Found 643 investors
Julien Boubel
United States
Mr. Frederick Dotzler is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at De Novo Ventures. He is also a co-founder of De Novo. Prior to De Novo, he was a Managing General Partner of Medicus Venture Partners ("Medicus"), which he founded in 1989. Medicus was an early stage investor in companies such as Anergen, Applied Molecular Evolution, Biosite Diagnostics, Inhale Therapeutic Systems (now Nektar), Omnicell and Tularik. Prior to Medicus, he was a General Partner with Crosspoint Venture Partners for 5 years, where he invested in life sciences companies. Prior to joining Crosspoint, Fred served in executive positions in finance, marketing, sales, manufacturing and business development for companies selling pharmaceuticals (Searle), medical instruments (Merrimack), biotechnology research tools (Millipore), and computers (IBM). Fred earned an MBA from the University of Chicago, a Masters equivalent in Economics from the University of Louvain, Belgium and a BS in Engineering from Iowa State University, where he received a Professional Achievement Citation in Engineering in 2000. He represented or represents De Novo Ventures on investments in Astute Medical, Microvention, Oncomed, Renovis and Senorx. Fred is a Trustee of the Salk Institute, a Trustee of the Santa Fe Institute, an Advisor to the Gruter Institute, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Journal of Private Equity. He is also an investor of Personalis.
Individual/Angel
Junwei Wang
United States
Mr. Jason Kelly served as the President at LiveIntent. Previously, he served as a Chief Executive Officer at Sociomantic Labs. He served as Chief Revenue Officer Admeld. He holds a degree in Business and Computer Science from University of North Dakota.
Individual/Angel
Justin Yurek
United States
Mr. Gregory Besner is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Sunflow. Mr. Gregory Besner Founded and served as Vice Chairman at CultureIQ. Mr. Besner served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at CultureIQ. He is also an Adjunct Professor at NYU Stern School of Business. Prior to launching CultureIQ, Mr. Besner was the CFO of SecondMarket and the founder and CEO of Computershare Executive Services, (formerly known as Restricted Stock Systems, Inc.). During his tenure as CEO of RSS, he was named the EY 2003 Entrepreneur of the Year in New Jersey. Mr. Besner is an investor and Board member for numerous companies. Of note, he was an active investor and consultant for Zappos.com until the company's sale to Amazon.com.
Individual/Angel
Karazinstartups
Kharkiv, Sums'ka Oblast', Ukraine
Karazinstartups is a business school at the Department of Computer Science of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University.
University Program
Karl Dean
United States
Mr. Sanat Rao serves as Executive at BlockTower Capital. Mr. Rao is a Co-Founder & serves as Managing Partner and Board Member at Gamma Point Capital. Mr. Rao served as Venture Partner at IDG Ventures India. He served as Board Member at Active.AI. Previously, he served as an Advisor at ProductNation. He served as Advisor at LetsVenture Online. He serves as an Angel Investor. He is also a Fellow at iSPIRT, a Thinktank focused on India's Software Product Industry, where he helps connect top India startups to US companies for investments and M&A. He has over 20 years of experience in the industry across investment and operational roles. Prior to IDG Ventures, he was a Partner, Corporate Development and M&A at ISPIRT, where he was responsible for 12 M&A transactions in the Indo-US corridor. He was an active angel investor with investments in Marketplaces and new age fields such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. He has previously held roles on the Investment & Corporate Development teams at Intel Capital where he was involved with several transactions including PCCW, OPlus & Infineon. He managed Intel's $100M Embedded business in emerging markets including India, Latin America, and Southeast Asia. He has also held several senior positions in engineering and marketing at Intel in Santa Clara, CA and Phoenix, AZ. He is an Advisor to the Saha Fund, India's first venture fund for women entrepreneurs, and is an active mentor at Microsoft Ventures India. He has an MS in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech & is a visiting faculty at the Duke Fuqua Business School.
