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Tim Chang

Managing Director - Mayfield. Forbes Midas List 2010 (Top 100 VCs). Stanford MBA, Univ of Michigan MSEE/BSEE. Bassist in BlackMahal and CoverFlow

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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)
Steve Case
Co-founder of AOL; now Chairman of Case Foundation and Revolution (Zipcar, LivingSocial, Exclusive Resorts, Everyday Health, Revolution Money, Miraval, etc)
Mike Jones
CEO of Science, Former CEO MySpace, CEO/Founder Userplane, CEO/Founder PBJ Digital, CEO Tsavo Media, Angel Investor, Entrepreneur
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
Karl Jacob
Keen (Ingenio), DimensionX, Wallop, Coveroo and Cloudmark. $500+ million in exits to msft, at&t etc. Early advisor to facebook.
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
Chamath Palihapitiya
Partner at Embarcadero Ventures; VP, User Growth, Mobile at Facebook; VP, Platform & Monetization at Facebook; VC at Mayfield Fund, VP & GM, AIM + ICQ at AOL
Sizhao Yang
Co-founder of BetterWorks. Founder of MyMiniLife (sold to Zynga). Co-Creator of Farmville.
Jason Putorti
Co-founder of Votizen • Founder Advisor at SV Angel • First Designer-in-Residence at Bessemer • Former Lead Designer at Mint.com
Philip Kaplan
Maker of websites & mobile apps. Blippy, AdBrite, F-ckedcompany, TinyLetter, Mobog, BritePic, Tweetname, HitMeLater, Fast140, QuickRot, more. Author & drummer.
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.
James Currier
Former VC (Battery), Co-Founder Tickle (Monster), WonderHill (Kabam), Jiff, Medpedia.
Rich Wong
Partner at Accel
Robin Chan
Founder/CEO of XPD (sold, now Zynga China). Angel in Twitter, Square, and Foursquare. Advisor to Flipboard.
Blake Commagere
Single-handedly pioneered Social Gaming industry (Vampires/Zombies). Created 1st version of Causes. Founder BuildForge (Sold to IBM), Founder Ohai.
Janice Fraser
Founder, LUXr. Leader in the UX+Startup world. Entrepreneur. Co-founder and former CEO of Adaptive Path.
Bill Trenchard
Founding Partner, Founder Collective; Formerly CEO LiveOps
Akash Garg
Platform Team @ Twitter; CTO at Bebo; Co-Founder of Hi5
Rick Marini
Founder & CEO of BranchOut. Prior Co-Founder of Tickle (sold to Monster). Advisor to several Bay Area start-ups.
Michael Birch
Chief Monkey at Monkey Inferno. CEO/Founder of Bebo. Viral marketing/product guy.
Thomas Ryan
CEO at Threadless. Director at Smule & Trunk Club. Former digital music entrepreneur/exec.
Aayush Phumbhra
Entrepreneur, Founder Chegg.com
Sam Pullara
Early WebLogic engineer, EIR at Accel & Benchmark, Founder of Gauntlet Systems (Borland acq), Chief Technologist at Yahoo!, Founder of Bagcheck (Twitter acq)
Greg Bettinelli
SVP of Marketing at HauteLook (now part of Nordstrom). Former eBay, StubHub, Live Nation
Mark Jacobstein
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
Jim Breyer
Partner, Accel. Founder, Breyer Capital. Early Facebook investor. Board of Directors: Facebook, News Corporation, Dell, Etsy, Brightcove, Prosper, Wal-Mart
Joe Greenstein
Founder and CEO, Flixster
Ken Keller
Co-founder IGN.com & Cadence (SDA); emp #1 excite; emp #2 Frame.
Niren Hiro
CEO at Crowdstar; VP - Business Development at AdMob
Jason A. Hoffman
Founder/CTO at Joyent. Constant talent scout. I specialize in revenue generation, and all activities required to make it happen.
David Helgason
Founder CEO of Unity Technologies. Also sometimes (when I have time, rarely) an entrepreneur and visionary.
Philip Rosedale
Founder of Linden Lab / Second Life, Love Machine, Worklist.net, Coffee & Power. Building futuristic things with computers and electronics since I was a kid.
Jason Bailey
Founder Super Rewards, acquired by AdKnowledge. Founder GrowLab Accelerator, Founder and CEO at Eastside Games. Investor in many.
Jim Barnett
Serial CEO. Entrepreneur. Investor. Partner Shasta Ventures; Chairman Turn, Extole, & Sojern Prior: CEO/founder Turn; President Overture Search; CEO AltaVista.
Lukas Biewald
I'm the founder of CrowdFlower/Dolores Labs. http://lukasbiewald.com
Maynard Webb
Chairman, LiveOps; former COO, eBay; member of Salesforce board
Andy Palmer
CEO & Co-Founder of Vertica Systems and Founding Board Member at Recorded Future, CloudSwitch & Upstart
Kai Huang
Co-founder of RedOctane, creators of Guitar Hero
Rob Solomon
Former President & COO at Groupon. Former CEO, SideStep (acquired by Kayak). Board Director at HomeAway, Tiny Prints, and High Gear Media.
