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Prior to Gradient, Zach led acquisitions and strategic investments as a member of Google’s Corporate Development team, where he focused on Google’s Cloud, Ads and Commerce businesses. Before Google, Zach advised software and internet companies as an investment banker, leading companies through M&As, IPOs, and other financing opportunities. Zach started his career as a quant and data scientist at a leading energy trading hedge fund, and also co-founded a social media startup. Zach serves on the Board of Directors at Openly, Elsa, and Wise Systems, among other companies. He received his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the University of Virginia, his JD from the UCLA School of Law, and his MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Repeat entrepreneur turned venture investor. Prior to starting Oyster with Sophie, he co-founded Republic Crypto in 2017, where he served as Chief Strategy Officer. Previously led institutional fund products at AngelList, designed an algorithmic investing platform for Hone Capital, was Co-founder & CTO at FreshPay, the first Bitcoin debit card, was on the founding team as Architect & Head of Mobile Engineering at Chartboost (acquired by Zynga for $250M), and worked in engineering at Tapulous through its acquisition by Disney.

Co-founder and CEO of Affirm (NASDAQ: AFRM) Co-founder of PayPal (NASDAQ: PYPL)

Undergrad at Carnegie Mellon, Grad school at the University of Michigan. Bumbled around in software and consulting before I found my calling in Fintech, then further refined it by becoming a VC :)

Named to venture capital’s 40 Under 40 by VC Journal in 2020, Aaron is the co-founder of PathSource, an edtech startup that rose to be the top career app in the App Store until its acquisition in 2017. Aaron also created the online game Fantasy Politics for the 2012 election. Inducted into the annual Innovation Rockstar list by the Boston Business Journal, Aaron has written for Entrepreneur Magazine, Fast Company and a range of business outlets. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and an MPA from Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

Ali Rohde is the General Partner / Co-founder at Outset Capital.

Andrew invests in consumer technology, including social, marketplace, entertainment, and gaming experiences. Andrew is a prolific writer and leading voice on mobile, metrics, and user growth. For the past decade, he’s covered the topic on andrewchen.com. He is the author of The Cold Start Problem, which explores how new start-ups launch and scale by leveraging network effects. He is also a board member and instructor at Reforge, which offers selective growth-focused programs for experienced professionals in marketing, product, data, and engineering. Prior to joining a16z, Andrew led the Rider Growth teams at Uber.

Prior to joining a16z, Anish held multiple roles at Credit Karma including the General Manager of Core Product and General Manager of U.S. Card, which he helped scale to over 100MM members and nearly $1B in 2019 revenue. Anish joined Credit Karma in 2015 via the acquisition of Snowball, a notifications startup he founded a year earlier. Prior to creating Snowball, Anish founded SocialDeck, a social-gaming company that was acquired by Google in 2010. He went on to lead various mobile product efforts as well as invest at Google Ventures.

Ann Miura-Ko is a co-founding Partner at Floodgate. A repeat member of the Forbes Midas List and the New York Times Top 20 Venture Capitalists Worldwide, Ann was also named the “Most Powerful Woman in Startups” by Forbes. Ann is well-known in Silicon Valley as a pioneer investor in highly technical companies because of her background as a PhD in math modeling of infosec at Stanford. Her deep interest in technology began as a child – her father was a NASA rocket scientist – and her expertise developed as an undergraduate at Yale, where she participated in the Robocup Competition in Paris, France. Ann has also made significant investments in consumer (commerce, curation), marketplaces, and software for SMBs and solopreneurs. Some of Ann’s investments include Lyft (where she is still a board member), Xamarin, Monthly, Popshop, Emotive, and Refinery29.

Founder since 2005 and investor since 2007.

Atin looks for outstanding Founders who are building big businesses - and are nice people leaving a net positive impact on our world. Most recently, he was a Principal at the hardware-focused VC firm Q Venture Partners. He continues to be involved with the amazing team at QVP, in the role of Venture Partner. If you're a hardware startup/investor, do reach out. An ex-entrepreneur, he loves the sport ultra-marathon trail running. He considers finishing a couple of 100K races his biggest (sporting/physical) achievements to date.

Investing in and incubating early stage consumer companies.

He is passionate about working with founders who are shaping their industries and often don’t fit the Silicon Valley mold. During his time at Bessemer, Brian supported investments in Gainsight, Mindbody (IPO), Playdom* and helped found Columbia Lake Partners, a European venture debt fund. Prior to Bessemer, Brian worked in the private equity group at Blackstone and founded an online advertising agency.

