Found 156 investors

Adam Sharp

United States

Mr. Hugh Molotsi is an Angel Investor. He serves as Advisor at Limeade. He is also the Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at Ujama. He also advises and invests in startups and is the co-author of The Intrapreneur's Journey, a book on how to develop a culture of innovation at large companies. In 2015, he concluded a 22-year career at Intuit where his last position was Engineering Fellow and Vice President of Innovation. During his Intuit tenure, he worked on QuickBooks and several other small business offerings. He has been a serial innovator and helped launch several new businesses at Intuit including Intuit Payments. He is a seasoned product and technology leader with over 30 years of experience developing global solutions for small businesses and consumers. He is an accomplished innovator and has helped launch several disruptive products. He has expertise in leadership development and digital transformation and has led diversity and inclusion initiatives. In 2011, Hugh became the first recipient of Intuit's Founders Innovation Award for his contributions to Intuit Payments. Hugh was appointed as a non-executive director to the board of Barloworld (BAW: SJ) where he serves on the Risk and Strategy committees. He is the co-author of The Intrapreneur's Journey, a book on how to develop a culture of innovation at large companies. He is passionate about fostering grassroots innovation and giving voice to good ideas wherever those ideas may come from.
Individual/Angel

Past Investments

Chai, Eaze, MadeSolid, MD Insider, Chewse, Naytev, SketchDeck, Whale Path, Twist Home, BetterCompany, Rinse, Trees, Respondly, Shrines, Room Choice, Breeze, UpCounsel, GoCoin, Wevorce, Y Combinator S14 Accelerate FundersClub VII, HoneyLedger, Shots Studios, Metal, haystagg, Pingpad, Ratter, Faraday Bicycles, Verbling, The Spot, Huckle, MakeLeaps, Chariot, Breakaway Labs, Gyroscope, Atheer, Educents, Schoolzilla, Trycom, Yumbin, Soothe, FabFitFun, Wanderu, Stride, Density, VerbalizeIt, LitBit, Lawn Love, One Month, Navdy, Tradesy, Cabify, MeUndies

Akash Garg

San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States

Akash Garg is CTO and VP of Product at Afterpay U.S., the leader in "Buy Now, Pay Later" payments, based in San Francisco. Before joining Af...
Individual/Angel

Past Investments

Playgroundfm, Doorman, MemoAI, Eventadorio, ObserveAI, Sense

Alan Doan

United States

Mr. Gaurav Zutshi served as Chief Digital Officer at Aditya Birla Capital. Previously, he served as a Head of Products & Innovation - APAC at First Data Corporation. Gaurav Zutshi is Chief Digital officer at Aditya Birla Financial Services Group and was appointed as Director - Aditya Birla MyUniverse Limited effective 1st May 2016. In the group role, he leads customer acquisition and digitization of group's portfolio of products across life insurance, mutual funds, digital lending, health & general insurance Broking. At MyUniverse, he is responsible for growing the product offering, revenue growth and continued market leadership in the Personal Finance space. Prior to this he has worked at Citibank, Visa, ANZ Bank, IBM, First Data and entrepreneurial stints at Obopay & Money on Mobile. He was Asia Pacific Head of Product & Innovation at First Data serving banks & merchants across region with digital solutions in payments & mobility. At Citibank, Gaurav was SVP in Asia Pacific Innovation Lab, where he developed product solutions & new business models around international payments, corporate cards.
Individual/Angel

Past Investments

uMake, Hickory, Spruce Labs, Sliced Investing, Mercato, Rumbleship Financial, Kindly Care, Vinyl Me Please, Medolac Laboratories, LoyaltyLion, Tersai, Lambda School, MagicBus, ONtheGO Platforms, Promptly, FG Angels Syndicate Fund III, Shelfcom, Pura Scents, OpenFan, Simple Contacts

