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Vidinovo
United States
Vidinovo was an angel group that invested in companies through early and late stage financing. The firm sought to invest in the healthcare, education, life science, oncolgy and service sectors.
Angel Group
Vigo Activo
Nigrán, Galicia, Spain
Vigo Activo is a venture capital company that seeks to contribute to economic development through venture capital financing and advice.
Venture Capital
Viiking Ventures
United Kingdom
Mr. Georg Ell serves as Chief Executive Officer & Board Member at Smoothwall. He also serves as Partner at Craft Ventures. He also serves a Board Member at Safeguard Software. Previously, he served as Country Director, UK & Ireland at Tesla. He also served as the Vice President & General Manager, EMEA at FuzeBox, where he was responsible for establishing & growing the business in the region, reporting to the CEO. Prior to Fuzebox, he was with Yammer as GM for EMEA, having originally joined as one of three that were "first on the ground" in Europe and subsequently growing the headcount to 85, establishing a permanent HQ in London prior to the acquisition by Microsoft. Georg is a frequent public speaker supporting both UK Government and private sector advocacy to promote London's Tech City. Prior to joining Yammer, Georg worked at Microsoft for 5 years, in Enterprise and Cloud sales roles. Georg studied Political Science and Management Studies at St. John's College, Cambridge, and lives in London with his wife Katie. He is an Angel Investor.
Individual/Angel
Vijay Aggarwal
United States
Mr. John Sowa serves as Angel Investor at Dr. John F. Sowa. Mr. John Sowa serves as Advisor at Kyndi. He is an American computer scientist, an expert in artificial intelligence and computer design, and the inventor of conceptual graphs. Sowa received a BS in mathematics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1962, an MA in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1966, and a PhD in computer science from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in 1999 on a dissertation titled "Knowledge Representation: Logical, Philosophical, and Computational Foundations". Sowa spent most of his professional career at IBM, which started in 1962 at IBM's applied mathematics group. Over the decades he has researched and developed emerging fields of computer science from compiler, programming languages, and system architecture[4] to artificial intelligence and knowledge representation. In the 1990s Sowa was associated with IBM Educational Center in New York. Over the years he taught courses at the IBM Systems Research Institute, Binghamton University, Stanford University, Linguistic Society of America and Université du Québec à Montréal. He is a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. After early retirement at IBM Sowa in 2001 co-founded VivoMind Intelligence, Inc. with Arun K. Majumdar. With this company he was developing data-mining and database technology, more specific high-level "ontologies" for artificial intelligence and automated natural language understanding. Currently Sowa is working with Kyndi Inc., also founded by Majumdar. John Sowa is married to the philologist Cora Angier Sowa and they live in Croton-on-Hudson, New York. Sowa's research interest since the 1970s were in the field of artificial intelligence, expert systems and database query linked to natural languages. In his work he combines ideas from numerous disciplines and eras modern and ancient, for example, applying ideas from Aristotle, the medieval Scholastics to Alfred North Whitehead and including database schema theory, and incorporating the model of analogy of Islamic scholar Ibn Taymiyyah in his works. Currently, Mr. Sowa serves as an Advisor at Kyndi. Sowa invented conceptual graphs, a graphic notation for logic and natural language, based on the structures in semantic networks and on the existential graphs of Charles S. Peirce. He published the concept in the 1976 article "Conceptual graphs for a data base interface" in the IBM Journal of Research and Development. In the 1980s this theory has "been adopted by a number of research and development groups throughout the world. International conferences on conceptual graphs have been held for over a decade since before 1992."
Individual/Angel
Vijay Bolina
United States
Mr. Dendi served as the Vice President of Business Development at Electric Cloud. He served as an Advisor at Somnoware. He has deep international business development background in software, hardware, services and Cloud Computing. Before joining Electric Cloud, Dendi served as IBM's business development executive for the cloud computing business, where he was instrumental in establishing IBM's cloud platform and services. Dendi played a key role in growing IBM's Service Oriented Architecture platform through strategic partnerships with companies such as Capgemini, Accenture, Deloitte and Infosys. He was also responsible for driving software strategy including acquisitions and new technology creation, and held leadership roles at IBM in software, services, sales and business development. Prior to IBM, Dendi held senior positions with Actional, Abilizer, Aspect Development and Ramco Systems. His career includes work with several Fortune 500 companies including Allianz, Barclays Group, Visa, Disney, Gap, Chevron, Procter & Gamble, Nissan and Union Pacific. Dendi holds a bachelor of technology degree in electronics engineering and telecommunications engineering from the National Institute of Technology, Warangal, India.
