Found 293 investors
Jonathan Emery
United States
Mr. Bruce Bower is the Chief Executive Officer & Founder of WyshMe. He serves as Board Member at Travelstride. He was the Chief Executive Officer & President at Plastic Jungle. Prior to Plastic Jungle, he led International and Business and Corporate Development as Senior Vice President at Blackhawk Network, the largest third party distributor of gift cards in the world. He also has served as Chief Executive Officer of Soliloquy Learning and as the President and SVP/General Manager of LearningGate and the educational media division of ZapMe!. He also serves as a director or senior advisor to a number of companies in the payments space, including KargoKard, Radical Payments and Visa. He is a frequent speaker on a variety of new market concepts, including global payments and e-commerce strategies for emerging businesses. He began his career practicing law with Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati.
Individual/Angel
Joshua Levine
United States
Mr. David Fairbrothers is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer & Board Member at Dorsata. He is an Angel Investor. David is a serial software entrepreneur and a full stack Rails developer. He has experience in a wide variety of industries such as health IT, consumer internet, and enterprise SaaS. He spends most of his time traveling to health systems around the country, evangelizing the Dorsata mission.
Individual/Angel
J√ґrg Fl√ґck
Vienna, Wien, Austria
Joerg is a global citizen and has travelled about 60 countries and lived in six of them. His early passion for investing and technology open...
Individual/Angel
KaMaFio Bank
United States
KaMaFio Bank was a venture capital firm based in Piscataway, New Jersey. The firm areas of interest used to include podcasts, licensing deals, branded merchandise, software products, events, video content, sponsorship deals, subscription-based businesses, beauty products, alcoholic beverages, apparel and accessories, ed-tech, furniture, interior decorations, pet products, toys, travel, fitness and health, jewelry and sports products.
Venture Capital
Karen Cedar
United Kingdom
Mr Mike Rees serves as Chairman at Travelex Group. He serves as Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Chairman of the Risk Committee & Member of the Audit Committee at ING Group. He served as Treasurer at Standard Chartered.
Individual/Angel
Keerthi Kadam
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Serial Entrepreneur, futurist- Believes in Space Travel, Teleportation, Solar Flying Cars.
Kevin Timmons
United Kingdom
Mr. Giles Thorley serves as Chief Executive & Board Member at Finance Wales. He also served as Chairman at Zip World. He serves as Board Member at Incopro. With significant senior management and private equity investment experience gained from a successful twenty-year career, he is also a business angel. Before joining Finance Wales, Giles was a Partner at private equity firm TDR Capital focusing on deal origination activities. Before this, he spent 9 years with Punch Taverns - the first year as Chairman, when a consortium of private equity investors owned the business, and then as Chief Executive following the execution of an IPO. Previously he served as the Chief Executive of Unique Pub - created out of Inntrepreneur Pub, a joint venture between Grand Metropolitan and Foster's Brewing Group. Giles was also a founding member of the Principal Finance Group at Nomura International and was involved in several acquisitions including Unilease, Phoenix Inns, Angel Trains, Annington Homes and Inntrepreneur Pub. He has held Non-Executive Director roles with Esporta, Ducati, Tragus Holdings, TUI Travel and Matthew Clark Wholesale, is currently acting as consultant/angel investor on several business start-ups, and is a long-serving Trustee with the Rona Sailing Project. Giles holds a law degree from the University of London and qualified as a Barrister in 1990. He is a member of the Bar Council of England & Wales.
Individual/Angel
Kintetsu Venture Partners
Osaka, Osaka, Japan
Kintetsu Venture Partners is a transportation and travel company.
