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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.

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

Lenny is the author of Lenny's Newsletter, the #1 business newsletter on Substack, where he talks about growth, products, startups, and more. He also interviews world-class product leaders and growth experts on his podcast.

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

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.

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.

Ryan Freedman is an entrepreneur turned investor on a never-ending journey to bring efficiency and innovation to the real world. Prior to Alpaca, Ryan founded Corigin, a real estate investment firm with $600 million AUM. He led this firm with a lens towards innovation and has been at the forefront of analyzing and adopting real estate technology to enhance operations and investment decisions. To that end, Corigin was an early pioneer of the co-living concept, infusing experience and community into multi-family long before others thought to. In 2008, Ryan co-founded Coral Capital, a tech-enabled commercial finance operation that has provided over 1.5 billion in financing to small businesses. His obsession with technology and efficiency informed his natural progression from a real estate executive to a venture capitalist and PropTech investor.

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).

Prior to Homebrew, I was VP Product at Twitter, building and leading the Product Management and User Services teams. Before Twitter, I was a Partner at Battery Ventures, where I co-led the seed and early stage investing practices. I joined Google in 2003 and was responsible for AdSense product management and partnerships. Before heading to Silicon Valley for Google, I worked for DoubleClick, in venture capital and as a strategy consultant.

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.

Zal is the solo partner at Refactor Capital, a seed-stage firm focused on climate, bio, and health investments. Previously, he helped launch the Bio Fund at a16z and prior to that, spent 10 years in product at Google, Netflix, and LinkedIn. He is an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania.

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

Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Congruent Ventures.

Adriel invests in both the US and LATAM and leads our focus on Work & Learning. He’s led investments such as Worc, Shift One, Pallet, and Nirvana Health. Prior to K50, Adriel was on the investment team at Flybridge Capital Partners, a leading Boston and NYC Seed fund, sourcing and supporting partners on investments such as Imperfect Foods, Wethos and Narrator. Before Flybridge, he co-founded a consumer messaging app and held operational roles at Dreamit Ventures and venture-backed Offerpop. When he’s not working, Adriel is fostering the next generation of entrepreneurs in NYC, volunteering for organizations like Defy Ventures and New York on Tech. He received a B.S. in Entrepreneurship from Cornell University and splits his time between New York City, Mexico City and Istanbul.

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.

Alex Luce is an investor, materials scientist, and technology enthusiast. As a Partner at Creative Ventures, he invests in entrepreneurs tackling the most pressing global macroeconomic trends, including demographic changes straining our healthcare system, secular labor shortages, and the effects of climate change. He has led investments in a number of deeptech categories including medical devices, semiconductors, robotics, synthetic biology, and clean energy. Previously, Alex led CalCharge, a public-private partnership focused on energy storage and manufacturing innovation working with National Labs, startups, and leading corporates. He also spent time with Prelude Ventures, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Energy (ARPA-E), and a solar energy startup company. Alex holds a M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from UC Berkeley and a B.S. in Engineering Physics with Honors from the University of Arizona.

Alexis founded HCVC in 2015 as a community-first venture firm to support hardtech founders. He's based in Paris and sits on the boards of Cowboy, Norbert Health, Twist and Remedee Labs.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Investing in and incubating early stage consumer companies.

Prior to starting Superangel, Ben was an angel investor in 30 companies, including, the first investor and founding advisor to quip (2014), Caraway (2018) & Arber (2020), before each had its name.

Ben personally experienced the complete life cycle of building a company: from identifying a problem/market opportunity, coming up with the “idea”, to painstakingly developing a business plan, product road-map and executing on it.

He strives to be one of the first checks (day 0) and leverage my network to bring in other strategic capital and resources in an advisory role. Ben is often described by founders as their company’s #1 fan, providing unwavering support and dedication for the short, medium, and long-term.

Prior to becoming a full time investor, he was the COO at a NYC-based real estate investment and property management firm.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Chris is a 20+ year media and technology entrepreneur turned early-stage venture capitalist. He has launched three early-stage venture funds to help scale the C2V brand and has invested in over 45 portfolio companies.

