Found 166 investors
INLEA Foundation
Spain
INLEA Foundation is the corporate social responsibility of INLEA Corporation. It is an international non-profit association.Their focus is to create start-ups, promote creativity, innovation, employability and spread knowledge of new technologies through specially designed training programs and further education.The core ideas of the Foundation are:(1) Connect: the Foundation is a place to bring entrepreneurs and business owners together with professionals and reference specialists, in a collaborative and open workplace.(2) Support: as their social commitment with entrepreneurs, the Foundation guides them in the process of transforming an idea into a project and creating a company ready to compete in a global market.(3) Grow: due to Inlea Corporations international experience, Inlea Foundation provides a global vision for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) in order to enhance their process of expansion and growth.The Foundation is based on solid values such as: ethics, collaboration, humility, effort, flexibility and compromise. They believe that the most important aspect of each project are the people behind it. Personal qualities and values are what provide, make and build successful companies.They collaborate with local, regional, national, European and worldwide public organizations in order to develop training programs for different areas such as: IT and related technology, human capital, entrepreneurial mentality, creativity, innovation, funding and similar topics.Additionally, they participate in conferences, seminars, exhibitions and events on learning and technology.
Accelerator
Incubator
INQbator (poland)
Finland
Mr. Lasse Lehtinen is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Icebreaker.vc. Lehtinen served as Country Manager at Frontier. He serves as a Board Member at Kommeet ,RoadCloud and Kodit.io. Before joining Frontier he was the Group Marketing Manager at Management Events, an international growth company operating in 10 countries. Lasse has years of experience and a strong track record in managing international b2b marketing, market entries and business development across different industries. He holds a Master's Degree in Marketing from Aalto University School of Business. He serves as Board Member at HoxHunt and Smilee.
Individual/Angel
Insight Media Fund
United Kingdom
Founded in 2020, Insight Media Fund is an investment firm based in the United Kingdom. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in the gaming, esports, augmented reality, TV, film, virtual reality, music, live events and other entertainment sectors.
Private Equity Firm
Jason Early
Lithuania
Mr. Rokas Tamosiunas serves as a Partner at Open Circle Capital. He is also an Angel Investor. Serial entrepreneur, early-stage investor, and strategic execution hustler. Rokas has built and sold two of his own business; have been part of investing in 30 technology startups and consequently participated in nearly 100 early-stage transactions. Previously, Rokas has founded and/or managed several acceleration programs in the Baltic, including StartupHighway and Barclays Fintech Accelerator program in Vilnius. Rokas is a frequent speaker at events throughout Europe and beyond, a mentor to many startup companies participates on several boards of startups, and has is an active member of the innovation community in the Baltic region. He has been named in Top 10 in innovation in Lithuania (2015), in Top 3 investors in Lithuania (2011), and in Top 30 Under 30 in Nordic (2014), and has been awarded the Lithuanian business partnership award (2011). Rokas holds BSc. and MSc. degrees from Vilnius University, as well as further certificates from Cambridge Judge Business School.
Individual/Angel
JCube
Italy
JCube is a high-technology center with 1000 mq internal space, 3000 mq external area, laboratories for test and analysis, broadband internet, offices and space for meeting and events.
Accelerator
Incubator
Jim Alvarez
Westmont, Illinois, United States
Jim Alvarez is the Founder and CEO of AuctionsByCellular, an Oak Brook-based software outfit that enables attendees at nonprofit events to u...
Individual/Angel
John-Daniel Trask
United Kingdom
Mr. Benjamin Whitaker serves as Angel Investor at Ben Whitaker. He also is a Co-Founder and serves as a Board Member and Head of Innovation at Masabi. He served as Board Member at Snap Travel Technology. He is the company's product evangelist, focussing primarily on business development at the company. He is a familiar face on both the mobile and train industry circuits, regularly invited to interviews and speaking slots at major industry events worldwide. A classic visionary, Ben helped define the UK rail mobile ticketing standard and move the weight of industry opinion behind it. He is also a security expert with a strong engineering background, designing Masabi's award-winning encryptMe product. Prior to founding Masabi, Ben worked at IBM, Xerox and Raytheon (Encrypted Radar Systems) on projects ranging from computer interface usability to military cryptography. Ben has an MEng degree in Engineering and Management (MET) from Cambridge University.
Individual/Angel
John Reynolds
United States
Mr. Weil served as Board Member at Runa. Luke is Vice President of International Business Development, Latin America for Scientific Games Corporation. His family's investments office was the lead investor in our Series A round. Luke has become very passionate about Runa's mission in Ecuador and is providing major support weaving Runa into high profile events and networks in New York. His additional business ventures include Andina Acquisition Corp. (Co-Founder and Financial Sponsor), lead investor at technology company SkuRun, and contributing partner at LW Air. Luke also serves on the Board of Directors of the Fortune Society. He was an analyst at Bear, Stearns and Co. from 2002 to 2004 and an Associate at Business Strategies & Insight, Inc. from 2004 to 2006. Luke earned his Bachelor of Arts in Economics at Brown University in 2002 and received a Masters of Business from Columbia University's Graduate School of Business in 2008. He previously founded and served as Chief Executive Officer at Andina Acquisition.
