Esther Dyson

Ms. Esther Dyson is a high-net-worth investor based in New York City, New York. She is the Chairman and Founder of HICCup. She is the chairman of EDventure Holdings, a technology content company, and a founding member of Digerati, an elite group of pioneering technologists. She is also the Founding Member of the Space Angels Network. Her primary activity is investing in and nurturing startups, with a recent focus on health care, human capital, and aerospace. She has holdings in various online ventures, including WPP Group. She is the chairman of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and ICANN. She participated in the sale of Flickr to Yahoo, as well as the sale of Medstory to Microsoft. She invests in nonprofits including Eurasia Foundation, National Endowment for Democracy, and the Sunlight Foundation. She seeks to invest in healthcare, space, travel, consumer internet, media, and e-commerce-based companies operating in Silicon Valley, New York City, Russia, India, and Africa. She manages her own investments.