infinite Machine initial product, the P1, is a revolutionary new personal electric vehicle that combines innovative performance and usefulness with an industrial-style look. In Infinite Machine's ideal post-car future, environment and people coexist together.

Tom Axbey is an Advisory Board Member at ParkMyCloud. He attended Croydon College.

Investment focus

SaaS, Email, Software
Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Language I/O — Powered by AI, Language I/O delivers real-time, accurate translations for you and your customers in 150+ languages through seamless integrations with Salesforce, Zendesk, Oracle, ServiceNow, and more.

For the last 20 years Joe has served as mentor, coach, and personal advisor to CEO’s and entrepreneurs. In recent years, he has served as investor, advisor and active director with dozens of companies, public and private.Joe is currently a member of Launchpad Venture Group and was previously a member of Walnut Ventures, Common Angels, eCoastAngels and a principal of Brookwood Partners, all investment groups for early stage companies. He also maintains an active consulting practice dealing with structuring and negotiation of acquisitions, strategic partnerships and financings, and issues related to dispute resolution.He has served on dozens of boards over the years and is recipient of the Leadership in Private Corporate Governance award from the National Association of Corporate Directors New England Chapter. He is a graduate of Northeastern University (BSEE with honors) and the Harvard Business School (MBA) He has served as advisor to Northeastern’s School of Technological Entrepreneurship, and serves as a mentor for Boston University's entrepreneurship program, the Boston TechStars program, and Mass Challenge.Previously, Joe served as interim CEO for companies in need of strategic change - running businesses ranging from 5 to 1,000 employees. Early in his career, he worked at Teradyne and Autex, Inc., and was CEO at Cyborg Corporation, a venture-funded company that was a pioneer in the use of PC’s in laboratory and factory automation. He also has served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.Former board memberships include: ACT Medical, Acumenta, Adhesive Technologies, American Fantasy Sports, Audiofile, Boston Restaurant Associates, Boston University's Photonics Center (advisory director), Coffee Connection, Colonial Mills, Common Angels, Corion, Cyborg Corporation, General Analysis, Haymarket Bank, Iconics, i2Chem, Laser Science, Metrisa, MicroE, Nimbit, Qiave Technologies, QD Vision, Quant Funds (trustee); Tytronics, Wwwhoosh, Zentox, the Turnaround Management Association (founding director, New England Chapter), the National Association of Corporate Directors (New England Chapter), the Association for Corporate Growth (New England Chapter) and WEST (Women Entrepreneurs in Science and Technology). Joe has also served as an arbitrator for the American Arbitration Association.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, France, Israel

Portfolio highlights

AceUp, Inc. — AceUp is the premier leadership development coaching solution, with unparalleled coaches, technology, and analytics.
Konnecto — Market Intelligence | Konnecto | Prescriptive Analytics Konnecto is a GTM Intelligence Platform that provides brands with an ongoing blueprint on how to increase online sales and improve marketing ROI
Surround Insurance — Helping consumers in their 20s and 30s get started with insurance that's fast, simple, and personalized for modern life.

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

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.

Michael Wilens serves as a Special Advisor at Fidelity Investments. Wilens also serves as a board director of COLT Telecom, ProBuild and Exemplify.Wilens joined Fidelity Investments in June 2008 as the president of Fidelity Management & Research Company (FMRCo), and currently serves as a special advisor to senior Fidelity leadership. In thiscapacity, he provides executive oversight to a variety of Fidelity business units including Fidelity Charitable, the Fidelity Center for Applied Technology (FCAT), Fidelity Business Consulting, XTRAC Solutions, Enterprise Talent, and Enterprise Account Management. Mr. Wilens also previously served as the president of Corporate Operations and Technology, in addition to leading Fidelity’s Workplace Investing business. Prior to joining Fidelity, Wilens spent eleven years in senior roles at Thomson Reuters, including chief executive officer of its North American Legal division, Westlaw.Wilens holds an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan, and bachelor and master of science degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT.

Investment focus

SaaS, Email, Software
Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Language I/O — Powered by AI, Language I/O delivers real-time, accurate translations for you and your customers in 150+ languages through seamless integrations with Salesforce, Zendesk, Oracle, ServiceNow, and more.

Michael Perone is the Co-Founder of Perch.

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Osano — Osano simplifies privacy compliance by helping organizations build, manage, and scale their privacy program. Become compliant with the GDPR, CPRA, and more.
ON — ON is the industry-leading AI chat platform that powers authentic conversational experiences for some of the world's largest and most popular retail brands, sports teams and content properties.
Monetizr — Rewarded and native brand experiences that enhance gameplay and activate your brand at scale.

Ben has successfully started and sold two Internet communications infrastructure companies. The first one, Nascent, to CMGI in 1999 and then Vapps, in 2008, to Citrix. He earned his MBA from NYU and his BA from Amherst College. He is a member of the Henry Crown Fellows Class of 2010 at the Aspen Institute.

