Found 1,258 investors
Richard Haythornthwaite
United States
Mr. Mark Nelson serves as Lead Angel Investor, Advisor Entrepreneur and Private Equity Investor at BlockSentry. He is a Trusted Advisor to companies like Google, Sony Computer Entertainment, Clorox, Bank of America, Cisco Systems, Bank of the West, Redwood Credit Union, and others. Mr. Nelson is also an Angel investor. Previously, he served as President and COO of Nelson Family of Companies.
Individual/Angel
Richard Heitzmann
United States
Dr. Daniel Watkins is the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Mercury Data Science. He is also a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director and Member of the Investment Team at Mercury Fund. He also serves as Board Observer at Ripple Science. He serves as Board Member at Resonant Therapeutics and Sinopsys Surgical. He served as Board Member at Benson Hill. He focuses on startups utilizing software, cloud computing, and/or machine learning to drive the next wave of scientific innovation in healthcare, agriculture, and other industrial markets. Dan currently serves on the boards of Mercury portfolio companies Benson Hill, Clean Chemistry, Deep Imaging, DNAtrix, Resonant, Sinopsys, and Swift Biosciences. Dan's previous investments at Mercury have included Cgate Health (acq. by SCI Solutions). Prior to co-founding Mercury, Dan served in a number of operational roles including CEO of DNAtrix and Nanospectra Biosciences, both startup oncology companies. Previously, Dan was Vice President at a boutique investment banking firm and Worldwide Manager of Operations and Control Systems for Scientific Software-Intercomp (Baker Hughes). Dan received his B.S. from Rice University and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, all in Materials Science. Dan is also a co-founder of the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship at Rice University. Outside of Mercury, Dan serves on the advisory boards of Northwestern University's Innovation and New Ventures Office (INVO), the Rice Alliance, the University of Michigan's Venture Center Council, and the University of Illinois Proof of Concept Fund Committee. He also served as Board Member at Ambyint.
Individual/Angel
Richard Kashnow
United States
Mr. Lee Zapis is a Co-Founder & serves as President at Zapis Capital Group. He is a Co-Founder & Owner & serves as Vice President at Ads In Motion Outdoor. He co-founded and served as Board Member at Futuri. He serves as Advisor at Axuall. He also co-founded the company. He also serves as Board Member at Playlist.com, Groupmatics, and Sonicbids. Mr. Zapis joined forces with other family members to form the firm in 2003. In recent years, he has been an active investor in local technology companies. Mr. Zapis was one of the early investors in SpineMatrix. He has more than 25 successful years as a radio executive. During his radio career, Mr. Zapis participated in the launching of five new radio stations in Cleveland, Ohio; Akron, Ohio; Youngstown, Ohio; Atlanta, Georgia; and Boston, Massachusetts. While in the broadcast industry, he was the President of Zapis Communications. Under Mr. Zapis' leadership, his radio stations received many national awards, including Billboard Magazine's Black Radio Station of the Year; Program Director of the Year; Music Director of the Year; and Air Personality of the Year. He is a current Director at O-Web Technologies and Everstream, where he was also an investor. Mr. Zapis joined the Board of Sonicbids, where he also most recently, invested. He is a member of the Board of the Orthodox Christian Network and a member of the Advisory Board of the Nashville Songwriters Foundation. He also serves as a Board Member at GenomOncology & Playlist Media. Mr. Zapis has appeared as a panelist at the National Association of Broadcasters' convention and has served on the Arbitron Radio Advisory Council. He is a Co-Founder of Listeners Driven Radio and serves as its Chairman of the Board.
Individual/Angel
Richard Upshall
United Arab Emirates
Mr. Richard Upshall is the Founder of OES Oilfield Services Group and serves as its Executive Chairman. He is an Angel Investor. A Dubai based entrepreneur, Richard Upshall has always had an insatiable appetite for starting up new businesses, providing magic beans to existing ideas with others, as well as funding and supporting his own. Richard left the UK in 1991 to go and find his fortune, and started his first Dubai based business, OES Oilfield Services established in 1996 and has subsequently grown to provide services on five continents.
