Investors focused on Data Services

Co-founder, and board director of Delivery Associates, the leading public sector advisory and technology firm focused on government operations and achieving results. She has worked with governments and invested in companies in over 20 countries globally. Katelyn was also on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2014.

Sara Choi is a Partner at Wing where she invests in companies at the intersection of bio x data. Sara enjoys working with early-stage founders half of her 12 investments are in stealth mode and bringing her background in data to healthcare and the life sciences. Sara was co-founder and COO at Airfox, a mobile data platform which was acquired by ViaVarejo (BSP: VVAR3). Prior to founding Airfox, Sara was Head of Product at Ciao Telecom where she co-founded a new wireless carrier. Sara began her career at Google where she led teams as YouTube’s Media Lead and Product Marketing Lead for Google Partners.

Amanda (better known as Robson or Robby) loves working with passionate founders who have become experts in their space. Works with enterprise companies broadly but focuses on innovations in developer tooling, data management, security, applied AI, and supply chain. Before joining Cowboy, Amanda spent 3.5 years as an early-stage investor at Norwest Venture Partners. Before Norwest, she was a sell-side M&A investment banker on the enterprise software team at William Blair.

Chris is a 20+ year media and technology entrepreneur turned early-stage venture capitalist. He has launched three early-stage venture funds to help scale the C2V brand and has invested in over 45 portfolio companies.

Chris was the CEO and Co-founder of appssavvy, a pioneer in mobile native advertising, ultimately driving $70 million in revenues to the app ecosystem. He is a LP in Bowery Capital and Tech Stars and has held executive roles at Unacast and Ironsource, a now $11B mobile technology company.

He has been named one of the "Most Important People in Mobile Advertising" by Business Insider and an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist” two years in a row.

COO and co-founder of Playfish, one of the largest and fastest growing social games companies. Prior to Playfish, Sebastien was part of the team that incubated Nokia Ad Service, a business unit aimed at monetizing mobile traffic across Nokia's 850 million mobile devices worldwide. Also an early team member of Macrospace Ltd., a company which merged with Sorrent Inc. to become Glu Mobile (NASDAQ: GLUU). Holds a Master's in Civil Engineering with honors from Imperial College London. He has resided in Brussels, Bangkok and London, and presently lives in San Francisco.

Scott Friend is former seed-to-exit founder of a successful retail analytics company, Scott is a trusted operational partner and advisor to founders building the next generation of commerce and marketing-tech successes.

20-year media, games, and esports veteran. With leadership roles at Modern Times Group, ESL, and DreamHack. Based in London and Lisbon.

Prior to 2048 Ventures, Neha was a Partner at 500 Startups and invested in over 40 startups from around the globe. Neha was also co-founder of 500 Startups Canada. Neha has been immersed in the technology industry throughout her career. She started off as a software developer, and worked in circuitry design and telecommunications before making her way to leading tech innovation at one of Canada’s top banks. Neha has published numerous research papers, and is an advisor to the Engineering Dean at the University of Waterloo. She is a strong supporter of women in technology, having launched and run Girls in Tech Toronto and a TEDx Women conference for a number of years. Neha obtained an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Waterloo and an MBA from the Richard Ivey School of Business.

Shruti spent her early career as a developer on mainframe security, collaboration tools, and data analytics. Post engineering, she was investing in early-stage companies at True Ventures and Samsung's venture fund. She has an MBA from the University of Chicago and an MS from Columbia University.

Alex Iskold Is a Founder and a Managing Partner at 2048 Ventures. Alex is a 4x founder, a software engineer, and an investor in over 150 startups. He writes one of the top startup blogs called Startup Hacks. Alex is a life-long learner and interested in Complexity Science and Systems Thinking. Prior to founding 2048 ventures, Alex spent 5 years at Techstars as the Managing Director of its NYC program. Alex was also the founder and CEO of Info Lab (acquired by IBM), founder and CEO of GetGlue (backed by USV, RRE, Time Warner), and a Chief Architect of distributed computing startup DataSynapse (acquired by TIBCO). Alex currently serves as a Coach and a VC in Residence at the Harvard Business School. Alex previously taught an award-winning undergraduate computer science class at NYU. He holds a B.S. in Math with Honors from Lehigh University and M.S. in Computer Science from NYU.

Prior to Homebrew, I was VP Product at Twitter, building and leading the Product Management and User Services teams. Before Twitter, I was a Partner at Battery Ventures, where I co-led the seed and early stage investing practices. I joined Google in 2003 and was responsible for AdSense product management and partnerships. Before heading to Silicon Valley for Google, I worked for DoubleClick, in venture capital and as a strategy consultant.

