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Alexa founded Inspired Capital in 2019 with the aim of helping Seed and Series A consumer and enterprise tech businesses become category-defining companies. Alexa has seen success with investments in B2B fintech Rho Technologies, social calendar platform Saturn and customer-focused AI startup Forethought. She draws on over a decade of experience as the founder and CEO of LearnVest, a learning platform that helped bring personal finance to the masses on its way to raising over $75 million in venture capital before being acquired by Northwestern Mutual in one of the biggest fintech acquisitions of the 2010s. Beyond her role at Inspired, Alexa is a New York Times-bestselling author, writes as a columnist for Inc. and hosts both ‘The Founders Project with Alexa von Tobel’ and 'Inspired in 15.' She has been recognized on the cover of Forbes, Fortune's 40 Under 40, Forbes 30 Under 30, Inc. Magazine's 30 Under 30, and is a Henry Crown Fellow.

Alex is responsible for evaluating, structuring and executing investments as well as supporting portfolio companies for NXTP’s second fund. Prior to NXTP, Alex worked in various investment funds and financial institutions and most recently worked at New York-based private equity fund, Conduit Capital, investing controlling stakes in private companies across Latin America and the Caribbean.

 focuses on the fund’s Insurtech and Fintech investments. Prior to joining Distributed Ventures in 2022, I began my career in financial services at Deutsche Bank and Kli Capital. 

led Milltrust’s focus towards sustainable impact investments which the firm has fully embraced under its mantra of ‘Sustainable Prosperity’. serves as Portfolio Adviser and Chairman of the Investment Advisory Committee for The Climate Impact Asia Fund serves on the investment committee of Milltrust’s Climate Impact, Agri Capital Markets, and Future Health co-investor platforms and on the Future Health SPV appointed as an Independent Expert at EIT Climate-KIC in November 2019, Europe’s largest public-private partnership for addressing climate change.

Alex Pack is a Founding Partner on the deal team at AngelList, the largest platform for early-stage tech investing in the world. Previously he was an investor with Arbor Ventures, an early-stage VC firm in Hong Kong, where he focused on opportunities in cross-border FinTech, EdTech, and blockchain technology.

Alexander founded Picus Capital together with Jeremias in 2015. He is an experienced entrepreneur and technology investor. Prior to starting Picus, he co-founded several successful ventures, among them the European Founders Fund, where he was an early investor in companies like Zalando and LinkedIn. Alexander graduated from the University of Oxford and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Alex did his PhD in Molecular Biology at the University of Cambridge on alternative causes of neurodegeneration. Before starting SciFounders, Alex was part of the Research & Early Development group at Genentech.

Alexandria is the Head of Operations and Co-Founder of New Story – an innovative nonprofit that transforms slums into sustainable communities around the world. Alexandria has a decade of work, academic, and volunteer experience in domestic and international development. She taught in inner city D.C., led financial capacity building efforts in rural Central America, and briefed African heads of state on poverty alleviation through land reform, and was recently named to the 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 list.

Alexey has 15 years of experience in audit and finance and 10 years in the venture capital industry. His introduction to investment started in 1996 when he was the Chief Financial Officer for the Investment Company Dominanta. His success at Dominanta led to a new CFO role atFMGC where he stayed for several years. As an Entrepreneur, Alexey was the Co-Founder and Partner in AFD Consulting. AFD is an audit and accounting firm. Advancing from AFD in 2004, he began his Angel Investing work. In this capacity, which he still serves, Alexey functioned as an advisor and fundraiser for innovators and venture capital entities. In 2010, Alexey became the Co-Founder and General Partner of Starta Ventures. Starta Capital’s portfolio now includes a number of deep tech startup companies. In 2015, together with Ekaterina Dorozhkina, Starta Capital’s Managing Partner, they launched Starta Accelerator. Starta Accelerator is New York City-based program that aims to empower startups with Eastern European roots and frontier technology.

Co-Founder of Angelsdeck, a private investors club. Previously a Partner at iTech Capital, a Latvian VC Prior to to that, he was a managing director at Prostor Capital, a VC fund based in Russia.

A tech founder, builder, and investor. He’s written a national bestselling book, Without Their Permission, and co-founded initialized capital and Reddit. In 2020, Alexis founded Seven Seven Six, a new software-enabled venture firm focused on people, culture, and community.

Recognized by Andreessen Horowitz as the “Silicon Valley CEO’s CEO”, Alfred is an accomplished entrepreneur and venture capitalist. Prior to Race, Alfred co-founded and took BEA Systems public (Nasdaq: BEAS). In addition, Alfred became BEA’s chairman of the board where he remained until BEA was sold to Oracle in 2008 for $8.6B.