Investment focus

SMS, Wearables, Communication Hardware
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

AwayFind — AwayFind is a web application that lets you stop checking your inbox every 5 minutes but still allows urgent emails to find you quickly by pushing them right to you with alerts. When there's an urgent email, AwayFind will call, SMS, IM, DM (Twitter), or notify you through iPhone and Android apps.The application lets both individuals andorganizations get away from their inboxes without having to worry about missing urgent messages. Whether to get some "real" work done, go to a meeting, or even on vacation, AwayFind makes sure that the urgent messages the user specifies still finds them.AwayFind does not require any installation or learning curve, and it supports all major email platforms including Google Apps/Gmail, Microsoft Exchange, Yahoo Mail, and IMAP.The company has been featured by The New York Times, NPR, TechCrunch, MSNBC, The NY Post, CNET, Gartner, The Guardian, Forbes and many others.AwayFind offers a free basic service in addition to its Pro Plan packages.
Wristcam — Wristcam camera for Apple Watch. With the help of a camera on apple watch, you can capture 4K Photos, HD Videos and send Live Video Messages to your friends on any device.

Edit Daniel Scrivner is an award-winning designer as well as an advisor and investor. His client roster includes Apple, Square, Nike, Disney, Target, and more. He advises world-class teams at companies like LendingHome, Empower, TrustToken, and ForUsAll, as well as VC firms like Designer Fund and Notation Capital. Daniel is also an early-stageinvestor in more than 60 businesses including Madison Reed, Stance, Managed by Q, Clarity Money, and Almanac Beer Co. Recognized as a leader in his field, he's been invited to speak at some of the world's best companies including Andreessen Horowitz, General Assembly, Designer Fund, and 500 Startups.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
Seed, Series B, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Veritonic — Discover the power of audio analytics and insights at Veritonic. Maximize your brand's impact with data-driven audio strategies. Explore now!
Scratch Kitchen — Scratch Kitchen is a collection of clean-label restaurant concepts in Denver and Boulder built for takeout and delivery featuring dishes made from scratch with high quality ingredients.
Cafe X Technologies — Cafe X Technologies is focused on increasing productivity in the service industry through automation. Cafe X Technologies is a privately backed company with funding from Khosla Ventures, Social Capital, Jason Calacanis, Felicis Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank, and The Thiel Foundation.

Darian Shirazi is the Managaing Partner of Gradient.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Germany, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Valdera — Valdera is the sourcing and procurement platform that makes it easy to buy or sell chemicals, ingredients, and raw materials. We partner with segment leaders, ranging from the world's largest CPG manufacturers to household names in the beauty industry.
Leya — By streamlining and simplifying legal workflows, we empower elite law firms and legal professionals to work more efficiently and effectively. Enabling them to focus on higher-value tasks and deliver exceptional results for their clients.
rift — The sales platform built to help your focus.

Jonathan Abrams is the Co-founder and General Partner of 8-Bit Capital. He previously worked at Girls in Tech, Inc. as a Board Member. Jonathan Abrams attended McMaster University.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

AlphaFlow — AlphaFlow is a tech-driven investment company providing professionally managed portfolios of real estate loans to institutional investors. They work with the residential real estate lenders around the country and underwrite their loans across 50+ factors. AlphaFlow invests in the best deals, splitting our clients’ portfolios across 75-100 loansinto15+ states to create AlphaFlow Optimized Portfolios. They took the best practices of investment management, like diversification, rebalancing, and institutional-quality data analytics, and automated them so that investors could receive these benefits without the high fees and high minimums of traditional real estate investing. It is ultimately a simpler, more intelligent way to invest in real estate.AlphaFlow was founded in 2015 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, United States.
Apptimize — Learn how forward-thinking product teams fuel data-driven growth through Apptimize's Mobile A/B Testing and Release Management platform.
Memo — Alien Labs is building Memo, a note-taking app for technical teams that use Slack. With Memo it’s quick and easy to save and find code snippets, meeting notes, links, Slack messages, or other short work notes – right inside Slack or on the web. Notes can be kept private or shared with anyone on your team!

Chris Dixon is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and co-leads its $350M crypto fund. Previously, Chris was the cofounder and CEO of two startups, SiteAdvisor and Hunch. SiteAdvisor was an internet security company that warned web users of security threats. The company was acquired by McAfee in 2006. Hunch was a recommendation technologycompany that was acquired by eBay in 2011.Chris has been a prolific seed investor, cofounding Founder Collective, a seed venture fund, and making a number of personal angel investments in various technology companies. Chris started programming as a kid, and was a professional programmer after college at the high-speed options trading firm, Arbitrade. He has a BA and MA in Philosophy from Columbia and an MBA from Harvard. He has written about his theories and experiences as an entrepreneur and investor on Medium, and before that at cdixon.org; his a16z Podcast appearances can be found at https://a16z.com/author/chris-dixon/

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Blockchain
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Phi — Build your web3 cities from your wallet activities
Libermans Co — We are the Liberman Siblings: David & Daniil, Anna, and Masha.
Redbeard Ventures — We are an early-stage VC firm led by a team with operating and investing experience looking to enable the future of the Metaverse and develop frontier tech to better the world! View our portfolio

Joe Liemandt - CEO @ Trilogy

Investment focus

Apps, Email, Internet
Seed, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

OtherInbox — OtherInbox is dedicated to making email better for everyone. Since 2008, we've built a series of innovative tools to help millions of people organize and improve their email. Our apps help you take control of your inbox. OtherInbox, Inc. is proudly based in Austin, Texas and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Return Path, Inc.
Legends — A confidence-training program for elementary schoolers, building legendary kids in 5 minutes a day.

