Found 30 investors
Parker Barrile
United States
Mr. Cairn Cross is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at FreshTracks Capital. He serves as Board Member and Advisor at GreenSpark Solar. Cross presently serves on the boards of FreshTracks portfolio companies Vermont Teddy Bear, NativeEnergy and Faraday. He also served as Board Member at Budnitz Bicycles. Prior to the sale of M2S, Cairn was an observer to the company's Board of Directors and a member of the board's ad hoc audit committee. Cairn was formerly the Chair of the Board for the EatingWell Media Group which was sold to Meredith Corporation in 2011. Cairn also served on the Board of Directors of NEHP prior to its sale to Critical Process Systems. From 1996 to 2000 he owned and operated Cross Vermont Financial, a strategic and financial consultancy to Vermont banks and growth businesses such as Collector Online, Otter Creek Industries,Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, and theMerchants Bank. From 1996 to 1998, Cairn was the Assistant General Manager of Green Mountain Capital, L.P. From 1991 to 1996 he was a Vice President and Corporate Loan Officer for the Howard Bank, preceded by five years service in various positions for Vermont National Bank including Commercial Loan Officer. Cairn is on the board of the Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund. Cairn formerly served as Co-Chair and Steering Committee member of the Vermont Investors' Forum, an annual "venture fair" for Vermont companies, and previously served on the board of directors of the Addison County Economic Development Corporation. He has spearheaded Peak Pitch, the Vermont version of an elevator pitch substituting a chairlift for an elevator since 2010. Cairn was a co-founder of Startup Vermont in 2012. He is a former member of the Vermont Board of Public Accountancy and was formerly a director and Vice Chairman of Opportunities Credit Union and formerly a director of the Vermont Community Loan Fund. Mr. Cross is also a Lecturer for the University of Vermont and Champlain College, focusing on business, entrepreneurship and venture capital. In 2011, the United States Small Business Administration named Cairn its Vermont, New England and National Financial Services Champion. He earned a B.S. (1981) from Montana State University and an MBA (1987) from New Hampshire College (now Southern New Hampshire University). He received a graduate certificate from the Stonier Graduate School of Banking in 1995. He lives in Ferrisburg, Vermont.
Individual/Angel
Patrick Moulton
United States
Mr. Zachary Herlick is a Co-Founder and serves as a Member of the Leadership Team at Portola Partners. Mr. Herlick served as a Board Member at Weave Innovations. He has worked with the senior leadership of Portola Partners since 2007. Prior to co-founding Portola Partners in 2020, he worked for 13 years with the same team at Brownson, Rehmus & Foxworth, a national wealth management firm founded in 1969. At BRF, he co-led the West Coast office and served on the Investment Strategy (Co-Chair), Public Markets, and Real Estate Committees. He contributed substantially to BRF research on macroeconomics, asset allocation, and investment manager selection. Previously, he was a Director and Client Advisor at UBS Wealth Management Australia where he was part of a carefully selected team that worked exclusively with UBS's largest Australian private clients. Mr. Herlick was also a General Partner of Maveron, a Seattle-based venture capital firm that he helped start with Howard Schultz, the Chairman and former CEO of Starbucks Coffee Company. He also served as an Associate with Mayfield Fund, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm with over $2 billion under management. Prior to his venture capital career, he co-founded Red Herring Communications, publisher of The Red Herring Magazine and Redherring.com. The Red Herring served as the leading monthly magazine focused on venture capital and the business of technology with over 350,000 subscribers at its peak. he has received an MBA, JD, and BA from Stanford University. Although not currently licensed, He had been admitted previously as a member of the California Bar. For the Nueva School, he chairs the Endowment Committee and serves as a Trustee. He is a Henry Crown Fellow at the Aspen Institute.
Individual/Angel
Philip Lane
Taiwan
Mr. Derrick Hsiang serves as Chief Strategy Officer at Miniwiz. Mr. Hsiang served as Vice President at WI Harper Group. He also is an Angel Investor. Previously, he was Vice President at WI Harper Group, a pioneering cross-border venture capital firm investing in early to growth stage companies across the US, Greater China, and Asia Pacific. He focused on identifying, evaluating, investing and supporting WI Harper's investments in the software & services, mobile, internet and digital media space. Derrick's investments include: Walla.by (Acquired), Qualaroo (Acquired), Flutter (Acquired), nWay (Acquired), Avaamo, Epic!, Drop, The Sigma, Momentum Machines, Full Circle Insights, Coffee Meets Bagel, Kloudless, Xola, Synthego, Naadam and others. Derrick gained valuable operating experience at Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, the world's largest IC packaging and test manufacturer, where he managed regional production and focused on business development initiatives. Prior to ASE, Derrick was at Merrill Lynch's Private Banking and Investment Group. Derrick holds a B.S. in Business Management from the University of Arizona. Derrick serves on the venture capital group of the Asia America MultiTechnology Association and is a co-chair and advisor to the AAMA Connect Conference.