Chris was the CEO and Co-founder of appssavvy, a pioneer in mobile native advertising, ultimately driving $70 million in revenues to the app ecosystem. He is a LP in Bowery Capital and Tech Stars and has held executive roles at Unacast and Ironsource, a now $11B mobile technology company.

He has been named one of the "Most Important People in Mobile Advertising" by Business Insider and an Ernst & Young “Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist” two years in a row.

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.

David Cowan is one of the world’s leading investors, having funded Seed, Series A, and Series B rounds that led to over 30 IPOs. David was ranked sixth on the Midas List and tied for fourth in the Midas List of Hall of Fame. David has co-founded three cybersecurity companies incubated within Bessemer’s offices: VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN), serving as initial Chairman and CFO; Good Technology (fka Visto, acquired by Blackberry) serving as CEO; and Defense.net (acquired by F5). He earned an AB in computer science / mathematics and an MBA, both from Harvard University. Today he serves on several non-profit boards including the Center for Inquiry and the Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He is the co-writer of the Silicon Valley mockumentary series “Bubbleproof,” and producer of the award-winning MTV Documentary film “Afghan Dreamers.”

Principal at Founders Fund and cofounder and President of Varda Space Industries, which is building the world’s first space factories. Before joining Founders Fund, he was a principal at Khosla Ventures, head of growth at Teespring, and founder of a healthcare company called Nightingale. 

Ed is a seasoned VC with over 25 years of experience leading first-round investments and a passion for working with developer-first, engineering-driven founders. He founded boldstart in 2010 and has served as a day-one partner and board member or observer for cutting-edge tech names including Common Paper, Env0, and Spectro Cloud.

Elizabeth Galbut is a venture capitalist and business designer. Prior to finishing business school, she founded A-Level Capital, the first student-led venture capital firm powered by Johns Hopkins students. Prior to graduate school, Elizabeth was a strategy & operations consultant at Deloitte Consulting focusing on large healthcare clients.Outside of her client-facing work, she contributed to business development efforts that led to over $200M of new work. Elizabeth holds a MBA/MA Design Leadership Dual degree from Johns Hopkins University and Maryland Institute college of Art. She is also a proud alumnus of Georgetown University and London School of Economics.

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).

Ethan is a partner in the San Francisco office and a leading investor in a variety of technology verticals. He’s passionate about new platforms that provide technologists and business users with democratized access to cutting-edge technical tooling. Before joining Bessemer in 2008, he worked for Dow Jones & Co., managing the turnaround of international editions of the Wall Street Journal, and Linden Lab, the creator of Second Life. Earlier in his career, Ethan co-founded SSB-Bart Group (now known as Level-Access), a company whose mission is to make the Internet accessible to users with disabilities.

Investing seed-stage venture capital behind extraordinary technical founders on a mission to improve the health of people and planet.

Ian Rountree founded Cantos Ventures in 2016, with a focus on next-generation tech related to climate science, biology, aerospace, and health. Formerly director of partnerships at SoFi.

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.

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.

VC since 1991 and 3x founder. His first company was Mountain Bike Outfitters, Inc., which he created at age 18. Before founding True, Jon was a managing director at Globespan Capital Partners. recently the Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association.

Prior to co-founding 8-Bit Capital, Jonathan was the founder of the professional news discovery service Nuzzel, which was named one of the best apps of the year by Google Play, the New York Times, and Time Magazine. Jonathan was the founder of the pioneering social networking service Friendster, which inspired the modern social networking industry. Jonathan is the inventor of multiple fundamental patents on social networking which are now owned by Facebook. Previously, Jonathan was a software engineer at Netscape and Nortel. Jonathan is also a co-founder and Managing Partner of Founders Den, San Francisco’s favorite workspace and community for startups and investors, which has been home to many successful startups and top venture firms.

I was a General Partner with North Bridge Venture Partners, from April 2012 to November 2014. During my tenure I started the seed practice and led investments in Lytro, Periscope.io, Quora, and Ravel Law, in addition to co-founding Coolan. Prior to NBVP, I worked at Facebook, where I led global infrastructure, site architecture, and internal systems as VP Infrastructure & Technical Operations, from 2007 until 2012. During that time Facebook grew from 35 million to over 800 million users. Earlier in my career, I co-founded and was CTO of GlobalCenter, and later founded Global Crossing’s venture capital group. While scaling GlobalCenter, we saw an opportunity to build the world’s first native-optical IP network. I currently serve on the board of directors of Webmonsters, in addition to Vertex portfolio companies PerimeterX, CloudAcademy, and SpaceIQ.