Dave is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Offline Ventures.He was Founder & Partner Emeritus of Slow Ventures. A leading Silicon Valley venture capital firm that champions long term thinking and innovation. Slow serves a community of over 200 of the most innovative entrepreneurs and companies in the world. Including Slack, Pinterest,Evernote, NextDoor, Postmates, Blue Bottle and more.He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Path which was acquired by Kakao in 2015. He co-founded Path with the mission of being a source of happiness, meaning, and connection through simplicity, quality, and privacy in technology and design. Path continues to serves tens of millions of people each month to this day.Dave has had a lifelong passion for technology, entrepreneurship, culture, design, photography, nature, skiing, and improving society. He served both Apple and Facebook for several years during periods of rapid innovation and growth. Today, he serves on the Board of Directors of Eventbrite, Dwell, and Hinge. And, on the Boards of three Non-Profit Organizations, the United States Ski and Snowboard Association, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), and Montana ExplorationWorks. He holds a degree in Economics from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He grew up under the big sky of Montana where he was ranked as one of the top downhill ski racers in America. Today, he lives and works in the beautiful San Francisco Bay Area with his wife Brit, son Ansel, and dog Pixel.

Investment focus

Mobile, Internet, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, France, Finland

Portfolio highlights

Dance — Dance is an electric mobility subscription company that makes it easy to explore your city with an electric bike or moped.
Oura — Oura Ring: the most accurate sleep and activity tracker is all about you: it measures the physiological signals of your body, understands your lifestyle, and guides you to make your own optimal daily choices. The ring features scientifically validated sleep tracking and personalized guidance.
Dash Radio — 100% Free Music. More Variety. Zero Commercials. The Best DJ's & Stations. No BS

Ashvin Patel is Currently Co-Founder and Managing Director at Morado Venture Partners, making seed-stage investments. Ash most recently was Chief Technology Evangelist for Previously he was the Executive Vice President of the Platforms andInfrastructure Division where he was responsible for global technology investments and platform initiatives both on and off the Yahoo network. Under his previous title he also led an increased focus on innovating and developing next-generation services for Yahoo customers, and oversaw divisions including Product Platform Engineering, Platform Strategy & Architecture, and the Advanced Development Division. Since starting at Yahoo in 1996, Patel has played a key role in architecting and enhancing MyYahoo, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Messenger, Yahoo Chat and many other products that continue to impact millions of Yahoo users. In 2001, he became SVP of platform engineering, where he was responsible for Yahoo's Communications Products, core platforms and infrastructure. In 2006, Patel became Yahoo's Chief Product Officer, and was responsible for global product strategy and development, as well as identifying future product trends and emerging technologies.Prior to joining the company, Patel was a principle member of the technical staff at Oracle Corporation, and before that, held a number of software engineer and development positions at technology companies in Silicon Valley and London.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

QDC.ai — QDC combines state-of-the-art Theoretical Computer Science and Quantum-Inspired Algorithms, leveraging the latest research from computational physics and quantum computing. Our product VeloXQ is a cloud-based Middleware designed to solve today’s hardest combinatorial optimization problems. Customers plug us into their data pipeline, and we providethem with real time analytics, simulations and actionable data.
MegaBots — MegaBots brings the giant robot combat of science fiction to real life. MegaBots produced the world famous USA vs Japan giant robot duel.
Headroom — Headroom Embedded is the best way to bring intelligent video conferencing to your platform. Give your users focused space to connect, understand and remember everything.

Walter A. Winshall serves as a Principal in Collaborative Seed and Growth Partners, LLC, an investment firm specializing in the commercialization of early-stage technology. Previously, he was a co-founder and Chairman of SilverPlatter International, NV, a company providing information services for libraries, which was acquired by the Dutchpublishing company Wolters Kluwer in 2001. He serves as a member of the Board of Directors of AgaMatrix, Inc., HealthCare IT, Inc., and MOCA Systems, Inc. He graduated from MIT in electrical engineering and from the Harvard Law School. At AgaMatrix, Walt provides guidance in corporate development strategy.

Investment focus

Software, Finance, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, France

Portfolio highlights

Avanlee Care — Bring your family closer with the all-in-one elderly care app.
Rheaply — Rheaply is making the world's resources more discoverable and transferrable in our global economy.
StoryFit — Earlier audiences' insights empower your content and improve its performance. StoryFit's AI technology platform helps you understand the true value of your

Christian is a technologist and experienced venture capitalist. He is a founding Partner of 2150, a venture capital fund seeking to make our urban environment more efficient and sustainable through technology.