An operator fortunate enough to help teams scale three companies from the formidable founding stages to profitable businesses and to successful exits. An applied mathematician and statistician by training.

Ali is a co-founder and partner at CoVenture. He co-leads firm management, capital raising, and deal sourcing, and is a member of the investment committee of CoVenture's credit and venture subsidiaries (CoVenture Management, CV19 Venture Partners, and Crossbeam Venture Partners). Prior to Coventure, Ali was a Venture Partner at Compound Ventures (formerly known as Metamorphic Ventures), during which time he helped source many of the firm’s successful investments. Ali attended Cornell University, where he played Varsity Baseball.

Ali tries to make a career of investing in people smarter than himself. He has backed Airbnb, Dropbox, Facebook, & Uber. He co-founded Code.org (Hour of Code) to bring Computer Science to classrooms. Ali grew up in Tehran during the Iran-Iraq war, attended Harvard, and sold his first startup, LinkExchange, in 1998.

Founding my second company to automate and improve infrastructure inspection. The aging infrastructure across the US is failing and costing our nations billions of dollars with untold ecological impacts. Artificial Intelligence will help cities optimize the repair and maintenance of their infrastructure.

Ali focuses on crypto investments. Before Andreessen Horowitz, he was a software engineer and researcher at Google X, where he worked on the Everyday Robot project, which aims to build a robot that is smart and affordable enough to be viable as a consumer product for the home. He also worked at Google Brain, Google’s Artificial Intelligence lab, where he was a core developer on TensorFlow, Google’s primary library for machine learning. Ali began his career as a student and researcher at Stanford University, where he focused on the intersection of Computer Security, Distributed Systems, and Computer Networking. He first discovered the Bitcoin whitepaper in 2010 while doing research at Stanford Computer Security Lab, and has followed the space closely ever since.

Alic co-founded CITRIS Foundry shortly after receiving his Ph.D. in Mech. Engineering from UC Berkeley in 2012 and has been growing a diverse portfolio of startups that develop technologies ranging from health and therapeutics to novel sensors and AI. He has advised and/or invested in 50+ science and technology startups which have cumulatively raised $500M+ in funding.

Alice Lloyd George focuses on early stage investments around the blockchain and cryptographic technologies, robotics and AI, and consumer internet. Prior to joining RRE Alice spent time at Signia Venture Partners and Bridgewater Associates. Previously she lived in Beijing and conducted investigative research as a Brookings Institute fellow. Shebegan her career at The Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong, where she covered business and politics in Malaysia, India, Australia, Burma and China. Alice graduated from Princeton with a BA from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy and a minor in East Asian Studies. She sits on the board of LGAF, a charitable foundation supporting child-focused projects in Asia. Alice originally hails from London and is an enthusiast on all things related to art, creative education, and futurology. She enjoys backpacking, particularly in far-flung places.

Alireza led more than 100 investments out of over 20,000 startup investment opportunity for the firm since 2008.

Prior to Plug and Play, he was Founder and CEO at NekaTel, one of the large Internet Airtime Distribution Networks. Alireza grew NekaTel’s revenue from $0 to over $45M in less than 2 years. He was also Founder of VidaTel, offering mobile airtime distribution technology and sold the technology in 2007

Alireza published “Crossing the Digital Divide: What’s Next” in Information Technologies and International Development Journal published by Harvard Business School for UN’s World Summit on the Information Society.

Currently leading product marketing at Oura. Previously led product marketing at The Pill Club and Google for various products (Google Assistant, Google Ads & Android) and Chief of Staff at Headstart (YC S17).

Alison Rapaport Stillman is a Founding General Partner at Serena Ventures, overseeing portfolio management and sourcing new investments. In addition to growing the reach and impact of the SV portfolio, Alison is the person founders turn to when they need pointed advice, detailed feedback, and tough love. Alison holds a BS from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She is a CFA charterholder.

