Found 863 investors
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 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
Ville-Veli Saari
United States
Ms. Anat Solomon is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Saturas. Previously, Anat served as CEO of Veolia Water in Israel and VP at Global Environmental Solutions. She has extensive business development experience in both the cleantech and water industries. Anat holds an M.A. in Organizational Development from the Israeli College of Management Academic Studies and a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
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
Viswanathan Shankar
United States
Mr. Gareth Keane serves as Partner at Promus Ventures. He is a Board Member of Swift Navigation. Mr. Keane was a Board Observer of 360fly. He served as Senior Investment Manager at Qualcomm Ventures. He served as Board Observer of Skycatch. He joined the team in 2012 and has been heavily involved in Qualcomm Ventures activities in the hardware and connected device ecosystems. He helped define the Qualcomm Ventures investment thesis around UAVs and robotics and led the Qualcomm Ventures investments in companies like Spire. He also served as a Board Observer at Lifx. He started his professional career as an engineer and spent many years in engineering roles before turning to the dark side. He graduated from the National University of Ireland with a Bachelor's degree in Electronic Engineering in 1994 and followed this up with a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from The Queen's University of Belfast in 1999, where his thesis focused on low-power design methodologies for signal processing systems. His first job out of graduate school was working on complex semiconductor design tools for Cadence and he continued working on methodologies and design flows as an engineer and manager at PMC-Sierra. After eight years of solving technology challenges in successively smaller silicon geometries, he decided it was time for Business School and spent two years in the MBA program at UPenn/Wharton in Philadelphia, graduating in 2010. He served as the Board Observer at 3DR.
Individual/Angel
VooCap Corporation
United States
VooCap is a private equity and venture capital firm that invests in equity and equity-related capital of small and medium-sized businesses. It aims to nurture growth and value potential and provide exceptional returns to the investors. It backs both talented new business idea and experienced successful management to start a new company and acquire an existing one, by way of management buy-in,and management buy-out. It is looking for seed, early stage, start-up business opportunities in the real estate development, alternative energy, independent motion picture, emerging technologies, MagLev Transit Systems, including embryonic stage projects within the academic community. It is based in New York, New York and was founded in 2007.
Private Equity Firm
Wayne Morris
United States
Mr. Jason Bedford is an Angel Investor. He served as Chief Customer Officer at eSpark Learning. He served as Senior Vice President, Client Engagement and Success at DreamBox Learning. Jason directs national sales and training at DreamBox Learning, leading strategic accounts development and managing the company's eastern regional office in Raleigh, NC. Jason brings with him over a decade of experience in sales, strategy and operations at leading education technology companies providing software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions to the K-12 market. Before joining DreamBox Learning, Jason served as Vice President, Global Sales for Blackboard Connect, a leading learning management system provider. Jason served as General Manager and Executive Vice President at Alert Now, a leading alert notifications solution. With more then five years of experience teaching in Wake County North Carolina Public Schools, Jason has a unique perspective on the value of integrating DreamBox Learning Math in the classroom.
Individual/Angel
White Castle Partners
Monaco
White Castle Partners is a startup acceleration firm headquartered in Monte Carlo, Monaco. The firm discovers, invests in and mentors young entrepreneurs that use technologies to bring great ideas to the world. It helps commercialize academic research, drive growth, and create shareholder value in innovative and promising startups.
Accelerator
Incubator
William Beamish
United States
Dr. Henning Walf served as Managing Director, Europe at CoBe Capital. He served as Senior Advisor at goetzpartners. He nearly two decades of professional experience in international, cross-border business settings with a focus on mid-cap transactions, operations strategy and restructuring. Based in Cologne, Germany, He is responsible for CoBe Capital's Northern and Central European activities from an M&A and operations perspective. Within eight months of joining CoBe Capital, He was able to sign and close his first three acquisitions. His transactions to date include Printing Systems Group, Warendorfer Küchen, Arosa Mobilia and Kornmüller. Prior to joining CoBe Capital, He was a Partner at goetzpartners Management Consultants, the largest independent M&A advisory and management consulting firm in Germany, where he was Head of Strategy and Restructuring Practices. In this role, he built a successful track record of turning around companies and advising on special situation transactions. He has led advisory mandates, acquisitions and divestitures for large corporates, in addition to acquisitions out of insolvency. He has domain expertise across various technologies, including material science, energy and telecom along with years of professional experience in the automotive, industrial and manufacturing sectors. Before joining goetzpartners He worked several years for McKinsey & Company and the Brazilian Ministry of Development (CNPq). He received his Ph.D. in Nuclear and Solid State Physics from Technische Universität Braunschweig.
