Found 308 investors
Robert Frankenberg
United States
Mr. Matthew Goldman is a Co-Founder and also serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Vertical Finance (Financial Services). He co-founded and served as the Chief Executive Officer at Wallaby Financial. He is an Angel Investor. Prior to founding Wallaby, he served as Executive Director of Product Management for AT&T Interactive (YP.com), where he managed a $650 million advertising P&L. Prior to AT&T, Matthew was Director of Retail Strategy at Sequoia Capital-backed Green Dot Corporation, a leading provider of reloadable prepaid debit cards. He also has experience in strategy consulting, e-commerce and systems administration. Matthew is a graduate of Claremont McKenna College.
Individual/Angel
Robert Frazer
United States
Mr. Mark Charkin serves as Advisor at Lumia Capital. He served as Chief Revenue Officer at The Exchange Lab. Mr. Mark Charkin is an experienced seed investor and startup advisor currently working as the Chief Revenue Officer for Social Standards. Previously, he was Chief Revenue Officer of The Exchange Lab and was responsible for scaling global revenue and overseeing the companys advertising strategy. He is both a proven digital business leader and a digital media pioneer, with over 15 years of experience leading sales organizations in Europe, Asia, and the United States. During his career, He has focused on driving the bottom line for early-stage companies in the online, social, casual gaming and mobile space, and has a long track record of success in building and leading companies from inception to multi-million dollar exits. Prior to joining The Exchange Lab, he was EVP Advertising and business development at King, creators of Candy Crush Saga. In this role, He was part of the executive team responsible for building and managing the entire advertising and business development units globally. During his tenure, King grew from 10 million to over 200 million monthly players, while advertising revenue grew over 1000%, cementing Kings position the largest casual game group globally. Prior to King, He was VP Global Sales at Bebo, the Social Network where he joined as the first commercial employee, went on to devise the companys pioneering engagement model of advertising, and was part of the executive team that led Bebos record-breaking $850 million acquisition to AOL Time Warner. He has also held senior management positions at MSN and Lycos, where he was EMEA Regional Sales Director and Head Of Sales respectively. He regularly speaks at industry events such as Cannes, IAB, Adtech, and DMEXCO and has been an advisor to a multitude of incubators, VCs and early-stage ventures including DN Capital, Chime Ventures, BrightRoll, Seed Camp, Endemol, Moviepilot and Rippll. He also serves as Advisor at Lumia Capital.
Individual/Angel
Robert Kapela
United States
Justin Sanger is the founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Facing Interactive. He co-founded and served as the Chief Executive Officer at SupportLocal. He is an entrepreneur and visionary in the local advertising marketplace. Justin has started numerous companies over the past two decades, his last company LocalLaunch was sold to RHD/Dex in 2006. Justin is viewed as one of the leading experts in local search and social advertising marketplace and is widely appreciated as a dynamic leader and product innovator. Currently, Justin is the founder and CEO of his latest company, JoinLocal, a Denver-based Social Engagement Platform for SMBs.
Individual/Angel
Robert McLauchlan
United States
Mr. David Karnstedt serves as Advisor at Ironfire Ventures. Mr. Karnstedt is also an angel investor. He served as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Quantifind He served as Senior Advisor at TPG. He was the Senior Vice President of Media and Advertising Solutions at Adobe where he led the company's global digital marketing efforts across search, display and video advertising as well as the data management platform. Prior to Adobe, he was CEO and President of Efficient Frontier, which was acquired by Adobe in January 2012 for more than $400 million. Before joining Efficient Frontier in 2009, he served as Executive-in-Residence for Redpoint Ventures, an investor in Quantifind. Prior to Redpoint, he served as Senior Vice President of Yahoo!'s North American Sales with responsibility for more than $3 billion in revenue. Preceding Yahoo!, he was the Senior Vice President of the Direct Business at Overture Services, the company that pioneered the paid search industry and was acquired by Yahoo! in 2003. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Quantifind, DemandBase and Vantiv (VNTV) He is also an advisor to Scripted and Integrate Cloud Marketing Platform and an investor in EatStreet, Wisecrack, and Morado Ventures. He is a member of the Young Presidents organization (YPO) and holds a B.S in Speech Communication from the University of Illinois.
