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Obama administration tech official McKinsey tech, media, and telecom engagement manager Serial social entrepreneur and impact investor

Elana is an entrepreneur, investor, and creator. Elana started her career at two of the top consulting firms KPMG and Deloitte, working in financial strategy and transformation.

Elena became the head of Softline Venture Partners in 2008 and she has been successfully running the fund for more than 14 years. Under Elena`s leadership, the fund has completed more than 100 transactions.

Previously Managing Director at 137 Ventures, a Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and an executive at Twitter during a period of hypergrowth as it scaled from 50 to 3000 people. Elizabeth has invested in more than 60 technology companies across all stages, including Slack, Whatnot, SpaceX, Coinbase, Clubhouse, Gusto, Digits, Envoy, Grab, Daily.co, Hipcamp, Titan, and Calm. Elizabeth graduated from Stanford University with a BA in Economics and a Masters in Engineering. In the years since, she has taught classes at Stanford in the engineering department, Graduate School of Business, and the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design.

Genomics @Stanford, Writing http://centuryofbio.substack.com

launched and operated Endeavor in Nigeria, serving as its inaugural Managing Director & CEO. delivered "Lagos Innovates", a first-of-its-kind portfolio of programs that she conceptualised, designed and implemented on behalf of the Lagos State Employment Trust Fund was a Vice President at General Atlantic, led Corporate Development at First Bank of Nigeria Plc and has served investment banking clients in the UK and Nigeria at Credit Suisse and Renaissance Capital

Els Boerhof is a Managing Partner at Goodwell Investments.  Having joined in 2008, Els managers the uMunthu Fund, serves as a Board member and Investment Committee member of Aavishkaar Goodwell Microfinance Development Company I and II in India and Goodwell West Africa Microfinance Development Company, and is member of the Supervisory Board of Portfolio company, Musoni.  Prior to co-founding Goodwell Investments, Els managed the EUR 300 million Micro & Small Enterprise Fund ‘MASSIF’ of the Dutch Development Bank FMO, which had invested in over 150 financial institutions serving un(der)served communities in over 40 countries. She has also served as on the Board of Directors at Women’s World banking Ghana and CreditAccess Asia, was non-executive board member of Accion Investments in Microfinance (USA) and a member of the founding work group of the Principles for Investors in Inclusive Finance.  Els has been active in frontier and developing markets since 1995, gaining deep experience in equity investments, microfinance, cross border finance and—more recently—sustainable investing and social performance management.  Els’s educational background includes a Master’s Degree in Development Economics from the University of Tilburg. 

Emanuel Timor joined Vertex in 1998 and has more than twenty years of experience working closely with start-ups. Emanuel is interested in start-ups in the fields of Enterprise, Cyber-Security, Mobility and Digital Health. Prior to joining Vertex, Emanuel was an articled apprentice at an Israeli law firm where he acquired expertise in IPOs and M&As. From 1992 to 1997, Emanuel was one of the leading financial journalists for Globes, Israel`s daily business newspaper. He covered the Israeli high-tech and venture capital industry.

Startup founder and a fund founder with a deep professional and personal commitment to having the greatest positive impact possible in the time that I'm here. Specialities include entrepreneurship, venture capital, climate tech, clean energy and mobility, software.

Emily loves working with startups and connecting people, technologies, and companies for good. She feels most connected to entrepreneurs solving tough national security, civic, and social challenges. Before AIN, Emily founded and led a military veteran-focused incubator called Capitol Post, an incubator that taught military veterans and their spouses how to think and act like entrepreneurs.

Worked as a Senior Director at Google for 10 years. also worked as a Director in Facebook and Snapchat.

Neuroscientist and VC. She is the Founder and Managing Director of Arkitekt Ventures, a venture firm that invests and supports exceptional founders in health-tech and deep-tech from the earliest stages of company formation.

looking for nascent companies who are tilling daring ideas about education and technology and searching for pre-seed or seed funding to grow these ideas into products to empower anyone – from children and parents to adult, professional lifelong learners and their mentors and coaches – to learn and teach better.

Eoin Duane joined Insight in 2021 and is focused on structured equity investments for Insight's Opportunities Fund. Prior to joining Insight, Eoin spent 13 years as an investor in public and private technology companies including eight years at Guggenheim Partners and five years at Evergreen Coast Capital, the technology-focused private equity arm of Elliott Management where he led their Flexible Capital strategy. Eoin currently sits on the board or oversees Insight’s investments in Saks.com, SOF.com, CivicPlus, CommerceHub and A Place for Mom. 

