Mitch Kapor
Lotus founder, built from 0 to $200MM in 3 yrs. Co-founder EFF. Founding Chair Mozilla. Investor: Twilio, Uber, Inkling, bit.ly.
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Entrepreneur. Product Strategist. Investor.
Managing partner at Union Square Ventures and also founded Flatiron Partners.
Founder, CEO, O'Reilly Media
Founding Partner, First Round Capital; Founder Half.com (sold to EBay)
Author of The Lean Startup
Former Executive at PayPal, LinkedIn and Slide. Current Executive at Square
Founder and Managing Director, Lowercase Capital
Co-founder at Founder Collective; Co-founder, CEO at Hunch; CEO/Co-founder at SiteAdvisor (acquired by McAfee)
A venture capitalist that invests in who we are and who we are becoming.
Managing Partner, Floodgate • Example investments include Twitter, digg, Solarwinds, Chegg, Demandforce, Aggregate Knowledge, ngmoco, Smule, and Spiceworks
Author of #1 NY Times bestseller, The 4-Hour Workweek, Japanophile, tea drinker, tango world record holder, language learning fanatic.
Managing Director - Mayfield. Forbes Midas List 2010 (Top 100 VCs). Stanford MBA, Univ of Michigan MSEE/BSEE. Bassist in BlackMahal and CoverFlow
@Evan Williams Farm boy from Nebraska. Co-founder of Twitter. http://evhead.com
CEO at Tasty Labs; Member of Technical Staff at Google; Director Engineering del.icio.us at Yahoo; founder at del.icio.us
Started 3 Internet companies (IPRO, Topica & TextMarks); Director at Kana, LinkExchange, Freedom Financial, Odeo and StumbleUpon. BS from MIT. MBA from Stanford
We like startups
COO at Badoo • Former Director of Search Products Google • Director of Partnerships, Content & Platforms YouTube • Director of Platform Facebook
Founder of HOTorNOT.com, Angel Investor.
Partner @ Greylock, former CEO @ Mozilla, dad, husband, son, nerd
http://john.jubjubs.net
General Partner at Benchmark Capital
Co-founder of Votizen • Founder Advisor at SV Angel • First Designer-in-Residence at Bessemer • Former Lead Designer at Mint.com
Maker of websites & mobile apps. Blippy, AdBrite, F-ckedcompany, TinyLetter, Mobog, BritePic, Tweetname, HitMeLater, Fast140, QuickRot, more. Author & drummer.
Founder, Wikipedia and Wikia
Former VC (Battery), Co-Founder Tickle (Monster), WonderHill (Kabam), Jiff, Medpedia.
Partner at Accel
Entrepreneur/engineer. CTO/co-founder Webmail.us (acq RAX). I also help a few amazing companies, including via Capital Factory, 500 Startups, TechStars & 21212
Single-handedly pioneered Social Gaming industry (Vampires/Zombies). Created 1st version of Causes. Founder BuildForge (Sold to IBM), Founder Ohai.
Founder, LUXr. Leader in the UX+Startup world. Entrepreneur. Co-founder and former CEO of Adaptive Path.
Co-Founder & Former CEO of StubHub
Founding Partner, Founder Collective; Formerly CEO LiveOps
Long-time entrepreneur. Current partner at Google Ventures
Partner at Imagine K12. Partner at Y Combinator.
Former CEO of music startup Lala (acquired by Apple); Former Chief Product Officer at Yahoo!
Co-Founder and CEO of Uber
Founder and CEO of OneTrueFan. Founder of Gnip, MyBlogLog (sold to Yahoo!) and IGN (IPO, sold to Newscorp)
Distinguished Engineer at Google (One of first 10 employees); PM & Strategy on Gmail, GTalk, Video, Picasa, Orkut, Groups & Mobile. Co-dev of AdSense targeting.
Partner at Catamount Ventures. Chairman of Pixelpipe. Former CEO of Ofoto, Xoom, and Xmarks. Co-founder of When.com. Seed investor in Postini.
Co-founder Clover (Sutter Hill, Andreessen Horowitz), Co-founder Bix (sold to Yahoo), eBay, Intuit, MIT.