Individual/Angel
KaMaFio Bank
United States
KaMaFio Bank was a venture capital firm based in Piscataway, New Jersey. The firm areas of interest used to include podcasts, licensing deals, branded merchandise, software products, events, video content, sponsorship deals, subscription-based businesses, beauty products, alcoholic beverages, apparel and accessories, ed-tech, furniture, interior decorations, pet products, toys, travel, fitness and health, jewelry and sports products.
Venture Capital
Kamloops Innovation
Canada
Kamloops Innovation is a non-profit accelerator based in British Columbia, Canada. The firm prefers to invest in businesses operating in the technology sector. It acts as a non-profit society that serves the Central Interior region of British Columbia and is a BCIC Acceleration Network partner. The firm offers affordable programs that guide, coach and mentor early stage ventures, collaborative and shared office spaces, and host, facilitate, initiate, partner, sponsor and generally support all sorts of events that help to grow the tech community.
Accelerator
Incubator
KRIC
Canada
KRIC was an accelerator based in Cranbrook, Canada. The firm was also a non-profit society that used to provide programming and events targeted at businesses, communities and students, educators related to science, technology and innovation.
Accelerator
Incubator
Kristian Tear
Germany
Mr. Steve Peck serves as Senior Vice President, Global Strategic Service Partners at SAP. He was the Advisor at Alchemy Global. He is responsible for Global Strategic Initiatives. Mr. Peck serves as a proxy for the President where needed and drives a variety of strategic programs and relationships focused on accelerating customer and stakeholder value, innovation and revenue growth. Mr. Peck's prior role at SAP was Senior Vice President, Global Strategic Service Partners. Prior to returning to SAP in October 2010, Mr. Peck was a senior executive consultant for Accenture driving their relationship and field execution strategy with SAP. Previously, he was President and CEO of Axon Americas where he led the Americas region to 48% Y-o-Y growth and completed two acquisitions in 2008. Axon was acquired by HCL Technologies in late December 2008 in an all cash transaction for nearly twice its annual revenues. Prior to Axon, Mr. Peck was an executive with SAP for nearly 6 years where he was Senior Vice President, Americas Ecosystem and Partner Group and served on the Board of Directors for SAP Government and Support Services. Mr. Peck's first role at SAP was as President of SAP Public Services where he led his team to three consecutive years of significant market share gains, double digit revenue growth and strong customer and employee satisfaction improvements. He serves on the Board of Directors of e4e based in San Francisco and I/O Data based in Phoenix. He is also on the Board of Visitors of Towson University located near Baltimore, MD and was appointed as the university's first ever CEO-in-Residence in 2009. Steve is a prominent speaker at partner, industry and company events. Steve is also active in numerous charitable organizations, including serving as a strategic advisor to the Ernie Els Center of Excellence to battle autism and on the executive committee for the Washington DC Leukemia and Lymphoma Society annual ball.
Individual/Angel
Labs Lisboa
Portugal
Labs Lisboa is a collaborative and innovative work ecosystem designed for business creation and growth. It offers integrated and flexible services such as the provision of shared spaces and services, training and mentoring, specialized consulting and a program of regular events to support entrepreneurship. Vodafone Power Lab, a program of support to entrepreneurship and innovation of technological scope is also based at Labs Lisboa.
Accelerator
Incubator
Larry Freed
United States
Mr. Abrar Ahmad serves as Managing Partner at Travel Capitalist Ventures. He also served as Advisor at Guiddoo World. He leads the firm's co-investor relationships with leading sovereign wealth and global PE funds. With over 15 years in the travel industry, he is an expert in identifying travel trends to leverage discerning companies to invest in and tactically shaping a company's expansion strategy. He is a well-known, sought-after speaker on emerging travel and technology trends, travel monetization and growth strategies, and travel-focused investments. He has spoken at numerous international events, including The Economist Magazine's "Future of Travel Summit" in Madrid; the IATA World Passenger Symposium; Singapore's Web in Travel, the largest travel conference in Asia; at Dubai Tech Nights, the leading technology group in the UAE; and, at in5 Innovation Hub, a leading Dubai incubator. He has also lectured on entrepreneurship to the graduating MBA classes of both Tulane University and Loyola University in the United States.
Individual/Angel
Lee Zapis
New Zealand
Ms. Sacha Judd serves as Managing Director at Hoku. Ms. Judd serves as Board Member at SilverStripe. Ms. Judd served as a Partner of Buddle Findlay. Ms. Sacha Judd is an Angel Investor. Sacha Judd was the managing director of Hoku Group, a family office combining private investments, early-stage technology ventures and a non-profit foundation. Sacha is a member of the Takeovers Panel, a director of SilverStripe Ltd, the co-host of Refactor (a series of events for women working in technology), and runs Flounders' Club (a network for early-stage company founders). Formerly a partner at Buddle Findlay, Sacha's background is specializing in mergers and acquisitions, capital raising and takeovers, and she has lectured in securities regulation at the law faculty of the University of Auckland.
