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ID 17050

Steve Waters

Investor

Chief Ventures Officer @thinktiv; 15-year CMO/advisor to 50+ cos: RNOW (IPO); @firepond CMO (IPO); @trilogy 93-97; Bear Stearns 90-92; @stanford-university 90.

ID 61488

Bob Metcalfe

Investor

UTexas Austin Professor of Innovation, Murchison Fellow of Free Enterprise; Polaris Partner; @massachusetts-institute-of-technology Trustee. Past: Harvard, PARC, @stanford-university, @3com, InfoWorld.

ID 22345

Rahul Prakash

Investor

Founder & Partner, @coyote-ridge-ventures & @the-hatchery-1. Former 3x Entrepreneur with 3 successful exits.

ID 117569

Andrew Busey

Investor

Entrepreneur / Angel Investor. Partner, Chaotic Moon. CEO, Team Chaos. Founder, Challenge Games (Acq by @zynga), Co-Founder, Pluck (Acq by @demand-media)
http://www.andrewbusey.com

ID 230782

Barrett Wood

Investor

Founder @woodgen-1 • Investor @dreamit-ventures, @brideside

ID 51737

Zaz Floreani

Investor

Diggin' big ideas, start-ups, and entrepreneurs. Dir of Corp Dev at a Texas startup. Wife of a Texas entrepreneur.

ID 142252

Ashish Aggarwal

Startup Advisor / investor; Analytics @dell; Editor @yourstory-in; Worked @yahoo (5 years), OCA Ventures (Investor), Strong business & Tech skills, Kellogg MBA
http://yourstory.com/author/ashish-aggarwal/

ID 416128

Colin Corgan

Investor

B.A. Dartmouth, retired Partner from Goldman Sachs

ID 826

Rudy Garza

Investor

Founded G51 Capital 25+ Investments, Acq by SAP, ADP, Cisco, Prudential & others, National network of G51 Venture Scholars w/10+ leading MBA prgms & 150+ Alumni

ID 749

Gary Chou

Investor

Worked at @union-square-ventures, @cisco • Investor @union-square-ventures • Studied at @princeton-university
http://blog.garychou.com

ID 29363

Robert Afshar

Investor

Founded 3 internet companies. All successful. Last company @leadclick-media took no investment and sold for $200mm. Currently, running a Hedge Fund & Angel Fund.

ID 2100

Bradley C. Harrison

Investor

Founder/Managing Partner @scout-ventures; early-stage VC focused on media, tech, and entertainment. Focused on great people; @massachusetts-institute-of-technology, @mit-sloan-school-of-management '01; USMA '94; Airborne Ranger

ID 72113

Marc Yagjian

Investor

Founder of @tivoli-systems. Investor in @waveset, @sailpoint, @venafi, @intact-medical. Advisor to @swimtopia.

ID 24727

Thomas Ball

Investor

Investor in @bazaarvoice, @convio, @mindjolt, @jigsaw, @whaleshark-media, @nileguide, @workstreamer, @boundless-network, @gazzang, @foodonthetable-com, @newcomlink...

ID 66013

Brian Grigsby

Investor

General Partner at @corsa-ventures

ID 760

Nitesh Banta

Investor

Investor at General Catalyst. Co-founder at @RoughDraft.vc. Founding team of @getaround and @summer-workation. Invested in @kayak, @hubspot, @bigcommerce, @locu

ID 305570

Craig Harris

Investor

Craig is the CFO for Wild Basin Investments, LLC (“WBI”). He has held this position at WBI and its predecessor entities since 2001. WBI is a closely held venture investment company with a focus on direct early stage and “angel” investing. He has 20+ yea

ID 59667

JR Garcia

Investor

Principal at Green Park & Golf Ventures (GPG). undergrad at Notre Dame, MBA at SMU. Time at FedEX, Bold Ventures, Lone Star.

ID 40547

Nick Wyman

Investor

Director @galvanize-ventures-1 and Angel Investor. Ex - @foundry-group Special Projects, @techstars Associate & @BoulderBeta Producer.