Partner at Sequoia Capital
Investor in Google, Mint, Zazzle, StumbleUpon, Bump, Tellme, Pinkberry.
Investor in Upverter, CardPool, Dropbox, Betterworks, and more.
Founder Shopzilla ($562MM exit), Founder BizRate.com (top 100 website), Founder Cheers
Former COO/VP Product at Geni, designer of Yammer 1.0, founding designer at Tribe. Advising startups via 500 Startups, StartX, and Bullpen Capital.
I'm the founder of CrowdFlower/Dolores Labs.
http://lukasbiewald.com
Founder of Keyhole, VP Geo at Google
Angel Investor & Technology Advisor, Former SVP Engineering at Yahoo! & Creator of Rocketmail & Yahoo! Mail.
Founder & CEO, Togetr
Co-founder & COO at Playfish
Started OpenDNS. Started and sold EveryDNS. Positively Disruptive.
Stanford PhD, Early Internet pioneer, 20+ Internet startups including founder/CEO Friend Finder (grew to $300M/year)
Former CTO of AOL. Former CIO/CFO of Sun Microsystems.
Founder Neotonic (sold to Google). Engineering Director @ Google for orkut.com, Google Groups, sign-in. Manager / Architect for eGroups.com and Yahoo Groups.
Was the CEO of Compete.com. He is an investor in RunKeeper.
VP, Silver Spring Networks
Partner, Inventures Group
Founder of SolidWorks
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
Silicon Valley micro-VC fund & accelerator founded by ex-PayPal, Google, YouTube alums.
Mobile educational games
Identify and reward your most influential users with our drop-in social platform.
Making Work Rewarding
SaaS 2.0 Social Fundraising for non-profits
Everyone's Private Driver
A high quality, low cost 3D printer that works out of the box.
Labor in the Cloud.
Communicate more efficiently.
Social Gifting Platform for Restaurants
Keep your family safe and in sync using your smartphone
Learning Platform for True Musicians
Task Management for Teams
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
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.
Partner & GM, Business Development
Founded 3 email companies and Capital Factory. Teaching 1 Semester Startup at University of Texas. Trilogy Alumni 1999. CS Carnegie Mellon.
Founder/CEO of TechStars. Investor in Amazing Startups. Geeky to the bone.
http://www.davidgcohen.com
Founder and Managing Director of Felicis Ventures. Formerly Sr. Manager, Strategic Partner Development; Product Manager; International Sales Manager at Google
Startup guy and advisor on metrics/marketing. Occassional blogger. Previously EIR at Mohr Davidow Ventures, ran product at AudienceScience.
Founder + CEO BetterWorks, adrenaline fueled angel, Marine...
Erick Schonfeld is the former Editor of TechCrunch. He has been covering startups and technology news since 1993.
Rapleaf's CEO and janitor.
http://blog.summation.net
Partner at Y-Combinator. Co-founder of Posterous. Early designer / engineering lead at Palantir.
Chief Firestarter @ K9 Ventures
CEO / Co-Founder of @KISSmetrics. Previously started @crazyegg and @ACS. My hobby is helping entrepreneurs create something out of nothing.
Former entrepreneur (Upromise cofounder, Open Market VP) turned VC at Flybridge Capital. Serve as EIR at HBS and authored a book "Mastering the VC Game".
husband. dad. serial entrepreneur (firefly, lovefilm, seedcamp). operator (wpp, msft, skype). investor (index, TAG)
http://localglo.be
Managing Partner at IA Ventures.
Strategic Advisor, Angel Investor, Deal Strategist - passionate about the Internet and the convergence of technology and consumer behavior
Currently @ Greylock. Was 2nd in at AngelList (managed dealflow through 8K startups), Oxford MBA, Cambridge Eng.
Investor at Union Square Ventures
Founder, Chief Operating Officer at betaworks
Seed investor and serial entrepreneur. Co-founded Freestyle (early stage VC). Co-founded Spinner (sold to AOL), Grouper/Crackle (sold to Sony) & FYILiving.com
