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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.

Ali has more than 10 years of experience in various Product and Growth roles at companies like Zynga, RockYou, Agoda, Rappi, and most recently at PayClip (one of LatAm's fastest growing FinTech companies). An angel investor who has completed more than 200 deals.

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.

He leads Obvious’ investments that scale renewable energy adoption with Mosaic, Sighten (acquired), Inspire (acquired), and Enbala (acquired); positively transform and electrify transportation with Proterra (IPO), Lilium (IPO), LightshipRV, Forum Mobility, and Amply (acquired); elevate cities with Plant Prefab, RenoRun, and Canvas; and help companies decarbonize with SINAI Technologies.

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.

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.

Asheem is attracted to founders who can communicate precisely about a problem and apply rigorous thinking to create an original solution.

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.

Bernard Moon is a Co-founder & General Partner at SparkLabs Global Ventures. He is also a Co-founder & General Partner at SparkLabs, a startup accelerator in Korea. Previously, he was Co-founder & CEO of Vidquik, a web conferencing & sales solutions platform. Bernard was a Managing Director at the Lunsford Group, which is a private investment firm with holdings in real estate, healthcare and other industries. Bernard was Co-founder & VP of Business Development of GoingOn Networks, a social media platform for companies, and also led their product development where BusinessWeek recognized them in their "Best of the Web" list.

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.

In 2009, Bobak co-founded a strategy-led mobile agency, Prolific. Through 10 years, they worked on and launched over 100 products spanning iOS, Android, and Web, before the agency was acquired in 2019. While managing Prolific, Bobak discovered a passion to invest in a more equitable future, leading him to collaborate with Pilar on D&I initiatives, and eventually co-found Debut Capital.

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.

Brad Feld has been an early-stage investor and entrepreneur for over 35 years, since founding his first company, Feld Technologies, in college. Brad is also a co-founder of Techstars and, with his wife Amy Batchelor, runs the Anchor Point Foundation.

Brad has written several books on entrepreneurship and venture capital and started blogging in 2004 before VC Twitter existed.

Brad holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in Management Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Brad is also an art collector and long-distance runner who enjoys wandering around alone in the mountains for hours at a time.

Brayton has spent his career in finance working with too-big-to-fail Morgan Stanley in wealth management and then to a FinTech startup selling private company securities. Then in 2012 he joined his co-worker, Adam Draper, to start Boost VC. Brayton got rid of his apartment and moved into the dorms that house the portfolio companies as he launched the startup to fund startups. He can still be spotted heading to a room he keeps after late nights in the office. At Boost VC, Brayton wears many hats but focuses on the 300+ portfolio alumni and their needs. If those don’t keep him busy enough, he also manages Boost VC’s finances, general operations, social media and investment decisions.

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

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.

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.

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.

Cack started their career as a runner for Nike, competing on a global level for two years. As any athlete knows, If you’re targeted in training and tenacious enough to persevere, it translates on race day. In sport and in company-building, there’s no substitute for putting in the time and effort—no shortcut to success.

They think of being a partner to founders and execs in the same way that they think about being on a sports team: we all have one another’s best interests in mind, and we’re united through a shared understanding and a common goal. Both inside the walls of the firm and beyond them.

Cack works with companies developing underlying infrastructures for autonomous and business applications and consumer experiences.

Venture Capitalist and Physician/Scientist

Previously he was co-founder CEO of Transist, an incubator and investor in impact-driven tech startups in China and the US. Earlier Calvin was founder CEO of Qifang, China's first online student loan service and the first Chinese company recognized by the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer. Calvin is a member of the Aspen Institute's inaugural China Fellowship Program, a WEF Young Global Leader. He was named one of Fast Company magazine's 100 Most Creative People In Business for 2011, was named 2009 Chinese Business Leader of the Year by Horasis and Baker & McKenzie, and is a Social Innovation Park Fellow. He has an MBA from TRIUM (NYU, LSE, HEC Paris), a B.A. from Yale University and has also studied social entrepreneurship, global leadership and other management and policy subjects at Harvard University and INSEAD.

