Biography
Josh Kopelman is currently Managing Director of First Round Capital, a seed-stage venture fund. He is an investor, director and advisor to a variety of businesses, most in the software and Internet domain.
Technical.ly Coverage (110 posts)
- Josh Kopelman revealed as investor in Backstage Capital’s accelerator
- These 14 investors have urgent tips for your first meeting
- These 4 startups caught our eye at Philly Startup Leaders’ Entrepreneur Expo
- Three venture capital disruptors will keynote #PTW18 Introduced
- Swoosh: First Round–backed data analytics firm gets bought by Nike
- First wave of speakers announced for Introduced by Technical.ly
- Philly makes Amazon HQ2 shortlist
- HQ2 #TBT: that time Josh Kopelman got a town named after his company
- Curren-C changed its name to Amino, raised $1.75 million
- What you can learn from Apu Gupta and Josh Kopelman about choosing a startup idea
- What does a Philly success look like?
- First Round Capital: ‘We are worried about the American dream’
- What Bai Brands’ $1.7 billion exit could mean for Philly startups
- Watch First Round Capital’s ‘unpresidented’ 2016 holiday video
- Coded by Kids raised $25K — with a little help from its tech friends
- First Round’s Dorm Room Fund released an honest look at diversity among its partners
- First Round Capital will invest new $175M fund without cofounder Howard Morgan
- Here’s what city-backed fund StartUp PHL gets right, and what it needs to do next
- The city is making big changes to StartUp PHL
- StartUp PHL’s first investment has shut down and nobody wants to talk about it
- Josh Kopelman is now the board chair of the Philly papers
- Read Bob Moul’s fiery tweetstorm on venture capitalists and the tech community
- Josh Kopelman to entrepreneurs: choose bigger ideas
- Win $10,000 in seed money plus Philly Tech Week prizes with UberPITCH
- Watch Mayor Nutter moderate a convo between Josh Kopelman and Curalate’s Apu Gupta
- 5 takeaways from the Technical.ly Slack AMA with First Round Capital’s Josh Kopelman
- Why RevZilla just launched a joint venture with a private equity firm
- The PPA is fighting to keep uberX illegal in Philly and @joshk is not pleased
- Join us for a Slack AMA with investor Josh Kopelman
- First Round Capital just dropped that fire holiday video
- You won’t believe this entrepreneur’s response to a ‘no’ from First Round Capital
- Technically Media’s new headquarters will be at the Curtis Center in Old City
- Scholly gets $100K from StartUp PHL angel fund
- First Round Capital makes its biggest investment to date
- The Philly tie to the West Coast food startup valued at $100M
- Read the leaked First Round Capital letter to its limited partners
- Josh Kopelman joins board of Philly.com parent company
- This Friday, here’s how to take a free Uber ride with a Philly investor
- How to build a tech scene
- Penn faculty startup raises $100K from city’s StartUp PHL fund
- DreamIt Ventures launches an internship program with Coded by Kids [Startup Roundup]
- If Philly becomes an investment hub, it’s because of these 2 tiny tax changes
- Civic-minded startups from FastFWD’s 2nd accelerator class pitch for city pilots
- Step right up: StartUp PHL is holding office hours
- Josh Kopelman on ‘the democratization of entrepreneurship’ [video]
- Squareknot’s $300K saga
- City-backed StartUp PHL to announce new angel fund. Here’s why
- First Round Capital’s Josh Kopelman drove for uberX this weekend [Startup Roundup]
- Students: sign up for the Philadelphia Rube Goldberg competition
- ‘It’s not you, it’s me’: Why Alyssa Dingwall is leaving Philadelphia [Exit Interview]
- First Round Capital’s fifth fund: $175M
- First Round Capital to FCC: net neutrality ruling will ‘stifle innovation’
- Philly New Tech Meetup launches today [Startup Roundup]
- Josh Kopelman is having his Pete Musser moment [feature]
- Can the city lead the region’s innovation future?
