Found 41 investors
Bart Dessaint
United States
Mr. Talli Somekh is a Co-Founder of Musea Ventures. He co-founded and served as Acting Director, Business Development in Designer Energy. He is a Co-Founder and Board Member of White Dog Labs. He served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Appsoma. He co-founded and served as Board Member at CloudPassage. He is also an Angel Investor. Mr. Somekh also Co-Founded and served as Executive Chairman at CloudPassage. He began his career participating in open source software communities developing web frameworks, databases, programming languages and revision control systems. His early training working with developers in the trenches has been invaluable in his transition to venture capital. As a co-founder and General Partner of Musea Ventures, he has applied his experience to investments in the areas of next-generation biotechnology and information technology. He has led Musea's investments in Acoustic Cytometry Systems (acquired by Life Technologies), Avantome (acquired by Illumina), Designer Energy, MobileVerbs, SpaceCurve, Verdezyne and Virident. He holds a degree from Tufts University and Pomona College.
Individual/Angel
Past Investments
KelDoc
Chenghung Chen
United States
Mr. Patrick McVeigh serves as Independent Non-Executive Director & Chairman, Nominations Committee at NewSat Global Satellite Solutions. He served as Board Member at Bnocular and Fastacash. He has more than 30 years of experience in the high technology and consumer electronics industry working for companies like Apple Computer Inc., Knowledge Adventure, Palm Computing Inc., Aliph Corp., Palmsource, Omnisky and SoonR, Inc. As the CEO & President at Palmsource, he transformed the company from a developer of proprietary handset OS' to a leader in the development of Linux-based open source mobile operating systems. He later led the successful sale of Palmsource to Access Systems, Japan. Patrick also served as Chairman and CEO of Omnisky, where he successfully led the company through its IPO and eventual sale to EarthLink.
Individual/Angel
Past Investments
Neah Power Systems, NGM Biopharmaceuticals, True Co, Soldsie, Boosted, Quoine, Whale Path, Crystal Towers Capital Fund I, TalentBin, Samumed, ConforMIS, Zoom, Initialized Capital, Vickers Venture Fund IV, inDinero, SendHub, Atheer, zSpace, Appvance, Solarlytics, Prysm, DocDoc, Apptuto, LitBit, KiloAngel, Knot Standard, Trusted Insight, Instacart, Billowby, Identified
Dominik Schiener
Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Dominik is an Italian entrepreneur and co-founder of IOTA, where he's focused on building the Machine Economy through Open Source Software. ...
Individual/Angel
Past Investments
Xayn
Douwe Osinga
Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Douwe is a globe-trotting data lover who enjoys an open source hackfest almost as much as he likes being on the road. Born and raised in The...
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
Alii.care
Dries Buytaert
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Dries is the original creator and project lead for the Drupal open source web publishing and collaboration platform. He serves as president ...
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
Oqton, Seaters A.I. - Unrivalled Brand Relation Management, Bitmovin
James Whitehurst
Raleigh, North Carolina, United States
James Whitehurst is President and Chief Executive Officer at Red Hat, the worldвАЩs leading provider of open source enterprise IT products and...
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
DataVote
Michael Skok
United States
Mr. Michael Skok is the Co-Founder and serves as a Partner at Underscore VC. Mr. Skok started his first software business as a teenager, spent 21 years as an entrepreneur and then the past 18 years as a venture investor. During this time, he has founded, worked with and invested in startups, and created thousands of jobs and billions of dollars of value. Along the way, he also mentored and taught for 4 years at Harvard University, and created the Startup Secrets series. As an entrepreneur and an investor, Mr. Skok has focused on breakthrough technologies and disruptive business models including Open Source, Cloud, IoT, and emerging domains such as Blockchain, Virtual/Augmented Reality, and Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning. He has served on or is active on many private and public boards such as Acquia, Demandware (now a Salesforce company), Mautic (acquired by Acquia in 2019), Salsify and Zaius. He has also participated in leadership roles in many industry groups such as the Software Publishers Association where he was Chairman for many years in Europe. In 2015, Mr. Skok co-founded Underscore VC first and foremost to empower entrepreneurs to realize their vision in building impactful businesses. He has a passion for helping the next generation of entrepreneurs succeed by not only investing but bringing the resources, talent and commitment of an aligned community around them to assure their success.
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
Acquia, Wis.dm, Lumigent Technologies, Unidesk, Moltin, Actifio, Zaius, Salsify, HelloTeam, Demandware, Cazena
Michael Widenius
Tuusula, Southern Finland, Finland
Michael вАЬMontyвАЭ Widenius is the вАЬspiritual fatherвАЭ of MariaDB, a renowned advocate for the open source software movement and one of the orig...
Investment Partner
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
import.io, Beddit, MoSync
Robert Bielecki
Metz, Lorraine, France
With 26 years in IT services Robert Bielecki has gained a strong experience in PKI. He was in charge of the EU Open Source Java library for ...
