Vinod Khosla is an Indian-American billionaire businessman and venture capitalist. He is a co-founder of Sun Microsystems and the founder of Khosla Ventures. Khosla made his wealth from early venture capital investments in areas such as networking, software, and alternative energy technologies. He is considered one of the most successful and influential venture capitalists. Khosla was named the top venture capitalist on the Forbes Midas List in 2001 and has been listed multiple times since that time. As of August 2024, Forbes estimated his net worth at US$7.2 billion.
Niklas Zennström is a Swedish entrepreneur and technology investor. He is co-founder of the charity organization Zennström Philanthropies.
Halsey Minor is an American entrepreneur who founded CNET in 1993. He also founded or co-founded Live Planet, VideoCoin, Vivid Labs, Salesforce.com, Google Voice, OpenDNS, and Vignette.
Jason McCabe Calacanis is a podcaster, American Internet entrepreneur, angel investor, and author.
Alexander Straub is a German-born Internet and Telecommunications entrepreneur and investor, and the head of the London firm Straub Ventures and Cambridge Accelerator Partners. He was a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford for Germany as a PhD student. He holds degrees from Darmstadt and Cornell University (MEng), and also attended Stanford University.
Anthony Hsieh was an American internet entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He retired as the CEO of the online shoe and clothing company Zappos in August 2020 after 21 years. Prior to joining Zappos, Hsieh co-founded the Internet advertising network LinkExchange, which he sold to Microsoft in 1998 for $265 million.
Jersie or Jersie Strand is a town 32 kilometres (20 mi) south-west of central Copenhagen and form the southern part of the Solrød Strand urban area. The suburb is served by Jersie railway station, located on the Køge Bay radial line of Copenhagen's S-train network.
Tommy Ahlers is a Danish former businessman and politician who was a member of the Folketing for the Venstre political party from 2015 to 2021. He was the Minister of Science, Technology, Information and Higher Education in the Lars Løkke Rasmussen III Cabinet.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a global venture capital firm focusing on seed stage, early stage investments and growth stage investments in the enterprise, fintech, consumer and healthcare sectors. Lightspeed has eleven offices globally and as of 2023 had approximately US$25 billion in assets under management.
Nasdaq Private Market (NPM) provides a secondary market trading venue for issuers, brokers, shareholders, and prospective investors of private company stock. Since inception, NPM has facilitated more than $40 billion in transactional volume and has worked with 400+ private companies and 100,000+ employees, stakeholders, and investors. NPM offers private company and investors different solutions including tender offers, auctions, block trades, and custom company marketplaces. In 2021, NPM spun-off of Nasdaq to become its own, independent company receiving strategic investments from Silicon Valley Bank, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Allen and Co.
Aaron Winsor Levie is an American entrepreneur. He is the co-founder and CEO of the enterprise cloud company Box.
Brian Wong is a Canadian Internet entrepreneur. In 2010, Wong co-founded Kiip, a company offering a mobile app rewards platform through which computer game players would receive real-world rewards from brands and companies for in-game achievements.
Zendesk, Inc. is an American company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It provides software-as-a-service products related to customer support, sales, and other customer communications. The company was founded in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2007. Zendesk raised about $86 million in venture capital investments before going public in 2014.
Mark Pearson is a London, United Kingdom-based entrepreneur and investor. He founded and served as CEO of Markco Media, a European discount network.
Michael W. Ferro Jr. is an American businessman and tech entrepreneur, founder of Click Commerce and Higi, as well as several other companies including Merrick Ventures, a Chicago-based private equity firm. From February 2016 to March 2018, he was the non-executive chairman of Tribune Publishing, one of the largest newspaper publishers in the United States.
JetSmarter was a corporation and mobile application for private jet users. The company was headquartered in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States. The app connected users to available aircraft and routes in the United States, Europe and Middle East. The company was purchased by Vista Global in 2019 and merged into a new brand, XOJET Aviation.
Shervin Kordary Pishevar is an Iranian-American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, super angel investor, and philanthropist. He is the co-founder and former executive chairman of Hyperloop One and a co-founder and managing director of Sherpa Capital, a venture capital fund which has invested in companies including Airbnb, Uber, GoPuff, Cue Health, Slack, Robinhood, Munchery and Postmates.
Ida Tin is a Danish internet entrepreneur and author who is the co-founder and CEO of the women's menstruation-tracking app, Clue. She is credited with coining the term "femtech".
Digital Currency Group Inc. (DCG) is a venture capital company focusing on the digital currency market. It is located in Stamford, Connecticut. The company has the subsidiaries Foundry, Genesis, Grayscale Investments, and Luno. It also formerly owned CoinDesk.
René Rechtman is a Danish entrepreneur, businessman, and investor. He is the founder and CEO of Moonbug Entertainment and former president of international operations at Maker Studios.