Individual/Angel
Karl Kilb
United States
Dr. Tom Zhang serves as Venture Partner at Skywood Capital. He also is an Angel Investor. Mr. Zhang formerly served as Venture Advisor at Eastlink Capital. Tom is a Silicon Valley talent acquisition expert, and has extensive experience in Sino US technical recruiting and executive search. As a senior HR consultant at Tesla Motors Asia Pacific, he helped set up the first Tesla Asia Pacific team. He was a former Google-talent Evangelist at Google headquarters, and later joined Tencent to lead their over-seas talent acquisition. He taught at the Department of Computer Science at San Jose State University, and received his Ph.D degree at Zhejiang University.
Individual/Angel
Katherine Barr
United States
Dr. Shelley Zhuang is the Founder and serves as the Managing Partner at 11.2 Capital. She serves as Board Member at uMed. She has over ten years of experience in technology as a software engineer, research scientist, business executive, and venture capitalist. She was formerly EVP of Business Development at Ecoplast Technologies, where she oversaw business development & sales efforts in North America. Previously, she was a Principal at DFJ, where she was actively involved in a number of investments including Ecoplast Technologies, FeedBurner (acquired by Google for $100M), Flurry (acquired by Yahoo for $240M), PPLive (acquired by Suning for $420M), TicketsNow (acquired by Ticketmaster for $265M), Xfire (acquired by Viacom for $102M), YeePay. She is a techie at heart and holds a BS in Computer Science and Computer Engineering from the University of Missouri, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley. She is currently an advisor at Skydeck and G7 Fellow at Creative Destruction Lab, and serves on Enigma 2016's program committee.
Individual/Angel
Kenn Koid
India
Dr. Donald Brown is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Lifeomic. Dr. Donald Brown is the Founder of Interactive Intelligence Group and also serves as its Chairman of the Board, President and Chief Executive Officer. He co-founded his third software company, Interactive Intelligence, in October 1994. He has been a director since inception. In March 1988, Dr. Brown co-founded Software Artistry, Inc., a developer of customer support software that became a public company in March 1995 and was subsequently acquired by IBM Corporation in January 1998. At Software Artistry, Dr. Brown served as Chief Executive Officer and director from inception through September 1994. Dr. Brown's first software company was acquired by Electronic Data Systems, Inc. in September 1987. Dr. Brown graduated from the Indiana University School of Medicine in 1985. He also holds two additional degrees from Indiana University, an M.S. in computer science and a B.S. in physics. Dr. Brown is currently completing an M.S. in Biotechnology at Johns Hopkins University. He is the father of eight children and an avid pilot and rock climber.
Individual/Angel
Kenny MacKenzie
France
Mr. Frederic Mazzella is a Co-Founder and serves as President and Executive Chairman at BlaBlaCar. He serves as Board Member of OLIO and Board Advisor for Mentorshow. Since pioneering the idea in 2004, he continues to lead BlaBlaCar's vision of creating a global people-powered network with a trusted community of drivers and passengers. He focuses on the excellence of the product, establishing trust within the ridesharing community and drives the overall communication of the brand. With a data-driven mindset and a believer in the power of laughing to learn, he is also a strong advocate of sustainable development, entrepreneurship, transforming the global marketplace and building trust in online communities. Prior to founding BlaBlaCar, He held the role of scientific researcher at NASA (USA) and NTT (Japan). He holds an MBA in Business and Entrepreneurship from INSEAD, a Masters in Computer Science from Stanford and a Masters in Physics from Ecole Normale Supérieure. He is also an Angel Investor. He also serves as Board Member at SIDE Capital. He also serves as Co-President of the Board at France Digitale.
Individual/Angel
Ken Ude
United States
Mr. Carlos Henríquez is an Angel Investor. He is Executive Master in Innovation, EOI, Spain; Java Certified Developer; Computer Engineer since 2006, now focused in mobile tech. He worked at Wincor-Nixdorf and Sun
Individual/Angel
Kernel Labs
Seattle, Washington, United States
Kernel Labs specializes in machine learning, computer vision, and security.
