Amir Banifatemi
Managing partner at Bayspring Group, Founder K5Launch.
Board Member and President / Investor at Tech Coast Angels.
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Managing Director - Mayfield. Forbes Midas List 2010 (Top 100 VCs). Stanford MBA, Univ of Michigan MSEE/BSEE. Bassist in BlackMahal and CoverFlow
Owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theaters, Magnolia Pictures, and the chairman of HDNet. He is also a "shark" investor on Shark Tank.
Founder Factual. Founder Applied Semantics (developed ASI AdSense, bought by Google).
Founder/CTO at Joyent. Constant talent scout. I specialize in revenue generation, and all activities required to make it happen.
CEO & Co-Founder of Vertica Systems and Founding Board Member at Recorded Future, CloudSwitch, Goby, and VoltDB
CEO of Mindflash.com, former CMO of Mint, Expedia and Intuit
Angel investor & advisor - social, mobile, local tech. Portfolio includes Summize & Tweetdeck, both acq by Twitter. CEO Collecta, Pres Reuters Tech & SVP AOL
co-founder @ zynga
Co-founder of AngelList and Venture Hacks • EIR at Atlas and Bessemer • Worked on Songbird, Grockit, Kovio • Schooling at MIT • Published in Science • 2 Patents
Venture Hacker and Product Designer @AngelList. Ex-Google head of UX for Ads and Commerce. Ex-BofA head of UX.
Angel investor in 25 startups. Creator/founder: LAUNCH, TechCrunch50, Mahalo, Engadget, WeblogsInc, autoblog, silicon alley reporter, this week in startups.
Partner at 500 Startups
Founder of @AngelPad, Ex-Google Product Manager, Startup Advisor, Angel Investor http://thomaskorte.com/about-me/
San Francisco based incubator founded by @Thomas Korte and other ex-Googlers
Co-founder at Kima Ventures - Investing in 1 to 2 startups a Week - Already invested in 18 countries
Partner at Atlas Venture
CEO / Co-Founder of @KISSmetrics. Previously started @crazyegg and @ACS. My hobby is helping entrepreneurs create something out of nothing.
Venture Partner at SoftTech VC (with @Jeff Clavier), CEO and Co-Founder of Bionic Panda Games. BD roles at Serious Business (now part of Zynga), Google, and Gaia Online
Founder & Exec Chairman of MediaTrust PerformanceExchange .Founder Internet Media Labs. Technology innovation & social media. Thiel Fellowship Foundation Mentor
The #1 European Seed Investment Program. Invested in 50+ startups from all over Europe. Based in London, helping to make the world a better place for startups.
Currently @ Greylock. Was 2nd in at AngelList (managed dealflow through 8K startups), Oxford MBA, Cambridge Eng.
MI Ventures LLC
Founder Moon Express, Powerset (sold to Microsoft). Bing local, mobile, semantics . Assoc. Founder and Trustee, Singularity U. Active angel/advisor.
CEO @ LocalResponse, GP @ ENIAC Ventures, Partner India Internet Group. 12+ years experience investing and operating across the mobile ecosystem.
Founder & CEO at Microtask. Founder & CTO of Hybrid Graphics (NVIDIA Finland). HackFwd referrer. Coach at Startup Sauna.
Investor in Kwaga, Farmeron, Patients Know Best, Scoville.
We make life suck 34% less for early startups.
5.8k members Silicon Valley.
15 global chapters. 15+ members
Co-founder of Chart.io (YC 2010). Founding Partner at Spinnakr (500S). Sometimes investor.
Founder and a Managing Director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Internet entrepreneur (DealPilot, Pageflakes) and angel investor, mainly SaaS (Zendesk, FreeAgent Central, Clio, samedi, inFakt.pl, momox.de, Geckoboard,...).
Frontman at Rockstar Group, Advisor, Investor, trying to be an author (writing in process).
Associate at @Seedcamp, managing portfolio (60+ cos), operations, & connecting Seedcamp network (2000+ mentors & investors).
I answer email faster than you.