Alex Euler

United States

Ms. Lara Druyan serves as Managing Director at Silicon Valley Data Capital. Ms. Druyan served as General Partner at Almaz Capital. Lara joined SVDC from RBC where she was the Head of Innovation on the West Coast, responsible for the Bank's transformation through the smart use of technology. She led the development of innovation strategy as well as the identification and evaluation of start-ups and partnerships that drove the Bank's technology, analytics, payments and infrastructure roadmaps. She built a team that initiated, developed KPIs, drove 14 products into production and managed over 20 proofs of concept across the Bank. Lara served on RBC's bank-wide Innovation Council and the Crypto Asset Oversight Committee. Previously, Lara served as a Venture Partner or Advisor to several funds and as a Venture Adviser to SRI International where she helped them conceive of, launch, and incubate new ventures. Lara served as Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees and Chair of the Investment Committee for the City of San Jose's Federated Employee Retirement System (a $2B pension plan) for six years. Previously, she was an Investor in Residence at US Venture Partners and a General Partner with an early-stage venture capital firm. Lara also worked at Silicon Graphics as a product manager in its heyday and released a dozen software products while at SGI. Lara has led many investments and served on numerous boards of directors and advisory boards. Some of the companies in which she has invested or served as an adviser include: Xactly (XTLY), Powerset (MSFT), Skout (MEET), Xlink, and Deduce. In 2016, Lara was named as one of the "Silicon Valley Investors You Need to Know" by Inc. In 2017, Lara was named to the "200 Thought Leaders in Crypto and Blockchain" by Medium. In 2018, Lara was named as one of the "Innovators to Watch: 44 Executives Shaping the Future of Banking" by Bank Innovation and to Constellation's "Business Transformation 150". Lara serves on the Global Alumni Boards of the Harvard Business School and the University of Chicago as well as the Stanford School of Engineering Board of Advisors. Lara holds an AB in Economics with Honors from the University of Chicago and a Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School.
Individual/Angel

Past Investments

LendPro, Speek, MetiStream, Tenant Turner, PierceMatrix, Villagize, Advanced Aircraft Company, Blue Triangle, EVS Glaucoma Therapeutics, LiveSafe, RecargaX, Fenris, RunSafe Security, Mobile System 7, Encore Alert, Panaceutics Nutrition, Maternity Neighborhood, naaya, Veenome, ADR Software, PhosImmune, Contraline, Buddy, Cont3nt.com, Zoomdata, SpydrSafe Mobile Security, iTi Health, AtWork Systems, Introhive, KinergyCare, CirrusWorks, Kaprica Security Inc., RioGin, Lewis and Clark Pharmaceuticals, PerformYard, ThreatQuotient, Kamana, Ovastasis, ArmorText, Ostendio, BiJoTi, DivvyCloud, Distil Networks, HyperQube, TypeZero Technologies, Brazen, CargoSense, Senseware, ARCsys, RoundlyX, Curbside Kitchen, VividCortex, Shevirah, Territory Foods, FarmRaiser, TroopSwap, Bloompop, Key Cybersecurity, Loop88, Student Opportunity Center, nvite, Biotherapeutics, Xdynia, ARTGlass-US, Agrology, WealthForge, DataRPM, Synoptos Inc., Zoobean, PockitShip, Inc., Fitnet, Urgently Roadside Assistance, WireTough Cylinders, Riff Digital Inc., Pype, ID.me, VanGogh Imaging, Fourstay, Jeeva Informatics Solutions, CySecure, Aquanta, PFP Cybersecurity, e-Kare, SphynKx Therapeutics, SL8Z, Heyo, Triblio, Neoantigenics, Embody, Babylon

Andrew Bart

United States

Mr. Andrew Bart is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at AlgoFace. He serves as Chief Growth Officer and Advisor at InterPayments. He is the Founder at Pop Results & also serves as its Chief Executive Officer. He is also an Angel Investor. He served as a Partner at ExCapsa Group. He is an early and growth-stage venture capital investor, advisor, and C-Suite executive. His core expertise resides in the areas of capital raising, deal sourcing, due diligence, fund management, and fund strategy. His passion for technology, as well as the startup incubation and funding process, led him to focus on sourcing venture capital to companies raising a seed, series a, series b, or larger. As part of select deals, he is an active angel investor, and his vast network taps into over 250+ family offices, micro VCs, VCs, and private equity firms. His 15+ year career initiated on the startup team at iCrossing which ultimately exited Hearst Corporation for $325 million. As a tech entrepreneur, he founded, bootstrapped, and successfully exited a supply chain management and lead generation technology platform to a global natural pet product manufacturer. For the past decade, he has operated Pop Results, an inbound marketing agency that assists startups with strategy and execution of comprehensive growth hacking campaigns. Additionally, he is the founder of Startup Growth Advisors, a personalized accelerator that provides startups with missing elements, business risk mitigation, and serves as a source of vetted elite deal flow to vertical-specific Seed Round and Series A capital investment firms. He is an active contributor on the capital raise front for startup companies in secondary and tertiary startup markets including but not limited to Phoenix, San Diego, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, and Baltimore. He has served as a member of Arizona Tech Investors (ATI) and Desert Angels and he is best known for fostering collaboration in the regional capital communities. On a philanthropic level, he serves as a mentor at Seed Spot, a leading incubator/accelerator focused on social impact companies as well as Arizona State University, Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program. He has served as a judge and panelist for the ASU Edson Competition and Arizona Commerce Authority Innovation Summit. He is regularly featured as an expert on nationally syndicated television shows including The List as well as in a variety of other media outlets, where he speaks on topics related to technology, business, and private placement capital raise activity.
Individual/Angel