Computer Vision
Financial Services
Machine Learning
Security
Venture Capital
Venture Capital
Kevin Malakoff
China
Mr. Robin Li is a Co-Founder & serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Baidu. He serves as Chairman at Baidu Ventures. He is also a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at BioMap. He received a bachelor of science degree in information management from Peking University in 1991 and a master of science degree in computer science from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1994. Robin worked as a senior consultant at a subsidiary of Dow Jones and designed the real-time financial information system for the online edition of the Wall Street Journal. Robin received a US patent for a system of hyperlink analysis in 1999, one of the inventions that has helped shape today's search technology. He later joined InfoSeek, one of the early search engines, in Silicon Valley as a senior engineer. Since founding the company in January 2000, Robin has led Baidu to be China's largest search engine, with over 70% market share. Baidu is the largest Chinese search engine globally and the second largest independent search engine in the world. China is among the four countries globally-alongside the United States, Russia, and South Korea-to possess its own core search engine technology. Through innovations such as Box Computing to Baidu's Open Data and Open App Platform, Robin has substantially advanced the theoretical framework of China's Internet sciences, propelling Baidu to be the vanguard of China's Internet industry. In 2005, Baidu became a NASDAQ-listed public company and in 2007 was the first Chinese company to be included in the NASDAQ-100 Index. In 2007, The Financial Times listed Baidu as one of the Top 10 Chinese Global Brands, with Baidu being the youngest company, as well as the only Internet company, in the top ten. As one of the pioneers and leading figures in China's Internet industry, Robin's achievements are widely recognized. In 2013, Robin became a member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. He currently acts as Vice Chairman of the All-China Federation of Industry and Commerce and Vice Chairman of the Internet Society of China (ISC). Robin is a "1000 Talent" National Distinguished Expert and has received honors including "CCTV Key Figure in China's Economy," "The Top 30 Figures in China's 30 Years of Reform," "Ten IT Leaders," and many others. Robin topped Forbes' list of "2012 China's Best CEOs" and was named in Forbes' List of World's Most Powerful People three years in a row. Magazines such as BusinessWeek and Time Magazine have repeatedly put Robin's on the lists of "Best Business Leaders in the World" and "China's Most Influential Business Leaders." He is also an Angel Investor.
Individual/Angel
Khajak Keledjian
United States
Mr. Ari Pine is a Co-Founder of Digital Gamma. He has traded every asset class but especially options. He is an Angel Investor. A trained engineer, he focuses on process and applying technology. He managed the development of the options valuation, risk management, and trading software that his team used to run an integrated market-making book of gold options in both the futures and related ETF market. That led to his becoming one of the 10 largest gold options traders on CME. In addition to starting multiple (successful) trading ventures, he co-founded a startup for calculating the implied volatility for all US equity & index options, co-founded Global Gamma with Paul for exploring options trading opportunities in China, and has been an angel investor in numerous start-ups. Often, he is unable to keep his opinion to himself and has written numerous online pieces, as well as radio, video, and podcast appearances. He holds a BA in history from Wesleyan University and a BS in Computer Engineering from CalTech.
Individual/Angel
Kimmo Soramaki
United States
Dr. Herbert Bay is a Co-Founder & serves as Chief Executive Officer at Earkick. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Board Member at kooaba. He completed an Executive MBA from IMD Business School in 2008. He completed his Ph.D. (Doctor of Philosophy) in Computer Vision from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich in 2006 and MS (Master of Science) in Microelectronic Engineering from Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in 2002.
Individual/Angel
Knowledge Cube
United States
Mr. Jon Lehman serves as Board Member at Alpha Investing. Mr. Lehman is a serial entrepreneur who serves as a consultant and board advisor to early-stage companies. He is a Mentor at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center and an Adjunct Professor of Management at Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management where he also served as Associate Dean for Health Care and Associate Dean of Students. Prior to joining Owen, Mr. Lehman served as the CEO of a healthcare IT company, Intact, which lead to a merger with a Canadian public company. He was an early-stage investor and served as Executive Vice President and Director of Futurekids, an international computer training company, that was later acquired by a leading educational software company. He also founded and served as Principal of a venture development firm, Section Companies. He holds AB in Economics from Colgate University, Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and an MBA from Harvard Business School with Distinction.
Individual/Angel
Koei Tecmo
Japan
Developer of gaming software for personal computers and home gaming systems.