Investment focus

Mobile, Energy, Apps
Series A, Series B, Seed
United Kingdom, United States, Portugal

Portfolio highlights

AtmosZero — Industrial electric boilers to meet carbon neutral goals. Modular electrified boilers that takes the heat in the air and turns it into decarbonized steam at the temperature you need, when you need it.
Mitoo Sports — The platform for the world's sports. > Players, Parents, Friends, Teams, Clubs, Leagues > Governing Bodies, Brands
Ampd Energy — Ampd Energy is driven by its vision for an emission-free future for construction. Ampd Energy pioneered the use of battery energy storage systems (BESS) in urban construction with its flagship product, the "Enertainer". The Enertainer electrifies construction sites and provides clean, quiet and fully automated energy delivery, allowingconstruction to transition away from fossil fuels.Compared to fossil fuel generators, the Enertainer: reduces carbon footprint by up to 85%; is 32x quieter; emits zero diesel fumes; eliminates diesel handling and usage risks; has zero maintenance and refuelling downtime; and is economically justified for operational cost savings. As an IoT enabled device, the Enertainer can be remotely monitored anytime and anywhere, providing a deep level of data-transparency for data-driven decision making.Website: www.ampd.energy LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/ampd_energy

Product leader experienced in creating, developing and managing amazing consumer experiences. From his early career at E*TRADE, to his own startup Spare Change (acquired by PlaySpan/Visa), to product leadership roles at Visa and Google/Motorola, Mark love's creating unique, remarkable consumer products.Specialties: consumeracquisition and engagement, analytics, agile development, growing teams.

Investment focus

Software, Email, Apps
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Jeeng — With Jeeng, publishers can accurately curate content and ads and deliver them directly to subscribers at the right time, on the right channel.
PowerInbox - DynamicMail business — PowerInbox - DynamicMail business automatically transform static email HTMLs into dynamic, interactive content so recipients get content that is updated for relevancy in real-time upon open.

Armando Mann is the President & Board Member at Hopin. Armando Mann attended Harvard Business School.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States

Portfolio highlights

Reduct — A collaborative transcript-based video & audio platform for searching, redacting, highlighting, and editing content of people talking, as easily as text.
Fireflies.ai — Fireflies uses generative AI to bring ChatGPT to meetings. Generate transcripts and smart summaries for Zoom, Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Webex and several other platforms.
The Podcast App — The Podcast App is an audio platform that helps millions of people in their pursuit of happiness. Under one roof, we bring the best and most powerful podcasts, audiobooks, and meditations from leading minds and experts around the world.

Eric R. Schnadig - Board Member @ Dynamic Yield

Investment focus

SaaS, Email, Software
Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Language I/O — Powered by AI, Language I/O delivers real-time, accurate translations for you and your customers in 150+ languages through seamless integrations with Salesforce, Zendesk, Oracle, ServiceNow, and more.

Eric Ries is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Long-Term Stock Exchange. He previously worked at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers as a Venture Advisor. Eric Ries attended Yale University.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Serbia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Autio — HearHere is a travel audio app that shares the depth and diversity of stories - cultural, geographical, historical, and mythological.
Augie Studio — Helping people make more compelling videos, at a fraction of the time and effort
Sinatra — Sinatra is a technology company that, with its all-in-one app, aims to revolutionize the hospitality industry. It provides Sinatra Training, which enables continuous digital training for employees by allowing employers to upload content and employees to access it via the app.

Bill Guthy, Founding Principal and Co-Chairman, along with co-founder Greg Renker, focus on new product and brand development. This includes selecting, licensing and developing products that meet the direct response criteria for success and crafting the USP (Unique Selling Proposition) and proper casting of talent that have an associated productstory rather than a traditional endorsement.Raised by his mother above a New York City luncheonette, Guthy experienced a childhood of meager means. He excelled in high school-as editor of the paper, president of the Speech Club and student body vice president-conducting a successful landscaping business on the side. “I always had an entrepreneurial drive, a desire to do better,” Guthy recalls.In 1969, the family settled in Southern California where Guthy followed tradition and attended Ambassador College in the only major then offered, Theology. In his sophomore year, the school broadened its choices and he switched to Psychology, graduating with a B.S. in 1977.While in college, Guthy served as senior class president and paid his tuition by duplicating audiotapes for the Blind Department of the church affiliated with Ambassador. He eventually secured permission to rent the equipment at night and took on independent jobs. Cassette Productions Unlimited (CPU), his own audiotape duplication and packaging firm, was thus born in 1977. Originally operating from his apartment, Guthy soon bought his own equipment and moved into a small office in Pasadena.In 1981, Guthy purchased a home for weekend retreats in Indian Wells, California and began a friendship with Greg Renker, whose family owned the resort. Both men realized they shared a love of motivational books, in particular Napoleon Hill’s “Think and Grow Rich.” Guthy himself was well on his way to financial success, his cassette duplication business flourishing. CPU, now owned by Guthy-Renker, was renamed Guthy Renker Fulfillment Services (GRFS) at the beginning of 2011. It currently employees around 650 people with more than 400,000 square feet of fulfillment distribution and call center space with three locations in CA, LA and NC.

