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Ajay Chandwani
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Ajay Chandwani is Director on the board of Percept Limited since 2009. Ajay was CEO, Percept H advertising from 2005 TO 2009 looking after t...
Individual/Angel
Alegian Growth Partners
United States
Alegian Growth Partners is a venture capital firm based in Cape Coral, Florida. The firm prefers to invest in information technology, advertising, marketing, analytics, machine learning, and real estate sectors.
Venture Capital
Aletta Angels
United States
Founded in 2019, Aletta Angels is an angel group firm based in San Francisco, California. The firm seeks to make investments in women-founded firms operating in the health, advertising, media platforms, and consumer technology sectors across Europe and the United States.
Angel Group
Alex and Bart
United States
Mr. Scott Gurfein serves as Principal at Product Equities. He is a Co-Founder of Socket Managed Services. Previously, he cofounded and served as Chairman at AllWork. Prior to that, he co-founded and served as President and Chief Executive Officer at Freeze 24/7 International. He started his career in traditional retail with May Department Stores and then shifted into the Internet space in its earliest days; co-founding the first online dining guide and then crafting digital marketing and advertising strategies for heavyweights CNN, Time Warner, Sony Pictures, Disney, Miramax, HBO, and others. In 2003, he acquired Freeze 24-7, the world's first over-the-counter Botox alternative. In 2006 he co-founded a provider of back-office, procurement, and financial services to consumer brands such as L'Oréal, Kate Somerville, REN Skincare, and dozens more. Leveraging his experience, he founded Brand Growth Management in 2008, a brand development and advisory firm to other established and emerging brands like Mama Mio Skincare, Hand Perfection, Cane+Austin, Carol's Daughter, Karin Herzog, and MD Solar Sciences. He is also an Angel Investor.
Individual/Angel
Alexander Chesterman
United States
Mr. David Mawhinney is the Board Member of EZ-FLO Injection Systems. He serves as Executive Director at Carnegie Mellon University. He serves as Advisor at NetBeez. He also serves as executive director, Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship, and executive director, Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship. He serves as the managing director, Open Field Entrepreneurs Fund, and director, i6 Agile Innovation System, a collaboration between InnovationWorks and CMU. Dave is also associate teaching professor at the Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business. Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon, Dave was co-founder, chairman and CEO of mSpoke, an internet content and advertising recommendation engine, that was acquired in 2010 by LinkedIn, the world's leading professional social networking site. In 2006, Morgan Stanley's MSCI/Barra business unit acquired mSpoke's first business line, a quantitative investment recommendation engine. Before mSpoke, Dave was general partner of PNC Technology Investors. Earlier in his career, he co-founded three successful startup ventures, including Premier Health Exchange (acquired by Medibuy), Hawk Medical (acquired by McKesson), and Industry.Net (merged with AT&T Business Network to form Nets, Inc.). Dave is an active board member at MedSage Technologies (now NewCare Solutions LLC), EZ-FLO Injection Systems and the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Alumni Association (ex-officio, past president). He is an Advisory board member to InnovationWork's AlphaLab, Pittsburgh Equity Partners and Carnegie Mellon University's Project Olympus. Dave also served as Executive-in-residence at the Pittsburgh Life Sciences Greenhouse, working with healthcare information technology startups. Dave holds an MBA with Distinction from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. in physics, Summa Cum Laude, from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Dave was a 2017 recipient of the Tepper School Alumni Award.
Individual/Angel
Alexandra Novakovich
United States
Mr. Chip Meakem is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Tribeca Venture Partners. He serves as Board Member at clean.io and zToggle (Machinery). He is an Angel Investor. He serves as Board Member and an Advisor at BetterCloud. He is a Board Member of PebblePost. He was a Board Member at AppNexus and Maxwell Health. He also serves as Advisor at Maxwell Health. He served as Managing Partner at Kodiak Venture Partners. He is a Managing Partner and Co-Founder at Tribeca Venture Partners. He leads the efforts in digital media focusing primarily on e-commerce, internet advertising, gaming and a broad range of supporting technologies and services. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of NYC-based Appnexus; iAmplify; Ideeli; LiveGamer; TRA Global; VestaGMS; and Boston-based WHERE. He also serves as an observer to the board of directors of the portfolio company, Wireless China. He joined Kodiak from Draper Fisher Jurvetson Gotham. At DFJ Gotham, heled investments and served on the boards of ContextWeb; Ingenio (acquired by AT&T); Massive Inc. (acquired by Microsoft); NanoOpto; Pantero (acquired by Progress Software); Practical Engineering; Q-Link Technologies (acquired by Adobe Systems); and Quantiva (acquired by NetScout Systems). He was also a personal seed investor in FreeMarkets Inc., which made its IPO in December 1999 and peaked at $12B market cap. He serves as a Board Observer at Jornaya. He serves as a Board Member at Spiffy and Ampjar. He serves as Board Member at 1Huddle.
