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Lars Appelstål
United States
Mr. Hemant Taneja serves as Managing Partner at General Catalyst. He serves as Board Member at Elemy, Athelas, Olive AI, Anduril, Cityblock Health, Stork Club, Roman Health Ventures, Spring Discovery, BrightInsight, Gusto, Applied Intuition (Business/Productivity Software), Angle Technologies, Health Insight Technologies, Virtual Instruments, Hunch, Lumenz, Modular Wind, Sand9, Stripe, TuneIn, Stion, Fractyl, Stripe, Highfive Technologies. He served as Board Member at Fundbox, Digit, and Puzzle Financial. He also serves as Chief Executive Officer & Chairman at Health Assurance Acquisition. He serves as Chairman at MySun and SunBorne Energy. He is also a Board Observer at Nova Credit and GitLab. Previously, he was a Board Member at SynapDx. He is also an Investor at Snapchat. He invests in technology-intensive software, hardware, and services in clean energy and internet communications. He served as Board Member at C12 Energy. Before joining General Catalyst in 2002, he was a co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of Isovia, a Boston-based mobile software, and applications company that was acquired by JP Mobile (MOT) in 2001. He holds an M.S. in Operations Research, an M.Eng. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, a B.S. in Mathematics, a B.S. in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and a B.S. in Biology & Biomedical Engineering all from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He serves as Board Member at Cadence Solutions.
Individual/Angel
Lars Dahlén
United States
Mr. Shantanu Sinha is a Co-Founder and serves as Executive Chairman at Highfive. He has previously worked with Google. He earlier co-founded Isovia and served as its Director of Product. He co-founded Highfive in 2012 with the vision of improving workplace collaboration by making every conversation face-to-face after seeing the impact video conferencing had internally at Google. Prior to Highfive, Shan was Group Product Manager for Google Apps for Enterprise (now G Suite). Shan joined Google via acquisition after Google bought his collaboration company, DocVerse, in 2010. DocVerse later became Google Drive. Shan founded DocVerse in 2007 after leaving his role as Product Manager for Microsoft SharePoint and SQL Server. Shan graduated from MIT with a Masters and Bachelors in Computer Science, where he conducted research in network systems and performance. Highfive is Shan's fourth startup company.
Individual/Angel
Lars Jensen
United States
Harry A. George. Mr. George has served on our board of directors since 2002 and served as the chair of our board of directors from December 2007 until September 2013. Mr. George co-founded Solstice Capital, a venture capital firm, in 1995 and serves as its Managing General Partner. Mr. George served as President and CFO of Radiance Therapeutics from June 2018 to September 2020. He has also served as a member of the board of directors of a number of other private and public companies and is currently serving on the boards of directors of Radiance Therapeutics, Medipacs, Inc., Post.Bid.Ship, Inc., AdiCyte, Inc., RxActuator, Inc. and Splash Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Mr. George is also a member of the boards of directors of several non-profit organizations, including Southern Arizona Leadership Council, Desert Angels and Start-up Tucson, a member of the Board of Visitors of the McGuire Center for Entrepreneurship, and an advisor to Tech Launch Arizona. Prior to 1995, Mr. George was co-founder, Director, and Vice-President of Finance for Interleaf Inc., a software products company. Prior to his time at Interleaf, Mr. George was co-founder, Director and Vice President of Finance of Kurzweil Computer Products, Inc., a computer products company, which subsequently was purchased by Xerox Imaging Systems. Mr. George received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Bowdoin College and, in 2012, received an Honorary Doctorate of Science from the University of Arizona. Also in 2012, the Arizona BioIndustry Association conferred upon Mr. George the John McGarrity Bioscience Leader of the Year Award. Mr. George's detailed knowledge of our company and long tenure with us, together with his more than 40 years of experience serving as founder, operating officer, or investor with successful rapid growth technology-related companies qualify him to serve on our board of directors.
