Mark Kendall
Investment Partners play an important role in the startup ecosystem. We have curated a list of the top Houston 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 Houston Investment Partners
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Matt Mullenweg
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Matt Mullenweg is a co-founder of WordPress, an open-source blogging platform on the web. He is also the founder of Automattic, the company …
Ratan Tata
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Heading the Tata Group since 1991, Ratan Tata is the Chairman of Tata Sons, holding company of the Tata Group and major Group companies incl…
Michael Dell
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Michael Dell is the chairman of the board of directors and chief executive officer of Dell, the company he founded with $1000 in 1984 at the…
Russell Gordy
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Russell Gordy joined the Board of Directors of GP Natural Resource Partners in October 2013. Mr. Gordy brings extensive oil and gas industry…
Kirk Coburn
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Coburn is an entrepreneur and active investor who founded three successful companies before starting SURGE, the world’s leading mentor-drive…
Blair Garrou
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Since the late 90’s, Blair Garrou has focused on funding, operating and incubating startup software companies. Blair’s current investments …
Shayne Higdon
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Shayne is the General Manager of the Mid-market and Enterprise Treasury BU at HighRadius. In recent years, he has held senior leadership rol…
Brad Jenkins
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Entrepreneur, Startup Advisor, Angel Investor, Founder
Shantanu Agarwal
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Shantanu Agarwal – President & Co-Founder @ Susteon
Meagan Crawford
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Meagan is one of the leading female voices in the space industry and an experienced space startup executive and founder. She is the host of …
Aziz Gilani
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Aziz Gilani is the Managing Director at Mercury Fund.
Beyoncé Knowles
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter is an American singer, actress, songwriter, record producer, director, model, dancer, fashion designer and bu…
Marc Geller
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Marc Geller is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Sternhill Partners. He has been managing venture capital funds since 1995. Prior to the f…
Dan Watkins
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Seed
Dr. Watkins is a Managing Director of DFJ Mercury, a venture capital firm focused on seed and early-stage investments in the sciences and so…
Juliana Garaizar
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Juliana Garaizar – Launch Director, Houston @ Greentown Labs
Kemal Farid
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Kemal Farid
David Steakley
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
David Steakley is an investor in real estate and private equity in Houston. David was a partner at the consulting firm Accenture, focusing …
Iain Cooper
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Iain Cooper is the Manager of Corporate Venturing at Schlumberger Limited since September 2007 in Mergers and Acquisitions Group in Houston,…
Jon Nordby
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jon Nordby
Margaret-Mary Wilson
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Margaret-Mary Wilson is an Executive Vice President and Associate Chief Medical Officer at UnitedHealth Group.
Neal Dikeman
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture, Late Stage Venture, Seed, Venture
Neal Dikeman – Partner @ Energy Transition Ventures
William E Cohn
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
William Cohn is the Vice President, Medical Device Companies at Johnson & Johnson.
John Filla
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
John Filla
Adam Flikerski
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Adam Flikerski co-founded BlackGold Capital Management LP in 2006 and serves as a Managing Partner as well as Portfolio Manager. Flikerski s…
W. Benjamin Moreland
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
W. Benjamin (Ben) Moreland was appointed Executive Vice Chairman of Crown Castle in June 2016. Crown Castle (NYSE: CCI), a provider of wirel…
Robert Tucci
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Robert Tucci is the Managing Director at Texas Halo Fund.
Mark Poag
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Mark brings to Fitz Gate Ventures 16+ years of experience as an experienced entrepreneur and executive with a proven track record of success…
Jay Zeidman
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jay Zeidman is a Managing Partner at Altitude Ventures.
Daniel Carter
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Daniel Carter is Investment Director at Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, serving Saudi Aramco’s corporate venturing activities. He has finance…
Jim McCormick
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jim McCormick is a Vice President, US Lubricants Sales for Shell.
