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To date, nineteen of Byron’s investments are valued above $1 billion, including ten IPOs and counting. Byron first raised a Series A with Bessemer Venture Partners back in 2000, as CEO and founder of Trigo Technologies. His company grew to be one of the first global SaaS companies, reaching profitability and was successfully sold to IBM. Byron foresaw that cloud computing would not only change the way people built new technologies but also how The Cloud would systematically run the world. In 2005, Byron returned to Bessemer, this time to lead the fund’s global cloud practice. He graduated with honors from The University of California, Berkeley.

Prior to starting with Insight, Byron worked as a Consultant with Bain & Company in their New York and Boston offices. His work at Bain focused on advising both public and private companies on long-term product and go-to-market strategy definition, internal process redesign, and supply chain optimization. He also spent significant time in Bain’s private equity due diligence group. Byron has experience across a diverse set of industries including healthcare, retail, financial technology, insurance, and consumer packaged goods. Byron has also spent time working at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Procter & Gamble. At the Gates Foundation, he was part of their Discovery Strategy team concentrating on early-stage technology investments in Malaria and Child Nutrition. At Procter & Gamble, he was an R&D Engineer in their Innovation Lab where he focused on product reformulations.

looks for founders with unique insights about attractive markets.  have been an early-stage investor for the last seven years in NYC, most recently as a Partner at Canaan where they led investments in software and health care companies such as Ro, Papa, Italic and others. was a Principal at Primary Venture Partners on the firm’s inaugural seed fund was an operator with Gilt Groupe as one of the earliest employees at the Series A started their career in investment banking at a firm called Sagent Advisors

Caio has been with monashees since 2014. He co-leads investments in the Health, SaaS, and B2B segments. Previously he worked as a consultant for three years at A.T. Kearney in the consumer goods sector and the financial industry. Caio graduated from USP with a degree in Management and, while still at college, launched the first business clubs for marketing and finance.

Areas of interest are early-stage blockchain startups in DeFi, GameFi, SocialFi, Web tooling, and NFTs with a large focus on the NEAR ecosystem.

Co-Founder and General Partner at Redstick Ventures

tries to identify value and talent where others don’t and to support those building the companies that will lead to a more sustainable, equitable, and resilient world. Founder & CEO of Beehive (acquired).

Executive Director at Hillman Accelerator.

Carlo has been with monashees since 2005. He leads investments in Consumer, with the focus in Mobile and Marketplaces. He has worked as a Strategic Consultant at the Monitor Group and also with internet startups. Carlo holds an MBA from Stanford and a BS in Industrial Engineering from POLI-USP, where he also participated in foreign exchange programat McGill University.

Carlo is an Investment Professional at Versant Ventures, based in Basel. Carlo joined Versant from Novartis Pharmaceuticals where he led global product development teams in the advancement of innovative pipeline products. He previously held the position of Associate Principal with McKinsey & Company advising US and European clients in thepharmaceutical, payor and provider sectors. Prior to joining McKinsey, Carlo helped found engeneOS, a Boston-based biotech startup.

focused on building NEA's global organization and portfolio in China and other emerging markets in Asia but still invests in the US and Europe. Prior to joining NEA, Carmen was a partner at a major Silicon Valley law firm, where she specialized in corporate and securities law and led that firm's China practice.

At Dimensional Fund Advisors LP, Carmen scaled investment operations from $75B to $300B AUM by expanding into new markets, including Latin America, Canada, and Europe.

Carmen Yuen joined Vertex Ventures Singapore office in 2014. Her focus is in Singapore and Southeast Asia. Carmen has served many years in Singapore’s government-backed venture capital initiatives including EDB Investments and Spring SEEDS Capital where she worked closely with many start-up companies in Singapore. Prior to joining Vertex, she was with Majuven, a Singapore angel fund. Carmen currently serves on the Board of TickledMedia (dba TheAsianParent.com).

Argentinian-born Caro has worn many hats in her career. From LATAM Airlines to TECHO to now heading Operations at ANIMO, she has always excelled at managing complex processes, implementing creative solutions around fundraising and communication, and helping global teams work effectively.

