Found 643 investors
Fulcrum Management
United States
Mr. Wesley Huffstutter is the Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at QuadMetrics. He serves as an Angel Investor at Wesley Huffstutter. He has over 15 years of startup experience as an operator, mentor, consultant and board member. Before joining QuadMetrics, he spent nearly a decade helping the University of Michigan start companies based on research. During his tenure, U-M launched over 100 companies and the startups raised over $1B in equity financing. Wes began his career as a software developer, for a machine vision and artificial intelligence company, later leading the company's marketing before the company sold to a public company in 2001. Wes has a BA Computer Science DePauw University and MEM (Engineering) and MBA (Business) from Washington University in St. Louis.
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Gabriele Bozzi
United States
Mr. Sameer Samat serves as Angel Investor. He served as President at Jawbone. Sameer founded two vertical search and text mining companies, raising venture financing from several firms including In-Q-Tel (venture fund of the Central Intelligence Agency), and completing successful acquisitions of both to public companies. Prior to Google, Sameer served as Executive Vice President of Products at Kofax, a publicly traded software company in the Content Management space, where he was responsible for engineering, product management and product marketing. Sameer holds a BS in Computer Science from University of California, San Diego and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School.
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Gaetano Holdings
United States
Mr. Leclair is an Angel Investor. He is the Founder of Trbes. He co-founded iWeb Group and was its President of Products & Technology since October 2008. He served as Vice President of iWeb Group until October 2008. Mr. Leclair founded the website, WebDepart, and was a Computer Specialist in the field of worldwide francophone Internet as well as in the community of francophone Internet publishers. He has numerous years of experience in the field of Internet and information technologies. Mr. Leclair holds a Bachelor's degree in Administrative Data Processing from the UQAM.
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Gary Dewhurst
Belgium
Mr. Alain Parthoens is a Co-Founder & serves as Chief Executive Officer at Newton BioCapital. He serves as Board Member at Epics Therapeutics, Accutar Biotech and Dim3. He serves as Board Member at Cellaïon. He serves as Managing Partner at Vesalius Biocapital Partners. He serves as Chairman at Ncardia. He serves as Board Member at Promethera Biosciences. He has more than twenty years of international experience in the food and life sciences businesses including marketing for Nestlé, business analysis for Kemira, product development and strategic planning for Monsanto and consultancy in R&D for pharmaceutical companies with PriceWaterhouseCoopers in London. Before he joined Vesalius Biocapital, Alain was an Investment Director at ING Corporate Investments in Belgium. Since 2001, he has been the lead investor for the private placement of Unibioscreen (oncology, EUR 19 m raised), MTI (stress-resistant corn germplasm, EUR 14 m raised), OncoMethylome Sciences (cancer diagnostics, creation of the company, EUR 29 m raised in round A & B followed in June 2006 by a EUR 28 m IPO on Euronext), TiGenix (regenerative medicine, EUR 12 m raised, followed by EUR 16 m pre-IPO round and an IPO of EUR 40 m in March 2007) and most recently Bianca (food preservation, EUR 5 m raised). He was also actively involved in the private placement of BioAlliance (Paris, EUR 12 m private placement, followed by a successful EUR 30 m IPO on Euronext in December 2005) and participated in the refinancing of CropDesign and its trade sale to BASF. He was the chairman of the Belgian Venture and Private Equity Association and a BOD member of Unibioscreen, Oncomethylome Sciences, Apitope, Bianca and Promethera. Alain holds an MSc in agronomy and specialty biochemistry from the Université Catholique de Louvain, an MSc in finance and computer sciences from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and a management degree from the Solvay Business School (CEPAC). He also served as Board Observer at Voluntis.
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Gary Kusin
United States
Mr. Robert Marshall serves as Co-Managing Director at Selby Ventures. He is also an angel investor. Marshall serves as Partner Emeritus in BlueVine Ventures. With over 40 years of experience in Silicon Valley, Mr. Marshall has acquired extensive startup, operations and investment experience in high technology companies. Prior to launching Selby, Mr. Marshall was Founder, President and CEO of InfoGear Technology, a leading Internet appliance company. InfoGear was acquired by Cisco Systems. In the 20 years preceding InfoGear until December 1995, Mr. Marshall was a senior executive at Tandem Computers and Diablo Systems. He was one of the co-founders of Tandem and served as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. Tandem was purchased by Compaq for well over $3 Billion. Mr. Marshall currently serves on the board of directors of 3ware, Blue Pumpkin Software, Fabric7 Systems, OnSite Systems, Quicksilver Technology, Sierra Monitor Corporation and Triformix. Mr. Marshall holds a B.S.E.E. from Heald Engineering and an MBA from Pepperdine University.
