Found 41 investors
Corey Salka
United States
Mr. Michael Olson served as Chief Strategy Officer at Cloudera. He serves as Advisor at SignalFire. He co-founded Cloudera in 2008 and served as its CEO until 2013 when he took on his current role of chief strategy officer (CSO.) As CSO, Mike is responsible for Cloudera's product strategy, open source leadership, engineering alignment and direct engagement with customers. Prior to Cloudera Mike was CEO of Sleepycat Software, makers of Berkeley DB, the open source embedded database engine. Mike spent two years at Oracle Corporation as vice president for Embedded Technologies after Oracle's acquisition of Sleepycat in 2006. Prior to joining Sleepycat, Mike held technical and business positions at database vendors Britton Lee, Illustra Information Technologies and Informix Software. Mike has a Bachelor's and a Master's Degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Individual/Angel
CR&T
Switzerland
Mr. Kern Sibbald is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Technology Officer, President and Chairman at Bacula Systems. He also serves as the Chairman of Skad Labs. He designed and wrote most of the Bacula software; he manages the related open source project. He is the Founder of Autodesk where he was development manager for AutoCAD, a highly successful CAD program. He established and was the Technical Director of Autodesk's European software development center in Neuchatel, Switzerland. He holds a bachelors degree in physics from the University of California and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Maryland.
Individual/Angel
David Butcher
United States
Mr. Scott Hassan is the Founder and serves as President & Chief Executive Officer at Suitable Technologies. He is an Angel Investor. Mr. Scott Hassan serves as the Board Member at Event Presence. He is also the Founder of Suitable Technologies and also serves as the Chief Executive Officer and President.He founded and served as the Chief Executive Officer at Willow Garage. He also served as a Board Member at Arstasis. Hassan is best known as the founder of eGroups (a group email messaging company now known as Yahoo Groups), and was the key software architect/developer of Google, Alexa Internet and the Stanford Digital Library. Throughout his life, Scott has had a deep interest in Open Source software, computers and autonomy. These interests led him to start Willow Garage, a privately-funded research company aiming to advance the state of robotic technology in autonomous devices. Scott brings to his role at Willow Garage a combination of startup experience and expertise building large software systems using Open Source tools. He holds a BS in Computer Science from University of Buffalo.
Individual/Angel
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.
Individual/Angel
Hyperledger
United States
Hyperledger is an open source collaborative effort created to advance cross-industry blockchain technologies. It is a global collaboration, hosted by The Linux Foundation, including leaders in finance, banking, Internet of Things, supply chains, manufacturing and Technology.
Accelerator
Incubator
i-Invested
London, England, United Kingdom
Global open source ecosystem, bringing ideas to life by empowering innovative crowds. Connecting the dots between ideas and investors.
Crowdfunding
Crowdsourcing
Incubators
Venture Capital
Venture Capital
Innovate Ltc
United States
InnovateLTC is up and running, expanding and evolving. The key word is open source. It is an independent entity focused on delivering cutting-edge products and services to the exploding aging population. We invite everyone who has a stake in that mission to join us.
Accelerator
Incubator
Michael Bronfein
United States
Mr. Chris DiBona serves as Director of Open Source, Making & Science at Alphabet. He serves as Advisor at Metabiota. He also served as Advisor at GV. His team oversees license compliance and supports the open source developer community through programs such as the Google Summer of Code and through the release of open source software projects and patches. In the public sector space, Chris looks after Google Moderator and Google Elections. Chris is an internationally known advocate of open source software and related methodologies. He occasionally appears on the This Week in Tech and theThis Week in Google podcasts. He is a visiting scholar at the MIT Sloan School of Management and has a masters in software engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Additionally, he serves on a number of technical advisory boards. Before joining Google, Chris was an editor and author for the website Slashdot.org. Additionally, he co-edited the award-winning essay compilations Open Sourcesand Open Sources 2.0.
Individual/Angel
Open Source Syndicate
San Francisco, California, United States
Open Source Syndicate is a syndicate that invests in open-source and developer related products.
Venture Capital
Open Source Virtual Reality, OSVR
United States
Mr. John Park is a Board Member at Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of Greater New York.
Individual/Angel
Peter Beech
United States
Mr. Lars Nordwall serves as the Chief Operating Officer and President at Neo4j. He serves as Chairman at Hopsworks. He has a solid track record of entrepreneurial leadership in the Big Data, Cloud, SaaS, and Open Source arena, with both early-stage technology firms and public companies. He was the founding VP of Worldwide Sales at SugarCRM where he ramped the customer base to more than 4000 organizations and established the company as a market leader. He has been the SVP of Business Development and then SVP of Worldwide Sales at Pentaho (an open-source Business Intelligence firm), where he orchestrated a company turnaround with 100%+ annual booking growth and entry into the Big Data domain, as a result. Earlier in the career, he had various roles at Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP), including the Director of the Worldwide Business Intelligence & Analytics practice. He also spent time at Novell in a number of senior executive positions, following the acquisition of CTP. He has an M.Sc. Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm & Munich, a B.Sc. in Business Administration from the Stockholm University School of Business, and he has completed an Executive Education Program at Harvard Business School.