Carole began her career in natural foods over twenty years ago, as an analyst in the then nascent natural foods industry. As one of the first analysts to cover Whole Foods, she has had a front row seat as the story of this now powerful sector has emerged. Carole has worked as a consumer equity analyst on the sell-side with RBC Capital Markets and on the buy-side with The Boston Company. In 2008, Carole left financial services, taking a leadership role in corporate finance and investor relations with Gaiam, Inc. In 2010, Carole was asked to come to Boulder Brands as Senior Vice President of Business Development and Investor Relations. While there, Carole identified and led the acquisition of 4 companies over her first 3 years which came to represent almost 75% of Boulder Brands sales. Concurrent to this role, Carole served as Managing Director of Boulder Brands Investment Group from 2013 to 2015. Carole’s research and financial background in natural foods, combined with her experience in acquisitions within the industry make her an integral part of the BIGR team.

20+ years experience in tech investing, business building and digital transformation projects. Operating Partner for Redpoint eventures, Intel Capital LATAM director for over a decade and Innovation Director of public traded companies. Recognised digital advisor and board member.

focuses on venture investments in enterprise software, financial technology, and logistics Prior to Crosslink, Caroline worked in analytics at Lyft, supporting operational and strategic initiatives for the company’s fleet strategy previously worked in management consulting at The Parthenon Group and Parthenon-EY, 

co-leads the growth equity investment practice which includes circular solutions for fashion, material innovation, supply chain technology, food & agriculture. Prior to joining CLP, she was CEO of Donna Karan International (DKI) and DKNY was CEO of Akris, Inc., the Swiss based luxury brand  began her career at Giorgio Armani with over a decade in leadership roles of Marketing & Communications. an advisor for the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship at MIT Sloan School of Management, a member of the Board of Trustees for Choate Rosemary Hall and a member of the Women’s Forum of New York

Caroline Casson is a Partner at VITALIZE, where she spends her time sourcing potential investments, assisting portfolio companies, and managing the due diligence process for Vitalize. She also writes founder spotlights on her blog. Prior to joining VITALIZE in 2018, Caroline worked for GE Ventures in San Francisco where she helped incubate and operate a startup in the drone space. Before transitioning into venture capital, Caroline worked in corporate finance for various GE businesses in Chicago, Atlanta, London, and San Francisco.

Carter co-founded M13 in 2016 with his brother Courtney. The duo co-founded and sold VEEV, the spirits brand, and co-authored the bestseller “Shortcut Your Startup.” A former Goldman Sachs investment banker, Carter is a LACMA board member.

Managing Partner at SteelSky Ventures

Caspar wants to help exceptional founders in realizing their visions. His focus is on transformative technologies with the potential of driving real change for the environment. As climate change and environmental challenges are changing the business landscape as we know it, he fundamentally believes that Noon's investment activities can deliver superior impact, while generating strong financial returns.

Previous experience from several early-stage ventures within SaaS, Media, HR and Consumer tech and from Bain & Company, working with Growth strategy, M&A, Organizational restructuring and Performance improvement for a client-base of leading Industrial goods & services, Private Equity and Financial services companies.

With over 30 years of experience, Casper is a veteran of the medical device and life sciences industry, having led marketing and commercialization efforts for companies that span the healthcare space. He brings extensive operating knowledge to Norwest Venture Partners, where he focuses on mid-to-late-stage investments in consumer and digital health, healthcare IT, medical devices and diagnostics, technology-enabled healthcare services, and specialty pharmaceuticals.

Cassie invests in software companies and also helps portfolio companies to build and scale their sales, marketing, and customer operations.

Cat runs the business of the firm including investor relations, due diligence for investment activities, and all operations including legal, accounting, and finance.

Co-founded Flickr and Hunch (developed foundational AI algorithms to power recommendations, acquired by eBay). Served as Chairman of Etsy (NASDAQ:ETSY), and serves on the board of The Sundance Institute, Public Goods and McSweeneys. Previously was Founder Partner at Founder Collective (early investors in Uber, Pillpack, Buzzfeed and others). Investor in Etsy, Kickstarter, Cloudera, Blue Bottle Coffee and many other companies.

Catherine K.C. Leung is Co-Founder and Partner of MizMaa Ventures.  She Is currently a board member of Orca.ai, Aurora Labs, ClearML, Varada, and Statehub.  Prior to MizMaa Ventures, Catherine was an investment banker for twenty years and last served as Vice Chairman of Asia Investment Banking at JP Morgan where she led with a focus of Greater China. Under her leadership, JP Morgan was named Best Investment Bank in Hong Kong for eight consecutive years.  She has advised clients in marquee IPO’s, mergers and acquisitions, debt and derivative transactions.  She was named Top 20 Women in Finance by Finance Asia in 2011.