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Gary Pudles
United States
Mr. Jad El Boustani serves as Executive Director at Middle East Venture Partners. Prior to joining MEVP in July 2012, Jad worked as Project Manager at Truffle Capital as part of the Venture Capital Tech Team in Paris during which, he assisted in fundraising efforts and in the expansion of a build-up of startups specialized in mobile services. Prior to that, Jad worked as a financial analyst in the M&A department of Bank Lazard Brothers with a focus on EMEA Telecom and Technology. In 2010, he served as an auditor in the Finance division of General Electric Healthcare. Jad's experience in Lebanon includes working as an analyst and developer at NavLink and as an IT developer at Societe Generale. Jad holds a degree in Telecom and Computer Engineering from the Lebanese University, and an MBA (with a finance and private equity emphasis) from the Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Economiques et Commerciales, ESSEC (France).
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Gary Tenzer
India
Mr. Senapathy Gopalakrishnan is a Co-Founder & serves as Chairman at Axilor Ventures. He also serves as Advisor at TVS Capital. He serves as Advisory Board Member at Avagmah. He served as the Vice-Chairman of Infosys from 2011 to 2014, and as its Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director from 2007 to 2011. He is one of the co-founders of Infosys. Recognized as a global business and technology thought leader, he was voted the top CEO (IT Services category) in Institutional Investor's inaugural ranking of Asia's Top Executives. He was selected as one of the winners of the 2nd Asian Corporate Director Recognition Awards by Corporate Governance Asia in 2011. He was also selected to Thinkers 50, an elite list of global business thinkers, in 2009. He was elected President of India's apex industry chamber, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) for 2013 - 14, and served as one of the co-chairs of the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2014. In January 2011, the Government of India awarded He the Padma Bhushan, the country's third-highest civilian honor. He serves on the Board of Governors of Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore. He is the Chairman of the Board of Governors of IIIT, Bangalore, and is also on the Board of Trustees of the Chennai Mathematical Institute. He holds master's degrees in physics and computer science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. He is also an Angel Investor.
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Gautam Bhardwaj
Israel
Mr. Aaron Mankovski serves as Managing Partner at Pitango Venture Capital. Mr. Mankovski served as Director and Board Member at TAU Ventures. He serves as a Board Member at Jethro. He serves as Venture Partner and Board Member at Tabit. He served as a Board Member at Exaware. He also serves as Director at Optimal+. His tenure in venture capital started in 1996. He co-founded Eucalyptus Ventures and has served as Managing Director since that time. He has 16 years of experience in Executive Management (CEO, Sales and Marketing) in the high-technology sector. Prior to founding Eucalyptus, he served as Corporate Vice President of Orbotech Ltd. (NASDAQ: ORBK), responsible for worldwide operations, sales and customer support (approximately 500 people on four different continents).He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Statistics from Tel Aviv University. Apart from serving on the Board of Optimal+, hei served on the Board of Director of Chromatic Networks (sold to Lucent for $4.75 billion). He serves as Board Observer at Formlabs and as a Board Member for Drivenets.
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Geir Forre
United States
Dr. Shona Brown is a Board Member of BridgeSpan. She also serves as a Googler Emeritus at Google. She also serves as Secretary of the Board of Directors at The Nature Conservancy. She served as a Board Member of ClearStory Data and BetterWorks. As a member of Google's executive team since 2003, Dr. Brown's responsibilities as SVP, Business Operations were to build both the People Operations and Business Operations groups. In 2011, she transitioned to a role leading all of Google's technology for social impact efforts and in January of 2013 she became a Googler Emeritus and moved into an advisory role with the company. In addition to her ongoing role with Google, Dr. Brown is currently serving in an advisory role with a small portfolio of technology start-ups. Prior to joining Google, she was a partner at McKinsey & Company, a management consulting company, where her focus was working with consumer technology companies on growth, innovation, and transformation. Dr. Brown is the author of Competing on the Edge: Strategy as Structured Chaos, which introduced a new strategic model for competing in volatile markets. She is a director of the following non-profit organizations: The Bridgespan Group, Code for America, and The Exploratorium. She also serves on the board of PepsiCo. Dr. Brown has a bachelor's degree in computer systems engineering from Carleton University in Canada, an M.A. in economics and philosophy from Oxford University (which she attended as a Rhodes scholar), and a Ph.D. and a postdoctoral degree from Stanford University's Department of Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management.
