Found 229 investors
Lionel Kappelhoff-Lancon
United States
Mr. Rospars is the Co-Founder of Blue State Digital and also served as its Chief Executive Officer. He previously served as chief digital strategist for Obama for America in 2008 and 2012. Joe and BSD's team of more than 200 strategists, creatives, and geeks advise some of the world's leading brands, campaigns, nonprofits, and cultural institutions to inspire and mobilize people, from the NAACP to Google, the USOC to Freedom to Marry, and Oxfam to EMILY's List. For both the 2008 and 2012 campaigns, Joe was Barack Obama's principal digital strategist and adviser, overseeing the digital integration of the unprecedented fundraising, communications and grassroots mobilization effort. The digital arm of the campaign provided the backbone of design and branding both online and offline, engaged a record-breaking number of Americans through mobile, social, video and the web, and raised more than a billion dollars in mostly small donations from ordinary Americans. Prior to the Obama campaigns, Joe led BSD's work with Governor Howard Dean, from the founding of Democracy for America through Dean's historic 50-state strategy and the 2006 election victories. Prior to founding BSD, Joe was a writer for Dean's 2004 presidential campaign. Joe has been recognized as part of the Digital A-List by AdAge, 100 People Who Are Changing America by Rolling Stone, Most Creative People In Business by Fast Company. He has been profiled in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Bloomberg Businessweek, TIME, Fast Company, and Adweek, among others.
Individual/Angel
Manvinder Singh Banga
Germany
Mr. Christopher Deering serves as Member of the Supervisory Board at European Games Group. He served as Chairman at GameSessions. He also serves as Chairman at Geomerics. He serves as Board Member and Advisor at Cudos. He has been involved with film, video and interactive entertainment in Europe since 1982. From 1995 to 2005 Chris was President of Sony Computer Entertainment - Europe (SCEE). At SCEE he led the team that has sold over 80 million consoles and facilitated the sale of over 1 billion games.
Individual/Angel
Maria Mesa
San Francisco, California
Digital Health Founder / Advisor / Investor / Video Games for Health
BioTech
Digital Health
Games
Insurance
Medical Devices
Real Estate/PropTech
Therapeutics
Wellness & Fitness
Markus Aeschbach
United States
Dr. Gilbert Amelio is the Co-Founding Partner of Alteon Capital. Mr. Amelio is the Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Beneventure Partners. He also served as Board Member at AirWire Technologies and VideoBomb. He served as Senior Partner at Sienna Ventures. He also served as Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Jazz Semiconductor, as well as its parent company, Jazz Technologies. In August 2005, Dr. Amelio co-founded Acquicor Technology and serves as its President and Chief Executive Officer, and in February 2007, Acquicor merged with Jazz Semiconductor and Acquicor changed its name to Jazz Technologies. Since 2001, Dr. Amelio has been a Senior Partner of Sienna Ventures, a venture capital firm, and, since 2003, he has been the President and Chief Executive Officer of Prexient Micro Devices, a fabless semiconductor company. From 1999 to 2005, he was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Beneventure Capital, a venture capital advisory firm. From 1997 to 2004, he was a Principal of Aircraft Ventures, a consulting firm. From 1999 to 2004, he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AmTech, a high technology angel investment and consulting services firm. From 1996 to 1997, he served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Apple Computer, a personal computers manufacturer. From 1991 to 1996, Dr. Amelio served as a Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of National Semiconductor Corporation, a semiconductor company. From 1988 to 1991, he served as President of the Rockwell Communications Systems division of Rockwell International Corporation, a semiconductor manufacturing division that was later spun off as Conexant Systems. From 1983 to 1988, he served as President of the Rockwell Semiconductor Products unit of Rockwell International. From 1971 to 1983, he held various staff, managerial and executive positions at Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation, a semiconductor and photography products company, most recently in the role of Vice President and General Manager of its MOS Products Group. Dr. Amelio received his Ph.D., M.S. and B.S degrees in Physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Amelio is a Director of AT&T (formerly SBC Communications, Inc.), a telecommunications company, and an adviser to both the Prime Minister of Malaysia and the Malaysia Multimedia Super Corridor, a hub targeted at attracting multinational corporations in the global information and communication technology industry. He is also a Director and Trustee of the American Film Institute.
Individual/Angel
Martinex de Wannemaeker
United States
Mr. Joe Braidwood is a Co-founder and served as Chief Operating Officer at Scener. Previously, he served as Vice President, Marketing at TraceMe. He also served as Chief Marketing Officer at SwiftKey. Before joining SwiftKey, he worked as a writer and editor for the News Corporation global wire project, NewsCore, where in addition to being a journalist, he took a prominent role in setting up the technology behind the service. He also worked as a journalist for Sky News in London from 2007-2009, where he specialized in online news writing and video production, as well as social media strategy. He also serves as a Venture Partner at The Venture Collective. In 2007, under his direction, Sky News became the first news source to be officially featured by Twitter. He holds an MPA degree in Public Policy from Brown University and MA (Masters of Arts) and BA (Bachelor of Arts) in Law from the University of Cambridge. He served as an interim Chief Product Officer of healthcare staffing platform Lantum.
