Found 1,153 investors
Jocel Amacio
United Kingdom
Ms. Cassandra Harris serves as Founder & Managing Director at Petbu. Ms. Cassandra Harris is an Angel Investor. Ms. Cassandra Harris Founded and served as Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director at Venturespring. She also co-founded FreeFormers. She also served as Advisory Board Member at Say Social Wearables. She made the Innovate UK Fintech Powerlist in 2016, and the TechCityInsider100 list in 2015. She co-founded venture development firm, Venturespring, which helps incubate and accelerate new digital companies on behalf of Fortune 500 companies. Harris has worked across several high-profile bluechip client accounts at WPP, a job she left to focus on her start-up ventures full-time. Her first start-up was a fashion e-commerce proposition which she built for two years before selling her shares. Harris is also an angel investor, having backed Taylor Morris Eyewear, a new fashion label launched by celebrity and friend, Hugo Taylor. Harris has co-founded two more businesses including a tech education social enterprise called Free:formers and early stage venture fund alongside business partner Gi Fernando and the UK operation of a global digital agency called Aumcore. Both businesses are running strong and now form part of the Venturespring ecosystem.
Individual/Angel
Joe Beaudry
United States
Mr. Sean Sheppard serves as Board Member at Red5Pro. Mr. Sean Sheppard was a Co-Founding Partner of GrowthX. He is an Angel Investor. He serves as Advisor at ResultMaps. He served as Advisor at Silicon Valley Growth Syndicate, Cargo Chief and ProcureNetworks. He serves as Board Member at Red5Pro. With over 20 years of sales and marketing knowledge, Sean was an early investor and advisor to Red5 Pro. A serial entrepreneur and VC, Sean led three successful exits, while growing dozens of early-stage companies across a wide variety of products and markets. Founder of GrowthX and GrowthX Academy and a contributor to the Huffington Post, Sean is an active mentor, advisor and guest lecturer at global startup accelerators, innovation conferences, and colleges and universities including NASDAQ, 500 Startups, Y Combinator, Galvanize, Alchemist, GSVLabs, London Business School and the Owen School of Business at Vanderbilt University. He served as Advisor at WorkHere. Sean focuses on predictability in sales as a major growth factor and believes in boosting sales education. He's now committed to working with countries, companies, entrepreneurs and those who want to work with them on building startup ecosystems and developing the next generation of leaders for the innovation economy.
Individual/Angel
Joe Ivey
United States
Mr. Mark Zorensky serves as a Board Member at BusyEvent and Geneoscopy. He is an Angel Investor. He is a real estate developer and manager. He serves, currently as President of Hycel Properties Co. after a long career developing and managing major St. Louis shopping centers such as Saint Louis Galleria (sold 2003), Crestwood Plaza (sold 1998) and Northwest Plaza (sold in 1983). Hycel currently offers real estate brokerage and consulting services for retailers and other businesses. His professional activities include membership in the International Council of Shopping Centers as well as activities as a Missouri Real Estate broker and membership in the World Presidents' Organization. He has various active investment positions and is deeply involved in community organizations such as the Jewish Federation of St. Louis, United Jewish Appeal, Washington University and Barnes-Jewish Hospital Foundation. He served for six years as an observer to the board of Build-A-Bear Workshop and was Chairman of their supporting Real Estate Committee. He participates in Fair St. Louis and Young Presidents' Organization and various other educational efforts. He is an active board member of BusyEvent, representing the holders of Series A Preferred Stock, and bringing his experience as an event attendee and business manager to our planning activities.
Individual/Angel
John Kinzer
China
Mr. Xiaoping Xu is a Co-Founder of ZhenFund. He also serves as an Advisor at Sky9 Capital. He also serves as Advisor at Convergence Ventures. His success earned him numerous awards from various institutions. These include "2010's most respected angelinvestor" by Founder magazine, "2011 angel investor of the year" by Entrepreneur Magazine, "Best angel investor of 2012" and consecutively in 2013, Zhenfund, the angel investment vehicle that Mr. Xu Xiaoping founded in 2012, was honored as "China's Best Angel Investment Fund" in 2014 and then 2015. Bob Xu Xiaoping has held the position of Chairman of China Angel Investment Group, Honorary Chairman of China Youth Angel Investment Group, Chairman of the Angel Investment Expert Committee of China Securities Regulatory Commission. He is also a general secretary of Committee 2005, a group of nationally famous people who all have overseas education backgrounds. Before founding Zhenfund, Bob Xu Xiaoping co-founded China's largest private English training and test coaching group, New Oriental Education (NYSE: EDU) along with Yu Minhong and Wang Qiang. Together they are regarded as "The Three Horsemen" who helped to drive China's education toward a new global era.
