Mark Kendall
Investment Partners play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Philadelphia 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 Philadelphia Investment Partners
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Josh Kopelman
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Josh Kopelman has been an active entrepreneur and investor in the Internet industry since its commercialization. In 1992, while he was a stu…
Rudy Karsan
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Rudy Karsan is a technology entrepreneur and investor. Nothing excites him more than a great idea and a stellar team of executors who he can…
Rajat Bhageria
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Rajat Bhageria is the Founder & CEO at Chef Robotics.
David J. Adelman
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Private Equity
As CEO of Campus Apartments, David J. Adelman is one of the nation’s leading experts on university-affiliated real estate development. Under…
Paul Melchiorre
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Paul Melchiorre joined Stripes as Operating Partner in 2019.
Michael Angelakis
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Michael Angelakis is the Chairman and Chief Executive Office of Atairos, an independent private company focused on supporting growth-oriente…
Steve Barsh
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Steve Barsh is managing partner at Dreamit Ventures.
Sashi Reddi
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Sashi Reddi is a successful technology entrepreneur, business leader, and an active angel investor. Sashi runs a seed stage venture fund, SR…
David Magerman
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
David Magerman is a co-founder and managing partner at Differential Ventures. Previously, he spent the entirety of his career at Renaissan…
Jacob Poliskin
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jacob Poliskin – Associate @ Mark Cuban Companies
Amir Goldman
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Amir founded Susquehanna Growth Equity in 2006 with the owners of SIG. He focuses on investments in software and financial technology, and c…
Steven M. Altschuler
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Steven M. Altschuler currently serves as Managing Director-Healthcare Ventures at Ziff Capital Partners and Chair, Board of Directors of Spa…
Carter Caldwell
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Convertible Note, Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
As the Penn Medicine Co-Investment Fund’s Program Director, Carter drives the fund’s investments in the cell therapy, gene therapy, and conn…
Ali Behbahani
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ali Behbahani joined NEA’s healthcare team in 2007 and specializes in healthcare investments in the biopharmaceutical, medical device, speci…
Jin Park
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jin Park – General Partner @ Spring Creek Investment Management, LLC
Andrew Panzo
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Mr. Andrew P. Panzo serves as General Partner at NewSpring Capital. Mr. Panzo joined NewSpring Capital on October 21, 2004 and is a part of …
Omar Mencin
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Responsible for sourcing, managing due diligence, negotiation and deployment of capital, and board observer portfolio management for investm…
Kyle Welborn
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Kyle is a co-founder and General Partner at Cultivation Capital where he focuses on making AgriFood Tech investments through the Yield Lab. …
Leonard Lodish
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Leonard Lodish – Operating Partner @ Lumia Capital
Alex Ott
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Alex Ott founded CrossContinentalVentures in 2002. He is a veteran in the enterprise software industry with operational and board level expe…
David Horowitz
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
David Horowitz – Founder and CEO @ Touchdown Ventures
Sean Dowling
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Sean Dowling joined Osage full time as an Associate in 2011, after interning with Osage as a Summer Associate in 2010 while pursuing his MBA…
Christine Esserman
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Christine joined Accel in 2017 and focuses on mobile and enterprise technology companies. Prior to Accel, Christine worked as a member of e…
Moncef Slaoui
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Moncef is the Chairman of Vaccines and has been responsible for the global vaccines business through its integration of the Novartis vaccine…
Paul Drews
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Paul is a Principal on the investment team of Tenaya Capital. He was an associate with Tenaya from 2007 until he went to business school in …
Brett Topche
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Brett is a Managing Director with MentorTech Ventures, a Philadelphia-based VC fund. MentorTech is a seed- and early-stage fund investing…
Karen Griffith Gryga
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Karen Griffith Gryga is the Co-President at Wharton Private Equity & Venture Capital Association.
