30 Best & Most Active San Jose Investment Partners

Investment Partners play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top San Jose Investment Partners. We have tried to select a variety of different types of investors across a variety of niches.

This list is designed to show off the investors with exceptional track records, industry experience and a unique understanding of the ecosystem.

Top San Jose Investment Partners

Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.

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John Chambers

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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Chambers has served as a member of the Board of Directors since November 1993. He served as Chairman of the Board of Directors since Novembe…

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Lip-Bu Tan

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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Lip-Bu Tan is Chairman and Founder of Walden International and has been active in the venture capital industry for the past two decades. Add…

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Anis Uzzaman

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Investor Type: Investment Partner

Investment Stage:

Anis Uzzaman, Ph.D is the General Partner and founding member of Pegasus Tech Ventures. He serves as the Chief Executive of the company, ove…

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David Chao

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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

David K Chao joined DCM Ventures as General Partner and Cofounder.

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Gary Gauba

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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Gary Gauba

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Raymond Liao

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Investor Type: Investment Partner

Investment Stage:

Raymond Liao is a Managing Director at Samsung NEXT Ventures, with a special focus on Security, Big Data, Cloud, and AI. Previously Raymo…

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Bill Krause

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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Bill Krause has served as a director since 2004. Krause has served as President of LWK Ventures, a private advisory and investment firm sinc…

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Nicolas Sauvage

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Investor Type: Investment Partner

Investment Stage:

Managing Director of TDK Ventures. TDK Ventures is a technology-focused venture fund, investing globally in early-stage startups that levera…

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Kevin Landis

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Investor Type: Investment Partner

Investment Stage:

Kevin Landis is the chief investment officer of Firsthand Capital Management.

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Nancy Schoendorf

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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel

Investment Stage: Seed

Nancy Schoendorf joined Mohr Davidow in 1993 she brought seventeen years of industry experience in a variety of engineering and executive po…

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Heejin Chung

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Investor Type: Investment Partner

Investment Stage:

Heejin Chung – Head of Venture Investment @ SK Hynix

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Tony Huang

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Investor Type: Investment Partner

Investment Stage:

Tony Huang is a cross border investment professional with over two decades of experience in Silicon Valley and Asia’s venture capital indust…

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Stephan Baral

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Investor Type: Investment Partner

Investment Stage:

Stephan builds teams and products at the crossroads of mobility and digital lifestyle trends as Director of Digital Business Innovation and …

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NITIN T MEHTA

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Investor Type: Investment Partner

Investment Stage:

Nitin Mehta has been associated with twenty-one companies, according to public records. The companies were formed over a forty year period w…

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Amit Chaturvedy

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Investor Type: Investment Partner

Investment Stage:

Amit Chaturvedy – Global Head – Enterprise Technology, Cisco Investments and Corporate Development @ Cisco

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Kyle Kling

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Investor Type: Investment Partner

Investment Stage:

Kyle Kling – US Investment Manager @ MDI Ventures

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Eric Quan

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Investor Type: Investment Partner

Investment Stage:

Eric co-founded Telos after being called by God to find a way to integrate his business and pastoral experiences. After starting his career …

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Anthony J. Pantuso

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Investor Type: Investment Partner

Investment Stage:

Anthony J. Pantuso – Managing Director @ NeoCarta Ventures

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Richard Irving

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Investor Type: Investment Partner

Investment Stage:

Based in Silicon Valley, Richard co-founded Pond in 1997 and brings over 15 years operating experience including P&L management and 17 years…

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Rebecca Jacoby

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Investor Type: Investment Partner

Investment Stage:

Rebecca Jacoby

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Nick Mignano

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Investor Type: Investment Partner

Investment Stage:

Nick joined Crosslink in 2006 and evaluates venture capital opportunities in Energy Technologies and Computing & Semiconductors. Prior to…

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Srikanth Pakala

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Investor Type: Investment Partner

Investment Stage: Seed

Srikanth holds an Engineering degree from the College of Engineering, Osmania University.

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Joseph Zaelit

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Investor Type: Investment Partner

Investment Stage:

Joseph Zaelit has served as a member of the Board of Directors since June 2009. Since August 2003, Zaelit has served as a venture partner of…

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Anand Vijay

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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel

Investment Stage:

Anand Vijay – Director of Engineering @ eBay

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Tad Weems

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Investor Type: Investment Partner

Investment Stage:

Tad Weems

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Hal Calhoun

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Investor Type: Investment Partner

Investment Stage:

Hal Calhoun, Ph.D. served as Managing Director of Menlo Ventures at Talari Networks, Inc. since August 2000. Prior to joining Menlo Ventures…

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Alexander Grbic

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Investor Type: Investment Partner

Investment Stage:

Alexander (Alex) Grbic is vice president of product marketing in the Programmable Solutions group at Intel Corporation, where he is responsi…

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Muhammed Chaudhry

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Investor Type: Investment Partner

Investment Stage:

Muhammed Chaudhry Managing Partner at MAC Capital Partners.

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Jeffrey Miller

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Investor Type: Investment Partner

Investment Stage:

Jeff Miller is President of JAMM Ventures, a business consulting company. Jeff has more than 35 years of high tech experience, in semiconduc…

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Prateek Kathpal

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Investor Type: Investment Partner

Investment Stage:

Prateek Kathpal CTO at Cerence (NASDAQ: CRNC).