Jai Choi
Founder, Managing Director, Tekton Ventures (seed fund). Former entrepreneur, sold last co. to FormSpring. Public servant to company builders.
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VP, Google. Investor in Minted, One Kings Lane, Square. MSCS, Stanford.
Managing Director - Mayfield. Forbes Midas List 2010 (Top 100 VCs). Stanford MBA, Univ of Michigan MSEE/BSEE. Bassist in BlackMahal and CoverFlow
Keen (Ingenio), DimensionX, Wallop, Coveroo and Cloudmark. $500+ million in exits to msft, at&t etc. Early advisor to facebook.
Serial Entrepreneur, 40+ Angel investments with $10 billion in exits including Linkedin, Paypal, Ziprealty, Plusmo, Vamoose, Evite
Ex-CEO of Wikia, Exec at eBay
Managing Director at Morado Venture Partners. Former EVP, CPO and early engineer at Yahoo!.
CTO at Obama for America, former CTO of Threadless and Advisor at Sandbox Industries.
Co-Founder Tellme (Microsoft), Founder Swipely
Early WebLogic engineer, EIR at Accel & Benchmark, Founder of Gauntlet Systems (Borland acq), Chief Technologist at Yahoo!, Founder of Bagcheck (Twitter acq)
CEO iSkoot, sold to QCOM (VP now). EVP loopt. Founder, Pres DChoc. Founder, CEO SW Sports & Soft, sold to Paul Allen & iXL. CS Harvard. Inventor fantasy sports
Cofounder, author, and chief architect of the WebLogic Application Server. 10+ years angel investor & advisor. Now CTO-in-Residence at Accel Partners in NYC
CEO at Crowdstar; VP - Business Development at AdMob
Founder/CTO at Joyent. Constant talent scout. I specialize in revenue generation, and all activities required to make it happen.
Head of Mobile Business at Facebook. Head of eBay Mobile. CTO iBazar (acq. eBay)
SVP Disney Mobile at The Walt Disney Company; COO of Tapulous
Founder and ex CEO WebSpy (took public), Founder Netlink Inspection Systems Exited via Trade Sale, Founder Netlink CRM,
Founder & CEO, Tagged
Founder & CEO, mySimon (acquired by CNET for $700 million); Founder & CEO, Become.com (raised $37 million in funding & grew the company to $56 million in rev)
Product Guy who can connect dots that are obvious after the fact. Motto: Kindle-ize Everything.
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
Now - Hacker at AngelList. Then - Helped create Lynx, Netscape, Epinions, Xfire, MemoryMatirx, et. al.
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.
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.
Managing Director of TechStars NYC
Managing Member of BoxGroup (Angel Investor)
Founder of @AngelPad, Ex-Google Product Manager, Startup Advisor, Angel Investor http://thomaskorte.com/about-me/
CEO at Postling
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.
CEO/Co-Founder of Stocktwits..GP of Social Leverage (Angel Investing)..Wallstrip creator (purchased by $CBS)..Momentum, Acceleration & LOL hunter..Love Popcorn
Working on The Next Big Thing (Gaston Labs). Founded PBworks, Hacker Dojo, SuperHappyDevHouse, and Mexican.VC. Hacker. Award-winning startup advisor.
Co-founder at Kima Ventures - Investing in 1 to 2 startups a Week - Already invested in 18 countries
Partner at Atlas Venture
Google, Microsoft, Groove Networks, Bowstreet, Napster, AltaVista, Forte, DEC. Angel Investor.
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
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.
Seed investor and serial entrepreneur. Co-founded Freestyle (early stage VC). Co-founded Spinner (sold to AOL), Grouper/Crackle (sold to Sony) & FYILiving.com
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.
Early stage VC at General Catalyst
GP at Atlas Venture; founder of TUGG; advocate of uncertainty...
Founded Baseline in 2006. 60+ investments since inception and have helped more than 30 founders sell their companies with great success.
MI Ventures LLC
CEO, Buyosphere (current); Founder, Coworking; Author, The Whuffie Factor; Speaker, Leigh Bureau; Founder, Citizen Agency; Online Marketing Director, Like.com
Founder & CEO at Microtask. Founder & CTO of Hybrid Graphics (NVIDIA Finland). HackFwd referrer. Coach at Startup Sauna.
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, 3-Rings
GP, Hafooch Investments, Inc.
GP, Pulver Equities III
founder, #140conf events
founder, pulver.com
co-founder, Vivox
Internet focused VC and angel investor. Founder of Alpha (http://on.wsj.com/iHk2nk)
serial entrepreneur: co-founder of Spinner, Brondell, Grouper. 4 kids. and now Freestyle Capital.
