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Managing Director and Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners in Bangalore. Holds an M.B.A from the Indian Institute of Management in Calcutta, is a chartered accountant, and has a B.A. in commerce from GS College, where he was ranked one of the top 750 students in the country.

Vishal leads 500’s investments across Southeast Asia through the 500 Durians Funds. He has invested in over 100 companies in the region in multiple sectors (consumer and enterprise internet; deep tech; consumer retail; blockchain) and is always on the hunt for talented, passionate founders. Vishal is also a Kauffman Fellow and teaches programs on venture capital at leading global universities. Prior to 500, Vishal was a career litigator specialized in resolving complex and high-stakes international investment disputes. He is making up for bad karma by building functional startup ecosystems in emerging markets.

Prior to Sinewave,Vivek was a Partner at Fenox VC, where he led several investments in AI, robotics, and healthcare technology companies. Before becoming an investor, he was an entrepreneur having founded and led two successive companies – GameGarage and Moyyer Research. Vivek was recognized on Forbes’ 30 Under 30 venture capitalists in 2018.

Viviana is a General Partner at Felicis. She brings over twenty years of experience designing and building brand categories for successful cloud/SaaS and enterprise social companies, helping them create scalable growth engines that drive successful exits. Her particular passions are scaling and structuring go-to-market SaaS teams, messaging and positioning, category creation, freemium product strategy, and sales enablement. Before joining Felicis, Viviana served as an angel investor, independent advisor and Operating Partner at Emergence Capital. Earlier in her career, she was the VP of Marketing for Yammer, where she defined the enterprise social category. After Yammer’s $1.2B acquisition by Microsoft, she became its head of marketing for enterprise social, which included Office 365, Skype, and Lync. She also spent over six years at Salesforce, where she launched several key product initiatives. Additionally, she was the VP of Marketing for Platfora (now Workday) and the CMO of Zenefits. Viviana has a BS in Operations Management & Information Systems from Santa Clara University. She loves spending time with her family and traveling internationally.

Mr. Vivjan Myrto serves as a Board Member at Modulate, Dexai Robotics, ShipIn, Elucidata, Dover Microsystems, Elsen, Tranquil Data, Gastrograph AI, and Volta Networks. He also serves as Board Observer at Sentenai, AlphaSheets, Soft Robotics, MachineMetrics, Analytical Flavor Systems Data Solutions, and Indico.

Vojta is responsible for value creation and portfolio support. He guides founders in focusing on what really matters and helps them accelerate B2B sales and partnership development. Leveraging his own founder know-how, he assists portcos in devising and executing exit strategies.

Over the course of his career, Vojta has mentored over 500 startups, built the largest Czech community of data professionals, and made angel investments in half a dozen local companies. Vojta’s mission is to help founders build new, meaningful projects and solve the hardest questions.

Brad Stephens is a Founder and Managing Partner of Blockchain Capital, the General Partner of Crypto Currency Partners funds. Brad has also been a Managing Partner of Stephens Investment Management, which he co-founded in 2002. His diverse background in domestic and international finance includes sell-side securities analysis, hedge fund management, venture capital and family office management.

Passionate about the power of technology-enabled businesses to unlock access to Africa’s trillion dollar informal economy.

co-founder of the NewSchools Seed Fund. ex-associate Partner at NewSchools Venture Fund where she focused on sourcing and supporting early-stage edtech entrepreneurs. co-founded the NewSchools EdTech Entrepreneurship Lab, in partnership with Teach For America and the Stanford d.school. Started her career in 1997 as a financial analyst at Morgan Stanley. serves on the Board of Trustees of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and on the Board of Directors of the Alumni Association of the University of Michigan. Board Director for Campus and Yay Lunch and an advisory board member for Handshake.

Wayne Kimmel is a sports tech venture capitalist, entrepreneur and author of Six Degrees of Wayne Kimmel. He is the Managing Partner of SeventySix Capital, the venture capital company he founded in 1999, and invests in startup sports betting, esports, and sports tech companies. Kimmel was an investor in SeamlessWeb (now public as GrubHub), Take Care Health Systems (now Walgreens’ healthcare clinics) and NutriSystem.

