Vince Vannelli
Founder and Managing Partner @ KPG Ventures
San Francisco, United States
Vince Vannelli is a Series A investor at KPG Ventures in San Francisco focused on Social Media and Music. Vince Vannelli, founder and managing partner of KPG Ventures, has more than 30 years Investing and operating experience including key leadership positions at several global technology companies. Vince holds a B.S. and an M.S. in Industrial Engineering, both from Stanford University.
- Total investments:
- 9
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 22%
Last updated:
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Industries Vince Vannelli invests in
Stages Vince Vannelli invests in
Countries Vince Vannelli invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Social Media 3 (33%)
- Music 2 (22%)
- Software 2 (22%)
- Advertising 2 (22%)
- B2B 1 (11%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (33%)
- Series B 2 (22%)
- Seed 1 (11%)
- Series C 1 (11%)
- Series D 1 (11%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Sendbloom is a sales automation platform that helps inside sales representatives and SDRs prospect, segment, and nurture target accounts. We're getting our clients more qualified opportunities per rep at a fraction of the time and cost. | $1.3M / Seed / Jan 15, 2015 | ||
| MindMeld is an advanced AI platform powering a new generation of intelligent conversational interfaces. It is the first platform capable of powering intelligent conversational experiences for any app, device or website. Companies use this platform to create conversational assistants that understand what users say and find the information theyneed. | $13M / Series A / Dec 18, 2014 | ||
| MindMeld is an advanced AI platform powering a new generation of intelligent conversational interfaces. It is the first platform capable of powering intelligent conversational experiences for any app, device or website. Companies use this platform to create conversational assistants that understand what users say and find the information theyneed. | $2.4M / Oct 04, 2012 | ||
| TuneUp Media was created for music lovers, by music lovers, with the sole purpose of creating a better digital music experience for everyone. It's flagship product, TuneUp has quickly become the #1 selling plug-in for iTunes that also supports Windows Media Player, and has amassed millions of registered users worldwide.Founded in 2007 byavid music lover and industry leader, Gabriel Adiv, TuneUp was born out of personal frustration with the shortcomings of his own digital music library. He had too many songs titled "Track 01", no cover art, and no easy means of accessing additional album, artist or concert information. Everything he loved about his vinyl and CD collection was lost in translation, as the digital music industry scrambled to catch up.TuneUp Media develops products to not only address these issues, but also tap the broader digital and social media universe to create an experience far beyond anything Gabe could have found in his liner notes. Now, millions of digital music consumers around the world have used TuneUp to clean up and organize their music metadata, intelligently find and remove duplicate songs, fill in missing album cover art, explore their world of music and share it with friends.Best of all, TuneUp works "automagically". Behind it's simple interface lies cutting-edge acoustic fingerprinting technology, backed by the Gracenote's MusicID, the world's largest database of music-related metadata, boasting over 90 million indexed tracks. | $4.3M / Series C / Sep 15, 2010 | ||
| TuneUp Media was created for music lovers, by music lovers, with the sole purpose of creating a better digital music experience for everyone. It's flagship product, TuneUp has quickly become the #1 selling plug-in for iTunes that also supports Windows Media Player, and has amassed millions of registered users worldwide.Founded in 2007 byavid music lover and industry leader, Gabriel Adiv, TuneUp was born out of personal frustration with the shortcomings of his own digital music library. He had too many songs titled "Track 01", no cover art, and no easy means of accessing additional album, artist or concert information. Everything he loved about his vinyl and CD collection was lost in translation, as the digital music industry scrambled to catch up.TuneUp Media develops products to not only address these issues, but also tap the broader digital and social media universe to create an experience far beyond anything Gabe could have found in his liner notes. Now, millions of digital music consumers around the world have used TuneUp to clean up and organize their music metadata, intelligently find and remove duplicate songs, fill in missing album cover art, explore their world of music and share it with friends.Best of all, TuneUp works "automagically". Behind it's simple interface lies cutting-edge acoustic fingerprinting technology, backed by the Gracenote's MusicID, the world's largest database of music-related metadata, boasting over 90 million indexed tracks. | $3M / Series A / May 19, 2009 | ||
| Sportgenic (formerly Active Athlete, Inc.) is an online media and technology company that represents the buying power of millions of sport enthusiasts looking for people, products and information to fulfill their passion for sport. The company represents a network of highly engaging medium and long tail websites, including specialty sites, trainingresources, competition sites, social networks, and true enthusiast content sites. Sportgenic connects marketers with these engaged and passionate consumers via proprietary technology, enhanced ad targeting and deep domain expertise for a greater ROI. | $10M / Series B / Sep 09, 2008 | ||
| Sportgenic (formerly Active Athlete, Inc.) is an online media and technology company that represents the buying power of millions of sport enthusiasts looking for people, products and information to fulfill their passion for sport. The company represents a network of highly engaging medium and long tail websites, including specialty sites, trainingresources, competition sites, social networks, and true enthusiast content sites. Sportgenic connects marketers with these engaged and passionate consumers via proprietary technology, enhanced ad targeting and deep domain expertise for a greater ROI. | $1.5M / Series A / Jul 01, 2008 | ||
| BrightRoll builds software that automates and improves digital video advertising globally. | $5M / Series B / Oct 22, 2007 | ||
| Doppelganger (formerly Evil Twin Studios) created and operates vSide, a 3D virtual world providing entertainment and social networking for the teen demographic.vSide users configure their own avatars, make friends, chat, dance, listen to music, shop for clothing, attend events and parties, create and decorate their own private spaces, and throwtheir own parties in those spaces, choosing the music, videos, and guest list. | $11M / Series D / Aug 01, 2007 |
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About KPG Ventures
Seed and Early stage investment, with a focus on data driven enterprise SAAS
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Vince Vannelli
Founder and Managing Partner
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What does Vince Vannelli invest in?
Vince Vannelli invests primarily in Social Media, Music and Software startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 9 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 Vince Vannelli closed in Jan 2015. Shizune tracks 9 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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