Individual/Angel
ALTWeb Capital
Moscow, Moscow City, Russian Federation
Seed investing in SEO and advertising SaaS
Venture Capital
Amber Arbucci
United States
Mr. David Siminoff is the Founder & serves as President at Shmoop. He also serves as Board Member at Spartan and Diamond Age. He is an Angel Investor. He served as an Advisor at Formation 8. Prior to Shmoop, he was a Partner at Venrock from 2007-2009. Prior to Venrock, he served as Chairman, President, and CEO of Spark Networks, a provider of online personal services and the parent company to JDate. He spent nearly a decade in investment research analysis and portfolio management at Capital Research, making early investments in Yahoo!, AOL, Amazon, and eBay. He later founded and co-founded 4INFO, a leading mobile search service. Formerly, he founded and later sold EastNet, a syndicate barter company, enabling television stations in Eastern Europe to trade American TV programs for advertising time from major brands. He currently serves on the boards of Crunchyroll, BlogHer, and SlideShare, and Coupons.com. He serves as General Partner at Prime Movers Lab. He holds a B.A. from Stanford University, an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California, and an M.B.A. from Stanford Graduate School of Business.
Individual/Angel
Andranik Okroyan
Canada
Mr. Steven Abrams serves as a Partner, IT Venture Fund at Business Development Bank of Canada. He also serves as Partner, IT Venture Fund at BDC Capital. He serves as Board Member at Goodee, HiMama, and InnerSpace. He was a Board Member at Immunio. He joined the BDC in 2001, after almost nine years in investment banking with Scotia McLeod and two years as CFO of an interactive advertising agency. As a Director of Corporate Finance, he participated in many IPOs, privatizations, M&A advisory mandates, and equity and debt financings for companies in sectors including technology, transportation, and telecommunications. For an Internet company, he raised the first round of venture capital, did three acquisitions, two start-ups, and helped grow the company from 20 people to 145. He is a Charter Member of the C100 and has invested in BDC portfolio companies: Beyond The Rack, Datacratic, Invidi, Vantrix, Bluestreak, and as well as Third Brigade (Trend Micro), Max-T (Avid), and AutismPro (Trumpet). He holds an MBA in Finance from Cornell University and a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and Computer Science from McGill University.
Individual/Angel
Anil Stocker
United States
Mr. Seth Greenberg served as Chief Marketing Officer at Alteryx. He also serves as Venture Partner at NextGen Venture Partners. Seth serves as Chief Marketing Officer & Board Member at Bask Technology. Seth will oversee all marketing management activities for Alteryx, including corporate brand, demand generation with corporate and partner events, international marketing, product positioning and analyst relations. Before Alteryx, Seth was the CMO of LifeLock, where he successfully repositioned the brand to reach a much wider market, resulting in substantial increases in subscriber and revenue growth. He served seven years at Intuit, including as the digital marketing leader for TurboTax, Quicken and Mint. During his tenure, Seth led a team that helped drive the overall TurboTax business from $600 Million to over $1.5 Billion with 26 Million customers annually. Most recently, Seth was vice president of Intuit QuickBooks, responsible for social, brand, advertising and digital strategy. He has a Bachelor's Degree in Communication Arts from Loyola Marymount University, and attended the American Film Institute.
Individual/Angel
Antonio Tomarchio
New York, New York, United States
Antonio is the founder and CEO of Beintoo. Before Beintoo he was Head of R&D and Products for the digital advertising division of Dada. He ...
Individual/Angel
AOL Ventures
United States
AOL Ventures was the corporate venture arm of AOL and was based in New York, New York. The firm used to make early stage investments in the content, advertising, mapping, communications, consumer internet, web and technology sectors.
Venture Capital
Appareo Capital
United States
Founded in 2016, Appareo Capital is a family office and private equity firm based in Houston, Texas. The firm prefers to invest in companies operating in manufacturing, distribution, logistics, oil field services, automotive, media, transaction processing, data and internet companies, real estate, construction services, agriculture, outdoor advertising, consumer products, wireless telecommunications, and financial service sectors. The firm prefers to invest in companies whose primary activity is in the United States.
Private Equity Firm
Arctic Ventures
United States
Founded in 2020, Arctic Ventures is a venture capital firm based in New York City. The firm seeks to invest in late stage and pre-IPO rounds, providing growth capital for great companies located in the United States, Asia, and Europe. We prefer established businesses from such industries as e-learning, healthcare, financial and software technology, online gaming, e-commerce, advertising, and marketing.
