Jumpstart Ventures

David Cohen

Founder/CEO of @techstars. Investor in Amazing Startups. Geeky to the bone. http://www.davidgcohen.com
http://www.davidgcohen.com/

Woody Levin

Founder/CEO-BringIt (Cross Platform Engagement as a Service Through Games), Founder-InStadium, Founder-Riverbank Capital. JD-Chicago Kent, BA-Wisconsin

Andy Yang

COO @500px | Formerly at @extremestartups @relay-ventures @chegg. @netflix. @thomas-weisel-partners. @goldman-sachs. @accenture. | @ChicagoBooth @university-of-california-berkeley.

David Wieland

Angel; Founder: @rivs, InnFlux, iEstates, IrishAngels. @NotreDame, MBA @Kellogg

Ira Weiss

Managing Director of @HydeparkVP and @HydePark Angels, Professor at University of Chicago @BoothThinking School of Business, and former partner at RK Ventures

Sam Yagan

Founder & CEO at @okcupid.com

Brad Purdy

COO @contextmedia, Partner @jumpstart-ventures

Jeff Cantalupo

Founder @listen board member @raise, branding expert, creative storyteller investing time and money to turn ideas into brands.

Vic Morgenstern

Founder @valor-equity-partners, @harris-associates

Troy Henikoff

Troy Managing Director of Techstars in Chicago & founder of @surepayroll

Jason Seats

Managing Director @techstars • Co-founder @slicehost (acq by @rackspace)

Marc Weiser

Managing Director RPM Ventures
http://greatlakesvc.com

Stuart Larkins

Co-Founder and Partner of Chicago Ventures. Founder of @Twin Capital and active angel investor. Former @doubleclick / @performics exec.

Bong Koh

Founder, Investor or Advisor in companies including @lifecrowd, @shift-3, RetentionScience, @muckerlab, GradientX, Eventup, TheReceivablesExchange & @zynga (via Prism)

Darwin Ling

Founder @thump-games •Chief Architect at @jaxtr, Sr Director @skyfire ( Acquired by Opera ), Hacker/Data Nerd, BS/MS @purdue-university , MBA @university-of-chicago-booth-school-of-business

Christopher Chan

Founder @blue-flower-llc • Worked at @bank-of-america-merrill-lynch • Studied at @new-york-university

Brian Balfour

Growth & Customer Acquisition specialist. Former EIR @trinity Ventures, Co-Founder of @boundless, @viximo.
http://www.brianbalfour.com

Kevin Willer

Chicago Angel, CEC, Xoogler, New World Ventures

Steve Olechowski

Former Co-Founder of FeedBurner and Google Product Manager, Mobile and Advertising. Current: Blinkfire Analytics
http://steveobd.blogspot.com

Nigel Bahadur

Founder @exe-technologies

Alan Warms

@appolicious.com, AndroidApps.com
http://www.participate.com

Arthur Watson

CFO @ Castle Hill. Angel Investor @HPA. MBA 2011 @Babson. BS Mechanical Engineering 2003 @UVA

Jordan Curnes

ND Finance / Duke MBA Founded 3 Companies - Medical Devices, Online Real Estate, Retail Wireless Enjoy web 2.0 plays as well as med tech.

Andrew Razeghi

Founder, StrategyLab, Inc.; Lecturer, Kellogg School of Management; Limited Partner, TechStars Chicago
http://www.andrewrazeghi.com/blog

Fred Monroe

313 Ventures LLC @getco Trading Technologies, Inc fredlabs, inc @apple

Betsy Ziegler

Investor @trunk-club

Luke Shepard

CTO at eSpark Learning, where I manage the engineering team building the next generation of personalized learning using iPads.
http://disruptedstudent.org

Christopher Jensen

Principal at Anderson Pacific Corp., entrepreneur, angel investor with a focus on telecom, media, SaaS or any great idea backed by a strong management team.