Allison Pickens is one of the world’s top experts on how to grow recurring revenue. She is a thought leader on go-to-market strategy for SaaS companies, having coached thousands of CEOs and executives at both Fortune 500 companies and born-in-the-cloud SaaS ventures. She has experience as an independent board director, COO, P&L owner, and investor. As the former COO at Gainsight, a $1B unicorn and top customer success software company, Allison scaled the company from infancy to a multi-product platform, creating the category of customer success software. Along the way, Allison and her team developed industry-recognized best practices on how the shift to subscription business models has precipitated a new focus on customer centricity and necessitated significant changes in go-to-market strategy and company organization. Allison was named one of the Top Women in SaaS and Top 50 People in Sales and Business Development. She is part of the Fortune Most Powerful Women community, which recognized the ideas she has shared in hundreds of conferences, blog posts, and podcasts, including The Customer Success Podcast that she hosted. She co-authored a book called The Customer Success Economy, published by Wiley in April 2020. Allison has served as an independent Board Director for Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) and two privately held SaaS companies (RainforestQA and eCompliance). She is a Senior Advisor to BCG regarding their clients’ digital transformations and was an Executive-in-Residence at Bessemer Venture Partners, where she has advised dozens of portfolio company CEOs. Currently Allison is Founder & General Partner at The New Normal Fund, which allows her to formalize advisory relationships as a go-to-market partner to B2B SaaS CEOs across company stages. Allison started her career in management consulting for Fortune 500 companies while at BCG and later worked in private equity investing at Bain Capital. She has degrees from Yale University and Stanford University. On weekends you can find Allison hiking in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, discussing topics that range from gut health to climate change.

Allyson joined Insight in 2012. Previously, she was a strategy consultant in the markets and customers practice at Monitor Group, where she advised multi-national companies on growth strategy, product innovation, acquisitions, scenario planning and pricing strategy. She worked in a variety of industries including Pharmaceutical, Insurance, and Chemicals. Allyson graduated with high honors from the Huntsman Program in International Studies and Business at the University of Pennsylvania. She is fluent in Spanish.

supports sourcing, diligence, transactions, and portfolio management. Prior to joining Closed Loop Partners, Aly was an Engagement Manager in McKinsey & Company’s Sustainability and Energy practices. has deep expertise in cross-value chain innovations and cutting–edge technologies supporting circular business models in advanced manufacturing, textiles, building products and consumer goods. 

Amanda has been actively investing in early-stage consumer companies for the last decade, drawing on her experience as an institutional investor and entrepreneur. Previously, Amanda was the co-founder of Videolicious, an enterprise video creation platform backed by Amazon, and served as its President until it was acquired by Squarespace (NYSE:SQSP).

Founding member of Level, a multiracial network of women who take real action for racial equity. Prior to Shine, Amanda held various finance roles at Kickstarter. was a Business Manager/Director at Wired and a Marketing Manager at Conde Nast Traveler.

Prior to Willow, Amanda was a Principal at Amplify, a Los Angeles-based pre-seed venture capital fund, where she invested in a variety of consumer brands and e-commerce enablement software businesses. Amanda joined Amplify from Primary Venture Partners, a New York-based seed-stage venture capital fund focused on e-commerce and SaaS. At Primary, Amanda built one of the most renowned portfolio support platforms in New York of which her portfolio companies leveraged for operational advice, mentorship, board seats and recruiting. Prior to her time in venture capital, Amanda was the VP of Marketing, and on the founding team of Karma. She was one of the first Associates in the Techstars NYC program, and started her career as an Investment Banker at Merrill Lynch where she worked on IPOs within the Technology sector.

Managing Partner of Valor Capital Group He is also a partner in Related Brazil, a residential developer with projects in Brazil

Amber is the Founding General Partner at the Council. Prior to The Council, she was the Head of Operations at Atmos. She was also experienced operator having worked at Cruise, Snap, and Apple.

In her current role, Amee drives Venture Lab’s strategy and growth and oversees its investment work and portfolio engagement services. In her tenure with Accion, Amee has managed Venture Lab’s investment activities globally as well as led Venture Lab’s governance and investments in Africa. Prior to joining Accion, Amee was a consultant at McKinsey & Company, worked on new products and technology at SKS Microfinance in India, and advised a range of fintech and financial inclusion enterprises around the world. She has a B.A. from Davidson College and an MBA from The Wharton School at University of Pennsylvania.

Amin Mirzadegan is a Principal at Founders Fund. Previously, Amin was at General Atlantic where he worked on investments in software companies.

