Oakland Startups List
Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Oakland.
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.
Gregory R. Raifman
Investor
Entrepreneur & Internet Visionary, Private Equity, Venture & Impact Investor, Board Director & Advisor. @proven leadership/partnership in start-up environments.
Chris Cooper
Investor
Serial Entrepreneur and angel investor | Founding CEO at @quote-com
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
Ben Jealous
Investor
Partner at @kapor-capital. Former President and CEO of the NAACP
Paul Freedman
Investor
CEO at @altius-education
Naresh Singhal
Investor
VP, Mobile Products at Trunomi, pioneering B2ME for the financial industry
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
Ryan Navratil
Business Development / Consultant
Chris Boden
Investor
Founder, Product Lead at Wenzani
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.
Brian Brown
Investor
Founder, Stealth Startup
Kai Chang
Investor
Peter Secor
Investor
Angel Investor, @university-of-california-berkeley
Benjamin Bayat
Investor
Venture capital, entrepreneurial, and angel experience. Strong technology, operations, and sales (IBM). UC Berkeley MBA, Case Western Reserve Univ Physics.
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)
Lynzi Ziegenhagen
Investor
Founder/CEO @schoolzilla. @stanford Symbolic Systems, MS in CS. Was VP Technology @ Aspire Public Schools. Worked at startup @gearworks @Booz @microsoft.
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
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
Joshua Kauffman
Investor
Designer, Consultant, Angel Investor and Advisor to Multiple Ventures.
Richard Chen
Investor
International Daddy of Mystery. Investor. Hatena (Board), @google (PM), @optomail (Founder), @barclays-global-investors (Mktg)
Jared Hanson
Investor
Lead Engineer at @nodeprime. Previously Founding Engineer at Aspera (acq. by @ibm). Ongoing open source developer.
http://www.backdrifter.com/
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
Tony Gentile
Investor
CPO eDriving. Advisor: Agile Credit and Rexter.
Ryan Dawkins
Investor
Founder & President @project-sport-llc | Running/Cycling Production + Entertainment. Worked @montgomery-securities. 2 successful exits 2012/2014.
http://instagram.com/ryandawkins