Peter Liu

VC at @PritzkerVC, Founder/CEO of VentureUP.info

Judd Morgenstern

Business Designer. Previously UX Designer + Innovation Strategist. Former @adaptive-path + @nike consultant.

Brett Keintz

Director of Product Management at @groupon

Alexander Goldstein

Angel Investor; Entrepreneur; Was Principal at Pangea Properties REIT; Ex-CIO, Co-Founder at @cashnetusa-com

Deborah Quazzo

Founder @thinkequity-partners, @global-silicon-valley-advisors • Worked at @jp-morgan, @merrill-lynch

Ravi Srivastava

Professional Trader, Genetic Algorithmist, Managing Partner @purvi-capital LLC.

Tao Huang

Managing Partner, RangeLight

Brian Hand

Co-Founder and Chairman, Timelines, Inc

Mark Friedgan

Angel Investor; BS/MS Computer Engineering, @carnegie-mellon-university University; CIO Top 100/InfoWorld Top 25 CTO
http://www.hubrix.com

Jeffrey Carter

Turns Concepts into Profits. Advisor, Connector, Co-Founder of @hydeparkangels, Angel Investor, Independent Trader, @pointsnfigures
http://www.pointsandfigures.com

Karin O'Connor

Ryan Graves

Head of Operations @uber Board of Miami University Institute for Entrepreneurship Biz Dev @foursquare

Lauren DeLuca

BoD @rivs, Founder: Sumo Capital, Victory Networks Investor: @tradingview-2, @techstars, @qoin, @archively @ginkgotree, Row One. Member @irishangels. MBA @kellogg-school-of-management currently, graduated Cum Laude @university-of-notre-dame 2001

Jeff Hyman

CEO of @retrofit

Michael Burke

founder, author, advertising, social media, appssavvy

Michael Gruber

Founder & Managing Partner @cornerstone-angels

Erik Severinghaus

Founder @simplerelevance • Worked at @ibm, Founding Team @icontact • Studied at @kellogg-school-of-management, @university-of-north-carolina-chapel-hill. Patent in Data Optimization & experience closing 9-figure deals.
http://blog.simplerelevance.com

Zack Christensen

M&A and capital markets attorney and registered CPA. Worked at @citigroup, @sidley-austin, @deloitte-touche • Investor @drchrono, @sendhub, @true-co • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign

Nancy Hua

CEO of Apptimize • @y-combinator • @getco • @massachusetts-institute-of-technology Math with CS
http://nancyhua.com

Sam Guren

Owner, Guren Capital Management, LLC

Matt Spiegel

SVP/GM Americas MediaMath. Formerly CEO Omnicom Media Group Digital, Founder @resolution-media

Iman Jalali

Founder TicketLab • President at @trainsignal until acquired in 2013
http://www.imanjalali.com

Michael Sheng

Dan Armbrust

Founder @gener8tor, @granite-med-systems • Investor @eatstreet • Studied at @university-of-wisconsin-milwaukee

Joe Pensinger

COO of Community Capital Investment. Managing Director and Principal of Emercor Partners. Active angel investor. Formerly of Allston Trading.

Ken Pelletier

Designer/technologist, former CTO at @groupon, investor/advisor to @desktime, investor in Seaborn Networks, investor/partner at City Winery Chicago.

Dan Ratner

Serial entrepreneur. Cofounder/COO/CTO at @sittercity. Director of Development at @obama-for-america. Social enterprise investor.
http://www.danratner.com/

Dave Galanis

Managing Partner at Pebble Creek Partners

Ed Scanlan

Founder @total-attorneys
http://edscanlan.com

George Monical

Investor CEO of MiGym: Experience in successful startups including Betfair and The Coupons App & corporate experience at US Cellular and Allstate; Kellogg MBA

Jay Hoffmann

Rewards and travel wonk. Built @groupon Rewards to 4k merchants, 2M consumers. Grew @united-airlines Mileage Plus to $1BN+ revenue. @stanford-university GSB.

