James Giancotti
CEO and CIO @ Bigcolors
Hong Kong, Hong Kong
James Giancotti is a seed investor at Bigcolors in Hong Kong focused on Local and Mobile. James Giancotti is the CEO and CIO of Bigcolors, a private company with a platform that invests in startups. He leads the strategy and sales and startup acquisitions functions. James is active in the Hong Kong startup eco-system and is well known in the Asia Pacific startup scene. James is a successful angel investor having invested in a number ofstartups producing high returns. A law graduate and a former investment banker, James previously worked for Goldman Sachs covering complex financial research models for investment banks and internet and telecommunications company research and at JP Morgan, managing large business development projects.
- Total investments:
- 3
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries James Giancotti invests in
Stages James Giancotti invests in
Countries James Giancotti invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Local 1 (33%)
- Mobile 1 (33%)
- Social 1 (33%)
- Software 1 (33%)
- Messaging 1 (33%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (33%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (33%)
- Series A 1 (33%)
Investments
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| Crux is a messaging app for college students. It lets you share, discover and organize what's happening right now on campus. It has a smart, channel-based group chat that makes it faster and easier to run an entire group in one place. It also offers a location-based feed of everything that’s happening on campus. We're based in Venice,CA and launched in January 2015. Our investors include Jason Calacanis, LAUNCH fund, Ryan Allis, Big Colors, and Patrick Gannon of Lending Club. We're also featured on the App Store.Download the app here: http://dl.crux.la/m/XFtbNympZl | $480K / Pre-Seed / Apr 23, 2015 | ||
| Connect is a location-powered messaging app that brings together friends from your phone, Facebook, Instagram, Foursquare, LinkedIn, and Twitter. Share locations, make plans, and keep groups together on the go. See who lives in the city you’re visiting and get notified when friends post or check in nearby — on any network! | $10.3M / Series A / Dec 10, 2014 | ||
| Crux is a messaging app for college students. It lets you share, discover and organize what's happening right now on campus. It has a smart, channel-based group chat that makes it faster and easier to run an entire group in one place. It also offers a location-based feed of everything that’s happening on campus. We're based in Venice,CA and launched in January 2015. Our investors include Jason Calacanis, LAUNCH fund, Ryan Allis, Big Colors, and Patrick Gannon of Lending Club. We're also featured on the App Store.Download the app here: http://dl.crux.la/m/XFtbNympZl | $480K / Seed / Dec 03, 2014 |
Co-Investors
About Bigcolors
Bigcolors invests in seed and series A startups. They focus on high growth companies across Asia and USA with typical cheque sizes of $100-$250k for Seed stage and up to $1m for Series A stage company. They also do follow on funding.
Bigcolors Contacts
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Heather Veldman
Marketing Head
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What does James Giancotti invest in?
James Giancotti invests primarily in Local, Mobile and Social startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 3 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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The most recent investment recorded for James Giancotti closed in Apr 2015. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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