Alex Ott
Owner/Founder @ CrossContinentalVentures
Philadelphia, United States
Alex Ott is a seed investor at CrossContinentalVentures in Philadelphia focused on Software and CAD. Alex Ott founded CrossContinentalVentures in 2002. He is a veteran in the enterprise software industry with operational and board level experience on four continents.He has been partnering with many entrepreneurs in the US, Europe and Israel in building thought leading technology enterprises that seek to make a difference such as QlikTech whomhe was an investor and is a current board member.Before founding CrossContinentalVentures, Alex was a member of the Executive Committee of Siebel Systems, where he was responsible for building a major presence in EMEA as VP and General Manager, growing revenues, customer and employee base tenfold in just two years. He then ran the Americas geography, Siebel’s largest market with revenue responsibilities of over $1B.Prior to Siebel Systems, Alex played key executive roles within SAP AG (member of the extended global board) and SAP America (Executive Committee member) for almost a decade. Latterly, he held the position of CEO SAP International and Senior VP of Latin America, dramatically growing revenue and profitability through a sustained increase in SAP's Latin American infrastructure and the establishment of new subsidiaries.Alex holds a degree in Economics and Business Management from University BA of Mannheim, Germany.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Lead investor:
- 50%
Last updated:
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Industries Alex Ott invests in
Stages Alex Ott invests in
Countries Alex Ott invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $1.1M–$1.5M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 5 (83%)
- CAD 1 (17%)
- CRM 1 (17%)
- SaaS 1 (17%)
- Video 1 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (67%)
- Funding Round 1 (17%)
Country
- United States 3 (50%)
- Switzerland 2 (33%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Squirro is a software company that utilizes Augmented Intelligence to enhance decision intelligence. | Seed / Jan 18, 2013 | ||
| flowthings.io empowers any developer or organization to leverage the growing instrumentation of the physical world in order to build IoT solutions that surprise with their intelligence, contextual awareness, and effectiveness in operations and user experiences. | $6M / Dec 15, 2012 | ||
| NextPrinciples is an elegant and intuitive enterprise solution for social marketing automation that enables faster time to revenue from new as well as existing leads. Companies use NextPrinciples' Social Marketing Automation solution to significantly enhance their demand generation processes that are enabled by traditional Marketing Automationand CRM systems.NextPrinciples was incorporated in 2010 and headquartered in Milpitas, California. | $1.2M / Seed / Mar 13, 2012 | ||
| Memonic allows you to quickly and easily clip, capture, organize and re-use/ retrieve any type of digital information or web content - from web pages to snippets from the web, to images, videos and more. Users keep more than just links (beyond bookmarking): They save the essential content snippets, too, and organize them to their ownfiles. User may put their items to use by sharing, publishing, embedding, and drag&drop them to other applications. Memonic is available on the web, iPhone, Android, iPad and any other smartphone (Blackberry coming soon!). Unlike any other note-taking or productivity app, Memonic also lets you collect information in Groups, and will direct you to a dashboard (like the one you see on social media sites like Facebook, Twitter or Linkedin) so that you can see what's trending, what your friends are clipping, and be served recommendations and important news & tips. In a nut-shell: it's note-taking gone social. | $1.5M / Seed / Feb 15, 2012 | ||
| Squirro is a software company that utilizes Augmented Intelligence to enhance decision intelligence. | $1.5M / Seed / Feb 15, 2012 | ||
| GrabCAD is a mechanical engineering community for sharing talent, expand knowledge and collaborate, including free CAD model library and [engineering competitions platformThe founders Hardi Meybaum and Indrek Narusk previously ran a product development company.GrabCAD was founded in 2009. The company's headquarters is based in Boston, USAwith development team in Estonia. | $1.1M / Seed / Jun 08, 2011 |
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About CrossContinentalVentures
CrossContinentalVentures is a venture capital and angel investing firm.
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What does Alex Ott invest in?
Alex Ott invests primarily in Software, CAD and CRM startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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