Individual/Angel
Rick Einhorn
United States
Mr. Brian Goldberg serves as Chief Financial Officer at Socati. Mr. Goldberg serves as Advisor at High Brew Coffee. Mr. Goldberg serves as Venture Partner at Springdale Ventures. He served as Chief Strategy Officer & Executive Vice President, Corporate Development at Amplify Snack Brands. He previously served as our Chief Financial Officer from September 2014 to September 2014. He served as a Board Member at Waterloo Sparkling Water. He served as the Chief Financial Officer at Enersciences Holdings, LLC, a company focused on developing technology solutions for the energy industry, from January 2013 to September 2014, and he continues to serve on its board of directors. From January 2012 until December 2012, Mr. Goldberg served as the Chief Financial Officer at Badlands Power Fuels, LLC, an environmental services provider. From 2005 to December 2011, he served as the Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer at Sweet Leaf Tea Company, a beverage company. After Sweet Leaf Tea Company was sold to Nestle S.A., Mr. Goldberg was retained by Nestle to manage the integration. From 2004 to 2005, Mr. Goldberg served as Vice President of New Capital Partners, a private equity firm. He also serves, and has served on the boards of several private companies, including Rumble Drinks, a company manufacturing pre-packaged shakes, since September 2013; Runa LLC, a beverage company, from October 2012 to September 2014; and Freed Foods, Inc., an organic baby foods company doing business as NurtureMe since June 2011. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Management with a major in accounting from Tulane University, a Master of Accountancy with an emphasis in taxation from the University of Georgia, and a Master of Business Administration from The Darden School at The University of Virginia. He also serves as Board Member at QuickGifts.
Individual/Angel
Robert Vrancken
United Kingdom
Ms. Sitar Teli is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Connect Ventures. She serves as Board Member at Thursday. She serves as Board Observer at Boiler Room. She serves as a Board Member at Fiit, Snap.hr, Homecode, and Stairway Learning. She also serves as Board Member at Second Nature and Kheiron Medical Technologies. She is a Board Member at Oupath. She is an Angel Investor. She served as a Board Member at Auxy. She has been a venture capitalist for eleven years, focusing on early-stage investments in both consumer and B2B companies. Prior to Connect, she was with Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures, where she led their Series A round in SoundCloud. Sitar has expertise in product, growth, and culture. Sitar has a dual degree in Mechanical engineering and Economics from Duke University. She served as a Board Member at Pact Coffee and Timecounts.
Individual/Angel
Santa Clarita Business Incubator
United States
Mr. Andrew McKee is the Owner of SomersetsUSA.com. He is a Board Member at Songclip. He is also an Angel Investor. Founding Partner and serves as General Partner at Webster Capital. He began his career as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs & Co. Andrew then co-founded HEAR Music, a music retailing and marketing firm (sold to Starbucks Coffee) and subsequently was CEO of Overseas Adventure Travel, a leading adventure tour operator, which is now a division of Grand Circle Travel. Prior to co-founding Webster Capital, Andrew previously served as Chairman and Founder of Vacation.com, a provider of technology and marketing services through a national network of 8,800 member travel agencies. Vacation.com raised capital from institutional investors, acquired nine separate businesses and became the dominant player in utilizing the Internet to provide business services to the travel industry. It was sold to Amadeus, the largest travel technology provider in the world. For the past 17 years, Andrew has been an entrepreneur, operating executive and principal in a number of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. His operating experience includes the conceiving of and implementation of several new business concepts, as well as involvement in several acquisitions and turnarounds. His strengths are in marketing, business development, mergers and acquisitions and corporate strategy. Andrew was educated at Hamilton College and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. He is a Director of Re-Bath, Conisus and Industrial Color Brands.
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 Piotraczk
United States
Mr. Dick Kock is an Angel Investor. He serves as Advisor at Spinn Coffee. Mr. Kock co-founded and served as the Managing Director at CoffeeCompany.
Individual/Angel
Talisman Capital
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
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WAVE Investments
Germany
WAVE Investments s a privately funded investor focusing on long-term investments in the Global Specialty Coffee segment. The firm was founded in 2017 and is based in Hamburg, Germany.
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