Found 89 investors
Jack Russo
Palo Alto, California, United States
Jack, a Managing Partner since 1985, specializes in internet, computer law, and intellectual property litigation, and is a frequent speaker ...
Individual/Angel
Jan Collier
United States
Mr. Peter Detkin serves as Managing Partner at Sherpa Technology Group. Mr. Peter Detkin is a Co-Founder of Intellectual Ventures and serves as Advisor. He also serves as an advisor at Entefy and as Board Member at Pivotal Commware. He focuses on a variety of projects relating to intellectual property and invention. Intellectual Asset Management recently named Mr. Detkin the second most influential "IP market maker" in the world. Prior to joining Intellectual Ventures, Mr. Detkin spent 8 years at Intel Corporation where he was a vice president and assistant general counsel. As assistant general counsel, Mr. Detkin was responsible for managing the Intel patent and licensing departments, including all aspects of prosecution and claims management. Mr. Detkin also managed the litigation and competition policy departments (including antitrust).
Individual/Angel
Jean-Baptiste Aviat
United States
Mr. Keith Derrington is an Angel Investor. He has drafted and prosecuted more than 500 patent applications, with patent subject matter including mechanical, chemical, electrical, software and medical devices. He has experience counseling clients in matters concerning existing patents, as well as developing strategies for the protection of intellectual property. He also participates in due diligence activities and negotiations for intellectual property matters related to mergers and acquisitions. In addition, Ron counsels U.S. and international clients in worldwide intellectual property ownership in the energy, oil and gas, transportation and aerospace and defense industries. He has prepared numerous opinions relating to patentability, infringement, validity and freedom to operate. Ron's ability to interact well with inventors emanates from his previous engineering experience as a licensed professional engineer. Prior to entering the legal field, he worked for 10 years as both an engineer in the design field and as a reliability engineer. While working as a reliability engineer, he provided technical engineering support for the Orbiter portion of the NASA Space Transportation System.
Individual/Angel
Jean Bourget
United States
Mr. William Kim serves as Senior Counsel, Chairs of the Korea practice, and Member of the firm's office Managing Partners Committee at Ropes & Gray. Bill is the first foreign lawyer to be registered in Korea to practice as "foreign legal consultant" and heads our firm's Seoul office (known under Korean rules as "Foreign Legal Consultant Office"). Bill represents and advises Korean multi-national companies and their U.S. subsidiaries in matters related to corporations, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, strategic alliances, cross-border transactions, project development and project finance. Bill also represents and advises many technology-oriented Korean companies in technology transfers, complex licensing arrangements and intellectual property litigations. Bill is a frequent guest lecturer at universities, corporations and trade associations on subjects related to international negotiations and cross-border transactions. He is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center.
Individual/Angel
Jennifer Yen
United States
Mr. Warren Carsey served as a Manager, Finance and Business Development & Investor at Protein Genomics. In 1999 he founded Veritas Holdings, an investment and financial advisory firm specializing in financing intellectual property and new technologies. From 2004 through 2007, he co-founded managed QD Products, a developer of advanced polymers for the defense industry, selling his interests in 2007. Prior to founding Veritas, he worked as a banker at CIBC World Markets in New York specializing in structured finance. Before CIBC, he was a banker at Chase Securities (now JPMorgan Chase) in New York. He received a B.S. degree from Northern Arizona University in 1989 and an MBA from the University of Michigan in 1995.
Individual/Angel
Joe Chernesky
San Francisco, California, United States
Joe Chernesky - Senior Vice President, Intellectual Property & Innovation @ Kudelski Group
Individual/Angel
Kai-Petteri Purhonen
United States
Mr. Peter Herz is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at Food System 6 Accelerator. He serves as General Partner at 1st Course Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur, board member and advisor to early-stage companies. He was forced to confront his relationship to food due to a set of chronic medical conditions. By turning his attention to food and agriculture he was able to address these conditions without medication, and is now committed to addressing the root causes for poor health that lie within the current food system. He previously served as CEO of irisnote, a SaaS based application provider for scientists to manage their research, interim President of the biological simulation company Entelos, and founding CEO of 3ware, a revolutionary data storage company sold to AMCC. Prior to co-founding 3ware, Peter ran North American Consulting for Synopsys and managed customer engineering for Siemens Semiconductors (now Infineon Technologies AG) North American embedded control business. He has broad international experience including a startup in Munich, Germany and managing sales and partnerships in both Europe and Asia. Peter also serves as a member of the board of directors of Kendall Investments, a private equity fund-of-funds company and previously IPextreme, Inc., a semiconductor intellectual property company. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics from Carnegie Mellon University and completed A-levels at Eastbourne College, Sussex, United Kingdom.
Individual/Angel
Kelly Hendricks
United States
Ms. Kate Santon is the Founder and serves as the President at Santon General Counsel. Ms. Santon founded Santon General Counsel, P.C. in 2015 after working for six years in a law firm in Orange County, California. She acts as outside general counsel to a variety of businesses, which involves addressing a company's day-to-day legal needs in the areas of corporate governance, compliance, entity formation, risk management, board strategy and advice, litigation strategy and management, contract drafting and review, employment issues, brand protection and trademarks, management of intellectual property portfolios and privacy and data security compliance.
Individual/Angel
Kevin Cullen
Thuwal, Ha'il, Saudi Arabia
As Vice President of KAUST Innovation, he oversees the University's intellectual property portfolio, collaborations with industry partners a...
Investment Partner
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
L2 Capital
United States
Founded in 2016, L2 Capital is a private equity firm based in Leawood, Kansas. The firm invests in small- and micro-capitalized public growth companies in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia, and Hong Kong. The firm prefers to invest in music, television, film & theatre, fashion, apparel & textile law, intellectual property, art litigation, digital media & technology, defamation & image rights, liability & risk, and business strategy.