Individual/Angel
Matt Eldridge
United States
Mr. Bhupendra Shah serves as Vice President, Engineering at Acacia Communications. He serves as Investor and Advisor at Giraffic. He serves as Advisor at ZenSpace. He is a co-founder of Sling Media. Prior to Sling Media he co-founded Emuzed Inc. He has more than 20 years of experience in engineering and engineering management. Prior to joining Acacia Communications, he was Director of Engineering at Juniper Networks, leading a team developing complex router ASICs. Earlier he was Director of Hardware and Software Development at Broadcom Corporation, responsible for the team that developed a complete Blu-Ray DVD software stack and high definition video chipsets. Mr. Shah also served as Co-Founder and Vice President of Engineering of a fabless semiconductor company, which was acquired by VLSI Technology and subsequently Vitesse Semiconductors. He holds a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Lowell.
Individual/Angel
Matthew Mickiewicz
United States
Mr. Poojan Kumar is a Co-Founder & serves as Chief Executive Officer at Clumio. He Co-Founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of PernixData. He also is an Angel Investor. He has several years of leadership and entrepreneurship experience at high growth enterprise software companies. Most recently, Poojan was at VMware where he led all data products. Prior to VMware, Poojan co-founded Oracle Exadata and PixBlitz, a video server appliance company. At Oracle, Poojan led the product development of Exadata from it's inception and played a strategic role in Oracle's foray into the software/hardware integrated appliance business. Poojan received his Masters in CS from Stanford and a Bachelors in CS from IIT Bombay.
Individual/Angel
Michael Eakins
Israel
Mr. Michael Lewkowicz serves as Partner at Remagine Ventures. Michael serves as Board Observer at Microbot Medical. Lewkowicz became an active venture investor in 2010 sourcing and screening hundreds of companies in Israel and abroad. Among them he led the investments in ShopSpree Ltd., a video-ecommerce platform with AOL as a strategic investor, where he is a board member, Microbot Medical Ltd, a nano-robotics medical device company that was incubated at the Technion University where he also has a board seat and Weissbeerger, a soft drinks big data company where he was active as a board member until he sold his stake in a secondary sale for a profit.
Individual/Angel
Michael Franklin
United States
Mr. Dale Silvia serves as Chief Human Resources Officer at Fox Factory Holding. He also is an Angel Investor. He joined Fox Factory Holding Corp. ("FOX") in July 2013, as the company's Vice President, Human Resources until being promoted to his current position of Chief Human Resources Officer in May 2015. Prior to joining FOX, Mr. Silvia served jointly as the Director of Retail Sales and as a member of the Board of Trustees for the Gwinnet Environmental & Heritage Center ("GEHC"), a multi-use, history, cultural, heritage and environmental partnership. Before joining GEHC, Mr. Silvia served as the Director Human Resources. Operations for Cisco Systems, the global leader in IT infrastructure and services. Mr. Silvia joined Cisco Systems via the 2006 acquisition of Scientific-Atlanta, a Georgia-based manufacturer of cable television, telecommunications, and broadband equipment where he served in various roles during his thirteen year tenure with the company including, Vice President, Human Resources for the Service Provider Video Technology Group. Prior to Cisco, Mr. Silvia served in a variety of management roles for Frito-Lay, Inc. and Volvo GM Heavy Truck Corporation. Mr. Silvia earned a BS, Business Management and a MS, Human Resources Management & Industrial Relations from the Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business in 1982 and 1987 respectively.
Individual/Angel
Michael Potts
United States
Mr. Chad Richard serves as Senior Vice President, Business and Corporate Development at Yelp. Chad joined Yelp in 2015 and is focused on business development and acquisitions. He brings over 20 years of experience creating and marketing emerging technologies to mass consumer audiences. Prior to Yelp, Chad spent six years at Apple as Senior Director of Worldwide Product Marketing focused on Apple's operating systems and internet services. Prior to Apple, he cofounded and was CEO of Simple Star, a photo and video software and services company that was acquired by Roxio. Chad was hired by Macromedia as Executive Producer and helped to spin out online entertainment portal Shockwave.com which was acquired by MTV Networks. Earlier in his career, he was cofounder and CEO of Soundz.com and All-Info. Chad studied Economics and Japanese at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Individual/Angel
Michael Price
United States
Mr. Ric Fleisher is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Operating Officer at Merlin Mobility. Mr. Fleisher served as Chief Operating Officer at UpsideDoor. He also serves as Chief Operating Officer at Manor. He also Co-Founded and served as Executive Vice President of Corporate Development at Urgent.ly. He was the SVP, Business Development at Honesty Online. Ric Fleisher has more than 30 years of experience in business development, sales, and technology. He has been involved with 9 start-ups. These ventures have included real estate, two-sided marketplaces, mobile, location-based services, ID verification, networking hardware, speech, streaming video, collaboration, intelligent agents, and RFID. He has helped build early-stage technology companies in Software, Hardware, and Service areas. His current start-up is Manor Financial. Manor helps consumers understand, maintain, and grow the value of their homes. Prior to Manor, he was the co-founder of Urgent.ly. Urgent.ly is the global digital roadside assistance platform. Originally created as a platform for all urgent needs including those for homes.
