Garry Tan
Partner at Y-Combinator. Co-founder of Posterous. Early designer / engineering lead at Palantir.
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Lotus founder, built from 0 to $200MM in 3 yrs. Co-founder EFF. Founding Chair Mozilla. Investor: Twilio, Uber, Inkling, bit.ly.
I'm the head of the webspam team at Google.
Managing Director - Mayfield. Forbes Midas List 2010 (Top 100 VCs). Stanford MBA, Univ of Michigan MSEE/BSEE. Bassist in BlackMahal and CoverFlow
Co-founder of Founders Den, co-owner of Slide nightclub, former founder & CEO of Socializr, Friendster, and HotLinks.
Customer Development & Secret History, Teaching at Stanford, Berkeley and Columbia
http://www.steveblank.com
Team member of Pinterest, Google.
Co-founder of Votizen • Founder Advisor at SV Angel • First Designer-in-Residence at Bessemer • Former Lead Designer at Mint.com
Principal at Greylock. Previous: product at Twitter (Growth), Facebook (launched Connect), Zazzle (ran product), LinkedIn (Growth, launched Jobs), RealPlayer
CTO at Obama for America, former CTO of Threadless and Advisor at Sandbox Industries.
Owner of the Dallas Mavericks, Landmark Theaters, Magnolia Pictures, and the chairman of HDNet. He is also a "shark" investor on Shark Tank.
Platform Team @ Twitter; CTO at Bebo; Co-Founder of Hi5
Founder HotOrNot; I/O Ventures
Founder and CEO, Flixster
Founder: Earthlink, Boingo; co-Founder: eCompanies, Jamdat, Business.com; entrepreneur & investor
Entrepreneur, CEO and cofounder of Twilio.
Founder/CTO at Joyent. Constant talent scout. I specialize in revenue generation, and all activities required to make it happen.
Co-founder Clover (Sutter Hill, Andreessen Horowitz), Co-founder Bix (sold to Yahoo), eBay, Intuit, MIT.
Former COO/VP Product at Geni, designer of Yammer 1.0, founding designer at Tribe. Advising startups via 500 Startups, StartX, and Bullpen Capital.
Loopt CEO
Founder of MyMiniLife/FarmVille; Was CTO of Zynga Japan; Created Zynga's core game framework as mentioned in S-1; Investor in BetterWorks, Pixelapse, Hipmunk
Investor, board member, blogger and occasional executive
Founder at Larizadeh Capital Partners
Cofounder at Doostang Inc
Vice President at DFJ ePlanet Ventures
Analyst, International Credit Trading at merrill lynch
CEO at SendGrid
Founder/CEO App.net (aka Mixed Media Labs)
Previously founder/CEO of imeem. Creator of picplz. Stanford SymSys '03. Father. Guy who likes the Internet.
Co-founder and CTO iPrint.com (NASD:IPRT). Co-founder and CTO MessageCast (Sold to Microsoft). StartX mentor, technical advisor.
Founder Kaltix (acquired by Google in 2003). Stanford CS PhD. Startup Advisor.
Founder of AirBnB
Founder and ex CEO WebSpy (took public), Founder Netlink Inspection Systems Exited via Trade Sale, Founder Netlink CRM,
Founder of MyMiniLife. Co-Creator of FarmVille. Investor in BetterWorks, Pixelapse. Team member of Zynga, MyMiniLife.
Technology entrepreneur. Founder at Crowd Interactive and ModCloth. Investor at ClearGears.
Sweat - AngelList, Venture Hacks, Vast, Epinions; Money - Twitter, Heyzap, SnapLogic
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.
Venture Hacker at AngelList, ex Head of Product at Friend.ly and WePay, engineer, designer, photographer.
Hacker at AngelList, at RockYou when it was #1, early at Readyforce. CS Masters 2 years early.
Venture Hacker at AngelList. Previously intern at IA Ventures. Founder of Quirk. PS3 R&D at Naughty Dog. CMU CS BS and MS.
Funding team at AngelList + VC at Atlas Venture; founded and killed Social Swipe. Retail + SMB in my DNA.
Founding Partner @ 500 Startups. Ex-PayPal, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund, Mint.com. Geek, developer, entrepreneur, marketer. Investor in 250+ co's.
Partner at 500 Startups. Ex-Googler & ex-YouTuber. Left-handed.
Angel investor in 25 startups. Creator/founder: LAUNCH, TechCrunch50, Mahalo, Engadget, WeblogsInc, autoblog, silicon alley reporter, this week in startups.
Partner at 500 Startups
General partner, GRP Ventures & 2x entrepreneur. Sold Koral to Salesforce.com
Searching for world-changing technologies for Rackspace.
Silicon Valley internet seed fund & accelerator. 500 team has worked @ PayPal, Google, AOL, Rackspace, Yahoo, YouTube, Mint.com, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund.
Managing Partner at SoftTech VC (one of the original micro-vcs, before it was fashionable ;). Invested in 125+ companies in 8 years. And really loving it.
Founder and CTO of HubSpot and blogger at OnStartups.com
Founder of @AngelPad, Ex-Google Product Manager, Startup Advisor, Angel Investor http://thomaskorte.com/about-me/
Managing Member at SV Angel
Startup guy and advisor on metrics/marketing. Occassional blogger. Previously EIR at Mohr Davidow Ventures, ran product at AudienceScience.
CEO at Postling
A man. A plan. A panda.
