Found 229 investors
Focus Telecom
Israel
Focus Telecom is a provider of network synchronization and timing, intended to serve telecom, defense, IT, and critical infrastructure industries. The company also offers product lines such as satellite data communications systems (RT-Logic), video and control systems, and combat intelligence networks (RGB Spectrum). The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Caesarea, Israel.
Strategic Acquirer
Fritz Mumenthaler
Ireland
Mr. Jeremy San is a Co-Founder & serves as Chairman at FunFair. He served as Board Member at Anthropics Technology. He founded Argonaut Games (1982-2006), an early video game company that started with games for the Commodore 64 and Amiga and then moved on to making titles like Star Fox and Malice. In 2002, San received the honor of officer of the Order of the British Empire for his contributions to computer games. He has also had a career in online gambling. A decade ago, he founded PKR.com, a real-money gambling online poker game room with 3D avatars. He started that in 2004 and he left in 2006. The audience grew to more than 5 million users, and San tried to keep investing in the company. But online poker became an increasingly tough business and PKR.com finally shut down in May.
Individual/Angel
Gamebcn
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
GameBCN is a videogame incubation and acceleration program in Barcelona.
Incubators
Video Games
Incubator
Gary Boddington
United States
Mr. Jeffrey Zwelling served as Member of Executive Council at Century Park Capital Partners. Mr. Zwelling is also a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Convertro. He serves as Member of Executive Council at Century Park Capital Partners. Jeff started out in video games which means that he's always trying to make the same box do things that nobody else thinks can be done. He then went to GeoCities where he successfully helped to monetize the first social network. As a founding partner of Pathway Ventures, he helped productize Avamar (sold to EMC), and created EchoSign (sold to Adobe), the leading e-signature platform. In addition, along with David Feldman, he led the LBO of Columbia House (sold to BMG). In the meantime, Jeff and Dave started YLighting (sold to Alpine Investors), which developed the key technologies that became the basis for Convertro. He is the founder of YDesign Group.
Individual/Angel
Gerard Callaghan
United Kingdom
Dr. Igor Shoifot serves as Investment Partner, USA at TMT Investments. He is a Co-Founder of Garage Syndicate. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Advisor at Iterate.ai. He is also as Chairman at Happy Farm and RollApp. He also serves as a Board Member at Hifi.Finance and Scentbird, and as an Advisor at at Hashtago, Coursmos, Depositphotos. He is also an Angel Investor. He is a serial entrepreneur who started and ran 12 companies, including two (Fotki.com, one of the largest photo sites, and Microsoft WebTV's Epsylon Games the largest games portal on MSN TV in the late 90s/early 2000s) that reached millions of users and generated tens of millions of dollars in revenues, and one (internship) that he sold to Manhattan Institute. He has advised and consulted startups, banks, venture capital firms, and Fortune 100 companies. He founded startups in such areas as Video-On-Demand, Voice-Over-IP, document management, software development, social networking, and media sharing. He also published articles and interviews at The Wall Street Journal, Venture Beat, and many others publications. He occasionally writes for San Francisco Examiner. He has lectured to graduates and undergraduates on entrepreneurship, advertising, digital media, and business at New York University, UC Berkeley, Stanford, University of California San Francisco, and other schools. Passionate about entrepreneurship and viral growth, He is currently writing a book "101 Viral Growth Tools" and teaches as an adjunct at UC Berkeley. He earned a BA in History from Moscow State Pedagogical University, an MA in European Studies from Central European University, a Ph.D. in History from the Russian Academy of Sciences, and an MBA from Boston University.
Individual/Angel
Giel van Wageningen
United States
Mr. Sylvio Drouin serves as Vice President of Research Labs at Unity. He is also an angel investor. He served as Executive Vice President at Unity Technologies. Mr. Sylvio Drouin co-founded Xplr Software. Mr. Drouin serves as Chief Technology Officer of Tiny Pictures. He previously served as Advisor at Rex Labs. Mr. Drouin leads the development of infrastructure services as well as core technological directions and innovations. Prior to Tiny Pictures, he was technology advisor and Principal Architect for one of the first high-definition sci-fi series on the web (by the creators of Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis). He is also an Advisor for Rex Labs. He worked around the world on large-scale projects (Philips Advanced Research Labs, Eicon Technology, Toyota, Fujitsu, Matsushita, Epson, France Telecom) as well as startup companies (MAZ Laboratory, Mettle, Visiocom, Stage3Media, Blipcast), where Mr. Drouin was specifically responsible for strategy, innovation, core technology and architectures. During this time he published hundreds of white papers, submitted more than 15 patents and designed sophisticated software in the fields of interactive television, interactive Web video, networking technologies, visual programming tools and advanced user interfaces. Sylvio has worked around the world as a software architect, CTO and entrepreneur for 15 years. In 2006, he joined as CTO of Tiny Pictures (mobile photo sharing) in charge of building consumer-facing infrastructure, and until recently, the CTO/VP Products at Xtranormal, one of the most successful 3D storytelling outlet on the Internet. His focus and experience are particularly strong on consumer apps design & development, core technology concepts and architectures.