Dreamer/Doer/Investor of 400+companies Forbes 30 under 30 VC Fortune China 40 under 40 Entrepreneur China 40 under 40 VC

Wei Lien Dang is a General Partner at Unusual Ventures and leads investments in infrastructure software, security, and developer tools. He has spent more than a decade building products at startups. Wei was a co-founder of StackRox, a cloud-native security company, where he was responsible for product management, user experience, product marketing, and technical evangelism prior to its acquisition by Red Hat. Before that, Wei held product leadership roles at CoreOS (also acquired by Red Hat), Bracket Computing (acquired by VMware), and Amazon Web Services. He also spent time on the investment team at Andreessen Horowitz.

Wende identifies, builds and invests in companies that change medicine by bringing novel drugs, technologies and devices to market. Started her venture career as a General Partner at Mayfield.

Wendy led and scaled four different functions at Yelp: revenue operations, customer support, investor relations and new markets. She has also held leadership roles at Bia-Echo Foundation and the University of California. She is a graduate of Cal and HBS.

Co-founder of Better Ventures, an Oakland, CA-based venture firm that backs high-growth startups tackling some of the world's biggest challenges. Cyclist, music fan, and family chef.

Prior to founding Third Prime, Wes spent a decade as a private equity and hedge fund professional at Trimarian / Trian, investing across diverse industries. He was also a technology investment banker and M&A Lawyer at Skadden before turning venture capitalist.

Wesley Chan is an early investor in five $10B+ Decacorns and 20+ $1B+ Unicorns, including Canva, Guild, Dialpad, & AngelList. He was first check into Flexport, Robinhood, Plaid, & Gusto. Founded Google Analytics and Google Voice during his 14 year career at Google. He also holds 17 patents for his work on building Google’s early Ads system.

Weston is the Co-Founder and Partner at Radian Capital. He was an Investor in Bain Capital Ventures before that. Prior to joining Bain Capital Ventures, Weston worked as a strategy consultant for media, financial service, and consumer product clients at Bain & Company in New York. While in college, Weston worked with several start-ups,including Frogmetrics, a hand-held survey device company, and WisdomTree Funds.

Whitney is an operating executive with a successful track record of scaling technology and SaaS businesses from early stages to successful exit. She has sold three companies, led three through IPO, facilitated two spin-offs, and executed more than fifteen acquisitions. Some of her former roles include SVP of Global Marketing & GM of Enterprise at Box, where she built Box’s enterprise business from the ground up; Chief Marketing Officer of the Information Intelligence Group at EMC, and VP & GM of Documentum. She also held various technical and leadership roles at Sybase and Oracle. Whitney was recognized in 2017 as one of the top 40 Women in Revenue, in 2015 as one of the World’s 100 Most Innovative CMOs, previously recognized with the Silicon Valley Women of Influence award in 2009 and received the Top 40 Under 40 award in 2003.

Wilder is a founding partner at Toba Capital, a board member of Restless Bandit and Trace, and lead on a number of Toba’s investments, including Cloudant (acquired by IBM). Prior to Toba he worked in corporate development at Quest Software.

Will is a partner at Lakehouse Ventures.

Will focuses on investments at the intersection of hardware and software with enterprise + industrial + transportation applications. Prior to Riot, Will was an investor with Boston-based Saturn Partners, where he led early-stage investments in enterprise and FinTech companies as well as opened Saturn's LA office. Will was a founding investor and close advisor of Brace.ai, a technology platform for the mortgage servicing industry.His superpower is accelerating portfolio company business development, hiring, product strategy, and fundraising. Will is from the Washington DC area and earned his BBA from James Madison University. On weekends, Will can be found surfing, entertaining friends at his home in Venice beach and petting strangers' dogs.

Will was born and raised in Tulsa, where he spent most of his time playing competitive tennis. Will's experience organizing one of the largest tennis events in state history introduced him to his love of business and how to merge that with his passion for helping others. After graduation, Will joined BOK Financial. He spent most of his career as a fundamental equity analyst for the internal mutual fund company Cavanal Hill Investment Management. While working on the buy side, he became a CFA charter holder and gained a strong interest in tech-related businesses.

Will was a partner in CodeAdvisors, an investment bank focusing on mergers and acquisitions.

Part cultural anthropologist, part digital consumer investor, he brings 18+ years of investing, sourcing and portfolio construction experience was Partner at Grace Beauty Capital – family office investment arm of a beauty product distribution company.  previously Managing Director & Head of Research at Ironwood Capital Management.  was an investment banker in Lehman Brothers’ Global Technology Group co-founded Bambike

William (“Will”) O’Donnell leads Prologis Ventures, the venture capital, innovation and corporate development arm of Prologis. With over 22 years of experience in both real estate and technology, he heads efforts to invest in cutting-edge technology for supply-chain logistics and real estate.