San Francisco based incubator founded by @Thomas Korte and other ex-Googlers
Canadian. CEO/Founder of Clarity.fm. Co-Founder of Flowtown (Acquired '11), Founder of Spheric Tech (Acquired '08), Mentor @ 500Startup. Investor in many.
Working on The Next Big Thing (Gaston Labs). Founded PBworks, Hacker Dojo, SuperHappyDevHouse, and Mexican.VC. Hacker. Award-winning startup advisor.
Chief Firestarter @ K9 Ventures
CEO / Co-Founder of @KISSmetrics. Previously started @crazyegg and @ACS. My hobby is helping entrepreneurs create something out of nothing.
husband. dad. serial entrepreneur (firefly, lovefilm, seedcamp). operator (wpp, msft, skype). investor (index, TAG)
http://localglo.be
Google, Microsoft, Groove Networks, Bowstreet, Napster, AltaVista, Forte, DEC. Angel Investor.
Partner at Start Fund
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
Y Combinator runs two three-month funding cycles a year. Each cycle culminates in Demo Day, at which the startups present to the world's top startup investors.
Founder Graphicly. Multiple Entrepreneur. Mentor at Techstars & 500startups. Startup Doer and Advisor.
CEO of Referly. Formerly 1st employee at Twilio. 500 Startups Mentor. Forbes 30 Under 30 in Social/Mobile Tech 2011. College dropout.
Angel Investor. Advisor. More at tgm.com
Co-founding Partner @ Venture51. Founding team @ Flypaper (acquired in '11). Started at Interact (makers of ACT! & SalesLogix).
Currently @ Greylock. Was 2nd in at AngelList (managed dealflow through 8K startups), Oxford MBA, Cambridge Eng.
A Wall Streeter for over 20 years, former partner at Goldman Sachs, and founder of its Internet Research effort in 1994
CEO of Socialize. Raised $1.5MM. Founded & sold PointAbout. Profiled in Wall Street Journal. General Electric TLP. Active founder+lifehacker blog. UVa McIntire
Founder & CEO of Teens in Tech Labs. Associate Producer of Olive the Movie. Evangelist, Silicon Valley at JESS3. Advisor at Everyme.
Founded Baseline in 2006. 60+ investments since inception and have helped more than 30 founders sell their companies with great success.
Co founder of Heyzap, YC Alum, entrepreneur
Entrepreneur, CNET/CBSi commentator & columnist, startup advisor, former PM. Most recent: Co-Editor & Editor-at-Large of Mashable.
Not gonna stop until we win.
Investor in Kwaga, Farmeron, Patients Know Best, Scoville.
Founder & CEO at Microtask. Founder & CTO of Hybrid Graphics (NVIDIA Finland). HackFwd referrer. Coach at Startup Sauna.
Previously founded a successful internet marketing business in college and grew it to 6 figure revenues in a year.
Co-founder of Chart.io (YC 2010). Founding Partner at Spinnakr (500S). Sometimes investor.
We make life suck 34% less for early startups.
5.8k members Silicon Valley.
15 global chapters. 15+ members
Co-founder/CEO, ZenPayroll. Co-founder/CEO, Unwrap (Acquired 2010). Zazzle. BS & MS EE at Stanford.
Angel investor
Co-Founder at 42Floors, fixing commercial real estate.
Co-Founder at FlightCaster. Funded by Y Combinator/Sherpalo/Tandem. Acquired in '09.
Blog: humbledMBA
Managing partner at Bayspring Group, Founder K5Launch.
Board Member and President / Investor at Tech Coast Angels.
Making Gumroad. Previously @ Pinterest.
Founding member of the Designer Fund & 500 Startups. Previously Facebook Fund & Venrock. Teach at Stanford design school & former Stanford Persuasive Tech Lab.
Welcome to the media revolution
Entrepreneur and angel investor from Latin America, living in New York. Founder and Managing Director at Quotidian Ventures.
Founder: Avid Technology Inc., Founder: Wildfire Communications, Investor and Mentor at TechStars Boston
Partner at Rockfish Brand Ventures, co-founder at The Brandery
2-time founder, YC alum, Founder @ Streak.com
Engineer, ex-Google, Harvard MBA, Founder @ Streak.com, pilot
Founder at Freshplum, Inc. Recently sold Divvyshot to Facebook. Started first company in high school and grew it to several million dollars in revenue.
Principal at Polaris Venture Partners. Formerly: eBay, beRecruited (founder), Flite / Widgetbox.
Associate at @Seedcamp, managing portfolio (60+ cos), operations, & connecting Seedcamp network (2000+ mentors & investors).
I answer email faster than you.
Venture Investor
Co-founded Pair. Developed software at Google, RIM and EA.
VC at True Ventures. Lover of Disruptive Technology, Punk Music, and Burritos.
http://www.lifeinbeta.org
Current: tomoguides.com (mobile apps for on-the-ground travelers). Previous: Cubeduel (went viral, sold 2011) & RescueTime (YC, True Ventures, profitable).
Managing Director at RTP Ventures. Three time founder and CEO, Venture Partner at Greycroft, technologist at heart now running a VC fund.
Software consulting business at 16. Created a database engine for the iPhone (FMTouch). Built a hosting company (FMGateway). Author on PHP programming.
Software engineer, entrepreneur, University of Waterloo computer engineering graduate. Over 10 years software development experience.