Founder, StyleSeat
Founder HARO (sold to Vocus). CEO and Founder of Social Media and PR firm the Geek Factory. Investor and advsior to multiple early stage startups.
Serial entrepreneur / angel; 20 ventures, 2 IPOs. 1st investor in Klout. Founder: Bottlenose, Live Matrix, Daily Dot, StreamGlider, Twine, EarthWeb & Dice.
CEO at Desk.com (a Salesforce.com company)
VP & GM | Salesforce.com
Founder of now public co. Got Yale into Entrepreneurship. Working with others to build DC into an entrepreneurial hub. Angel / VC/ Entrepreneur.
Investor in Last.fm, Boticca, Skimlinks, Onefinestay, Fliptop.
Founder, Stealth Startup; Former Microsoft Corporate Strategy & Acquisitions.
Founder of DriverSide, Founder of MarketSquare, acquired by Intuit
Principal at Highland Capital Partners
Founder/Managing Partner @ BHV; early-stage VC focused on media, tech, and entertainment. Focused on great people; MIT, Sloan '01; USMA '94; Airborne Ranger
Angel Investor, technical and financial background, focus on IT and meditec.
Founder of Seraph Group. Invested more than 50 companies.
Co-Founder // CEO of LaunchRock. Last startup failed thanks to lack of users. PhD dropout.
Cofounder @OkuriVentures, @TetuanValley, @Startupbootcamp and @StartSpain. Mentor @Seedcamp, @Gammarebels, @StartupHighway and @IBMSmartcamp. Former Blade Runner
Serial Entrepreneur/Earliest Stage Investor-Founded Freelotto/Qool/Power.com (sites founded acquired 100+ million users & reached $1+ billion peak market value)
Experienced entrepreneur, leader, & product- and tech-oriented executive in startups and public companies. Ex-Yahoo, Waterfront Media, Away.com.
CEO and Co-Founder of Visual.ly
VP Marketing Mint.com
CMO and Co-Founder of iKobo.com (Sold to Synovus),
500 Startups Mentor
Adviser to DailyBurn (Sold)
Engineering Manager on Enterprise Gmail. I love engineering and building teams, e.g. Google Earth. Double First in Computer Science from Cambridge University.
CMO of Drumbi. 500 Startups mentor. Co-wrote "The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development".
convicted serial entrepreneur, investor, teacher (Berkeley, NYU, Stanford, UCSF), daffy startup adviser, stuttering writer, loud speaker
Social Entrepreneur
BD at Unified. Advisor to BranchOut. Was employee #6 at Involver, grew customer base to more than 100K as the Head of Marketing (now at over 1m).
Investor in edu startups (Learn Capital), entrepreneur (@assetmap), writer (@change, @incmagazine + more), Live in the Mission, SF.
VC at Rising Tide Fund. Also: angel investor, startup advisor, mentor at TechWadi.org, cofounder of Launch Labs. Relentless optimist.
Frequent-flyer-mile-collector, sushi addict. Founding Partner and Chairman at Undercurrent, Publisher of JoshSpear.com, FlyingStandby.com Young Global Leader
VP Product at GoInstant. Founding Partner at Year One Labs, early stage accelerator. Previously founded Standout Jobs.
Fmr CEO Nedstat (now part of comScore)
Founder/President U.S. Angel Investors. VP S&M Trader Media (acquired for $350M). Cofounder JMC Telecom. VP Sales and Marketing Bull
Early adopter, tech blogger. Vice president of Marketing for my6sense. Advisor to MyLikes, TeensInTech, SocialToo, Qwotebook. 12 years in SV Marketing, tech PR.
I run Extreme Startups | Former VC | Formerly at Chegg. Netflix. Thomas Weisel Partners. Goldman Sachs. Accenture. | Chicago MBA. Cal undergrad.
Principal Birch Ventures (Investor Postling, Profitably) Advisor SocialWish, Trader
Co-founder at StartupStats.com. Learning Ruby at natashatherobot.com. Worked at Google and the FBI. Northwestern class of 2008.