Blockchain investor

Erel N. Margalit, PhD is one of the chief architects of the startup nation, bringing innovation and entrepreneurial leadership to the country’s most pressing political, economic, and social challenges. Twenty-seven years ago Erel founded JVP, a pioneer in the venture capital industry that turned into a globally recognized brand that combines business and social impact. He was chosen by Forbes as the leading non-American venture capitalist, one that combines social profit along with smart investment. Erel was also chosen by Israel’s prestigious business publication The Marker as the “venture capitalist with the golden touch.” Based on his vision, the Margalit Startup City model was established creating centers of excellence in Jerusalem, Beer Sheva, Galilee and Haifa along with New York City incorporating investments, opportunity and impact. 

Eric has always believed that the power of entrepreneurship, technology, and Venture Capital, together, can change Brazil. In 2005, alongside Fabio, he created monashees, the first Brazilian Venture Capital platform inspired by the best funds in Silicon Valley. Today he leads the investment strategy and is responsible for the portfolio management. Prior to monashees he worked with Venture Capital at General Atlantic and with Strategic Consulting at McKinsey. Eric holds an MBA from Kellogg and a degree in Communications from ESPM, with a specialization in Administration from FGV.

over two decades of international investment industry experience in the United States, Europe, and Asia Head of Multi-Asset Public Investments and Global Asset Allocation at Milltrust has spent over a decade focused exclusively on the Emerging Markets. most recently Managing Partner at Think Alternative Advisors LLP

Founder (3 exits) turned VC. Weirdly love minivans. Empathetic to how lonely and hard founder life is. Grateful to have this job and work with you.

Eric Ball is a technology finance professional, investor, and board member. He currently serves as General Partner for Impact Venture Capital, which has made several technology investments. He also chairs the Audit Committee at Glu Mobile, a publicly-traded leader in 3D freemium mobile gaming.

Eric Benhamou has over 40 years of experience in the IT industry, including 16 years of active venture capital experience.  He founded Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV) in 2004 and made active investments in early stage information technology Silicon Valley firms focused on global enterprise and telecommunications markets. In fund I, he lead investments in Swan Labs (F5), Dasient (TWTR), Voltaire(MLNX), Finjan(FNJN), Contextream (HPE) and Load Dynamix. Eric currently serves on the boards of Grid Dynamics (GDYN), Virtana, Ayehu, Totango, Secret Double Octopus and 6d bytes, which are portfolio companies of BGV’s fund II and III and OF.

Eric Buatois has 15 years of active venture capital experience, first at Sofinnova Ventures as a General Partner from 2001 until 2013 managing several funds of 250M$ and then General Partner at BGV since 2013. He is a lead investor who truly enjoys building global companies and has demonstrated experience in executing spin-offs from large companies.

Seed investor Focusues on Enterprise Software, Cybersecurity, B2B Fintech, Crypto & Web 3.0, Proptech & Contech

focuses on Internet, software, cloud infrastructure, and frontier tech companies.  Prior to Crosslink, Eric was a General Partner at Bay Partners focusing on early-stage investments co-founder and president of alpha —the entrepreneurial networking club for more than 2,000 Founders, CEOs, and Entrepreneurs.  Eric’s startup experience includes co-founding the Internet server software company WebSpective (INKT), and co-founding TelASIC Communications (MTI).

Eric is a Managing Director at MassMutual Ventures, and joined the firm at the inception of the MMV fund family in 2014. He focuses on investments in fintech, insurtech, enterprise SaaS, and data analytics. Prior to starting MassMutual Ventures, Eric served as head of Siemens Venture Capital North America. His current and past investments include TOA Technologies (acq. Oracle), Protonex (acq. Ballard Power), Porogen (acq. Air Liquide), Limelight Health (acq. Fineos), IEX Group, Policygenius, Gradient, Picwell, and Prove. Eric also worked in the M&A advisory practice at L.E.K. Consulting and was on the founding team at Enmed, Inc. (acq. Megasoft).

Besides being a GP at Goldhouse, Eric is also the Co-founder and CEO at Cymbal.