During his 21-year career as an investor, Will has served on the boards of more than 20 companies. He has been a leader in the transformation of the geospatial sector, most notably as Chairman of BlackSky (NYSE: BKSY) and as Lead Director of Spire (NYSE: SPIR). He is also a Director of Nanit, Paperless Post, Pattern, Pilot Fiber, Ursa, and Wave and a former Director of BuzzFeed (NASDAQ: BZFD). Will is also the Founder and Chairman of the Dockery Farms Foundation. From 2003 to 2018, Will served as an Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School where he taught a popular course on venture capital.

Will has always been focused on Seed/Series A investing in both application and infrastructure layer software companies.

During his career, heinvested in the first round of software companies such as Britebill (acquired by Amdocs), Barricade (acquired by Sophos), Orchestrate (acquired by CenturyLink), AMCS (since raised $75m), CurrencyFair (since raised $25m) and Pointy (acquired by Google).

Before a career in VC, Will spent six years advising large enterprises on their technology purchasing decisions.

Will’s career spans venture capital investing as well as operational, transactional, and advisory roles at both public and private companies. With a Montana family history dating to the 1850s, Will is passionate about investing in the state’s promising future.

Prior to Next Frontier Capital, Will served as CEO of Flite, an advertising and analytics platform. In 2016, Flite was acquired by Snap, the parent company of SnapChat.

Previously, Will served as a Managing Director at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, where he focused on SaaS and open source.

Will graduated from Harvard College, studied Mandarin at Nanjing University, and earned his M.B.A from Northwestern University, where he graduated at the top of his class.

Will isn’t afraid to challenge tradition and forge his own path—both in venture and life. Growing up an avid gamer and athlete, he developed a sense of healthy competition that has followed him throughout his career. As a general partner at Spark, Will’s investing philosophy leads him to support ambitious, often first-time founders taking big swings at large markets.

Multi-awarded american rapper and actor famous for his roles in "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air", "Men in Black", "The Pursuit of Happiness", etc. co-owner of Westbrook Inc.,  a cross-platform holding company formed to execute the Smith Family’s global content and commerce business strategy. 

Will brings data-driven decision making to the archaic venture capital stack. He is also an architect and engineer of a proprietary altenative data solution. Previous stops include VC, investment banking and as technical co-founder of a fintech startup.

Will Weisman is the founder and Managing Director of KittyHawk Ventures, an early stage frontier technology venture capital firm with investments in AI/ML, computing, networking, healthcare, longevity, space, fintech, security and more. Previously, Will spent seven years as Executive Director at Singularity University, where he wore manyhats and helped build and run the various large summits around the world, including the Global Summit, Exponential Medicine, the International Summits and more. Among Will's most unusual accomplishments is that he created and popularized the wrap, yes, the burrito like thing, at a 30-unit restaurant chain he founded and sold called World Wrapps. Will has an MBA from Stanford and a BA from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He regularly speaks around the world on exponential technology trends as well as venture investing and entrepreneurship. Will is an avid kiteboarder and ocean swimmer and resides in Santa Monica, CA.

Will’s day job is with Zappos where he started and ran a @ZapposLabs R&D team out of San Francisco for 5 years and has recently gone back to playing a more hands-on product role building new shopping experiences. Companies: CombatGent, Wedgies, Print Syndicate, AdEspresso, Exact Media, WiseBanyan

Specialties: Technology Investment, Informal Investment, Growth Capital, Early Stage Capital, Business Valuation, Supervisory Board.

Bill Helman is a venture capitalist focused on early stage investments in technology, consumer internet, and health care. Helman is the former chairman of the board of trustees at Dartmouth College. In addition, he serves on the boards of Ford Motor Company, Barnard College and The Broad Institute.

