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Founder & CEO of VipKid
Company: VipKid: Virtual education giving chinese children the ability to be taught with an american style of education.
From: China
Education: MBA Finance History |
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General Partner @ August Capital
Company: August Capital: invests broadly in information technology companies, with a particular focus on consumer internet and enterprise applications software. Tripp also leads August’s Special Opportunities fund.
Invested in: Mostly Series A and up:__ADARA, Bark & Co, CommonBond, Compology, Hipcamp, Paperless Post, Rocketmiles, Quandl, Wattpad, and Yumi, and was involved in August’s investments in Avant, Ebates, Fastly, INRIX, Integral Ad Science, PubMatic, RJMetrics, Rockets of Awesome, and Zulily
VC Group: Seed, Early Stage Venture, Later Stage Venture, Private Equity, and Debt Financing Investments
Sectors: Advertising, Software, Semiconductors
From: America/San Francisco
Education: Princeton University: Psychology |
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Name: Lisa Jackson
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Company:Vice President of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives @ Apple
Invested in: NA
From: San Francisco
Education: Princeton University, Chemical Engineering |
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Name: Richard Conway
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Company:CEO and FounderChildcare.co.uk
Invested in: Voxpopme, StaySafe, iBaby Limited, International New Media
From: Milton Keynes (UK)
Education: University of York: BENG electronic with business management. |
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Name: Balaji S. Srinivasan
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Company:Co-Founder, CEO @ 21 Inc(bitcoin micropayments)
Invested in:(Mostly VC) OpenGov, Omada Health:lose weight company, SolveBio
From: San Francisco
Education: Electrical Engineering Stanford University |
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Company:Managing Partner @ GGV Capital
Invests in: consumer internet and SaaS companies especially those in mobile social, IoT, finance and education sectors. Jenny has led GGV’s investments in hiSoft (NASDAQ: PACT), 21Vianet (NASDAQ: VNET), SinoSun (SHE: 300333), YY (NASDAQ: YY) and successfully helped them go public
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Sector: China, Mobile, Internet, E-Commerce, Consumer Internet, Digital Media, SaaS, Enterprise, Internet of Things, Social, Marketing, Travel, Music, Gaming, Cloud, Security, Frontier Tech
From: Shanghai China
Talk about: can talk shop with any developer, as her first job out of college was engineering drones.
Education: Cornell University-BS MS engineering
Kellogg School of Management-MBA |
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Name: Niko Bonatsos
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Company: Managing Director @ General Catalyst
Invested in: early-stage and transformational investments.
Sector: technology companies and market leading businesses, including Airbnb, BigCommerce, ClassPass, Datalogix, Datto, Demandware, Gusto (fka ZenPayroll), The Honest Company, HubSpot, KAYAK, Oscar, Snap, Stripe, and Warby Parker
From: San Francisco
Education: Stanford University MS, National Technical University of Athens(BS) |
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Name: Patrick Gallagher
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Company: General Partner @ CrunchFund
Invested in: Micro Vc that does Seed, Early Stage Venture, Later Stage Venture, and Debt Financing Investments
Sectors:Mobile, Curated Web, Software, Bitcoin, Information Security, Enterprise, SaaS, Social Networking, Consumer Hardware
From: Milton Keynes (UK)
Prior: worked @morgan stanly anf more finance companies
Education: Claremont McKenna College (BS) econ and |
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Company:Executive Vice President and Chief Content Officer @ Turner Sports
Oversees all aspects of production, operations and technology and talent services, including live remotes and studio broadcasts for sports programming on TNT, TBS and truTV
From: Atlanta, Georgia
Education: University of York: BENG electronic with business management. |
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Name: Lisa Lambert
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Company:Managing Partner @ The Westly Group
Invested in: early-stage and transformational investments. Lisa has invested in and managed exits for VMware (IPO), MySQL (acquired by Sun), Endeca (acquired by Oracle), DATAllegro (acquired by Microsoft), JBoss (acquired by Red Hat), X+1 Solutions (acquired by Rocket Fuel), Joulex (acquired by Cisco), Financial Engines (IPO), TOA Technologies (acquired by Oracle), Revolution Analytics (acquired by Microsoft), Nexmo (acquired by Vonage), Kingsoft (IPO), Enjoyor (IPO), Tobesoft (IPO), Netposa (IPO), to name a few.
Sector: software, IOT, and the internet.
From: San Francisco
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Pennsylvania State University(BS Managment), Harvard Business School(MBA) |
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Name: Kelly Malone
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Company: CEO, Co-Founder @ Candor, Inc:helps people improve relationships at work.
Invested in: Was an advisor at twitter, Dropbox, qualtrics and has connections with google
From: San Francisco
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Harvard: MBA
Princton slivic literature |
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Company: General Partner @ Freestyle Capital
Invested in:Jenny invests in next gen commerce, marketplaces, real estate technology, consumer, enterprise and SaaS. Freestyle has led investments in companies such as Intercom, Narvar, Patreon, Airtable, Wag, BetterUp, Crexi, and Digit.
Sector: software, IOT, and the internet.
From: San Francisco
Prior: Jenny cofounded WeddingChannel.com in 1998 (sold: KNOT), cofounded Bella Pictures (sold: CPI) and has personally invested and/or advised start- ups such as StyleSeat, Minted, and MainStreetHub.
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some IV |
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Name: Jeff Clavier
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Founder & Managing Partner @ SoftTech VC
Invested in: successful startups like Mint (Intuit), Kongregate (GameStop), Brightroll (Yahoo), LiveRamp (Acxiom), Milo (eBay), Wildfire (Google), Bleacher Report (Turner), Gnip (Twitter), Fitbit (NYSE:FIT), Eventbrite, Sendgrid, Poshmark, Hired, Postmates, Vungle, Shippo, Front and Molekule.
from France
Education: Université Paris Descartes(CS) |
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