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IT-Online Venture

IT-Online Venture

Russian Federation

IT-Online Venture was the corporate venture capital arm of IT-Online Group. The firm preferred to invest in companies operating in the e-commerce, gaming, software and web development, mobile apps, social networks, cloud computing, big data, photo-audio-video services, e-learning, e-travel, transport, social and e-media, vertical search, e-medicine, web real estate and online services sectors. It was founded in 2012 and was headquartered in Moscow, Russia.
Venture Capital

Justin Gage

Canada

Mr. Louis Belanger-Martin serves as Board Member at GuestLogix. He co-founded and served as Chairman and Chief Executive of the in-flight entertainment gaming and application specialist DTI Software (DTI) in Montreal, Canada from 1995 - 2011. He served as Board Member at SONIFI Solutions. DTI became the leading game and application developer in the aviation industry holding more than 90% of the market share in the in-flight entertainment and connectivity sector. In 2008, DTI was acquired by Advanced Inflight Alliance (AIA) where he served as Chief Executive until 2013. AIA became the in-flight entertainment and connectivity industry's largest content service provider for audio, video, applications and games serving more than 130 of the world's airlines. He led AIA through a strongly developed mergers and acquisitions strategy, which culminated in the acquisition of AIA by Global Eagle Entertainment (GEE) (NASDAQ: ENT), the leading content and connectivity provider for the airline industry. He is Vice-Chair of GEE and has been a board member since January of 2013. He earned a BA (Bachelor of Arts) in Business Administration from École des sciences de la gestion in 1994.
Individual/Angel

Karl Fredmark

United States

Mr. Robert Allison is the Founder and serves as Principal and Managing Partner at Innovate Partners. He is also a Co-Founder and serves as Chairman at Pear Sports. He served as Chief Executive Officer at Pear Sports. Mr. Allison primarily manages the firms Emerging Growthand Equity Fund that invests in technology, business services and consumer based companies in principally, Southern California. Innovate has led more than 14 investments since 1995 including Jabra, Interworks, Co-Ev Magnetics, Expensable, Ultimate Ears, Swell, Ocean Minded, Emisense, Pear Sports, Canopy HR, Metropark, Innovate Motorsports and GoFit Foods. Mr. Allison also served as a General Partner of Edgewater Private Equity Funds, based in Chicago from 1998 through 2004. Prior to forming Innovate, Mr. Allison served as the President of Aurora Electronics, SVP of Arrow Electronics and Founder and CEO of Insight Electronics. Bob holds a BA in Business from California State University Northridge. Mr. Allison serves as a board member at Fashion Audio and Lindora. He also serves as the CEO at Interworks.
Individual/Angel

Katie May

United States

Mr. Brian Nelson serves as Angel Investor at Brian Nelson. He served as Vice President, Business Strategy at Identiv. Mr. Nelson became Identiv's VP Business Strategy in November 2015. He previously served as Identiv's Chief Financial Officer from December 2013 to November 2015. He has more than 20 years of practical experience in accounting and finance, ranging from executive finance positions with both emerging and established technology companies in Silicon Valley to providing audit assurance and transaction-related services to public and private companies. Prior to joining the company, Mr. Nelson was Chief Financial Officer of idOnDemand, a pioneer in cloud-based identity management solutions that was acquired by Identiv in May 2011. Prior to idOnDemand, he served for five years as Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Kleer Corporation, a wireless audio company. His previous positions also include Vice President of Finance for Silicon Access Networks and for PlanetRx, Corporate Controller for LinkExchange (acquired by Microsoft) and various other technology startups, and he was an Audit Manager with KPMG LLP in Silicon Valley. Since 2008, he has been a Professor of Practice in the M.B.A. program in the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California. Mr. Nelson received his B.S. in Accounting from San Jose State University, studied in the M.B.A. program at Santa Clara University, and earned his CPA license in the State of California.
Individual/Angel

Lior Reitblatt

Latvia

Dr. Viesturs Sosars co-founded Ampple and served as its Chief Executive Officer. He previously served as a Board Member at Square Audio. He was also the Managing Partner at TechVentures FVK. He has completed his MD degree from Rigas Stradina Universitate in 1994.
Individual/Angel
Media Invest Flanders

Media Invest Flanders

Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium

Media Invest focuses on SMEs with an (operating) seat in Flanders or Brussels that are active in media content (audio and audiovisual).
Venture Capital

Merck Innovation Center

Spain

Mr. Quino Fernández serves as Mentores, Audio Visual at Conector Startup Accelerator. He serves as Advisor at Macco. He is an Angel Investor. He is an expert in Communication, Media and Advertising. He is the CEO of AticcoLab. He is an ex-CEO of Connector, former CTO of Apple Spain. He founded of Briefing CyP, the first interactive agency in Spain. He is an ex-Director of Won, an advertising agency. He is the Founder of several startups.
Individual/Angel