Mareza Larizadeh
Founder at Larizadeh Capital Partners Cofounder at Doostang Inc Vice President at DFJ ePlanet Ventures Analyst, International Credit Trading at merrill lynch
Peter Wagner
Independent venture investor and company builder. Former Partner at Accel (15 years). Previously Silicon Graphics, McKinsey, Harvard.
Eytan Elbaz
Co-founder Scopely; Chairman / Co-founder Deep Dive Media; Head of Domain Channel Google; Founding member / VP Applied Semantics; Technical Sales Engineer, AMD
Mika Salmi
Founder, Atom Entertainment (Viacom). Former President Global Digital Media, MTV Networks/Viacom. Board Director, INSEAD. Chairman, Sulake and Pressplane.
Andrew Lacy
SVP Disney Mobile at The Walt Disney Company; COO of Tapulous
Brad Garlinghouse
Former President, Apps and Commerce at AOL • Sr. Adviser at Silver Lake • SVP Communications Community at Yahoo! • CEO at Dialpad • General Partner at @Ventures
Michael Herf
Cofounded Picasa -> Google
Safa Rashtchy
Active observer/investor of key internet/consumer trends globally. Most recently MD, Sr. Internet analyst and the Lead China analyst at Piper Jaffray and Co.
Jack Andrys
Founder and ex CEO WebSpy (took public), Founder Netlink Inspection Systems Exited via Trade Sale, Founder Netlink CRM,
Greg Tseng
Founder & CEO, Tagged
Jordan Mendelson
Founder & CTO at SeatMe, Chief Architect of Napster, Founder of SNOCAP, Founder of Web Services, Founder of Heavy Electrons, Senior Product at LinkedIn.
Simon Tisminezky
Co-Founder of SpeedDate
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)
Tim Tuttle
Founder and CEO of Truveo. Founder and CTO of Bang Networks. Studied at the MIT AI Lab and Lab for Computer Science.
Tak Miyata
CEO of mixi America, subsidiary of Japanese No.1 social networking service, mixi. Serial entrepreneur background (J-Magic(mobile), Neven Vision(software))
Norman Winarsky
Vice President of Ventures at SRI • Co-Founder and Board Member of Siri (Acquired by Apple)
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.
AJ Shanley
Venture Partner, Atlas Venture. Former COO at TrialPay and Director at Symantec. Seed Investor, advisor. Swarthmore College, Harvard MBA.
Ben Mathes
Hacker at AngelList, at RockYou when it was #1, early at Readyforce. CS Masters 2 years early.
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.
Jason Calacanis
Angel investor in 25 startups. Creator/founder: LAUNCH, TechCrunch50, Mahalo, Engadget, WeblogsInc, autoblog, silicon alley reporter, this week in startups.
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.
Christen O'Brien
Partner & GM, Business Development
Thomas Korte
Founder of @AngelPad, Ex-Google Product Manager, Startup Advisor, Angel Investor http://thomaskorte.com/about-me/
David Lee
Managing Member at SV Angel
Andrew Chen
Startup guy and advisor on metrics/marketing. Occassional blogger. Previously EIR at Mohr Davidow Ventures, ran product at AudienceScience.
Joi Ito
Director of MIT Media Lab, Co-Founder of Digital Garage, Ex-CEO Creative Commons, Investor in: Flickr, Kongregate, Kickstarter, Twitter, Technorati, Last.fm
Adam Rifkin
A man. A plan. A panda.
AngelPad
San Francisco based incubator founded by @Thomas Korte and other ex-Googlers
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.
Saar Gur
Venture Capitalist at Charles River Ventures
Manu Kumar
Chief Firestarter @ K9 Ventures
Esther Dyson
Prolific Investor. Medstory, Evernote, Flickr, Meetup, EDventure, Release 1.0, del.icio.us
Matt Ocko
Investor for 20 years in teams (Zynga, XenSource/CTRX Facebook, Datamirror/IBM, Fortinet/FTNT, Tango, Metaweb, D-Wave) solving hard problems for large markets.
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.
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
Seedcamp
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.
Micah Baldwin
Founder Graphicly. Multiple Entrepreneur. Mentor at Techstars & 500startups. Startup Doer and Advisor.
Jon Staenberg
Investor in Infospace, StubHub, Serious Materials, Evite, Seagate, Spinner, LiveBid.
Seattle · VC
Danielle Morrill
CEO of Referly. Formerly 1st employee at Twilio. 500 Startups Mentor. Forbes 30 Under 30 in Social/Mobile Tech 2011. College dropout.
Founder Institute
The Founder Institute is a global network of startups and mentors that helps entrepreneurs launch meaningful and enduring technology companies.
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).
Tom McInerney
Angel Investor. Advisor. More at tgm.com
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.
Daniel Brusilovsky
Founder & CEO of Teens in Tech Labs. Associate Producer of Olive the Movie. Evangelist, Silicon Valley at JESS3. Advisor at Everyme.
Daniel R. Odio
CEO of Socialize. Raised $1.5MM. Founded & sold PointAbout. Profiled in Wall Street Journal. General Electric TLP. Active founder+lifehacker blog. UVa McIntire
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