Found 166 investors
Fintech Americas
United States
Founded in 2014, Fintech Americas is a grant program by CVOX Events and is based in Miami, Florida. The firm seeks to provide grants. The firm prefers to support companies from the software, artificial intelligence, machine learning, B2B payments, blockchain, Fintech, and Insurtech sectors in the United States.
Strategic Acquirer
First Tuesday Business Angels
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Leveraging the ecosystem generated in the various organized events.
Finance
Angel Group
Fox Ventures
Beltsville, Maryland, United States
Fox Ventures LLC is a luxury event design company providing exclusive handcrafted decor and furniture for special events in the DC area
Venture Capital
Franck Theys
United States
Mr. Alexandre Mars is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Blisce. Previously, he was the Owner of Mars Capital. He is a serial entrepreneur and engaged philanthropist who started his first venture at 17. Over the next 15 years, he launched and sold several new media and technology companies in Europe and North America including Phonevalley, a mobile marketing agency sold to Publicis Group, and ScrOOn, a social media management system sold to Blackberry. In 2014, Alexandre founded Epic Foundation to bridge the gap between a new generation of individual and corporate donors, and organizations supporting children and youth globally. Alexandre is leveraging the knowledge gained through years spent as a tech entrepreneur to inject new momentum into the world of philanthropy. Understanding the demands of a new socially conscious generation, he created Epic as a platform for donors to engage in their charity. Besides being regularly quoted by the Financial Times, Le Monde and the Wall Street Journal, Alexandre has spoken at a number of global forums and events including: Web Summit (Lisbon), YPO (Vancouver), SXSW (Austin) and WSJDLive (LA), where his expertise in tech innovation and leadership in philanthropy help others better understand contemporary trends and challenges. In 2015, he was named one of New York City's top 20 philanthropists under 40 by the New York Observer. In 2016, he was awarded EUROPE 1's prestigious Trophée de l'Avenir as "Personality of the Future." Alexandre is a longstanding member of the technology community and continues to invest in high-growth technology companies, including Spotify, Pinterest, and Blablacar, through his family office Blisce. Alexandre lives in Brooklyn with his wife and three children whom he enjoys traveling with. He is also passionate about sports. A devoted practitioner of mixed martial arts and avid runner- has run both the Paris and New York City Marathons- he was appointed Chair of the 28-member Sport and Society Committee, as part of the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games Bid Committee.
Individual/Angel
French Square
London, England, United Kingdom
French Square is a network of French-speaking entrepreneurs in London and networking events.
Incubator
Frontline
Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Frontline offers in-depth reporting and analysis of issues and events at the regional, national, and international levels.
Publishing
G5 Capital (China)
United States
Mr. John Santiago serves as Chief Executive Officer at Media 8. Since 1996, John has been involved in launching two leading digital advertising agencies and is recognized as an industry shaker and veteran digital marketer. John received the prestigious honor of being named one of "Los Pioneros" (The Pioneers) in U.S. Hispanic Digital marketing by the governing body of interactive advertising, the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB). Because of this thought leadership, knowledge and experience with best practices in Digital Marketing, John is a frequent speaker at industry events. His insight has been featured by industry publications such as Advertising Age, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, OMMA Magazine, Portada Magazine, and others.
Individual/Angel
Gala Lab
United States
Mr. Robert Craig is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Centerman Capital. He is an Angel Investor. He also serves as the Board Member at ZP Group. He founded Centerman Capital in 2012 with a commitment to provide early stage strategy and private equity to natural food and beverage companies. Prior to Centerman Capital, Bob was the Chief Financial Officer/Vice President of Finance at Food Should Taste Good. The first hire by the company's founder, Bob was the right-hand man in growing the company by 5,000% over 6 years. Food Should Taste Good was sold to General Mills in 2012. Bob was also a co-founder and Chief Financial Officer of Delivered Dish restaurant delivery service based out of Portland, OR that in December 2015 sold to GrubHub after a successful process. These harvest events combined to create over $175 Million of shareholder value. Bob brought more than a decade of finance and operational experience building small businesses prior to the successes with Food Should Taste Good and Delivered Dish. In his senior management career Bob served as the Controller of Great Eastern Seafood, a $25 million fresh seafood wholesaler, the Controller of a $300 million Wood Procurement Organization at Sappi Fine Paper, the Chief Operating Officer of Dining In, then the nation's largest restaurant delivery service, and the Chief Operating Officer at Cheating Gourmet. Movers Specialty Service, the nation's leading specialty moving services company. He serves as Board member and Advisor at Scott & Jon's. Bob holds a Bachelor of Science/Accounting degree from Lehigh University, and was captain of the cross-country team. Bob currently resides in Needham, MA with his wife of 24 years, Elizabeth, and their 8-year- old daughter, Carly Rose.