Individual/Angel
Rohit Tiwari
United States
Ms. Noopur Shukla serves as Angel Investor. She serves as Advisory Board Member at Shoppable. Noopur is an integrated marketing executive with over a decade of experience across 11+ industries. She is known for taking on bold brand strategies, and marrying them with data informed solutions that scale. Her award winning approach has helped create enduring success for power brands like Unilever, Bank of America, Danone, LVMH, the Nelson Mandela Foundation, and Pfizer. Within those roles her added passion for innovation and go to market strategy led to 25+ successful product/service launches globally. Presently Noopur acts as Global Client Leader for one the largest and foremost international marketing organizations, Publicis Groupe. There she builds bespoke marketing teams to service top clients, currently leading a collective of 200+ experts, spanning 7+ advertising, strategy, and innovation disciplines in service of national telecom leader T-Mobile. Prior to focusing her career in on integrated marketing, Noopur was a writer for MTV and independent consultant for companies like Berkshire Hathaway, Starbucks, and the InterContinental Hotel Group. Noopur is an accredited angel investor and sits on the board of and/or serves as advisor for several startups. Holding her values as fiercely as her love for business, Noopur is a human rights advocate. She is a part of many charitable organizations that focus on marginalized communities, and sits on the board of the counter human trafficking non-profit The Freedom Lab. In her spare time she enjoys learning about new cultures through travel, fine whiskey, bad reality TV, and writing comedy. She earned a triple major in Marketing, Management, and Business Law from Emory University and an MBA from MIT.
Individual/Angel
Rokas Tamosiunas
United States
Mr. Emery Wells is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer, Vice President & Board Member at Frame.io. He is also the Founder of Katabatic Digital. In 2011, he created and launched KataData, an award-winning iPhone app for filmmakers which has been downloaded on the iOS App Store in over 100 countries. He has led the company to its 1M user mark, with media professionals and companies like VICE, BuzzFeed, and Facebook counted among its customers. The company won an Apple Design Award at Apple's 2016 World Wide Developer Conference under his leadership. A tech entrepreneur who has been involved in filmmaking, post-production, and computer graphics for over 17 years, prior to Frame.io, Emery founded Katabatic Digital, a boutique post-production facility in NYC that offered a wide range of digital services to television and advertising clients and participated in the creation of over 100 Digital Shorts for NBC's iconic Saturday Night Live.
Individual/Angel
Rose Lewis
London, England, United Kingdom
Rose tirelessly champions the London Marketing & Advertising tech scene through the accelerator she launched, Collider. Collider is a vehicl...
Individual/Angel
Rovi Guides
Santa Clara, California, United States
Rovi Guides offers digital entertainment advertising platform for advertisers.
Advertising
Advertising Platforms
Digital Entertainment
Digital Media
Media and Entertainment
Venture Capital
Rui Ma
United States
Mr. John Rodkin served as Chief Product Officer at ShopRunner. He is a Co-Founder and served as Chief Executive Officer at Flyswat. He also serves as an Advisor at Cedexis. He serves as Board Member at Swiftly (San Francisco). He serves as an Advisor at Hydrolix. Under his leadership as CEO, Flyswat grew to millions of users and was eventually acquired by NBCi for $120 million. He then joined NBCi as VP of product management and research, where he supervised the portal's search, directory, and advertising systems. He is also an angel investor.
Individual/Angel
Ryan Schaffer
Germany
Mr. Frank Riedel serves as Venture Partner at Berlin Ventures. He also serves as Managing Director at goodlifescience. He is a brand building and marketing expert with almost 20 years of industry experience. Until 2012, he served as Managing Director and Global Account Director at McCann Erickson. He possesses a valuable network of contacts in the national and international creative and advertising scene. Since 2014, he is a shareholder and Chief Marketing Officer at Dr. Förster AG. He serves as Board Member at Wearonize.