Individual/Angel
Richland Ventures
Nashville, Tennessee, United States
Richland provides expansion capital for healthcare service companies, medical devices and technology, and other diversified service
Venture Capital
Ric Salmon
Germany
Mr. Friedrich von Diest serves as Managing Partner at Sirius Venture Partners. He is an Angel Investor. He served as Chairman at motionet. As a business economist and businessman, he has worked as an entrepreneur since 1992, he belonged to the founder-CEO of ACG and the Shareholder Board of Cobion AG. Since 1998 Friedrich von Diest as a business angel and fund investor active and recorded since with, among other things for the foundation, development, financing and sale of approximately 25 technology companies with IPO volumes of up to 100 million euros, and for 15 business angel investments responsible for over 50% IRR. One of the key figures of his career as an entrepreneur also include the personnel responsible for up to 600 people, the control of 25 M & A transactions and sales of up to 360 million euros. Friedrich von Diest serves as supervisory and advisory board member of several technology companies. In 2000 he was named "Entrepreneur of the Year". He also serves as Supervisory Board Member at firstbrands.
Individual/Angel
RisCura
Cape Town, NA - South Africa, South Africa
RisCura provides investment advisory and implementation services to pensioners, savers, medical fund members, and others.
Private Equity Firm
Rob Barrett
United States
Mr. David Bradbury serves as President, Fund Manager and Investment Committee Member at VCET Capital. He serves as a Board Observer at Visura. He served as Advisor at Budnitz and Pwnie Express. He is also an angel investor. With over 20 years involved in capital markets, early stage technology firms and venture investing, David is deeply experienced with economic development, working with entrepreneurs on technology commercialization and business formation, early stage ventures, and business growth strategies. Since June 2007, David has served as President and CEO of the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies (VCET) which is an independent non-profit technology business incubator in affiliation with the University of Vermont and eight other Vermont colleges. His blog on entrepreneurship and technology. Prior to VCET, David operated Aggregate Capital Partners which provides management consulting, strategic planning, private capital and new venture development services. He also served in Governor Howard Dean's Administration from 1992-1997, including a role as Deputy Commissioner of the Vermont Department of Economic Development and prior to that worked as an asset/liability analyst and portfolio trader at BayBanks from 1988-1991. David serves as Board Director, Investor or Adviser to several Vermont companies and non-profit organizations including Cynosure, Union Street Media (Internet Services), Rising Stone Technologies (Biomass Energy), JSmart Technologies (Mobile Gaming and Social Networking Firm Acquired by SK Group in 2004), OneMade (E-Commerce Platform Acquired by AOL Time Warner in 2003), Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center Assembly of Overseers (2005-2008), Vermont Tech Enterprise Center (2003-Present), The Vermont Business and Education Partnership (1994-1997), UVM's Vermont Regional Alumni Board (2007 to Present), and the Flynn Center for the Performing Arts (2001-2005) among others. In 1988, David earned a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Vermont and then ten years later in 1998, he earned a M.B.A. in one-year from Babson College focusing on Entrepreneurship and Venture Finance. He lives in Stowe, Vermont. He also serves Board Member at Aprexis.
Individual/Angel
Robert Harris
United States
Mr. Jose Mora Icaza is an angel investor. José Medina is founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors of CompuSoluciones. In 2007, the magazine Expansión places him among the 100 most important businessmen in Mexico; in 2011 EY named him Entrepreneur of the Year in the Information Technology sector; and in 2012 Endeavor de Occidente recognizes its business trajectory. In addition to being a visiting professor at IPADE, José Medina participates in the Board of several companies and charities. He is a board member of Endeavor de Occidente, a member of the Consultative Board of Nafinsa and Banamex, and a National Vice President of Coparmex. José Medina holds a degree in Civil Engineering from the Universidad Iberoamericana. He has two master's degrees from Stanford University, one in Engineering Sciences with a specialty in systems and another in Business Administration with a specialty in Finance; as well as a professional doctorate in Project Management Engineering, also by Stanford University.
Individual/Angel
Robert Linney
London, England, United Kingdom
Investor at YPlan. Robert Linney, co-manager of The Chemical Brothers.