Amish Jani is a Founder and Partner of FirstMark and has been an active venture capitalist for over 20 years. He invests broadly across the cloud and Internet landscape, including SaaS applications, ecommerce, infrastructure and more. Amish has been recognized by CB Insights and the New York Times as a Top 100 Venture Capitalist globally. In 2022, he was recognized by Business Insider in The Seed 100 (best early-stage investors) and named one of the 50 Most Important VCs in New York. Amish has invested in industry-defining companies that include Shopify (NYSE:SHOP), Starry (NYSE:STRY), Frame.io (acquired by Adobe), Pendo, Tracelink, Guru, Bluecore, InVision, IMImobile (LSE: IMO, acquired by Cisco), Schoology (acquired by PowerSchool), Boomi (acquired by Dell), Aveksa (acquired by EMC), and many more. Prior to founding FirstMark, Amish served as a Partner with Pequot Ventures.

Founder and CEO of Taykey until its acquisition by Innovid (NYSE:CTV) Before founding Taykey, Amit served in various engineering and product functions at an elite intelligence unit at the IDF. Prior to that, Amit built one of the world’s first meta-search engines at the age of 14, WittySearch, and completed his computer science degree at The Open University of Israel whilst attending high-school An active angel investor, Amit has invested in multiple technology startups in the US and Israel, including Plaid, ByHeart, Voca.AI, NYM Health, Custodia, Nirvana Health, Tropic and Runwise

on the board of the Fund for Public Health NYC, an independent, nonprofit organization that connects the NYC Health Department with public and private sector partners to build public health programs. ex-corporate strategy and corporate innovation at Mars, Inc. where until recently, he was responsible for developing the business model for a new unit focused on affordable nutrition in the developing world. worked in rural healthcare in India at Piramal E-swasthya, a start-up leveraging telemedicine to provide last-mile access to primary care. began his career at GE Healthcare in corporate finance, where he held a number of roles in finance, risk, and marketing.

Focuses on seed-stage applied AI investments in Digital Health, Automation (cars and robots) and Enterprise. Key successes are nuTonomy (seed, sold for $450M) at Samsung NEXT Ventures and Misfit Wearables (seed, sold for $260M) at Norwest Ventures.  Founded HealthIQ

Founder and Managing Partner at Chainforest. Former investor at NEA.

Has led investments into Codecademy (acquired by Skillsoft), RaiseMe (acquired by CampusLogic), Securly (acquired by Golden Gate Capital), Thinkful (acquired by Chegg), and Whitehat Jr (acquired by BYJU’S). Before joining Owl Ventures, Amit founded Personal Academic Trainers, an afterschool tutoring company, and created the quality assurance program and institutionalized sales training for Mathnasium Learning Centers, an after-school math learning center franchise with 1,000+ locations in North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

Amitt is an entrepreneur and engineer based in the San Francisco Bay area. He was the co-founder and CTO of MyMiniLife (acquired by Zynga) and the co-founder and CEO of Toro (acquired by Google). While at Zynga he co-created the game FarmVille and served as the CTO of Zynga Japan. Prior to his entrepreneurial work, Amitt was an engineer at Epic Games on the Unreal Engine and Gears of War. Amitt holds a bachelors degree in Computer Science from University of Illinois Urbana / Champaign.

Amman is excited by the rapid pace that technology is reshaping our world and want to help and work with the exceptional people that make it happen.

Ammar's entrepreneurial ambitions started early when he re-sold American candy bars in middle school in the Middle East. However his official start in venture began at RLC Ventures in London, where he led pre-seed investments across Europe.

Amy Kruse is a General Partner of Prime Movers Lab where she leads our life sciences investments. As a neuroscientist and biologist, she discovers emerging new companies and leads in-depth due diligence into potential investments across areas including neuroscience, human augmentation, synthetic biology, longevity/regeneration, and agriculture. She also supports portfolio companies in evaluating and overcoming scientific and implementation challenges, with a specific emphasis on deploying complex technology into real-world environments. Amy is formerly the Chief Scientific Officer at Optios, an applied neuroscience company. She built the company’s scientific vision and completed acquisitions that resulted in a robust intellectual property portfolio. Amy also served as the VP and CTO at Cubic Global Defense overseeing innovation and the R&D portfolio across the entire defense enterprise.

Amy spent the first part of her career at Akamai Technologies, helped enable the early web to scale. There she led the diligence and integration of M&A worth more than $1.5 billion. Now she’s fully immersed in AR and VR as an advisor and investor, and she was named one of the Top 30 people to Watch in Augmented Reality by Next Reality. Amy is also the author of the “Sound and AR” chapter in the book Convergence: How the World Will Be Painted With Data by Charlie Fink.

