Found 229 investors
Sadie Ventures
United States
Mr. Kevin Tsujihara is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner and Principal at GCBH. He serves as Board Member at Loteboxer. Mr. Tsujihara served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Warner Bros. Entertainment. He also serves as Board Member at Dash Radio and Kabam. In this role, he oversees worldwide operations, including film, television, and video game production, marketing, and distribution for one of the most innovative and successful entertainment companies in the world. Prior to serving as CEO, Mr. Tsujihara was President of Warner Bros. Home Entertainment, which includes the Studio's home video, digital distribution, video games, anti-piracy, and emerging technology operations, a post he'd held since WBHE's founding in October 2005. Previous to WBHE, Mr. Tsujihara served as Executive Vice President, Corporate Business Development & Strategy, Warner Bros. Entertainment, and, before that, Executive Vice President, New Media, responsible for the oversight of all Warner Bros.' new media endeavors. He joined Warner Bros. in 1994 as Director, Special Projects, Finance. He later went on to assist in the management of the company's interest in Six Flags. Mr. Tsujihara received his bachelor's degree in business administration from the University of Southern California and his MBA from Stanford University. Upon attaining his MBA from Stanford, Mr. Tsujihara founded QuickTax, Inc., an Internet company specializing in applying the convenience of the Internet to functions such as the electronic filing of tax and financial data, and retail tax preparation as well. Prior to attending Stanford, he spent four years as a manager in Ernst & Young's entertainment division, working in the audit and merger, and acquisitions areas.
Individual/Angel
Sam Gaddis
United States
Mr. Peter Simonson serves as President and Board Member at Juvent Health. With 20 years of executive experience in sales, marketing, management, product development, engineering, business development, market research and consulting, Mr. Simonson holds a Mechanical Engineering degree from Georgia Tech. He has been awarded five patents for surgical products, with an additional seven patents pending. He is the inventor of the Medtronic's patented unique spinal implant a system, TSRH-3D®, which has sold in excess of $1 billion in more the 30 countries. Mr. Simonson and the team developing his technology received Medtronic's global Technical-Contributor-of-The-Year award. Mr. Simonson has become highly sought after worldwide for his talents as a sales trainer and motivational speaker. After proving his skills invaluable in more than 60 markets, Medtronic now features his pioneering sales techniques in sales training videos and curriculum worldwide.
Individual/Angel
Sauder School of Business
United States
Distributor of music system devices. The company is engaged in selling audio and video systems, along with components, including home theater systems, stereo systems and components, televisions, and digital versatile disc/video cassette recording equipment
Accelerator
Incubator
SB2
Canada
Founded in 2014, SB2 is a private technology & media venture development firm based in Toronto, Canada. The firm seeks to build businesses within the fintech, peer-to-peer commerce, social mobile and OTT video space.
Accelerator
Incubator
Seth Haberman
United States
Mr. Seth Haberman serves as Chief Executive Officer at Sense Education. Mr. Haberman Founded and served as the Board Member and Chief Executive Officer at Visible World. He is an Angel Investor. Seth Haberman Founded Visible World, a Customized Video Services Provider, in August 1999 and also serves as its Chief Executive Officer and Board Member. Mr. Haberman served as President of Visible World, from February 2000 until December 14, 2006. Prior to founding Visible World, Mr. Haberman Founded Montage Group and as President of Montage Group, Ltd., Mr. Haberman's expertise brought it into the age of digital video production, particularly in server-based broadcast-quality media. He licensed the seminal non-linear editing technologies developed at Montage to all of the leading manufacturers of non-linear Editing. Before joining Montage, Mr. Haberman Founded HLH Associates. At HLH, he provided consultation services, development tools and software components to Fortune 500 companies, including early on-line services from CBS, IBM (later Trintex and Prodigy) and Dow Jones. He has also developed fundamental patents for tactile feedback and response systems with Chet Schuler, which he later licensed to Immersion Corporation (IMMR). Additionally, Mr. Haberman worked with Roger Schank as a Research Scientist in Artificial Intelligence at Cognitive Systems. Mr. Haberman is the vision, dedication and technological expertise that place it at the forefront of customized video services and more than 16 years of experience developing and managing large-scale, media broadcast and distribution servers, production tools, and telecommunications initiatives. Mr. Haberman serves as Director of Visible World. For its technological achievements, Montage won an Academy Award in 1987 and an Emmy Award in 1993. Regarded as a leading strategist in the television industry, Mr. Haberman is the author of several papers and has sat on many industry committees. He has been featured as a speaker at The MIT Forum, the RVC Technology Conference, and at the ANA's Advertising Management committee meeting on "Innovations that Marketers Must Be Familiar With." He earned a BA in Physics and Computer Science in 1981 from Columbia College, Columbia University.