Eric Hippeau is a Managing Director at Lerer Hippeau, a leading early-stage venture capital fund focused on New York technology startups. Hippeau is also Chairman of Rebelmouse, a Lerer Hippeau Ventures-backed social CMS platform, and co-founder of NowThis News. Hippeau is former Chief Executive Officer of The Huffington Post and a Special Partner at Softbank Capital, where he served as Managing Partner for many years. Prior to Softbank Capital, Hippeau was Chairman and CEO of Ziff-Davis, which was the largest media company serving the technology sector. Hippeau serves on the Board of various private and public companies, including Marriott International.

leads Decisive Point’s advisory practice, providing bespoke services to startups, government, and investors.  worked for 10-years as a Government Contracting Officer (KO) for the Navy’s major weapons systems and supported the Office of the Secretary of Defense, creating policy and establishing streamlined acquisition authorities.

Eric Kim built the $1B investment fund Goodwater Capital before the age of 40. He was an early investor in some of the most valuable businesses in the world: Twitter, Facebook, Spotify. And as an ex-McKinsey consultant, he’s a pro at strategic decision-making and the inputs that inform it. 

Eric is the co-Founder of Lightbank, a venture fund investing in disruptive technology businesses. He is also the co-founder and Chairman of Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN), a global e-commerce marketplace, and an early investor in Uptake Technologies, a leading predictive analytics platform for the world’s largestindustries; Mediaocean, a leading provider of integrated media procurement technology; Echo Global Logistics (NASDAQ: ECHO), a technology-enabled transportation and logistics outsourcing firm; and InnerWorkings (NASDAQ: INWK), a global provider of managed print and promotional solutions.

Eric Manlunas is the Founder and Managing Partner of Wavemaker Partners, an early-stage cross border venture capital firm he founded in 2003 that’s dual headquartered in Los Angeles and Singapore. Eric is a two-time start-up entrepreneur turned venture capitalist who has a proven track record as an early investor in over 300 early-stage businesses. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Eric founded two technology start-ups, one in e-Commerce (Interfoods.com) in 1996 and the other in Internet services (Sitestar) in 1999, both of which were successfully built and eventually sold to strategic buyers.

Eric is a Partner with TenOneTen Ventures. Prior to joining the TenOneTen team, Eric was Vice President at Amplify.LA Capital where he focused on pre-seed and seed investing. Eric started his career in tech at Scopely, a now prominent LA-based mobile gaming company. Eric is a graduate of the University of Southern California where he served as Student Body President of the Marshall School of Business. He continues his involvement with USC today as an Investment Committee Member for the USC Marshall Venture Fund. In addition, Eric serves as an Industry Advisor for LavaLab, a student-run incubator, which he founded while at USC that has since helped lead to the creation of a number of venture-backed startups

Eric Paley, a longtime founder-focused VC, climbed two spots on this year’s Seed 100 list thanks to a string of recent successful exits at his firm, Founder Collective. These include Blissfully (acquired by Vendr), Codecademy (acquired by Skillsoft), Par80 (acquired by Cloudmed), and Finxera (acquired by Priority Payment Systems). Paley, who previously founded a dental startup that sold to 3M, said he didn’t believe in “themes.” Instead, he said, he looks for founders who are “all over it.” He added, “When you ask them a question, they’ve clearly thought about that challenge and can preempt your following three questions by linking their answer to other areas of their business.”

Prior to Vine, Eric was a Founding Partner at Sinai Ventures. Previously, Eric has been an investor with Israel's largest venture capital firm, Pitango, as well as Insight Venture Partners, a $16 billion software and internet investor based in New York City. As an operator, Eric servedas Head of Corporate Development at Dynamic Yield, leading strategic partnerships, channel sales, and fundraising. Most recently, he worked as Head of Strategy at Newell Brands, a $16 billion consumer products conglomerate, within the XO division, focusing on IoT and digital innovation.

Eric brings 20 years of investment experience spanning from angel to large private equity, and has deep research, development, and commercialization expertise through medical research that readily applies to diverse, highly-regulated markets.

Managing Partner at Tsingyuan, Board Member at Track Group, Inc.

Technical Advisor to Alphabet Inc., holding company of Google Inc, where he advises its leaders on technology, business and policy issues. Eric was Executive Chairman of Alphabet from 2015-2017, and of Google from 2011-2015. From 2001-2011, Eric served as Google’s Chief Executive Officer, overseeing the company’s technical and business strategy alongside founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page. Under his leadership, Google dramatically scaled its infrastructure and diversified its product offerings while maintaining a strong culture of innovation, growing from a Silicon Valley startup to a global leader in technology. Prior to joining Google, Eric was the chairman and CEO of Novell and chief technology officer at Sun Microsystems, Inc. Previously, he served on the research staff at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), Bell Laboratories and Zilog.