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
Cuseum
Salil Deshpande
Palo Alto, California, United States
Salil focuses on early-stage infrastructure software, open source, and crypto. Over the last 13 years he has invested $350M into 52 companie...
Cryptocurrency
Blockchain
Bitcoin
Investment Partner
Individual/Angel
Seed
Early Stage Venture
Late Stage Venture
Past Investments
ZeroTurnaround, g2One, DataStax, Hashnode, Dropcam, Nuo, RudderStack
Steve Heffernan
San Francisco, California, United States
Steve Heffernan is the creator of Video.js, an open source web video player in use on over 1 million websites and with over 1 billion videos...
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
Swivl
Will Hayes
San Francisco, California, United States
Will Hayes is CEO of Lucidworks, a San Francisco-based enterprise search company backed by the world’s strongest and most active open source...
Individual/Angel
Seed
Pre-Seed
Past Investments
Ilekun Health, Fibo
Zach Ware
United States
Mr. Steve Singh serves as Board Member at Dharma Platform. He also serves as Chairman at TROOP. He also serves as Chairman at Magnify (Business/Productivity Software). He also serves as Managing Director at Madrona Venture Group. He serves as an Executive Chairman at Spotnana and Stratify. He is a Co-Founder and serves as Executive Chairman at Center. Previously, Steve co-founded, built and led Concur from startup to enterprise SaaS powerhouse. He also serves as Board Member at DocuSign. After the 2014 acquisition of Concur by SAP for $8.3 billion, Steve was named to the SAP Global Managing Board where he led the SAP Business Network Group, which consisted of the teams from Ariba, Fieldglass and Concur. Additionally at SAP, Singh led SAP's Data-as-a-Service, a strategic new business unit with substantive new growth opportunities in the area of Big Data. In late 2016 Steve joined the board of open source, enterprise company, Docker and six months later became the CEO. He led the company for two years before stepping down in 2018 and devoting more time to mentoring entrepreneurs. He currently serves on the boards of directors for Modumetal, ClearID, Clari and The Nature Conservancy among others.
Individual/Angel
Seed
Past Investments
LaunchKey, Bungalow Clothing, REscour, ink, EV Juice, Connectcom, Arka, Zirtual, ice, Returnbase, Radius Agent, The/Studio, SHIFT, SBC SF Program, Buffer, HashRabbit, Inc.
Adrian Washington
United States
Ms. Ingrid Burton serves as Chief Marketing Officer at Quantcast. Previously, she served as Advisor at DriveScale. In 2019, Extreme Networks Inc. appointed Burton to its Board of Directors. Ms. Burton is a proven marketing and business leader with more than 30 years of experience building brands, creating demand, and growing businesses for both established technology innovators and industry pioneers. She served as Chief Marketing Officer at H2O.ai, a leader in open-source AI and machine learning, and comes to Extreme after serving on the Board of Directors at Aerohive. Prior to joining H2O.ai, she was CMO at Hortonworks, where she drove a brand and marketing transformation and created ecosystem programs that positioned the company for growth. At SAP, she co-created the Cloud strategy, led HANA and Analytics marketing, and drove developer outreach. She also served as CMO at Silver Spring Networks and Plantronics after a 20-year career at Sun Microsystems, where she held several leadership roles, including head of marketing for the company and driving the company and Java brand, global citizenship, championing open source initiatives, and leading product and strategic marketing teams. Ms. Burton has also advised several Silicon Valley startups. She has driven strategies for market and technology trends including AI and machine learning, Java and HANA technologies, SaaS, cloud computing, open-source, internet of things (IoT), community engagement, and big data that have had an impact on the technology landscape at large. She has received numerous awards and recognition including the Silicon Valley TWIN award. She has a BA in Math with a concentration in Computer Science from San Jose State University. Ms. Burton has served as a Board Advisor to DriveScale, a cloud infrastructure provider, since 2016.
Individual/Angel
Ali Husnain
Pakistan, Asia
CEO BoltFlare, WordPress Developer, Open Source Enthusiast, Freelancer & less Conversationalist
Individual/Angel
AOE
Wiesbaden, Hessen, Germany
AOE develops digital ecommerce platform solutions based on open source technology.
Apps
B2B
B2C
E-Commerce
Open Source
Private Equity Firm
Apertu Capital
United States
Apertu Capital is an early stage venture capital firm and is based in San Mateo, California. The firm focuses mainly on startups launched out of open source projects.
Venture Capital
Brian Acton
Palo Alto, California, United States
Brian Acton is Founder and Executive Chairman of Signal Technology Foundation whose mission is to develop open source privacy technology tha...
Individual/Angel
Clint Smith
San Francisco Bay Area
Investor and advisor for open source, security, and fintech startups.
AI
Cloud Infrastructure
Data Services
FinTech
Payments
SaaS
Security
Coalescense Tech
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Coalescense Tech builds open source tools that creators can use to make their own CPU and GPU.
Accelerator
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