Individual/Angel
Shane Pollack
United States
Mr. Jeffrey Burde served as Vice President and Head, Americas at Idomoo. He served as Board Member at Evrythng. He served as Board Member at Trueffect. He has over 20 years' experience as an international finance leader across diverse investments and geographies. He is an active investor in marketing technology companies that connect brands and advertisers directly with consumers. Jeff also serves as Vice Chairman, Head of the Americas of personalised video start-up Idomoo Inc. Previously in his role as the Managing Director Asia Pacific for Merrill Lynch, he oversaw key businesses spanning Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore.
Individual/Angel
Shanghai Oriental Pearl (Group) Company
China
Oriental Pearl Group Co Ltd operates a media integration and distribution platform in China. The various business units of the company comprise Channel Products Operation, Video Shopping, and E-Commerce, Culture and Entertainment Themed Tourism, Mobile Transmissions and Video Games among others.
Strategic Acquirer
Srikanth Desikan
United States
Mr. Gad Liwerant is a Partner at Applause and President of VideoShare. He serves as an Advisor at Rental Beast. Previously he founded VideoShare and served as its Chief Executive Officer and he also Co-Founded EBricks. He is an Advisor to tinyRx, Openbay, Boatbound and Rental Beast. Mr. Liwerant received a Master of Architecture from Harvard University.
Individual/Angel
Stan Woodward
United States
Ms. Nancy Zayed is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Technology Officer and Board Observer at MagicCube. She is also an Angel Investor. Prior to her current role, Nancy was the Head of Engineering and Operations at innoPath, a founding member of OMA. Nancy Zayed is the founder and Chief Technology Officer of MagicCube, a mobile security start-up located in Silicon Valley. Prior to her current role, Nancy was the Head of Engineering and Operations at innoPath, a founding member of OMA (Open Mobile Alliance), where she led the global engineering development and service teams responsible for shipping Android, Rex, iOS, Windows Mobile and Symbian products. Within this role, she was also accountable for the P&L of OEM & OTA technology client engineering, operations, OEM adoption, and carrier management. Nancy is an advocate of the social and economic empowerment of women in STEM careers. She has been an example in this area by taking on numerous leadership roles, including Head of Platform Development at Cisco Systems, where she was in charge of the company's telepresence product and its secure endpoints for the consumer market. She also headed the CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) mobile technology at Palm, where she spearheaded the move to air-interface agnostic technologies and IP Multimedia Subsystems integration. Nancy also spent more than ten years at Apple, holding several technical leadership roles within the organization's traditional & new operating systems, as well as video engineering areas. During her time at Apple, she helped secure the company's second Emmy presented by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences on the Primetime Engineering Award category for the company's efforts and impact on the television industry.
Individual/Angel
Stardom Ventures
Israel
Founded in 2016, Stardom Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Tel Aviv, Israel. The firm seeks to invest in ad-tech, video tech, content, media, marketing, and commerce platform sectors.
Venture Capital
Stephen Russell
San Francisco, California, United States
Steve Russell is a Silicon Valley veteran with 15 years of experience in building and managing disruptive content networking, video search, ...
