# Top 50 Web3 Angel Investors in United Kingdom in October 2023

## Sam Enrico Williams
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 24
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Web Apps, Fantasy Sports

Sam Enrico Williams is a CEO & Founder at Zloadr.
Having built intelligent systems for the past 10 years, that have been implemented into corporate structures and organisations, Sam Enrico Williams brings a deep level and understanding of System Architecture. Sam has strong experience in Cryptocurrency, blockchain technology and economymarkets; needed to drive DocTailor to unprecedented levels.

## Chris Adelsbach
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

## Errol Damelin
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance

Errol Damelin is the Founder, CEO, chairman, or original investor and backer of over 75 digital and tech companies around the world, including in the US, the UK, most of Europe, Israel, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Nigeria. He concentrates his efforts on SaaS, fintech, crypto, marketplaces and data analytics as well as on health andwellness. He is also a technologist and has three granted patents to his name with another four pending.Among the companies co-founded by Damelin are groundbreaking fintech company Wonga, and SME banking startup Tide. His early investments include Wise, Cazoo, Purplebricks, K Health, YuLife, Sure, Demyst, Zoe, Farewill, CityMapper, Modifi, UnBabel, Thimble, HiBob, Modifi, Elliptic, Lendingkart, and VivaReal.
Using his own personal equity, Damelin continues to invest early on in the next generation of entrepreneurs so that he can help them succeed. He is not an institutional VC fund and does not maximize the assets under his management. He best describes his approach as Riding Shotgun.Damelin's success as a founder has been recognized by The Guardian, which named him Digital Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011; by Ernst and Young, which named him the UK's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 as well; and by TechCrunch, which named him Founder of the Year in 2010.

## Den Christian Bocassa
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Social Media, Social Network

Den Christian Bocassa is the CEO and Founder at Ethereum Enterprises.

## Taavet Hinrikus
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Taavet Hinrikus is co-founder and CEO of TransferWise. Prior to starting TransferWise, Taavet was Skype’s director of strategy until 2008, starting as its first-ever employee. One of the World Economic Forum's Tech Pioneers, Taavet is an adviser to Prime Minister of Estonia on the digital agenda. He’s also a mentor and angel investor; hisinvestments include Tweetdeck, Mendeley, OMGPOP, Property Partner, Sunrise, Improbable and Mapillary.

## George Burke
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Initial Coin Offering, Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Passionate problem solver specializing in blockchain, cryptocurrency, health & wellness tech, biohacking.Product manager, marketer, & executive with a proven ability to recognize and capitalize on commercial opportunities. Conceived, launched and successfully exited three companies. 13+ years of experience in consumer product development& growth marketing.

## Alexander Pack
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, Blockchain

Alex Pack is a Founding Partner on the deal team at AngelList, the largest platform for early-stage tech investing in the world. Previously he was an investor with Arbor Ventures, an early-stage VC firm in Hong Kong, where he focused on opportunities in cross-border FinTech, EdTech, and blockchain technology.

## Kain Warwick
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services

Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft

## David Hoffman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Internet, Cryptocurrency

David Hoffman began his professional career starting in the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. David has been consulting and advising blockchain startups since 2017, in order to ensure these new teams are building products that are in alignment with the ethos found in the cryptocurrency community. David has consulted for 12 cryptocurrencystartups, from various industries such as insurance, healthcare, supply chain management, and gambling
David operates a cryptocurrency focused podcast called POV Crypto, where prominent guests come to discuss their views and predictions about the cryptocurrency and blockchain industry. POV Crypto is praised for it’s balanced arguments between the co-hosts and guests, in its attempt to bring unbiased arguments into the space. Additionally, David frequently writes articles about the Ethereum ecosystem, MakerDAO, and token economics, and is a leading advocate for the adoption of the decentralized finance industry.

## Ryan Sean Adams
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Finance

Ryan Sean Adams

## Christoph Lymbersky
- Type: Angel
- Location: Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Information Technology, Health Care, E-Commerce Platforms

Prior to founding GLOBAL VENTURES, Christoph was a partner at M2P Venture & Capital Partners, CEO of Deutsche Telekom Strategic Investments (T-Venture) and Vice President at DT Capital Partners. At Detecon International he headed the restructuring & efficiency practice and worked for the turnaround management boutique Turnaround ManagementSociety. Christoph founded, managed and successfully exited several companies such as an internet service provider, an IT consulting & security company and a new media publishing company earlier in his career.In addition, Christoph is the author of some bestselling textbooks on corporate restructuring, international management and financial markets. Christoph studied at the University of Hamburg and received a Master of Accounting as well as an MBA from Bond University, Australia. Afterwards he went to France and received his Doctorate with honors, from a leading French University.