Eric led GGV’s investments in Zhaoyou, Cityshop, BingoBox, Citybox, and Xinshang and has significant experience in working with early-stage Chinese companies. He was most recently Managing Director with SIG Investment Asia, where he led investments in and served as board members for Babytree, XimalayaFM, 51Credit, Fruitday, Fanli, TouchPal, Meiyou, Kanghui (NYSE: KH), Bicon (SZ: 002411), Adsame, and ETCP. Before SIG, he was an investment professional at CITIC Capital and TDF Capital (TDF formed an alliance with KPCB in China in 2007), where he led the first institutional investment into ChineseAll (SZ: 300364) and VisualChina (SZ: 000681). Prior to his career in venture capital, Eric was an investment banker at CLSA and its JV in China. He is a graduate of Shanghai University of Finance & Economics and holds a Master of Finance from the University of Manchester (UK) School of Business and UMIST, respectively.

Managing Director for DreamIt Ventures focusing on Community Development in the New York City region. She is also Managing Partner of seed-stage investment fund Fortuna Ventures, which invests in technology-enabled early stage companies. Prior to her work with DreamIt, Erica was Executive Director and a founder of STAR Angel Network, a membership organization for professional athletes and celebrities making investments in high growth potential, early-stage private companies.

Prior to Ridgeline, Erich was a founding partner of Chicago Trading Company (CTC) that specializes in exchange listed derivatives. During his 15 years he served as Co-CEO and guided the growth of the company from 8 employees to 325, with offices in Chicago, New York and London. His responsibilities included trading, risk management, human resources and managing senior technology personnel. Following CTC, Erich started The Tengelsen Family Foundation which focuses on inner-city education, childhood obesity, and mental health and wellness. Erich started Ridgeline Ventures in 2014.

Erich is passionate about spending as much time as possible in the outdoors. He loves to ski, scuba dive, and to compete in triathlons in his spare time.

Prior to Altimeter, Erik served as VP at Index Ventures and Director at Khosla Ventures.

Smack dab in the middle of the booming Bay Area tech scene, with Zappos.com entrepreneur Tony Hsieh as his next-door neighbor, Erik discovered his love for angel investing. He was among the first to invest in Zappos in 1999, which Amazon purchased for $1.2 billion. After a rewarding fifteen-year career in investment banking, Erik secured an early retirement from Merrill Lynch in 2011. He promptly created Rule LX, a successful special-purpose investment fund, offering a unique, discrete investment opportunity. Base Ventures takes the success of Rule LX and runs with it. Erik brings to Base Ventures—a passion for ensuring that great ideas see the light of day, an impressive investment track record, business experience as the co-founder of Flick Launch, and the connections to open doors and make dreams come true.

As a general partner at GV, Erik invests across enterprise software and frontier technology, focusing on developer tools, cloud infrastructure, and machine learning. He has backed leaders like Cockroach, Bowery, and CTRL-Labs. Erik also manages GV operations in New York and leads the firm's technical team. Erik has more than a decade of technical experience as an engineering leader with expertise in building first-class teams and scaling massive systems. He gravitated to engineering and computing science early on. "I am curious about how things are made and enjoy working with deeply technical founders as they work toward building their visions." Before joining GV in 2010, Erik led the development of Google's next-generation display ad serving system. He was also a developer for Google's core infrastructure, creating a distributed file system that Google.com and Gmail rely on today.

Co-CEO, On Deck. Community builder, company founder, and startup investor.

Erik is the Co-founder and executive chairman of the 4Di Group. Prior to 4Di, they served as a partner in Deloitte for six years before leaving practice in 1985 to hold many directorships and consultancies in various industries.

Erika Cramer is an accomplished investment banking executive, advisor, and board member who leads corporate objectives and turnarounds through 25+ years in M&A, recapitalizations, capital raising, divestitures, succession planning and valuations. While serving as Partner and Chief Compliance Officer at Silver Lane Advisors LLC, Erika completed 52 transactions involving over $240B in assets under advisement/management (AUM) exchanging hands. She has raised capital for alternative investment products and early stage fintech firms. Erika is currently a Board Director and Audit Chair of the country’s oldest AfricanAmerican life insurance company, Atlanta Life Insurance Company. Erika is an Advisory Board member at OpenInvest, a venture-backed fintech asset manager focused on impact investing.