William is a General Partner at SOSV the #1 most active early stage venture capital investor in the world (2021 Pitchbook) with US$1.4bn assets under management.  At SOSV he is the Managing Director of Chinaccelerator the first accelerator program in Asia and the only active program in Asia to have a unicorn come through its program – Bitmex Fall 2015.  He is also Founder and Managing Director of MOX providing startups with free user acquisition helping the portfolio scale to 105m monthly active users with no marketing spend. William joined SOSV from SingTel Innov8 Ventures where he was a founding Managing Director investing in Greater China. Prior to that William was a Partner at Softbank China & India Holdings, a VC backed by Softbank and Cisco, leading investments in China and South East Asia. William started his career in equity research most recently with Deutsche Bank where he was a top ranked analyst for Asia Internet and China Tech, Media and Telecom and worked on IPOs for Alibaba, Kingsoft, eLong (Expedia China), OnMobile, Rediff and Naukri. In 2005, he was ranked #3 stock picker in China/Hong Kong and #1 for Technology, Media and Telecom by Thomson Reuters Starmine. In 2006 he was ranked #3 equity research analyst in Asia for Software and IT Services by Institutional Investor Magazine for China Internet. William’s investments include Bitmex crypto derivatives, UShopal ecommerce, Snapask edtech, italki edtech, Yodo1 mobile games, Carota mobility, Phable health, Flickstree media, ELSA Speak edtech, Tappytoon media, Coutloot ecommerce, DemystData fintech, Orange Hotel acquired by China Hospitality Group, Lekan acquired by Condé Nast, and Playspan acquired by Visa.  He currently sits on the board of directors for Phable, Scantrust, Mobigarage, Fleksy, Pandabus, Goama, Boost Capital, italki, and SRT and organizations including Music Matters, Techyizu, US China Strong and Blair Academy. He holds a BA from Bowdoin College.

Prior to founding Aperture, William Crowder spent the previous 10 years building a track record of investing in diverse founders across the US. He began that work in 2011 as a partner at Dreamit Ventures, a pre-seed accelerator headquartered in Philadelphia. Concurrent with that work, William built the nation’s first corporate-backed venture fund with a diversity emphasis at Comcast Ventures.

has been an advisor and investor in the consumer industry since 2003 and has over 25 years of finance, investing and legal expertise. Prior to Fernbrook, Bill was a Managing Director at GLC Advisors & Co. Prior to GLC, he was the Chief Investment Officer of United Safety Ltd. co-founded Watch Hill Partners, a New York-based merchant banking firm  co-founded Three Ocean Partners, an investment banking firm based in New York. maintains his Series 7, 24, and 63 securities licenses and is a registered representative at Wavecrest Securities LLC (member FINRA/SIPC), an unaffiliated entity of Fernbrook. Prior to starting Watch Hill, Bill was an M&A attorney in New York and Philadelphia, and a law clerk for U.S. District Judge Malcolm Muir of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania.

William Geist is a managing partner for Upper90, a hybrid VC firm.

William has spent his career as both an entrepreneur as well as an executive of a Fortune 100 company.

I am an Eisenhower Fellow, a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Liaison for Strategic Partnerships for the Entrepreneurship Steering Committee at the IEEE, the first Ambassador to CERN and Society, founding partner of the CERN Entrepreneurship Student Programme (CESP), recipient of the IEEE Entrepreneur Achievement Award for Leadership in Entrepreneurial Spirit, and co-founder (with the United Nations ITU & UN Women) of EQUALS; The Global Partnership for Gender Equality in the Digital Age. I currently serve as co-founder and General Partner at Ecliptic Capital, and founder and CEO of Strangeworks, a quantum computing startup in Austin, Texas. Prior to starting Strangeworks I was a Managing Director at Goldman Sachs [NYSE: GS]. I came to Goldman Sachs via the acquisition of my startup, Honest Dollar. Prior to Honest Dollar I founded Chaotic Moon Studios which was acquired by Accenture [NYSE: ACN].

a Vice President based in Stockholm and focuses his time primarily on the Wider web3 movement incl. gaming, fintech, DeFi, and data in Northern Europe. Prior to Northzone, he co-founded PWC Sweden’s accelerator program

William sharpened his finance, venture capital, and startup skillset with roles at Morgan Stanley, VU Venture Partners, Royalty Headwear, and knock app.

Immediately following graduation, William joined the Dynamo Ventures team as their 3rd fellow where he sourced supply chain & mobility startups, performed investment diligence/ market research, and was involved in all aspects of the venture investment and fund management process.

Wiliam got his first taste of the startup ecosystem working for his friend's startup at the Mercer Innovation Center (MIC). Going forward, William is hopeful to pay it forward as a mentor at the MIC and is excited to help cultivate future entrepreneurs emerging from the southeast US.

After leaving university, William was one of the founding employees of Ondra Partners, a startup investment-banking boutique. Within 18 months, Ondra grew from a four-person team to 70+ employees across London, New York, and Paris, and was named the top investment banking boutique globally by Euromoney.