Partner at Rockfish Brand Ventures, co-founder at The Brandery
CEO and Founder of Appstores.com, previously Partner Engineer at Facebook, Co-founder of Ping.fm (acquired by Seesmic).
CEO & Co-Founder of ecomom. Sold last startup to Richard Branson's Virgin Group. Worked at Lycos, NBCi, PTC, SGI. Several exits (Buydirect for $140M)
Director of Product, AmazonLocal. Former founder and CEO, TeachStreet
Co-Founder/Partner at Science. Entrepreneur, Advisor. Built a few startups - Color, BillShrink, Photobucket.
Always the first on the dance floor.
Founder and CEO of Like.com sold to Google last year. Previous company Andale sold to Alibaba. Started first company at 26. MS Stanford in CS
Venture investor at Lightspeed Ventures and former entrepreneur
Partner at Alsop Louie Partners
Managing Director at RTP Ventures. Three time founder and CEO, Venture Partner at Greycroft, technologist at heart now running a VC fund.
CEO of Vidquik, co-founded 4 startups, raised over $50 million, led product to BusinessWeek's "Best of the Web" list, blogger, TEDster, mentor at MuckerLab
Prolific entrepreneur-founder, angel investor, and advisor in technology and media.
Co-Founder Minbox, Co-Founder Penzu.
Innovator, investor. Founder, AdForce, Wink. Worked @ Verity, Apple. Investor/Advisor: LinkedIn, Cloudmark, Wikia, ICONAircraft, BrightRoll, Fundly, GAINFitness
Co-Founder: Enole. Engineer: SGI, CNET, Razorfish. Business Development: Photobucket, Clearspring.
Founder in SiliconANGLE. Investor & Founder in SiliconANGLE Labs Incubator. Angel Investor and Cofounder, VerticalEngine
Founder of Hi5, Cerent, Siara, 411Sync, BuzzBox. Advisor to Trooval.
Founder at Uj Ventures (Seed Fund)
Partner Equilibrium Investments (Real Estate Fund)
Venture Partner at WI Harper (US-China VC)
Co-founder Tiny Prints
10 years in music, 5 in IT security, lived in 5 countries, founded 1 company, and currently build startup bootcamps. Taught myself RoR and design.
Rumson Group. Helped invest in over 50 funds spanning private equity, Growth, VC and Real Estate. Invested globally in US, India, Europe, and China.
Partner/Co-founder of Stage One Capital and VP of Marketing for YETI Coolers. Multiple start-ups, former private equity. Marketer and fisherman at heart.
Co-Founder // CEO of LaunchRock. Last startup failed thanks to lack of users. PhD dropout.
Co-Founder, MuckerLab; formerly Harrison Metal, TripAdvisor, eBay, etc.
Recently I left the ranks of angel investors to become the West Coast Director for Launch Capital. I hail from Apple, frogdesign, and Yahoo!
Serial Entrepreneur/Earliest Stage Investor-Founded Freelotto/Qool/Power.com (sites founded acquired 100+ million users & reached $1+ billion peak market value)
Cofounder @OkuriVentures, @TetuanValley, @Startupbootcamp and @StartSpain. Mentor @Seedcamp, @Gammarebels, @StartupHighway and @IBMSmartcamp. Former Blade Runner
Founder Sprouter (acquired by Postmedia). Inc Magazine Top 30 Under 30. Canadian Business Top 20 "Power Elite".
VP @ Simplegeo
Investor at Bain Capital
Managing Director at Scale Venture Partners
Former sw entrepreneur; invested in 30 companies over past 6 years. Run 2 early stage funds: BELLE Capital, LP & Phenomenelle Angels Fund.
Managing Partner at Cendana Capital; Investor and LP Advisory Committee member of IA Ventures, PivotNorth Capital, Freestyle Capital and SoftTechVC.
Co-Founder COO of UserVoice. Previously Founder / CEO of Axomic & Recommendations Ltd, CTO at Cominded. Creator ActiveScaffold, FCKEditor plugins for Rails.
Partner/Founder Stage One Capital; Big Data Strategy EIR EMC Ventures; Board Member @ BottleNose; Advisor Board @ BrassMonkey; Incubating some ventures myself
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.
General Partner, merrickhanna ventures. Venture Partner, PIE. Chairman, Tangible Worldwide. Worked w/ Mosaic, Flash, Urchin, marchFIRST & top ad agencies.
VP Product at GoInstant. Founding Partner at Year One Labs, early stage accelerator. Previously founded Standout Jobs.
Founder & CEO at Rentabilities.
VC at Rising Tide Fund. Also: angel investor, startup advisor, mentor at TechWadi.org, cofounder of Launch Labs. Relentless optimist.
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.
Founder, Managing Parter at Amicus Capital