Amy Wu has enjoyed being on both sides of the table as investor and operator, joining Lightspeed in 2019 to lead the reinvestment platform and invest in growth-stage consumer and enterprise businesses. Prior to Lightspeed, Amy was an executive for several years, most recently at Discovery, Inc, a global mediacompany with 17 TV networks in 220 countries, and at NewsCred. In the US, Amy helped raise over $60M for NewsCred, was group CFO of 4 US direct-to-consumer businesses at Discovery and was involved with Zumba, DrillingInfo, and other marketplace and SaaS investments while at Insight. In Europe, Amy was group CFO of Discovery Eurosport, the leading sports broadcaster across Europe, and DPlay, and led the acquisition of Playsports UK. Finally, Amy has lived and invested in Asia, was CFO and SVP of Commercial Operations for Discovery Asia based in Singapore, led the Scripps Networks Asia integration efforts, and was a board observer with JD.com while at Insight.

Amy combines her global experience in Investor Relations and M&A to support fundraising for Funds and early-stage companies. Most recently, she led Investor Relations efforts at a Venture Fund focusing on the capital raising process for the Fund as well as providing strategic advisory to portfolio companies on growth initiatives. Previously, she spent several years in Investment Banking in New York focusing on M&A and capital raising projects in Healthcare and Technology. Amy enjoys building relationships and attracting strategic investors to help exceptional entrepreneurs build impactful businesses. She is an advisor to a mental healthcare start-up and sits on the board of the Canadian Venture Capital and Private Equity Association

Anabel is a serial investor and entrepreneur. Other than co-founding The Council, and another investment firm, 43, she is also the co-founder of The People Design House, a company that partners with early companies to avoid HR debt.

Anamitra is part of two foundational internet companies - Overture, which invented search ads, and Twitter, which transformed communications. At Overture, Twitter - and Yahoo in between - he enjoyed the process of taking interesting technology or ideas, and transforming them into features, products - and in Twitter's case - a business.

In this role in GC, Anand is focused on early stage investing as well as building the India practice.

Anand Daniel is from Chennai and joined Accel in 2010. Anand holds an MBA from MIT, an MS in Electrical Engineering from Purdue, and a BE in Computer Science from the University of Madras.

Previously Visiting Partner at Pear Ventures, an early stage pre-seed and seed firm, where he focused on cryptocurrency and decentralized finance (DeFi) investments.  Currently teaching a course on DeFi. Formerly CEO & Founder of Trusted, a child care marketplace acquired by Care.com in 2018. 

Anant Vidur Puri is a partner in the Bangalore office where he focuses on high potential opportunities in internet marketplaces and India SaaS. Prior to joining Bessemer, Anant was at Boston Consulting Group where he worked with clients in financial and IT services across India and North America. Anant graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from IIT Delhi where he focused on computer and machine vision. He also received an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was also on the Student Senate.

has worked at the intersection of finance and industrial technology throughout her career. Her experiences include investment banking, digital industrial growth equity, and private market asset management. At Adams Street, she focused on investments into VC and PE funds across a broad range of strategies.

Founded Neruda Ventures to invest in Latam companies.

Anders Kaasgaard comes from a position as a partner at the international law firm at DLA Piper, where he has been for more than 10 years. At DLA Piper, Anders has primarily been involved in M&A, capital market transactions, as well as P/E and venture investments. Anders has advised both large multinational companies from Denmark and abroad as well as small start-ups with great ambitions. As a transactional attorney Anders has gained a lot of experience in legal matters which Nordic Eye now benefit from, in his position as operational partner with responsibility for legal, and regulatory matters in Nordic Eye.

Venture Partner at Inovia, Canada’s top multi-stage fund. Born and raised in Canada.

Andre Iguodala, an 18-year veteran of the NBA, has made his mark as one of the league’s premier players. A four-time NBA Champion with the Golden State Warriors and one of the leaders of the Miami Heat team that played in the 2020 NBA Finals, Andre has also found success in the business world with entrepreneurial ventures in technology and e-commerce. Known for his savvy business instincts, Andre has been at the forefront of venture capital and technology. He has invested in more than 50 companies through his firm F9 Strategies, including Zoom, Robinhood, Datadog, HIMS, Cloudflare, PagerDuty and Allbirds. In 2017, Andre partnered with Bloomberg on the creation of The Players Technology Summit. The annual summit convenes top executives and leaders in the technology, venture capital and sports communities to exchange ideas and share expertise in an educational and empowering forum.

Previously served as Managing Partner of Juvo Ventures. Before that, he came from Strada Education Network, where he was a Managing Director of Corporate Development, working as investment lead on several direct minority, control, and fund investments. Prior to rejoining Strada in 2018, Dre served as Senior Operations Director for the Office of the Governor of Indiana, Eric J. Holcomb, where he managed the economic and workforce development and infrastructure portfolios.