Individual/Angel
Laurene Jobs
United States
Mr. Greg Gunn is a Co-Founder at Lingo Ventures. He serves as Chairman of the Board and the Governance Committee & Member of the Grants Policy & Program Committee, the Investment Committee, and the Organizational Measurement Committee at Nellie Mae Education Foundation. He is currently an Entrepreneur in Residence at City Light Capital, where he focuses on early-stage investments in educational software and service companies. In 2000, he co-founded Wireless Generation, a leading educational software company now serving more than 3 million children with groundbreaking assessment and instruction products. As President, Mr. Gunn created and led the product development team and revamped the company's sales division, landing key state and district sales and tripling the company's revenue in 18 months. As Chief Scientist, he designed highly effective professional development techniques and created the company's analytics and data mining division, turning raw data into new insights about student learning progressions. The company was sold to News Corporation in December 2010. Mr. Gunn holds a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Chicago, an MBA and Master's in Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and attended Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. He also serves as a trustee of the Center for Excellence in Education and was named one of Fast Company magazine's "100 Most Creative People in Business" in 2012. Additionally, Mr. Gunn serves as an expert-in-residence at Harvard University's Innovation Lab and coaches entrepreneurial students at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Individual/Angel
Laurent Benhamou
United States
Mr. Tim Ogilvie is a Co-Founder of Think Gaming. He is a Co-Founder and serves as its Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Staked. He founded and served as Chief Executive Officer at AdBuyer.com. He was a pre-launch employee at two successful consumer internet companies, Interactive Search Holdings and Pronto (both sold to IAC/InterActiveCorp). He graduated from Yale University with a B.S. in Computer Science.
Individual/Angel
Laurie Miller
United States
Dr. Carlos Baradello serves as General Partner at Alaya Capital Partners. Dr. Baradello serves as Managing Partner at Sausalito Ventures. He draws his understanding from his broad global business and academic experience, deep technical knowledge and understanding of the realities innovators encounter in organizations both large and small. His experience working with hundreds of entrepreneurs around the world has enabled him to gain key lessons for high-growth ventures to scale globally. Carlos' interests include new global business creation, venture funding, business acceleration for "born global" startups and global scaling for "foreign born" startups in emerging economies. He is the founder of the University of San Francisco's (USF) groundbreaking Silicon Valley Immersion programs and former Associate Dean of its Global and Executive Programs. In addition to his teaching responsibilities across four continents as a member of the faculty at the USF, Hult International Business School, the Danish Technical University (Denmark), the Federico Santa Maria Technical University (Chile), and the University of International Business and Economics (Beijing, China), he is a public speaker and corporate advisor to Fortune 500 companies, Economic Development Agencies and NGOs across the world. He is also a Founder and General Partner of ALAYA-CP, Cordoba, Argentina's first venture capital firm and Founder and Managing Partner of Sausalito Ventures, a firm that positions Latin American ventures to scale globally. After earning his Engineering Degree from Argentina's Catholic University of Cordoba, he earned his MSc from the Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) and his PhD in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University. For over 30 years, he was in the telecommunications and computer industry with progressively senior executive roles at ITT, NYNEX, Digital Equipment Corporation, Advanced Fibre Communications (IPO 1996) and Motorola, where he was the company's Corporate Vice President for the Latin America and Caribbean region. He lives with his wife Ana in Tiburon, Northern California and has four grown children. He is fluent in English, Spanish and Italian. He has authored over 50 technical and management papers and has received USA/EU patents for six of his inventions.
Individual/Angel
Lawrence Leisure
United States
Mr. Bruno Yoshimura is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner of ONEVC. Mr. Yoshimura was a Co-Founder and served as Chief Technology Officer at Kekanto. Bruno has accumulated 15 years experience as a tech founder with extensive involvement in product development, sales, and marketing. Before pursuing an MBA at Stanford, he launched Kekanto, an online guide based on usersí reviews. The project was backed by Accel Partner and Kaszek Ventures, and Delivery Direto, a white-label platform for restaurants doing delivery. As an angel investor, Bruno has made five investments with two realized returns above 100x. Bruno also holds a major in computer science from the University of Sao Paulo.
Individual/Angel
Lawrence Summers
United States
Mr. Horacio Martos Borja Co-Founded Social Point and served as its Co-Chief Executive Officer. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and also a Master's degree in Entrepreneurship from the École de Management de Normandie.
