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Manu Kumar

Chief Firestarter @ K9 Ventures

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Mitch Kapor
Lotus founder, built from 0 to $200MM in 3 yrs. Co-founder EFF. Founding Chair Mozilla. Investor: Twilio, Uber, Inkling, bit.ly.
Brad Feld
Managing Director at Foundry Group
Boulder · VC
Josh Kopelman
Founding Partner, First Round Capital; Founder Half.com (sold to EBay)
Marissa Mayer
VP, Google. Investor in Minted, One Kings Lane, Square. MSCS, Stanford.
George Zachary
A venture capitalist that invests in who we are and who we are becoming.
Tim Chang
Managing Director - Mayfield. Forbes Midas List 2010 (Top 100 VCs). Stanford MBA, Univ of Michigan MSEE/BSEE. Bassist in BlackMahal and CoverFlow
Bill Gross
Founder of Technology Incubator Idealab and 100 companies in last 30 years. Tweeting while on my quest for learning in life and at conferences.
Jonathan Abrams
Co-founder of Founders Den, co-owner of Slide nightclub, former founder & CEO of Socializr, Friendster, and HotLinks.
Ariel Poler
Started 3 Internet companies (IPRO, Topica & TextMarks); Director at Kana, LinkExchange, Freedom Financial, Odeo and StumbleUpon. BS from MIT. MBA from Stanford
Gil Penchina
Serial Entrepreneur, 40+ Angel investments with $10 billion in exits including Linkedin, Paypal, Ziprealty, Plusmo, Vamoose, Evite Ex-CEO of Wikia, Exec at eBay
Ash Patel
Managing Director at Morado Venture Partners. Former EVP, CPO and early engineer at Yahoo!.
Sizhao Yang
Co-founder of BetterWorks. Founder of MyMiniLife (sold to Zynga). Co-Creator of Farmville.
Josh Elman
Principal at Greylock. Previous: product at Twitter (Growth), Facebook (launched Connect), Zazzle (ran product), LinkedIn (Growth, launched Jobs), RealPlayer
Matt Galligan
Co-Founder & CEO of Circa. Co-Founded 1% of Nothing, SimpleGeo & Socialthing.
Janice Fraser
Founder, LUXr. Leader in the UX+Startup world. Entrepreneur. Co-founder and former CEO of Adaptive Path.
Gokul Rajaram
Product Director, Ads at Facebook
Akash Garg
Platform Team @ Twitter; CTO at Bebo; Co-Founder of Hi5
Travis Kalanick
Co-Founder and CEO of Uber
Sachin Agarwal
I'm a product designer inspired by Apple, Audi, and Amazon. I've never owned a PC. I worked on Final Cut Pro at Apple. I’m the founder and CEO of Posterous.
Georges Harik
Distinguished Engineer at Google (One of first 10 employees); PM & Strategy on Gmail, GTalk, Video, Picasa, Orkut, Groups & Mobile. Co-dev of AdSense targeting.
Bob Pasker
Cofounder, author, and chief architect of the WebLogic Application Server. 10+ years angel investor & advisor. Now CTO-in-Residence at Accel Partners in NYC
Ross Mayfield
VP Biz SlideShare, Co-founder, CEO Socialtext, Founder RateXchange took IPO, advisor to Estonian President.
Jeff Lawson
Entrepreneur, CEO and cofounder of Twilio.
Jason A. Hoffman
Founder/CTO at Joyent. Constant talent scout. I specialize in revenue generation, and all activities required to make it happen.
Leonard Speiser
Co-founder Clover (Sutter Hill, Andreessen Horowitz), Co-founder Bix (sold to Yahoo), eBay, Intuit, MIT.
Adam Nash
Executive in Residence at Greylock Partners. Most recently VP Product for Search, Platform & Mobile at LinkedIn. Previously at eBay, Preview Systems, Apple.
Elliot Loh
Former COO/VP Product at Geni, designer of Yammer 1.0, founding designer at Tribe. Advising startups via 500 Startups, StartX, and Bullpen Capital.
Lukas Biewald
I'm the founder of CrowdFlower/Dolores Labs. http://lukasbiewald.com
Jim White
Investor in Shutterfly, Farecast, Bix.com
Andy Palmer
CEO & Co-Founder of Vertica Systems and Founding Board Member at Recorded Future, CloudSwitch & Upstart
Jeff Bonforte
CEO at Xobni; Vice President, Social Search at Yahoo!; Vice President, Real Time Communications at Yahoo, Inc.; Founder at Starbox Systems
Oren Jacob
Cofounder, CEO ToyTalk. "Lean Launchpad" instructor Stanford, Berkeley. Mentor 500 Startups. EIR AugustCapital. CTO Pixar. Supervising Tech Dir "Finding Nemo".
