Found 27 investors
Adam Lehman
United States
Dr. Andrew Schwartz is a Co-Founder of Dodgeball and also serves as its Chief Architect. He serves as Chief Systems Architect at Knowledge AI. He is a Co-founder of Catchi and also serves as its CTO. He co-founded Lattice Engines and also served as its Chief Architect. He has participated in a wide variety of software projects, with an emphasis on optimization and messaging systems. Prior to Lattice Engines, he served as a technical partner at R.T. Shin and Associates, a DARPA-funded knowledge management startup, senior company architect at ProfitLogic, Inc., application architect at 724 Solutions, and as team lead at Algorithmics, Inc. Andrew holds a B.Sc. from McGill University, with PhD from Harvard University, both in Mathematics. His PhD research was in the area of Algebraic Geometry, under the direction of Heisuke Hironaka.
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
NaturalPath Media
David Gurle
Hong Kong, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong
David Gurle has 20+ years of experience building and managing consumer and enterprise communication and messaging systems at companies such ...
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
SkyLights
David Marcus
San Francisco, California, United States
David Marcus is the Head of Messaging Products at Facebook. David was President of PayPal from April 2012 to July 2014, where he has ove...
Individual/Angel
Past Investments
Datacom, GEOCOMtms, Signiant, NeoEdge Networks, Megawheels, Combinent Biomedical Systems, Kubi Software, Atlantis Components, Rachis Corporation, PlumRiver Technology, Natural Convergence, AeroSafe Global, Nakina Systems
Henk Brulleman
United States
Mr. Barry Enderwick is an Angel Investor. He served as the Vice President of Brand Marketing and Communications at Machine Zone. He was a co-founding Partner at Kaizen Creative Partnership, a Silicon Valley marketing consultancy where for the past 4 years he has been advising and implementing brand marketing and messaging solutions for clients large and small. Before Kaizen, Barry was Director, Global Marketing and Subscriber Acquisition at Netflix, helping take them from a small startup to one of the most recognized international entertainment brands over the course of his 11-year run.
Individual/Angel
Past Investments
Agendiacom, EmotionalBrainnl, MagStreamcom, iOpticscom, HealthCrowd, toBBBcom
Jason Shellen
San Francisco, California, United States
Jason has built a distinguished career as a founder and product strategist. Most recently as head of Platform at Slack, the messaging app fo...
Individual/Angel
Past Investments
Delighted
Jim Nichols
New York, New York, United States
Jim Nichols is a messaging expert that specializes in scientific, technical, academic and business marketing, messaging, branding and strate...
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
Roboinvest
Pavel Durov
Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Pavel Durov is the CEO and founder of Telegram, a messaging application that attracted over 60 million active users in less than 2 years sin...
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
Sand Sign
Serge Kassardjian
New York, New York, United States
Serge Kassardjian is the co-founder and CEO of StayTuned Digital, a conversational messaging company. He was the Global Head of Media Apps ...
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
The Mednet, equell, The Block, Decent
Tang Yan
Beijing, Beijing, China
Tang Yan is the founder of Momo Technology, a free location-based, instant messaging application for Smartphones. Prior to founding M...
Individual/Angel
Past Investments
Smartisan
Werner Zahnt
Vienna, Wien, Austria
Werner Zahnt has more than 15 years experience in the internet and mobile content, application and messaging sectors. Most recently, he ...
Investment Partner
Individual/Angel
Past Investments
Wikidocs, Cyberwrite, Curve, Greetzly, wefox, Inkitt, Payworks, Gustav, Hitbox Entertainment, indoors, JimDrive, Wikitude, Usersnap, Shpock, Metrilo, Candisio, Fraugster, iMobility, Bitmovin Inc, ClauseMatch, Speedinvest Studio, Gronda, iyzi Payments, Finderly, Playbrush, Facility, TourRadar, DRONAMICS, KochAbo, cashpresso, Grincom, Sipwise, Enbritely, Bikemap, Loot, Amodo, wikifolio, Adverity, tradico, Fresnex, Storyclash, Mikme, Investly, Holvi, FinCompare, Flaviar, joblocalde
Zhenya Tsvetnenko
Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Zhenya Tsvetnenko has over 8 yearsвАЩ experience in mobile premium messaging services and internet marketing. He is a highly successful entrep...
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
ScanCam Industries, CloudHashing, Future Penny
Andrew Pearson
Austria
Mr. Alexander Igelsböck is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer at Adverity. He also served as Advisor at i5invest. He was a Board Advisor of Wikitude GmbH. He has spent most of his career in the internet and mobile communications world. After working in traditional marketing and PR, he joined a small startup called Xidris in Austria. Early 2004, Xidris merged with 2 additional companies to become 3united which was then acquired by VeriSign in February 2006. After relocating to Boston, he worked in a variety of project and product management roles including international project management for small to large sized projects and managing an international product management team in VeriSign across Europe and the United States. As Vice President of Mobile Messaging in VeriSign Inc, he had responsibility for products including VeriSign's "Mobile Content Delivery Network" (mCDN), Enterprise Messaging Services and Media & Entertainment Services for the top companies in the Media, Enterprise and Mobile Content space. Annual revenues for Alex's lines of business exceeded USD 50m and he was responsible for 250 staff. In 2008 he moved back to Vienna to lead the divestiture process for VeriSign's European mobile assets. After its successful completion, at the end of 2008, he left VeriSign to join The Merger as co-founder. In the last years Alex worked with a range of Startups focused on financing, product and corporate strategy and business development. He holds an MA in Business and Information Management from LRG - University of Applied Sciences.
Individual/Angel
Ashley Friedlein
London, England, United Kingdom
Ashley is the CEO & Founder of Guild, a private professional messaging app that meets new standards, yet is as easy to use as WhatsApp. It i...