- 17 biggest Philadelphia tech business acquisitions since 2000
- Why city taxes should be no excuse for your startup in Philadelphia
- How Philly tech found this college grad a home: Alyssa Dingwall
- See the ‘virtual’ $100k check Josh Kopelman sent Aggregate Knowledge
- Here’s how Philly tech fits into ‘the rise of the rest’
- Real Food Works gets $200k in first StartupPHL investment
- Josh Kopelman’s ‘most spectacular failure’: not investing in Twitter
- PennApps Fall 2013: real-time app editor Swap wins $10k
- Philly Mag’s Best of Philly 2013: 10 tech scene nods
- Josh Kopelman’s first business: Josh’s Juices
- Azavea, SEER Interactive again named as fastest growing inner city businesses
- Immigrant-founded ventures have created 450k jobs in the last decade: March for Innovation
- Mayor Nutter signs ‘most extensive gay rights bill in US’ [LINKS]
- Predictive Edge raises $2.5M // Curalate in NYTimes // Autism Expressed on MSNBC [Startup Roundup]
- 3 unconventional ways Curalate found potential employees
- GreenLight Fund invests $2.3M to bring nonprofits Single Stop USA, Year Up to Philly
- No better time to be a doer in Philadelphia: Student Startup Summit
- PennApps projects make Inc.’s Coolest College Startups list [Startup Roundup]
- Philly tech scene fire “has to light itself” and 10 other Comcast CEO tidbits
- SnipSnap, Cloudmine raise rounds // Philly’s “Most Innovative Entrepreneurs” [Startup Roundup]
- Announcing 7 Philly Tech Week 2013 micro-grant recipients
- Startup PHL: First Round Capital chosen to run $6M Philly seed fund
- Vistar Media raises $1.5M // SnipSnap wins an Appy Award [Startup Roundup]
- Josh Kopelman: ‘Entrepreneurship is a mindset, not a profession’
- Benjamin Franklin Technology Partners invests $1.4M in nine local startups [Startup Roundup]
- Small Business Think Tank: regional business owners aim to grow their business with tech, not employees
- First Round Capital: 4 deals the VC firm made this month
- PennApps Spring 2013: Inventory, app that detects what’s in your backpack, wins $4k at biggest university hackathon in the world
- Curalate: visual analytics startup raises $3M, still committed to Philly
- ‘We shouldn’t try to reinvent ourselves as Silicon Valley’: Radio Times [AUDIO]
- Why mentor?: 3 reasons Philly entrepreneurs choose to help tech scene cubs
- PA spent $4.84B on tax incentives annually since 2007, incl. $18M for Comcast: but some question impact
- Philly tech scene 2012: 5 biggest stories
- Roll First Round Style: First Round Capital’s 2012 holiday video
- ‘Now is the time for venture firms to move to the city’: Josh Kopelman [VIDEO]
- Dorm Room Fund: $500k pilot from First Round Capital for college startups
- First Round Capital unveils new University City offices with Philly-centric reception
- First Round Capital to relocate HQ to University City from West Conshohocken
- Switch Philly 3: wrap-up video and photos of Philly Tech Week 2012 startup demo event
- Infonautics: legendary 90s-era Wayne infotech IPO was ‘just too early’
- Josh Kopelman is country’s sixth most valued tech investor [LINKS]
- SnipSnap wins Switch 3 startup demo competition: download free mobile couponing iPhone app
- Startup Roundup: More on the GSI Commerce deal; Startup Leaders executing
- PennApps hackathon connects students with prizes and software industry
- Josh Kopelman is the new Old Spice guy
- 10 Twitter users every Philadelphian should follow
- After record attendance, Mobile Monday breaks for the summer
- Friday Q&A: Josh Kopelman of First Round Capital
- Philly goes to TED … kinda.
- Would First Round Capital move to New York City?
- Josh Kopelman called ‘richest man in town,’ among most networked venture capitalist
- Shop Talk: Philadelphia’s venture capital community on Twitter
- Friday Tech Links: Philly handling recession, First Round Capital frequents New York and more
- Business Week profiles First Round Capital
- Symantec purchases company in First Round portfolio