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Genesis Centre at Memorial University
United States
Mr. Jeffrey Kurtzman is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Financial Officer, President & Board Member at Bark Social. He is also a Co-Founder of and former CFO of Better World Books. He helped it grow to $25+ million in annual revenue and 250+ employees within 5 years without taking any outside investment. He was also instrumental in the development of an enterprise-level software platform that was developed for internal use and then licensed to other large-volume e-commerce companies. From 2012-2014, he took on the role of CEO at Aid Through Trade, a founding member of the Fair Trade Federation that produces handmade goods in Nepal. In 2.5 years, he increased the number of artisans employed from 50 to 125, increased the number of wholesale customers from 400 to 750, and grew top line revenue by over 125%. Since the beginning of 2015, he has become an active angel investor and supporter of startups in the Mid-Atlantic region. He is on the Board of Directors for the Baltimore Angels and an active advisor (on pro bono basis) to several startups in the Baltimore/DC area. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Notre Dame in 2001 with a double major in Finance/Business Economics and Computer Applications.
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Geoffrey Squire
United States
Mr. Florent Peyre is a Co-Founder and serves as President at Small Door. He co-founded and served as Chief Operating Officer at Placemeter, a real-time computer vision and analytics business. Placemeter was acquired by NetGear (Nasdaq: NTGR) in December 2016. Before Placemeter, Florent co-founded CasaHop, a social travel company focused on the home exchange space. Previously, as one of the first employees, Florent served as VP of Strategy & Business Development for Gilt City / Gilt Groupe, helping to scale the business to 150 employees and $45 million in annual revenue. Prior to Gilt City, Florent led Hachette Filipacchi Media's Emerging Platforms, Corporate and Business Development group as Vice President.
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George Overholser
United States
Mr. Baskar Subramaniam serves as Board Member and Advisor at Uniphore. Mr. Baskar is an Angel Investor. Subramanian is an industry veteran with over 25 years of thought leadership in Unified Communications, Customer Interaction Management and Collaboration technologies. Subramaniam is the Founder of Servion Global Solutions Limited, a global end-to-end consulting led specialist in proactive customer experience in 1992. The company pioneered voice automation and computer telephony technologies for many enterprises in India, Middle East, Asia Pacific and the United States. At Servion, he helped build a strategic relationship with Avaya and Cisco, delivering value to all stakeholders involved. He is also the Founder and Board Member in Green Quotient Systems, a technology venture in the Cloud Computing, DevOps and Mobility space. Subramaniam holds a Bachelors degree in Electronics and Communication Engineering from REC-Trichy, and a Masters degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Texas.
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George Samenuk
United States
Mr. Robert Duggan is the Founder & serves as Chief Executive Officer at Duggan Investments (Florida). He serves as Board Member at Human Longevity. Mr. Duggan also serves as Chief Executive Officer at Summit. Mr. Duggan has been a member of the Board of Directors since September 2007 and was voted in as Chairman in September of 2008 after the resignation of its former Chairman. Since that time, Mr. Duggan has not received any compensation from the Company in any form, nor has he received any options for his services to the Company. In December 2008 and in March 2009, at a time when the Company had liquidity needs and required operating funds, Mr. Duggan provided loans to the Company totaling $6.4M. With the receipts of funds raised through a rights offering in July 2009, Mr. Duggan's loan was repaid. Alongside other Company stockholders and biotech investors, Mr. Duggan has invested since 2008 in each of the Company's capital raises, purchasing approximately his pro rata share in each raise, each of which were generally priced at market closes without any discounts. He purchased all his shares in Pharmacyclics outright and currently owns directly and indirectly approximately 20% of the outstanding shares. Disclosure regarding Mr. Duggan's stock ownership in the Company is publicly available in the Company's public SEC filings and in Mr. Duggan's filings on Schedule 13D, as amended, with the SEC. Mr. Duggan has also served as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Computer Motion, Inc., a computerized surgical systems company, from 1990 to 2003 and Chief Executive Officer from 1997. Computer Motion was acquired by Intuitive Surgical, Inc. in 2003. At that time Mr. Duggan became a Board Member of Intuitive Surgical, Inc. and served on its board until March 2011. Mr. Duggan has been an entrepreneur and industrialist for more than 30 years. He has participated as a CEO of, a director of, investor in and advisor to numerous small and large businesses in the medical equipment, computer local and wide area network, PC hardware and software distribution, digital encryption, consumer retail goods and outdoor media communication industry. Mr. Duggan has also assisted in corporate planning, capital formation and management for his various investments. In 1985 he received a Congressman's Medal of Merit from Congressman Ron Paul and in 2000 he was named a Knight of the Legion of Honor by President Jacques Chirac. Mr. Duggan is a member of the University of California at Santa Barbara Foundation Board of Trustees. He is also an Angel Investor.