Individual/Angel
Leaders Technology Investment
South Korea
Founded in 1996, Leaders Technology Investment is a private equity firm based in Seoul, South Korea. The firm prefers to invest in companies operating in the computer hardware, pharmaceuticals, and biotechnology sectors.
Private Equity Firm
Lee Berger
United States
Mr. Johann Moonesinghe is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer & Board Member at inKind. Johann mixes an entrepreneur's boldness with his discerning palate. In addition to making angel investments in several early-stage technology companies, he has also invested in two bars and several restaurants. The idea for inKind was born out of those investments. inKind marks Johann's third technology startup. madKast, a 2007 TechStars Boulder company, was acquired by industry-leader ShareThis in 2008. Johann has a degree in Computer Science and Engineering from UCLA in the US.
Individual/Angel
Len Veil
Orange, California, United States
Len is an entrepreneur in the fintech and trusted computing markets. After nearly a decade designing supercomputers, Len managed complex sys...
Individual/Angel
Leopoldo Zambeletti
United States
Dr. Fengmin Gong co-founded and served as Strategic Advisor at Cyphort. He also served as Advisor at 11.2 Capital. He brings over 25 years of security industry experiences, formerly serving as Chief Scientist and Head of next-gen security product development at Huawei-Symantec, Chief Security Content Officer at FireEye, co-founder & Chief Scientist at Palo Alto Networks, Chief Scientist & Director of Intrusion Detection Technologies at McAfee, and co-founder of IntruVert Networks (acquired by McAfee), and Director of Advanced Networking Research at MCNC. Dr. Gong holds 12 patents in networking security areas and has published over 40 papers. His academic background includes professorial appointment North Carolina State University and research roles at Washington University. Gong holds a D.Sc. and M.S. in Computer Science from Washington University in St. Louis and a B.Eng. and M.Eng. in Computer Science from Xi'an Jiaotong University.
Individual/Angel
Leslie Lane
India
Mr. Bask Iyer serves as Industry Verticals and Customer Transformation Officer at VMware. He served as a Board Member of Automation Anywhere. He is also an angel investor. He served as Chief Information Officer & Senior Vice President at Juniper Networks. He oversees Juniper Networks' technology and business operations that support a $4.4 billion global networking innovation company. With more than 25 years of experience in international business and IT management, Iyer has strategically applied his business and technical expertise across large global companies, using technology as a transformational catalyst and growth driver. Since joining Juniper in mid-2011, Iyer sponsored two key programs to champion enterprise IT needs and better support the business, including Juniper on Juniper and Customer #1. Iyer's role was recently expanded to include business transformation, global business services, IT, and real estate workplace services, all critical services for Juniper's long-term success. Iyer joined Juniper from Honeywell, where he served as company-wide CIO, responsible for the overall IT operations and strategy that supported 120,000 employees globally. A member of the executive leadership team, Iyer drove the IT vision, strategy, and operating plan and led the transformation program for all global functions, including IT, finance, human resources, real estate, and procurement. Previous Honeywell roles included CIO, Transportation Systems and General Manager, Asia Pacific, where Iyer lived and worked in China for 1.5 years. Earlier in his career, Iyer served as CIO at GlaxoSmithKline Beecham for consumer healthcare research and development and was the corporation's e-commerce leader. He also held senior positions at Johnson & Johnson, CTS Corporation, and ran a retail business in India. Outside of Juniper, Iyer is an active member with several organizations: Center for Corporate Innovation, Fisher Silicon Valley CIO Roundtable, Sierra Ventures CIO Board, and Silicon Valley CIO Roundtable. He recently joined Sutter Hill Ventures Customer Advisory Board. Iyer holds a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Annamalai University in India and a master's degree in computer science from Florida Institute of Technology. He also served as Chief Information Officer of Dell Technologies.
