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In 2024, he appeared at #15 on the Midas List of the world's best venture capital investors [24] and at #2 on the list of seed investors. [25] He was listed at #5 on the Seed List and #11 on the Midas List of Top Tech Investors. [26] [27] [22] Frankel was appointed to the board of directors of Rand Merchant Investment Holdings in 2018.
Jeremy Liew has been a featured speaker [27] and moderator at conferences on video game monetization [28] and has been called a "social game visionary." [ 29 ] He has invested in a number of successful gaming companies, including Playdom (acquired by Disney ), Serious Business (bought by Zynga ), Kixeye , [ 30 ] and Fan Controlled Football . [ 31 ]
The title of his blog, Above the Crowd, and the book eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists that profiles the Benchmark team, both reference his height; the subtitle of eBoys is “The true story of the six tall men who backed eBay, Webvan, and other billion-dollar start-ups." [35]
From 2010 to 2015 Klein was a venture partner at Index Ventures. He ran Index Seed, Index Ventures' seed fund, in partnership with TAG. [8] In April 2015, Saul and Robin founded LocalGlobe, a Venture Capital Firm focusing on early stage (Seed) investment in Technology enabled businesses.
Something Ventured is a 2011 documentary film investigating the emergence of American venture capitalism in the mid-20th century. Something Ventured follows the stories of the venture capitalists who worked with entrepreneurs to start and build companies like Apple, Intel, Genentech, Cisco, Atari, Tandem, and others, and looks at the influence of Georges Doriot.
This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Charlotte Page, a 24-year-old venture capitalist based primarily in Florida. It has been edited for length and clarity.
Draper is the third in a familial line of venture capitalists and government officials. He is the son of Phyllis (Culbertson) and William Henry Draper III and the younger brother of actress Polly Draper. His father is the founder of Draper & Johnson Investment Company and former chairman and president of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.
Lonsdale co-founded the venture capital firm Formation 8 in 2011, and another called 8VC in 2015. Lonsdale has been outspoken about politics, and is an active Republican donor and fundraiser. He founded the conservative Cicero Institute think tank, and co-founded the private University of Austin .