Carmichael bases Material Impact's strategy on his successful career as an entrepreneur-investor in materials, blending a unique business model of licensing university technology and commercializing it through targeted partnerships with Fortune 500 companies. His current investments includeSoft Robotics, Zero Mass Water, and Amastan Technologies. As a General Partner at North Bridge Venture Partners, Carmichael financed and built several successful companies that create innovative products by applying material science, including 1366 technologies, Foro Energy, and MC10. He also serves as co-founder and chairman of Diagnostics For All, a creative hybrid non-profit and for-profit business that is developing paper-based diagnostics for poor and rural populations in developing nations.

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.

Focuses on investments in B2B software applications, B2C software and services, and connected hardware. Prior to launching Precursor, Charles Hudson was a Partner with SoftTech VC, one of the most active seed stage investors in Internet and mobile startups. He was also the Co-Founder and CEO of Bionic Panda Games, an Android-focused mobile games startup. Charles spent several years working at In-Q-Tel, the strategic venture capital group for the Central Intelligence Agency.

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.

After being hired as the first analyst at Union Square Ventures and helping to open First Round Capital’s first NYC office as a Principal, Charlie founded Brooklyn Bridge Ventures in 2012 He helped source First Round’s investments in GroupMe (acq. by Skype), SinglePlatform (acq. by Constant Contact), Moat (acq. by Oracle) and Backupify (acq. by Datto)

currently serves as board director for EveryDay Labs, Guardians Collective and Winnie. She is also a mentor and advisor to several accelerators including Village Capital, Camelback Ventures and AT&T Aspire. founding member of All Raise, where she leads the investor deal flow initiative. previously a management consultant at Parthenon Group as well as ZS Associates entered the edtech ecosystem by organizing HacktivateED, an education hackathon focused on solving concrete needs for San Francisco Unified, Oakland Unified and Aspire Public Schools.

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.

Clara is co-founder and Managing Partner of the Urban Innovation Fund, a venture capital firm that invests in the future of cities. Previously, she co-founded Tumml, a startup hub for urban tech. In 2014, Forbes listed her as one of its “30 Under 30” for Social Entrepreneurship. Clara’s work energizing urban entrepreneurship has been featured in numerous press outlets, including MSNBC and TechCrunch, among others. She serves on the Board of Tumml, as well as the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Bay Area Local Advisory Committee.

"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.

Founder & Managing Partner at Collaborative Fund.

Damir joined Index Ventures in 2015 and invests in B2C and B2B businesses related to ecommerce/retail and gaming.

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.

Danel focuses on early-stage and growth-equity investments. Previously he worked in corporate development at Google on strategic M&A initiatives including acquisitions, divestitures and investments. Prior to this he also worked as an analyst at Deutsche Bank and an associate at PwC. Danel graduated from Santa Clara University with a B.S. in commerce, with a concentration in accounting and finance and a minor in entrepreneurship.

Prior to starting Deciens, Kimerling was co-founder and CEO of Standard Treasury, a YCombinator company that built leading API solutions for the financial services community and which was acquired by Silicon Valley Bank.

Daniel first joined Accel in 2010. Dan re-joined Accel after spending time at Dropbox, where he worked on the platform team. He helped open the platform to third-party developers and launched and managed many of the company’s developer-facing initiatives. Earlier, Dan co-founded Chartio, a Y Combinator-backed (S10) startup in the data visualization space, and prior to Chartio, worked on CrunchBase at TechCrunch.

Danielle has worked with young entrepreneurs for about a decade. In 2010, during the founding of the Thiel Fellowship, Danielle joined to lead the design and operations. She's worked with some of the most prestigious founders like Vitalik Buterin and Ritesh Agarwal. Previous to her work with Peter Thiel, Danielle founded and directed Innovations Academy in San Diego, a K-8 charter school serving 400 students, with a focus on student-led project based learning and other alternative programs.