Mareza Larizadeh
Founder at Larizadeh Capital Partners Cofounder at Doostang Inc Vice President at DFJ ePlanet Ventures Analyst, International Credit Trading at merrill lynch
Lars Mapstead
Founder Friendfinder Networks (FFN) Sold 2007 Founder Fupa Games Inc.
Dave Hodson
Co-founder and CTO iPrint.com (NASD:IPRT). Co-founder and CTO MessageCast (Sold to Microsoft). StartX mentor, technical advisor.
Henri Moissinac
Head of Mobile Business at Facebook. Head of eBay Mobile. CTO iBazar (acq. eBay)
Scott Crosby
co-founded Urchin Software Corp., which is now Google Analytics. COO Euclid Inc.
Justin Waldron
co-founder @ zynga
Taher Haveliwala
Founder Kaltix (acquired by Google in 2003). Stanford CS PhD. Startup Advisor.
Jack Andrys
Founder and ex CEO WebSpy (took public), Founder Netlink Inspection Systems Exited via Trade Sale, Founder Netlink CRM,
Michael Yang
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)
Scott Case
CEO at Startup America Partnership
Rajesh Sawhney
Founder of SuperAngels of India; Co-host of Founders Forum India; Angel in Speakwell, Viki, DEXL, Serial Innovat & Mobstac. President of Reliance Entertainment
Bernd Greifeneder
CTO & Founder at dynaTrace Software
Naval Ravikant
Sweat - AngelList, Venture Hacks, Vast, Epinions; Money - Twitter, Heyzap, SnapLogic
Babak Nivi
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
Graham Jenkin
Venture Hacker and Product Designer @AngelList. Ex-Google head of UX for Ads and Commerce. Ex-BofA head of UX.
Ben Mathes
Hacker at AngelList, at RockYou when it was #1, early at Readyforce. CS Masters 2 years early.
Kyan Pardiwalla
Venture Hacker at AngelList. Early at Cooliris, Sharethrough. Ex-CTO FIITJEE India. Stanford CS
Navin Kumar
Founder and Geek. Former CTO of @Socialwok, now Venture Hacker.
Kevin Montag
Venture Hacker @AngelList. Ex CTO @Hearsay News. Stanford Physics/CS.
Dustin Dolginow
Funding team at AngelList + VC at Atlas Venture; founded and killed Social Swipe. Retail + SMB in my DNA.
Boston · VC
Dave McClure
Founding Partner @ 500 Startups. Ex-PayPal, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund, Mint.com. Geek, developer, entrepreneur, marketer. Investor in 250+ co's.
Christine Tsai
Partner at 500 Startups. Ex-Googler & ex-YouTuber. Left-handed.
Jason Calacanis
Angel investor in 25 startups. Creator/founder: LAUNCH, TechCrunch50, Mahalo, Engadget, WeblogsInc, autoblog, silicon alley reporter, this week in startups.
Paul Singh
Partner at 500 Startups
Mark Suster
General partner, GRP Ventures & 2x entrepreneur. Sold Koral to Salesforce.com
Robert Scoble
Searching for world-changing technologies for Rackspace.
500 Startups
Silicon Valley internet seed fund & accelerator. 500 team has worked @ PayPal, Google, AOL, Rackspace, Yahoo, YouTube, Mint.com, Facebook fbFund, Founders Fund.
Jeff Clavier
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.
David Tisch
Managing Director of TechStars NYC Managing Member of BoxGroup (Angel Investor)
Thomas Korte
Founder of @AngelPad, Ex-Google Product Manager, Startup Advisor, Angel Investor http://thomaskorte.com/about-me/
Aydin Senkut
Founder and Managing Director of Felicis Ventures. Formerly Sr. Manager, Strategic Partner Development; Product Manager; International Sales Manager at Google
Andrew Chen
Startup guy and advisor on metrics/marketing. Occassional blogger. Previously EIR at Mohr Davidow Ventures, ran product at AudienceScience.
Adam Rifkin
A man. A plan. A panda.
AngelPad
San Francisco based incubator founded by @Thomas Korte and other ex-Googlers
Dan Martell
Canadian. CEO/Founder of Clarity.fm. Co-Founder of Flowtown (Acquired '11), Founder of Spheric Tech (Acquired '08), Mentor @ 500Startup. Investor in many.