Investment focus

Email, Payments
Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Zumbox — Zumbox, a paperless postal system, allows businesses to deliver transactional mails electronically to their consumers’ digital mailboxes.This web-based postal delivery and archiving system that provides an online alternative to the U.S. postal service for the secure archiving of transactional mails such as bills, monthly statements,warrantees, health care and insurance materials, mutual fund disclosures, and other household documents. It connects large transactional, financial and government mailers to consumer households for the delivery and storage of digital postal mail through the internet.Zumbox, Inc. was founded in 2006 and is based in Los Angeles, California.

Drew Houston is co-founder and CEO of Dropbox. Since founding the company in 2007 with Arash Ferdowsi, Drew has led the company’s growth from a simple idea to a service used by over 600 million people around the world. Drew received his bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT in 2006. After graduating, he turnedhis frustration with carrying USB drives and emailing files to himself into a demo for what became Dropbox. Today, Dropbox is one of the world's leading business collaboration platforms, with 15 million paying subscribers and nearly 3000 employees across 12 global offices.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Slope — We handle the lending, underwriting, debt collection and fully pay out to you immediately once the product or service ships.
Cartwheel — Cartwheel is a powerful text-to-animation platform. Animate characters for your video, game, movie, ad, Social or VR project simply by typing.
Mother Science — Discover Mother Science, a revolutionary biotech skincare brand with a clinically proven serum for hyperpigmentation and sun damage.

Amir Banifatemi is the Responsible AI Chair at GPAI. He is also Taskforce member for the Open Quantum Initiative at GESDA Amir BanifatemiAmir is an entrepreneur, investor, and innovation strategist. He is the General Manager of Innovation and Growth with the XPRIZE foundation. He is a co-founder of the AI Commons, and co-founder and curator ofthe AI for Good Global Summit with the ITU and UN Agencies. He has managed two venture capital funds and continues to support and advise companies and initiatives with a focus on the transformation of humanity and society. Mr. Banifatemi is a guest lecturer and an adjunct MBA professor at UC Berkeley, Chapman University, Claremont McKenna College, UC Irvine, and HEC Paris. He holds Masters degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Technology of Compiègne, a Doctorate in System Design and Cognitive Sciences from the University Paris Descartes, as well as an MBA from HEC Paris.

Investment focus

Crowdfunding, Financial Services, Medical
Seed, Funding Round, Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Digsy — 100% free to list & search commercial real estate properties for rent. Easily & quickly find commercial buildings & space now!
Immediately — Immediately is mobile sales enablement, designed for the always-on workforce.Sales can no longer be a 9-5 job; over 70% of lost deals are due to slow reaction time. Immediately brings the full sales workflow into one mobile app designed to enable capturing opportunities and closing deals in real time. From getting intelligence on leads, tosending instrumented emails, to making and logging phone calls and updating opportunity status. Immediately is the sales rep’s best weapon. We plug into Google Apps and Salesforce to integrate seamlessly with existing workflows.We believe the future of sales is not CRM, but a beautiful data-driven, highly automated, and platform-agnostic integrated sales experience. Creating it is our passion. Our customer is the closer - and we believe that in sales, everyone should be a closer.
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Matt Brezina investor and advisor Ford Street Ventures. University of Maryland.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Transportation
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Mexico, Pakistan

Portfolio highlights

Aerodome — The future of air support.
Trek Health — Maximize Practice Revenue with Smart Payment Solutions
Enara Health — Enara delivers a clinically proven, insurance-covered* weight management program.

Paul Grewal is the Chief Legal Officer at Coinbase.

Investment focus

Apps, Email, Legal
Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

HerculesAI — An enterprise generative AI company offering secure, high-precision AI applications to automate critical business processes.