Venture Capital
Krzysztof Nowinski
United Kingdom
Mr. Howard Meitiner serves as Chairman at TestCard. He serves as Board Member at AllWork. Mr. Meitiner also serves as Managing Director at Carl Marks Advisors. Mr. Howard has over 40 years of experience providing strategic planning and interim management services to retail clients throughout the world. He is an experienced President/CEO/COO in retail environments with an impressive global and domestic record of increasing revenues and profits through new business development strategies with the world's largest retailer to the traveling public as well as the world's largest luxury brand company. Mr. Meitiner has provided effective leadership skills and business development prowess in organizational turnarounds, market share analytics and start-ups. He is accomplished in crisis management, driving growth, and strategic planning. He has served in various roles including President, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Investor, and Advisor. His experience includes the following: President and CEO of The Museum Company, a national 105 specialty retail store organization which maintained a strategic partnership with the Smithsonian; conducted turnaround management on behalf of the private equity owners, managed the Chapter 11 bankruptcy process and emergence, updated the business plan and secured support for it and the DIP financing, and sold the company to Kier Group. President and CEO of Sephora USA, a specialty beauty retail concept; launched and adapted retail concept to US, launched companies website, opened 70 stores in 2.5 years, and drove and revised business strategies. Chief Operating Officer of Fortunoff Group, a third generation department store; responsible for all operational disciplines, Director of the two competing family boards with mandate to consolidate operations, recommended strategic change to ownership, and supported the sale of the company to private equity owners as the lead non-family executive. Held various positions of increasing responsibility at DFS Group, a travel retail specialty group; responsible for the business turnaround and restoring its market position, served as Chairman of the Australian Duty Free Association, and assembled a new management team. Mr. Meitiner is a business mentor to XRC Labs that invests in entrepreneurs in the retail and consumer goods industries leveraging emerging technologies, an Operating Partner of MOKA Consultancy Services which provides advisory services regarding digital technologies on business models and extracting value from "big data", and a Managing Director of Ash Creek Capital Advisors which provides advisory services to small and medium sized enterprises. Mr. Meitiner earned his Certificate, Distribution Management Principles, from the College of Distributive Trades, London, UK and a National Retail Certificate from Eastbourne College.
Individual/Angel
Larry Freed
United States
Mr. Abrar Ahmad serves as Managing Partner at Travel Capitalist Ventures. He also served as Advisor at Guiddoo World. He leads the firm's co-investor relationships with leading sovereign wealth and global PE funds. With over 15 years in the travel industry, he is an expert in identifying travel trends to leverage discerning companies to invest in and tactically shaping a company's expansion strategy. He is a well-known, sought-after speaker on emerging travel and technology trends, travel monetization and growth strategies, and travel-focused investments. He has spoken at numerous international events, including The Economist Magazine's "Future of Travel Summit" in Madrid; the IATA World Passenger Symposium; Singapore's Web in Travel, the largest travel conference in Asia; at Dubai Tech Nights, the leading technology group in the UAE; and, at in5 Innovation Hub, a leading Dubai incubator. He has also lectured on entrepreneurship to the graduating MBA classes of both Tulane University and Loyola University in the United States.
Individual/Angel
Launch Pad Venture Advisors
United States
Launch Pad is an accelerator/incubator that provides help and support companies to properly identify market opportunities and then execute to win them. The firm is also a venture-consulting practice specializing in go-to-market strategy, planning and execution. The firm incubate start-ups of their own and also work on behalf of others to help identify new-market opportunities and then execute to win. It is involved across the spectrum of new-market development activities to enhance and supplement the efforts of the existing management team. The firm prefers to invest in the business, b2b, b2c, financial services, manufacturing, enterprise software, travel/leisure, e-commerce, social media and consumer industries for clients from early stage to large.
Accelerator
Incubator
Lioncourt Investments
Ireland
Founded in 1998, Lioncourt is a private equity investment firm based in Dublin, Ireland. The firm prefers to invest in the consumer goods, housebuilding, travel, and education sectors.
Private Equity Firm
LISPOLIS
United Kingdom
Mr. Greg Webb is an Angel Investor. He serves as Advisor at Zyston. He serves as Chief Executive Officer & Board Member at Travelport Worldwide. Prior to this he was SVP and General Manager of Oracle Hospitality where he was responsible for strategy, enablement, development, sales, service and support. He was previously Vice Chairman at Sabre and, during a 20-year tenure there, he served in various executive positions across product development and marketing and ultimately led Sabre's largest business unit, Sabre Travel Network. He also served as Chief Information Officer of BellSouth and is a member of the Board of Directors of Zyston, a security advisory firm. He earned an MBA with an emphasis in marketing from Louisiana Tech University and a bachelor's degree in advertising from Southern Methodist University in Dallas.
