Isaac Babbs

Isaac Babbs is Founder and CEO of Handmade. Handmade is a mobile-only seed fund that creates new start-ups in a co-founding partnership with great entrepreneurs.

Handmade helps teams by adding expertise, relationships, and capital from inception through series A funding and ultimately a liquidity event. Handmade specializes in companies with mobile platforms, systems, and services among the following areas: marketplaces, advertising, monetization, sensors, productivity, entertainment, and cloud. Read More...

Josh Breinlinger joined Sigma West Venture Captial in 2010, bringing six years of startup experience. He has expertise in online marketing, marketplaces, and crowdsourcing. Josh was the 4th employee at oDesk, running Sales, Marketing, Product, and Business Development over five years and contributing to the company’s growth from almost nothing to $100M in annual services.

Josh was also the head of product and marketing at AdRoll, helping to design and build the #1 retargeting platform. Prior to oDesk and AdRoll, Josh was a consultant at Arthur D. Little. Josh has a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Blair Silverberg is an Investment Professional at Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Prior to joining DFJ, Blair worked as a product manager at Intuit where he ran the successful launch of Mint.com’s first paid offering.

Prior to Intuit, Blair co-founded an online tutoring marketplace, called TutorCloud, as part of education incubator Imagine K12’s first class of ed-tech startups. Blair graduated from Stanford University with a BS in Product Design, where he built a variety of products including an aluminum scooter and snowshoes that telescopically collapse into skis. He also served as the head of marketing for IDEAS, a non-profit promoting on-campus sustainability initiatives at universities in Europe and Asia.

Brian Ascher joined Venrock in 1998 as a Kauffman Fellow and is currently a partner based in Venrock’s Palo Alto office.

Brian focuses on a broad range of Internet (both consumer and B2B) and Healthcare IT investments and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Vocera (NYSE: VCRA), as well as several private companies, including Awarepoint, Retail Solutions, Inrix, and Billfloat. Read More...