Individual/Angel
Gareth Moore
United States
Mr. Vamsi Sistla serves as Advisory Partner at Laconia Capital Group. He is an innovative technologist with over 18 years of experience in the Television, Digital Media & Financial industries. He has built various enterprise quality software and technology (Web and Mobile) platforms. Vamsi currently serves as CTO for OfferBoard and Technical Advisor to various early stage startups. Previously, Vamsi co-founded - Telvetto (2nd Screen Social TV Platform), Mogozz (Mobile Events Platforms) and Captivision Networks (iTV Educational Channel). Vamsi is an active Angel investor in ARC Angels, Eniac Ventures (1 & 3) and TIE SV Angels. He is also active in social & impact enterprises as a mentor (Microsoft Ventures, The Unreasonable Institute, TechStars London IoT Spring 2013 Session, 37Angels and Americas Amazing Teens Project), advisor to various early stage startups and a board member (The Good Life Organization & Chaupal India).
Individual/Angel
Geoffrey Yang
United States
Mr. Christian Cunningham served as Head, Mobile (U.S) at ironSource. He previously served as a Chief Executive Officer and co-founded appssavvy. As CEO, Chris leads appssavvy's mission to rethink the delivery and reception of advertising. As people's behavior shifts from page-based consumption to activities, on both web and mobile, he believes so should advertising. Chris co-founded appssavvy in 2008 and grew the company as a sales and marketing services organization to more than $20 million in annual revenue by the end of 2010. Towards the end of that year, he and the team set-out to transform the company to one entrenched in technology. Today, appssavvy is an activity advertising technology company focused on people's native activities on both web and mobile. Launched in late 2011, appssavvy's platform, adtivity, is growing faster than the company's initial business and is empowering brands to reach people, within natural breaks of activities, when they are most receptive, in real-time. Chris is a recognized voice in the digital ad industry. In 2013, he's been a featured speaker at leading events, including International CES and the Interactive Advertising Bureau's Annual Leadership Meeting, among an array of others. Chris is also a thought leader that regularly contributes to the press, including several appearances on CNBC and Bloomberg TV. Check out the recent Business Insider SAI Q&A with Chris, "An Interview With The Man Who Is Trying To Bring Big, Native Ads To Mobile." In 2012, he was named as one of the "Most Important People in Mobile Advertising& by Business Insider and for insight into Chris' unique perspective, read The New York Times' Corner Office. Under his leadership, appssavvy has approaching 40 employees in four offices across the U.S. and is recognized as a great place to work by Crain's New York Business' Best Places to Work in NYC - an honor won in 2009, 2010 and 2011. Chris is a member of Doodle.ly's and United Contests' Advisory Boards and The Young Entrepreneur Council. He is an angel investor.
Individual/Angel
H2O Challenge
United States
Mr. Bradley Jones serves as Equity Portfolio Manager at The FSE Group. He serves as Board Member at Hofmeister Brewing. Mr. Jones handles deal origination and all stages of the transaction lifecycle along with post investment management for the equity funds at The FSE Group. Bradley joined The FSE Group in January 2010, after completing his BSc honours degree in Management at the University of the West of England, firstly as the Marketing and Events coordinator and moved in March 2010 to the equity team, where he has progressed from fund executive to fund manager. He also serves as the Board Observer at VigilantApps.
Individual/Angel
HackerDojo
United States
HackerDojo is a technology hub in Mountain View, California that is one part working space, one part events venue, and one part maker space. The firm is a perfect place to launch a software startup or build a robot. It has both personal desk space (The Hive) and shared desk space for Hacker Dojo members.
Accelerator
Incubator
Hacker Lab
United States
Hacker Lab is an accelerator based in Sacramento, California. The firm was founded in 2011 and provides support for bootstrapping startups and offers community driven education, coworking and tech related events. It also offers mentorship and collaboration for Sacramento's tech and innovative community.
Accelerator
Incubator
Hans Back
Ireland
Mr. Colm Lyon is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Fire Financial Services. He serves as Board Member at VT IoT. Mr. Colm also serves as Chief Executive Officer & is a Founder at Realex Payments. Colm has worked in financial services related businesses for over twenty five years, starting with fourteen years in the banking sector. He is a regular speaker at payments and internet industry events across Europe and frequently commentates for press as a payments expert and visionary about the future of money. He is passionate about "changing payments for the better". He has participated in and established several business associations. Most notably Colm was chairman of the Irish Internet Association, founder of the Internet Growth Alliance and more recently (2014) he founded the Payments Ireland networking group. He has served as a member of the Dublin Chamber of Commerce Council in 2014. Colm is a graduate of University College Dublin with a Bachelor of Commerce and a Master of Management Science Degree. Over the past few years he has spent further time in Harvard and Stanford Business School with the Leadership 4 Growth programme.
