Mark Kendall
Investment Partners play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Dallas 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 Dallas Investment Partners
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Mark Cuban
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Since the age of 12, Mark Cuban has been a natural businessman. Selling garbage bags door to door, the seed was planted early on for what wo…
Dayakar Puskoor
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Dayakar’s distinguished career is showcased by an impressive record of achievement in building high value mobile, wireless and telecommunica…
Ross Perot
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Ross Perot is chairman of Hillwood, which he founded in 1988.Perot Jr. is also a founder of Perot Systems Corporation and served on its boar…
Sammy Abdullah
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Sammy chairs the board of Blossom Street Ventures and manages day to day operations. Along with Kevin, he co-founded the firm. His primar…
Matthew Kinsella
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Matthew joined Maverick in 2005 and was responsible for the public software investment effort from 2008 to 2014, with a particular focus on …
Tony Ebers
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ebers holds a Bachelor of Science and Business Administration, Finance and Banking with an emphasis in economics from the University of Miss…
James Dondero
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
James Dondero – Co-Founder and President @ NexBank
Robert Brevelle
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Convertible Note, Debt, Early Stage Venture, Private Equity, Seed, Venture
Robert Brevelle
Pallab Chatterjee
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Dr. Pallab Chatterjee is an internationally recognized high-tech executive with experience in Corporate General Management, Corporate Govern…
David Matthews
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
David Matthews has a background as an entrepreneur, a lead investor in emerging alternative investment funds, a venture capitalist, and as a…
David Hunt
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
David Hunt – Founder & Managing Partner @ Hunt Technology Ventures
Anurag Jain
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Anurag Jain is the Managing Partner & Founder at Perot Jain
Chris MacFarland
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Chris MacFarland joined Masergy as Chief Operating Officer in 2008 and was quickly promoted to CEO and Executive Chairman. Under Mr. MacFarl…
Drew Johnson
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Drew Johnson – Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ Gauge Capital
Matt Hawkins
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Matt Hawkins is the Founder and Managing Partner of Entourage Effect Capital. He has 20+ years of private equity experience and has founded …
Joel Fontenot
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Mr. Fontenot is a Managing Partner of Trailblazer Capital. At Trailblazer, Joel is responsible for all aspects of the General Partner of an…
Gabriella Draney
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Gabriella Draney Zielke is Co-founder and CEO of Tech Wildcatters, a Top 10 seed accelerator for technology startups. She recently co-founde…
Joshua Pack
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Joshua Pack is Co-Chief Investment Officer & Managing Partner at Fortress Investment Group.
Felipe Mendoza
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Felipe Mendoza – Managing Director @ Aristos Ventures
Ian H Charles
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ian H Charles
Krish Prabhu
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Mr. Krish A. Prabhu, Ph.D. has been Chief Executive Officer and President of AT&T Labs, Inc. since June 23, 2011. Mr. Prabhu has valuabl…
Kevin Vela
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Kevin Vela is a founding partner at Vela Wood. He focuses his practice in the areas of M&A, venture financing, fund representation, and gami…
Rick Beckwitt
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Mr. Richard Beckwitt, Rick has been the President of Lennar Corp. since January 12, 2011. Mr. Beckwitt serves as Managing General Partner of…
Gen Fukunaga
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Gen Fukunaga is a CEO of Coventry Asset Management and the founder and former CEO of Funimation Entertainment.
Roger Chang
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Dallas TX based angel investor.
David Schaller
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Dave is a founding partner of Delta-v Capital. His many years of private equity experience come through direct investment in, or C-level man…
Ricky Tejapaibul
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ricky Tejapaibul is the CEO of Tech Wildcatters, a world-renowned accelerator in Dallas, as well as an investor, strategic advisor and entre…
Jeffery M. Jackson
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
In addition to a large reservoir of solid business skills and judgment, Jeff brings a wealth of knowledge, experience and connections in the…
Tom Beauchamp
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Beauchamp is a Partner at Surge Private Equity. He primarily heads up transactions in the business services and online businesses industry v…
Andy Geisse
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Andy Geisse is a 35 year technology industry veteran who has served in a variety of key executive leadership positions for AT&T, both in the…
Alex Dunev
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Debt, Private Equity
Alex Dunev is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Park Cities Asset Management.
Colby Harlow
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Colby Harlow is the Founder, President, and Chief Compliance Officer of Harlow Capital Management. Prior to Harlow Capital Management, he wa…
LaDante McMillon
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
LaDante McMillon – Co-Founder & Managing Partner @ New Age Capital
Patrick McGee
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Patrick McGee – Co-Founder @ Brazos Private Equity Partners
Jim Moroney
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Jim M. Moroney is President & CEO at A. H. Belo Corporation. He is Publisher & CEO at The Dallas Morning News. He is Member of the Board of …
G. Brint Ryan
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
G. Brint Ryan serves as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Ryan, LLC. G. Brint Ryan serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Robert…
Charles John Wilder
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
C. John Wilder is the Executive Chairman and member of the Investment Committee of three investment vehicles: (i) Bluescape Resources Compan…
Michael Segrest
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Since joining the firm in 1991, Mr. Segrest has actively worked with over twenty-five portfolio companies at Silver Creek Ventures, helping …
David J. Hook
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
David J. Hook – Managing Director @ Baymark Partners
Tyler Brous
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Tyler Brous
Tom McKeown
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Tom McKeown
JR Garcia
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Mr. Garcia joined Green Park & Golf Ventures in June 2011. As a Principal of the firm, he is responsible for sourcing and evaluating startup…
John Reed
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
John Reed
Jon Bayless
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jon Bayless has been with Sevin Rosen Funds since 1981. Bayless focuses on developing business opportunities in the fields of telecommunicat…
Conner Searcy
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Conner Searcy – Managing Partner @ Trive Capital Holdings
Clayton Main
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Clayton Main – Partner – Head of Credit @ Bregal Sagemount
John Jaggers
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
John joined Sevin Rosen Funds in 1988 and serves as the firm’s managing general partner. His investment interest is on software-based produc…
Leoncio Casusol
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Leo Casusol leads Cyxtera’s internal information technology function. Prior to joining Cyxtera, Casusol served as the Chief Information Offi…
Steven Gehfeld
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Steven Gehfeld is the Project Coordinator at Christian Brothers Communications and Director of Operations at Startup Evo. Also he serve as P…
Eva Yazhari
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
CEO with 16 years experience working in the impact investment, venture capital and asset management industries. Co-host of The Beyond Capita…
Fouad Bashour
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Fouad Bashour is a founding partner of CIC, its current Managing Partner and has been with the Firm and its predecessor since 1999. Prior to…
John Bahr
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
John was born into the world of retail. He learned the family grocery and home furnishings business through hands-on training in stores and …
Reed Duchscher
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
No Scope Media President Reed Duchscher went from playing Division I football on behalf of North Dakota State to professionally representing…
Spencer Applebaum
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Spencer Applebaum is an Investor at Multicoin Capital.