Individual/Angel
RYSEVentures
United States
Ms. Monica Lozano serves as Board Member at Weingart Foundation. She served as Chief Executive Officer at ImpreMedia. Ms. Lozano was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer of the company in May 2010. She is an Angel Investor. She has been in a leadership position at ImpreMedia since its founding in January 2004 and has over 25 years of Hispanic media experience across virtually all business lines. She is currently publisher and CEO of La Opinion, overseeing the company's publishing group including America's oldest Spanish language daily, El Diario La Prensa in New York. Ms. Lozano has been with La Opinion for nineteen years and served as Associate Publisher from November 1995 to January 2000 and also served as the paper's Editor. In January 2004, she became Publisher and Chief Executive Officer of La Opinion, assuming full responsibility for the country's largest Spanish language daily newspaper. Under her direction, the newspaper has entered into important strategic partnerships with key media companies as well as public and private entities. She oversaw the launch of new advertising products such as La Opinion Direct as well as the introduction of new targeted sections, and the licensing of La Opinion content outside of the southern California region. She has been a Director of Walt Disney since September 2000, Bank of America since April 2006. She served as a Director of Union Bank of California, a subsidiary of UnionBanCal. She served as a Director of Tenet Healthcare from July 24, 2002, to May 26, 2005. She served as a Director of UnionBanCal since January 2001. In addition, Ms. Lozano has been a Member of the Board of Regents of the University of California since December 2001, Trustee of the University of Southern California since 1991, and SunAmerica Asset Management since 1998. She serves as a Member of the Board of Directors of the California HealthCare Foundation, the National Council of La Raza, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Individual/Angel
Sacha Engels
United States
Mr. Aaron Easterly is a Co-Founder & serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chairman & Director at Rover. He was an Advisor at Spare5. He is an Angel Investor. Previously, he was an Entrepreneur in Residence at Madrona Venture Group and General Manager of Advertising Strategy & Monetization at Microsoft. Prior to Microsoft, he served as Vice President and General Manager at Atlas. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Harvard University.
Individual/Angel
Sakamoto Kozo
Japan, Asia
Graduated from Seinan University, joined CyberAgent in 2006. Achieved 100 million yen per month in net advertising sales, leaving various ot...
Individual/Angel
SamStella
United States
SamStella was an early stage investment firm that used to specializes in investing in and building online advertising and related technology companies. The firm was established in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, New York.
Venture Capital
Scott Burns
United States
Mr. Paul Harkins is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer, Co-Chairman, President & Vice President of Business Development at Billaway. Prior to founding Billaway in 2011, Mr. Harkins served as the Founder and CEO at OfferIQ and as the founder of inStream Media, a point of purchase advertising company. Mr. Harkins has secured advertising and incentive contracts with several large retailers, including Borders, Dollar General and Destination Maternity, as well as with financial institutions Chase and Fifth Third Bank. Mr. Harkins also led fundraising efforts and raised significant venture capital and debt financing for both OfferIQ and inStream. Prior to inStream, Mr. Harkins served as President of The Schubert Group, a boutique management firm focused on growing software relationships in China. Mr. Harkins attended St. Thomas Aquinas University with a focus on Psychology.
Individual/Angel
Scott Sanford
United States
Mr. Brent Thomson is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer, Manager and Board Member at Blip. He serves as Board Member at Community Foundation of Utah. He is the CEO of Blip Billboards, a company that provides pay-per-flip billboard advertising. Previously, he founded and was CEO of Jive Communications, a leader in hosted telephony. Brent is an active angel investor and occasional lecturer on the subject of entrepreneurship.
Individual/Angel
Secil Baysal
United States
Mr. Ed Keller is CEO and a Director of Engagement Labs. He joined Engagement Labs as a result of the 2015 acquisition by the Corporation of US-based Keller Fay Group, Prior to founding Keller Fay in 2005, Keller wasthe CEO of RoperASW (2001- 2005) and before that was President of its predecessor firm Roper Starch Worldwide (1994-2001). Prior to 1994 he held other executive positions at Roper Starch and other US-based market research firms. Keller has been called one of the most recognized namesin word-of-mouth marketing and the publication of his first book, The Influentials, has been called the seminal moment in the development of word-of-mouth. Keller's second book, The Face-to Face Book (co-authored with Brad Fay), was named 2013 Best Book in Marketing by the American Marketing Association. Reflecting his industry stature, Keller was elected to the Word of Mouth Marketing Hall of Fame in 2014 and the Market Research Council Hall of Fame in 2020. Keller was awarded a patent (US 7,653,568) for his development of a System and Method for Identifying Individuals of Influence. He has served in leadership roles in numerous marketing and marketing research organizations, including the board of directors positions for the Word of Mouth Marketing Association (2006-2011, including Board President from 2006- 07), the Advertising Research Foundation (2005-2011), Global Advisory Board member of the Wharton Future of Advertising Initiative (2008- present) and former President of the Market Research Council and the Word of Mouth Marketing Association.
Individual/Angel
Serkan Erdogan
Balikesir, Balikesir, Turkey
Serkan Erdoğan is a digital art director at Inovatiff Advertising and Promotion Services. Previously, he was a graphic and interface designe...
Individual/Angel
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
Shaun Jamieson
Canada
Cossette Lab operates a business incubator that specializes in the strategy, creative, branding, advertising and marketing sectors.
Accelerator
Incubator
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