Andrea is an experienced investor and founder. Prior to Basecamp fund, she worked in investment roles at Fika Ventures and Expa. She was also the Founder & CEO of Loop Buildings, a company that enables neighbors to connect with one another and leverage their collective buying power to save money on services and products for their homes.

Andrea spent over a decade on Wall Street raising capital for clients at firms including Citibank and Robertson Stephens. As an entrepreneur and early stage investor, Andrea has spent the last five years investing in technology and healthcare companies across environmental intelligence, edtech, digital health, smart hardware and enterprise software. She is also a thought leader, speaker and author on women investors and women entrepreneurs. Andrea co-authored the globally acclaimed research and book, Harness the Power of the Purse: Winning Women Investors (2015, Rare Bird Books).

Andreas believes that successful founders think big, start small.

Andreas Iten is a highly experienced innovation & entrepreneurship strategist, with proven leadership in startups, open-innovation, information technology, and venture capital. Andreas is co-founder of the SIXHackathon (Europe's largest Fintech coding contest) and co-founder of F10, a leading global innovation ecosystem for FinTech & InsurTech, with hubs in Switzerland, Singapore, and Spain. Today he is the global CEO of F10, acts as the investment advisor for SIX FinTech Ventures, and holds several board seats at fast-growing Fintech companies. His specific areas of expertise focus on startup innovation in the finance and insurance sector, building innovation ecosystems, and creating entrepreneurial spillovers with the use of emerging technologies, digital innovation, business transformation methods, and venture capital.

Recovering Technical Founder & Investor at Remote First Capital I am leading the eng team @ On Deck (beondeck.com)\ Previously I led things related to eng, product & remote @ producthunt.com, angel.co and coinlist.co

Andreas Laule is the current CEO of Berliner Volksbank Ventures. He previously worked at GrundkreditBank eG. Andreas attended Harvard Business School.

Founder and CIO at Catalina Advisors, LLC

Andrew founded BrandProject in 2013 with the mission to help founders succeed in building world-class digital consumer brands. At BrandProject, Andrew provides hands-on guidance in key areas including business strategy, leadership and team development, consumer proposition, finance, board matters, and fundraising strategy. Andrew has strong experience as a consumer business builder, people leader, entrepreneur, operator, and investor. In 2004, he followed his passion for starting disruptive new businesses and founded Virgin Mobile Canada with Sir Richard Branson. He and his team grew the Virgin business to over 1 million customers and $500M in revenues within five years, while winning the JD Power Award for customer service every year. Virgin Mobile was acquired by Bell Canada in 2009. Prior to Virgin, Andrew was President at LEGO Americas, US GM at Nike, helping launch Nike’s US Equipment Business, and earlier was VP Marketing-North America at Dr Pepper 7UP.

Helped seed over 200 technology and consumer startups over the last three decades. Prior to founding Great Oaks in 2003, Andy was a Managing Director at Neuberger Berman, co-founded and sold an asset management business and was an executive at Goldman Sachs from 1980 to 1996. Select Investments: Arbor (acquired by LiveRamp), CourseHero, Flatiron Health (Acquired by Roche), Future Advisor (acquired by BlackRock), HealthTap, Ibotta, JOOR, Maven Clinic, Pluto.TV, Stubhub (acquired by Ebay), Trulia (IPO), Zipongo.

He started his career working in a range of marketing, strategy and business development roles at Cadbury Schweppes and at Diageo, and then joined Virgin Mobile to build the Virgin brand in Canada.

Andrew has been a tech investor and entrepreneur for over 20 years with rare experience & success investing in health & sustainability. He was involved with 8 unicorns in world-positive sectors while at Khosla Ventures and Lightspeed Ventures that have created $30B+ of market value. He founded 1955 Capital to invest in revolutionary technologies to solve the greatest global challenges of our time.

Founder / GP of Big Idea Ventures, a Fund Manager focused on Solving the World's Greatest Challenges by Backing the World's Best Entrepreneurs. Global team in US, Asia and Europe focused on investing and supporting entrepreneurs, scientists to dramatically improve the world. Current funds focused across Food. Investor, Speaker, Writer, Business Leader. Specialties: Business Building, Speaking, Entrepreneurialism, Brand, Product Development, Business Model development, innovation, new markets, launching new products, business planning, new business strategies, NPD, Retail

Andrew is a Principal at the Urban Innovation Fund, a venture capital firm investing in entrepreneurs shaping the future of cities. The fund provides seed capital and regulatory support to entrepreneurs solving our toughest urban challenges – helping them grow into tomorrow’s most valued companies. Prior to joining the Urban Innovation Fund, Andrew received his MBA at the Wharton School of Business in 2018 and graduated as the Valedictorian at Seton Hall University with a cumulative GPA of 4.0 in 2012. His previous work experience includes working for Barclays in their Global Capital Markets Division and Castellan Real Estate Partners on their Acquisition Team.