Michael committed early and hard to business and its drivers--teams, finance, and technology--starting his first company at age 11. In the years since founding Bee Partners, he has invested in over 50 startups, using an uncanny level of empathy to support founders, gathering their teams and resources, and helping perfect their world-changing machines.

Investing seed-stage venture capital behind extraordinary technical founders on a mission to improve the health of people and planet.

Howard is considered one of the pioneers of early-stage investing, having co-founded First Round Capital alongside Josh Kopelman, which was the first professional seed-stage fund. Prior to First Round, Howard helped found Idealab with Bill Gross and served as President of Renaissance Technologies, which he co-founded with Jim Simons.

Ryan is a pre-seed and seed stage technology investor & founder of Pathbreaker Ventures. Prior to starting Pathbreaker, Ryan was a deal lead on the corporate development team at Facebook where he worked with product and engineering teams to landscape technology ecosystems and execute acquisitions in pursuit of Facebook's mission. Acquisitions worked on include Oculus, PrivateCore, LiveRail, Teehan Lax, and NimbleVR. Emerging areas of technology were his focus, including AI/ML, deep learning, computer vision, virtual reality, applied hardware, and infrastructure technologies across security, video, messaging, and product design.

Prior to co-founding 8-Bit Capital, Jonathan was the founder of the professional news discovery service Nuzzel, which was named one of the best apps of the year by Google Play, the New York Times, and Time Magazine. Jonathan was the founder of the pioneering social networking service Friendster, which inspired the modern social networking industry. Jonathan is the inventor of multiple fundamental patents on social networking which are now owned by Facebook. Previously, Jonathan was a software engineer at Netscape and Nortel. Jonathan is also a co-founder and Managing Partner of Founders Den, San Francisco’s favorite workspace and community for startups and investors, which has been home to many successful startups and top venture firms.

I am a serial entrepreneur turned venture capitalist. As a venture capitalist I partner at inception/early stage with pioneers who are changing the way people work, live and play. As an entrepreneur I co-founded 3 companies in my 20s, including VXtreme, which was acquired by Microsoft to become Windows Media, iBeam Broadcasting (NASDAQ:IBEM) and Rivio/CPA.com. I have had the fortune of championing entrepreneurs of over 60 companies, of which 18 have gone public and another 25 have been acquired. Some of my past notable investments include IPOs of Akamai, Lyft, HashiCorp, Makemytrip, Persistent Systems, Poshmark, SolarCity, Matrimony.com, Tejas Networks, and acquisitions of Brighter/Cigna, CloudGenix/Palo Alto Networks, CloudSimple/Google, Elastica/Symantec, Gigya/SAP, Nuvia/Qualcomm, Portworx/Pure Storage, StorSimple/Microsoft, Wichorus/Tellabs, Volterra/F5 and Zenprise/Citrix.

Cack started their career as a runner for Nike, competing on a global level for two years. As any athlete knows, If you’re targeted in training and tenacious enough to persevere, it translates on race day. In sport and in company-building, there’s no substitute for putting in the time and effort—no shortcut to success.

They think of being a partner to founders and execs in the same way that they think about being on a sports team: we all have one another’s best interests in mind, and we’re united through a shared understanding and a common goal. Both inside the walls of the firm and beyond them.

Cack works with companies developing underlying infrastructures for autonomous and business applications and consumer experiences.

Investing in technology companies with terminal solutions to important, unsolved problems. Previously, founder or early team member at engineering-driven startups.

Ethan is a partner in the San Francisco office and a leading investor in a variety of technology verticals. He’s passionate about new platforms that provide technologists and business users with democratized access to cutting-edge technical tooling. Before joining Bessemer in 2008, he worked for Dow Jones & Co., managing the turnaround of international editions of the Wall Street Journal, and Linden Lab, the creator of Second Life. Earlier in his career, Ethan co-founded SSB-Bart Group (now known as Level-Access), a company whose mission is to make the Internet accessible to users with disabilities.

Max Gazor joined CRV in 2011 and brings deep enterprise domain experience spanning M&A, strategy and business development. Prior to CRV, Max led acquisitions and investments across enterprise and emerging technologies for Cisco’s Corporate Development team. Before Cisco, Max was responsible for business development within Oracle's Server Technologies division.

Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Congruent Ventures.

Josh is an experienced product leader who backs founders committed to big ideas and conscious team-building.

Asheem is attracted to founders who can communicate precisely about a problem and apply rigorous thinking to create an original solution.