Individual/Angel
Jonathan Emery
United States
Mr. Bruce Bower is the Chief Executive Officer & Founder of WyshMe. He serves as Board Member at Travelstride. He was the Chief Executive Officer & President at Plastic Jungle. Prior to Plastic Jungle, he led International and Business and Corporate Development as Senior Vice President at Blackhawk Network, the largest third party distributor of gift cards in the world. He also has served as Chief Executive Officer of Soliloquy Learning and as the President and SVP/General Manager of LearningGate and the educational media division of ZapMe!. He also serves as a director or senior advisor to a number of companies in the payments space, including KargoKard, Radical Payments and Visa. He is a frequent speaker on a variety of new market concepts, including global payments and e-commerce strategies for emerging businesses. He began his career practicing law with Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati.
Individual/Angel
Joseph Lonsdale
United States
NMBA is a Macedonian-American Company, for professional executive education, career development and business-technical support through the following departments: Career Center, Cloud Academies, Smart-up Center and Open R&D Lab.
Accelerator
Incubator
Josh Cogswell
Finland
Mr. Will Cardwell is a Co-Founder of Courage Ventures, where he serves as Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner. He also serves as Chairman at Huoleti and MealLogger. He serves as Board Member and Internationalization Advisor at Treamer. He also serves as Partner at Open Circle Capital. He serves as Advisor at Ziroopay..He is a Senior Lecturer at Aalto University Executive Education, and Aalto School of Science (the Aalto Ventures Program). He is a mentor to several accelerators and does some angel investing. Formerly, he co-founded the Aalto Center for Entrepreneurship, and the $21m AppCampus Mobile App Accelerator. He has secured a large grant from Google to support community development around the new data center in Hamina Finland and still manages the program. Previously, he ran Finland's largest Technology Incubator, with customers in Finland, St, Petersburg, and Estonia. He has spent 15 years in the Finnish high- tech environment, served as CEO of a startup (Valimo Wireless), venture capitalist (Eqvitec Partners, Conor Venture Partners), investment banker (Robertson Stephens), and researcher and lecturer. He also served as board member at Huoleti. He serves as a Board Member at ProLocalis.
Individual/Angel
Josh Weinstein
India
Mr. Mukesh Ambani is the Owner and serves as Chairman and Managing Director at Jio. He serves as Chairman and Managing Director at Reliance Industries. He is a Co-Founder of EPIC Television Network. He pursued an MBA from Stanford University in the US. He has been on the Board of Reliance since 1977. He initiated Reliance's backward integration journey - from textiles to polyester fiber and further onto petrochemicals and petroleum refining, and going upstream into oil and gas exploration and production. He created multiple new world-class manufacturing facilities involving diverse technologies that have raised Reliance's petrochemicals manufacturing capacities from less than a million tonnes to about 21 million tonnes per year. In the late nineties, Mr. Mukesh Ambani spearheaded the creation of the world's largest grassroots petroleum refinery at Jamnagar in Gujarat, India, with a capacity of 660,000 barrels per day (33 million tonnes a year), and integrated it with petrochemicals, power generation, port and related infrastructure. Further, he steered the setting up of another 580,000-barrels-per-day refinery next to the first one in Jamnagar. With an aggregate refining capacity of 1.24 million barrels of oil per day at a single location, Jamnagar has become the refining hub of the world. He also led Reliance's development of infrastructure facilities and implementation of a pan-India organized retail network spanning multiple formats and supply chain infrastructure. He is also the Founder and serves as Chairman at Reliance Retail. Today, Reliance Retail is the largest organized retail player in India. He has created global records in customer acquisition for Jio, Reliance's digital services initiative. He led and established one of the world's most expansive 4G broadband wireless networks offering end-to-end solutions that address the entire value chain across various digital services in key domains of national interest, such as education, healthcare, security, financial services, government-citizen interfaces, and entertainment. Mr. Mukesh Ambani is a member of The Foundation Board of the World Economic Forum. He is an elected Foreign Member of the prestigious United States National Academy of Engineering. He is a member of the Global Advisory Council of Bank of America. He is also a member of International Advisory Council of The Brookings Institution.
Individual/Angel
J&T Ventures
Czech Republic
Founded in 2014, J&T Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Prague, Czech Republic. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in the transport, energy, retail, agriculture, information technology, big data, fintech, education, healthcare and internet sectors.