Andy Narayanan

Strategy and bus. dev executive with over 15 yrs exp in consumer web services, fintech, payment and data analytics. Worked at Booz, dealigee. Chicago Booth MBA
http://www.venturegabble.com

Sascha Bopp

COO at Crate and Barrel

Jessica Sheft-Ason

IT Consultant, Studied Economics @university-of-chicago and investor with @kewpie-associates.

Ravin Gandhi

Founder @gmm-nonstick-coatings • Investor @tred • Studied at @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign , @kellogg-school-of-management-1

Beth Birnbaum

VP of Product at @grubhub.com. 10 years in online travel (@expedia, Site59, Travelocity) in product management, business development, and commercial roles.

Dave Hoover

Latent human potential pisses me off. So I'm working on decentralizing education. Trying to be a great father, husband, son, believer, and squirrel.
http://nuts.redsquirrel.com

Jason Weaver

Founded Shoutlet, Inc. Liquidated position in March 2013. Currently running Spendship, LLC (mobile commerce) and Halo, LLC (a tech sales consulting firm).
http://www.jasonweaver.com

Jan Davis

Founder @smartnames • Worked at @transunion, @trymax • Investor @evoapp, @showingtime • Studied at @university-of-north-carolina-chapel-hill

Joel Abraham

Co-Founder of gener8tor, a Wisconsin-based accelerator.

Dmitry Kobyshev

Angel Investor. M&A, IPO, financial analysis background. Passionate for bright investment opportunities. Investor @havoc @descomplica @onthego-platforms

Galen Mason

Founder @catapult-chicago-1 • Lawyer at @foley-lardner-llp

Adam Sidney

2nd employee at @bonobos now at Trumaker. Operations, leadership, and creative background honed at one big old company and a few seed stage start ups.

John LeVert

Investment banker focused on providing merger & acquisition advice and raising capital for growing consumer & retail companies.

Dan Malven

Chris Plahm

Managing Partner at Stonebridge Wealth Management

Tony Bombacino

Former CMO of @restaurant-com with experience on client and agency side. Start-up experience as an employee, advisor and investor w/ a passion for learning.

Chirag Garg

Currency & Interest Rate Portfolio, DRW Holdings.

Tim Krauskopf

Founder of Spyglass

Peter Krupp

Partner Skadden Arps and Angel Investor

Shobhan Thakkar

Former Biglaw, Big4, GC and Executive. Assisted in sale of Weather Central to Weather Channel; 1st Place in WI Business Plan Contest-IT Category. MACC and JD.

Tyler Mayoras

Managing Director at O'Keefe Consultant and interim management in Change Management. Angel investor and mentor to internet and mobile technology companies.

Doug Breaker

CEO at @homefinder-com. Director of Product at @orbitz.com. Founder AccentTraining.net, EasyUsability.com.

Hunter E. Bradford

An average guy, living an awesome life.

Juan M. Hernandez

Serial entrepreneur, startup advisor, angel investor, strategist, all-around builder • CFO at @everpurse • Studied at @kellogg-school-of-management and @northwestern-university

John Roa

CEO at @akta. Investor at @socialcrunch. Active angel, speaker and traveler.

Philip Settimi, MD

Senior Vice President, Global Marketing and Corporate Development & Chief Marketing Officer at Hill-Rom

Cristobal Alonso

Entrepreneur, startup advisor and TMT executive

Robert Govoni

Founder and president at Govoni Dentistry PC, Brushin'on Belmont. Board certified pediatric dental specialist.

Dave DeMink

Current: RVP, Sales - North America at @ringcentral. 12 years SMB Sales/Marketing experience - Loudcloud, WebEx, SuccessFactors, @ringcentral

Pete Liguori

Extensive Senior Management Experience (C Suite positions), over 30 years in a variety of Casino Gaming companies.