## Jamie Broderick
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain

Jamie Broderick

## Anthony Sassano
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency

Anthony Sassano is a Product Marketing Manager at Set Labs. He attended La Trobe University.

## Serge Chiaramonte
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, E-Commerce

Serge Chiaramonte

## Wojciech Kostrzewa
- Type: Angel
- Location: Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Blockchain

Wojtek Kostrzewa has a successful 28-year history of building large banking and media companies. He worked as the CEO of the media conglomerate ITI Group and banks Polski Bank Rozwoju and BRE Bank (today mBank). He also managed the activities of Commerzbank in Central and Eastern Europe. Currently he serves, among other positions, on the board ofdirectors of the Swiss Stadler Rail and on the supervisory boards of the insurance companies of the ERGO Hestia Group. Wojtek is a graduate of the Economic Faculty at the University of Kiel (Germany) and also studied law at the University of Warsaw.

## Albert Essien
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Insurance, Blockchain

Mr. Albert Essien was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Ecobank Group in March 2014.Executive director of the Group since 2005, he has held several senior positions including Deputy Group Chief Executive Officer, in addition to serving as Group Executive Director for Corporate Bank & Investment Bank.Prior to that, he was theRegional Head for Anglophone West Africa (excluding Nigeria) and Niger and Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) regions.Mr. Albert Essien started his banking career in 1986 with the National Investment Bank in Accra, Ghana. In 1990 he joined the Corporate Banking Department of Ecobank Ghana before becoming 7 years later Country Risk Manager. He was appointed Deputy Managing Director in 2001 and became Managing Director in December 2002. Albert Essien has a degree in Economics from the University of Ghana (graduated in 1979) and is an alumnus of the Executive Development Program of INSEAD (France/Singapore). He is also an honorary fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers, Ghana.

## Luke Youngblood
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency

Luke Youngblood

## Anton Bukov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Amstelveen, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Internet

I am a philosopher, concept generator, and innovator with a deep fascination for technology, simplicity, and innovation, stemming from my software engineering journey that began in 2002. I have a profound curiosity in diverse domains such as algorithms, space exploration, blockchain technology, virtual and augmented reality, artificialintelligence, emerging energy sources, and new material sciences. My holistic and interdisciplinary approach propels me towards harnessing technology and innovation to conceive and create a future that surpasses the conventional boundaries of imagination

## Tony Xu
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Real Estate

Tony Xu is the CEO and co-founder of DoorDash. Tony attended University of California Berkeley and Stanford Graduate School of Business.

## Sandeep Nailwal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Sandeep Nailwal is the Co-Founder of Polygon. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Scopeweaver. He attended the National Institute of Industrial Engineering.

## Stefan George
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Private Equity
- Focus: Blockchain, Ethereum, Financial Services

Stefan George - Co-Founder & CTO @ Gnosis

## Jeffrey Tarrant
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Bitcoin, Privacy

Jeffrey is CEO and CIO of MOV37, a new business he founded to seek out and invest in emerging talent in the intersecting fields of machine learning, data science, and investment management. Jeffrey has more than three decades of experience picking emerging talent. He co-founded Protégé Partners in 2002 to focus exclusively on investing inestablished smaller hedge funds and select emerging managers. Prior to Protégé, Jeffrey managed institutional size alternative investments for private family fortunes and was a member of the board of the Investment Fund for Foundations. Jeffrey is known for investing in and seeding emerging managers, many of whom have become renowned names in the industry. During this time, Jeffrey also created Altvest, the hedge fund industry’s first Internet-based commercial database and analytics systems. Jeffrey is currently a director of ARK US, the U.S. affiliate of ARK (Absolute Return for Kids), a U.K. based charity with a mission to transform the lives of children, as well a director of WITNESS, a global human rights organization. Jeffrey’s philanthropic efforts include active support for many award-winning social issue documentary films. After graduating from Harvard Business School, Jeffrey worked at Berkeley Asset Management where he co-managed one of the first multi-managers in the US investing in hedge funds.

## Jordan Momtazi
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Trading Platform

Jordan Momtazi is the Co-Founder at Block Earner.

## Pierre Antoine Dusoulier
- Type: Angel
- Location: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier is the CEO of iBanFirst. He previously worked at Saxo Bank as a Head of Western Europe. Pierre-Antoine Dusoulier attended the University of Westminster.