Individual/Angel
GoDigital Media Group
United States
GoDigital Media Group is a media and technology incubator and early stage venture capital fund based in Marina Del Rey, California. The firm invests predominantly in assets and operating businesses involved in music and video intellectual property rights management. The firm always seeks to take a control position. It was founded in 2005.
Strategic Acquirer
Graeme Thickins
United States
Mr. Andrew Dudum is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Hims & Hers. He is a Co-Founder and serves as the Board Member at Ever AI. Mr. Andrew is a Co-Founder and serves as General Partner at Atomic Labs. He also serves as a Venture Partner at Cherubic Ventures. He is a Co-founder of Everalbum and serves as its Chief Operating Officer & Chief Executive Officer. He serves as Advisor at Universe. Prior to Atomic, Andrew led Product at TokBox.com, the leader in web-based communication. In 2012 TokBox was acquired by the global telecommunications company Telefonica ($TEF). While there, he launched OpenTok, the browser-based video technology now built into Mozilla's Firefox and serving 200+ million users a month. In 2008, Andrew founded LendforPeace.com, the first peer-to-peer micro-lending platform in the Middle East, serving thousands of loans to women in the Palestinian Territories, Syria and Lebanon. He is an active angel investor and advisor to over a dozen startups. He holds a Bachelor's in Management & Economics from University of Pennsylvania.
Individual/Angel
Grant Munro
United States
Mr. Vijay Tella is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer at Workato. Prior to Workato, he was the CEO at Qik, a consumer video communications company acquired by Skype. Before Qik, he helped create two multi-billion dollar integration products. He was part of the team that created world's first middleware platform, TIB (The Information Bus) at Teknekron Software Systems, which was acquired by Reuters Plc, in 1994. He was also on the founding team and SVP of Engineering of TIBCO through its IPO. As Chief Strategy Officer, he then helped launch Oracle's Fusion Middleware platform in 2005. He also served as Board member at MetaCert.
Individual/Angel
Guy Lacroix
United States
Mr. Antoine Toffa is the Co-Founder of VideoBloom and also serves as its Chairman. He is an Angel Investor. Antoine founded VideoBloom in 2007 with a plan to seamlessly migrate and establish video capability as an integral part of the rapidly growing social and e-commerce networks. Previously, Antoine was the founder and CEO of Trip.com. He was recognized as "Man of the Year" by the Interactive Travel Report in 1999. He sold Trip.com to Galileo in 2000 for $326 million, resulting in the eventual formation of today's leading online travel service known as Orbitz. Continuing with his successful entrepreneurial endeavors, Antoine then founded an innovative, online international marketplace company, TamTam, in 2002. Prior to catching the entrepreneurial bug, Antoine held executive positions with media industry leaders such as General Manager of Interactive Services with USWest/MediaOne, Director of Corporate Strategy for Time Warner's Interactive Group, and Director of Multimedia Strategy for Matra-Communications of the French Minitel, the world's first network-based interactive platform. Antoine completed his undergraduate studies in Mathematics and Physics in Paris, acquired his graduate degree in Economics from the French Grande Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (HEC), and received an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Individual/Angel
Hangzhou Anysoft Information Technology Company
China
Hangzhou Anysoft Information Technology Co Ltd is mainly engaged in the design and development of mobile reading platforms. The company is organized into three business divisions: mobile reading service, information business, and other value-added telecommunications services. Its mobile reading service division provides a full range of reading services through its own reading platform, third-party platform and telecom operators' reading platform; information business division provides users with professional magazines and industries through mobile newspapers and self-media push; other value-added telecommunications services mainly includes music, video, games, animation and other content.
Venture Capital
Harrell Capital Partners
United States
Founded in 2001, Harrell Capital Partners is a venture capital firm and is based in San Francisco, California. The firm invests in early-stage companies in the security, online video, CRM, e-commerce, mobile, big data and cloud platform markets, primarily in the Mid-Atlantic, New England and Silicon Valley regions.
