Heyzap's Investors
Union Square Ventures
Union Square Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm based in New York City. Some companies that Union Squave Ventures has funded are: Twitter, Tumblr, Zynga, Disqus and Etsy.
Y Combinator
Y Combinator is a venture fund which focuses on seed investments to startup companies. Some companies that Y Combinator has funded are: Justin.tv, Clickpass, Dropbox, Weebly and Reddit.
Albert Wenger
Albert currently serves on the boards of Clickable, a platform for managing online advertising; and Maptuit, a provider of realtime navigation; he is a board observer at Etsy, an online marketplace for handmade goods.
Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson began his career in venture capital in 1987. He has focused exclusively on information technology investments for the past 17 years. In 1996, Fred co-founded Flatiron Partners. While at Flatiron, Fred was responsible for 14 investments including, ITXC, Patagon, Starmedia, TheStreet.com and Yoyodyne. Fred currently serves on the boards of Alacra, Comscore, iBiquity, Return Path, Instant Information and Tacoda Systems.
Brad Burnham
Brad Burnham is both an experienced operator and venture capitalist. His first experience with venture capital was as a member of the founding team of a mainframe software company in 1984.
Naval Ravikant
Currently Chairman of Vast, Naval has also spent time as a VC and advisor to young companies. Some of the companies he has been previously involved with include Technorati and Xfire.
Joshua Schachter
Joshua Schachter is the founder of delicious, a popular bookmark-sharing service founded in late 2003 and acquired by Yahoo in 2005. He also created geoURL, a location-URL reverse directory, and was a co-creator of Memepool.
Maurice Werdegar
Mr. Werdegar joined WTI in 2001. His diverse background includes his most recent position as Venture Partner at iMinds Ventures, an early stage venture firm, and his prior position as Chief Investment Officer at MetaMarkets, an online mutual fund company. Mr. Werdegar also founded and served as CEO of Left at Albuquerque, a chain of restaurants. Prior to business school, Mr. Werdegar worked in corporate finance at Robertson Stephens. He holds both a BA and an MBA from Stanford.
Paul Graham
Paul Graham is a partner at Y Combinator. He is also the author of On Lisp (1993), ANSI Common Lisp (1995), and Hackers & Painters (2004). In 1995, he and Robert Morris started Viaweb, the first ASP, which in 1998 became Yahoo! Store. In 2002 he discovered a simple spam filtering algorithm that inspired the current generation of filters.
Christina Brodbeck
Christina Brodbeck is a Co-Founder and CEO of Pickv.com. Prior to Pickv, Christina most recently worked at YouTube. Joining as an early employee in 2005, she was the company's first UI Designer, and helped to create many of the site's most prominent features. Later, she went on to lead the UI Design for YouTube Mobile, and was responsible for creating an interface that brought YouTube videos to cell phones. Before joining YouTube, Christina worked at MRL Ventures, NASA Ames Research Center, and Keynote Systems. She holds a Master's Degree in Instructional Technologies from San Francisco State University, and an undergraduate degree from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