Dan Williams
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Dan is a Vice President at Delta-v Capital. He has many years of M&A and Technology experience in private equity, corporate development, and…
David Lonsdale
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
David Lonsdale is a Chief Executive Officer at GreenBank Capital.
Brendan Achariyakosol
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Brendan Achariyakosol Founder & Managing Member at Evolute Capital
Daniel Gedney
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Prior to co-founding Cohere Capital with Nik, Daniel was a senior vice president at Gauge Capital, where he focused on private equity invest…
Kevin Stevens
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Kevin is a partner at Intelis Capital, where he focuses on partnering primarily with software companies working directly or indirectly on th…
Chris Noble
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Chris is interested in next generation wireless equipment, software and services as well as Internet infrastructure software. Chris bri…
Berry Cash
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Berry Cash is a managing director of Covera Ventures and has over 35 years of experience in building successful businesses in the technology…
Joe Jaramillo
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Carries around a lot of $1’s
Shawn Kelly
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Shawn Kelly – Managing Director @ Teakwood Capital
Rajeev Mehta
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Mr. Mehta is responsible for market facing activities across the company as well as for delivery across Cognizant IT Services business. Raj …
Wael Mohammed
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Wael Mohammed
David Stinnett
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
David is a Partner at Trive Capital. His responsibilities include identifying and evaluating investment opportunities, performing transactio…
Travis Whitfill
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Partner at Bios Partners.
Chris Zugaro
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
Chris Zugaro
Ed Olkkola
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ed’s career has spanned a wide range of executive-level positions in marketing, finance, information technology, strategy, product and corpo…
Jeff Staubach
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jeff Staubach is a Founding Partner of Staubach Capital.
Cole Robertson
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Cole Robertson Managing Director at BP Energy Partners.
John Adler
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
John Adler – CEO @ Call Control
Stephen Raggio
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Venture
Stephen Raggio
Jason Downie
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jason Downie has over 24 years of investment experience and co-founded Tailwater Capital in January 2013. At Tailwater, Jason Downie’s prima…
Douglas Kelley
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Douglas Kelley joined American Capital’s Dallas office in 2004 and is a Managing Director in the Sponsor Finance Group. He is responsible fo…
Chris Semple
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Chris Semple is Managing Director and Associate Portfolio Manager, joined Crestline in 2011 and is responsible for Crestline’s Opportunistic…
Peter Brodsky
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Partner at HM Capital.
Lauren Tyra
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Lauren Tyra
Mark Clark
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Mark Clark
Roy Vann
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Roy Vann
Michael S. Brown
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Dr. Brown is Professor of Molecular Genetics and Director of the Jonsson Center for Molecular Genetics at the University of Texas Southweste…
Whitney Bowman
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Whitney Bowman – Partner @ Gauge Capital
Shravan Thadani
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Private Equity, Venture
Shravan Thadani
Todd Dauphinais
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Todd leads all aspects of the the North American operations of Aster Capital, a global multi-stage energy and materials technology venture c…
Shale Gulbas
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Shale Gulbas is a Principal at Cypress Growth Capital.
Ingrida Soldatova
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ingrida Soldatova Senior Vice President at Prudential Private Capital.
Colin Patrick
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Colin Patrick is a Chief Financial Officer at Patterson Thoma Family Office.
Joseph V Popolo
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Private Equity, Venture
Joseph V Popolo
Ron Nash
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ron has successfully developed and grown multiple companies in the broader technology industry. As a Partner at InterWest Partners, he i…
David Bonette
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
David leads BigMachines with an unwavering focus on customer and employee success. He guides our strategy and commitment to operational exce…
Wendy Whittington, MD
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Wendy Whittington, MD
Stella Robertson
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Stella Robertson
Rajiv Roy
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Rajiv Roy is a venture partner at 3Lines.
Jonathon Miller
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jonathon Miller is a is a Vice President with LKCM Headwater Investments.
Craig Kerkove
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Craig Kerkove
Irvin Ashford Jr
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Irvin Ashford Jr
Gurvendra Suri
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Mr. Suri serves on the board of directors of Stratix and assists Tailwind in sourcing, evaluating and performing due diligence on business s…
Josh Seaman
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Josh Seaman is a senior vice president of Texas Capital Bank.
Brien Davis
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Brien Davis is a Partner at Altacrest Capital.
Ryan Small
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ryan Small
Alan Katz
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Alan Katz – Board of Director @ Isochron Data
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