Individual/Angel
Kuba Tymula
United States
Mr. Glen Sato served as a Partner at Cooley. He is also an Angel Investor. He is a partner in the Life Sciences and Public Securities practice groups and a member of Cooley Godward Kronish's Business department. He rejoined the Firm in 2006 and is resident in the Palo Alto office. Mr. Sato's practice focuses on corporate transactions, SEC reporting and compliance, disclosure issues, intellectual property licensing and licensing strategy, general corporate counseling, insider trading compliance and working with Boards of Directors and audit committees on various risk and accounting related matters. Together with strong finance capabilities, Sato also has substantial experience in corporate partnering, international and domestic M&A and other heavily negotiated transactions. He has worked closely with underwriters on public and private company acquisitions and led initial public, follow-on and secondary and convertible note offerings. He has also led or been significantly involved in corporate partnering and licensing transactions involving pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies such as Abbott, Bayer, Biogen Idec, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Exelixis, Eli Lilly, Genentech, GlaxoSmithKline, MedImmune, PDL BioPharma, Progenics, Roche, Sankyo and Tanox. Prior to joining the Firm, Mr. Sato served in diverse legal, financial, operational and strategic planning positions where his responsibilities included finance, business development, IS, HR and Facilities. He most recently served as Protein Design Labs' (PDL) Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. He joined PDL from Exelixis, where he served as SVP, Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel for approximately three years. Prior to his time at Exelixis, he served in various legal and strategic planning positions at PDL, including Vice President, Legal and General Counsel. In addition, Mr. Sato worked at NeXT Computer as Associate General Counsel. He was an attorney in Cooley Godward Kronish's Business Department in Palo Alto for two years. Mr. Sato started his career at Jones, Day in Washington, DC. Mr. Sato received his JD and MBA from UCLA in 1987, where he was an Associate Editor of the Law Review. He received a Bachelor's degree in Economics and the College of Social Studies in 1981 from Wesleyan University. Mr. Sato is a member of the State Bar of California and an inactive member of the Washington, DC Bar Association.
Individual/Angel
Kumar Sripadam
United States
Mr. Giri Devanur is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at reAlpha. He also serves as Board member at Coffee Day Group and Saara. He previously served as Vice Chairman and Executive Director at Gallop. He also served as the President and CEO of Ameri100 Inc., since its inception in November 2013. In 4 years, he scaled Ameri from $0 to $50M in revenue and completed the IPO on Nasdaq in under 4 years. He was awarded the E&Y Entrepreneur of the Year in 2017. He has also authored a book titled "Nothing to Nasdaq". He is a seasoned CEO who has raised seed capital, venture capital and private equity from global institutions. He has more than 25 years of experience in the information technology industry. In 2010, he founded WinHire Inc., an innovative company that builds software products through technology and human capital management experts and combines them with professional services. He served as WinHire's President and CEO. He also co-founded Ivega Corporation in 1997, an international niche IT consulting company with a special focus on financial services. Ivega merged with TCG in 2004, creating a 1,000+ person-focused differentiator in the IT consulting space. He holds an M.S. in Technology Management from Columbia University and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from the University of Mysore, India. He has attended Executive Education programs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard Law School. The Board believes that his qualifications to serve on the Board include his substantial experience in the information technology industry and his prior experience as a CEO.
Individual/Angel
Kunal Chaudhari
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Computer engineer, Father and Novice farmer. Started career at small companies to start my own venture and than joined Point10 Ventures to w...
Larry Williams
United States
Mr. Boaz Chalamish serves as Executive Chairman at Infinidat. He serves as Executive Chairman at Clarizen. He served as Chief Executive Officer at Clarizen. He brings over 25 years of technology industry experience to Clarizen. He previously held executive positions at VMware, where he led the company's cloud management and end-user computing business. He was responsible for strategy, products, engineering and delivery for these high growth VMware businesses. Previously, Boaz was senior vice president of research and development at HP Software. He also served as senior vice president and general manager at Mercury Interactive, where he was instrumental in helping create the business technology optimization category. While at Mercury, Boaz was responsible for global research and development activities and driving product development and strategy, helping the business grow from zero to $1 billion in annual sales. In 2006, Mercury Interactive was acquired by HP Software for $4.5 billion. Boaz received his MBA at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management and holds an MSC in computer engineering from the Israel Institute of Technology. He served as Board Member at Logz.io.
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