Benjamin Joffe
Angel Investor
Paris, France
Benjamin Joffe is a seed investor in Paris focused on Software and B2B. Benjamin is General Partner at HAX, the #1 acceleration engine for hardware startups. His experience spans 16 years in Asia (China, Japan, Korea) in various hightech industries: telecom, Internet, mobile, gaming and hardware.Prior to HAX, he was the founder of +8*, a strategy consultancy researching Asiabased digital innovations supportingclients such as Microsoft, Citi and Harvard Business School. He also founded Mobile Monday Beijing, a community of thousands of mobile industry professionals in China, running over 40 events.He has lectured, judged or joined panels at the world’s leading technology events and universities in over 20 countries, including TechCrunch Disrupt, LeWeb, Pioneers, Slush, SXSW, TEDx, Stanford, Berkeley and more. Benjamin is a regular guest writer on TechCrunch, also quoted by Forbes, Bloomberg TV, CNN, WSJ, The Economist, WIRED, Quartz and more.Benjamin’s online presentations recorded over a million viewers, covering topics from innovation ecosystems to “Lean Hardware” methodology.
- Total investments:
- 2
- Lead investor:
- 0%
Last updated:
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Investment Focus
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- Software 2 (100%)
- B2B 1 (50%)
- Apps 1 (50%)
- SaaS 1 (50%)
- Music 1 (50%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| PayrollHero is a Consumer-friendly Time, Attendance, Scheduling and Payroll app that is in the cloud built for web and mobile PayrollHero.com - Optimizing Work Productivity with Happiness.Consumer friendly Time, Attendance, Scheduling and Payroll in the cloud for web and mobile.We use your employees face as our primary biometric to avoidbuddy punching and ghost employees. These clock-in pics are further given a mood rating to establish an array of business intelligence to your companies corollaries between productivity and mood. | $1M / Seed / Feb 19, 2013 | ||
| Twitmusic is the leading Twitter marketing platform for the music industry.SaaS solution enables music artists & labels to launch campaigns to help them grow their followers, go Trending and reach new audiences on Twitter. In addition, they provide labels with actionable insights & analytics to determine the effectiveness of theirmarketing campaigns.- Registered musicians: 44,000 (with 500,000,000+ followers). - Artist sign up up 200% annually- Registered Artists: Lil Wayne, Jason Mraz, Bryan Adams, Duran Duran, Carly Rae Jepsen, Sean Kingston, Steve Aoki, The Lumineers, Cody Simpson, Cher Lloyd, MC Hammer, Brandy, Muse, Jon Secada, Amanda Palmer, Asher Roth, Miguel & many more.- Partners: Sony, Warner Music, Universal, EMI, Def Jam, Epic Records, RCA, Columbia Records, Tool Room Records, RED Music, Scooter Braun Projects, CAA, Atom Factory, Stricly Rythme, Bill Silva, Hashtag Mgmt, Stampede Mgmt & many more. | Seed / Jan 01, 2013 |
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