Brittany Laughlin is a Partner at Lattice Ventures, providing launch capital and connections to entrepreneurs serving industries underserved in innovation. Prior she served as General Manager at Union Square Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm with $1B+ under management. Some portfolio companies include Etsy, Twitter, SoundCloud, Tumblr,Lending Club, and Kickstarter. Her entrepreneurial endeavors include founding VetsinTech NYC, transitioning military veterans into technology jobs, and founded gtrot, a social travel recommendation engine sold to Groupon. She has a BA in Marketing and International Business from NYU Stern. Laughlin writes about building great companies, venture investing, tech, and travel.

Charles Birnbaum is a partner in Bessemer’s New York office, where he invests in early-stage and promising companies in the U.S. and Europe. He has a strong interest in fintech infrastructure, embedded financial services, consumer-facing products, the powerful emergence of DeFi, and the consumer-facing companies and infrastructure players that will serve as a bridge between DeFi and TradFi. Before joining Bessemer in 2013, Charles was one of the earliest team members at Foursquare, the location-based mobile application and social network, where he helped to bring forth the company’s first merchant-facing tools.

Chetan has been at Benchmark since 2018. Prior to that, was a general partner at NEA for seven years.

At Commerce, Dan focuses on technology innovations in the payments, financial services and insurance fields. He serves on the boards of Blooom, ClickSWITCH, Kin and Socure, and participates as an observer on several other portfolio boards, such as BillGO and MX Technologies. Prior to starting Commerce Ventures, Dan was a Principal at Highland Capital Partners, where he focused on mobile and payments-related startups.

A number of his investments have led to significant exits, including AppNexus (acquired by AT&T), Climate Corporation (acquired by Monsanto), Okta (NASDAQ: OKTA), RingCentral (NYSE: RNG) and Upstart (NASDAQ: UPST). David hasalso been recognized by Fortune and Forbes as one of the top technology investors. Prior to Khosla Ventures, David spent five years at Tellme Networks as VP of marketing and business development. Using the quantitative decision making framework, RIFLE, the company drove revenue to over $100 million, and was ultimately acquired by Microsoft for more than $700 million. Previously, he led AOL’s communications, community and instant messaging product divisions as they surpassed 50 million users worldwide. David’s career began in door to door sales, where one sales pitch led to his new career in technology via McCaw Cellular, now AT&T.

Enmi has invested in early-mid stage ventures for over 15 years, first as part of venture firms IDG Ventures and Boston Millennia Partners. Most recently, she invested as an angel in seed-stage digital health ventures. Besides investing, Enmi has worked with operating companies of varying sizes anchored around consumer marketing. At NYTimes.com, Enmi focused on the revenue strategy of new digital products. Thereafter, Enmi founded a consumer email startup called replyforall that served both users and brand marketers. That chapter proved a non-stop lesson in the paramount importance of a founder’s surgical focus and ability to let go of preconceived notions and roadmaps. Enmi also tinkered as a vendor of e-books to get versed in affiliate marketing, a powerful channel of highly repeatable and cost-controllable customer acquisition.

Eric led investments in enterprise software companies such as Confluent and Amplitude, both of which IPO'ed in 2021. He is also an investor and board member at Cerebras Systems, Benchling and Contentful, all of which have multi-billion-dollar valuations. Before joining Benchmark, he was cofounder and CEO of social web browser Rockmelt, which failed and was scooped up by Yahoo in 2013 for $70 million. Vishria, who graduated from Stanford at age 19, led the Series A round in monitoring startup Pixie Labs, which was acquired by publicly traded platform New Relic two months later.

Focus on infrastructure, devops, open source and security at the seed and series A stages. On the board of the Linux Foundation. Previously COO at GitHub and an investor at X Factor Ventures, a seed fund that invests in female-founded companies (all investment partners are female founders themselves). Prior to joining GitHub, was the co-founder and COO of Bitnami (acquired by VMware).

An early investor in and served on the boards of some of the most innovative software companies of recent times including Slack, Intercom, Optimizely, Cameo, KeepTruckin, CultureAmp, Loom, UiPath and Nova Credit.

James Murphy is Forum’s General Partner, and was the Co-Founder of Robly, a marketing automation platform based in New York City. James is an active angel investor and advisor to numerous early stage SaaS startups.

Jeff began his career helping large brands innovate while at Leo Burnett. He now helps innovators create brands. Over the course of Listen, Jeff has invested in 20+ startups; providing brand and business strategy for consumer-focused companies in a variety of industries.