Coleading AI Investing, Former ML Researcher + SWE, MIT CS '17.

I have been running Internet startups during the good and bad times of the Internet economy since I created my first website in 1996, a French community portal which I sold in 2000. Since 2013, with StartupYard, I discovered and accelerated (very) early-stage companies which have later attracted over €100m of investments from business angels and VCs. Companies like Rossum, Gjirafa, Neuron Soundware, BudgetBakers and many more.

Investor and advisor to deeply technical, under networked founders as General Partner of Boom Capital. Five years at Eric Schmidt & Dror Berman's VC, Innovation Endeavors. Formerly at Apple. Innovation advisor to British Airways.

Focuses on investments in marketplaces, fintech, and healthcare. Led Susa's investments in Robinhood, Andela, Newfront Insurance and Stord. Prior to Susa Ventures, Chad was the senior director of platform at Integrate.com and held various marketing and product roles at Silver Spring Networks, Bloom Energy, and Electronic Arts.

Experienced technologist, software developer, author, public speaker, and senior technology leader. Specialties: Software development and process, leadership, writing, public speaking, software architecture, Ruby, Rails, Java, Erlang, Clojure

Chad Packard joined Pelion Venture Partners in 2008. Prior to Pelion, he was a Director of Cougar Capital, a venture fund managed by Brigham Young University. He is a member of the state bar association of California.

General Partner at Creative Ventures.

Investor and adviser in Bitcoin and Ethereum startups.

Chandresh focuses on operations and technology services in the investment industry. He was most recently the CEO of BNY Mellon’s Alternative Investments and Structured Products business where he also oversaw product management for BNY Mellon Asset Servicing. Prior to BNY Mellon he led several global products at Citi in custody and fund services.

Chang previously was a Principal at Upfront Ventures, where she focused on investing in AI and the future of work. Prior to joining venture, she was a founder and operator. She was the first Product Manager at the Minerva Project and co-founded Onion Math, an ed-tech startup in China that has raised $90M. She started her career at BCG, advising clients across tech, retail, healthcare and private equity. She holds an MBA and AB in Applied Math and Computer Science from Harvard.

Chantel Jeffries is a Dj/Producer, Investor and Online personality with endeavors in the film and modeling industries. With presence in the online and traditional entertainment space for over 10 years she has worked with numerous brands, many from their early stages such as : Uber, Revolve, Samsung, Loreal, Fendi, Skims, Alo, Savage x Fenty and countless others. She has amassed over 10 million followers across her various social media platforms which she now uses to help find, collaborate and invest in companies that align with her thesis. Through her amassed network of entrepreneurs, influencers, celebrities, and brands and vast knowledge and interests across sectors she plans to make innovative and impactful investments for her limited partners as she has been personally.

Charles has been a venture capitalist since 1997 and has focused on early-stage business technology companies throughout his career. Charles co-founded Rally Ventures in 2012 with Jeff Hinck. He started his venture career as an associate at Scripps Ventures after working as an analyst at Piper Jaffray and earlier as a systems consultant at the Mayo Clinic, where he helped design a radiology information system. Some of Charles’ notable investments include: Coupa Software, which had a highly successful IPO in 2016 (Nasdaq: COUP); Compellent Technologies, which held an IPO and was subsequently sold to Dell, returning more than 9x invested capital; NuSpeed, which was acquired by Cisco Systems returning 55x invested capital; Verodin; and Twistlock.

Charles D. King is founder and CEO of MACRO. Launched in 2015, MACRO is a newly formed venture that sits at the intersection of content, technology and brand curation. With a focus on creating film, television and digital content for African-American, Latino and Multicultural consumers (ALM), the company is perfectly positioned to capitalize on the explosive growth in this important market.

Charles Lorenceau is Managing Directors of ACE & Company. In addition to serving on the Board of Directors and being a member of the Investment Committee, Charles manages early stage and strategic growth investments and has developed deep relationships with numerous sourcing partners. During his time at ACE, he has overseen the execution of multiple direct investment transactions and has actively participated in the creation of three portfolio companies. Prior to joining ACE, Charles held a financial analyst position at Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets (RBCCM), the corporate finance division of Canada’s leading bank, where he participated in the preparation, completion, and review of advisory mandates, mergers, acquisitions, and financial review for corporate clients. Charles received his MBA from INSEAD and a B.Sc. in Business Management from Babson College.