Individual/Angel
William Paseman
United States
Mr. Arthur Benjamin is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Stone Mountain Global Investment Group. Benjamin has been dedicating himself to education and animal rights activism for the past three decades. At his core he is a marketing expert who has applied the expertise gained at CBS, Group W and Major Market Television to building companies. He built DataMark into the world's largest educational marketing agency and followed the successful exit of it by building one of the most productive partnerships between an equity partner and a management team in U.S. for-profit education. Serving on the boards of several of the nation's leading career education colleges and associations, his educational activities have impacted career education nationwide. In 2014, he turned his attention to educational partnerships in Brazil. Since then he has built relationships with the leaders of education in that country and on the future of those institutions through use of research and marketing for growth with planning and execution that yields both efficiency and effectiveness. A graduate of world-reknown mathematician & philosopher Buckminster Fuller's entrepreneurial and business graduate education at Burklyn Business, he is a student of out-of-the box solutions and unique ability partnerships. Applying that to charity, as an advocate for the humane treatment of animals, Arthur's philanthropy has had an equally significant impact on the lives of hundreds of thousands of animals globally, both domesticated and living in the wild.
Individual/Angel
William Popomaronis
Switzerland
Mr. Pavel Volichenko is a Co-Founder of Homega. He is an Angel Investor. He served as the Chief Financial Officer at Skioo. He holds an MS in Applied Mathematics from Finance Academy under the Government of the Russian Federation.
Individual/Angel
Wiz
New York City
Co-Founder & Chief Astronaut at Spacecadet Ventures
ClimateTech/CleanTech
Consumer Health
Consumer Internet
Education
Entertainment & Sports
FinTech
Future of Work
Games
Marketplaces
Media/Content
Women's iLab
United States
Dr. Elma Hawkins is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer, President & Board Member at Redpin Therapeutics. She is a Co-Founder of Tohi Ventures. She is also an Angel Investor. She also served as Business Advisor at Yesse Technologies. Dr. Hawkins' multi-decade career encompasses pioneering efforts in patient-specific product development and executive roles in clinical research, corporate development, fundraising, and general management. She is the President, CEO, and co-founder of Redpin Therapeutics as well as Chairman of Epiphone. Previously, she served as President and CEO of Lion Biotechnologies as well as Vice Chairman of Antigenics. She also held various positions at Warner-Lambert/Parke-Davis, Genzyme, ADVR, and the Center for the Study of Drug Development at Tufts Medical School. She is the founder of Viridian Pharmaceuticals and co-founder of Tohi Ventures. Dr. Hawkins has numerous degrees including a Ph.D. in Organic Chemistry and an MBA with a specialization in entrepreneurship.
Individual/Angel
Women's Startup Academy 2020
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Women's Startup Academy 2020 offers daily coaching from product, marketing, and fundraising experts (up to 200 hours worth $50K).
Business Development
Financial Services
Marketing
Accelerator
Xaphan Group
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Xaphan Group is a worldwide alliance of accredited investors with decades of business and entrepreneurial expertise.
Venture Capital
Angel Group
Xavier Poitau
United States
Mr. James Grube serves as Board Member at GameStop. He is a business and finance executive with more than two decades of corporate experience. He was most recently the Chief Financial Officer of Vacasa, a North American vacation rental management company. He previously served as the Chief Financial Officer of Chewy, Inc. (NYSE: CHWY) from 2015 through 2018. He was formerly the Senior Vice President of Finance at Hilton (NYSE: HLT) from 2009 through 2015 and a Director of Finance at Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) from 2007 through 2009. He has a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University and received his master's degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Individual/Angel
Yale Office of Cooperative Research
United States
Founded in 1982, Yale Office of Cooperative Research is an accelerator and incubator arm of Yale University based in New Haven, Connecticut. The firm seeks to incubate startups and translates academic research into products and services by counseling early-stage technology companies. The firm also helps in inventions and patents in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, drug delivery, clean-tech, information technology & software, semiconductors, materials & nanotechnology, sensors, medical devices, biomedical, photonics & microsystems, research tools, and agtech sectors.
Accelerator
Incubator
Yorktown
New York, New York, United States
Yorktown has raised eleven private equity funds over the past three decades totaling $8 billion in capital commitments.
Private Equity Firm
Yves Padrines
India
Mr. Chaitanya Desai serves as Chief Operating Officer & Country Head at OmniActive Health Technologies. As a seasoned pharmaceutical industry executive with a strong history in managing operations from raw material sourcing to end-product manufacturing, Chaitanya aligns, guides, and leads the operations, business and sales functions of OmniActive's Specialty Botanicals and Extracts division. Over his almost 40 years of experience, Chaitanya has provided visionary leadership to illustrious corporations such as Cadila Pharmaceuticals, Unimark Remedies, Shasun Drug and Chemical, and Sanmar Specialty Chemicals. Chaitanya holds Bachelor of Science diplomas from the Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai.
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