Venture Capital
Arthur Norins
Denmark
Mr. Ali Mufuruki served as Chairman of the Investment Committee at Zebu Investment Partners. Mr. Mufuruki also serves as Director at Wananchi Group Holdings. He serves as Board Member at Topcrust Bakery, and AMSCO (Netherlands). He is the Chairman and CEO of Dar Es Salaam (Tanzania) based on Infotech Investment Group LTD which has business interests in real estate, retail, advertising, IT, and telecommunications services. He is a founding partner of East Africa Capital Partners (EACP), a Nairobi, Kenya-based private equity fund dedicated to ICT, Media, and Telecoms with over USD 100m under management. He is also the Founding Chairman of The CEOs' Roundtable of Tanzania, a policy dialogue forum that brings together CEOs of the top 50 companies in Tanzania. In 2002, he became the founding Chairman of Air Tanzania Company LTD. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Tanzania Central Bank where he serves as Chairman of the Audit Committee. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Amsterdam-based ATMS Foundation, a joint project of the UNDP and the International Finance Corporation ("IFC"), the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, set up in 1989 to provide management services that enable the private sector to play its rightful role in the economies of African countries. Mr. Mufuruki sits on the boards of Technoserve, Inc. of Washington, DC, and The Global Philanthropy Forum (GPF) based in California, USA, and is Chairman of the board of Enablis East Africa. He is a Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute Class of 2001 and Founder and Chairman of The Africa Leadership Initiative (ALI) East Africa. Mr. Mufuruki is a graduate of Mechanical Engineering Design from The University of Technology and Economics in Reutlingen, Germany, in 1986. He serves as Board Member at BLUETOWN.
Individual/Angel
Arun Anant
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Arun Anant specialises in media management, Branding, Marketing & Advertising. Arun has 20+ years of work experience with large & diverse co...
Individual/Angel
Aureus Partners
San Antonio, Texas, United States
Aureus Partners is an advertising and marketing company it delivers services to increase significant capital of the companies.
Private Equity Firm
Axel Bard Bringéus
Berlin, Berlin, Germany
EQT VenturesвАЩ in-house international expansion expert, AxelвАЩs early career involved a stint at King.com, where he set up and ran advertising...
Investment Partner
Azim Makanojiya
United States
Mr. Eric Leventhal serves as Consultant and Executive Search Partner at Spencer Stuart. He is an Angel Investor. He is a member of the firm's global Consumer, Private Equity, Board and Marketing Officer practices. Building on his earlier career experience working for American and European consumer packaged goods companies, Eric now works with clients to recruit CEOs, division presidents, and C-suite executives. Eric previously managed the firm's New York office. Prior to joining Spencer Stuart, Eric was president of Evian North America and subsequently president of Danone Beverages North America. Previously he held the position of senior vice president of marketing for Dannon, where he was responsible for the company's brand management, new product development, advertising, packaging, public relations and consumer affairs functions.
Individual/Angel
Benjamin Lakoff
United States
Mr. Jordan Hoffner serves as Vice President, Head of Partnerships and Business Operations at Samsung NEXT Ventures. He serves as Advisory Board Member at Dragonfly Group (United States). He is an accomplished media executive, innovator and change agent with over two decades of digital media, traditional media and technology experience. He is the global lead of strategy, innovation and partnerships for Samsung NEXT. Prior to Samsung, Jordan was the CEO of Salon Media Group where he led the turnaround, restructure and sale of the iconic pioneering, award-winning news site, Salon.com. Prior to joining Salon Media Group, Jordan served as CEO of Federated Media, a Media General company and leader in native advertising, ad technology and influencer marketing for digital and TV. He has held senior level strategy and business development roles at Google and YouTube. While at YouTube, Jordan led the content partnerships and business development teams in the Americas for YouTube where he was able to secure deals with nearly all of the major media companies, news organizations and sports leagues. In addition, Hoffner accepted the company's 2008 prestigious Peabody Award for YouTube's involvement with CNN in presenting a new format for the Democratic National Debates as well as promoting a free exchange of ideas expressed in video formats around the world. After YouTube, Hoffner was on the founding leadership team for the IAC entertainment venture Electus in partnership with former NBC Entertainment president, Ben Silverman, where he held the role of President of Digital. In addition, Jordan is an entrepreneur and angel investor having started and incubated multiple businesses in the media and technology sector. He began his career as an accomplished NBC News producer before moving to the business side of the company and taking on roles as Director of Corporate Development, General Manager of NBC Weather Plus and VP, Digital Studios at NBCUniversal. He earned a Bachelor of Arts with honors from Vassar College and a MBA in finance from NYU's Stern School of Business. He currently sits as a council member for the nonprofit organization Common Sense Media.
Individual/Angel
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