Charles’ primary focus is on identifying technology trends and new user experiences that will change the financial services landscape. His thesis investing has him focused on fintech, insurtech and proptech opportunities with a crypto overlay to everything he evaluates. Charles’ public portfolio includes early-stage investments that have led to notable IPOs with DOMA (IPO 2021), Rover (IPO 2021), LendingClub (IPO 2014), OnDeck (IPO 2014) and Everyday Health (2014). In 2016, CB Insights listed Charles among The Top 100 Venture Capitalists, and Forbes named Charles to the Midas List for the second time. Charles Moldow continues to build companies that change markets. He’s always on the lookout for startups working on the next generation of fintech, marketplaces, SaaS, and consumer tech solutions and services.

Charles is an experienced financial services leader with deep expertise in equity markets and wealth management. Prior to joining Alumni Ventures, he was Head of Equity Capital Markets within the Merrill Lynch Investor Solutions Group at Bank of America. In this role he oversaw marketing, distribution, and allocation of IPOs and capital markets solutions and was a trusted partner to some of the firm’s biggest financial advisors. Prior to Merrill, Charles held various sales and management roles at Mosher Financial, where he focused on employee benefits in the education and non-profit markets and led a strategic initiative to provide retirement benefits to San Francisco, Oakland, and San Jose Charter Schools. Charles received a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley, and attained an MBA in Finance and Entrepreneurship at NYU Stern School of Business. A native of Southern California, Charles serves on the small business board of Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone (UMEZ), aimed at startup/growth business formation and job creation. He is former co-chair of the emerging leaders board of Enterprise New York, a leader in providing innovative affordable housing solutions to local communities. Charles is an alumni of Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT) and Executive Leadership Council (ELC) fellow.

Angel Investment on Transportation Technologies, Optical Communications and Network Securities

European partner and co-investor with AceCap. Prior to Acecap Charlie is a former Head of Corporate Strategy at Microsoft. He is a brilliant strategist, an accomplished executive, and a prolific investor, having personally invested in nearly 500 companies. When not working with early-stage teams, he can be found debating Nietxsche's perspectivism with Hank.

Chas Pulido is a 3rd generation healthcare CEO, serial entrepreneur, & venture capitalist with a passion for helping startups drive patient impact. Chas founded Alix Ventures, where he serves as General Partner, to support high potential early stage Life Science startups engineering biology to drive radical advances in human health. He is particularly excited about startups at the intersection of technology & biology, known as “TechBio”, building platforms for “Novel Applications” (Therapeutics/Diagnostics) & “Bio-Economy Infrastructure” (Services/Manufacturing).

Investing in AI/ML, Dev Tools, and Software for Hardware. Excited about the future of automation, biology, compute and science.

Chelsea focuses on investments in the software sector. In 2013, Chelsea was named to the Forbes Midas “Hot Prospects” list of up-and-coming venture capitalists, and in 2018 she was included on Business Insider’s 23 Top Venture Capitalists in Enterprise Tech list. Prior to Battery, she was an associate at the private equity firm Key Principal Partners. Earlier in her career, Chelsea was a manager at Accenture and she also has held positions with Merrill Lynch and with Classified Ventures. She received a BS with honors in chemical engineering from Northwestern University and an MBA from the University of Chicago.

ChenLi is one of Silicon Valley’s innovative leaders in building and scaling software businesses. Prior to joining WndrCo as a General Partner, he founded and led Dropbox’s business operations team and was a pioneer in building a freemium, product-led growth engine. ChenLi focuses on Ventures and Growth investments, and in creating companies through Venture Buyouts. He led WndrCo’s investments in Aura, Pango, Webflow, Modern Treasury, Mux, Pilot, Material Security, Bubble, Gem, and other great companies.

Prior to co-founding Goodwater, Chi-Hua was a General Partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Chi-Hua serves on the Board of Directors of Path, Lithium (fka Klout), Zaarly, Chill, Level Money, and Zumper. He also invested in Chegg, Inspirato, Karma Science (acquired byFB), Spotify, and Twitter. Previously, Chi-Hua was an Associate at Accel Partners, where he originated Accel’s investment in Facebook. Chi-Hua was an early employee or co-founder of four startups including Coremetrics (acquired by IBM), where he led the marketing and inside sales teams, served as interim CFO, and was appointed to the Office of the President. Chi-Hua also serves on the board of charity: water, a non-profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations.