Individual/Angel
Robert Maroney
United Kingdom
Dr. Edwina Dunn is a Co-Founder of H&D Ventures. Previously, she co-founded and served as Chairman at Starcount. She serves as a board member of Purple Seven. She served as Board Member at Expert Impact. Edwina is an Investor and Director in Purple Seven and runs a not-for-profit platform around women's perception that seeks to amplify their voices and self-confidence called the What I See Project. Previously Edwina, in partnership with husband Clive Humby, was CEO and founder of dunnhumby a global customer science business responsible for establishing Tesco Clubcard, amongst other loyalty schemes globally. Edwina is also Chair of Your Life, a government backed campaign to increase the study of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics; patron of Women of the World and Trustee of the Science Museum Foundation.
Individual/Angel
Rockaway Capital
Czech Republic
Founded in 2013, Rockaway Capital is a venture capital firm based in Prague, Czech Republic. The firm seeks to invest in E-commerce, online grocery, last mile logistics, comparison shopping, eTravel, fintech, and other digitally-enabled sectors.
Venture Capital
Rock River Capital
Orange City, Iowa, United States
Rock River Capital focuses its attention on the area surrounding Rock Rapids, Iowa, with other interests in Minnesota and South Dakota.
Venture Capital
Rock River Capital Partners (Chicago)
United States
Founded in 2016, Rock River Capital Partners is a private investment firm based in Chicago, Illinois. The firm invests in growing, private businesses. The firm focuses on making control investments in manufacturing, consumer and services companies but considers opportunities in other industries. The firm generally prefers to partner with existing management in ownership transition situations and take a long term, patient approach.
Growth Capital
Rodney Jerkins
United States
Mr. Joel Rogers is a Co-Founder and serves as President & Chief Executive Officer at Compliance Wave. He has traveled extensively speaking on business ethics and has conducted workshops designed to impact organizational culture for large corporations and government agencies. He has authored Corporate Codes of Conduct and Ethics for several major global companies, including Chevron, McCormick, Hill International, Lincoln Electric and many others. Before co-founding Compliance Wave LLC, Rogers held several leadership roles with established industry brands. These include SVP Global Sales & Marketing at UL EduNeering; Managing Director, Europe, at Kaplan EduNeering; and Director of Corporate Compliance & Ethics at RedHawk Communications. He has also been the Director of Ethics Training & Education for the City of New York, served on the Steering Committee of the Council on Governmental Ethics Laws (COGEL) and has consulted to many public agencies, including U.S. municipalities and foreign governments. Rogers holds a Certificate from the Healthcare Compliance, Ethics & Regulation Programme at Seton Hall Law School & Sciences Po in Paris, and was named a 2008 Millstein Rising Star of Corporate Governance by the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management.
Individual/Angel
Rodolfo Carpintier
Iceland
Mr. Kjartan Örn Ólafsson serves as Venture Partner and Board Director at Brunnur Ventures. Olafsson is an entrepreneur and investor with one foot in New York and the other in Reykjavik, Iceland. He is the founder and CEO of Volta Labs Venture Development (a private startup studio and micro VC), a Partner at Volta Funds (a fund management company that services international investors), a co-founder of Basno, a digital certification platform, and co-creator of BlockSign, an innovative blockchain-service for legally signing documents. He is an angel investor with a seat on the board of directors at a handful of startups and tech companies. In addition to his commercial endeavors, He sits on the Board of Directors at Harpa Concert Hall, and UNICEF in Iceland. Previously He served as the Director of Business Development for the international media company Bertelsmann Inc. in New York and worked closely with Bertelsmann portfolio companies in the U.S. and U.K. on various digital media initiatives; including SonyBMG Music, Random House, and Fremantle Media. He was honored as "Mentor of the Year" at Startup Reykjavik in 2013, and received the Nordic Startup Awards as "Best Business Angel 2016, Iceland". He studied philosophy and logic in Iceland and Italy, and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.