VC at DFJ Esprit; Angel Investor and Startup Advisor
Ceo, co-founder & investor @ geeklist. 6x entrepreneur & brand guy. Successful exits in internet & education
Founder, @Clipppr. Community Architect. Advisor. Previously: community, product, marketing, customer development at LaunchRock, Zappos, UserVoice, and Seesmic.
Entrepreneur. Interested in working together? Let's chat.
Venture Partner DFJ; Board Member, Tivo, Prysm; Entrepreneurship Educator at Stanford. Priors: Mobius VC, VP Apple, CEO T/Maker Company. Stanford MBA
Six Tech Start-Ups. Co-Founder/CEO LimeLife (sold to Total Beauty), VP Marketing XFire (MTV) / Mplayer (IPO), Electronic Arts, McKinsey. Mobile Expert.
Founder & CEO, AwayFind. Sold tech co w/clients like HP, NTT, FBI. Worldwide speaker on email and productivity. Deep business, engineering, & UX experience.
Investor at General Catalyst. Founding team of Getaround and Summer Workation. Have invested in Kayak, HubSpot, BigCommerce, Abine and Thumb.
Investor at Redpoint
Co-founder and VP Marketing of Rally.org. 4X venture backed exec (Troux, Ventix, Question.com). MBA + Engineer.
Hacker. Georgia Tech Alum. Texas born Greek. Known for PSTAM.com. Co-founder @Picplum (YC S11), Notifo (YC W10), Skribit. Got my 15min in my own Nike ad.
Co-Founder & CEO at Curebit. Founded Webmasters International (bootstrapped & profitable 50 employee dev shop). Georgia Tech Computer Science.
Manager at CatapultFund; Angel Investor; CTO at FundScience Inc.; BS/MS Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University; CIO Top 100/InfoWorld Top 25 CTO
VC at Crosslink Capital. Investor at Visual.ly, Postmates, Scripted, Ark, Vungle, and several other awesome companies.
Posmtates Co-Founder & CEO - I'm addicted to customer feedback. I have no respect for the status quo.
15 years as a Senior Executive for technology startups, specializing in Business Development, Strategy and Operational Execution. Founder: Startup Forum.
Product guy @ space mOnkey, backcountry.com, Mozy, Novell and Microsoft.
Through Baltimore Angels.
Created print/UPC-to-web scanning w/ CueCat. Won an Emmy w/ Slingbox, #1 startup at CEA iStage w/ Boxee & Best Technology at LAUNCH w/ NeuAer Proximity Platform
Active angel for 17 years; Currently working on a new gig;
Senior Partner with VC Globespan Capital for 12 years;
Top rated Wall Street analyst; Entrepreneur
Chief Marketing Officer at Comunitee; Worked at Mashable, The Next Web; Founder of TheCommunityManager.com, eBusinessCards.com; Author; Former schoolteacher
Co-Founder at MixRank.
Skipped high school and studied Math at Berkeley. Programming since 10. Started first business at 14.
I build technology & businesses. Co-Founder @ Leadnomics & RightAction. Entrepreneur, Angel, Advisor (Online Media/Technology).
Founder, VentureArchetypes.com and StartupExits.com; Consultant / Advisor / Investor in 13 funded startups with 5 exits http://zerp.ly/nate
Investor at Rustic Canyon
Just shy of a decade of seed investing + good fortune. MIT engineer. Wannabe social scientist.
The Founder, CEO and product visionary behind Swagsy. Most recently, held both Product Management and Sr. Development roles at Specific Media / Myspace.
Founder @ K5Launch, member and board member @ Tech Coast Angels, deal committee ACE Fund, COO of Vokle, active investor.
Founder of G51 Capital. Investor in SocialWare, Memeo, Motion Computing, iTaggit/PriceAdvice.com.
CEO, Vittana. Ironman triathlete.
Co-founder of @StockTwits. Chief Data Hacker @YieldBot. I like hacking, startups, data viz, machine learning, entrepreneurs, building and learning new things.
Tech executive and angel investor. President, Central Coast Network at Tech Coast Angels