David E. Weekly
Working on The Next Big Thing (Gaston Labs). Founded PBworks, Hacker Dojo, SuperHappyDevHouse, and Mexican.VC. Hacker. Award-winning startup advisor.
Garry Tan
Partner at Y-Combinator. Co-founder of Posterous. Early designer / engineering lead at Palantir.
Jeremie Berrebi
Co-founder at Kima Ventures - Investing in 1 to 2 startups a Week - Already invested in 18 countries
Saar Gur
Venture Capitalist at Charles River Ventures
Fred Destin
Partner at Atlas Venture
Boston · VC
Hiten Shah
CEO / Co-Founder of @KISSmetrics. Previously started @crazyegg and @ACS. My hobby is helping entrepreneurs create something out of nothing.
MG Siegler
General Partner at CrunchFund. Longtime writer at TechCrunch, VentureBeat, etc.
Charles Hudson
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
Peter Bordes
Founder & Exec Chairman of MediaTrust PerformanceExchange .Founder Internet Media Labs. Technology innovation & social media. Thiel Fellowship Foundation Mentor
Micah Baldwin
Founder Graphicly. Multiple Entrepreneur. Mentor at Techstars & 500startups. Startup Doer and Advisor.
Danielle Morrill
CEO of Referly. Formerly 1st employee at Twilio. 500 Startups Mentor. Forbes 30 Under 30 in Social/Mobile Tech 2011. College dropout.
Hunter Walk
YouTube, Google, Second Life, Conan O'Brien. Builds things in San Francisco. Likes citrus fruit. Wishes he knew magic tricks.
Brandon Zeuner
Co-founding Partner @ Venture51. Founding team @ Flypaper (acquired in '11). Started at Interact (makers of ACT! & SalesLogix).
Rob Hayes
Investor in SimpleGeo, Mint, Get Satisfaction, Xobni, TaskRabbit, DNAnexus, Yieldex. Team member of First Round Capital.
Michael Marquez
Strategic Advisor, Angel Investor, Deal Strategist - passionate about the Internet and the convergence of technology and consumer behavior
Brendan Baker
Currently @ Greylock. Was 2nd in at AngelList (managed dealflow through 8K startups), Oxford MBA, Cambridge Eng.
Josh Felser
Seed investor and serial entrepreneur. Co-founded Freestyle (early stage VC). Co-founded Spinner (sold to AOL), Grouper/Crackle (sold to Sony) & FYILiving.com
Michael Parekh
A Wall Streeter for over 20 years, former partner at Goldman Sachs, and founder of its Internet Research effort in 1994
Richard Chen
International Daddy of Mystery. Investor. Hatena (Board), Google (PM), OptoMail (Founder), Barclays Global Investors (Mktg)
John Frankel
Early stage venture capitalist at http://www.ffvc.com
Daniel Brusilovsky
Founder & CEO of Teens in Tech Labs. Associate Producer of Olive the Movie. Evangelist, Silicon Valley at JESS3. Advisor at Everyme.
Gautam Gupta
Early stage VC at General Catalyst
Boston · VC
Steve Anderson
Founded Baseline in 2006. 60+ investments since inception and have helped more than 30 founders sell their companies with great success.
Barney Pell
Founder Moon Express, Powerset (sold to Microsoft). Bing local, mobile, semantics . Assoc. Founder and Trustee, Singularity U. Active angel/advisor.
Ryan Swagar
Co-founding Partner @Venture51
Paul Bragiel
Partner at i/o ventures. Previously CEO of lefora, meetro & paragon5
Ben Parr
Entrepreneur, CNET/CBSi commentator & columnist, startup advisor, former PM. Most recent: Co-Editor & Editor-at-Large of Mashable. Not gonna stop until we win.
Othman Laraki
growth @ twitter by profession / kiter by addiction / nerd & entrepreneur by passion / casablanca native by origination
Elad Gil
Director at Twitter; CEO and Co-Founder at Mixer Labs; Product Management at Google
Ville Miettinen
Founder & CEO at Microtask. Founder & CTO of Hybrid Graphics (NVIDIA Finland). HackFwd referrer. Coach at Startup Sauna.
Pejman Nozad
Angel investor and founding partner of Amidzad, investor in Dropbox, Zoosk, Path, Causes, Soundhound, Backplane, Addepar, Ark and 40 other startups
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