Chris Lynch is Chairman of the Board at Azuki and a partner at Atlas Venture. He focuses on big data and disruptive infrastructure. Chris is also an advisor to many Boston area startups and is a mentor to many of the region’s entrepreneurs.He is the founder of hack/reduce, a newly formed non-profit community space in Cambridge focused on bigdata technology, for which he also serves on the board.Prior to joining Atlas in 2012, Chris successfully drove growth and led several companies to exit, generating billions of dollars in proceeds. Most recently, Chris was president and chief executive officer of Vertica Systems, where he led the company from late stage startup to the top ranked big data company globally. Chris joined Vertica out of Atlas’ entrepreneur-in-residence program. HP acquired Vertica in March 2011, and following the acquisition Chris served as senior vice president and general manager of HP’s Database Business Unit.Previously, Chris was president and chief executive officer of Acopia Networks, which was acquired by F5 Networks. At F5 Networks, Chris served as senior vice president of data solutions where he was responsible for building the company’s vision in the data management space. Prior to F5 and Acopia, Chris led global sales and marketing for Arrowpoint Communications through its $5.7 billion acquisition by Cisco. Chris then joined Cisco as vice president of sales and marketing for its content management business. Chris’ track record of success continues back through Lucent, which acquired Prominet; Bay Networks, which acquired Wellfleet Communications; and Digital. In each of Prominet, Bay Networks, Wellfleet Communications, and Digital, Chris served in sales leadership positions. Chris received an MBA from the McCallum Graduate School of Business at Bentley University, and a BS in business administration from Suffolk University. He received an honorary doctor of commercial science from Bentley University. When he’s not working to establish Boston as the technical hub for big data, Chris supports St. Baldrick’s Foundation, a non-profit dedicated to pediatric cancer research.

Investment focus

Analytics, Software, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

DataCamp — Learn Data Science & AI from the comfort of your browser, at your own pace with DataCamp's video tutorials & coding challenges on R, Python, Statistics & more.
Rupert. — With a 2-click integration to your BI tools, Rupert lets your analytics team actionize their reports and metrics and automate the distribution of actionable insights from verified reports, delivering hyper-personal insights to the right business stakeholders at the right time directly where they are.
PowerInbox - DynamicMail business — PowerInbox - DynamicMail business automatically transform static email HTMLs into dynamic, interactive content so recipients get content that is updated for relevancy in real-time upon open.

Lachy Groom is the Co-Founder of Physical Intelligence. He previously worked at Stripe as the Head of Stripe Issuing.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Even — Even is a health tech company and healthcare provider that partners directly with the top hospitals in the country to offer you unlimited diagnostics, consultations, and 50 lakh worth of hospitalisations all with one monthly subscription cost.
Mainframe — Mainframe is a technology company pioneering the future of human-computer interaction through AI-driven tools. The company’s mission is to redefine productivity and workflow automation by creating intuitive platforms that bridge the gap between humans and intelligent agents.Mainframe’s debut product, Cobot, is a generative AI assistant thatanticipates user needs, streamlines tasks, and transforms the way individuals and teams interact with technology. Designed to feel more like collaborating with a human than using an app, Cobot empowers users to focus on impactful work while AI handles the rest.Founded in 2024, Mainframe is supported by top-tier investors and built by a distributed team of industry-leading talent from across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Mainframe’s vision is to create seamless, intelligent software that reshapes how people work and interact with computers in the 21st century.
Pacific Fusion — Pacific Fusion was founded in 2023 with the mission to power the world with abundant, affordable, clean energy.

Cyan Banister is a partner at Founders Fund, where she invests across sectors and stages with a particular interest in augmented reality, fertility, heavily regulated industries and businesses that help people with basic skills find meaningful work. Prior to joining Founders Fund, Cyan was an active angel investor with a portfolio including Uber,Thumbtack, SpaceX, Postmates, EShares, Affirm and Niantic, creator of Pokémon GO. A self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, Cyan has held a number of technical leadership positions throughout her career. As an early employee at IronPort, which was acquired by Cisco, Cyan oversaw support infrastructure and performance for a global customer base. She has a passion for the arts and is a voracious film, documentary and media consumer.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Social Media
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
Orson — The brainchild of documentarians and unscripted TV pioneers, Orson has developed the first automated video storytelling platform that helps people open up and share their stories, experiences, and aspirations.
Superpower — The world's most comprehensive and convenient platform to manage your health, for life.

Ken Kastner

Investment focus

Email, E-Commerce, Web Hosting
Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Unsubscribe.com — Unsubscribe is a powerful service that addresses a simple problem - getting rid of unwanted mailing lists. With the click of a button, users instantly send unwanted mailing lists to Unsubscribe.com for safe removal.Users can either download an Unsubscribe button to be used in their email client or forward unwanted mail from any device. Thecustom button allows one to check off multiple emails at a time to Unsubscribe from, revisiting a brand new inbox.

Paul Copplestone is a CEO & Co-Founder at supabase.

Investment focus

Software, Developer Tools, Big Data
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

AppFlowy — AppFlowy is an AI-powered secure workspace where you achieve more without losing control of your data
Daytona — The enterprise-grade GitHub Codespaces alternative.
Leap AI — Drag and drop to build AI workflows without writing any code. Run your automations or integrate them to your apps via our API.

Siqi Chen is the Co-Founder of Runway and a Member Board Of Directors at Sandbox VR. Siqi holds a Bachelor's Degree in Mathematics from the University of California, San Diego.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Kaedim — Kaedim’s product creates 3D content as easily as you can take a photo, 2D content, with your smartphone today.
Vocode — Vocode is an open-source library for building voice-based LLM applications.
Retell AI — RetellAI is an API for creating human-like conversational voice AI. Developers can build a voice AI similar to JARVIS in just a day — with an ~800ms response time and the ability to handle interruptions.