Hands-on early stage venture capital investor with a particular focus on working with passionate entrepreneurial teams developing companies around deep IP that addresses significant “pain points” for customers in emerging high growth fields.

Chip has been operating and investing in NYC tech companies since 1996 and has been a founder, operating executive or lead investor of several leading NYC companies including 24/7 Media, N2K, Massive Inc., and AppNexus. Prior to co-founding Tribeca Venture Partners, Chip was an active NYC VC at both Kodiak Venture Partners and DFJ Gotham. Chip serves on several Boards of Directors and manages investments including BetterCloud, Hive, Table22, PebblePost, Spiffy, Tentrr, and Toggle.

Chris Cooper joined Pelion Venture Partners in 2007. Chris has over seventeen years of operational experience in the software industry and has held senior positions in sales management, field marketing, business development, and engineering. Most recently, he was Director of Partner Engineering and Developer Services at Novell, Inc. where he was responsible for the companies partner support and certification programs. Chris also served as General Manager of Novell's Strategic Alliances, in which role he was responsible for the company's relationships with global business partners, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, EMC, and Cisco Systems. Chris served as both a business and technical adviser for Novell Ventures and managed relationships between the fund's portfolio companies and industry leaders.

Chris has been at Andreessen Horowitz since 2012. He founded and is leading a16z Crypto, which invests in web3 technologies through three dedicated funds with more than $3 billion under management. Previously, Chris was the cofounder and CEO of two startups, SiteAdvisor and Hunch. SiteAdvisor was an internet security company that warned web users of security threats. The company was acquired by McAfee in 2006. Hunch was a recommendation technology company that was acquired by eBay in 2011. Chris has been a prolific seed investor, cofounding Founder Collective, a seed venture fund, and making a number of personal angel investments in various technology companies. Chris started programming as a kid, and was a professional programmer after college at the high-speed options trading firm, Arbitrade. He has a BA and MA in Philosophy from Columbia and an MBA from Harvard.

Chris Erickson is deeply passionate about building great products and leveraging technology to improve people’s lives. Over the past decade he has founded three successful tech companies, the largest being Apartment List. As co-founder and COO, he raised $110M and while leading product, engineering, analytics, and growth marketing grew the company to become the leading rental marketplace in the US. Chris honed his strategy and operations skills working for The Boston Consulting Group. He earned an MBA from The Stanford Graduate School of Business and a degree in computer engineering from Northwestern University. In 2019, Chris moved to Denver from the Bay Area and is committed to accelerating Denver into one of the top tech markets in the world.

Prior to founding SignalFire, Chris was a Venture Partner with General Catalyst Partners (2010–13), where he played a significant role in establishing the California office. He led GC’s successful seed investment program including seed investments in Alation, ClassDojo, Coinbase, Discord, Fivetran, Game Closure/PlayCo, Getaround, Stripe, Venmo, and Zapier. Chris was previously a Vice President with Bessemer Venture Partners (2005–09) where he led investments in digital media and mobile companies. Prior to Bessemer, Chris was a Consultant with Bain & Company where he advised on technology buyouts. Chris began his career on Wall Street in the private equity group of Cowen & Company.

Chris is a General Partner at Charge Ventures, owner of the Bella Mare Hotel in Greece, and an Executive Producer at RHA Entertainment.

Christopher Manning is the inaugural Thomas M. Siebel Professor in Machine Learning in the Departments of Computer Science and Linguistics at Stanford University, Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL), and an Associate Director of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI (HAI). His research goal is computers that can intelligently process, understand, and generate human language. Manning is the most-cited researcher within NLP, with best paper awards at ACL, Coling, EMNLP, and CHI and well-known work on applying deep neural networks to NLP, including neural machine translation, parsing, sentiment analysis, natural language inference, question answering, and summarization. He founded the Stanford NLP group and manages development of the Stanford CoreNLP and Stanza software.

Chris has been investing in early stage technology companies and working with entrepreneurs for over 15 years.