Individual/Angel
Steve Amedio
United States
Mr. Robert Siegel serves as Partner at XSeed Capital. He serves as a Venture Partner at Piva Capital. He also serves as Venture Advisor at Step Ahead Capital. He also served as Board Member at Cape Productions. He is a Board Member of Avochato. He is the Advisor at Pixlee TurnTo. He served as a Board member at Sparta Science. He served as Advisor at K5 Ventures. His investment areas include enterprise software, business operations where computational technology helps automate/improve company performance, and computing platforms that shape both business and consumer behaviors. He sits on the Board of Directors of Zooz, Lex Machina, Productions, and DropThought, and he led XSeed's investments in CirroSecure (acquired by Palo Alto Networks - NYSE: PANW), Chatous, Dispatcher, Breezeworks, The League, Teapot, Smart Coffee Technology, Neon, Pixlee, Caller Zen and SIPX (acquired by ProQuest), and also supports other portfolio companies such as Citrine Informatics. He is currently on the faculty at the Stanford Graduate School of Business where he teaches Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation, Formation of New Ventures, The Industrialist's Dilemma, and Entrepreneurial Finance. In these classes, he has led research and written cases on companies including Google, Box, AngelList, SurveyMonkey, Medium, Wikimedia Foundation, Zuora, Minted, 500 Startups, and TrueCar, Axel Springer, General Electric and Starbucks (La Boulange), amongst others. He is the Co-President of Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs, an alumni association that fosters relationships to strengthen the Stanford startup community, as well as the Chairman of the Strategic Advisory Board for TTTech in Vienna, Austria. He has co-authored several articles for California Management Review, is a Wall Street Journal Startup Guru, and is a frequent contributor to Forbes and VentureBeat. Prior to joining XSeed, He was General Manager of the Video and Software Solutions division for GE Security, with annual revenues of $350 million. He was also Executive Vice President of Pixim, Inc., a fabless semiconductor firm specializing in image sensors and processors (acquired by Sony). Before Pixim, he was Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Weave Innovations Inc. (acquired by Kodak), a network services developer that invented the world's first digital picture frame, and delivered photos and other digital media to PCs and internet / mobile devices. He served in various management roles at Intel Corporation, including an executive position in their Corporate Business Development division, in which he invested capital in startups that were strategically aligned with Intel's vision. Previous to Intel, he was promoted to a series of senior sales and marketing positions at GeoWorks, which went public in 1993. He holds a BA from UC Berkeley, an MBA from Stanford University is the co-inventor of four patents, and served as lead researcher for Andy Grove's book Only the Paranoid Survive. He served as Advisor at CloudCath.
Individual/Angel
Steve Parish
Luxembourg
Mr. Guibert Englebienne is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Technology Officer at Globant. He also serves as Co- Founder and President at Globant Ventures. As Globant CTO, he leads the Premier League, an elite group of technology gurus whose main role is to think out of the box for their customers and the Globant Labs, a playground for exploration of new technologies. When he is not sailing or eating a barbecue, Englebienne spends his time thinking about the next disruptive project that will shake the IT industry. His strong focus in technology, innovation and creativity drove Globant to be an expert in cutting edge practices, such as social networks, videogames and mobile, while building a culture based on innovation. Englebienne is VicePresident of Endeavor Argentina. In 2011, he was also included in the Powerful 25 list of Globalization Today, recognition that positions him as one of the industry's most influential leaders.
Individual/Angel
Tal Simantov
New York, New York, United States
Tal Simantov - Vice President, Global Video Strategy @ AOL
Individual/Angel
The Iterative Collective
Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
The Iterative Collective is a video game incubator and publisher
Video Games
Incubator
Thomas Joyce
United States
Mr. Jay Smith served as Chief Experience Officer & Head of Customer Experience and Outcomes at Intarcia. He joined Intarcia in December of 2013. He is an advisor at Direct Allergy. It is a new position overseeing a bold new business goal to outperform and redefine industry standards in customer experience optimization. As CXO, Mr. Smith is Intarcia's resident authority and champion fully dedicated to efforts to optimize the positive customer experiences and outcomes with our brands; ITCA 650 and other platform related projects we intend to develop and commercialize. He is 100 percent dedicated to the proactive optimization and continuous improvement of customer experiences with our target patients, providers and payers. With more than 24 years of industry experience in positions of rapidly increasing responsibility, Mr. Smith is eminently qualified for this challenging assignment, having demonstrated world-class success at the senior-most levels of Sales and Marketing at J&J, Novartis and Sunovion (formerly Sepracor). Most recently he served as President at "1-800-DOCTORS," a consumer, patient and physician centric company focused on leveraging technology, including secure digital-video and telephonic platforms, to create the best patient-physician experience possible. In addition to his B.A. in Biology from Westmar College, Mr. Smith successfully completed several executive courses at Harvard, including the 32-week Program for Leadership Development.