Michael Heffring

Italy

Mr. Claudio Cubito is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at GrowishPay. He is a Co-Founder and Partner at EMP Mailorder Italia S.r.l.
Individual/Angel

Nicholas White

Germany

Mr. Thomas Bernik is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at German Ventures. He also is an Angel Investor. Also, he was the Founder and served as CEO at snapload GmbH. Previously, he served as Chief Executive Officer at cooledeals. He was a serial entrepreneur with a formal education in economics and business founded audio media verlag GmbH / audio media group and - in 2013 - German Ventures - a startup accelerator. He was also involved in the founding phases of the media and technology companies cooledeals GmbH (sold to Qype/Yelp), Going Public Media AG, inge AG and Dynamic Markets GmbH.
Individual/Angel

Philippe Dunsky

United States

Mr. Philip Muscatello serves as Senior Vice President, Sales & Marketing at ADTECH Systems. He has an extensive background researching best business and management practices as a Research Analyst and Portfolio Manager. Prior to acquiring a majority interest in Adtech Systems, he was a partner at Lee Munder Capital Group. Philip focused on small cap growth companies, developing an expertise in the energy, industrial sectors, consumer services, and business services industries. His Sales philosophy is rooted in ensuring that Adtech uses its technological expertise to help customers navigate the increasingly complex audio/visual world and to make the right purchasing decisions that will work for their organization. Philip received his MBA from Boston College and his undergraduate degree from St. Joseph's University.
Individual/Angel

Ricardo Garcia

Mountain View, California, United States

Staff Engineer @ Google, and Tech Lead for Audio Experience @ Android/Google
Investment Partner Individual/Angel

RRS Capital Strategies Services

United States

Dr. C.Y. Bill Lin is a Co-Founder and serves as Board Member at VisualOn. He co-founded and served as Chief Technology Officer at VisualOn. He is an expert in video/audio codec optimization and consumer multimedia software. Prior to co-founding VisualOn, he led MedioStream's entire US development team and was responsible for the MPEG and Digital Video codec development. His expertise in software and algorithm optimization has made a significant contribution to enhancing the codec's performance. Dr. Lin also has extensive working experience in the development of optimization algorithms including work with Tera Systems, Southern Company, Auburn University, and Georgia Institute of Technology. He holds a Ph.D. degree from the School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, a master's degree from National Cheng Kung University, and a bachelor's degree from National Taiwan University.
Individual/Angel

Sandy Purcell

London, England, United Kingdom

Sandy Purcell is the Board Member at AudioEye.
Investment Partner Individual/Angel

Sauder School of Business

United States

Distributor of music system devices. The company is engaged in selling audio and video systems, along with components, including home theater systems, stereo systems and components, televisions, and digital versatile disc/video cassette recording equipment
Accelerator Incubator

Scott Bohrer

The Netherlands

Mr. Jeroen Langevoort is a Co-Founder of Axign and serves as its Chief Technology Officer. Prior to Axign, he was with Royal Philips Electronics and NXP Semiconductors holding various positions within R&D. During my work there I was in charge of all developments within the audio amplifiers group and introduced about 30 new products including dedicated automotive class-AB amplifiers and switching class D amplifiers. After starting up my own consultancy firm to help companies develop their "mean and lean product development machine", I took over as CEO of Axiom-IC and the development of the low latency ADC that is now at the heart of our Axign controller IC. He holds a Ph.D. in Physics from University of Twente and the University of Groningen.
Individual/Angel

Startup Factory studio

United States

Mr. Guy Story is an Angel Investor. He served as Chief Scientist and Chief Technology Officer at Audible. As CTO & Chief Scientist, Guy drives technology innovation at Audible.com. Guy joined Audible in 1996 as VP Technology and led the architecture and development of Audible's innovative mobile audio and Internet commerce technologies. Prior to joining Audible, Guy worked in research and development for over 10 years at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Lucent Technologies, where his areas of focus included networked delivery of multimedia documents and interactive television. Today at Audible Guy is focused on opportunities in wireless, automotive, in-home entertainment, content discovery, and social media.He s
Individual/Angel

Stefan Friese

India

Mr. Gautam Shewakramani is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer & Board Member at AudioCompass. Mr. Gautam Shewakramani is an Angel Investor. He served as Board Member at Exotel. He co-founded and served as Chief Executive Officer & Board Member at AudioCompass, where he previously served as Chief Executive Officer. He is involved in all things AudioCompass, where he spends most of his time obsessing over product, technology, and finance. He previously worked as a strategy consultant at Deloitte Consulting and at Deutsche Asset Management. He received his MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. He is usually the go-to person among his friends and family to help plan travel and is always on the lookout for the next best travel deal.
Individual/Angel

