Investment Partners play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top San Diego 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 Diego Investment Partners
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Howard Lindzon
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Howard Lindzon – Founder & General Partner @ Social Leverage
Bill Maris
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Bill Maris is an entrepreneur and prominent venture capitalist focused on technology and the life sciences. He is the founder and first …
Hem Suri
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Venture
Hem is an accomplished investment, board and executive management leader with two decades of experience as an entrepreneur, venture capital …
Bill Malloy
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Bill Malloy is an innovative investor and technologist with a track record of successfully investing and building companies. He is currently…
Nagraj Kashyap
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Nagraj oversees Microsoft Ventures. He has more than 20 years of experience in venture capital, business development, software engineering a…
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Naveen Rao
Jonathan Lim
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
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Jonathan Lim is Founder of Ignyta, Inc. (Nasdaq: RXDX), an oncology precision medicine biotechnology company that is a portfolio company of …
Sheldon Lewis
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Sheldon Lewis, Managing Director. Lewis is co-founder and Managing Director of Blueprint. Prior to co-founding Blueprint, Lewis was Senior V…
Paul E. Jacobs
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Paul E. Jacobs is an Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board of Directors at QUALCOMM Incorporated. Paul has served as Chairman of the …
Larry Bock
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Larry Bock is the founder and organizer of the USA Science & Engineering Festival, and a former founder of the San Diego Science Festival. M…
Drew Senyei
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Drew is a managing director at Enterprise Partners where he leads the life science practice. Drew focuses on investments in pharmaceuticals…
Michael Weisman
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Michael Weisman
Bobby Ocampo
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Bobby is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Blueprint Equity. Prior to co-founding Blueprint, Bobby was a Partner with Revolution Ventures, …
Brandon Zeuner
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Brandon Zeuner is a co-founder and partner at [Venture51](http://www.crunchbase.com/financial-organization/venture51). Zeuner also cofounded…
David Coats
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
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As a Co-Founder and Managing Director of Correlation Ventures, David helps lead the firm, including managing its Life Science and Clean Tech…
Kevin Forrest
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
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Kevin M. Forrest, Ph.D. joined 5AM Ventures in 2005 from Princeton University where he studied RNA-based regulatory processes. His work has …
Kirk Haney
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Kirk Haney is President and Chief Executive Officer of SGB, Inc. Mr. Haney has a successful track record developing sustainable, for-profit …
Quinn Li
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
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Quinn oversees Qualcomm’s $1B global venture investment portfolio of 150+ companies across seven regions. Quinn and his team invest in key a…
Arama Kukutai
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
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Arama Kukutai joined Finistere Ventures as Partner & Co-Founder in 2005.As Managing Director, Kukutai is responsible for Finistere Venture’s…
Wolf Bielas
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Wolf Bielas is the Managing Partner of Wolfpack Ventures in San Diego, CA and a veteran of the technology industry. Less than a year after g…
Peter Arrowsmith
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Peter Arrowsmith is a General Partner at JMI Equity. He has served on the boards of numerous JMI portfolio companies and has over 15 years o…
Clare Ozawa
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Clare became a Versant managing director in January 2017 and leads investments in San Diego and the Bay Area. Clare currently is responsible…
David Michael
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
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David Michael is Managing Director at Anzu Partners, an investment partnership which invests in innovative industrial technology companies. …
Jay Lichter
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jay Lichter joined Avalon Ventures as Managing Director in 2007.Dr. Lichter has served on Otonomy’s board of directors since May 2008. Dr. L…
Ryan Kuder
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ryan is Managing Director at Techstars, the global startup ecosystem that helps entrepreneurs build great businesses. He currently runs Tech…
Vikram Sudarsan
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Vikram Sudarsan is Strategy Head of Cipla New Ventures at Cipla USA since October 2013. Vikram is a versatile biotech pharma professional wi…
Steve Mollenkopf
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Steve Mollenkopf is the Chief Executive Officer at QUALCOMM Incorporated since March 2014 and a Member of the Board of Directors since Dece…
Suken Vakil
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Suken Vakil – General Partner @ JMI Equity
Andy White
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Andy White Bio: I most recently lead the VegasTechFund to become the 5th most active Micro VC firm in 2014. The focus was to empower amazing…
Carol Gallagher
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Carol Gallagher joined NEA in October, 2014. She is primarily focused on biopharma investments. Carol is a proven entrepreneur, operator a…
Daniel O’Leary
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Grant, Private Equity
Entrepreneur, Principle consultant to startups and fortune 500’s, 25 years of experience, military veteran and UC Berkeley Grad.
Kim P. Kamdar
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Kim joined Domain in 2005 and became a partner in 2011. With a background in small molecule drug discovery, Kim has been involved in cutting…
Brian Mesic
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Brian is passionate about working with entrepreneurs to solve big problems and build great companies. He spends most of his time working dir…
Steve Tomlin
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Steve Tomlin has been an entrepreneur, senior executive and investor in the wireless technology, biotechnology and Internet industries for o…
Leo Speigel
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Leo Spiegel is a Managing Partner at Mission Ventures, Prior to joining Mission Ventures, Leo Spiegel was President of Digital Island, Inc.,…
Tim Bubnack
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Tim Bubnack joined Huntington Capital in June 2007 and has more than 17 years of lending, technology investment and financial experience. Pr…
Steven Hamerslag
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Steven Hamerslag is a Co-Founder of TVC Capital. He has over 34 years experience starting, growing and leading high tech enterprises. Hi…
Eckard Weber
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Eckard Weber, M.D. is a co-founder of Ocera and served as a member of its board of directors since Ocera’s inception in December 2004, and a…
Hope Mago
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Hope Mago – Partner @ HCAP Partners
Nimesh Shah
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Nimesh is a co-founder and current board member of Zyga Technology and a board member of Benvenue Medical, Cotera, Fractyl Laboratories, Mir…
Robert Finzi
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Robert Finzi is a consultant at Risk Data.