David M. Rubin
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
David M. Rubin – Managing Director, Merck Global Health Innovation Fund; AVP, Merck & Co @ Merck
Martin Angert
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Martin Angert is a Director with Susquehanna Growth Equity. He focuses on infrastructure and application software, SaaS, and marketplace bus…
Jay Minkoff
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Co-Founder of HomeBuilder.com – Exited to HomeStore / Move Inc. Entrepreneur with a specialization in creating innovative marketing solutio…
Marc Lederman
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Marc is co-founder and General partner at NewSpring Capital and part of the NewSpring Growth investment team. NewSpring Capital manages four…
Ryan Howard
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ryan Howard is a professional athlete, World Series Champion, venture capitalist, Partner at SeventySix Capital, author and philanthropist. …
Brian Halak
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Brian Halak joined Domain Associates, LLC in 2001 and became a Partner in 2006.He currently serves on the Board of Alimera Sciences, Cartice…
David Eigen
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Venture
David Eigen – Managing Member @ P5 Health Ventures
Timothy Andrews
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Timothy Andrews – President & CEO @ The Advertising Specialty Institute
Wayne Kimmel
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed
Wayne Kimmel is a sports tech venture capitalist, entrepreneur and the author of Six Degrees of Wayne Kimmel. Wayne has been named a Top I…
Brian Kim
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Brian Kim is a Partner of NewSpring and the Firm’s dedicated growth funds. Brian joined the Firm in 2014 and prior to NewSpring, he was with…
Kevin Kemmerer
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Kevin brings over 20 years of experience in the enterprise software industry. Prior to joining iPipeline, Kevin was an Executive-In-Residen…
Michael Kopelman
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Michael Kopelman is a Partner with Edison Ventures, a venture capital firm that invests in leading, high-growth technology companies. Since …
Ira Lubert
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Ira M. Lubert is Board of Trustees at National Constitution Center.
Neville Taraporewalla
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Former Executive Leader@Microsoft@Yahoo@Publicitas@The Times of India Group.
Vinod Jose
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Vinod Jose – Founder @ Konglo Ventures
Malcolm Jenkins
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Malcolm Jenkins is an American football safety for the Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football League (NFL). He played college footbal…
Scott Snyder
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Dr. Snyder is a recognized thought leader and has more than 25 years of experience in business leadership, strategic planning and technology…
David Nevas
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
David leads investments in the Interactive Marketing, eCommerce, and “Enterprise 2.0” industries at Edison Ventures. He has spent his en…
Scott Ungerer
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Scott Ungerer is the Senior Partner & Office of the CEO at California Mobility Center.
Ben Weinberg
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ben Weinberg is a Managing Director with Susquehanna Growth Equity where he leads investments in vertical software, financial technology and…
Bill Taranto
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Mr. Taranto has more than 25 years of healthcare experience with 12 years of experience with adjacency healthcare investing. In addition to …
John Younger
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Seed
CSO at Akadeum Life Sciences.
Louis Toth
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Louis oversees the investing activities at Comcast Ventures and is responsible for evaluating investment opportunities, coordinating due dil…
Adele C. Oliva
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ms. Oliva joined Quaker Partners, a healthcare venture capital and growth equity firm, as a Partner in 2007. Before joining Quaker, Ms. Oliv…
Dave Odenath
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Dave Odenath – Operating Partner @ Altamont Capital Partners
Brian Murphy
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Mr. Brian G. Murphy is the Co-Founder and Director of Precyse Solutions, LLC. Mr. Murphy is also a General Partner at NewSpring Capital. He …
Josh Elser
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Josh focuses on technology businesses in the financial, human resources and real estate verticals and has an interest in the profound effect…
Sasank Aleti
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Sasank previously founded Cadence Capital Partners, a search fund focused on acquiring lower middle market services businesses. Earlier in …
Hart Callahan
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Hart Callahan – Partner @ NewSpring
Christopher K. Mirabelli
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Chris Mirabelli joined HealthCare Ventures as a managing director in 2000. Dr. Mirabelli was chairman of the board and chief executive offic…
Kirk Griswold
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Kirk B. Griswold, Founding Partner, co-founded Argosy in 1990 and is responsible for general fund administration, developing and assessing i…
Adrian R. Ironside
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Mr. Ironside plays an integral role in conducting due diligence, assisting with new investment acquisitions and working alongside portfolio …
Croom Beatty
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Croom joined SGE in 2012, where he supports portfolio companies and evaluates and sources new deals. He focuses on software, capital markets…
W. Kirk Wycoff
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
W. Kirk Wycoff is the Managing Partner of Patriot Financial Partners. Mr. Wycoff serves on the Boards of Continental Bank, Guaranty Bancorp,…
Dolores M. Lare
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Mrs. Lare has more than 35 years of banking experience. Prior to joining Patriot, Mrs. Lare served as Chief Operating Officer and Executive …
Jim Brady
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Jim Brady is CEO @ Stomping Ground Inc.
