Oakland Startups List

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ID 79150

Jared Hanson

Investor

Lead Engineer at @nodeprime. Previously Founding Engineer at Aspera (acq. by @ibm). Ongoing open source developer.
http://www.backdrifter.com/

ID 204184

Avi Bar-Zeev

Investor

Designer/developer of Google Earth (@keyhole), Lead special projects at @walt-disney-imagineering, @microsoft-3, @amazon, President/CTO @syntertainment
http://www.realityprime.com

ID 104531

Naveen Jain

Investor

CMO and Co-Founder @immunity-project • CEO @sparkart • Investor / Advisor @rally, @gyft, @hifi, @truevault, @bellabeat @trnio, @zesty-1 - Y Combinator Alum (W14)

ID 543808

Ben Jealous

Investor

Partner at @kapor-capital. Former President and CEO of the NAACP

ID 455627

Benjamin Bayat

Investor

Venture capital, entrepreneurial, and angel experience. Strong technology, operations, and sales (IBM). UC Berkeley MBA, Case Western Reserve Univ Physics.

ID 131351

Kai Chang

Investor


ID 459700

Joshua Kauffman

Investor

Designer, Consultant, Angel Investor and Advisor to Multiple Ventures.

ID 151223

Alex Bernstein

Investor

Founder of @north-social (exit in 2011), North Venture Partners, Echo Networks, Athleticode, & Inoak. Employee at Virgin, PTC, C-Bridge, & the NFL

ID 88814

Ryan Dawkins

Investor

Founder & President @project-sport-llc | Running/Cycling Production + Entertainment. Worked @montgomery-securities. 2 successful exits 2012/2014.
http://instagram.com/ryandawkins

ID 95546

Brian Brown

Investor

Founder, Stealth Startup

ID 38521

JumpStartDays

JumpStartDays is a mentoring program for seed-stage pre-funded, pre-revenue tech startups. Each month 12 startups present to a panel of Keiretsu Forum angels.
http://www.keiretsuforum.com

ID 37603

Tony Gentile

Investor

CPO eDriving. Advisor: Agile Credit and Rexter.

ID 14067

Ryan Navratil

Business Development / Consultant

ID 13077

Gregory R. Raifman

Investor

Entrepreneur & Internet Visionary, Private Equity, Venture & Impact Investor, Board Director & Advisor. @proven leadership/partnership in start-up environments.

ID 34597

Zach Larson

Investor

CEO of Threadbare Games. Previously co-founder and CPO of @sidereel, acquired by Rovi. Product, Technology, Teams. Lean and LeanUX advocate. Giant nerd.
http://zachlarson.org

ID 146666

Chris Cooper

Investor

Serial Entrepreneur and angel investor | Founding CEO at @quote-com

ID 122693

Naresh Singhal

Investor

VP, Mobile Products at Trunomi, pioneering B2ME for the financial industry

ID 683063

Stephen Leist

Investor

Founded Wall St. Sandwiches, a Jewish Deli chain in Tokyo, manages a family office and PPGV, LLC, a private equity company. Likes, basketball and cycling.

ID 101859

Paul Freedman

Investor

CEO at @altius-education

ID 72

Richard Chen

Investor

International Daddy of Mystery. Investor. Hatena (Board), @google (PM), @optomail (Founder), @barclays-global-investors (Mktg)

ID 221222

Lynzi Ziegenhagen

Investor

Founder/CEO @schoolzilla. @stanford Symbolic Systems, MS in CS. Was VP Technology @ Aspire Public Schools. Worked at startup @gearworks @Booz @microsoft.

ID 23364

Peter Secor

Investor

Angel Investor, @university-of-california-berkeley

ID 51887

Lloyd Lawrence

Investor

Accredited Investor: Angel List, Funders Club, MicroVentures, Second Market, Shares Post, Circle Up. Worked at IBM, CEO at Roche Bobois San Francisco.

ID 77

Mitch Kapor

Investor

Lotus Founder, from 0 to $200MM in 3 yrs. Co-founder EFF, founding Chair @mozilla. Investor: @twilio, @uber, @classdojo ,@clever, @optimizely,@formlabs

ID 122463

Chris Boden

Investor

Founder, Product Lead at Wenzani

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