Category: Investors, Advisors & Speakers (Page 6 of 8)

Dafina Toncheva

Dafina Toncheva of Tugboat Ventures was born and raised in a small town in Southern Bulgaria.  She moved to the United States at the age of 18 to attend Harvard University. She completed her BA degree in Computer Science with special focus on cryptography, efficient algorithms, and database systems.

Upon graduation, Dafina joined Microsoft and for several years worked on the development of some of the world’s most widely used software applications. She led the development of several major components of Microsoft’s online authentication system Passport, and managed the design and delivery of key collaboration and security features in Office Suite and SharePoint.  Drawn to the start-up world and the entrepreneurial community in the Bay Area, Dafina attended Stanford Business School. Read More...

David Horwich

David Horwich has over 20 years of diversified financial experience in the investment banking business.  He has participated in over 50 corporate finance transactions, includeing mergers and acquisitions.  During his career, he has been involved in raising over $1 billion in capital for his clients. 

Mr. Horwich’s transactional experience spans working in a variety of industries, including technology, food, specialty retail, consumer product, and aerospace to name just a few. Read More...

Ron Weissman

Ron Weissman of Band of Angels was vice president of strategy and corporate marketing for Verity, a global leader in corporate information retrieval and knowledge management.

During his tenure at Verity, the executive team earned the large company “turnaround of the year” award (1999) from the Turnaround Management Association; Verity gained dominant market share and saw its market capitalization grow from $50 million to more than $1.5 billion. Read More...

Gopan Madathil

Gopan Madathil is President & CEO of Investorfest Media, a leading venture accelerator for companies in the technology industry.  Through his hands-on coaching efforts, over 75% of presenting companies have gone on to receive over $280 million in funding to date.  Gopan has served in operational and board member roles, assisting early stage entrepreneurs with fundraising and investor introductions.  

He has created go-to-market strategies including pricing, promotion, and strategic partnerships.  He has been engaged in developing and executing strategic marketing plans,  providing detailed market analysis, including: sizing, segmentation and competitive analysis.  Gopan has 20 years of experience in the technology sector, working with startups to Fortune 500 companies. Read More...

Noah Doyle

Noah Doyle of Javelin Venture Partners has founded, launched and grown dozens of high technology products and companies in 20 years of entrepreneurship and management of innovation. Noah most recently directed the enterprise product line for Google’s geospatial products, Google Earth and Google Maps.

Prior to Google, Noah managed the Marketing Strategy and Corporate Development functions at Keyhole, Inc., the venture capital backed company that created the first Web-hosted digital earth model and was acquired by Google in 2004. Read More...

Rama Sekhar

Rama focuses on early to late stage venture investments across a wide range of sectors at NVP. Before joining NVP in 2009, Rama was an Associate at Comcast Interactive Capital where he conducted due diligence on early and growth stage investment opportunities in the Digital Media, Internet, and Communications Infrastructure sectors.

Prior to Comcast Interactive Capital, Rama was a Product Manager at Cisco Systems, where he defined product strategy and roadmaps for $1B revenue products including the GSR 12000 Series and CRS-1 routers. Rama’s clients included international telecom and cable service providers including Verizon Business, British Telecom, and several providers in the Indian telecommunications market. Previously, Rama was a Sales Engineer at Cisco Systems supporting AT&T, where he sold the core and edge networking equipment that comprises AT&T’s national IP backbone. Read More...

Howard Hartenbaum

Howard Hartenbaum joined August Capital in 2008. Prior to joining, he served as a General Partner at Draper Richards LP where he was the founding investor in Skype and a former member of the board of directors where his achievement resulted in his joining the Forbes Midas List of top venture capitalists.

Before entering the venture capital field, Howard was at Hughes Electronics, where he was responsible for supporting business development, marketing and sales of satellite, information security and automotive technologies developed by HRL Laboratories. He also worked in engineering positions in ergonomics and user experience at Honda Motor Company and manufacturing at Teledyne Relays. Read More...

Ed Fu

Ed Fu works with seed and early stage consumer web and clean technology companies.  Prior to joining Rustic Canyon in 2010, Ed was an investor at Technology Crossover Ventures, where he focused on investments in the Internet and software sectors.  Before TCV, Ed worked at Jefferies & Company, where he advised technology startups, helping several grow from single digit revenue companies to successful publicly listed industry leaders.

Ed grew up in a family of entrepreneurs in Taiwan, where he witnessed the rise of the technology industry by touring semiconductor fabs with his father.  He discovered his passion for technology building computers from spare parts found in Taipei’s bustling electronic markets. Read More...

David Feinleib

Dave Feinleib is the Managing Director of The Big Data Group, a provider of strategic consulting and advisory services. He is an active investor and the founder of multiple tech startups. David founded onDevice (acquired by Keynote Systems), Consera Software (acquired by HP), Likewise Software (acquired by EMC) and Speechpad, the leading provider of crowdsourced transcription and captioning services.

David was a General Partner at Mohr Davidow Ventures, where his investments included Infusionsoft, which raised $54M from Goldman Sachs earlier this year, doxo, and VirtuOz, which was acquired by Nuance. David began his career at Microsoft. He holds a BA from Cornell University and an MBA from Stanford. He is an avid violinist and two-time Ironman finisher. Read More...

Peter Craddock

Peter spent over twelve years with Kidder, Peabody and DLJ, most recently as a vice president in the corporate services division. During that time he assisted in originating investment banking transactions in the public and private markets with companies such as Qwest Communications International, Somatogen, IVAC Medical Systems (now Alaris), Spectranetics, IMSI, Triad and others.

Since 1989, he has been, individually and through SVP I and II, an early stage investor in numerous successful seed and early stage companies, including CV Therapeutics (CVTX), Chili!Soft, Speedchain Networks, ARYx Therapeutics, Lifeline Technologies, Overread, Hall-Kinion (HAKI), Cambric, Z-force (now Attune Systems) and others. Read More...