William’s work at Ondra led him to discover his passion for rethinking an industry, and he shortly thereafter co-founded Osmoda, a b2b e-commerce company creating a new way for young and up-and-coming designers to sell online. During that time, he became a Global Ambassador and joined the Board of the Sandbox Network, a community of over 1,500 innovators under 30 all around the world.

Willy Schlacks is a serial entrepreneur and the Co-Founder & President of
EquipmentShare (worth over $3B).

Willy has founded 5+ companies and has raised $600M+ from top VC firms and billions in debt. He was born and raised in Missouri.

Bill Studebaker joined the ROBO Global team in 2015 after more than 20 years in capital markets and investment management. For more than a decade, he served as a portfolio manager at Apex Capital where he covered industrials and the economies of supply chain management. Earlier in his career, he held a number of positions at Merrill Lynch, including as a trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and as a director in institutional equity sales, and he was an analyst in the structured finance group of Cargill.

Wilson built Square’s growth and retention team, outreach automation, and product. He also launched and managed new businesses globally at DiDi and CloudKitchens. He began venture investing at Fifth Wall Ventures and as an angel investor. He co-founded Fish Sauce, a community of Asian American founders, operators, and investors. He holds an MBA from Harvard and BS in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Southern California.

Wim van der Beek is the founder and Managing Partner of Goodwell Investments.   Within Goodwell, he manages Aavishkaar Goodwell India Microfinance Development Company I and II and serves on the Board and Investment Committee of Goodwell West Africa Microfinance Development Fund and the uMunthu Fund. He also serves on the board of portfolio companies MFS Africa, Nomanini and WhereIsMyTransport.  Before founding Goodwell Investments, Wim was a Partner and financial services expert at PWC for over ten years. Wim is an investment specialist with over two decades of experience in early-stage equity, financial structuring, cross border direct investments, and private equity investments.  Wim holds a Master’s in Economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam and has enjoyed post-graduate education at INSEAD, Darden and at several of Europe’s oldest universities. 

Previously, Wing was an operator on the AngelList Venture team where he managed operations across our three main product lines: Venture funds, Syndicates, and Rolling funds

He got into early-stage investing because I believe that a few courageous individuals create progress and new knowledge in the frontier.

Wiz is a successful 2x startup founder turned VC. When not helping companies change the world, you can find Wiz talking about the future on his podcast or cooking delicious things on an open fire.

started his career at Morgan Stanley in the investment banking division and also spent time at New Enterprise Associates (NEA) investing in social media, infrastructure, and consumer software. has extensive experience as a tech entrepreneur and operator at Bond, Very Good Security, and Rightway Healthcare.

Xavier Niel currently works as the Co-Founder & CEO for NJJ Capital. Xavier Niel is the Iliad Group's majority shareholder and founder. He has been involved in the data communications, Internet and telecommunications industry since the late 1980s. In 1993, before dedicating himself full-time to developing the Group, he founded Worldnet,the first Internet service provider in France, which was sold to Kaptech (LDCom Group) in December 2000. He has been responsible for the Group's major strategic developments, from the launch of the ANNU service and the development of Internet access services based on France Télécom’s repayment scheme as a financial model to the launch of the Freebox project.

Xia Zhijin joined Vertex Ventures China in 2010 focusing on early-stage investments in technology-driven innovation, with a specialty in AI technology, automotive industries, intelligent manufacturing, automation, new energy resources and eco-friendly materials, etc. Prior to joining Vertex Ventures China, he spent over three years doing research at Technicolor, a technology and media company based in Reno France and Hollywood, where he specialized in video coding and crowd simulation.

Xu Ying joined Vertex Ventures China in 2009, specializing in the fields of internet, consumption and E-commerce. Some of her notable investments include Changba, LOHO, NEIWAI, Ramen Talks, Lelecha, Wangbaobao, Wangxiaolu, Julive, Jike APP, Yaochufa, Dexter, Chowsing, etc. Prior to Vertex Ventures, Xu Ying worked as an investment banker in Cowen Latitude covering the TMT sector in China. She also worked as an analyst in China Netcom and as an accountant in KPMG.

His investment focus includes enterprise infrastructure, software apps, and AI applications. Previously, Xuhui has been Yahoo's Vice President II Engineering for data and advertising platforms; CTO of Ad Tech pioneer company Turn ($310M exit); Founding Technologist at ID Analytics ($170M exit).