Jim Larrison

Co-Founder @dynamic-signal, live in Chicago area, early @ @comscore & @adify. Interests: Movies, Politics, NFL, Consumer Behavior, Social Media & Brand Marketing
http://larrison.blogspot.com

Stephen Sullivan

Former Institutional Investor @ Citi, MBA Student @ UChicago, Scout @ LEO.COM, Small Angel, Aspiring entrepreneur

Seth Kravitz

Co-Founder of @technori and @insuranceagents-com
http://blog.sethkravitz.com

Dominik Mazur

Founder CamFind, Studied @university-of-illinois-urbana-champaign computer science and mathematics, Founded the search engine - JRank.org and StateUniversity.com Helicopter Pilot for a hobby

John Ciasulli

David, I received your email intro via angle.co and am encouraged by your progress thus far. I would be happy to speak with you via phone or over coffee. Feel free to email me at [email protected] or [email protected] Sincerely, Joh

David Kadavy

Author of Design for Hackers (Debuted at #18 on @amazon) Mentor at 500 Startups. Changing the way you see design.

Howard Tullman

Thomas Buchar

Start-up Junkie who connects the dots, creates results, and plays well with others.
http://www.buchar.net

Michael Bruns

technology finance and operating executive, former technology investment banker, former COO/CFO of ClearTrial (sold to Oracle in April 2012), Harvard MBA

Jason Wadler

Adam Scott Riff

Senior executive and entrepreneur with 13 years of experience in marketing / comms, digital media, strategy, product management and operations.

Chris Conley

Founder workforce.io • Worked at @motorola, @honeywell • Investor @dscout • Studied at @illinois-institute-of-technology

E. Jeffrey Lyons

M&A Advisor at City Capital, Founder/BOD - PRIMIS (52% IRR), Pres./BOD - BigTime Software (VC-backed), Adj. Entrep. Faculty at NU, Kellogg & Techstars Mentor

Aristo Partners

Founder Ariso Partners • Worked at @mckinsey-company, @novartis • Investor @zocdoc, @tethys-bioscience • Studied at @northwestern-university

Brett Gough

CEO at @toy-studio; Shareholder @playphone, Inc.; Founder @viveli, Inc; Advisor of Startups; Investments (Bright.com, Pixalate, @open-install (Sold December 2011))

Mark Solovy

Founder @gunnallen-venture-partners, @israel-america-discovery-fund • Worked at @hercules-technology-growth-capital • Studied at @university-of-pennsylvania, @washington-university-in-saint-louis

Steve Mohebi

Co-founder, Smithfield Medical Director of Sales & B.D., BetaSphere Founder, Caspian Partners, LLC Studied @university-of-california-berkeley

Terry Howerton

Founder of a tech association, partner at a venture collaborative/incubator, entrepreneur, education booster. Gifted boat rocker that connects people & ideas.
http://www.terryhowerton.com

Leon Ginsburg

CEO, entrepreneur and investor with 14+ years experience designing software solutions

michael winnick

Founder dscout, @gravitytank • Worked at @wired-magazine • Studied at @stanford-university, @institute-of-design-illinois-institute-of-technology

Clayton Cohn

Self-taught securities trader turned angel investor, incubator and entrepreneur.
http://www.stocktwits.com/claytoncohn

Scott Herkelman

President / Board of Directors at Wi3 Inc.