ID 18515

Adam Dell

Investor

Partner at @austin-ventures
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Dell

ID 197812

Asad Zafar

Investor

Principal at Sentient Capital

ID 78822

Laurent Drion

Investor

Founder & Partner at @e-merge a Brussels based investment company with 30+ early-stage investments up to date, mainly as lead investor

ID 899

Aziz Gilani

Investor

Director at @mercury-fund
http://texvc.com

ID 320411

Rodrigo Sanchez Servitje

Investor

Managing Partner Bridge 37, tech VC Firm. Before B37, VC team Gerbera Capital. Invested in Alandra Medical, ID90t and KiwiLimon. Kauffman Fellow Class 17

ID 37201

Joshua Chodniewicz

Investor

Co-founded and served as CEO of @art-com, Inc., and currently serves on its Board of Directors.

ID 118237

Dai Truong

Investor

Associate in the Venture Capital practice at Austin Ventures ("AV") focused on Enterprise IT and Internet / Digital Media.

ID 425296

Roy Sosa

Investor

Co-Founder: MPOWER Ventures, NetSpend (NTSP), REV Worldwide. Advisor, CGAP. Chairman, MPOWER Foundation. Co-Founder, Empowerment Lab @ Harvard. CGI Member.

ID 3741

Donald Park

Investor

Investor in @mindjolt, @crimereports, @whaleshark-media, @dachis-group, @bbs-technologies, @powered, @famecast.

ID 135046

Dustin Donnell

Investor

President at Gladiator Energy Services LLC

ID 90039

Charlie Plauche

Investor

Sr. Associate S3 Ventures. McCombs MBA. Frmly Harbert PE. Cancer survivor advocate.

ID 434081

Tyler Gray

Investor

CCO @microventures-1, @charles-schwab-and-company • Studied at @michigan-state-university, @saint-edward-s-university

ID 62259

Laurence Patrick Noonan

Investor

Senior Associate at @austin-ventures

ID 4681

Jose G. Gonzalez

Internet Entrepreneur at Matrix2012 Ventures, Inc.

ID 400

Michael Rosenfelt

Investor


ID 99876

Paul Janowitz

Investor

Founder @icanmakeitbetter, @sentient-services • Investor @greenling, @csidentity • Angel investing - tech, CPG, restaurants. Studied at @university-of-texas-at-austin-1

ID 632030

Tom Inman

Investor

12+ years of venture capital investing experience at Limestone and Gefinor Ventures. Focus on early stage investing in software & tech-enabled services.

ID 219012

Patrick Poljan

Investor


ID 57433

Joel Fontenot

Investor

Trailblazer Capital Managing Partner. Micro VC focused in Texas. Startup founder of Metreos, sold to Cisco. Early stage entrepreneur and investor.

ID 381285

Taleeb Noormohamed

Investor

Seasoned, strategic tech entrepreneur and investor; strong experience working with startups to multibillion $ market cap companies. @princeton, @oxford.

ID 423373

JD Weinstein

Investor

@capitalfactory , Previously @UTHorizonFund

ID 568203

Shahzil Shaz Amin

Investor

Founder @blue-track-media, @plugged-inc • Managing Partner at @karlani-capital
http://shahzil.com

ID 238902

Akash Bansal

Investor

Interested in early -stage startups (seed to pre-series A)

ID 111061

Andrew Sanderson

Investor

@viral-industries • @pawnmystartup • Worked at @yodle, @innography • Studied at @university-of-north-texas, @southeastern-oklahoma-state-university

ID 295838

Joe Edgar

Investor

Joe is an experienced entrepreneur and investor. He is actively involved with start-ups in Oregon, New York and Texas and has been an angel investor since 2004

ID 29008

Rajiv Bala

Investor

Investor in @phurnace-software, @digby, @sipera-systems, @libredigital, @invodo, @callvine. Team member of @s3-ventures.

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