Jay Gould

Investment focus

Health Care, Social Media, Software
Seed, Angel, Series A
United States

Portfolio highlights

Geeklist — Geeklist is a social platform for developers to highlight their achievements, share resources, collaborate, and build their street creed. It was founded on 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Fitocracy — Fitocracy brings together the top fitness professionals in the world to help you reach your goals. Work with the same coaches that have worked with everyone from Average Joe to Miss America. Whether you're completely new to fitness or looking to run your third marathon, there's a coach for you.
The Bitcoin Company — Connect credit cards to earn bitcoin on every purchase, anywhere Visa is accepted. Earn at 1,500 brands globally.

Suresh is responsible for sourcing investment opportunities in the Communications space, adding value to the teams of our portfolio companies, and working with founders and entrepreneurs on developing their ventures. He brings 23 years of experience in the Communications industry to Finaventures.In 1996, Suresh founded Accelerated Networks.Under his leadership, in just four years, the company received $88 million dollars in private capital. The company raised another $72 million from a successful IPO in June 2000.Prior to founding Accelerated Networks, Suresh was with ACT Networks which went public in 1995. Suresh was pivotal in driving ACTâ€™s growth from a start-up company to a successful publicly traded company with a valuation of $500 million.Prior to ACT, Suresh was Director of Product Development at MICOM Systems, Inc. (Nortel Networks) for five years, where he was responsible for developing Statistical Multiplexers, Protocol Converter products and X.25 PADS. Before MICOM, he was with Litton Data Systems and Documation Inc.Suresh has an Electrical Engineering degree from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, and an MSEE and MBA from the Florida Institute of Technology.

Investment focus

Email, Photo Sharing, Search Engine
Angel
United States

Portfolio highlights

Xoopit — Xoopit features: - email content search - add links, maps, etc. from the web to a mail being composed - exposes information aboutall senders on a thread: profile pics, recent conversations and attachments and media they've sent. testing

Leslie has more than 25 years of progressive finance and accounting experience. He started his career with Ernst & Young working in their Dublin, New York and Silicon Valley offices. In 1989, he founded Murdock & Associates/Horn Murdock Cole. Under his leadership the company became one of Silicon Valleyâ€™s premier accountingconsulting firms. Clients included Google, EBay, Apple Computer and Yahoo. Accretive Solutions acquired Murdock & Associates in 2000.Since 2004, Leslie has been active as an investor and financial advisor to emerging technology companies and with his former business partner Claire Martell recently started Murdock Martell.Leslie is a Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants. He has passed the CPA Exam, is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, the California Society of CPAâ€™s and the Institute of Internal Auditors. He a board member and mentor for the California Clean Tech Open and is Treasurer of The Irish Literary & Historical Society. Additionally, Leslie is past-President of both the San Jose/Dublin Sister City Program and the San Jose Conservation Corps, a non-profit job-training program for at-risk youth.

Investment focus

Apps, Email, Software
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Jeeng — With Jeeng, publishers can accurately curate content and ads and deliver them directly to subscribers at the right time, on the right channel.

Peter is responsible for the overall direction and management of Veeva Systems. In 2010, Peter was named to the PharmaVOICE 100, which recognizes the 100 most influential people in the life sciences industry. Peter is a twenty year veteran of the software industry.Prior to founding Veeva, Peter was Senior Vice President of Technology atsalesforce.com where he had responsibility for building the salesforce.com platform including product, marketing and developer relations. During Peter’s tenure, salesforce.com completed its public offering and grew the technology into the most successful SaaS platform in the industry.Before salesforce.com, Peter was with PeopleSoft for 9 years as both Chief Architect and General Manager of PeopleTools. Peter led a team of over 450 professionals who provided the development, strategy, marketing and customer support for PeopleSoft’s technology platform. PeopleTools was widely regarded in the industry as the best application platform of its day.Peter began his career with IBM in relational database development and research at IBM Silicon Valley Lab and then at IBM Almaden Research Center where he had the privilege of working closely with some of the inventors of relational database technology.Peter holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from Oregon State University.

Investment focus

CRM, SaaS, Email
Series B, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Levitate — Our Happiness Platform combines authentic communication tools, dedicated success specialists and AI to help you build lasting relationships.

Marc Bushala is the current CEO of Heaven's Door. He previously worked at SantaFe Partners - Blue Cactus Restaurant as a Founder and CEO. Marc Bushala attended Miami University.

Investment focus

Email, Sales, Shopping
Seed
United States

Portfolio highlights

Speakeasy — Speakeasy Co. provides an integrated direct-to-consumer solution for beverage alcohol brands that remains three-tier compliant.