Past Investments

Arizona Technology Investor Forum, Carchex, Desert Angels, Chai Energy, Pop Results, iAcquire, ClearVoice, Carefree Pet

Anurag Sinha

Pune, Maharashtra, India

Anurag is Passionate about Digital Credit & Payments with Deep exposure in Payments, Consumer Lending & Banking, Business Development, Start...
Individual/Angel

Past Investments

Kudos Finance & Investments, Upswing Financial Technologies, dezerv.

Asif Ramji

Greater Atlanta Area, Georgia, United States

Asif Ramji, PaymetricвАЩs President and Chief Executive Officer, is a seasoned payments executive, with over 15 years experience directing co...
Individual/Angel Seed

Past Investments

Paymetric
Brian Henning Kerr

Brian Henning Kerr

San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States

Kava.io - Blockchain & Payments Dmarket.io - Blockchain & Gaming Fnatic, Fnatic Gear Founder - Esports and Gaming
Cryptocurrency Blockchain Bitcoin Individual/Angel

Past Investments

Snowball Money

Daniela Binatti

Brazil

Co-Founder & CTO @ Pismo - Next-gen banking and payments at hyperscale
FinTech Seed Pre-Seed

Past Investments

Pluang
Darcy Wedd

Darcy Wedd

New York, New York, United States

Darcy Wedd is an accomplished technology executive with over 17 years of experience in the telecommunications, payments, and consumer goods ...
Individual/Angel Seed

Past Investments

Able Lending, Dealflicks, Wanderu

Dickson Chu

United States

Mr. Jeffrey Lipp is a Co-Founder and serves as Chief Operating Officer and Board Member at Artkive. He also serves as an executive at Amplify.la. Prior to the Kive Co, Jeff was the Executive Director of Gift and Loyalty Services for Heartland Payment Systems, one of the largest merchant credit card processing companies in the United States. He was the co-founder and CEO of Chockstone, Inc. (acquired by Heartland in 2008) and Pure Payments, Inc. (acquired by iMALL in 1999), building two innovative technology companies in the payments and loyalty industries. Prior to those experiences, Jeff worked in the merchant acquiring and e-commerce business of First Data Corporation, as well as in corporate finance in Lehman Brothers' Technology Group. Jeff holds a Bachelor of Arts from Williams College, a Master of Business Administration from UCLA Anderson School of Management, and serves on the boards of the Open Doors Organization, the Los Angeles Chapter of the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship, and the Price Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. He is also an Angel Investor.
Individual/Angel Seed

Past Investments

KaChing!

Elizabeth Tse

San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States

Elizabeth is responsible for Trust & Safety, Customer Success, Global Payments, and Customer Support at Elance-oDesk. Prior to joining Elanc...
Individual/Angel

Past Investments

Cobalt, Climb Credit

Firat Isbecer

Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

Firat Isbecer is an entrepreneur and an angel investor. Isbecer co-founded Pozitron, a pioneering mobile banking and payments software compa...
Individual/Angel Seed Early Stage Venture

Past Investments

Volt Lines, Masraff, RoFoods, RemoteTeam.com, denebunu.com, Base64.ai, Gleam Games, FineDine, TikTak