## Stephen Ciesinski
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Alumni

Stephen Ciesinski - President @ SRI International

## Tarun Chitra
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Tarun Chitra is Co-Founder and CEO of Gauntlet, a simulation platform for crypto networks to help developers understand how decisions about security, governance, and consensus mechanisms are likely to affect network activity and asset value. His research in DeFi includes the first peer-reviewed papers proving the economic security properties ofUniswap and Compound. He previously worked in high frequency trading for Vatic Labs and was a scientific programmer at D. E. Shaw Research.

## Rene Reinsberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Software

Rene Reinsberg is the Co-Founder and President of Celo.

## Suji Yan
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet

Suji Yan is the founder and CEO of Dimension/Mask Network.

## David Craig
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Film, SaaS

David Craig joined Refinitiv as Founding CEO and Board Member in 2018. David Craig is President of the Financial & Risk business of Thomson Reuters.Previously, Craig served as President of Thomson Reuters Governance, Risk & Compliance and had been the company’s Chief Strategy Officer.Craig also served as Chief Strategy Officer ofThomson Reuters UK Limited.He joined the company in 2007 from McKinsey & Company where he was a Partner in the Global Business Technology Office, advising banks, technology and media companies, as well as co-leading the global IT Strategy Practice and the Outsourcing and Offshoring Practice.Prior to McKinsey, he was a Senior Principal and Partner at American Management Systems.He is a graduate of the University of Bristol. Craig also serves as a Trustee of the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

## Tim Brown
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Freelance, Blockchain

Tim Brown is CEO and president of IDEO. He frequently speaks about the value of design thinking and innovation to business people and designers around the world. He participates in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and his talks Serious Play and Change by Design appear on TED.com.An industrial designer by training, Tim has earnednumerous design awards and has exhibited work at the Axis Gallery in Tokyo, the Design Museum in London, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He takes special interest in the convergence of technology and the arts, as well as the ways in which design can be used to promote the well-being of people living in emerging economies.Tim advises senior executives and boards of global Fortune 100 companies. He is a member of the board of trustees of IDEO.org and serves on the Mayo Clinic Innovation Advisory Council and the Advisory Council of Acumen, a non-profit global venture focused on improving the lives of the poor. In addition he chairs the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on the Creative Economy and writes for the Harvard Business Review, The Economist, and other prominent publications. His book on how design thinking transforms organizations, Change by Design, was released by HarperBusiness in September 2009.

## James Park
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, SaaS

James is our Co-founder and has served as our Chairman since May 2015, as a member of our board of directors since March 2007, and as our President and CEO since September 2007. Previously, James served as a Director of Product Development at CNET Networks, as the President and a Co-founder of Wind-Up Labs, Inc. (an online photo-sharing companyacquired by CNET Networks in April 2005). He was also CTO and Co-Founder of Epesi Technologies, Inc., a software company. James attended Harvard College where he studied Computer Science. He was selected to serve as a member of our board of directors due to the perspective and experience he brings as our Co-Founder, President, and CEO.

## Marcin Zukowski
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Mateo, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, Manufacturing

Marcin invented vectorized query execution for databases. His innovation emerged from his PhD research into optimizing database query execution for modern processors.The technology inspired him to co-found Vectorwise, which produced the fastest single-node analytical database on the market. As Vectorwise CEO, Marcin led the company through itsacquisition by Actian in 2010. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Amsterdam.

## Naval Ravikant
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Blockchain

Naval Ravikant is the CEO and a co-founder of AngelList. He previously co-founded Epinions (which went public as part of Shopping.com) and Vast.com. He is an active Angel investor, and have invested in dozens of companies, including Twitter, Uber, Yammer, Stack Overflow and Wanelo.

## Gavin Wood
- Type: Angel
- Location: Berlin, Berlin, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Internet, Information Technology

Gavin Wood was the Chief Technology Officer and co-­founder of the Ethereum Project. He is the co-designer of the Ethereum Protocol, author of its formal specification, and is the creator and author of the first functional Ethereum implementation. Gavin Wood designed and stewarded the Solidity language, was the project chief of the IDE, anddesigned and implemented the Whisper protocol. He has pushed “state-of­-the-art” in analysis tools and programming languages, as well as co­-founded several technology start­ups.Gavin Wood has presented to numerous audiences around the world, from keynotes at regional technology conferences, to musings on the future of legal systems at Harvard. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of York. His new initiative is the Polkadot protocol, which will connect public and private blockchains so that they can inter-operate. This ambitious project could make it frictionless for corporations that wish to work in private blockchains to connect with public blockchains.Gavin is founder and current director of Parity Technologies Ltd. He has pushed the state­-of­-the-­art in analysis tools and programming languages, as well as co-­founded several technology start­ups, including Grid Singularity and Ethereum. He is the co-­designer of the Ethereum Protocol and author of its formal specification, he created and wrote the first functional Ethereum implementation, designed and stewarded the Solidity language, was the project chief of the IDE, and designed and implemented the Whisper protocol.