Jim Cohen
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Early Stage Venture
Jim Cohen is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Fitz Gate Ventures, an early stage VC fund investing a majority of its capital in startups …
Ryan Gurney
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ryan Gurney – Managing Partner @ Montrose Lane (fka Cottonwood Venture Partners)
Desikan Sundararajan
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage:
Desikan Sundararajan
Chip Davis
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Investor Type: Investment Partner, Individual/Angel
Investment Stage: Seed
Chip Davis is a managing partner at Houston Ventures, L.P., an investment firm that funds companies that apply technology solutions in the e…
Troy Thacker
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Thacker has over 20 years of financial and executive experience across the energy industry. He most recently, from 2014 to 2017, served as t…
Morag Watson
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Morag Watson is the Vice President of Digital Innovation at BP. In this role, Morag leads a team focused on identifying the application of e…
Taha Jangda
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Taha started his journey at the Texas Medical Center (TMC), the world’s largest medical center. During his time with TMC, he took part in th…
W. George Coyle
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
George is one of the longest-tenured venture capital investors in the Energy technology industry. He founded and led three corporate venture…
Shaun Healey
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Shaun brings over 16 years’ experience in technology development, management and commercialization. He holds a B.S. in Biochemistry-Molecula…
Alan “Al” Carnrite
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Alan “Al” Carnrite is the Chief Executive Officer of The Carnrite Group, which he founded in 1991. Al has over 30 years of experience and is…
Leslie Goldman
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Leslie Goldman
Janet Gurwitch
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Seed
Janet Gurwitch
Wil VanLoh
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Venture
Wil VanLoh
Barbara Burger
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Barbara Burger
Michael Skelly
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Michael Skelly
Leo Womack
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Leo Womack
Nancy T. Chang
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Nancy T. Chang, Ph.D. has served as a Director at Ansun since 2011. Since 2007, Dr. Chang has served as the President of Apex Enterprises, I…
Jeremy Arendt
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jeremy Arendt – Managing Partner @ Montrose Lane (fka Cottonwood Venture Partners)
Adam Day
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Adam Day is a General Partner at Golden Section Ventures.
Rodolfo Elias Dieck
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Rodolfo Elias Dieck is a Managing Director at Proeza Ventures.
Heath Butler
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Heath Butler is a Network Partner at Mercury Fund, where he manages the organization’s network platform, including corporate, service provid…
Daniel Weingeist
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Weingeist is a managing partner for Kayne Anderson Capital Advisor’s energy private equity activities. He focuses on identifying investment …
Dan Parsley
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Dan Parsley
James Dreibelbis
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
James Dreibelbis
Rob Johnson
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Rob has 18 years of experience in the energy industry with roles in trading, marketing and principal investments. Rob spent the last nine ye…
Jeff Nadalo
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Jeff Nadalo
John Hanten
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
John is a retired Venture Executive from Chevron Technology Ventures. He was responsible for identifying and executing venture capital inves…
Casey Cunningham
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Casey Cunningham, MD is the Chief Scientific Officer of Santé Ventures and the Chief Medical Officer of two portfolio companies, Terapio and…
Gray Hall
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Gray Hall has served as a director since May 2014. Hall has been the Chairman, President and CEO of Alert Logic since July 2009 and is a 24-…
James Wallis
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
James Wallis joined the Lime Rock Partners team in 2007 and became a Managing Director in 2016. Since joining the Lime Rock Partners team, h…
Doug Foshee
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Doug Foshee is a Owner at Sallyport Investments, LLC.
Harry Bushong
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Venture
Harry Bushong
Bob Grazer
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Bob Grazer is a Venture Executive at Chevron Technology Ventures since November 2012. Previously, Bob was the Manager of Information managem…
Swapnil Agarwal
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Swapnil Agarwal
Giancarlo Savini
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Giancarlo Savini, Implementation Manager at Shell Ventures.
Luis Alcoser
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Luis Alcoser – Board Observer @ Silicon MicroGravity
Cory Steffek
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Prior to joining Ara Partners, Mr. Steffek was the Managing Director of North America at Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures (“SAEV”), the corporat…
Brian V. Iversen
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Brian V. Iversen – Founder & Managing Director @ Cimbria Capital
Bobby Sawicki
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Bobby Sawicki is a Partner at Crosstimbers Capital Group.
Philippe Tanguy
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Philippe Tanguy – Board Member @ Houston Angel Network
David Habachy
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
David S. Habachy joined Warburg Pincus in 2017 and focuses on energy investments. Previously, he was a Managing Director and a member of th…
David Beerbower
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage: Private Equity
David Beerbower
Matt Anstead
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Matt Anstead has 14 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Energy Ventures, Mr. Anstead was a Vice President with Simmons & Company …
Sue Lehrer
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Sue Lehrer
Michael D. Smith
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Michael D. Smith
Paul Pryzant
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Paul Pryzant – Partner @ Seyfarth Shaw
Fred Brazelton
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Fred Brazelton is the CEO of Platform Partners.
Christopher Riley
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Christopher Riley
James Marshall
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
RETIRED
Fred Lummis
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Fred Lummis
Ben Mayberry
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Investor Type: Investment Partner
Investment Stage:
Ben Mayberry
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