Jillian loves getting to speak to and work with passionate individuals who are obsessed with the problems and inefficiencies that face our society. Jillian is a fintech nerd and loves to explore the intersection of financial technology and all other sectors. More broadly, Jill works across consumer and enterprise companies with a focus on e-commerce, marketplaces, and SaaS solutions. Prior to joining Cowboy, Jillian spent 5 years investing at Anthemis, an early-stage fintech focused venture firm, focused across North America and Europe. Jillian worked closely with companies ranging the spectrum of fintech such as Pipe, Maxwell, Matic, Nivelo, and Rally Rd (to name a few). She also led the launch of the Female Innovators Lab, Anthemis’ venture studio in partnership with Barclays that supports female founders. Prior to Anthemis, she was in investment banking at Barclays within the financial institutions group.

Published machine learning papers as an academic researcher (under Rebecca Hwa). Founded an AI recruiting company that went through YC and a 3D injection molding software company that was acquired. Helped build Addepar as an early engineer. Served as a Thiel Fellow mentor.

Founder of Demand Curve (YC S19), which teaches growth marketing to tens of thousands of marketers. Formerly VP Marketing at Webflow. Author at Julian.com and twitter.com/julian. Partner at Hyper.com.

Leads all of Lightspeed's fintech investments broad background in business development and operating roles across Marketplaces, SaaS, and Fintech. ex-BizDev at Stripe

Grew Dropbox from 300 to 1500 people as Chief of Staff. CEO and co-founder of Generally Intelligent, an AI research company working directly on human-like general intelligence. Previously co-founded and was CEO of Sourceress, an AI recruiting company that went through YC and raised $13M.

Mark's investments focus on fintech, real estate, and enterprise SaaS. His interests lie chiefly with businesses that increase back office and working capital efficiency, ease data and customer compliance for global scale, and enable earned wage access. Mark helped build and lead business strategy and finance at Stripe, driving key initiatives for sales operations, global growth, and fundraising.

Martin was previously the cofounder and chief technology officer at Nicira, which was acquired by VMware for $1.26 billion in 2012. While at VMware, Martin was a fellow, and served as senior vice president and general manager of the Networking and Security Business Unit, which he scaled to a $600 million run-rate business by the time he left VMware in 2016. He started his career at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory where he worked on large-scale simulations for the Department of Defense before moving over to work with the intelligence community on networking and cybersecurity. These experiences inspired his work at Stanford where he created the software-defined networking (SDN) movement, leading to a new paradigm of network virtualization. While at Stanford he also cofounded Illuminics Systems, an IP analytics company, which was acquired by Quova Inc. in 2006.

Led rounds for Arbo, Bitso, Bond, Clara, Cloudwalk, Luna, Meld, Melio, Mercury, Pinwheel, Pleo, Quanto, Silverflow, Step.

Partner on the early stage investing team at Sequoia Capital. He currently sits on the board of Citizen, Jumpstart, rideOS, Rockset, and Threads.

Mike joined Index in 2009, to help establish the firm's San Francisco office with Danny Rimer. Mike invests primarily in infrastructure, open-source, and artificial intelligence companies. He's currently serving the boards of Aurora, Cockroach Labs, Confluent, Covariant.ai, Elastic, Kong, Sonos, Starburst, and Wealthfront. Mike was previously a director of Blue Bottle Coffee, Hortonworks, and Zuora. Mike held several executive positions prior to Index, including Chief Strategy Officer and SVP/GM of Cisco's routing business. Mike managed a P&L in excess of $10 billion in revenues, and his team was responsible for the acquisition of over 70 companies, some of which were multi-billion deals.

Miles' investments include Segment (acquired by Twilio for $3.2B), Benchling, and Airtable — each of which he invested before they had 30 employees. Prior to Benchmark, Miles was a GP at Thrive Capital.

Pascal specializes in enabling founders to apply strategic thinking and best-in-class practices. A dedicated and high bandwidth partner, he developed his skill set as a management consultant in technology and finance, where he worked with industry leaders on their business strategy, Go-To-Market and M&A. Swiss born, he started his career at The Boston Consulting Group in Zurich working with Switzerland’s largest banks on their strategies, business transformations and M&A activities. In 2015, he moved to San Francisco and led BCG teams for the world’s largest tech companies focusing on integrating acquisitions, restructuring sales orgs and thinking through their go-forward strategies. In parallel, he was a Venture Partner at local VCs and an early investor in Darling Ventures. Today, he gets excited about applying the structured thinking, professionalism and tools learned to work alongside entrepreneurs in the early stages of their business.

Patrick is the co-founder of iStockphoto, was an EIR at Inovia Capital, and a Managing Partner at 500 Startups Canada.

Co-founder and former CEO of Trulia, one of the internet’s most successful marketplaces. He led the company from inception to one of the largest and fastest-growing real estate brands in the U.S. with more than 50 million monthly unique users and a merger with Zillow in 2015 that valued Trulia at $3.5 billion. Prior to starting Trulia, Pete was part of the founding team of lastminute.com, a leading European online travel site that was acquired in 2005 by Travelocity/Sabre Holdings for over $1 billion. These experiences gave Pete a rarely acquired understanding of what it takes to scale a company from a great idea to a $1 billion+ exit, all from a Founder’s perspective.