Ross Gordon

CEO/Founder CraftJack (sold in June 2012). Co-founder @mystery-tackle-box • Worked at @leo-burnett, @arc-worldwide . Big ideas followed by precise execution.
http://www.builtinchicago.org/member/rossgordon

Justin Jarvinen

Startup advisor. Biz dev guru. Strategist w/18 yrs brand, entnmnt & media relationships • Worked at @bear-stearns-co-inc • Studied at @northwestern-university

Gautam Gulati

Chief Medical Officer & Head of Product Innovation at Physicians Interactive Holdings; Creator of OMNIO; Advisor: Medikly; Supporter of "Health Artists"
http://gautamgulati.me/

Art Roldan

ISD Corporation, Executive Chairman & CEO

Thomas Pham

Entrepreneur.Technologist.Consultant - ETC

Brad Morehead

CEO LiveWatch Security and @SafeMart, Co-Founder @WildcatAngels and writing about #entrepreneurship, #startups, home #security #alarms, @Northwestern & #poker

Nick Cromydas

Founder TapFit • Worked at @kpmg, @northwestern-university-1 • Studied at @vanderbilt-university

Raja Bhatia

Founder @confluence-labs, @enthrive • Worked at @avid-life-media • Studied at @queen-s-university

Anthony B. Ferguson

Partner at Miller and Ferguson

Matthew Caston

CSO at 365 Retail. Strong finance and sales operations background. Startup to enterprise management expertise. Moderately irreverent.

Peter Liu

associate @newworldvc, early-adopter, wahoo alumn, sportsfan, lover of any combination of food, music, and beer, happier when traveling

Chris Carlson

Former Co-Founder of Tap.Me (Acquired by MediaMath). Experienced digital media executive with proven ability to build and lead successful sales teams--in start-up, growth-stage, and at-scale organizations.

Godard Abel

@proven SaaS Entrepreneur

Bob Zukis

CEO, Board Member & Advisor. Hyde Park Angel, UChicago, Hoopster & Author - never at the same time.

Phil Hammer

Founder & CEO @procureapp-1 I'm passionate about new technologies and in helping corporation's to save expenses via new internet applications.

Jon Abrams

Founder of @edline. Investor in @blackboard, @edline, @chemical-information-services, @atco-crossroads, @clark-street-farm.

James Adams

Managing Partner, M4; Sold PE-backed company to (NASDAQ: ABFS) for $180M. Proven GM, Sales Exec in B2B, B2C and B2G. MBA, U of Chicago, '98; BSME, UIUC, '91.

Matt Dellen

Justin Bouchard

Founder @algofast, Bouchard Trading
http://www.AlgoFast.com/our_blog

Andy Person

Director at Urban Outfitters. Consumer growth operator/investor/advisor. Significant experience working and investing in growth stage to public companies.

Scott Skinger

Founder/CEO of @trainsignal (acquired by @pluralsight). Founder/CEO of Blue Whale Web. Looking to partner with people who want to make a difference.

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Entrepreneur. Hacker. Founder. Hipster. IU Kelley School of Business.

Conor Barnes

Investor via Pipeline Fellowship, Board Member @philantech, student at Rutgers Business School

Christopher Pursuitist

Award-winning pioneer in web publishing, online marketing and ecommerce.

Cem Baydar

Strategy and Management Consulting Executive with 15 years of experience, Advisory Board Member of Endeavor, Member of Keiretsu Forum, ex-Accenture and comScore executive.

Chris LoPresti

Founder @touchpoints • Love building communities with @sandbox-network, @the-feast, @gust • Studied @yale-university • NYC & Chicago • Angel - VC - Entrepreneur •
http://www.chrislopresti.com

Raju Malhotra

SVP, Products @centro, Ex-Microsoft, Ex-McKinsey, Wharton MBA; Product-focused Technologist, Entrepreneur & Investor in Online Media, Advertising, Mobile/Social

D'Andre Fason

I'm a cabinet-maker & designer of furniture. I am looking to build with the right investor from my garage to our own woodshop! http://www.4frontfurniture.biz

Jorge Newbery

Founder & CEO, American Homeowner Preservation, which purchases pools of distressed mortgages from banks and offers homeowners long-term solutions, while delivering attractive returns to investors

E Anderle

Brett Dines

Dynamic executive leader with a broad and unique background leading strategy, product and service development, business development, and sales. Experienced with pharmaceutical, medical device, hospitals, and healthcare consulting organizations in both st

David Gamperl

Investor in @osborn-energy, @m37-marketing.