Prior to Wndrco, Erika was an associate at Cooley LLP and was a Market Development Partner at a16z.

Erikan traveled across 20+ countries to gain first-hand experience of the value of global cultures to the global economy. She’s also the Co-Founder and President of Crypto for Black Economic Empowerment (CBEE), an ecosystem and community of black/African crypto founders, investors, and artists across 20 countries. Prior, Erikan was a financial services relationship manager at Linkedin where she advised asset management, hedge fund, venture capital, and private equity executives. She also serves on the board of the Henry Kravis Leadership Institute and is a global keynote and TED speaker.

21 years building startups and 10 years investing in them. Co-founded and successfully exited three B2B companies. Incubated 8 companies with personal capital resulting in 6.89x MOIC. Ran a business unit for a public company (NYSE: LPS). Raised and invested $30M, B2B seed fund, which is performing at top decile, and 80% of rounds led received follow on capital from top VC. Invested personally in 13 emerging VC funds, with 3 breakouts.

Ex-Executive Director of co.lab, an accelerator working with startups at the intersection of games and learning. co-founder and ex-CEO of social game developer Atakama Labs (acquired by DeNA in 2011). co-founder and ex-CEO of console game developer, Wanako Games. ex-Managing Partner at Penguin Holdings, a seed-stage VC fund for Latin American startups. Started his career in finance as an analyst in the M&A group at JP Morgan in NYC. Board director for Springboard and Aprende and a board observer for Mainstay and Coderhouse.

Eugene is currently the Partner of Sparklabs and manages the day–to-day operations of the Sparklabs accelerator program.  Eugene previously served as a Director of Global Business Development at Tencent Korea. He was responsible for the sourcing of Korean game titles to China and Tencent’s global publishing network, headed the global sales of Tencent game titles, and he managed relationships with Tencent’s global publishing partners. Prior to Tencent, Eugene was Director of Business Development and Marketing at Podotree, an online educational app developer in Korea. He was responsible for their marketing and launch effort into the U.S. Previously, he was with Vertigo Games as the Group Manager of the Overseas Business Group.

Eugene Zhang is the founding partner of TSVC (formerly TEEC Angel Fund) since 2010. Eugene is an entrepreneur himself, his investments include ZOOM in 2011, Carta in 2013, Ginkgo Bioworks in 2014, Quanergy in 2014 and other 70+ startups.

Prior to Fika, Eva was a founding GP at Susa Ventures. She is a serial entrepreneur and founder, most recently a founding executive at Factual, a leading location data provider in Los Angeles. Prior, she was a Senior Product Marketing Manager at Google and Youtube for 5 years. Prior to Google, she was the head of marketing for Applied Semantics, a company that sold to Google in 2003. She also co-founded Navigating Cancer, a health startup, in 2008 which is now based in Seattle.

Previously he cofounded Able, a financial technology company backed by Mike Maples and Peter Thiel, which sold in 2017. Another previous venture, Outbox, was a startup designed to disrupt the United States Postal Service. After being shut down by the federal government, Baehr was profiled in the Wall Street Journal’s Weekend Interview titled “A Case of Uncreative Destruction.” He’s Founder of Teneo, a national leadership organization, author of the #1 selling Get Backed from Harvard Business Press.

Previously an investor at Insight Partners and was in Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs.

Prior to investing, he built four visual technology businesses as a serial entrepreneur for 18 years from Silicon Valley, New York to Europe.  He is a professional photographer and digital media expert since the early 1990's. He started making pictures with his Nikon FM at 13 years old.

Evan is an experienced builder and operator having worked at companies like Dropbox and shopkick.

Evan is a Partner at Plymouth Growth, where he focuses on sourcing and executing lead investments in technology-based businesses. Since joining in 2014, he has led six of Plymouth’s investments and has been involved in many other successful financings. Prior to Plymouth, Evan served as Vice President at Quilvest Private Equity in New York. He focused on evaluating and executing direct private equity investments – buyouts, recapitalizations and growth equity – in such industries as software, telecommunications and manufacturing.

Previously, Evan worked in real estate private equity for The Carlyle Group’s senior housing division, Carlyle Senior Housing. Evan began his career as an architect at SmithGroup, one of the oldest and largest architecture and engineering firms in the U.S.