## Timothy Abbott
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Analytics, SaaS, Ride Sharing

Timothy Abbott - Founder & CEO @ Zulip

## Peter Gabriel
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Music, TV, Supply Chain Management

Peter is clearly way more than a global music legend. He divides his time and energy between his music, humanitarian projects, business investments and his family.He became an investor and advisor to The Filter in 2006 and brings with him a clear vision of a need for smart filters to help us make sense of a world with too many choices. Workingwith Peter is inspiring – his passion and creativity help drive and motivate the team.

## Mohamed Selmi
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, Cloud Management

Mohamed Selmi is a Co-Founder & CEO at Translool Ltd. He attended University of the West of England.

## Jan Hammer
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Jan joined Index in 2010, and is a London-based partner, focusing on fintech and information/data services across all stages of growth.He is one of Index Ventures’ leading fintech investors, working with the founders of Adyen, Credit Benchmark, Robinhood and TransferWise. In all, Index has backed more than two dozen fintech companies, withmore than $400 million. Jan has also led Index investments and is on the boards of Beamery, Collibra, SafetyCulture and Silverfin.Before he joined Index, Jan was at General Atlantic in London, where he worked on investments in Kaspersky Lab, Northgate Information Solutions and Torex Retail. He also worked in the M&A, TMT and Capital Markets divisions at Morgan Stanley. Jan is a graduate of Oxford University, and holds an MBA with Distinction from INSEAD.

## Lior Shiff
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Travel, Audio, Gaming

Lior Shiff is the Co-Founder and CEO of Tripledot Studios. Took up Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

## Somayeh Taheri
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Energy, GreenTech, Blockchain

Somayeh Taheri is a CEO and Co-Founder at UrbanChain.

## George McDonaugh
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Casino, Gaming

I've been involved in blockchain technology since 2011. Before then I was an advertising copywriter for London based agencies. I have a masters degree in Anthropology and a further degree in Creative Advertising. I helped form one of London's most popular blockchain meetups and co-founded kr1 in early 2016 and as such it become the firsttoken focussed investment company in the world. We have the longest track record in the space and a global network of funds, developers and investors.

## Alexander Meurer
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency

Angel Investor, Technical Analyst & Youtuber

## Yeming Wang
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, E-Commerce

General Manager of Alibaba Cloud EMEA

## Nicolas Cary
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Dental, Bitcoin, FinTech

Nicolas Cary is the Co-Founder & Vice Chairman at Blockchain.com.

## Will Harborne
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Lending, Insurance

Will Harborne has an Engineering degree from Cambridge University, and enjoys working on visionary technology
projects which can revolutionise business models as well as impact wider society.

## Darren Camas
- Type: Angel
- Location: Shanghai, Shanghai, China
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Consulting, Hedge Funds

Darren Camas has been involved with crypto & blockchain since 2011 advising, building, and investing in multiple projects. Currently he is CEO of IPOR Labs. He is also Co-founder of FoolFarm, the first AI venture builder in Europe.
Previously he served as an advisor for the Cardano (ADA) blockchain, headed bizdev for one of the first globalcrypto exchanges, and has been recognized for his FinTech startups by institutions such as SWIFT and BBVA. On the institutional investor side he served as advisor to Emurgo, the venture arm of Cardano, and is an angel investor in blockchain startups. Originally from the US, he spends most of his time in emerging markets in Asia and Latin America.

## Nagano Sota
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: EdTech, Freelance, Blockchain

Nagano Sota is the General Partner / Board of Director at Abies Ventures.

## Mo Hajhashem
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Energy, GreenTech, Blockchain

Dr. Mo H. is a Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) at UrbanChain.

## Javier Rubio
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Big Data, Shipping

Javier Rubio

## Baris Aksoy
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Baris is a General Partner at AV8 Ventures. He joined AV8 from Google, where he served as the Head of Global Strategic Business Development in Media & Entertainment industry vertical, covering AI and infrastructure technologies.Prior to Google, Baris was the CFO at Anvato and led the acquisition by Google. Earlier, Baris was an investor atIntel Capital, covering global consumer and enterprise investments. While there, he invested in companies like Yume (IPO), OpenFeint (acq by Gree), Crowdstar (acq by Glu), Sense Networks (acq by YellowPages), and Caring.com (acq by Bankrate), many of which were acquired or went public during his time there. As a product manager and engineer, he held leadership positions at Calix and Alcatel.He received his MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and his B.S. in electrical engineering from Istanbul Technical University.

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