Brian Rosenzweig

Worked at @janvest • Investor @hybrid-security, @todacell • Studied at @indiana-university-bloomington
http://janvest.wordpress.com/

Scott Golas

Executive in Residence at NewCo (an affiliate of...) #Gamification expert, #outsourcing enthusiast, micro investor, avid biker & amateur landscaper

J.J. Schwan

Brandon R. Halcott

Senior Business Manager at Brightstar Corporation

A. Alexander Gillan

President of Eco Save Solutions, Inc. (Current Venture). Started my first business during college in wholesale liquidation in 2005. Conducted business in 13 countries.

Jay Alter

Entreprenuer looking for next opportunity. 14 years at last venture with successful exit. Stanford BA, University of Chicago Booth MBA.

Nick Moran

M&A Strategy, Breakthrough Innovation, Product Development

Jonathan Ellis

Co-founder @elysian-yields • Studied at @insead-1, @university-of-manchester

Eric Muschinski

CEO Phenom Ventures LLC/Investor Media Inc. Current Editor Gold Investment Letter. Co founder GunnAllen Venture Partners
http://www.goldinvestmentletter.com/blog/

Wood Chatham

CEO of Clean Plate, a startup consolidating the independent restaurant industry. 14 year career on Wall Street focussed on Consumer-related investments.

Ankur Mittal

Founded CVM (sold to Altegrity), Founded Smart Dimensions, C-Level Exec, Masters in Computer Science with MBA from Kellogg, Worked for Shasta Venture

Alex Ross

I like to make nothing into something. KU Grad, International exp, Fundraising and people Guru.

Vincent Ma

Senior Vice President

Liad Wagman

Peter Hans

Co-Founder of Harvest Exchange Corp. Founding team of Height Analytics & Height Securities. 14 years Investment Experience Colby College, Vanderbilt MBA

Kishore Gangwani

President of 2 businesses in financial services. Led Global sales organization and M&A practice. MBA from @university-of-chicago. Mgmt consulting experience.

Yuan Geng

Prabir Datta

@booth-school-of-business MBA'10; Venture Capital Due Diligence; Technology & Finance professional based in Chicago

Christian Plaichner

Serial Entrepreneur with VC background, founder and CEO of SENACTIVE, a leading SW for CEP, Big Data, Predictive Analytics and Decision Mgmt.

Stuart Miller

Founder and Managing Director at Colonnade Advisors LLC

John Lustig

CEO at National Health Care Provider Solutions; HCIT Angel; Actively Involved w/ Disque Foundation & Ronald McDonald House of Chicago

Maurio Fiore

JD Candidate at UChicago. Founded and sold Mousa, LLC. MBA from Katz at UPitt.

Tim Adams

Vice President; Global Treasury Sales Officer @bank-of-america-merrill-lynch BBA; Finance & Religion Concentrations @goizueta-business-school

M K

Anonymous Investor- various NGO platforms for furthering tech in third world locations. AWS advocate, MS CS UChicago

Ashees Jain

Founder @blue Elephant Capital Management • Worked at @lehman-brothers, @barclays-capital • Studied at @cornell-university, @northwestern-university

Mike Gordon

Joe Jacobs

Indiana University Kelley school of business - marketing. Built and sold 2 companies by age 33.

John J. Kacinas

Over 27 years of third party debt collection experience running operations for well known national agencies. Expertise in government and student loan debt, including United States Department of Education.

Steve Komie

Erik Nathan

Investor @3tera, @lateraldata • Studied at @tulane-university

Andrew Wright

Thirty years of experience investing in publicly traded securities, derivatives, and private equity.

Arthur Tretyak

Al Kohlmann

Work at investment/merchant bank.

Brad Wilkening

We put together high quality software for our clients. We are prolific in Rails, Backbone.js, Ember.js, TDD, Machine Learning & much more!