Williams is one of the founders of the Sara & Evan Williams Foundation and has served as a member of the board of directors since May 2007. From October 2008 to October 2010, Williams served as our President and Chief Executive Officer, from July 2009 to March 2010, as the company's Chief Financial Officer, and from February 2008 toOctober 2008, as its Chief Product Officer. Since April 2011, Williams has served as Chief Executive Officer of Medium, an online publishing platform, and since October 2006, as Chief Executive Officer of The Obvious Corporation, a technology systems innovator. Williams was selected to serve on its board of directors because of the perspective and experience he brings as one of our founders and as one of its largest stockholders, as well as his extensive experience with technology companies.

Co-Founder of Drift Bio, Mighty Mug, and Mighty Ventures, Inc,  Chairman of the Clinton Health Access Initiative technology council  speaks and writes on technology, with publications in places like Techcrunch, Stat News, the California Management Review, and the South China Morning Post. inducted as the youngest member of the MAK Museum in Vienna's Biennale Circle

Executive with 25 years of experience. Currently Executive Vice President at Hearst with responsibility for global legal operations, strategic enterprise deals, Oracle HCM technology operations, compliance and training, talent development, labor relations, corporate human resources and government affairs. Co-founded and oversee Hearst Lab, an initiative to fund and support early stage women led businesses that build products, platforms or marketplaces in a manner that utilizes technology and information in new ways. Prior to Hearst, was an executive at CNN and the New York Daily News. Specialties include general management, business development, strategy, governance, building high performing teams and supporting news teams and the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.

Spent my career deep in the world of user generated content and more broadly the creator economy. Was on the ground floor of Al Gore’s Current TV, did some of the first branded content with creators on YouTube at Initiative, was CEO of Maker Studios and President of Fullscreen and Rooster Teeth. I am now President of Night, a management company for the world best digital creators, including MrBeast, Moriah Elizabeth, Aphmau, Preston, Unspeakable, Karl Jacobs, ZHC. Through Night we also operate Night Ventures and Night Labs, our incubation studio.

Over the past six years Ezra has been blessed to invest in dozens of extraordinary companies including Spothero, Cameo, M1Finance, Havenly, Made in Cookware, Hungryroot, Flyhomes, PrettyLitter, Kin, Chowbus, Rise Science, Protege, Path and many more.

Founding Partner at SevenX Ventures

Fabian Hansen is the Founder and Managing Director of Presight Capital. A graduate of The London School of Economics (LSE), Fabian has been working in venture capital since 2013. Over the years, Fabian was an early investor in numerous category-defining companies including AbCellera, Razor Group, Velocity, Syfe, Peptilogics, ATAI Life Sciences, Compass Pathways, Angiex, Sensei Biotherapeutics, Rational Vaccines, and ChemomAb. Fabian serves on the board of Peptilogics, Alloy Therapeutics, Valoreo and Angiex.

Fabio was monashees’ first investor, and today oversees the culture and values of the fund and the management company. He is the guardian of monashees’ DNA and is co-responsible for its long-term strategies. Fabio believes that people come first, and when doing business he dedicates time to building relationships. He graduated from Hosta University in Leysin, Switzerland, and has been an advisor to Grupo Ultra since 1988. Prior to monashees, Fabio was an angel investor and a professional skier, representing Brazil at the 1992 Winter Olympics.

Formerly Co-Founder and Co-CEO of OLX, the largest classifieds site in Russia, Brazil, India, Pakistan, Poland, Ukraine, Romania, Portugal and many other markets. Prior to OLX, he was the CEO and founder of Zingy, a mobile content company. Previously worked as a management consultant for McKinsey Holds a BA in Economics from Princeton

He is also the Co-founder of MassRobotics; the first and largest robotics & AI startup escalator in the world. Fady led the multi-million dollar fundraising for the organization and architected MassRobotics’ corporate partnership program and business model.

Co-Founder and Managing Partner at HOF Capital. Focuses on companies leveraging frontier technologies to reshape massive industries. At HOF, he led investments in Epic Games, Klarna, Flutterwave, Yoco, SoFi, and others across sectors and stages.