Individual/Angel
Damien Tampling
United States
Mr. Shawn Carolan serves as Board Member at Chime. He serves as an Executive at Handle. He serves as Board Member at Sticky, OpenSpace, ShipBob, Chime, Roku, Fractal 5, PlayPhone, and IMVU. He also serves as a Partner at Menlo Ventures. He has focused primarily on connected software and services. Before joining Menlo, he was a management consultant for Booz-Allen & Hamilton, after spending most of his career in software development and engineering management positions. He was Manager of Software Architecture for Open Port Technology, a start-up that created Internet-based messaging software for data carriers. Prior to that, he worked at Motorola's Cellular Infrastructure Group and Wireless Data Group, Sprint PCS, and the University of Illinois' Center for Computational Electro-magnetics. He earned a B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois, Champaign, and an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. He is also an angel investor. He also served as an Adviser at Zeal Learning.
Individual/Angel
David Butcher
United States
Mr. Scott Hassan is the Founder and serves as President & Chief Executive Officer at Suitable Technologies. He is an Angel Investor. Mr. Scott Hassan serves as the Board Member at Event Presence. He is also the Founder of Suitable Technologies and also serves as the Chief Executive Officer and President.He founded and served as the Chief Executive Officer at Willow Garage. He also served as a Board Member at Arstasis. Hassan is best known as the founder of eGroups (a group email messaging company now known as Yahoo Groups), and was the key software architect/developer of Google, Alexa Internet and the Stanford Digital Library. Throughout his life, Scott has had a deep interest in Open Source software, computers and autonomy. These interests led him to start Willow Garage, a privately-funded research company aiming to advance the state of robotic technology in autonomous devices. Scott brings to his role at Willow Garage a combination of startup experience and expertise building large software systems using Open Source tools. He holds a BS in Computer Science from University of Buffalo.
Individual/Angel
Decima Ventures
New York, New York, United States
Decima Ventures is a technology based investment fund that provides capital to cyber security and video messaging technology start ups.
Venture Capital
Geoffrey Judge
United States
Pixie Labs is a digital product incubator based in Shoreditch, London. In our first six months of business we created two apps, three prototypes and numerous "Friday hack" one-day apps.We've also consulted to blue-chip brands including The Times of London, and HomeServe Plc and Northern & Shell. As founder and director, my role includes hiring, sales, fund-raising, business management and technical product direction.Some of the apps we've built so far include:Tagstar V8: Instagram campaign tool for social media marketing on the world's most viral image sharing platform BitFriends: a user-friendly platform for trading Bitcoin with friends in your social network Echelon: a corporate tool for managing multiple Twitter accounts WhisperKey: a browser-based secure messaging service Energy Bill Calculator: gas and electricity monitoring service to reduce your monthly bills
Accelerator
Incubator
Grima Ventures
United Kingdom
Grima Ventures is angel investor that seeks to invest in seed and pre-series A stages in the messaging platforms, cloud database technology and other related sectors. It is based in London, United kingdom.
Angel Group
Jes Wolfe
United States
Mr. Rich Miller serves as Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director at Telematica. He is also an Angel Investor. He served as Chief Technology Officer at Hub Token. He co-founded Univa and served as Advisor at Cloudsoft. He serves as Board Member and Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary at Cloudsoft. He is an advisor and a strategist for both established technology vendors and emerging ventures, he leads the practice areas focused on cloud computing (hybrid/multi-cloud environments), big data & machine learning (data science & data engineering), and distributed computing (edge computing and distributed ledger technology). In 2019, Rich co-founded Provenant Data, a software company providing data management and integration software as a service to the biomedical and healthcare industries. Provenant technology addresses the need for compliance with data privacy regulations and automated data quality. The technology is the result of a side project initiated in early 2018. His career has ranged from the early days of the ARPAnet as a systems architect and implementor of electronic mail, to that of consultant in technology and product strategy for Fortune100 firms. He is a frequent speaker on cloud computing and participates in a number of industry initiatives dedicated to cloud system interoperability. Since early 2011, he co-founded and served as Advisor and Chief Executive Officer at StreetLight Data (formerly Virtual Vehicle Co.), an emerging data-as-a-service company focusing on the ground transportation ecosystem. From 2007 through 2009, he served as CEO of Replicate Technologies, a provider of network configuration management software that supports virtual machine environments (VMEs). Prior to Replicate, he co-founded and served as COO of Univa Corporation, which provides high performance ('grid') computing and datacenter management systems. As a venture consultant and product strategist at Telematica, Rapport Communication and Breo Consulting, he has overseen the formation and funding of technology companies that provide security applications, wireless network infrastructure technologies, and service infrastructures for networked services. He served as the executive vice president of General Magic's communication technology business unit and its vice president of business development. A Silicon Valley veteran, he designed and implemented some of the first computer messaging and computer conferencing systems for the ARPAnet and was an active member of the international standards community which established the basis of the modern electronic mail industry. He has founded or been in the initial team of executives of several technology startups, including InfoMedia Corporation, Rapport Communication, General Magic, Telematica Inc., Breo Consulting, and Univa Corporation. Miller has been a lead consultant for both technology and commercial projects that develop new lines of business for AT&T, IBM, Palm Computing, and NeuStar. He graduated with a B.A. in political science and an M.A. in information science and communication research from Stanford University, where he also undertook doctoral studies in information science. He is also a board member at Cloudsoft Corporation.
Individual/Angel
Leah Culver
San Francisco, California, United States
Leah Culver was a co-founder and lead programmer for the messaging service [Pownce](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pownce), which wa...
Individual/Angel
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