Individual/Angel
Harold Primat
Switzerland
Mr. Harold Primat serves as Board Member at Tractive. He serves as Board Member at Buzzbike. Mr. Primat is a French-born Swiss racing driver currently competing in the Blancpain Endurance Series and selected long-distance events such as the Bathurst 12 Hours and Nürburgring 24 Hours. Harold currently serves as President of Primland, one of the mountain resort in the United States. He is also the racing driver currently competing in the Blancpain Endurance Series and selected long-distance events.
Individual/Angel
Hiren Patel
United Kingdom
Ms. Alysia Wanczyk is an Angel Investor. She served as Marketing Director at Seedrs. She is a dynamic marketeer with a background in developing relationships through social media and demand generation through strategic online content. Most recently, she managed the marketing for leading event management software company Eventsforce. Alysia holds an MA in International Marketing Communications from London Metropolitan University, an MSc in International Strategic Communications from Groupe Ecole supérieure de Commerce et de Management and a BA in Political Science and Communications from Florida State University, and she is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
Individual/Angel
Hockey Stick Ventures
United States
Mr. F. Scott Moody is a Co-Founder & serves as Chief Executive Officer, Chief Member Advocate, Chief Mission Officer & Chairman of K4Connect. He is an Advisory Board Member and Investor at Cofounders Capital. He is also an Advisor at Stonehenge Growth Equity Partners. Prior to this, he co-founded and was a Board Member at Authentec. He is a highly successful entrepreneur that took a venture-backed company from start-up to successful IPO. He actively sources and evaluates growth equity investment opportunities for Stonehenge Growth Equity Partners, particularly in the State of North Carolina. He is a Co-Founder and was a Chairman of AuthenTec, where he served as Chief Executive Officer (NASDAQ: AUTH; Acquired by Apple). A spinout from Harris Corporation (NYSE: HRS), AuthenTec was a leading provider of fingerprint sensors and identity management software. AuthenTec was the first public company ever acquired by Apple and their second largest acquisition to date. AuthenTec's fingerprint sensors are now the technology behind the Touch ID home button first introduced on the iPhone 5S. Prior to AuthenTec, he was a senior level executive within Harris Corporation where he had responsibility for a $200 million semiconductor business unit. Over the years he has been featured on TV and in publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, CNBC Squawk Box, Entrepreneur, New York Times, Fortune and others. He is a frequent speaker at investor, corporate and university events on both innovation and entrepreneurship, and is often a judge at various startup programs in the US, Rwanda and Ghana. He received a BS in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State University and an executive MBA from the University of Florida.
Individual/Angel
Hossein Noshirvani
Washington DC Metro Area, United States, North America
Hossein is the President of CharityEngine which makes software for nonprofits so they can manage tasks like events management, online fundra...
Individual/Angel
HUB13 Business Innovation Accelerator
Finland
HUB13 Business Innovation Accelerator is a Helsinki, Finland based business accelerator/incubator that invest in new businesses, especially into entrepreneurs and startups who innovate, build and launch new things. The firm provides provide platform for open innovation experiments and produce industry-specific innovation programs like hackathones with results. It has developed startup-based approach that they prepare for both startups and corporations. Additionally, HUB13 build communities for the forerunners in its focus industries, worktech (development of work environments), fintech (financial digitalisation) and marktech (marketing and sales automation). The firm provide individuals, startups and corporations with coworking spaces, spaces for meetings and events. The training takes five weeks and will take place in the center of Helsinki at HUB13's premises. It was established in 2014.
Accelerator
Incubator
Ilan Israelstam
United States
Mr. Michael Anello is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director at M33 Growth. Prior to M33, Mike served as vice president at Valor Equity Partners, where he focused on implementing sales and marketing best practices across the firm's portfolio. Before this, Mike led business development for Axium Software (acquired by Deltek), where he led acquisitions and helped double the size of Axium's sales and marketing engine in less than two years. Mike has worked with several companies to optimize and streamline their sales and marketing efforts, including Illumio Software, Tesla Motors, Manduka, Porch, and Project44. He was also a cofounder of Cleverlayover. Mike worked with Gabe and Brian while at General Catalyst, where he focused on software and healthcare opportunities. Mike graduated from the University of Notre Dame summa cum laude. He walked on to the Notre Dame Football Team, eventually earning a scholarship and two-time Academic All-American Honors. Mike received his MBA from Harvard Business School. While there, he partnered with Shikhar Ghosh and Mark Roberge to build a playbook around best practices for scaling sales teams from $10 million to $100 million in revenue. Mike's passion for giving back led to the launch of Boston's inaugural St. Baldrick's Event, a pediatric oncology research foundation. Since, then he has led more than 10 events in four cities.
Individual/Angel
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