Previously, Yael acted as Director of Product and Operations at Zebra Medical Vision (acquired by Nanox Vision). Yael spent her 11-year military career serving in the Israeli Elite Intelligence Unit and 8200 (49’), completing her service as Cyber Operations Commander (Rank Major). With over a decade of experience managing cross-functional teams, Yael has successfully led complex product development and technical projects from conception to completion.

Yanai Oron joined Vertex in 2014, following an operational and technical background. Before Vertex, Yanai was General Manager at DVTel (acquired by FLIR/Teledyne).  He started his career as an embedded engineer at Intel Corporation.

Prior to SineWave, Yanev was an investor at New Enterprise Associates (NEA), where he sourced, managed, and helped advise dozens of early stage investments. Yanev was also a Senior Investment Officer under the Bush and Obama Administrations, and was the first person hired to build the Federal Loan Program, which grew to a ~$150 billion investment vehicle.

Yasmin is a General Partner at Visible Hands VC, a pre-seed fund with a 14-week, virtual-first fellowship program that supports overlooked talent in building technology startups by providing company-building services and investments of up to $200k.

At Spark, Yasmin is a student of go-to-market and believes it separates good companies from great companies. She partners with founders after they hit product market fit on their journey to scale.

I have been working for Mobile Game industry for 7 years as Product Manager. I was doing many stuffs including analysis, game design , team building , member management and budgeting. Especially, I focused on strong analysis skill using tableau, redshift, jenkins and scripting. I led couple of games as a business owner, achieving $1M+/m for all games. Highest one achieved $5+/month. From 2016/July, I started my new role as investor for VR industry. I am so excited being involved to VR.

Co-founder and CMO at Binance.

Forbes 30 Under 30 Yida formerly co-ran Struck Capital, an early stage industry agnostic venture fund, and also DDC (Divergence Digital Currency), a multi-strategy crypto fund. Prior, Yida served as a technology investor at New Enterprise Associates, a $25Bn+ venture capital fund, and as an M&A investment banker at Morgan Stanley.

Yin’s focus at MCJ is on community strategy, investments and post-investment support, all with a lens toward ensuring diversity, equity and inclusion are at the forefront of decision making.  Yin previously worked on DEI efforts at Sheryl Sandberg & Dave Goldberg Family Foundation and was GM of Khan Academy’s international business, where she and her team scaled Khan Academy’s content into 30 languages and launched offices in Mexico, Brazil, Peru and India.  Yin also built up the first community, international and marketing teams at Coursera. She began her tech career at Google and Microsoft. 

Tan Yinglan is the CEO and Founding Managing Partner at Insignia Ventures Partners. Insignia Ventures Partners is an early stage technology venture fund focusing on Southeast Asia started in 2017 and manages capital from premier institutional investors including sovereign wealth funds, foundations, university endowments and renowned family offices from Asia, Europe and North America. Insignia Ventures Partners is the recipient of “Deal of the Year (Small Cap / VC)” for Ajaib (2021) by AVCJ, “Best Early-Stage Technology Venture Capital Fund Southeast Asia” (2020, 2021) from APAC Insider, "Most Innovative Early-Stage Tech Partner Southeast Asia" (2020) from Capital Finance International, "Investor of the Year" (2019) from New Entrepreneurs Foundation, two back-to-back “VC Deal of Year” awards for Payfazz (2019) and Carro (2018) from the Singapore Venture Capital and Private Equity Association and its portfolio include many other technology leaders in Southeast Asia. See more at http://www.insignia.vc Prior to this, he was Venture Partner at Sequoia Capital where he was the first hire in Southeast Asia. Yinglan sourced multiple investment opportunities for Sequoia India including Tokopedia, Go-jek (now Goto), Carousell, Appier, Dailyhotel, Pinkoi and 99.co. He serves on the Singapore Government’s Pro Enterprise Panel (chaired by the Head of Civil Service), member of the International Board for stars leaders for the next generation, member of the Board for Hwa Chong Institution, and the Investment Committee on Strategic Research Innovation Fund at Nanyang Technology University. Yinglan was honoured as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2012. He also serves on the WEF Technology Pioneer Selection Committee Panel, Young Leader Circle by the Milken Institute (2016 current), Top “40 leaders under 40” by Prestige Magazine (2015), one of 100 Leaders of Tomorrow by the St Gallen Symposium (2010), 100 Global Thinkers (2011) by think-tank Lo Spazio della Politica, a World Cities Summit Young Leader (2014), a WEF Global Agenda Council member on Fostering Entrepreneurship (2011-2013) and a Kauffman Fellow. Yinglan is the author/co-author of 4 books, namely, The Way Of the VC: Having Top Venture Capitalists On Your Board.(Wiley, 2009), Chinnovation How Chinese Innovators are Changing the World (Wiley, 2010) and textbook New Venture Creation – Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century An Asian Perspective (Mcgraw Hill 2011) and Navigating Aseannovation (World Scientific, 2020). Yinglan was educated at Harvard, Stanford and Carnegie Mellon.