Venture Capital
Havoc Partners
United States
Mr. Tom Wheeler serves as Board Member at Actility. He serves as Advisor at RapidSOS. He serves as Board Member at Jacked (Broadcasting). He also served as Partner at Core Capital Partners. He joined Core Capital in 2005 after nearly three decades of working at the forefront of telecommunications policy and business development. As an entrepreneur, he founded multiple companies offering cable, wireless, and video communications services, and co-founded SmartBrief, the largest online targeted news service. As a policy expert, he has been intimately involved in the development of the government's telecommunications policy at both the legislative and regulatory level. In 2009, he led the Obama-Biden Transition Project's Agency Review Working Group in charge of transitions for the science, technology, space and arts agencies. He is a graduate of The Ohio State University and the recipient of its Alumni Medal for national and international career achievement.
Individual/Angel
Henk Rogers
Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
Henk is a Dutch-born computer game designer and serialentrepreneur known for producing Japan’s first major role-playing video game and revol...
Individual/Angel
Hernán Moretti
United States
Mr. Adam Brownstein serves as Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at BookingSuite. As Director of Business Development in the Microsoft Entertainment and Devices Division, Adam launched Microsoft Surface, a revolutionary touch-enabled tabletop interface into 20 global regions across the hospitality market. With Sony Corporation he held various positions in the USA, Japan, and Mexico where as Director of the Entertainment division he introduced the PSP and PS2 video game lines to millions of ecstatic Spanish-speaking gamers. Adam has lived extensively in Japan, Spain, and Mexico and is fluent in Japanese & Spanish. He holds a BA in History from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Individual/Angel
Hitachi Maxell
Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Hitachi Maxell Computer tapes, Broadcasting video tapes, Blu-ray Discs, DVDs, CDs, Audio tapes, Video tapes
Computer
Digital Media
Media and Entertainment
Corporate Venture Capital
Hovhannes Avoyan
San Francisco, California, United States
Hovhannes Avoyan is a serial entrepreneur, investor and scholar. He is the founder and CEO of PicsArt, the #1 photo and video editing app an...
Individual/Angel
Hugh Forrest
United States
Mr. Rob Millis was a Board Member of MicroConnex. As a Founder, Advisor or Angel Investor in several industrial and media startups, he has been steeped in the world of technology companies for more than a decade. He brings extensive experience working with innovators in a variety of disciplines, paired with a constant drive to seek out new applications for existing and emerging technology. He has been at the forefront of dramatic change in the film and publishing industries as the Founder of the Dynamo Media online video platform and a co-founder of media transactions company TinyPass. Prior to these roles, he was a pioneer of online video, producing the Web's first High Definition serial program and co-producing online news and humor programs beginning in 2006.
Individual/Angel
iLIFTTV
New York, New York, United States
iLIFT TV is a Social simulcast content sharing app and live-video (voice, chat) streaming. Media FRAPA-Format for startups & investors.
Broadcasting
Creative Agency
Digital Media
Media and Entertainment
News
Venture Capital
Private Equity Firm
Irshaad Ebrahim
United States
Mr. Ronald Pion is an Angel Investor. He served as Advisor at Zoom Video Communications. Ronald J. Pion, MD offers strategic assistance to companies such as Zoom involved in the virtual practice of medicine. He serves as an advisor to several healthcare investment capital firms. Ron has developed and produced interactive programming for health care professionals and patients for more than 40 years. He hosted a children's health series on Seattle's NBC affiliate, co-produced and hosted a health-oriented ABC radio series for teenagers, and organized the nation's first hospital-based closed circuit television system. He also co-developed and hosted a parenting series on Hawaii's PBS station, and produced patient education video programs. He served as medical correspondent for KNBC's Alive and Well news feature in Los Angeles, and was the founder of Hospital Satellite Network, a leader in developing medical video teleconferencing in the 1980's. Ron also co-developed and hosted a nationally syndicated television series, Group One Medical, and hosted Milestones in Medicine on Lifetime Medical Television. He began his career in academic medicine, serving on the faculties of the University of Washington and the University of Hawaii. Ron served on the board of directors of the American Academy of Home Care Physicians and the Abbey HealthCare Group. He co-authored a book about the business of caring for patients at home published in 1999. Ron is a graduate of New York University (Phi Beta Kappa) and New York Medical College (Alpha Omega Alpha). He is a clinical professor at the UCLA School of Medicine, and a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Individual/Angel
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