Danny joined Index in 2002 and established the firm's London office. He later opened the San Francisco office with Mike Volpi. His current investments include 1stdibs, Discord, Farfetch, Figma, Glossier, GOAT, Good Eggs, Grailed, Humu, Patreon and Scoop.

Dave is the Co-Founder & Managing Director of Offline Ventures. He was Founder & Partner Emeritus of Slow Ventures. He was the Co-Founder and CEO of Path which was acquired by Kakao in 2015. He co-founded Path with the mission of being a source of happiness, meaning, and connection through simplicity, quality, and privacy in technology and design. Path continues to serves tens of millions of people each month to this day.

Over the past 26 years, I have been a director on more than twenty-five technology company boards, bringing expertise on product and competitive strategy, risk, ESG and human resources, among other issues. I have strong M&A and financing experience, comprising dozens of transactions with leading technology companies and top investment banking firms. And I have worked with companies across the United States as well as internationally in Canada, Germany, Czech Republic and Israel. Sectors of experience and interest include SaaS, Cloud, Cybersecurity (Consumer, Enterprise and Infrastructure), Enterprise Software and more recently in Quantum Computing, Quantum Networking and Climate Technologies. My practice has focused largely in Financial Services, Internet Infrastructure, E-Commerce, Defense and Telecommunications markets.

David is the Managing Director at B.E.V.

After coming off his own entrepreneurial journey as Founder/CEO of FreshNeck, David joined Alpaca in 2014. He relies on empathy and personal experience to form deep bonds with founders and add value where it matters most. David enjoys partnering with startups on high-level strategy and building scalable ‘operating systems’ consisting of structured priorities and OKRs. Before getting the startup bug, David spent his early career in finance and law at the University of Miami and Fordham University. He spent three years as an Assistant District Attorney, representing the people of New York, and following that, spent three years across Merrill Lynch and Jefferies & Co.

Lifetime entrepreneur and startup investor/advisor that loves early stage company building.  Over 30+ years of consistent superior returns from hands-on involvement in startups.

an early-stage investor focused on entrepreneurs building the new financial economy (web3 & fintech).

David leads the firm’s American Dynamism practice, which focuses on investing in companies advancing American interests. David was previously the founder and CEO of OpenDNS, a cloud-delivered security service that was acquired by Cisco in 2015 for $635 million. While at Cisco, David was Senior Vice President and General Manager of Cisco Security — a $2.4 billion annual revenue business with more than 5,000 team members — where he oversaw the company's global cybersecurity strategy, product portfolio, and business. Prior to OpenDNS, David founded EveryDNS, an authoritative DNS service, and grew it into the world's largest free DNS service. He sold it to Dyn (now Oracle) in 2010.

David Ventzel is a part-time General Partner at Overkill Ventures and a part-time Geneeral Partner at Accelerace. He founded two startups before becoming an advisor and investor to startup founders.

After graduating with a masters degree from MIT’s Media Lab in 1995, David co-founded Firefly, an early pioneer in personalization and privacy technology. Firefly was acquired by Microsoft in 1998 where the company’s flagship product became the Microsoft Passport, the web’s first unified authentication and identity platform. After Firefly, David co-founded PeoplePC, a company dedicated to simplifying the process of joining the online world. PeoplePC served over 600,000 individual subscribers as well as Fortune 100 corporations such as Ford Motor Company, Vivendi Universal and Delta Air Lines. PeoplePC went public in 2001 and was acquired by Earthlink in 2002. In 2005, David co-founded SpotRunner, a Los Angeles-based technology company that worked to revolutionize the way advertising was created, planned, bought and sold.

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.

Deepak advises entrepreneurs at the UC Berkeley Haas Business school and is a mentor at various accelerators in Silicon Valley. He has 10 years of venture investing experience across 3 institutional funds. Prior to investing, he was part of 4 medical startups as either an entrepreneur or in management roles, having an exit with Cepheid (NASDAQ:CHPD), a molecular diagnostic company.

