Beyond Meat

Early-stage, multi-thematic firm investing in purpose-driven founders reimagining the building blocks of life and society.

Kleiner Perkins was founded in the 1970s by Tom Perkins and Eugene Kleiner. The firm is focused on early-stage digital consumer and enterprise, green tech and life sciences companies.

Seeks seed, early-stage, and private equity deals focused on emerging restaurants, beverages, services, and technologies designed for foodservice and hospitality channels.

Early-stage venture capital firm founded by entrepreneurs and operators who've built companies cumulatively worth $300 billion. GreatPoint's mission is to partner with entrepreneurs solving big problems across enterprise, healthcare, bio-tech, and food. In order to have time to fight in the trenches with every team they back, they make fewer than 10 new investments per year.

Sand Hill Angels is a group of Silicon Valley angel investors passionate about helping entrepreneurs get to the next level.

S2G Ventures, the direct investment team of Builders Vision, is a multi-stage venture fund focusing on partnering with entrepreneurs working on fields of food, agriculture, oceans, and clean energy markets. Provides capital, mentorship, and value-added resources to companies pursuing innovative market-based solutions that generate positive social, environmental, and financial returns. Provides partners with flexible capital solutions that can range from seed and venture funding through growth equity to debt and infrastructure financing.

James has over twenty-five years of experience building and leading technology companies from early stage company ideation to global market leadership. He helped create entirely new categories such as online photography, web-based calendaring and the Personal Digital Assistant. James is the former CEO of Ofoto, Xoom, and Xmarks. James is the co-founder of Obvious Ventures, investing in #worldpositive startups that combine profit and purpose.

Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Founder of Breakthrough Energy. Co-founder of Microsoft.

J. Skyler has ~15+ years of VC/PE Investing w/ 150+ Portfolio Companies. Prior to VU, they were a former Managing Director of Investments at Cleveland Avenue (VC/PE Fund co-founded by Former CEO & President of McDonalds), focusing on food and beverage brands, food related technologies, and new restaurant concepts. J. Skyler was also the Founder, Head, & Former Managing Director of Simon Venture Group (investment arm of Simon Property Group, S&P 100, largest retail real estate company in the world).

He is an Adjunct Professor at New York University teaching Venture Capital Intensive and a Creator of Multiple Top Ranked Entrepreneur Resources: #1 Startup Investor Pitch Deck Template (viewed & downloaded 500,000+ times, used by leading business schools and accelerators)