Prior to Firebrand, Chris was the Founder and Managing Partner of Blue Note Ventures, an early stage venture fund investing in great technology companies and serving entrepreneurs committed to authentic leadership. Before launching BNV, Chris was a partner at Tango, a private investment company located in Boulder, Colorado. He also served as a Partner at High Country Venture, the general partner of Colorado Funds I & II, venture capital funds investing in early stage companies located in Colorado.

Prior to his work in venture, Chris was a lawyer in the Denver office of Hogan & Hartson, where he practiced corporate law and represented various private equity firms and early stage companies raising capital.

Chris is the seed investor in Solana, Lightning Labs, Zeet, Notifi Network, and many other companies across Web3 and Web2. Prior to Race Capital, Chris founded and led the community program at Greylock Partners, a San Francisco based venture capital firm with $3.5 billion under management which led investments in Facebook, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Airbnb, Figma and Coinbase, among others. Before Greylock, Chris was the co-founder and CEO of StartupDigest – one of the earliest technology focused email newsletters – which he grew from zero to over one million subscribers before being acquired by Techstars. He was an early advisor for the Thiel Fellowship & StartX at Stanford University. He also writes a newsletter covering the startup, tech, and venture landscape which reaches over 30,000 founders and investors on a weekly basis.

Chris aka “Moody,” joined Foundry in 2017 after working as an operator for 27 years. Prior to joining Foundry, he was GM & VP of Twitter’s Data & Enterprise business and CEO of Gnip, a Foundry portfolio company acquired by Twitter in 2014.

Moody has worked in leadership roles at publicly traded companies (Twitter, IBM, Oracle, EDS,) and fast-growth startups (Aquent, Gnip). He has managed teams with thousands of employees spanning 17 countries.

Chris is a serial founder having built companies like The Field Company, Kitchensurfing, and Rucola Brooklyn.

Chris is the founder of Commonwealth Ventures and DataHero. He was the first employee at Aster Data and a Venture Partner at 500 Startups.

Twenty years experience in venture capital, growth equity, and entrepreneurship.

Chris Sacca is the co-founder of Lowercarbon Capital and an accomplished venture investor, company advisor, and entrepreneur, managing a portfolio of countless technology, communication, and consumer product startups through his firm Lowercase Capital. Alongside his wife Crystal, Chris grew Lowercase — primarily known for its investments in very early-stage technology companies like Twitter, Uber, Instagram, Twilio, Docker, Optimizely, Blue Bottle Coffee, and Stripe — into one of history’s most successful funds ever.

Senior operating and financial executive with extensive experience in building and investing in technology-driven businesses. Focused on improving healthcare by developing new payment models that support patient-centric medicine and align financial interests and designing and deploying digital workflows enabled by these models.

Chris formed Red Swan in 2011 with Bonobos colleagues, Andy Dunn and David Eisenberg. He remained as Bonobos’ CFO and General Counsel up until March 2018.

Passionate about creating a more efficient, reliable, and inclusive financial system.

Chris is a former founder turned venture investor, backing founders building next-generation SaaS apps and infrastructure, and Web3 and fintech products. Before joining Wing, he was a venture investor at Base10 Partners and a growth-stage investor at Insight Partners where he led the firm’s initial research in financial technology and later its first investment in the blockchain category (TradingView), establishing a deep network with founders and operators in the space. Chris’s prior investments include FTX, Carta, Sysdig, SaaS Labs, Klaviyo, Tapcart, and Mercury.

Chrissy has spent the past decade developing and shipping hardware at Apple and Square. Prior to joining Root Ventures as an investment partner, she was a founding team member at Pearl Automation, a vehicle technology startup. She has managed projects that have shipped tens of millions of units, and she has spent over a year on the ground in Asiaworking with manufacturers and suppliers. Outside of work, Chrissy enjoys skiing, baking, and volunteering. Chrissy Meyer is a Partner at Root Ventures. Chrissy previously worked at Pearl Automation as a Director of Hardware Product Development. He attended Stanford University and Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

Christian Angermayer is an entrepreneur and investor and the founder of Apeiron Investment Group, his private investment firm, and Presight Capital, the flagship venture capital fund for Apeiron. Collectively, Christian has experienced investing and managing companies in the Financial Services (especially fintech and crypto assets), Technology, Life Sciences, Media & Entertainment and Real Estate & Prop-Tech sectors. In 2000, Christian co-founded Ribopharma (original patents for RNAi technology) which merged with stock market listed US SPAC Alnylam in 2003 and has a $13bn market cap today.