Peter leads the Plug and Play China team to build a leading innovation platform and empower technology innovation in China.

Peter has nearly 20 years of experience in operation and international management in the TMT industry. He was the Global Vice President of Operations at Nokia Home Device Business Unit. Previously, he served as the Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer of APAC & Greater China in Alcatel-Lucent.

A San Francisco based venture capitalist and entrepreneur. Founder and Managing Director of Caffeinated Capital, an early stage venture capital firm. Specialties include Venture Capital, Growth Capital, Secondaries, Private Equity, Equity & Debt Financing.

VC partnering with entrepreneurs from idea to IPO. Joined Greylock as an investor in 2013 and became a board partner in 2022 to start her own firm. Led Greylock’s investment in 0x, Baseten, Cleo, Common Room, Demisto (acquired by Palo Alto Networks), Mystery, Portals, Remotion, Shortcut, Sqreen (acquired by Datadog) and Utmost. She is on the board of 0x, Baseten, Cleo, Shortcut, Common Room, Mystery, Obsidian, Remotion, and Utmost. Prior to joining Greylock, Sarah was at Goldman Sachs, where she invested in growth-stage technology startups such as Dropbox, and advised pre-IPO technology companies such as Workday (as well as public clients including Zynga, Netflix and Nvidia).

Fintech-focused VC interested in the generational opportunity to re-build our financial infrastructure using software, and networks that connect people.

Tim Draper founded Draper Associates, DFJ and the Draper Venture Network, a global network of venture capital funds. He funded Baidu, Tesla, Skype, SpaceX, Twitch, Hotmail, Focus Media, Robinhood, Athenahealth, Box, Cruise Automation, Carta, Planet, PTC and 15 other unicorns at the seed stage. He is a supporter and global thoughtleader for entrepreneurs everywhere, and is a leading spokesperson for Bitcoin, Blockchain, ICOs and cryptocurrencies, invested in over 50 crypto companies, and led investments in Coinbase, Ledger, Tezos, and Bancor, among others. He has received various awards and honors including the World Entrepreneurship Forum’s “Entrepreneur of the World,” and is listed as one of the top 100 most powerful people in finance by Worth Magazine, the top 20 most influential people in Crypto by CryptoWeekly, #1 most networked VC by AlwaysOn, #7 on the Forbes Midas List, and #48 most influential Harvard Alum.

Vas joined Accel in 2010, and as a partner focuses on early-stage companies in the data infrastructure, API, and enterprise software spaces. Vas is active with Accel’s India practice and helps drive the firm’s Tech Council initiatives.

Vincent is currently Managing Partner at Interlace Ventures, an early stage fund dedicated to commerce technology in North America. Prior to this fund, he created and developed the venture investment capacity of a single family office. He also held the position of CFO of the largest independent western-food importer in China (Revenue from $50m to $200m / Acquired by Savencia Group Bongrain) from 2010 to 2015. He started his career in auditing (+ transactions services engagements) at Deloitte Paris and Shanghai. As an auditor, he has been exposed to multiple industries from manufacturing to professional services with a specialization in retail.

Prior to joining BCV, he co-founded two companies and spent seven years as a partner at Sequoia.

As a career institutional investor, Addie spent the prior decade at General Catalyst, General Atlantic, and Goldman Sachs’s Special Situations Group. At these firms, she helped to deploy over $450M across eighteen investments in fintech, consumer internet, and software companies spanning North America, Europe, and Israel.

Ajay leads the west coast office for BCV. Previously, Ajay was head of sales and marketing at Trilogy where he grew annual revenues to $300 million and led Trilogy’s product expansion into new areas such as enterprise pricing and incentive management. Prior to Trilogy, Ajay was a consultant with the Los Angeles office of McKinsey & Company.

Alana started base case while working as a product manager at samsara out of a burning desire to spend more time with earlier-stage founders. During college, she worked at Greylock, General Catalyst's Rough Draft Ventures, and Sequoia's scout program.

Before joining USV, Albert was the president of del.icio.us through the company’s sale to Yahoo and an angel investor (Etsy, Tumblr). He previously founded or co-founded several companies, including a management consulting firm and an early hosted data analytics company.