Yoav Leitersdorf has been a successful tech entrepreneur and investor for over 25 years. He founded YL Ventures in 2007 to help brilliant seed-stage Israeli entrepreneurs transform their ideas into game-changing companies. Under his leadership, YL Ventures has raised over $800M across four funds and expanded into a growing multidisciplinary team of experts supporting the most promising startups at every milestone with tailored value-add initiatives. He has also overseen the firm’s network grow into a vast arsenal of thousands of chief information security officers and cybersecurity experts keen to advance startup development from the earliest stages.

Yoav brings to JVP over twenty years of experience in enterprise software, cyber security, cloud, AI and digital media. With his hands-on approach, Yoav works with and sits on the board of several of JVP’s companies including Pyramid Analytics, Quali, Centrical, Morphisec, Coronet, ThetaRay, ChainReaction, Rezilion, Appdome, Secret Double Octopus, SourceDefense, 1Touch.io and Akeyless. Past exits include CyActive, (acquired by PayPal), Loom (acquired by ServiceNow), Cnvrg.io (acquired by Intel) and Uponit. Prior to joining JVP, Yoav held General Management, Marketing, Business Development and Product executive positions, scaling startups from zero to tens of millions of revenues, and led strategic efforts vis-à-vis industry leaders such as Verizon, Comcast, Telefonica, Intel, CBS and Time Warner, in both B2B and B2B2C models. Yoav spent six years in the Israeli Air Force, managing mission critical technological projects.

As heir to the Cheshin family fortune, Yoel stands for integrity, honesty, transparency, and loyalty, family values ingrained in him by his parents since childhood. After the tragic loss of his brother Shneor over a decade ago, Yoel established the family’s Venture Capital firm 2B in his honor, as well as several other activities, all with one purpose – to impact the world and continue the family legacy.

Founder of PixelBeasts, and NFT Collection. Previously a Venture Partner at Scrum Ventures and a Director of Pipeline at TechStars.

Head of Lightspeed's Israel team Areas of interest are Internet, digital media, mobile, communications, software, semiconductors, and cleantech

Yoram Oron founded Vertex Ventures Israel in 1997 Yoram led investments in Cyber-Ark (NASDAQ: CYBR, $1.5B market cap), Waze (sold to Google for $1.3B), Argus (Sold to Continental for over $400M) Morecom (sold to Liberate, US$561M), and Vision Tech (sold to Broadcom, US$250M). Yoram holds an impressive track record both as a founder and manager of several successful high technology companies. Prior to founding Vertex, Yoram was a co-founder and Chairman of Telegate from its inception in 1993 until its acquisition by Terayon in 1999 for US$400 million. Previously, Yoram was President and CEO of Aryt Industries (NASDAQ: ARYTF), Co-Founder of Geotek Communications and Manager of its Military Division, and Co-Founder, President and CEO of Reshef Technologies.

Co-Founder of Bloom, an East-African Fintech Startup helping users protect and grow their wealth. ex-MP at Class 5 Global.

Youri is leading the charge to help build the next generation of entrepreneurs born out of Antler Amsterdam. An Associate Partner at McKinsey & Company, he spent the last 7 years working on innovation and transformation programs with incumbents and startups in the private, public and social sectors - both across Europe and Latin America.

Prior to co-founding Athenian, Yuri had an illustrious career as a serial entrepreneur, having founded and grown several successful ventures. Notably, he founded IndigoH2O, which went on to win the 2015 award for the best-tasting water in the world, and Art Tech Media, where he combined his passions for art and technology to create innovative projects. In addition, he established the Business of Creative Enterprises program at Emerson College, where he taught and mentored aspiring entrepreneurs on how to turn their creative ideas into thriving businesses.

Yuri's broad experience in the tech and entertainment sectors is evident through his involvement in the founding team of various blockchain, entertainment, and tech product projects. Furthermore, he has made prescient investment decisions by being a Pre-ICO investor in Dreams Quest, Black Ocean, Decredit, and Spores. He is also an early coin holder in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Cardano, Binance Coin, Theta, NDau, and Algorand.