Prior to joining FirstMark, Dez was the Commercial Strategy Manager at NYC-based startup Cadre, a tech enabled real estate investment platform. Dez began his career at Deloitte in their M&A strategy practice where he focused on commercial and operational due diligence for Fortune 500 companies, across various industries.

Dinesh joined Accel in 2011 and focuses on early-stage enterprise companies pursuing global market opportunities. Dinesh has been involved in several entrepreneurial pursuits in Silicon Valley. He was a founder at iLeverage (acquired by E.piphany), and SayNow (acquired by Google).

Sequoia, Databricks, Airbnb, Stanford

Doug Benowitz is a Principal of Colle Capital Partners LP, an opportunistic, early stage technology venture fund. He focuses on sourcing and conducting diligence on seed and early stage investment opportunities. Doug joined Colle from BlackRock where he served as an Investment Strategist. He was recognized with the BlackRock Principles Award for Innovation for his work in developing new predictive portfolio performance modeling and allocation optimization techniques as well as for making significant strides in process automation.

Supporting Exceptional Early Stage Founders Globally

Eliot’s investments include Divide (acquired by Google), Replicated, Preact (sold to Spotify), SecurityScorecard, Rapportive (acquired by LinkedIn), Snyk, BigID, Front, Kustomer, Superhuman, Catalytic, Blaze (acq. by Akamai), Look.io (acquired by LivePerson), GoInstant (acquired by Salesforce), TrulyWireless, YHat, Handshake, WeVR, Techstars (NYC), and Amplify.LA. He previously co-founded Penny Black, a private venture-investment firm where he led a range of investments, including Anchor Intelligence (sold to Comscore), Spinback (acquired by Buddy Media), Bare Snacks (acq by PepsiCo), Ekso Bionics (NASDAQ: EKSO), Klout (acq. by Lithium), IndieGoGo. Prior to Penny Black, Eliot founded Templates.com, an online software retailer that was acquired 2002. He subsequently worked at the Permal Group, a multi-billion dollar global fund of hedge funds (acquired by Legg Mason in 2006).

Former adtech entrepreneur. Former accelerator manager. Mostly can help w/ fundraising strategy / networking / blurb + deck.

Ellen joined the boldstart team in January 2021, after having worked with the team as a founder at Dark. Her role allows her to do exactly what she loves – investing and supporting founders building pre-product, dev-focused, enterprise companies. Prior to boldstart and founding Dark, she worked in a variety of early stage product roles: at Lola on travel tooling, at Kickstarter on backer-facing projects, and at Microsoft on the first versions of cross-platform Office Mobile. The common thread is building tools that enable people to do creative work.

Experienced investor. Prior to Redpoint, Emily served as a Vice President at Point72 Ventures

Co-manages the fund and leads the US investment efforts. Her portfolio companies include Brigit, Chime, Clerkie, Cushion.ai, EarnUp, Jetty, Kin, Propel, SeedFi, Skipify, Steady and Unit. Prior to launching Flourish, Emmalyn was a partner at Omidyar Network where she co-managed the Financial Inclusion team. She joined Omidyar from Oak Investment Partners where she was a Venture Partner, deploying over $150 million of capital in companies such as Bleacher Report, Huffington Post, Thrillist, and Demand Media. Before Oak, Emmalyn led software and internet investments including Tellme Networks, Neoteris, and MySpace at VantagePoint Partners and the Barksdale Group. Prior to her work in venture, Emm worked as an investment banker in Morgan Stanley’s Technology group in the 90s. She began her career as a product manager for Fintech company, MSCI Barra, a leading portfolio analytics software company.

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.

Enrique is a global leader in security, backup and availability solutions. He looks for great people and expects exceptional results. It sounds simple, but it’s actually a challenge to find brilliant and committed founders who also have the operational chops to deliver on their vision.

Erin is an early-stage technology investor focused on enterprise software and AI, with an emphasis on data, infrastructure, security, and automation.

Ethan Choi joined Accel in 2018 and invests in SaaS companies that are redefining collaboration and enterprise automation, as well as fintech and e-commerce infrastructure. Prior to Accel, Ethan invested in and worked with companies including Headspace, Jimdo, Lucid Software, Lynda.com, PicMonkey and Prezi.