Entrepreneur + investor. I believe values + people are the foundation for building great companies. I have been part of starting 4 technology companies in the enterprise software space including eShare technologies, eAssist global solutions, Goowy media (acquired by aol) and Assistly which was acquired by salesforce and rebranded as desk.com. While at salesforce I was EVP and GM of the ServiceCloud and helped grow the business to over $1b in revenue. In 2014, I joined Campaign Monitor, a global email marketing and automation company, as CEO. Now on an amazing journey in venture capital @ Redpoint. Over my career I have had the great fortune and pleasure to work with some amazing entrepreneurs and have invested in and advised great companies which I look forward to doing at a greater scale now as a full time vc.

Alex Hartz is a partner at Shine Capital

One of the electronic duo, 'The Chainsmokers" named by Forbes as the highest paid DJs in the world seasoned Angel investor.

Alex is a Partner on the investment team at Khosla Ventures where he has a special focus in biotechnology, healthcare, data science, and AI/ML. Alex has an MD and PhD in biomedical informatics from Stanford, with a dissertation on machine learning methods in precision medicine under the supervision of Atul Butte. Alex has completed additional graduate work in biology and physics and a short postdoctoral fellowship in biochemistry and genetics with Ronald W. Davis at the Stanford Genome Technology Center.  As a scientist, he has published over 50 scientific publications, primarily at the intersection of computer science, biology, and healthcare. As an inventor, he has licensed IP to three separate companies. As an entrepreneur, he has worked as an early employee or co-founder at a range of startups. He currently sits on the boards of some of Khosla Ventures’ investments, including Deep Genomics and HeartVista.

Amanda (better known as Robson or Robby) loves working with passionate founders who have become experts in their space. Works with enterprise companies broadly but focuses on innovations in developer tooling, data management, security, applied AI, and supply chain. Before joining Cowboy, Amanda spent 3.5 years as an early-stage investor at Norwest Venture Partners. Before Norwest, she was a sell-side M&A investment banker on the enterprise software team at William Blair.

Amit is a partner in Bessemer’s Israel office where he focuses on investments in the region and throughout Europe. Prior to venture capital, Amit was a senior associate in McKinsey & Company, advising companies on projects related to technology strategy. Earlier in his career, Amit was a developer and then Product Manager at an e-commerce search and merchandising solutions startup Mercado, now part of Adobe Software. Amit holds an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology.

Amit joined Accel in 2016 and works with early-stage teams across a number of consumer, b2b, and developer-oriented categories. Areas of particular focus include fintech and digital health. Previously, Amit was an Accel entrepreneur as the co-founder of CardSpring, where he led engineering for its developer-facing API platform. Twitter acquired CardSpring, where he then led engineering for several of Twitter’s commerce initiatives.

"Before joining Costanoa, I ran North American sales strategy and operations at Zuora, a public enterprise software company. Prior to that, I spent three years investing in growth stage technology companies at Summit Partners, where my investments included Podium, InfoArmor (acq. AllState), and onXmaps. I began my career on Wall Street, working at JP Morgan where I spent time as a technology investment banker and as a cash equities trader focused on biotechnology and financial services."

Amy Saper joined Accel in 2019. Previously, Amy spent time at Stripe. As the second marketing hire, she helped build and grow the Product Marketing team, leading global product launches across Stripe’s suite of products. Prior to Stripe, Amy launched products and countries at Twitter, as she helped the company scale from a pre-revenue startup to a public company over the course of four years.

Andrew is a financial-technology entrepreneur and venture capital investor. Prior to Gilgamesh, Andrew co-founded Petal, which is a financial technology company in the credit card space in the United States that is dedicated to expanding access to credit. He also was an investment banker at Lazard and a corporate lawyer at Willkie Farr & Gallagher.

A globally recognized leader in AI, Dr. Andrew Ng leads AI Fund as the Managing General Partner. Additionally, he is the Founder and CEO of Landing AI, founder of DeepLearning.AI, chairman, and co-founder of Coursera, and an adjunct professor at Stanford University. As a pioneer both in machine learning and online education, Andrew has changed countless lives through his work in AI, authoring or co-authoring more than 200 research papers in machine learning, robotics and related fields. He also led teams that helped with two leading technology companies’ AI adoption, as the founding lead of the Google Brain team, and Chief Scientist in Baidu. Andrew holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, a master’s degree from MIT, and a bachelor’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University.

Andrew Schoen is a partner of NEA since 2014, and focused on enterprise technology investments. In 2018, Andrew was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in Venture Capital.

Investor in Persona, Figma, Scale, Chime, Placement, and many others.