Stephen Sparkes

United States

Mr. Bradley Svrluga serves as Board Observer at Vestwell. He serves as Board Observer at Bench. He served as Board Member at Reonomy. He also served as the Board Member at Spark Advisors and Healthify. He also serves as Board Member at andros andTeam Mobot. He also serves as Board Member of Electric AI and CredSimple. He serves as an Advisor at OneThree Biotech. He served as Board Member at Stellar Health. Mr. Svrluga serves as Board Member at Bravely. Mr. Svrluga is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Primary Venture Partners. He is a Board Member of Drawbridge Networks. He has been a venture investor since the bubble days of the late 1990s, starting his investing career with The Berkshires Capital Investors and Village Ventures. Prior to his VC career, he was a strategy consultant with Monitor Group, leading projects out of the firm's Cambridge, South Africa and Brazil offices. Mr. Svrluga focuses his investing activities on SaaS, mobile and social-enabled b2b web services. At High Peaks, he has led the firm's successfully exited investments in TxVia (sold to Google), Savored (sold to Groupon), Pump Audio (sold to Getty Images), Threadsmith (sold to Vistaprint) and Allworx (sold to PAETEC). At BCI, amongst the investments he was responsible for were HealthShare (sold to WebMD) and Profile Systems (sold to AT&T). Brad is an active participant in the NYC venture community. He also serves on the boards of Summer Search, a national youth development program for inner city high schoolers and the Williamstown Theatre Festival. He is a graduate of Williams College, where he captained the rugby team and majored in economics. He serves as a Board Member of WhoSay and Electric. He serves as Board Member at ReQuest.
Individual/Angel

Theodore Yang

Sweden

Mr. Jan Snygg serves as Chairman of the Board at Sportswik. He is also a Partner at Place Consulting, and he serves as Managing Partner and Chief Executive Officer at Bearing Venture Innovation Ltd. He previously served as Chairman of the Board at Veriscan Security AB, Limes Audio and Incomit. Prior to that, he served as a Partner at Bearing Consulting. Before, he served as an Investment Manager at Ledstiernan AB. He received a MS in Electrical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology.
Individual/Angel

Town Ventures

United Kingdom

Dr. Till Becker serves as Executive Chairman at EVA. He serves as Director at Clean Diesel Technologies. He serves as Executive Chairman IHCare. He joined the CDTi Board of Directors in February 2015. Dr. Becker has over 25 years of international experience in the automotive, consumer goods and energy industries, including 19 years in leadership roles at Daimler AG, and an extensive background in corporate restructuring and M&A transactions. Dr. Becker currently serves as a Senior Advisor at Global Board Room Advisors, an Asia-focused M&A consulting firm which he co-founded in 2011. Additionally, he has served as Senior Advisor to Holland Private Equity Growth Capital, an investment firm focused on growth-stage investments in small to mid-market technology companies in the Benelux and Germany, since 2014 and Senior Consultant to Artris Management Ltd., a European M&A and consulting company, since 2010. In 2013, Dr. Becker served as CEO of Hess AG, a provider of world-class lighting systems, where he implemented a successful restructuring plan that lead to the company's sale. From 2010 to 2011, he served as interim CEO of MPS Micropaint Holding AS, an international distributor of premium spot repair systems for small paint damages and as an advisor to RealEyes GmbH, a three-dimensional display imaging firm. From 2008 to 2010, Dr. Becker served as an advisor to Capital Dynamics Ltd., an independent, global asset management firm that invests in private equity and clean energy infrastructure. From 1987 to 2006, Dr. Becker served in numerous roles at Daimler AG, including Chairman and CEO of Daimler Northeast Asia, Mercedes-Benz Türk A.S., Istanbul, Mercedes-Benz India Pvt. Ltd. and Mercedes-Benz Portugal SA as well as Executive Vice President of the parent company. In addition to CDTi, Dr. Becker currently serves as chairman of the board of ArmonicAudiomotive Limited and MPS Micropaint Holding AS and as director of Automotive Business Consulting AG and Equity Gate Advisors GmbH. He previously served as chairman the board of PAS Management Holding GmbH (2008 to 2010) and Lombardium Hamburg GmbH & Co KG (2009 to 2011). Dr. Becker received a law degree from the University of Münster. Dr. Becker is a member of the Technology Committee. He is a former board member of Daimler. A successful investor in startups, he brings his international service to accelerate our growth.
Individual/Angel
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