Individual/Angel
Left Dial
United States
Founded in 2016, Left Dial is a private equity firm based in Fort Worth, Texas. The firm seeks to invest in lower middle-market companies operating in the aerospace, consumer products, healthy active outdoor lifestyle, e-commerce, consumer packaged goods & specialty goods, book sales & distribution, participatory sports & events, and manufacturing & industrial sectors, across the USA. The firm is looking to acquire controlling interests and also to invest as an independent sponsor in partnership with private equity.
Private Equity Firm
Lex van Dam
United States
Mr. Steve MacLellan is a Co-Founding Partner at Blue Sky Management & Research. Blue Sky works with technology companies to help them maximize their potential and help create the future. Current client products include secure mobile biometric authentication to breakthrough medical imaging. Blue Sky works with companies at all stages of their growth and brings experience to solve challenges encountered in product development, team management, funding, and profitable exits. Steve worked most recently for Fidelity Investments in Boston for over 26 years. At Fidelity, Steve was the Senior Vice President responsible for cyber security and global information security solutions. Steve also worked for BayBanks (now Bank of America), Charles T. Main Engineers, and John Hancock in technology and IT management roles. Steve is a founder of SecuritiNet, a start-up focused on securing eHealth transactions across US providers. Steve also operates Blue Sky Management & Research that provides angel venture capital funding to early stage start-ups. Steve is a senior IT leader with deep technical and extensive management experience and a solid reputation for innovation, problem solving, and solution delivery. Steve has been a successful executive in building and motivating organizations to deliver outstanding performance and winning business results. Steve has earned a reputation as an industry expert on cyber security and using security technologies for competitive advantage, especially at Internet scale. Steve is on advisory boards for Lancope, nCrypted Cloud, SecuritiNet, and SameBug. He has extensive speaking experience at industry, government, and private events on advanced IT and information security topics. In 2011 Steve helped establish the Advanced Cyber Security Center in partnership with Mass Insight Global Partnerships. In 2014 Steve participated in the MIT Building Global Innovation (BGI) program as a judge and adviser for European start-ups. He was a judge in the 2012 and 2014 Mass Challenge competitions, an annual global accelerator program and startup competition. Steve works with several Boston area charitable organizations including the Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester.
Individual/Angel
Lloyd Irvin | C.E.O Of Lloyd Irvin Martial Arts Academy
Maryland, Louisiana, United States
Lloyd Irvin Jr. is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt and competitor, with wins in events such as the World No-Gi Championship
Education
Fitness
Health Care
Sports
Accelerator
Local Food Lab
United States
Local Food Lab is a startup academy and online community for food entrepreneurs. It offers nationwide events and courses in food entrepreneurship and online business planning tools to help food startups grow their businesses. The firm's mission is to support ideas and companies that are creating a healthier, more just and more resilient food system. it was founded in 2012 and is based in Palo Alto, California.
Accelerator
Incubator
Luis Barrios
United States
Mr. F. Mitchell Thrower is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer and Chairman at Events.com. Mr. Mitchell Thrower is a financier, entrepreneur, author, and a 22X Ironman triathlete. He is the Founder and Chairman of Events.com, an innovative cloud-based Event Management Platform provider that provides a state of the art mobile-first SaaS application that enables the full event life-cycle, connecting event organizers and event-goers. Events.com enables event organizers to plan, promote, and ticket their events while also providing event goers the tools to discover, register, collaborate, share, and celebrate their experiences. He also serves as Chairman of The La Jolla Foundation, a 501c3 foundation whose primary initiative is Project Active, providing funding, mentoring, encouragement and education to areas of world tension. Specifically - sending sports equipment to children in war zones. He co-founded of active.com (The Active Network, Inc.). He also launched ActiveEurope.com (Active Europe Network) as Co-Founder and CEO. Active went public before selling to Vista for 1.05 billion. He was the President and Chief Operating Officer of Triathlete Magazine, the world's largest triathlon magazine where he also served as Chairman. He has also served as the Chief Interactive Officer, Strategist & Senior Correspondent for the Competitor Group (CGI), the active lifestyle industry's leading media and event entertainment company. He spoke at his university graduation at St. Lawrence University and has lectured at many colleges such as Stanford University, Anderson School at UCLA, UCSD and the University of San Diego where he served as the "Entrepreneur in Residence" teaching Entrepreneurship. He is an active member of TED.com and Executive Producer of TEDxLaJolla, an independently organized TED event. He is the author of "The Attention Deficit Workplace: Winning Strategies for Success in Today's Fast-Paced Business Environment," published by Lyons Press and he was the author of the popular monthly column, "Starting Lines" in Triathlete Magazine for more than a decade. He was also co-author of the travel guide "The Passport" which, for several years was distributed to 50,000 college students before traveling abroad each year. In 1990, he co-founded his first company and served as CEO of The College/Rail Connection, Inc., serving American Express, AT&T, and Eurail until he sold the venture in 1997. He graduated from the Executive Institute at Stanford University. He holds an MBA from the University of San Diego and a bachelor's degree from Saint Lawrence University. He has competed in 22 Ironman Triathlons, including 13 World Championships. He is the only photojournalist to ever photograph and film the Ironman Triathlon World Championships while competing in the event.
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