Formerly of Baidu Ventures, where she led BV’s investment in Covariant.

ex-Associate at VU Venture Partners worked at an investment bank, helping advise companies in the Consumer and Healthcare industries. started a vegan bakery in Los Angeles

Guest Lecturer at London Business School where he lectures on managing digital organizations leads the Anthemis investments into funds. was responsible for the BBVA & Anthemis Venture Creation Partnership where he was investing in pre-seed companies evolving the digital finance and banking experience for consumers and companies. ex-Partner at Rokk3r labs executive at PeerIndex, a social media analytics platform that was acquired by Brandwatch in 2014, Yahoo! and various other startups and later-stage private companies.

Co-founder and General Partner of Mastry

worked in the venture world on both the operator and investing side, working in the intersection of B2B SaaS, marketplaces, and FinTech.  Prior to joining DFF, Fede worked at FinTech challenger SecFi gained experience as an early-stage investor at ProFounders, where he was responsible for the DD and coverage of the Benelux and Italian market. 

 a German-American Tech Entrepreneur, Futurist, and Asset Manager.  sits on the DAO of Enzyme finance and 88MPH, founded Crypto Academy, and published the bestselling dystopian fiction novel 'Dark Age'.

Felix has founded companies in 6 countries on 3 continents and supported entrepreneurs and innovators to leverage technology and innovation to build sustainable businesses worldwide. His expertise lies in how to build and scale tech companies as efficiently as possible in the most resourceful way. His deep understanding of the regional markets in LATAM, Europe and Asia combined with his passion for technology and entrepreneurship has helped many startups to find early on product-market fit in different markets.

Fern Mandelbaum, is an entrepreneur, coach, lecturer and investor. Her portfolio includes: Guild Education, BetterUp, MissionU, Andela, Sparta Science, Blendoor, Pique Tea, Tinkergarten, Vocate, FaunaDB, GridSpace, popchips and PicnicHealth. She is also an advisor to Accompany, Talent Sonar, Aplomb, Pair Eyewear, ClockWise, and Ava. Fern was co-founder and CEO of Skyline Products (acquired by IDEO). She worked at Monitor Ventures, Metcal, Bain and Company, SRI International, Hewlett Packard and the Kyoto Shinyo Bank (in Kyoto, Japan).

Before coming to SPC, he was a rower with the US National Team. Prior to that, he earned his master's degree at the Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge and his bachelor's degree in Economics from Brown University. In his spare time, he enjoys being outdoors (biking, skiing or anything else), reading economics papers, and playing with new consumer apps.

Fiona is an integral part of the leadership team at JVP, bringing to the firm over fifteen years of experience in venture capital, strategic partnerships, capital raising and investments in public and private companies. Fiona is a member of the Partnership’s Executive and Investment Committee’s serving also as a Director on the Board of Directors of JVP’s portfolio companies: insurtech unicorn Earnix, TASE-listed Highcon Systems, ionir, Datricks and SourceDefense. Previously, Fiona held a number of executive roles with leading Israeli NYSE-listed investment conglomerate, Koor Industries, as well as served as a founding member of the first Israeli corporate VC – Koor CVC.

Firat is a Partner at Hummingbird Ventures. His current portfolio includes Armut, Argent, Aspire, Billiontoone, Brigit, Ciceksepeti, Instacarro, Kernal Biologics and Layer. He previously worked with Frontier Car Group, Gram Games, Peak Games and Merlin prior to their acquisition. He is interested in marketplaces, frontier tech, fintech and gaming.Previously, he worked at J.P. Morgan at the Emerging Markets Structuring and Solutions group. He received B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Management Science and a Master of Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.

You haven’t been founder-dating in Colorado unless you’ve sat down with Fletcher.

He is Cofounder & CEO of BubbleIQ, a Techstars Boulder 2018 company. He previously was the Platform Manager for Galvanize Ventures, a $10m seed-stage venture capital fund that invested in startups across the country. Fletcher is also the leader of Boulder Seed Angel Forum, an angel dinner whose companies have gone on to raise $200M, and founded Spark Boulder, Colorado’s first student coworking space.

Joined Picus in 2017 and started building its portfolio in emerging markets next to our core markets Europe and North America. Previously worked for The Boston Consulting Group in Zurich.

Frances partners with founders who are building compelling technologies across B2B applications and infrastructure, applied AI and DataOps, FinTech, and vertical software around the future of work. She is passionate about leveraging new technologies and digital assets to redefine businesses and build new categories. Prior to joining Two Sigma Ventures in 2018, Frances invested across early to late-stage technology and data-driven software companies at Comcast Ventures and Highland Capital. She began her career on the operating side as a data scientist and then product manager at mc10, a wearable computing company.