Individual/Angel
Vijay Chakravarthy
United States
Mr. Elio Narciso is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Measurence. He is also an Angel Investor. He also co-founded YooDeal. He helps retailers transform stores into physical websites with a robust, yet extremely easy-to-use analytics platform. Store performance is measured by analyzing inputs from several sources: remotely managed in-store IoT sensors (low cost Wi-Fi APs and beacons); open data feeds; store POS data. Inputs are then correlated and translated into actionable insights, distributed through email, SMS or app notifications to allow wide collaboration between key field employees that interact with customers, and marketing people that analyze data. Backed by Cisco, Measurence works with large retailers as well as smaller merchants, through its partnership with Square. An MIT Sloan alum of the Class of 2001, he moonlights as advisor and early stage investor to great entrepreneurs.
Individual/Angel
Vijay Mahajan
United States
Dr. Norm Gitis serves as Managing Partner at Lymo Ventures. Dr. Norm Gitis serves as Screening Committee Member at Band of Angels. He also founded and served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Center For Tribology. He is also an Angel Investor. He obtained his Ph.D. (1983) in Mechanical Engineering from the USSR Academy of Sciences in Moscow. He immigrated to the US in 1989 and was a visiting professor at MIT until IBM moved him to San Jose, where he worked in the computer industry. He was the founder, President, and CEO of two highly-profitable test-instrumentation companies. Both have been acquired by leading corporations with high multiples. He was twice named the CEO of the Top20 Fastest Growing Private Companies in Northern California by the Business Journal. He is a life member of the engineering society of India and is a visiting professor of two universities in China. He has authored over 150 scientific papers, three books, and two dozen patents. He also chaired and organized numerous international scientific conferences. In parallel, he has been active in IP and product quality protection and has been a star expert witness in courts of Amsterdam, Berlin, Boston, London, Phoenix, and San Jose. He serves on the Board of Directors of Life Science Angels, where he also chairs a med-device committee and two med-tech stealth-mode start-ups in the oncology and cardiology spaces.
Individual/Angel
Vijay Vashee
Seattle, Washington, United States
Vijay Vashee, a genial technocrat and a philanthropist, began his career with Microsoft Corporation in 1982. During his 19 years at Microsof...
Individual/Angel
Vikram Chachra
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Vikram Chachra - Co-Founder & COO @ Eight Capital
Investment Partner
Individual/Angel
Villhard Growth Partners
United States
Founded in 2015, Villhard Growth Partners is a private equity firm based in St.Louis, Missouri. The firm prefers to invest in growth-stage companies through buyouts. The firm also prefers to invest in seed-stage, early-stage, and later-stage companies through venture capital investments. The firm seeks to invest in business products, business services, healthcare, information technology, sectors in the United States and Canada.
Private Equity Firm
Vinay Nair
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Vinay Nair as Group CEO, sets and evolves the strategic direction globally for Aarialife for its products and services through technologies ...
Investment Partner
Vineet Taneja
United States
Mr. Steve Schlesinger is an Angel Investor. He serves as Board Member at Inspire (Platform Software). Having been in the marketing research industry for over 25 years, Steve Schlesinger is CEO of Schlesinger Associates, a global data collection company specializing in qualitative and quantitative research, with 14 offices in the US, two in the UK and three in France. Schlesinger has also served for 8 years on the board of the Marketing Research Association, finishing his tenure as the secretary of the board. He is an active member of AMA, CASRO, CMOR, ESOMAR and PMRG. He also serves on the board of trustees of the Overlook Hospital Foundation, board of governors of Maplewood Country Club and on the advisory board of HR Acuity. He also serves as a mentor for New Jersey SEEDs, a nonprofit organization helping motivated high school students with limited means to move on to higher educational opportunities. He is a graduate of the University of Vermont with a Bachelor's of Science in Biochemistry.
