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Keith Winter

Keith Winter

Keith Winter

Affiliate Investor at Inspovation Ventures

Keith Winter is an Advisor and Angel Investor with Inspovation Ventures.

Inspovation Ventures is a group of successful senior executives who provide advice and angel funding to start-ups in mobile, SaaS and cloud computing. Recent investments include Appurify (acquired by Google), Swell (acquired by Apple), Firebase (acquired by Google), Vocalnet (acquired by Jive), Flutter (acquired by Google), OpsClarity, Credibase, Verbling, Next Force Technology, Haystack TV, Lemonade Factory, Synqq, LearnUp, ShopSocially, RefleXion, and Flipora.

Prior to Inspovation Keith held C-level positions at six companies in Internet, mobile, advertising, gaming and SaaS technology businesses.

Over Keith’s career he grew revenues by $1 Billion at Companies/Divisions he was at, managed over 1,000 employees, and had 20 former direct reports become CEOs. Throughout this journey, he has gained extensive international experience including business projects in over 40 countries and travel to over 100.

Testimonials

The quality of entrepreneurs and the international flavor: it’s always fun to see where innovation is happening around the world. It was fun for us to see not only the quality of thought but also pace of execution and the teams here are becoming ready to play.

Byron Deeter

Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners ($4B under management)

Excellent! Great conference! Lots of People! Lot of energy! Enthusiastic! Everything is just going so good.

Vish Mishra

Venture Director, Clearstone Venture Partners ($600M under management)

The wonderful thing about entrepreneurs is that their passion for starting new companies transcends languages and geographic boundaries. I felt very comfortable at SVOD and recognized its participants as having the same type of DNA that made Silicon Valley what it is today.

Ron Conway

SV Angel

The founders of the conference are very authentic and these are people that want to change the world and make things better for entrepreneurs and help people and I think that’s a great thing.

George Zachary

Partner, Charles River Ventures, (Midas List, 1st investor in twitter & Yammer, $1.4B under management)

A lot of energy, lot of very dedicated entrepreneurs here, very passionate, very committed to what they’re doing.

Mitchell (Mitch) Kapor

Partner, Kapor Capital

I love coming to the Silicon Valley Open Doors! I discover entrepreneurs here every single year, and I think I’ve been to all of them.

Carol Sands

Founder, The Angels’ Forum

This conference is clearly a labor of love for a group of dedicated professionals who care deeply about the European entrepreneurs. From the value-packed educational panels, to the star-studded keynote speakers’ line up, to an amazing quantity of venture capitalists – this is a not to be missed event for any high tech entrepreneur.

Richard Guha

President of the Marketing Executives Network and Managing Partner at MaxBrandEquity

The organizers here are doing an amazing job with selecting the people who attend, selecting the speakers, coming up with ideas for panels and discussions. The truly amazing side is that the audience gets bigger, more involved, active and more thoughtful. It’s just a fun place to be!

Daniil Stolyarov

Investment Director, Almaz Capital Partners (102M under management)