Individual/Angel
Roel Pieper
United States
Ms. Annie Lamont serves as Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Healthcare & FinTech at Oak HC/FT. She serves as Board Member at Modern Age and Vesta Healthcare. She served as Board Member at OODA Health. She serves as a Board member at Clearbanc, Oncology Analytics, VillageMD, Advise Insurance Agency, Aspire Health, Brightline, CareBridge, Main Street Health, FreshBooks, HCA Management Services, Independent Living Systems, and many other companies. She previously served as Managing Partner, Financial Services Technology and Healthcare Services at Oak Investment Partners. She earned a BA (Bachelor of Arts) in Political Science from Stanford University.
Individual/Angel
Roi More
Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv, Israel
Roi More is one of GetTaxiвАЩs Founders. Over the years Roi has founded several leading Internet ventures, and was involved in many other web-...
Individual/Angel
Rose Lake Ventures
Hong Kong
Founded in 2021, Rose Lake Ventures is an angel group based in Hong Kong, China. The firm focuses on early-stage tech startups from Africa and other emerging markets.
Angel Group
Roshni Cheung
United States
Mr. Terry Cross serve as a Board Member at IROA Technologies. He serves as Advisor at Motus Ventures. He was an Angel Investor. He served as Interim Chief Financial Officer and Advisor at InfoReady. He served as Interim Chief Executive Officer at Blaze Medical Devices. After graduating from Wayne State University with an MBA in Finance, he entered the machine tool business in Detroit, Michigan, with The Cross Company, (publicly traded) the world's leader in Automated Machine Tools. He worked in many departments of The Cross Company, learning the business from the ground up. He co-founded CP Systems Company specializing in high-speed, small parts, and automated assembly machinery, and built it up to an annual revenue base of $ 10.0 million. He sold CP Systems Company to Chicago Pneumatic Tool Company, an NYSE-listed company. He entered the securities business through a training program with Eastman Dillon Union Securities in 1972. In 1974, he joined Kidder, Peabody & Company in their Detroit, Michigan office and remained there until 1985 when he was transferred to Kidder's flagship Park Avenue office in New York City. In 1985, he was elected a Senior Vice President and shareholder of Kidder, Peabody & Company. In 1988, he was transferred to Kidder's San Francisco office and remained there until 1998. During his years in San Francisco from 1989 until 1998, he focused almost entirely on the technology companies and venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. In 1995, Kidder was acquired by PaineWebber. Cross left PaineWebber in July of 1998 to pursue private investments. In February 2000, he co-founded Sonoma Photonics, Inc in Santa Rosa, CA where he served as CEO and Chairman until he resigned to return to Michigan in August 2002. During his tenure, Cross spearheaded the development of the business plan and raised $ 10.7 million in venture funding from domestic and European investors. Sonoma Photonics was sold to Lockheed Martin in 2008 for a significant return. In August 2002, he returned to Michigan and founded Windward Associates, a private investment partnership, where he focuses on capital formation advisory. He was a founding investor of three companies resulting from MIT's Technology Transfer Department: Intellitec, Axiomatics, and LNL Technologies. He served as a board member for Axiomatics and Intellitec. He was also a member of MIT's Laboratory for Manufacturing and Productivity. He has served as a financial advisor to Triscend Semiconductor of Mountain View, CA, Macropore Corporation of San Diego, CA., and All-American Semiconductor of San Jose, CA. He currently serves as a Director of Monarch Antenna, a Delphi Corp. spinout, as Chairman of MIST Innovations, Inc. of Detroit, MI., and as an advisor to ArdentCause L3C., eCyren LLC, NextCAT of Detroit, MI, and NextGen Metabolomics of Ann Arbor, and AutoHarvest as Senior Director, among others. Since 2002, he has mentored over 50 company founders in Southeast Michigan and has been instrumental in helping entrepreneurs raise in excess of $ 100 million of capital funding. He was a past Board member of Great Lakes Angels, a founding member of Michigan Venture Capital Association, a Board member of Automation Alley's Entrepreneurial Initiative of Southeast Michigan, a Board Member of Ann Arbor Angels as well as an Arch Angel, a former Trustee of Mariners' Church of Detroit, and a former trustee of The Professional Children's School of New York City and Chairman of The Executive Board of Michigan-Emerging an event focusing on the emerging sectors in Michigan's economic recovery.
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