Fred Kranich

United States

Mr. Ashit Lilani is a Co-Founder and serves as Managing Partner at Saama Capital. He is an Angel Investor. He served as Board Member at Raw Pressery. He serves as Board Member & Advisor at GenePath Diagnostics, and Modern Family Doctor. Previously, served as President, India Region at Silicon Valley Bank. He served as Board Member at The Mom Co. He is responsible for sourcing and managing the investments of SVB India Capital Partners with investments that include SKS Microfinance, Genesis Colors, One97 Communications, Sula Vineyards, Vistaar, Vallabhdas Kanji, Games2Win, People Interactive. He is also responsible for the strategic direction and the management of SVB Financial Group's operations and pursuits in Asia. He serves as Board Member at Veeba. Previously head of SVB Global, Mr. Lilani has developed and managed SVB's global market activities. In this role, he set the strategy and oversaw the operation of SVB Financial Group's international subsidiaries in London, Bangalore, and Shanghai, and its activities in areas of technology concentration, including Israel. He also serves on the Board of Paytm Payments Bank. He served as Board Member at Vistaar. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Finance and Accounting from Bangalore University and has an MBA degree from Philadelphia University.
Individual/Angel

Past Investments

Vamida, Gumhoo, Vespa, FoodJing, Lucent Sky, Speedinvest, Yushan Ventures, Wanelo, Hornet Networks, KochAbo, Mona Group, Flaviar, Grape

Gene Alston

San Francisco, California, United States

Gene Alston is currently at Groupon leading merchant mobile payments. Previously he worked at PayPal and Concentric Networks.
Individual/Angel Seed

Past Investments

Lawdingo

Gordon Daugherty

United States

Mr. Vishwarupe Narain is a Founder and serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Pulsar Capital. He also serves as Board Member at Asia Healthcare Holdings. He was a Partner, Managing Director for TPG Growth, a global private equity firm with over $13.5 billion under management, for over ten years and led investments of ~$1 billion in the region. He served on the boards of AGS, a cash management business, Healthium, a global medical device business, American Oncology Institute, an oncology services provider, India Transact, a payments company, Asiri Hospitals, the largest hospital and diagnostic lab business in Sri Lanka, Global Gene Corp, a Singapore based personalized medicine company, Landmark Cars, the leading auto retailer in India, Landmark Insurance, a general insurance broking firm and Dodla Dairy, a leading dairy and milk products company in South India. Prior to joining TPG Growth in 2007, Mr. Narain was an investor with Bessemer Venture Partners in New York. Previous to that, Mr. Narain was an Engagement Manager in McKinsey's Private Equity Practice in Palo Alto and London. Mr. Narain joined McKinsey from Deloitte Consulting, where he was a Senior Consultant. He has an M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University, a Master of Technology from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, and a Diploma in Global Leadership and Public Policy from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Selected as a Young Global Leader in 2014, he is an active member of the World Economic Forum and served on its Advisory Board. He was also nominated as an Aspen Fellow in 2014 and is a member of the Aspen Leadership Institute. He was nominated for Business Today's "40 under 40", and has been featured in several publications including the cover of Forbes India. He has spoken and taught at various institutions including Harvard Business School and the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.
Individual/Angel Seed

Past Investments

Chiron Health, Rockify, SwimTopia, Eyeblaster, Written, Pictrition, Famigo, MarketVibe, Riskpulse, Axelo, Embrace, Zing, Mediamind, ROIKOI, Nuve

Hank Uberoi

New York, New York, United States

Hank Uberoi has been EarthportвАЩs CEO and Executive Director since 2010. Hank says it was EarthportвАЩs unique offering in the payments market ...
Individual/Angel

Past Investments

KodyPay

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji

Nigeria, Africa

Iyinoluwa Aboyeji is the Founder and former CEO of HOF portfolio company Flutterwave, a business building payments technology and infrastruc...
Investment Partner Individual/Angel Seed

Past Investments

Lori Systems, CRE Venture Capital, Stitch, Chaka Technologies

Jesse Powell

San Francisco, California, United States

Jesse Powell is an expert in virtual currencies, online/international payments and fraud, as well as co-founder and CEO of Kraken, the most ...
Individual/Angel Seed

Past Investments

Ripple

John Anderson

San Francisco, California, United States

John is Director of Payments, Platform, and Risk Operations at Facebook. Prior to Facebook, John was the founder/CEO of GroupCard, a soci...
Individual/Angel Seed

Past Investments

SimplyCircle, Infinite io
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