Individual/Angel
Liam Lynch
United States
Mr. Erik Swan is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Alien Tool & Die. He also is an Angel Investor. He served as Board Member at Insight Engines. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Advisor at Splunk. Previously, he served as a Chief Technology Officer since November 2003. He is a Board Member of Tempered Networks. Prior to joining Splunk, he served as Chief Technology Officer at CommerceFlow, an information technology and services company, from January 2001 to October 2003. Previously, Mr. Swan served as Vice President of Engineering at Disney Internet Group, a division of The Walt Disney Company, from January 2000 to January 2001. He studied computer science at the California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo.
Individual/Angel
Lindsay Phillips
United Kingdom
Mr. Laurence Garrett serves as a Partner of Highland Europe. He serves as Board Member at Highland Europe. He serves as StarLeaf and Intersec. He served as Board Observer at TalentSoft. He also served as Board Member at Condeco. He primarily focuses on growth opportunities in the information technology sector for the European market. He represents Highland Capital Europe on the board of NewVoiceMedia and is involved with the investment in Brandwatch. He also serves as a Board Observer at MATCHESFASHION. Prior to joining Highland Capital Partners in 2012 as a Partner to launch their London Operations, he was a Partner and founding member of Ethean Capital LLP. Previously, he was a Partner with 3i Group where he was responsible for investments such as CSR (IPO), UbiNetics (acquired by Aeroflex and CSR), Trigenix (acquired by Qualcomm), Insensys (acquired by Moog and Schlumberger), Ezurio (acquired by Laird) and Icera Semiconductor (acquired by Nvidia.) Independently, he was an active board member of BlueGnome which was acquired in September 2012 by Illumina Inc. Mr. Garrett holds a B.A. in Computer Science and Accounting from Sheffield University and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He began his career with Deloitte working in their Leeds and San Francisco offices. He is also an Angel Investor.
Individual/Angel
Liz Marchi
United States
Mr. Jo-ning Ta serves as an Investor at Sand Hill Angels. He was a Co-Founder and served as the Chief Technology Officer at bcodex. He serves as CTO in Symbio which is one of the leading global outsourced product development companies. Working in Technology Solutions, he has been focusing on leveraging new technologies and Symbio's design & development capabilities to define offerings and provide solutions for clients. He has 25 years of experience in managing and developing software from large-scale, high performance distributed systems, middleware, applications, and embedded devices in areas of the Internet, mobile, enterprise, and telecom in successful start-ups as well as leading corporations. He was VP Eng for Spark Tech, a start-up in developing embedded devices and app & server to bridge personal rich media data among mobile phone, desktop, and the web. He was VP Eng and co-founder of Mobile Radius, a mobile content charging and personalized marketing solution start-up. He was VP Eng for Sina.com, a leading Chinese Internet portal, and online media company. He was with Netscape leading the development of eCommerce, workflow systems, and the Internet application and database access framework. He also held various technical and management positions in Bell Communication Research, MMI, HP, Oracle, and Gupta. He received his MS in Computer Science from the University of Southern California and BS in Physics from National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.
Individual/Angel
Lots
Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland
Lots is a Finnish private equity investor founded by pioneers in computer graphics technology.
Private Equity Firm
Lowe's Innovation Labs
United States
Founded on January 01, 2014, Lowe's Innovation Labs is the innovation hub for FORTUNE 50 retailer Lowe's Companies, Inc., focused on building the future of home improvement retail. Using emerging technologies, Lowe's Innovation Labs accelerates the experiences customers expect today while developing capabilities that will power the future. The team's expertise in advanced visualization tools like augmented and virtual reality, and other emerging technologies like robotics, computer vision, and spatial computing, enable Lowe's to solve everyday customer and associate challenges. The Labs partners with startups, universities, and global technology leaders to create and fast-track solutions and has a Bangalore-based accelerator program, CONSTRUCT by Lowe's Innovation Labs.
Accelerator
Incubator
Lukas Weber
Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Lukas Weber is the Co-CEO, Co-Founder, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of investiere. Lukas holds a degree in computer science from ...
Investment Partner
Lydian Capital Partners
United Kingdom
Mr. Joseph Lee co-founded & served as Chief Innovation Officer at Magnr. He has done BS in Computer Science from Loughborough University.
Individual/Angel
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