Caitlin Wege
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Caitlin Wege – Partner @ Moodoos Investments
David F. Hale
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
David F. Hale is our Founder and Executive Chairman. He is Chairman and CEO of Hale BioPharma Ventures, LLC, a private company focused on th…
Sachin Deshpande
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Sachin Deshpande
Susie Harborth
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Seed
Susie Harborth is Chief Financial Officer at Mission BioCapital. Prior companies include BioInnovation Captial, BioLabs, GnuBIO, Boston Hea…
Yuichi Iwaki
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Dr. Iwaki holds three professorships at the University of Southern California School of Medicine in the Departments of Urology, Surgery and …
Thomas Daniel
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Thomas O. Daniel was President, Global Research and Early Development at Celgene Corporation over the last decade, as the company emerged as…
Parker Hinshaw
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
As a collaborative leader and innovative serial entrepreneur, Parker provides business development and strategic expertise to Bootstrap’s ea…
Carl Eibl
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Carl Eibl is a Managing Director at Enterprise Partners. In addition to serving as an investment partner, Carl is also responsible for manag…
Ken Hood
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ken Hood is a Managing Partner at FusionX Ventures.
Lucian Iancovici
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Lucian is an Investment Manager at Qualcomm Ventures, who makes investments through Qualcomm’s Life Fund. His background and experience in …
Jayson Punwani
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jayson joined Pappas Ventures in 2011 as an intern, while in business school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. While in bu…
Mark McDowell
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Mark McDowell is the Board Partner at Real Ventures.
Dean Rosenberg
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Dean Rosenberg
Tom Isett
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Tom Isett is CEO and Co-Founder at Wibi+Works.
David Kabakoff
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
David Kabakoff joined Sofinnova Ventures as an Executive Partner in 2007. David has 30 years of experience leading technology and product de…
Jeb Spencer
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jeb Spencer chairs the Board’s Mergers and Acquisitions Committee and served the Board since August 2011. From September 2006 to the present…
Paul Barber
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Paul Barber – Chairman @ JMI Equity
Antonius Schuh
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Dr. Antonius Schuh has been the chief executive for a series of successful start-up molecular diagnostic companies. Currently he is the chie…
Ivor Royston
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ivor Royston is president & CEO, Viracta Therapeutics.
Arda Minocherhomjee
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Dr. Minocherhomjee is a founding Partner of Chicago Growth Partners. Prior to founding CGP, he was a Managing Director at William Blair Capi…
Sureel Sheth
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Sureel Sheth – Principal @ JMI Equity
Jeremy Caldwell
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jeremy Caldwell
Timothy Wollaeger
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Tim has nearly thirty years’ experience in the medical products and biotechnology fields in both corporate management and venture capital. M…
James Thompson
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
James Thompson, Ph.D. is a Vice President of GF Private Equity Group and serves on the Investment Committee. He researches investment opport…
Lake McGuire
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Lake McGuire – Managing Director | Life Sciences @ Hercules Capital
Rick Fink
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Rick co-founded Miramar Venture Partners in 2001. Prior to founding Miramar, Rick was a partner with the national law firm of Brobeck, Phle…
Dennis Dunn
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Dennis Dunn is an Operating Partner at Blackford Capital. Dunn brings with him a wealth of private equity and operational experience and wil…
Brian Hersman
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Brian Hersman – General Partner @ JMI Equity
Charles Noell
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Charles Noell – Partner @ JMI Equity
Stuart J. M. Collinson
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Dr Collinson is a partner at Forward Ventures, and the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Tioga Pharmaceuticals. Previously he was C…
Matt Meehan
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Matt Meehan
Debra K. Liebert
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Debra K. Liebert
Jean Balgrosky
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jean has served for more than 20 years as CIO of large, complex health care organizations, working for such health systems as Scripps Health…
Perry Nisen
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Perry Nisen Executive Partner Sofinnova Investments.
Chet Billingsley
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Chet Billingsley is the Chairman, CEO, and founder of Mentor Capital, Inc. He is a native of Minnesota who received a congressional appointm…
Naser Partovi
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Naser Partovi – Board of Directors @ Gigabit Optics
Albert Wang
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed
Albert Wang is a Director at Qualcomm Ventures. His current investment areas are mobile, cloud, internet of things (IoT), and artificial int…
Frank Mora
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Frank Mora – Partner @ HCAP Partners
Kim Davis King
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Kim Davis King is the Partner at Launch Factory.
Mike Grey
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Mike Grey – Venture Partner @ Pappas Ventures
Joseph Leveque
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Joseph Leveque
David Bergeron
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
David works with Rev1 clients on market validation. He helps entrepreneurs develop business plans that position startups to clear milestones…
Paul Grossman
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Before joining THP, Paul was Head of Strategy and Corporate Development for Life Technologies where he was responsible for spearheading the …
Annie Mak
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Annie Mak is a member of Tech Coast Angels since 2015. Annie became an Investigator III, Assay Development & HTS of GNF. She has joined Geno…
Anthony Flores
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Anthony Flores – Head of Southwest Life Sciences and Healthcare @ Silicon Valley Bank
Robert Lake
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Debt
Robert Lake
Richard Bollinger
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
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Richard joined CapX Partners in May 2002, bringing a well-rounded depth of experience to financial accounting, taxation and portfolio manage…
Michael White
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Michael White is a National Head of Business Development and Managing Director for Silicon Valley Bank.
Bhairvee Shavdia
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Bhairvee joined HCAP Partners in September 2015 and holds a unique role spanning both the firm’s Impact and Investment practices. Bhairvee …
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