Individual/Angel
Luis Barrios
United States
Mr. F. Mitchell Thrower is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at Events.com. Mr. Mitchell Thrower is a financier, entrepreneur, author, and a 22X Ironman triathlete. He is the Founder and Chairman of Events.com, an innovative cloud-based Event Management Platform provider that provides a state of the art mobile-first SaaS application that enables the full event life-cycle, connecting event organizers and event-goers. Events.com enables event organizers to plan, promote, and ticket their events while also providing event goers the tools to discover, register, collaborate, share, and celebrate their experiences. He also serves as Chairman of The La Jolla Foundation, a 501c3 foundation whose primary initiative is Project Active, providing funding, mentoring, encouragement and education to areas of world tension. Specifically - sending sports equipment to children in war zones. He co-founded of active.com (The Active Network, Inc.). He also launched ActiveEurope.com (Active Europe Network) as Co-Founder and CEO. Active went public before selling to Vista for 1.05 billion. He was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Triathlete Magazine, the world's largest triathlon magazine where he also served as Chairman. He has also served as the Chief Interactive Officer, Strategist & Senior Correspondent for the Competitor Group (CGI), the active lifestyle industry's leading media and event entertainment company. He spoke at his university graduation at St. Lawrence University and has lectured at many colleges such as Stanford University, Anderson School at UCLA, UCSD and the University of San Diego where he served as the "Entrepreneur in Residence" teaching Entrepreneurship. He is an active member of TED.com and Executive Producer of TEDxLaJolla, an independently organized TED event. He is the author of "The Attention Deficit Workplace: Winning Strategies for Success in Today's Fast-Paced Business Environment," published by Lyons Press and he was the author of the popular monthly column, "Starting Lines" in Triathlete Magazine for more than a decade. He was also co-author of the travel guide "The Passport" which, for several years was distributed to 50,000 college students before traveling abroad each year. In 1990, he co-founded his first company and served as CEO of The College/Rail Connection, Inc., serving American Express, AT&T, and Eurail until he sold the venture in 1997. He graduated from the Executive Institute at Stanford University. He holds an MBA from the University of San Diego and a bachelor's degree from Saint Lawrence University. He has competed in 22 Ironman Triathlons, including 13 World Championships. He is the only photojournalist to ever photograph and film the Ironman Triathlon World Championships while competing in the event.
Individual/Angel
Lyall Ventures
London, England, United Kingdom
Lyall Ventures is an angel investment company that focuses on travel and travel technology start-ups.
Angel Investment
FinTech
Travel
Venture Capital
Venture Capital
Madeira Startup Retreat
Portugal
Founded in 2018, Madeira Startup Retreat is a startup acceleration firm based in Madeira Island, Portugal. The firm seeks to accelerate and support tourism & travel startups based in Madeira Island.
Accelerator
Incubator
MairDumont Ventures
Ostfildern, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
MairDumont Ventures invests in companies in travel sector.
Financial Services
Travel
Venture Capital
Venture Capital
Manish Amin
Gurgaon, Haryana, India
Manish Amin is returning to India after having been based in London for the past 28 years. He is a veteran of the travel industry with o...
Individual/Angel
Marc Friedberg
United Kingdom
Mr. Richard Calvert serves as Board Member at Shearings Holidays. He serves as Chief Executive Officer at The Club Company. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer at Destination Wedding Travel. He served as Board Member at Inspiresport. He has 25 years' experience in the international travel and leisure industry. Born and raised in Wales, Richard forged an impressive international career that ultimately led him to become President and CEO of Destination Weddings Travel Inc, the world's largest specialist wedding travel company, headquartered in Boston, USA. A highly proficient skier, his career began in the ski industry working as an overseas tour rep in the tiny principality of Andorra in the Pyrenees. After moving back to the UK in 2002, his travel expertise led him to becoming Overseas Purchasing Director for the UK, Canada and Scandinavia for TUI Travel Plc, the world's largest integrated travel organization. Richard left TUI in 2008 to join Thomas Cook, one of the oldest and most recognisable travel companies in the world. At Thomas Cook, he progressed from Tour Operations Director to Managing Director of UK Mainstream Tour Operations where he was responsible for the 4m annual customer charter operation. In June 2011, he left to join Destination Wedding Travel Inc. Richard is passionate about travel and has visited over 60 countries around the globe. He is a keen sports enthusiast and is a proud welsh-speaking Welshman who regularly returns to Wales to visit family and a lifelong circle of friends.
Individual/Angel
Markko Vaarnas
United States
Mr. Mortimer Singer is an Advisor of Skylark Travel. He is an Angel Investor.
Individual/Angel
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