Individual/Angel
Timothy Fortner
United States
Mr. Gregory Gottesman is a Co-Founder and serves as a Board Member at Rover. He is a Co-Founder and serves as the Managing Director at PSL Ventures. He is a Co-Founder and serves as the Managing Director at Pioneer Square Labs (PSL Studio). He serves as Manager Of Issuer, Board Member & Advisor at Hola Cash. He co-founded and served as Venture Partner at Madrona Venture Labs. He serves as Executive Officer and Board Member at NextStep. He serves as Board Member at Tally (Live Video App), Mighty AI, BuddyTV, Cheezburger, Intrepid Learning Solutions and Nimbic. He is also a Co-Founder of Mighty AI. He was a Board Member of WildTangent and Bocada. He is a Co-founder of Madrona Venture Labs. He also serves as Venture Partner and Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group. He also served as Investment Committee Member at The W Fund. He serves as an Investment Committee Member at The W Fund, He recently served on the boards of Decide (acquired by eBay) and ThisLife (acquired by Shutterfly) and helped manage the firm's investment in Wavii (acquired by Google). He also managed Madrona's investments in Dantz Development Corporation (acquired by EMC), Rendition Networks (acquired by Opsware), Singingfish.com (acquired by Thomson Consumer Electronics), LiveBid.com (acquired by Amazon.com), and AdRelevance (acquired by Media Metrix). He serves on the board of UP Global and as the President of the Evergreen Venture Capital Association. He is on the investment committee of the W Fund, a University of Washington-based venture fund. He is the author of three books. He is also an adjunct faculty member at the University of Washington Business School, where he teaches a course on Entrepreneurship. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa with honors and distinction from Stanford University, with honors and distinction from the Harvard Business School and with honors from Harvard Law School where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He served as Board Member at Jobalign.
Individual/Angel
Timothy Ogilvie
United States
Mr. Alexander Samwer served as a Partner at European Founders Fund. He holds a Master's Degree from the University of Oxford and an MBA with high distinction from the Harvard Business School. In January 1999, he and his two brothers founded Alando.de which became the market leader of internet auctions in Germany. After the successful sale of Alando.de to eBay Inc., He was Managing Director of eBay, responsible for Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Together with his brothers, he turned eBay Germany into the most profitable international site of eBay worldwide. In 2000, He and his brothers founded Jamba! AG which became the market leader for wireless content such as music, pictures, games and videos for mobile phones in Europe and the US. In 2004 Verisign Inc. acquired Jamba! AG. In 2006 News Corp. acquired 51% of Jamba. He is a guest lecturer on Venture Finance and Internet Economics at several German universities.
Individual/Angel
Tod M. Sacerdoti
San Francisco, California, United States
Tod Sacerdoti is the CEO and founder of BrightRoll, the industry's largest video advertising network. Sacerdoti has served as an evangeli...
Individual/Angel
Tom Duterme
United States
Dr. Steve Smoot serves as Vice President, Customer Success at Corelight. He is also an Angel Investor. He is a persistent customer advocate with experience in building global, customer-centric teams. He played a catalytic role at Riverbed, scaling from 10 to 2600 people, and before that brought the FastForward Networks technology and how-to to Europe for Inktomi. Previously, he developed video compression technology that enables the video streams we all watch every night. Dr. Smoot is a graduate of MIT and holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley. Dr. Steve Smoot is an Angel Investor.
Individual/Angel
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