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.

Co-founder, and board director of Delivery Associates, the leading public sector advisory and technology firm focused on government operations and achieving results. She has worked with governments and invested in companies in over 20 countries globally. Katelyn was also on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2014.

Specializes in guiding early-stage startups into successful businesses: He joined PayPal when monthly burn-rate was $6 million; he joined LinkedIn, Slide and Square when they had no revenue. Served on the Board of Directors of Xoom (NASDAQ: XOOM) from 2003 until 2015 and served on the Yelp Board from 2005-2014 (NYSE: Yelp). I served on the Board of Reddit from 2012-2019. I am a co-founder of OpenDoor and serve as our Executive Chairman. Prior angel investments include: YouTube, Airbnb, Palantir, Eventbrite, Lyft, Quora, Yammer, Skybox, Counsyl, Weebly, Wish, Eventbrite.

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.

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Software engineer by trade and former DOD contractor.

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.

Primary focus: computer vision, SaaS, Web 3.0 Previously the founder & CEO of two successful enterprise software companies, the most recent of which was sold to Salesforce.com where Mark became VP, Products.

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.

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

Micky Malka is focused on the utilization of technology to disrupt consumer financial services. Micky grew up in Venezuela where he learned the impact of devaluation and hyperinflation at a very young age. In 1998, Micky developed the online brokerage, Patagon by merging with Heptagon local operations. Patagon became Latin America’s first comprehensive Internet based financial services portal and dealer. The company expanded its online services to the United States and the rest of South America and was later acquired by the Spanish bank Banco Santander (NYSE: STD) for US$ 750 million.

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

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.

Tech entrepreneur that has founded and runs a venture capital firm investing in technology startups that operate in regulated industries and that aim to democratize access to capital, information, and wellness. Frequent speaker on startup operations, product, corporate governance, regulated markets, securities regulation, fintech, blockchain, and crypto

I am a serial entrepreneur turned venture capitalist. As a venture capitalist I partner at inception/early stage with pioneers who are changing the way people work, live and play. As an entrepreneur I co-founded 3 companies in my 20s, including VXtreme, which was acquired by Microsoft to become Windows Media, iBeam Broadcasting (NASDAQ:IBEM) and Rivio/CPA.com. I have had the fortune of championing entrepreneurs of over 60 companies, of which 18 have gone public and another 25 have been acquired. Some of my past notable investments include IPOs of Akamai, Lyft, HashiCorp, Makemytrip, Persistent Systems, Poshmark, SolarCity, Matrimony.com, Tejas Networks, and acquisitions of Brighter/Cigna, CloudGenix/Palo Alto Networks, CloudSimple/Google, Elastica/Symantec, Gigya/SAP, Nuvia/Qualcomm, Portworx/Pure Storage, StorSimple/Microsoft, Wichorus/Tellabs, Volterra/F5 and Zenprise/Citrix.

Previously led an incubator for startups at the intersection of cities and data at OpenPlans, with a focus on cultivating open source communities, building open data platforms, and supporting open standards efforts.

Prior to founding New Stack, Nick began his career as a Developer. He went on to work in M&A and Product Management for Danaher. There he developed one of the most successful products in the company's history -an analytical device for testing compounds in drinking water. In May 2014, Nick founded the 1st VC podcast, The Full Ratchet, which has grown to over 90k active subscribers.

Peter co-founded Lux Capital with the idea that in order to have the biggest impact on the future, one should support the most scientifically and technologically ambitious ventures. Peter led Lux’s investments in Auris Health (acquired by Johnson & Johnson for up to $6 billion, making it one of top 10 VC-backed private M&A transactions of all-time), Everspin Technologies (NASDAQ: MRAM), Lux Research (acquired by Bregal Sagemount), Luxtera (acquired by Cisco for $660 million), Matterport (NASDAQ: MTTR), SiBEAM (acquired by Silicon Image), Transphorm (NASDAQ: TGAN), and Vium (acquired by Recursion).

Co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund. First outside investor in Facebook.

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.