Andrew has experience in venture capital, company building, technology development, and neurosurgery. He has served as founder, investor, director, and chairman of many successful companies. Previously, he was a partner at Flare Capital Partners (formerly known as Foundation Medical Partners) and a principal at Canaan Partners. He was a founder and invented the core technology of Northstar Neuroscience, which went public and was subsequently acquired by St. Jude Medical. He also served as chairman of IntElect Medical, which was acquired by Boston Scientific. Andrew's investments prior to JAZZ include BridgePoint Medical (acquired by Boston Scientific), Explorys (acquired by IBM), Functional Neuromodulation, and Visiogen (acquired by Abbott). Prior to venture capital, Andrew was a board-certified neurosurgeon and served as clinical assistant professor of neurosurgery at Yale School of Medicine and New York University School of Medicine.

Tech Startup Founder with 20 years in technology; investor since 2012. Ex-CTO with 14 patents issued & 28 filed. Started life at the European Space Agency, then co-founded GAIKAI in 2008 raising $45m from Benchmark, NEA and Intel; exiting to Sony for $380m.

Andrew is responsible for international business development at Flint Capital a VC from Boston, MA and act as a board member at JobToday, Cream Finance, Yva and Flo.Health. Andrew previously was a Chief Investment Officer at ABRT Venture Fund. Early stage deals and co-investment partnerships with Mangrove Capital Partners and InsightVenturePartners were in his focus. He was a board member of Travel.ru /OkToGo, Homeme, Zesty.co.uk. Andrew is an entrepreneur who turned to be a VC (Venture Capital) after selling his company GlavSkidka to a larger eCommerce group. His main expertise is in consumer internet services, eCommerce, b2b SaaS and virtualization.

Andrew loves partnering with first-time founders so they can learn from his mistakes. Prior to that he co-founded and ran Agency Within, the largest independent digital marketing agency with a focus on direct-response, data-driven marketing. He managed close to $1BB in spend for clients like Nike, Billie and Zola.

Andrew Hedin is a partner in Bessemer’s Cambridge office. Prior to joining Bessemer in 2015, Andrew worked at F-Prime Capital, Fidelity’s healthcare-focused venture capital fund where he invested in early-stage biotech and digital health technologies, as well as Leerink Partners as an advisor to the biopharma industry. He earned an MBA with honors from The Wharton School, where he majored in health care management and finance, as well as a degree in biological basis of behavior from the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Paul has been actively engaged in private equity and venture capital investing for more than 30 years, primarily in the healthcare industry. In 1984, he joined Welsh Carson Anderson & Stowe (1984-2000) after working for the venture capital group of Hambrecht & Quist as an Associate (1983-1984). During his 16 year tenure at Welsh Carson, he was jointly responsible for healthcare investing and was one of two lead partners for 38 investments in the healthcare industry, serving on the board of directors of 11 companies that successfully completed public offerings. At the time he left the firm in 2000, he had held a position on the Management Committee as a senior executive of the firm, and the firm had grown to an aggregate capital base of approximately $12 billion, which was an 84 times increase in capital over Mr. Paul’s tenure with the firm. Mr. Paul retired from Welsh Carson in September 2000 to focus his time on his other investment interests including Sopris Capital.

Andrew is a founding Partner at Valar Ventures. Andrew’s career in technology has included business and corporate development roles at eCount (acquired by Citicorp) and Yahoo!. He joined PayPal in 2001, where he worked closely with Peter. After PayPal’s sale to eBay, Andrew helped launch Clarium Capital and later founded a restaurant group in San Francisco. In 2008, Andrew rejoined Peter at Thiel Capital, where he led various international initiatives for Thiel Capital and Peter personally.

Founder and General Partner of Brand Foundry Ventures. Former Co-Founder of Aspen Industries.

responsible for evaluating investment opportunities and closing seed and A rounds. expertise is in automotive transportation, procurement, corporate strategy, and implementation of turnaround activities. has 11 years of experience at Daimler AG, working in Stuttgart, Detroit, and Tokyo within the divisions of Mercedes-Benz, Chrysler, and Global Procurement & Supply responsible in various capacities for Corporate Strategy, Controlling and Procurement.