Andy McLoughlin invests in early-stage software startups that help businesses operate like the best companies in the world either by building better, selling more, or operating more effectively. His portfolio includes LaunchDarkly, Human Interest, Focal Systems, Fountain, Crossbeam, Coder, Sym, Tailscale and Mutiny. Prior to joining Uncork in 2015, Andy was co-founder of Huddle, a London-based enterprise collaboration platform which was acquired in 2017. He was also an active angel investor with a personal portfolio of 40+ startups including Intercom; Tray.io, Pipedrive (acquired by Vista Equity Partners; Bugsnag; Apiary (acquired by Oracle); Buffer; Secret Escapes; Calm; and Postmates (acquired by Uber).

Andy began his career in the Internet in the mid-90s. Prior to joining USV, in 2007 he co-founded betaworks, which both created and invested in social, real-time applications and services.

Co-founded Xift and later Cuil, two clustering-based search engines and Recall the first history-based search engine over the Internet Archive’s corpus at recall.archive.org, both acquired by Google. As a VP of Engineering at Google, she architected the search serving system that increased the index size over 10X at the time of launch, helped Android scale from 3 million to over a billion phones, launched Google Play, and led the search, infrastructure, and recommendation teams. She received her PhD in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, was an AI Research Scientist at Stanford University, and is a recipient of the Technical Leadership ABIE Award, among others. Anna serves on the Board of Directors at Labelbox among others. Previously, she served on the Board of Directors at Square and Streamlit.

Anne was previously a seed stage investor at Floodgate, where she sourced and led several consumer investments. Before that she worked as an early hire in product and engineering roles at two startups, Solv Health and FundersClub. She started her career in consulting at McKinsey in San Francisco. Anne graduated from Princeton University, magna cum laude, where she started a failed company and experienced a taste of the challenges of entrepreneurship first-hand.

Annie Case joined Kleiner Perkins in 2018 and focuses on investments across consumer technology and digital health. Before joining Kleiner Perkins, Annie worked in product and business operations roles at Uber. While at Uber, she supported the SVP of Operations and helped scale the UberEats business to new markets internationally. Annie started her career as a consultant at Bain & Company in San Francisco, where she worked with clients in the Technology, Private Equity, and Education practices. Annie graduated from Stanford University with a bachelor's degree in Human Biology and a master's degree in Management Science & Engineering. She was also a member of the Stanford Women's Soccer team.

Joined Insight in 2021, where his focus areas are global high-growth fintech, internet, and software companies from Series A to pre-IPO stages. He is an operator at heart and enjoy working with founders on everything product, finance and strategy. Before joining Insight, He managed operations for a $300M+ consumer business at ITC, one of the largest consumer-product firms in India, and led technology investments at a leading Indian early-stage investment fund. He has also spent time with Baring Private Equity Asia, a leading middle-market private equity fund, and Fidelity Investments.

Co-Founder and ex-CTO of Dropbox, a file sharing company.

Arianna previously founded Autonomous Partners, an investment fund focused on cryptocurrencies and digital assets. She also helped launch Crystal Towers Capital, an early-stage fund investing primarily in YC companies, in 2015. Arianna previously spent time working in sales and product roles at Facebook and BitGo, an enterprise security company for bitcoin and other digital currencies.

My background is in product management so I love to jam and brainstorm, but what underpins how I work with founders is authentic human connection, empathy, and trust. I believe that a big part of my role as a VC is to help remove barriers, open doors, and be a trusted partner throughout this incredible journey. Before joining LJV, I was at Coatue, where I helped build the strategy for our first early stage fund and get it off the ground. I’m also the co-founder of Lej, a clothing brand, as well as a part-time DJ.

Ashmeet is the Founder and Chief Engineer of Engineering Capital. Ashmeet’s experience includes running venture capital funds and leadership positions helping build the industry leading products VMware ESX Server and Silicon Graphics WebFORCE. Ashmeet came into venture from VMware, where he ran product management for their flagship product ESX Server. His successful investments include Azure (IPO NYSE: AZRE) and SignalFx, recently acquired by Splunk for $1 billion, Tubi.tv (acq: FOX). He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Baffle, Concentric, Evinced, Nimbella and ShiftRight. His active investments include Kentik, Menlo Security, Nexla, Prismo Systems, Robust Intelligence, vFunction, and YotaScale – in all of which he was the seed investor.

Ashu works with startups across the enterprise stack. He is particularly excited about how machine learning and deep learning are reinventing existing software categories and creating new consumer experiences. And he has invested in AI-enabled business applications (such as marketing technology and HR technology), data platforms, data center infrastructure, security & privacy, as well as online video. Ashu is an early investor in one decacorn (Databricks) and six unicorns (Cohesity, Eightfold, Amperity, Turing, Anyscale, and Alation). He serves on the boards of Anvilogic, Arize, Coefficient, Cohesity, Conviva, Eightfold, Fortanix, Ikigai Labs, Levo, OpsMx, Stacklet, Skyflow, and Turing. 