Consumer-focused venture capital investor. Inspired by identifying evolving human needs, dedicated to supporting visionary founders who are innovating in every aspect of life.

Prior to Ribbit Capital, Eva served as an investor at Goldman Sachs

Everett Randle is a Principal at Founders Fund. Before joining the Founders Fund, he held investor roles at Bond Capital, Kleiner Perkins, and Vista Equity Partners.

Forest joined NEA in 1999 as a Venture Partner and became a General Partner in 2004. He is the NEA representative on the boards of AstroWatt, Audience, Chelsio Communications, Serious Energy and SuVolta. Forest focuses on information and energy technology investments. Forest Baskett received a BA in Mathematics from Rice University, a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Frank Rotman is a Founding Partner and the Chief Investment Officer of QED Investors. His investment focus has been on emerging next-generation fintech and proptech companies. Frank was one of the earliest analysts hired into Capital One and he spent almost 13 years building and managing many of the company’s business units, credit organizations and operational areas. Frank graduated from the University of Virginia with degrees in Applied Mathematics (B.S.) and Systems Engineering (M.S.). He writes prolifically on Twitter as @fintechjunkie and posts additional content frequently on qedinvestors.com and fintechjunkie.com

Gabby Cazeau is a Principal at Harlem Capital where she focuses on deal sourcing, due diligence, internal operations, and building partnerships across the tech and entrepreneurship ecosystem. At the firm she focuses on ecommerce, fintech, and software. Gabby was featured in the HBCUvc’s 31 under 31 list.

Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Gareth helped build and sell three category-leading fintech companies. These included Multex, which IPO’d and then successfully sold to Reuters; Serverside, which successfully sold to Gemalto, a European digital security company; and CardLab, which was successfully acquired by Blackhawk Networks, a global leader in prepaid gift, reward and incentive technologies and solutions. Prior to starting his career in fintech, Gareth spent three years ‘double handing’ a 36ft sailing boat 33,000 nautical miles from the UK to the Antarctic circle.

Co-founded Canvas Ventures in 2013 to create a focused, boutique venture firm. Dedicated to enterprise investments in open source, cloud, and data. Began investing in 1998 after joining Morgenthaler Ventures, where he pioneered investments in the open source space, including early backing of MuleSoft, Sonatype, Jaspersoft. Earlier in his career as an operator, Gary played key roles at three companies that shaped and defined computing in their era. Gary began his career at IBM, where he joined the sales team the year the company launched the PC. During Gary’s tenure, IBM owned 70% of all IT spend. At Sun Microsystems, he rose through the ranks of marketing and product as the company conquered the server market. At Apple, he served as Senior Vice President of the Power Macintosh Division and Vice President of Sales of the Americas. 

Before Wing, Gaurav was a partner at Sequoia Capital from 2001-2012. Gaurav was a founder and board member of two companies that achieved public listings – Redback Networks (Founded 1996, IPO 1999), and Ruckus Wireless (Founded 2002, IPO 2012). He incubated and helped build FireEye (Founded 2004, IPO 2013) and Jasper (Founded 2004, Acquired 2016 for $1.5B) into significant businesses, serving on their boards for more than 10 years each.

Gaurav’s lifelong interest in technology led him to Silicon Valley and a 10+ year career in product at Splunk (NASDAQ: SPLK), one of the first big data companies (before ‘big data’ was even a term), and then Elastic (NYSE: ESTC). As VP of Product at both companies, he helped them grow from early-stage startups to IPOs, now worth a combined $25B+.

Gavin is the founding visionary at Kickstart. In 2008, he recognized the need for both leadership and seed-stage capital in the region, so he launched Kickstart to fill this gap. His guidance to founders is born of first-hand experience and a desire to build not just a fund but an entire ecosystem.

Before helping to pave the way for seed funding in Utah, Colorado, and the Mountain West, Gavin was an analyst, associate, and principal at vSpring Capital (now Signal Peak).