The Investors Behind ZocDoc

Jeff Bezos has always been interested in anything that can be revolutionized by computers. Intrigued by the amazing growth in use of the Internet, Jeff created a business model that leveraged the Internet's unique ability to deliver huge amounts of information rapidly and efficiently. In 1994 he founded Amazon.

Founded in 2009 by Yuri Milner, DST Global is one of the leading investment groups focusing exclusively on web-based companies. DST Global’s portfolio includes some of the world’s most prominent and valuable Internet-based firms, including Facebook, Zynga, Groupon, and Twitter.

The Founders Fund provides capital to transformational businesses run by world-class entrepreneurs; companies the firm has backed include Facebook, Quantcast, SpaceX, Palantir Technologies, RoboteX, and ZocDoc. The firm, which pursues a founder-friendly investment strategy, is managed by four partners, all of whom are themselves company founders: Peter Thiel (PayPal; Palantir); Ken Howery (PayPal); Luke Nosek (PayPal); and Sean Parker (Napster; Plaxo; founding president, Facebook). Founders Fund is represented on the ZocDoc board by Ken Howery.

The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm that provides a wide range of financial services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and high-net-worth individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centers around the world.

Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm focusing on early stage companies in the Internet, computing, mobile, silicon technology and clean technology sectors. A prolific, socially conscious firm, Khosla Ventures was formed in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, one of the world’s most preeminent venture capitalists. He was one of the co-founders of Sun Microsystems and became a general partner of the venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers in 1986.

Marc Benioff is Chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com. He founded the company in 1999 with a vision to create an on-demand information management service that would replace traditional enterprise software technology. Benioff is regarded as the leader of what he has termed "The End of Software," the now proven belief that multi-tenant, cloud computing applications democratize information by delivering immediate benefits at reduced risks and costs.