Early stage venture capitalist who partners with ambitious entrepreneurs at preseed, seed, Series A, and Series B stages. focused on the next generation of enterprise software across developer tools, cloud infrastructure, big data and machine learning infrastructure, AI applications, and cybersecurity.

His recent focus areas include infrastructure, security, and future of health. An original super angel turned multi-stage investor. Early backer of a number of iconic companies including Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), Credit Karma (Acquired by Intuit), Fitbit (NYSE:FIT), Guardant Health (NASDAQ:GH), Guideline, Notion, Opendoor (NASDAQ: OPEN), Pluralsight (NASDAQ:PS), Rovio (HEL:ROVIO), Shopify (NYSE:SHOP), and Soundhound (NASDAQ:SOUN). Prior to starting Felicis, Aydin was a Senior Manager at Google responsible for strategic partner development and account management in Asia Pacific, including Japan. Aydin joined Google in 1999 as its first Product Manager to launch Google’s first 10 international sites, its first online search licensing products, and its first Safe Search. He then became the first International Sales Manager at Google, responsible for worldwide licensing deals.

Bhaskar “BG” Ghosh is the CTO at 8VC, having initially joined the company as an Advisor in December 2015. Since receiving his PhD in Computer Science from Yale, BG has had a distinguished career in Silicon Valley, working for 20+ years in technology leadership in diverse domains including enterprise data and web infrastructure, digital advertising, social networks, and consumer fintech. Previously, he ran technology at Nerdwallet as VP of Engineering, helped build the teams and back-ends that helped fuel LinkedIn’s meteoric growth as its Head of Data Engineering, and led engineering for the pioneering Yahoo! Right Media Display Advertising Exchange. BG built his deep technology and data chops developing RDMBS kernels at top enterprise data-platform companies like Oracle and Informix. At 8VC, BG works with the entrepreneurs and leaders in our portfolio as a virtual CTO, and in finding the next big investment idea across technology domains.

Bill has led investments in companies including Looker, Flexport, Verkada, Superhuman, Airbase, Nova Credit, Legion, and Labelbox.

Logical domains are cloud infrastructure, developer tools, DevOps, open source, observability as well as SaaS apps for sales and marketing. In terms of specific companies and entrepreneurs, he is looking for the same things I did when I was running large teams and hiring people: iconoclastic thinking, the courage to break paradigms, defiance of common wisdom.

Brendan Wallace is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Fifth Wall, where he guides the firm’s strategic vision. Prior to starting Fifth Wall, Brendan co-founded Identified, a workforce optimization data and analytics company that raised $33 million of venture funding and was acquired by Workday (NYSE: WKDY) in 2014. He also co-founded Cabify, the largest ridesharing service in Latin America, and has been an active investor, leading more than 60 angel investments including Bonobos, Dollar Shave Club, Lyft, SpaceX, Clutter, and Philz Coffee. Brendan started his career at Goldman Sachs in the real estate, hospitality, and gaming group before joining The Blackstone Group’s real estate private equity practice. Brendan is from New York City and currently lives in Venice. He graduated from Princeton University, where he received his BA in political science and economics. He received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Founder/CEO of Reforge ex-VP of growth at hubspot

Investor with 6+ years of Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs and CFA Charterholder Founding Board Member at BLCKVC, largest U.S. Black investor community Founder of The Takeoff Institute Founder and Host of "The Road Untraveled" Scout for Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pear VC Kauffman Fellow, Class 26

Brian brings 15+ years of investment experience to the Forerunner team.

Invests across sectors and stages, with a passion for companies reinventing huge industries like healthcare, biotechnology and education. Board director for Solugen, Cloud9, Emerald Therapeutics and The Long-Term Stock Exchange, and a board observer for Anduril, Modern Health and Forward.

I began my career in venture betting on student founders as a pre-seed investor with Dorm Room Fund, a national, student-run venture fund backed by First Round Capital, where I led investments in four pre-seed companies. At Crosscut Ventures, I co-created the first free job board focused solely on LA startups, Interchange. With the support of great partners like PledgeLA, Interchange will help make roles at LA-based startups more accessible to diverse candidates. I’ve begun building a community for women in enterprise called The Table with my friend Justine Humenansky of Playground Global.

Brooks is a co-founder and Managing Partner of FinTech Collective. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Brooks had a successful career as an entrepreneur and global operating executive in capital markets, payments, and enterprise tech. He was a key executive and officer at New York-based Multex, which successfully IPO’d and exited to Reuters; London-based Serverside, which successfully exited to Gemalto; and Oslo-based FAST, which successfully exited to Microsoft for over $1b. Brooks began his career as an enterprise software developer.