Venture Capital
Juergen Hager
United Kingdom
Mr. Barrie Heptonstall serves as Venture Partner at Pi Labs. He is also an angel investor. He is Chief Commercial Officer at Small Robot Company, a UK agri-robotics and AI technology scaleup. . He is a board advisor at Wealthi, and was previously a venture partner at Emerge Education.
Individual/Angel
JumpCelerator
United States
Mr. Keith Ashworth served as Board Member at Meducation. He recently retired from a 38-year career in insurance broking where his final role at was Head of Risk Transfer at Aon - the world's largest insurance broker.
Individual/Angel
June Fallon
United States
Dr. Vining is a twenty-two year veteran of United States Army including four combat tours. He served as a Board Observer and Advisor at SEAL Innovation. He began his military career as an enlisted soldier and a paratrooper in Army Special Operations. After serving in that capacity for several years, he attended Campbell University on an ROTC scholarship, graduating summa cum laude and receiving his commission as an Army officer. His education continued at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine where he received his medical degree with Highest Honors. He then re-entered active military service and completed an orthopedic surgery residency through Madigan Army Medical Center and the University of Washington. The remainder of his military service was spent as a military orthopedic trauma surgeon, including tours in Afghanistan and three years at Landstuhl Medical Center in Germany. After leaving the military in 2010, he returned to Washington where he completed a subspecialty fellowship in pediatric reconstructive and spine surgery. Dr. Vining went on to complete his Masters of Business Administration at the University of North Carolina with concentrations in corporate finance and new venture entrepreneurship. In addition to his clinical role as an orthopedic trauma surgeon, Dr. Vining serves as the National Medical Director for Surgical Services for Team Health, the largest physician staffing service in the United States. As such, he has clinical and administrative oversite over a nation-wide network of acute-care surgical programs and takes a central role in the business development of the division's growth strategy. Among his responsibilities, he sits on the Physician Leadership Council for the corporate executive team, which advises on clinical leadership and direction for the company's 18,000+ medical providers. Dr. Vining continues his service to the men and women of the Armed Forces by serving as a charter member and chair-elect of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Geneva Foundation. The Foundation is a non-profit foundation which plans, designs, and executes military specific medical research conducted in U.S. military medical treatment facilities world-wide. In this role, Dr. Vining has advisory oversight of nearly 400 research programs with $50 million in total grant, contract, and award revenue. He resides, with his family, in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Individual/Angel
Justin Moore
United Kingdom
Mr. Stephen Page serves as Chairman at Brain in Hand. He also serves as Board Member at Awakn Life Sciences. He also served as Board Member and Chief Executive Officer at Acorn Care and Education.
Individual/Angel
KAIST Venture Investment Holdings
South Korea
Founded in 2014, KAIST Venture Investment Holdings is a venture capital firm based in Seoul, South Korea. The firm seeks to invest in the healthcare, environment, education, food, technology, and social infrastructure industries.
Venture Capital
Kaiwu Capital
Beijing, Beijing, China
Kaiwu Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on TMT, clean-tech, healthcare, innovations, renewable energy, consumer, and education.
Micro VC
Kandeo Asset Management
Colombia
Founded in 2010, Kandeo is a private equity firm based in Bogota, Colombia. The firm specializes in buyout, growth, and expansion investments. The firm invests in industries such as Financing of productive assets, fintech, fleet rental, retail, factoring, microcredit, insurance, education, healthcare, secured personal loans, agroindustry, among others.
Growth Capital
Kataria Holdings
United Arab Emirates
Kataria Holdings is a Dubai, United Arab Emirates-based family office managing a diverse portfolio of worldwide investments and trusts on behalf of its Chairman. The company was founded in 2005 to focus on promoting, developing and investing in global scale industrial, commercial and other projects in the infrastructure, telecom, education and healthcare sectors.
Venture Capital
Kauffman Foundation
Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Kaufman Foundation focuses on grant making and operations in the fields of education and entrepreneurship.
Education
Finance
Social Entrepreneurship
Incubator
Kelly Fuller
New York, New York, United States
Managing Director, Head of Education Services and Technology
FinTech
Individual/Angel
Kellysan Enterprises
Ireland
Founded in 2011, Kellysan Enterprises is a Private Equity firm based in Dublin, Ireland. The firm seeks to invest in companies that are based in Ireland, the UK, India, the Middle East, and the US. The firm invests into Energy, Waste, Education & Healthcare sectors.
Private Equity Firm
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