Individual/Angel
Michael Shehan
Denver, Colorado, United States
Mike leads SpotXchange, a comScore top-rated online video advertising marketplace that is helping advertisers and agencies sponsor millions ...
Investment Partner
Individual/Angel
miHoYo
Shanghai, Shanghai, China
miHoYo is video game developer.
Gaming
PC Games
Video Games
Venture Capital
Mike Fischer
Los Angeles, California, United States
Mike Fischer has been a leader in interactive entertainment for more than 20 years, including serving as VP of Digital Video for Amazon, hea...
Individual/Angel
Mike Zhang
United States
Mr. Aksel Piran is an Angel Investor. Mr. Aksel Piran served as Chief Operating Officer at VideoStitch.
Individual/Angel
Miki Tunis
United States
Mr. James Robinson IV is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at RRE Ventures. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Board Member at Abra. He also serves as Board Member at Securrency, PebblePost, Partnership for New York City, Olo, Noom, Netsertive, HYPR, Arca (Asset Management) & Camp . He also serves as an Advisor at Affinity China & NYC Seed. He is an Angel Investor. He also serves as Board Observer at BitPay & 8i. He serves as a Member of Investment Committee at Digital Currency Group. Since becoming a venture capitalist in 1992, Jim has led investments in and served on the boards of more than forty technology companies. His current focus is on businesses that leverage network effects or crowd-intelligence, particularly within the financial technology, consumer product and network applications markets. Jim was previously with H&Q Venture Capital in San Francisco, primarily as a software and communications investor. In 1994, along with Stuart Ellman, he co-founded InterVideo Response, building in-stadium touchscreen ordering systems. Before that Jim was with JP Morgan, initially developing global risk-management systems, and later as an investment banker. Jim earned an MBA from Harvard in 1992. He serves as Board Observer at 8i. He also serves as Advisor at NYC Seed.
Individual/Angel
Montpellier Méditerranée Métropole
France
Montpellier Agglomration is a Montpellier,France based startup accelerator/incubator that offers economic development programs for entrepreneurs in Montpellier, France. Montpellier is a local authority that aggregates investors from all around the world to attain economic goals through demographic development in the Montpellier area. The authority is focused on the areas such as economic development; social balance and housing; creation and support of cultural and sport events and initiatives; construction, development, maintenance, and management of cultural and sports facilities; collection, elimination, and recycling of household and assimilated waste; waste water treatment; flood control planning and others. The acceleration programs offered at each phase are: 5 weeks of master classes and mentoring sessions to boost startup projects, Décollage (Take-off): A business developer made available for 1 year to help boost sales, preparation to pitch projects before a group of local investors to secure early stage first-round funding and 4 months of intensive coaching for 15 startups, who then get an opportunity to present their pitch before 70 national and international investors to secure Series A or B financing. They provide three incubation sites such as co-working space laboratories and workshops, modular private offices and meeting rooms equipped with a video projector and teleconferencing equipment.
Accelerator
Incubator
Nagoya TV Ventures
Nakaku, Miyagi, Japan
Nagoya TV Ventures invests in everything from seed to later stage in companies focused on media, entertainment, video, and internet.
Venture Capital
Nanea Reeves
Greater Los Angeles Area, California, United States
As CEO of TRIPP, Nanea Reeves brings over 15 years experience in digital distribution, video game technologies and mobile application develo...
Individual/Angel
NewSpace Capital_US
United States
NewSpace Capital is a venture capital firm based in Brownsville, Texas. The firm provides specializes in offering seed capital, convertible notes, loans, and equity investments. The firm seeks to invest in companies operating in advanced analytics (big data), remote sensing, in orbit systems/services (satellites, power sources, spacecraft components, communications), spaceports, spaceport services (security, safety, launch services, communications), just in time training/augmented reality/space-inspired video games, lunar development, energy, environment/sustainability, and health/medicine/biotech.
Venture Capital
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