About us
- Spark Capital (Boston, USA)
- Spark Capital is a venture capital firm based in Boston, Massachusetts with investments focused on the conflux of the media, entertainment and technology industries. Over the last decade, the Spark team has been instrumental in the development of new markets and market leaders such as Akamai Technologies, Qtera, Aether Systems, Novatel Wireless, Twitter, 5Min, Altius Education, AdMeld, Verivue and Tumblr. With deep experience and $980 million under management, Spark Capital provides world-class entrepreneurs and revolutionary companies with the resources to succeed in today’s marketplace. For more information, visit www.sparkcapital.com
- Accel Partners (London, UK)
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Founded in 1983, Accel Partners is a $9bn assets under a management fund with a long history of partnering with outstanding entrepreneurs and management teams to build world-class businesses. Accel today invests globally using dedicated teams and market-specific strategies for local geographies, with offices in Palo Alto, California, New York City, London, New Delhi and Bangalore, as well as in China via its partnership with IDG-Accel.
Accel has helped entrepreneurs build over 300 successful companies, many of which have defined their categories, including Actuate, AdMob, Agile Software, Alfresco, AMCC, Arrowpoint, Atlassian, BBN, Brightcove, Check24, ComScore, Etsy, Facebook, Foundry Networks, Gameforge, GlamMedia, Groupon, Imperva, Infinera, Interwoven, IronPlanet, JBoss, Kayak, Macromedia, metroPCS, OPOWER, Polycom/PictureTel, Playfish, Portal Software, QlikTech, Quidsi (Diapers.com), Rapt, Real Networks, Redback Networks, Responsys, Riverbed, SupportSoft, UUNet, Veritas, Walmart.com, Webroot, Wily Technology, Wonga, XenSource and Zimbra.
Accel has made a number of recent investments in payments-related companies including Unirush, OzForex, Yapstone and Braintree. For more information, please visit the Accel Partners web site at www.accel.com, or find us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/accel
- Maveron (San Francisco, USA)
- Maveron is a $1bn assets under management venture capital firm focused on backing the best entrepreneurs in three sectors: web-enabled consumer services, education and wellness. Founded in 1998 by Dan Levitan and Howard Schultz, the firm has offices in Seattle and San Francisco. Representative Maveron investments include Altius Education, eBay, Capella Education, Groupon, Livemocha, PayNearMe, Shutterfly, Trupanion and zulily. For more information about Maveron, visit www.maveron.com
- Boston Seed Capital (Boston, USA)
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Boston Seed Capital provides early stage funding and support for internet-enabled businesses including consumer, B2B SaaS and supporting services marketplaces. Nicole Stata represents Boston Seed Capital in peerTransfer.
- Paul Freedman (San Francisco, USA)
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Paul Freedman co-founded Altius Education, and previously founded a student recruitment technology company called Academic Engine that was later sold to Hobsons. Paul has a strong track record of founding, managing and investing in educational businesses.
- 500 Startups - Dave McClure (San Francisco, USA)
- Founding Partner of 500 Startups, an internet startup seed fund and incubator program in Silicon Valley, former Director Marketing at Paypal, Angel Investor at Mint.com
- Jim Hornthal (San Francisco, USA)
- Founder and Chairman of Preview Travel, one of the first online travel agencies. ViceChairman of Travelocity.com and founder of Triporati.
- Roy Rodenstein (Boston, USA)
- Director of Business Planning at AOL, and Co-Founder of Going.com (acquired by AOL) and HackerAngels.com.
- Lead Dog Ventures – John Landry (Boston, USA)
- CTO/Senior VP Development at software leaders such as Lotus Development, Dun & Bradstreet Software, Cullinet Software and McCormack & Dodge and VP of Technology Strategy at IBM.
- Project 11 - Reed Sturtevant and Katie Rae (Boston, USA)
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Reed was the founding director of Microsoft Startup Labs in Cambridge, MA, CTO of EONS, Managing Director and VP of Technology for Idealab and co- founder of Radnet and RadioAMP.
Katie was Sr. Director, Product at Microsoft Startup Labs, SVP Product at Eons.com , VP Community and Communications at Terra Lycos
- Ken and Laura Morse (Boston, USA)
- Ken Morse is a serial entrepreneur and former Managing Director of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center. Laura Barker Morse was formerly partner at Venture Capital Fund Atlas Ventures and head of Recruiting and Expatriate Services at SWIFT.
- Marek Fodor (Barcelona, Spain)
- Formerly Co- Founder and CTO of atrapalo.com, one of the leading Spanish travel agencies.
- Pablo Carrallo (Madrid, Spain)
- Founder and CEO of Grupo 10 Empresarial, a leader in Software for Intellectual Property
- Raul Aznar (Valencia, Spain)
- Managing Director of Pandora Lys, a family investment office