Individual/Angel
Vinita Busse
United States
Mr. Dave Munichiello serves as General Partner at GV. He served as Board Observer and Advisor at ThousandEyes. His background is in building and leading fast-growing, highly technical organizations under pressure in ambiguous environments. Dave joins Google Ventures from the executive leadership team of Kiva Systems where he helped grow the eCommerce-enabling robotics company to ultimately sell to Amazon for $775 million. He served as Advisor at Salck. He also serves as a Board Member at GitLab. Dave's four years at Kiva were spent launching, leading and growing several client-facing organizations. He established a reputation for consistently recruiting top talent and both building and leading high-performing teams. Dave played a key role at Kiva through its first year of integration with Amazon as the two companies partnered to maximize Kiva's impact and shape Amazon's perspective on industrial automation. Dave's career prior to Kiva included management consulting for The Boston Consulting Group and leading teams as a Captain in the U.S. military's most elite units. His military leadership roles ranged from running a high-tech organization in Europe; to serving as an Aide de Camp to the Four Star General responsible for U.S. forces in Europe, Africa and Afghanistan; to deploying with elite special operations teams worldwide, ensuring they were enabled by the world's most advanced technologies. Dave holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a B.S. from Emory University in math and computer science.
Individual/Angel
Virginia Venture Partners
United States
Banc Partners is a private equity firm that focuses on investing in commercial banks, thrifts, fintech companies, and financial services-related sectors across the United States.
Private Equity Firm
Virtù Equity Partners
United States
Founded in 2018, Virtù Equity Partners is a private equity firm based in Miami, Florida. The firm prefers to invest in growth-stage companies through buyouts. The firm seeks to invest in consumer products, consumer services, beauty sectors in North America and Mainland China.
Private Equity Firm
Visa
San Francisco, California, United States
Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Financial Services
Internet
Payments
Investment Bank
Venture Capital
Visa Forsten
United States
Mr. Ted Albrecht is an Angel Investor. Mr. Ted Albrecht served as Vice President, Business Development at Hillcrest America. Previously he was a Partner at Thread Designs and Owner of Albrecht Travel Systems.
Individual/Angel
Vish Makhijani
United States
Mr. Vinayak Hegde serves as Advisor at Simple. He served as Chief Technology Officer at Zoomcar. He serves as Volunteer at IETF. He also served as Vice President, Engineering at Helpshift. He also served as Lead Architect / Manager at InMobi. He has worked across different domains such as Embedded Systems, Content Delivery Networks, Ad Technology and CRM software and has more than 16 years of experience in the software industry. Through his career, he has worked in various capacities, spanning from individual contributor roles to senior leadership roles. He also founded his own startup which consulted with various growth-stage startups and helped them scale their tech stacks as well as their teams. He graduated from Mumbai University with a Computer Science degree.
Individual/Angel
Vishwadeep Bajaj
India
Mr. Sameer Manchanda is the Founder and serves as Chairman & Managing Director at Den Networks. He founded DEN in 2007 with a vision to bring about a paradigm shift in India's cable TV distribution industry through consolidation and digitisation. Within a few years since its formation, DEN has become India's leading cable TV distribution company and is a pioneer of digitisation. He was also instrumental in the formation of Star DEN, a 50-50 J-V between DEN and the Star TV group. He was a co-founder of the erstwhile IBN18, home of CNN IBN and IBN7 and was the Joint Managing Director of the company from 2005 to 2010. He was also a founding member of the News Broadcasters Association and served as its President in 2009 and 2010. Prior to IBN18, he served as a Director on the board of NDTV Ltd. A qualified Chartered Accountant, he has over two decades' experience in the Indian media & television industry. He has been associated with the Indian television industry since 1984. He is currently a member of the CII National Committee on Media & Entertainment and the FICCI Broadcast Forum.
Individual/Angel
VisioCap
United States
Founded in 2013, VisioCap is a private equity firm based in New York, New York. The firm seeks to make majority investments through buyouts and recapitalization; and minority investments through growth equity, later-stage, and early-stage venture capital. The firm prefers to invest in companies from consumer products, consumer services, and wellness sectors in North America.
Private Equity Firm
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