Ajay leads the west coast office for BCV. Previously, Ajay was head of sales and marketing at Trilogy where he grew annual revenues to $300 million and led Trilogy’s product expansion into new areas such as enterprise pricing and incentive management. Prior to Trilogy, Ajay was a consultant with the Los Angeles office of McKinsey & Company.

Peter was previously senior vice president and general manager of the Data Center and Cloud Division at Citrix where he was responsible for revenue, product management, business development, and strategic direction. Peter joined Citrix in 2007 through its $500 million acquisition of XenSource, the leading provider of enterprise-class open source virtualization software, where he served as CEO.

Specializes in guiding early-stage startups into successful businesses: He joined PayPal when monthly burn-rate was $6 million; he joined LinkedIn, Slide and Square when they had no revenue. Served on the Board of Directors of Xoom (NASDAQ: XOOM) from 2003 until 2015 and served on the Yelp Board from 2005-2014 (NYSE: Yelp). I served on the Board of Reddit from 2012-2019. I am a co-founder of OpenDoor and serve as our Executive Chairman. Prior angel investments include: YouTube, Airbnb, Palantir, Eventbrite, Lyft, Quora, Yammer, Skybox, Counsyl, Weebly, Wish, Eventbrite.

Tim Guleri is a former serial entrepreneur, having built two successful software infrastructure companies: Scopus Technology (IPO in 1995) and Octane Software (M&A – Epiphany $3.2 billion). He joined Sierra Ventures as Managing Director in 2002 and focuses on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. Since joining, he has taken two companies public (Sourcefire – FIRE and MakeMyTrip – MMYT), and has been responsible for several M&As.

I was a General Partner with North Bridge Venture Partners, from April 2012 to November 2014. During my tenure I started the seed practice and led investments in Lytro, Periscope.io, Quora, and Ravel Law, in addition to co-founding Coolan. Prior to NBVP, I worked at Facebook, where I led global infrastructure, site architecture, and internal systems as VP Infrastructure & Technical Operations, from 2007 until 2012. During that time Facebook grew from 35 million to over 800 million users. Earlier in my career, I co-founded and was CTO of GlobalCenter, and later founded Global Crossing’s venture capital group. While scaling GlobalCenter, we saw an opportunity to build the world’s first native-optical IP network. I currently serve on the board of directors of Webmonsters, in addition to Vertex portfolio companies PerimeterX, CloudAcademy, and SpaceIQ.

Rick, a Founder and Partner of FirstMark, focuses on consumer and enterprise investments in media, advertising technology, gaming, mobile, and data services. Rick has led investments in market leaders in commerce (StubHub, acquired by eBay), gaming (Riot Games, acquired by Tencent), data services (First Advantage, NASDAQ: FADV; acquired by First American), advertising technology (Tapad, acquired by Telenor), media (Pinterest, NYSE: PINS), sports (DraftKings, NASDAQ: DKNG) and more. Prior to founding FirstMark, Rick was an entrepreneur including being a founding member of the senior management team at First Advantage which he helped grow and sell to First American (NYSE: FAF). In both 2020 and 2021, Rick was named to the Forbes’ Midas List as one of the world’s top venture capitalists. He has also received similar distinctions from CB Insights, Insider and the New York Times.

Previously led an incubator for startups at the intersection of cities and data at OpenPlans, with a focus on cultivating open source communities, building open data platforms, and supporting open standards efforts.

In 2004, Tod co-founded Shasta Ventures to build a venture firm focused on serving the entrepreneur and a desire to back founders who leverage technology innovation to improve consumer experiences. He has backed companies such as Canva, Mint, Zwift, Tonal, Maurten, Glint, Class Dojo, Doctor on Demand and Stance. Prior to Shasta, Tod was a general partner at Trinity Ventures and began his career in consumer brand management at Johnson & Johnson. While not leading new investments in the new fund at Shasta, Tod continues to oversee existing portfolio companies and help manage prior Shasta funds.

Ravi’s entire career has been focused exclusively on software businesses. He continues to work with passionate entrepreneurs who possess unique product and market perspectives that result in high growth companies. His areas of expertise include data and analytics, SaaS applications, infrastructure management. Ravi is a co-founder of Shasta and led the firm’s investments in and currently serves on the Boards of Lucidworks, Highspot, SendBird, LeanData, CommerceIQ, vFunction, Lightbend, Resilinc, Suplari and previously Anaplan, Apptio, Appsheet, Zenprise and Volometrix. Prior to Shasta, Ravi was a general partner at Battery Ventures and a member of the executive committee. He led eight investments and served on the boards of 12 software and technology-enabled service companies.