Prior to joining Victress, Yuriy worked at an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in high-growth consumer brands and at a multi-stage healthcare fund focused on digital health and healthcare technology.

Yuval is the Founder and Managing Partner at StageOne Ventures, leading investments across multiple investment sectors. Yuval has a track record of two decades in leading the operations of early-stage VCs. Before founding StageOne, he co-founded and managed two corporate VCs as part of IDB (Israel’s largest conglomerate) estimated at $150 Million in the investment portfolio, and was personally involved in early-stage IT investing totaling over $1 billion in exit value.

Managing Partner and Co-Founder at Upfront Ventures.

Award-winning PropTech investor, best-selling author, professor, and speaker who has been a pioneering thought leader at the forefront of real estate technology for over a decade.

We generally invest in B2B or B2B2C companies.  We like weird ideas.  Average checks are $200k-1m

At Wing, Zach is primarily focused on AI-powered applications, bottom-up SaaS and productivity/collaboration tools. He also spends time in REtech, Fintech and Blockchain. Prior to Wing, Zach was CEO and co-founder of Drop, Inc., which built two award-winning iPhone apps (Drop Messages and Firefly) before selling its technology and intellectual property to Snapchat in 2016. Before founding Drop, Zach worked in the technology, media and telecommunications groups at both TPG Capital and Goldman Sachs, where he was involved with various technology deals, including TPG's investment in Uber.

VC @ OP. Formerly @USV and product, analytics, and head chef at @slice I like behavioral psychology, weird food combinations, and bad sports teams

has spent the last 10 years working in Product Management, UX, and Growth roles in the New York tech ecosystem. currently a Lead Product Manager at Attentive building messaging products. Before Attentive, Zach was a Product Manager at Yext Previous to Yext, Zach worked on the Financial Products UX team at Bloomberg LP building cross-asset trading functionality on The Terminal for both Buy-Side and Sell-Side clients.

Founded several companies including SHIFT, a massive transportation operation and technology company. Previously Head of Product at Zappos.com and built its current campus. Companies: Thrive Market, Ice, General Assembly, Asana, SurfAir, Ministry of Supply, Stedi, Arka, ReturnBase, Adquick, Arylla, Bungalow Clothing, Galvanize, WithMe, Bow & Drape, AnyPerk, Skillshare.

Former co-founder, president and COO of both Flatiron Health (acquired by Roche in 2018 for $2b) and Invite Media (acquired by Google in 2010 for $81m). Invested in hundreds of technology startups throughout the country, including Bark, Clover Health, Color Genomics, Cometeer, Headway, Hyperscience, Imagen, Plaid, Oscar, RigUp, Ro and Spring Health.

Zach is the Managing Partner at Launch Africa Ventures Africa's leading Early-Stage VC Fund. He is also the Co-Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Startupbootcamp AfriTech – the leading multi-corporate backed venture accelerator program in Africa. In 2013, he founded Cactus Advisors – a specialist corporate finance advisory firm and micro VC fund specializing in high growth, high impact African tech ventures. Zach is a prominent Angel investor in 100+ leading tech startups in Africa including Flutterwave, KudaBank, MPost, Recomed and several others.

Zachary Bogue Zack has over a decade of experience in Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur, lawyer, angel investor and advisor for big data startups. Zack is a co-founder and co-managing partner of Data Collective, a venture fund with a unique team of experienced venture capitalists, technology entrepreneurs and practicing engineers, investing together in seed and early stage Big Data and IT infrastructure companies. Zack also is a cofounder and managing partner of Founders Den, a shared workspace for experienced technology entrepreneurs.

Zack is an entrepreneur and futurist who has deep insight into how emerging technologies impact industry and human society. He is a proactive board member and investor across a broad array of technology and health-related markets and enjoys helping innovators achieve their visions. Before JAZZ, Zack built several companies focused on connecting industries including a global conference ecosystem that enabled thousands of startups to tap into new sources of capital. Needing to share his vision for the next 50 years, he wrote the global best-selling book, The Neuro Revolution: How Brain Science Is Changing Our World.

Zack joined the firm in 2013 and helps lead Battery’s growing industrial-technology and life science tools practice, backing later-stage, buyout investments in the U.S. and Europe. Prior to Battery, Zack was an investor at WestView Capital Partners, where he evaluated and executed middle-market buyout and recapitalization transactions across the tech-enabled services and software sectors. Zack began his career in the investment banking group at Avondale Partners.