Ryan Goldenberg
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ryan Goldenberg Prior to joining LLR, Ryan was a Vice President at Houlihan Lokey in the Private Growth Equity Capital practice. Previously,…
Michael DiPiano
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Michael DiPiano is a General Partner of NewSpring Ventures and the Managing Partner of NewSpring Capital. Prior to joining NewSpring Capita…
Steven Hobman
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Steven Hobman – General Partner @ NewSpring
Ryan Mendoza
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ryan Mendoza
Michael Burychka
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Michael has significant experience in early stage investing and international capital markets as well as building and managing international…
Dennis Kim
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Dennis focuses on enterprise software, data, infrastructure, SaaS and marketplace businesses across all verticals. Before joining Susquehan…
Jonathan Kalman
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jonathan is a General Partner with Eos Venture Partners, having previously served on its Investment Committee. Jonathan has 18 years of FinT…
Joe Volpe
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Joseph Volpe is responsible for identifying investment opportunities in health information technology at Merck’s Global Health Innovation Fu…
Donald Charlton
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Don Charlton has served as our President since October 2006 and has served as the Company’s Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Of…
Jayson Tischler
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jayson Tischler – Principal @ Rittenhouse Ventures
David Stienes
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
David Stienes is Partner at LLR Partners leading technology investments focused on corporations’ risk management and security needs. Hi…
Adam Dakin
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Adam has over 20 years of experience with early stage and venture-backed medical device companies. From 1998-2004, Mr. Dakin served as the P…
David C. U’Prichard
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
David U’Prichard is the Chair, Advisory Board; member Board of Managers at BioMotiv.
Raj Ratnakar
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
As Vice President, Raj Ratnakar brings strategic thinking, operating experience and deep domain knowledge in a wide range of industries to l…
Peter Flint
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Peter Flint – Partner @ JM Search
Saul Richter
Crunchbase | Website | Facebook | Linkedin | Twitter
Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Saul Richter – Founder & Managing Partner @ Rittenhouse Ventures
Peter Harwin
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Peter Harwin
Anne Vazquez
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Anne Vazquez is a General Partner of NewSpring and is a General Partner of the Firm’s dedicated mezzanine funds. Anne joined the Firm in 200…
Steven Finn
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Marstar Investments partner Steven Finn
Dave Stevenson
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Dave Stevenson is and investment principle responsible for identifying investment opportunities in emerging healthcare solutions and service…
Dean Sciorillo
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Dean has been investing in energy technology companies and projects for 14 years. He joined EnerTech in 2004 and focuses primarily on the fi…
Kenneth Parsons
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Kenneth Parsons – Investor @ Susquehanna Private Capital
Bill Kingsley
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
EnerTech Capital led CalStar’s Series B round in fall 2008 and Bill joined the board at that time. In addition to promoting green building m…
Emma Giamartino
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Emma Giamartino
Michael Levenberg
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Michael most recently worked at Monument Capital Group, supporting investments in the defense, security and government services markets. Pre…
Shalin Mehta
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Shalin joined Susquehanna Growth Equity in 2018 and focuses on investments in SaaS/application software, data, internet, and online marketpl…
Richard Thornberry
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Rick Thornberry is chief executive officer of Radian Group Inc. (NYSE: RDN). Headquartered in Philadelphia, Radian provides private mortgage…
Michael Graham
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Michael Graham – CEO & Board Member @ Epilogue Systems
Chris Cain
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Chris Cain
Noreen D. Beaman
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ms. Beaman is the chief executive officer of Brinker Capital, Inc. Ms. Beaman is responsible for developing and executing the firm’s detaile…
Retno Dewati
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Retno Dewati
Jason Wolfe
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jason joined SGE in 2009 and manages the legal activities of SGE and its funds. Jason is responsible for deal structuring, negotiation, l…
Richard Fox
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Richard Fox is a managing director of Cross Atlantic and has been with the firm since 1999. He oversees the activities of two dedicated fund…
Jerry Stahlecker
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jerry Stahlecker
Andrew Olsen
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Andrew Olsen – Partner @ Boathouse Capital
Robert E. Brown III
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Robert E. Brown III
Doug Petillo
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Doug Petillo – Board Member @ TrueCommerce
Kyle Squillario
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Kyle Squillario is co-head of Susquehanna Private Capital.
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