Individual/Angel
Quino Fernández
United States
Mr. Ashish Patel served as Managing Director of East Africa at The Abraaj Group. He joined AVG Technologies as a Senior Vice President of corporate development in May 2010. Most recently, he was Managing Director and a member of the Management Review Committee at Intel Capital, a global leader in strategic investing, where he was responsible for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa region and led investments in more than 50 technology start ups. He joined Intel Capital in 1999 and was a founding member of the firm in Europe and opened the London, Moscow, Dubai and most recently, Johannesburg offices. Mr. Patel was an early backer of open source software and lead Intel's strategic investments into Suse and MySQL as well as opening up new emerging markets through investments such as Yandex and AVG. Prior to Intel Capital, Mr. Patel was an investment director with Actis, a leading private equity investor in emerging markets, where he was a member of the telecom team. He qualified as an ACA with Coopers & Lybrand where he was engaged with corporate finance advisory activity mainly with large-cap international businesses. He serves on several boards, including AVG, Colibrys, and IP Access. He holds a B.Sc. in Economics from London School of Economics. He also served as an Advisory Board Member at TLcom Capital.
Individual/Angel
Richard Klausner
United States
Mr. Lawrence Bohn is an Angel Investor and serves as Managing Director at General Catalyst. He served as Board Member at OzVision & Julia Computing. He serves as Board Observer at Alyce. He serves as Board Member at Section4, Zageno and airSlate. He was also a Board Observer and Advisor at Tesora. He served as Board Member at Clarabridge. His areas of interest include open source, cloud-based computing, advanced software/hardware systems, and SaaS business models. Before joining GC, Larry was President of PC DOCS and subsequently CEO of NetGenesis, he took both companies public. He served as SVP of Marketing and Business Development at Interleaf and was a founder and the first president of OASIS. He also serves as Board Member at Feedvisor and OM1. He was a Board Member at Hubspot. He also serves as a Board member at GoodData & Tidelift. He serves as Board Member at Logz.io.
Individual/Angel
Rob Bearden
Modesto, California, United States
Rob is an experienced software executive and entrepreneur. He has made significant contributions in the open source community both advising ...
Investment Partner
Individual/Angel
Smart4 Engineering
France
Smart4 Engineering is a Information Technology and services company. The company offers a range of services including vertical value chains, green technologies, knowledge management, system design & electronics advanced network & lot industry 4.0 performance, data management data analytics & AI blockchain, embedded software / DevOps cybersecurity UX design smart, digital & open source &cloud services. It was founded in December, 2009 and headquartered in Paris, France.
Private Equity Firm
Solomon Hykes
San Francisco, California, United States
Solomon Hykes is the Founder, Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect of Docker and the creator of the Docker open source initiative. I...
Investment Partner
Individual/Angel
Sparksuite
The Woodlands, Texas, United States
Launches, acquires, and grows a family of innovative software companies and awesome open source projects.
Finance
Software
Venture Capital
Private Equity Firm
Venture Capital
The Lanlaxy Group
United States
Dr. Roderick Johnson is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Atomist. He serves as Board Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Dr. Johnson serves as a Board Observer at Apollo Graph. He serves as a Board Member at Hazelcast. Dr. Johnson served as CEO of SpringSource since the company's inception, until its 2009 acquisition by VMware, where he was a Senior Vice President. Rod has more than 15 years of technology and management experience. Rod conceived of and initiated the development of Spring. The Spring Portfolio of open source projects was based on the code published with Rod's best-selling "Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development" (2002). This book was one of the most influential books ever published on J2EE and the sequel, "J2EE without EJB" (July 2004, with Juergen Hoeller), has proven almost equally significant, establishing a comprehensive vision for lightweight, post-EJB J2EE development. Rod is one of the world's leading authorities on Java and J2EE development and a thought leader on open source, as well as a popular speaker at conferences and symposia around the world. Rod holds a BA with Honors in Computer Science, Mathematics and Musicology as well as a Phd from the University of Sydney.
Individual/Angel
Tito Bohrt
Canada
Mr. Joseph Fung is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer & Board Member at Kiite. He is an Angel Investor. He serves as Vice Chairman of the Board at Communitech. He is also a Co-Founder of TribeHR and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. He is also a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Uvaro. He has Co-Founded Lewis Media, a web development and software development firm, Simple Machines Forum, an open source software development project and OnMyBlock.ca. He is a graduate of Leadership Waterloo Region and his professional interests include user business and NFP governance, interface design, web strategy, software development and all things high-tech.
Individual/Angel
Ty Smith
San Francisco Bay Area
Android Platform Lead & Open Source TSC Chair at Uber | Angel Investor & Advisor | Conference Speaker & Organizer
Consumer Internet
Enterprise
SaaS
SMB Software
Individual/Angel
Advisor
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