Previously he helped managed venture investments at a large family investment office. He has also served as Director at Honeywell, where he was a principal strategic officer for a $1+ billion OEM business unit. Prior to that role, he was a Principal with Novus Energy Partners, a cleantech venture capital firm, as well as an investment banker focused on mergers and acquisitions in the energy industry.

To Christian, it’s always about teams and working with great people. he makes sure to enforce the no asshole rule within the firm.

Christian loves working with human beings who see obstacles as the true path.

Christie Pitts is a General Partner (early-stage investor) at Backstage Capital. She joined Backstage in August 2017. Since then, she has assisted in sourcing and investing in startups led by underrepresented (women, people of color, and LGBTQ) founders, helping to bring the firm’s total investment portfolio to more than 180 companies.

Christine is a Senior Marketing Executive with over 25 years experience in both start-up and large multinational consumer packaged goods companies. Most recently, she was the head of Marketing for noosa yoghurt. Christine’s large company experience includes leadership positions in Marketing, Strategy and Innovation with Nestlé, where she was responsible for leading the teams across all prepared food brands including STOUFFER’S®, LEAN CUISINE®, the HOT POCKETS® and LEAN POCKETS® brands, and BUITONI®. Christine sits on the Board of Directors for Miss Jones Baking Co, Nona Lim and Formula Fig.

Christine Kim is an investor on the consumer team at Greylock focused on technology that impacts —and improves — our everyday lives. This includes how we shop (commerce infrastructure, creative
shopping experiences, and digital native consumer brands), where we live (real estate, transportation/micro-mobility), and how tech can improve our health and wellness (fertility/reproductive health, aging, and mental health). She brings a Gen Z perspective to Greylock, and looks at the potential of technology through that lens.

Prior to joining Greylock, Christine spent 5 years at Uber, building a track record of identifying and incubating strategic growth initiatives. Before Uber, Christine worked on the enterprise pricing and customer success team at Box, on the sales team at Bloomberg LP, and as an analyst at Credit Suisse. She’s also been an angel investor and VC scout.

Christine is passionate about building inclusive tech and is active in communities like Women in Product and Grace Hopper. Christine was born and raised in the Bay Area to a family of doctors and healthcare workers, with little exposure to programming and tech culture. She stumbled upon her first
CS class in college, fell in love, and switched majors last minute from Economics to Computer Science. She is an advocate for STEM education for women, minorities, and underserved populations, developing CS algorithms modules for Khan Academy and regularly volunteering with Mission Bit and
Built By Girls. In her free time, she
loves to (attempt to) cook, host dinner parties, and explore the outdoors (hiking and skiing).

Since the firm’s inception in 2010, Christine grew 500 to over $500M committed capital, 2,300+ portfolio investments, 100+ team members, 25 accelerator batches, and a vibrant community of founders spanning more than 75 countries around the world. Christine has spent her entire professional career building and investing in Silicon Valley. From 2003 to 2010, Christine held product marketing and operating roles at Google, focusing primarily on monetization and developer products. Early in her career, Christine held roles in international sales and information technology at OSIsoft and ChevronTexaco, respectively.

As Partner in Central Europe, Christoph supports exceptional entrepreneurs along their journey - from entering into a cohort to building and scaling their ventures successfully. He draws on his background as Business Angel and Partner with McKinsey & Company. Before joining Antler he served a range of leading technology organizations, amongst others from the mobility and transportation space, on disruptive strategy and building innovative business models.

Christophe Weber is President, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Representative Director of Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Ltd. He joined the company in April 2014 as Chief Operating Officer, was named President and Representative Director in June 2014, and was subsequently appointed CEO in April 2015. Mr. Weber has focused on globalization, creating a global One Takeda culture and R&D transformation while creating a diverse and inclusive working environment and strengthening the company’s ethical values and corporate governance. Through this transformation, Takeda became one of the leading global biopharmaceutical companies in the world. Prior to joining Takeda, Mr. Weber spent 20 years at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), where he held senior leadership roles in Europe, Asia and the United States.

Experienced Founder, starting 7 companies at various spaces. Delivers a 4x cash return when exiting for investors.

Christopher is an experienced builder who founded Daily Ride, a carpooling service for commuters and FOUNDD, an app to find new movies with friends.