Allen Nance - Founding Partners @ TechSquare Labs

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning
Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
United States

Portfolio highlights

Rebel — Email is the primary mode of communication online and generates billions of dollars in revenue every year. The modern consumer has radically evolved, yet email as a platform has remained largely stagnant.
Eletype — Eletype is an intelligent assistant for marketing teams An intelligent monitoring and alerting system is the secret weapon behind consistent, positive campaign performance. They are working with today’s top digital marketing agencies to monitor all of their search, social, and email marketing campaigns to ensure that they never miss a beat.
Carbice Corporation — Carbice is the first no-compromise thermal interface material. It achieves all the advantages of both solid and liquid thermal interface materials without any of the pitfalls.

Avichal is Managing Partner at Electric Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur and technology executive. Avichal sold two companies and was most recently Director of Product at Facebook, which acquired his company Spool in 2012. He previously worked at Google on search ranking and ads ranking, is part-time at YCombinator, and an active angelinvestor.Avichal's firm, Electric Capital, focuses on cryptocurrencies that are rooted in technological utility. Electric performs deep technological diligence, such as compiling code, profiling nodes, and analyzing blockchains with in-house software. The founders of Electric have started and sold five companies, have been investing in cryptocurrencies since 2013, and are investors in Anchor, Bitwise, Chia, Coda, dYdX, Dfinity, Oasis, Thunder and many other crypto projects.

Investment focus

Software, Blockchain, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Mexico

Portfolio highlights

Key — Key provides a unique method to making significant professional relationships while also promoting career advancement, financial well-being, and work-life balance
Matic — The world's most advanced floor cleaner. Your home's best helper.
Magrathea — Magrathea Metals is a mining company that unlocks centuries of growth in human civilization by reducing the socioenvironmental impacts.

Timothy Ferriss is a start-up angel investor Twitter, Posterous, RescueTime and others, blogger and entrepreneur. Tim's best-known written work is The 4-Hour Workweek, which had been sold into 35 languages and reached #1 on The New York Times, BusinessWeek and The Wall Street Journal bestseller lists. On May 3, 2009, it celebrated its 2ndstraight year on The New York Times business bestseller list since its publication on April 27, 2007. Tim is a Guest Lecturer in High-Tech Entrepreneurship and Electrical Engineering at Princeton University since 2003. Other education-related interests includes social media-based fundraising experiments, such as LitLiberation, which outraised television host Stephen Colbert 3-to-1 with no fixed costs. Most recently, Tim used Twitter as a distributed tool for gathering data on post-campaign donations (see Tweet to Beat). Tim is on the advisory board of DonorsChoose.org, Evernote, StumbleUpon, Trippy, about.me, TaskRabbit and Uber. Tim has been invited to speak at some of the world’s most innovative organizations, including Google, MIT, Harvard Business School, Nike, PayPal, Facebook, The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), Microsoft, Ask.com, Nielsen, Princeton University, the Wharton School and the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Tim has also been invited to speak and keynote at world-renowned technology summits including EG, FOO Camp, E-Tech, Supernova, LeWeb, and the Web 2.0 Exposition, where he shared the stage with figures like Eric Schmidt, Chairman of the Board of Google, and Jeff Bezos, Founder and CEO of Amazon. Tim received his B.A. degree from Princeton University in 2000, where he studied in the Neuroscience and East Asian Studies departments.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Finance
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States

Portfolio highlights

Shift — Shift is on a mission to help current and former members of the US Military discover and prepare for successful new career paths.
The Hustle — Sign up for the free, 5-minute newsletter keeping 2.5M+ innovators in the loop with stories on business, tech, and the internet.
Harbor — Harbor offers the first and only baby monitoring system with a dedicated, local Monitor that works without internet and securely connects to the cloud if and when you want it to, allowing you to access remotely with failsafe notifications. Learn why Harbor is better than Nanit & Owlet at harbor.co!

Jay started Jay was Vice President of Products at Lookery, an online user-targeting network that offered lightweight, economical targeting data forover 200 million users. Before Lookery, Jay was the Product Manager and founding member of the small team that was responsible for creating and launching Jay earned a B.S. cum laude in Computer Science from Tufts University. He also minored in Entrepreneurial Leadership and Multimedia Arts. At Tufts he was awarded the MacJannet scholarship. Jay is also a TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) Leadership Fellow and in 2012 was named to the TR35 India — MIT Technology Review magazine's annual list of the world's top innovators under the age of 35.He loves creating, lives for technology and innovation, and likes making things happen.You can follow Jay on Twitter @meattle or his blog http://www.meattle.com/jay/

Investment focus

Software, Customer Service, Apps
Seed, Angel, Series B
United States

Portfolio highlights

Avoma — Avoma is an AI Meeting Assistant that automatically transcribes, summarizes, and analyzes every meeting to provide actionable Conversation Intelligence.
Tettra — Tettra is an AI-powered knowledge base and knowledge management software. Curate company information and get instant answers to your team's repetitive questions.
Clubhouse — Clubhouse is an audio-based social app that allows users to join group chats. It describes itself as a space for casual, drop-in audio conversations with friends and other interesting people around the world that allows users to go online anytime to chat with the people they follow, or hop in as a listener and hear what others are talking about.

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