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Gerard Adams
United States
Mr. Grant Munro co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer & Board Member at Flashstock. He started his career in Vancouver, BC as a software developer working for Motorola after graduating from the University of British Columbia with a Computer Science degree. After several years of building network infrastructure for Motorola he moved on to Nokia where he developed mobile applications for Nokia S60 devices. He subsequently evolved as a product manager launching both the Nokia N95 and the N91. In 2009 Grant got the startup bug, moved to Toronto and met Michael and Syncapse. He served as Partner at Grid Ventures. He holds an MBA (Master of Business Administration) from University of Toronto.
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GFS Ventures
United States
Mr. Ian Lotinsky is an Angel Investor. He served as Chief Technology Officer & Head of Platform at LearnZillion. He got hooked on starting web-based businesses in the mid-90s and has worked as a skilled software engineer, leader, and company builder at places like LivingSocial, Lockheed Martin, and Razoo during his career. He has a passion for delivering value to customers by solving their biggest challenges and making their lives more enjoyable. Ian received a computer science degree from the University of Maryland and a Master's in Human-Computer Interaction from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. His favorite teacher had such a profound impact on him that she is the answer to his account password recovery for several third-party services online, and he will never reveal her true identity.
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Ginna Raahauge
United Kingdom
Mr. Nick Felisiak served as Chief Technology Officer at Traak. He has graduated in computer systems at Essex University and has spent 40 years in advanced software development. He joined ICL at Bracknell and worked on mainframe operating system software, database system development and on the Perq Workstation Unix and microcode development, moving with that project to Dalkeith. In 1983 he co-founded Spider Systems which developed software for a variety of UNIX and embedded system suppliers such as Hewlett Packard, Sun Microsystems and Wind River. Following the sale of Spider Systems he bought out the software business which was not core to the acquirer and as Spider Software developed communications protocols primarily for cellular telephone infrastructure companies such as Lucent, Motorola and Ericsson. From 2002 he was engaged in developing and investing in e-learning software, and also in various open source projects including Wi-Fi device drivers. Originally a non-executive director of Traak, he joined as Chief Technology Officer in 2007 when the original incumbent returned to China for family reasons. He is now co-driver of product development.
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Glen Sato
United States
Mr. Bijal Mehta is an Angel Investor. He is Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Arctern, Icode and Accel-Computers
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Gonzalo Ortiz Sanz
United States
Ms. Elaine Lennox served as a Vice President of Marketing at Inkling. She also served as Board Member at Traxian. Prior to this, she served as Chief Marketing Officer at Zend technologies. She is also an Angel Investor. Prior to joining Zend, Elaine was Vice President of Marketing within IBM's Systems and Technology Group, where she led marketing and sales activities serving IBM's largest clients and drove significant growth initiatives for enterprise datacenter strategy, cloud computing and energy efficiency. Elaine also created a new growth business for IBM around advanced text analytics (the technology that enabled IBM's "Watson" computer to compete on Jeopardy! in 2011). Elaine also led System i (AS/400) marketing initiatives in collaboration with user groups and partners to drive growth of application development on the System i platform. Her previous experience includes leadership roles in marketing and partner programs targeting SMBs for HP and IBM, and for startup Whistle Communications, which became the leading provider of Internet appliances and services for the small business market before its acquisition by IBM. Elaine holds a Bachelors of Science degree from Aston Business School in England.
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Gordon Dean
United States
Mr. Digvijay Lamba is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Lore IO. He co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer at Cuberon. Previously, he was the Senior Director at Walmart Labs. Prior to Walmart Labs, he was the Chief Architect at Kosmix, a search engine company that went on to be acquired by Walmart. He has a BTech in Computer Science and Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
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GPA Group
United States
Mr. Madhav Sonthalia serves as the Board Member and Advisor at SecondWrite. He served as Chief Technology Officer at CyberSponse. He is responsible for overseeing all technology and product development aspects of CyberSponse. Madhav has had 15+ years distinguished career in delivering enterprise class security products, was part of 5 different successful security startup exits and is a holder of 12 patents (filed) in cyber security. Prior to joining CyberSponse, Madhav was Vice President Engineering for iSIGHT Partners, which was acquired by FireEye. Madhav established iSIGHT's technical vision and directed it's strategic product vision as well as technology roadmap. Prior to iSIGHT, Madhav co-founded NES International, a cloud security startup, which was acquired in 2014. Madhav has also worked in senior technology leadership roles for companies like Symantec, PGP Corp, Cisco Systems, NetApp Inc, McAfee etc. Madhav holds BS in Computer Science from University of Texas at Dallas.
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