Joined Picus in 2016. Previously worked for McKinsey & Company in Munich.

He partners with entrepreneurs at the seed and early stages who are focused on new opportunities in applied AI, cybersecurity, data and machine learning infrastructure, and SaaS. At Greylock, Saam has led investments in and sits on the board of security companies, and others in stealth; application companies; data & analytics companies, and infrastructure companies that are also still operating in stealth.

Scott Friend is former seed-to-exit founder of a successful retail analytics company, Scott is a trusted operational partner and advisor to founders building the next generation of commerce and marketing-tech successes.

Investing in technology companies with terminal solutions to important, unsolved problems. Previously, founder or early team member at engineering-driven startups.

Scott served as head of the firm’s technology investing practice for 10 years and has led NEA’s China investing activities for over a decade. He has personally led investments in companies like Bloom Energy, Data Domain, Fusion-io, Salesforce.com, Tableau Software, WebEx, and Workday. One of only four investors named to the Forbes Midas List every year since 2007, with 24 technology companies in his portfolio having successfully completed public offerings or mergers.

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

Shaun leads Urban.Us funding startups that help cities upgrade for climate change. Before Urban Us, Shaun was an active angel investor, investing in more than 20 firms between 2007 and 2013.

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 :)

Shruti spent her early career as a developer on mainframe security, collaboration tools, and data analytics. Post engineering, she was investing in early-stage companies at True Ventures and Samsung's venture fund. She has an MBA from the University of Chicago and an MS from Columbia University.

Stonly is the Co-founder of Urban Us, an early stage venture capital fund that invests in mobility, construction and other urban sectors where technology like IoT, AI and Robotics can help make cities more efficient. Prior to investing, he was a 6 time founder (with 2 exits) including Veddio Cloud Solutions, a cloud-based aggregator for managedservices providers (MSP) which sold after a year of founder funded growth. Stonly has been recognized as a CNNMoney 30 under 30 and one of Govtech Magazine's 25 top leaders amongst other industry recognitions. He is also a guest contributor at Tech Crunch and an instructor at University of Chicago's Booth School of Business where he created an MBA course on how startups can build solutions to upgrade cities. Stonly and Urban Us are also the subject of a Harvard Business School course on urbantech investing.

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.

Khosla cofounded computer hardware firm Sun Microsystems in 1982 with Andy Bechtolsheim, Bill Joy and Scott McNealy. Khosla spent 18 years at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (now called Kleiner Perkins) before launching his own fund.

Vishal invests in values-driven founders and companies that dramatically improve healthcare outcomes, create more human-centered financial systems, and reimagine consumer services from the ground up. He leads Obvious’ investments in full-stack healthcare with Virta, Galileo, and Devoted Health; financial technology startups such as Hedvig, One, Corvus, and Openly; and purpose-led consumer services like Good Eggs and Block Renovation. Before co-founding Obvious, Vishal was the founding partner of Indian-based fund SONG Investment Advisors. He also served as a senior executive at Steve Case’s Revolution, LLC. Prior to his career as an investor, Vishal spent a decade at outdoor gear and apparel retailer Patagonia, in roles ranging from product manager to Chief Strategy Officer. He was selected as a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute and a Next Generation Fellow of the American Assembly, both recognizing value-based leadership.

Zane was previously the cofounder and chief security officer of Signal Sciences, which was acquired by Fastly for $775 million in 2020, and the author of Building a Modern Security Program. Prior to Signal Sciences, Zane led security and infrastructure teams as the CISO of Etsy, and started his career as an early security consultant at iSEC Partners. Zane holds a BA in Economics with a minor in Computer Science from UC Davis.

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.

Experienced VC. Prior to BoxGroup, adam served as the NYC Director for TechStars.

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.

Adina Davis is a former Venture Fellow at Rough Draft Ventures.

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 is an experienced serial entrepreneur having co-founded Intellitoys and SkillSlate (acq. by TaskRabbit).

Alex Ferrara is a partner based in Bessemer’s London office where he leads Bessemer’s European efforts. Alex joined Bessemer in 2005. He led Shopify’s Series A in 2010, Pipedrive’s Series A in 2015, and has backed a range of successful cybersecurity startups.

Alex Hartz is a partner at Shine Capital