Growth Capital
Lava Group
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
We are an intellectual property investment bank helping individuals, companies and their investors execute transactions involving.
Investment Bank
Leda Trivinos
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Partner, Intellectual Property at Flagship Pioneering
Pharmaceuticals
Letven Ventures
Turkey
Letven Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeds good ideas and provides hands on mentorship. It helps innovative expansion-stage companies scale to become global category leaders. It invests in and accelerates potentially scalable businesses - focusing on those with proprietary intellectual property and technologies, potentially large markets, strong management teams, a well-developed business model and sustainable competitive advantage. The firm was founded in 2007 and is based in Istanbul, Turkey.
Venture Capital
Mark Bremer
United States
Mr. Scott Weller is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Technology Officer at SessionM. He also serves as an Angel Investor at Esprezzo. An entrepreneur at heart, Scott has over 15 years experience building platforms for online gaming, loyalty, digital advertising and communications. Prior to SessionM, Scott served as Vice President of Product & Technology for MDI, a division of Scientific Games (SGMS). While at Scientific Games, Scott oversaw the development and integration of interactive technologies into MDI's products and services, advised counsel on strategic initiatives related to intellectual property, assisted the lottery, VLT and SciPlay divisions of SGMS with the sale and delivery of interactive products and contributed to the formation of MDI Interactive. Prior to Scientific Games, Scott was the head of product and technology at GameLogic, the digital games and marketing platform acquired by Scientific Games in 2010. Earlier in his career, Scott served as a senior software engineer at Gamesville.com, the first "games for prizes" site on the Internet, which was acquired by Lycos for $207M. At Lycos, Scott spent several years innovating game and advertising platform technologies. Scott graduated from the University Of Rhode Island with a BS in Computer Science.
Individual/Angel
Melethia Campbell
Dallas, Texas, United States
Notable success in developing strategic partnerships, deal negotiation, business development, intellectual property licensing, go to market ...
Individual/Angel
Mikko Heininen
United States
Mr. Scott Pundsack serves as Advisor at GreenMark Biomedical. Scott began his legal career over 20 years ago and is currently a partner in Borden Ladner Gervais LLP in Toronto, Canada. Scott is licensed to practice before the US and Canadian patent offices. His subject area specialties include green chemistry, healthcare, and bio-based materials. Scott's work also includes managing litigation and other disputes, and patent licensing. He has been recognized as an IP Star by Managing Intellectual Property and is a is a contributing author to Life Sciences and Chemical Patent Practice in Canada: A Practical Guide. Scott is active in various Angel groups in Ontario. He received a bachelor's degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Toronto in 1992. He received his J.D. from the University of Toronto in 1995. He was called to the bar in Ontario, Canada in 1997 and is a registered professional engineer.
Individual/Angel
Moore Ventures
United States
Moore Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Los Angeles, California. The firm invests in innovative businesses that leverage scalable technology and intellectual property to drive the low-carbon economy.
Venture Capital
Nathan Haralson
United States
Ms. Jennifer Baumann served as Senior Vice President & Assistant General Counsel at FTD Companies. Ms. Jennifer Baumann served as Senior Associate at DLA Piper. Ms. Jennifer Baumann concentrates her practice in the areas of licensing, information technology, intellectual property, e-commerce and outsourcing. She has extensive experience drafting and negotiating a range of agreements including licenses, master services agreement for research and development, distribution, software, trademark, copyright, patent, digital content, media, co-promotion, co-branding and merchandising. Ms. Baumann also focuses her practice on intellectual property and technology issues related to mergers and acquisitions and has additional experience in intellectual property litigation, domestic and international trademark prosecution, copyrights, domain name disputes, on-line gaming issues, sweepstakes and advertising. She has additional experience counseling clients on Internet and e-commerce issues including terms of use, privacy policies and the E-SIGN statute. She has worked with companies in a wide range of industries including pharmaceuticals, consumer products, financial, retail, real estate, entertainment, food and agriculture, telecommunications, software development as well as several non-profit organizations.
Individual/Angel
NAU IB Capital
United States
Mr. Stephen Mendel serves as a Partner at Tonic Bioventures. Mr. Mendel serves as a Venture Partner at Alsop Louie Partners. He has served in a wide variety of leadership roles in public and private technology-based organizations - managing director and executive vice president of In-Q-Tel in charge of its venture capital activities, vice chairman of Knowledge Revolution (acquired by MSC Software), CEO and president of Ithaca Software (acquired by Autodesk NASDAQ: ADSK), executive vice president of Maxwell Communication Corporation (MCC), executive vice president of Spectrum-Holobyte (NASDAQ: MPRS, then acquired by Hasbro) and executive vice president of MDL (acquired by MCC, then NASDAQ: MDLI, then acquired by Symyx Technologies). He has also served as a member of the board of directors of AXS, Ithaca Software, Spectrum-Holobyte, MDL, Simmedia, Verso, Futurize Now, Knowledge Revolution, Direct Language, Site Technologies, DuckDuckGo, Motive Medical Intelligence, 2lemetry, and BeBop Sensors. His management style and business acumen have been recognized both regionally and nationally. Under his leadership, Ithaca Software was recognized by Inc. Magazine as one of the fastest-growing private companies in America. His hands-on approach to mentoring young management teams has generated an enviable track record of successful investments. He has spoken at numerous national and international conferences on topics ranging from entrepreneurship to exit strategies. He began his career as an attorney at Feldman Waldman and Kline, where he represented clients in corporate, securities, intellectual property, and commercial matters. He received his Juris Doctor with the highest honors from Hofstra University and his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from the University of Rochester.
Individual/Angel
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