I look for audacious authenticity. The audacious part is that it has to be a big idea that will truly make a difference in the world. But to me, authenticity is most important. Someone who understands a problem space better than anyone else will be the absolute best steward for their company. They’re never going to give up on their idea, and no one can compete with their instincts and commitment. My goal is to be a founder’s first call. That’s not something you can add to a term sheet. It has to be earned—through trust, delivery and being there when things are messy and hard. Real company-building is not glamorous work. I thrive on partnering with people who will make a dent in tomorrow—and on being there with whatever they need to maximize that dent.

Bucky is Partner at Kleiner Perkins, where he focuses on software and infrastructure investments. He is a board member and early investor in companies like Netlify, Materialize, Labelbox, Teleport, Rudderstack, Open Raven, Prisma, Calixa, and Codesandbox. Prior to entering the venture capital business in 2014, Bucky was a member of Cisco’s Corporate Development team, where he executed on various M&A, investment, and partnership opportunities on behalf of its Data Center and Cloud Business Units. Bucky holds a B.S. in Business Administration and Finance from the University of Southern California.

Casey joined Accel in 2022. Prior to joining Accel, Casey worked at Costanoa Ventures, an early-stage enterprise fund, where she led and incubated several investments in developer tools, data infrastructure, and security. Before investing, Casey was a software engineer at Pinterest where she worked on commerce, collaboration, and core products. Casey joined Pinterest via an acquisition of a former Accel portfolio company, URX, where she was also a software engineer.

Cat focuses on early-stage investments in enterprise software. She’s particularly interested in data infrastructure, developer tools, and artificial intelligence. Prior to joining Index, Cat worked at Elementl, maker of the open-source data orchestrator Dagster. There, she led the development of the commercial product, Dagster Cloud. Previously, Cat was an early engineer at Scale, where she grew the labeler community and partnered with strategic AV customers. Before that, she worked at Yelp, JPMorgan and YouTube. Cat graduated from Princeton University with a BSE in Computer Science. She currently lives in San Francisco and is an avid reader, occasional cook, and constant tinkerer.

Currently doing all things fintech at Alloy in NYC. Previously one of the first business hires and head of growth at Ramp, helping to launch the first corporate card built for savings. First business hire at Plaid.

Prior to founding Fuel, Chris was at Ignition Partners, where he created and ran the seed program. Previous to that, Chris spent ten years in advertising and marketing. At Heckler Associates, he launched several brands, including Aravon, New Balance’s comfort shoe business, and Procare, New Balance’s partner program.

Before BCV, Christina was a product leader at Affirm and an active angel investor.

Christoph co-founded Berlin-based Point Nine Capital in 2011. Along with partner Pawel Chudzinski, he has led investments in some of the most exciting European SaaS and marketplace startups over the past decade.

Enterprise focused early-stage VC with $100k-$500k checks via CapitalX.vc. Also invest in later stage via SPVs for $250k $2m or more. Since 2011, I’ve invested in over 100 startups with High Hit Rate including 12 x Unicorns. In addition, I've also invested in more than 10 VC funds. I know what it takes to build a high-impact company at different stages, as a long-time executive and operator, a former founder, and consultant at Accenture. Founders also love working with me for being an empathetic executive coach, cheerleader for the early team, and ambassador for their brand and community.

"Entrepreneur, Investor, Teacher, Learner"

Codie is the founder and CEO of Contrarian Thinking, with over 2.5+ million subscribers. She is the co-founder of Unconventional Acquisitions, focused on small business acquisitions in the micro-PE space with an emphasis on roll-ups. She runs a holding company of SMB’s below $10M EBITDA focused upon what she calls “boring businesses,” or service-based businesses. She is a former partner at private equity firm EEC, and built First Trust’s $1 billion+ AUM Latin America business. She held leadership positions at Goldman Sachs, State Street, and Vanguard. She started as a journalist where she won the JFK award and Howard Buffett Foundation. She was listed as a 25 Most Innovative Leader in Cannabis, and a Top Female Investor by Forbes. She has an M.B.A. from Georgetown University, a master’s from ESADE and Fundação Getúlio Vargas, and a B.A. from Arizona State University.

Connie joined the firm in 2011 as a deal partner on the investment team before becoming a general partner in 2018. Previously, Connie worked at HP leading its webOS efforts in China. She started her career as a private equity investor at Elevation Partners, investing in media and entertainment.

Corinne works with entrepreneurs developing technology to fast-forward businesses into the digital-first world.

Addicted to early stage angel investing as he spends a lot of his time dreaming about what the future could look like and invest in people who do the same but are creating it.  Most of his successful investments have a common theme around job creation and flexibility. Invested in everything from rocket ships to sandwich delivery.