Andrew is a serial entrepreneur who has led multiple companies from inception through exit. He began his career at nineteen when he dropped out of college to start his first business. In the time since, Andrew has co-founded nine venture-backed companies in industries ranging from semiconductors to natural resources to life sciences. Andrew was CEO of GreatPoint Energy, which set the record for the most capital raised in China by a U.S. venture-backed company. Andrew is also Co-Founder of Jetti Resources, a developer of cutting edge technology to help the mining industry extract vast trapped copper resources. Previously, Andrew co-founded two pharmaceutical companies that went public on the NASDAQ. Andrew was profiled by the Wall Street Journal as one of its leading young entrepreneurs “on the move,” chosen by the MIT Technology Review as one of its “35 Innovators Under 35,” and selected by Crain’s Chicago Business as one of its “40 leaders under 40.”

directs the firm’s business development and investor relations efforts. Co-Founder of UniteUs, a social determinants of health platform and he has been an investor and advisor for multiple early-stage dual-use companies providing both commercial and government technology solutions.

As founder launched the world’s first location based social network (Playtxt 2001; patented), online digital news archive (BritishPathe.com, 2002), trust graph/recommendation engine using machine learning (Rummble, 2007; patented). In-between did strategy consulting for VCs and Corporates including Astra Zeneca, AT&T and Alcatel Lucent. Andrew is also co-founder of ICE, a non-profit global network of tech founders and investors, established in 2009.

Andrew grew up in Northern Ireland on either side of the Good Friday Agreement in a family that lived in the thick of it, but cherished travel and embraced diversity of opinion. He first visited the U.S. to attend a summer camp in Vermont, and later moved full-time to attend Harvard University, where he studied behavioral economics. Andrew co-founded an ed-tech platform in 2014 after seeing a gap in the market and ran the company for two and a half years before joining Activant in its first fund. As an early team member, Andrew has been part of scaling Activant alongside its portfolio companies and established the firm’s fintech focus.

Andrew Steinwold is a seasoned venture capitalist and angel investor based in Chicago. He currently serves as a Managing Partner at Sfermion, a role he took on in 2019. Andrew is also a Member at Hampton, which he joined in 2023. Additionally, he has been the Lead at Zima Red since 2019 and an Angel Investor since the same year. With over 6 years in the industry, Andrew brings a wealth of experience in investing and working with startups. Investing in tech that enables a more immersive, interactive, and intelligent internet

Andy Tang has 15 years of operating and early-stage investing experience in the high-technology space. His current portfolio includes: YeePay, CloudMedX, Atomwise, VeChain, Telegram, Ledger, Alto Beam, to name a few. Andy is also the founding member and Managing Director of the Draper Dragon Fund, a cross border China/US early stage investment fund. Andy was awarded the Outstanding Young Engineering Graduate by The University of Texas. He also holds one US patent.

Andrew is a Managing Partner and tenured early stage investor who focuses on B2B Enterprise SaaS, DevOps, Data Infrastructure and AI/ML.

Prior to working with Exceptional Capital, Andrew co-founded Artisanal Ventures and was an investor at Blumberg Capital. He spent time at William Blair as an investment banker and as Director of Business Development at Crunchyroll.

Andrew holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard and a Master’s from Boston College. He played D1 basketball in college and overseas professionally.

In his spare time, he continues to play basketball and loves to travel with his wife Audrey and Penny, their french bulldog.

After graduate school, I came west to work in the Microprocessor Group at Intel during the dawn of the PC industry. The environment was intense as we raced to expand the market, but it was a great proving ground where I developed my management skills. From there I moved to 3Com, just as companies were beginning to build corporate networks. I had the opportunity to recruit a team, help define and launch new products that propelled us to become the clear market leader. As we scaled the business it became the revenue and profit engine for the company.

Andrew has 25+ years of venture capital and private equity investment and operational experience with entrepreneurial growth companies. Prior to VU, he is a former General Partner for 17 years at RRE Ventures, a leading technology venture capital firm with $1.5B across seven funds.

Andrew is Involved in nearly 200 investments and has served on more than 30 boards in the US, Europe and Asia, and has been instrumental in generating industry-leading returns and providing experience and resources to help companies build teams, attack new market opportunities, identify and secure strategic initiatives / partnerships and achieve profitable growth in all phases of development