Individual/Angel: Sam Liang

Sam is the CEO/Co-Founder of Otter.ai Inc, based in Silicon Valley. Funded by Spectrum Equity, Horizons Ventures (DeepMind, Waze, Zoom, Facebook), Tim Draper, David Cheriton of Stanford (first investor in Google), etc. AISense has created Ambient Voice Intelligenceâ„¢ technologies with deep learning that understands human-to-human conversations. Its Otter.ai product digitizes all voice meetings and video […]

Investment Partner, Individual/Angel: Ravi Belani

Ravi Belani is the Chief Executive Officer at Alchemist Accelerator.

Investment Partner, Individual/Angel: Rich Barton

Rich Barton is co-founder and the CEO of Zillow and served as the company’s first chief executive officer from 2005 until September 2010.Before co-founding Zillow, Barton served as the president, chief executive officer, and board director at [Expedia](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/expedia), which he founded inside Microsoft in the mid-90’s, spun out into EXPE through a successful IPO in […]

Individual/Angel: Theo Schlossnagle

Theo founded Circonus in 2010, and continues to be its principal architect. After earning undergraduate and graduate degrees from Johns Hopkins University in computer science, he went on to research resource allocation techniques in distributed systems during four years of post-graduate work. In 1997, Theo founded OmniTI, which has established itself as the go-to source […]

Investment Partner, Individual/Angel: Allen DeBevoise

Allen DeBeviose started Third Wave in 2014 after more than 30 years of experience incubating and investing in digital media companies. He has invested in over 70 digital media companies and has co-founded several of the most important digital media brands including Machinima, StyleHaul, DanceOn, INDMusic, Mitu, and Tubular Labs. Prior to founding Third Wave, Allen […]

Individual/Angel: Jared Hecht

Jared Hecht is a co-founder and the chief executive officer at Fundera, an online marketplace that matches small business owners to the best possible lender. He started Fundera after his cousin experienced the frustration and lack of transparency of applying for a small business loan. Previously, Jared co-founded GroupMe, a group messaging service that in […]

Investment Partner, Individual/Angel: Naguib Sawiris

Naguib Onsi Sawiris is an Egyptian billionaire businessman. Sawiris is chairman of Weather Investments’s parent company, and chairman and CEO of Orascom Telecom Holding.

Investment Partner, Individual/Angel: Aaron Fu

Aaron has 10& years of global experience building, scaling and investing in technology products in corporate and startup environments. He has co-founded both B2B & B2C businesses, in Africa – he has led seed stage equity investments in 20& startups (totaling $2m&), driven the exit of 3 startups in Africa, he also sits on the […]

Investment Partner, Individual/Angel: Mark Jung

Mark Jung is the Chairman of PocketRN and he holds an MBA from Stanford Business School and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Princeton University.

Individual/Angel: Meir Barel

Dr. Barel functions as STAR’s Principal Managing Partner and has been engaged in the international venture capital business for the past 20 years. He established STAR in 1992 with the objective of investing in companies affiliated with Israel. From 1986 to 1992, Dr. Barel served as Investment Manager and, subsequently, as Managing Partner of Techno […]