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a serial entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience building, operating, and scaling leading technology companies. Prior to joining to GreatPoint, Avi was the founder, CEO and chairman of Dispatch Technologies, an enterprise software company powering the world’s largest home service companies. has co-founded over 10 companies in industries such as life sciences and renewable energy, raising billions of dollars of capital and filling roles from co-founder all the way through public company director.

Aviad Ariel joined Vertex in early 2016, with a diverse background in Venture Capital and Management Consulting. Prior to joining Vertex, Aviad spent 4 years at Bessemer Israel, where he invested in and worked closely with the founders of several of Israel’s best startup companies including Traffix (acquired by F5), Ravello Systems (acquired By Oracle), Vayyar Imaging, ScyllaDB, MyHeritage, StratoScale, Soluto (acquired by Asurion), Altair (acquired by Sony), Fiverr (NASDAQ: FVRR) Intucell (acquired by Cisco) and Wix (NASDAQ:WIX). Aviad was also a founding partner of Oryzn Capital where he invested in NanoRep (acquired by LogMeIn), OwnBackup and Dronomy. Prior to Bessemer, Aviad worked at McKinsey & Company and Barclays Capital’s corporate strategy team in NY, and he started his career as a software engineer and a team leader at Marvell Technology.

Avichal Garg’s tour through tech began at Google, and he landed at Facebook in 2012 after the social-media giant bought Spool, his mobile bookmarking startup. At Facebook, he led product management for a 400-engineer team. His investing career involved a brief stint at Y Combinator, after which he struck out on his own to build Electric Capital, a firm that invests across fintech and crypto. He’s now among the beneficiaries of a wave of capital pouring into Web3 — a catchall term for crypto, blockchain, and metaverse companies — with two newly closed funds worth $1 billion.

Founding Partner of Root Ventures, a deep-tech seed fund run by engineers, for engineers.

From 1993 to 2012, Axel was a partner with Atlas Venture, managing over $2.6 billion of investment capital through seven funds. Besides venture capital Axel has been active in the CAD industry, as co-founder of Premise and Onshape, founding investor at SolidWorks and early investor at GrabCAD and Simscale.

Senior Partner, Board & CEO Inclusion and Marketing Transformation at Korn Ferry.

Ayla is responsible for supporting investor relations, marketing and communications. Prior to XRC she worked in strategy consulting at Kurt Salmon, developing growth and digital strategies for Fortune 500 retail and consumer clients. Ayla started her career in the buy-side at a Fund of Funds, and holds a degree in Applied Math and Economics from Brown University.

Aymeric discovered the nanotechnology world while conducting research between the Physics and Chemistry departments of EPFL in the 90’s. He was convinced that significant breakthroughs would arise at the nanoscale and extensive expertise would be required to differentiate science from science fiction. This was the foundation of +ND Capital. Following the raise of the first ND partnership, Aymeric realized that despite great science in Europe, the US was offering better investment opportunities. As a consequence, he has been commuting between Switzerland and Boston/ Silicon Valley since 2007. Prior to this, Aymeric was a strategy consultant with Bain & Company.

Aymerik joined HCVC in 2015 from Western Digital Capital where he was leading venture investments. He started his career at Innovacom where he became a partner and has over 25 years of experience investing in breakthrough technologies. He is based in Silicon Valley and his active investments include Span, Anello Photonics, Augmenta and Bellwether Coffee.

dedicated to providing women the knowledge to be financially sovereign. Experienced COO working for the Radsan Van Alebeek family office for 20+ years.

Also the corporate development manager for Africa Health Holdings Ltd. Worked with the Chief Economic Adviser of the Ogun State Government.

Crypto investor and board member.

Founder and Managing Partner of Trailyn VC.

Barbara Iyayi is an experienced growth equity investor and entrepreneur with over 16 years’ experience in financial services. She is the Chair of the Board of Appzone, a FinTech SAAS platform that automates banking services and enables the delivery of digital financial services in Africa.

Investor in marketplaces, Saas, gaming, crypto and robotics.

It became clear to me that when you find people with potential to do great things, and you help them do those things at scale, you make an entire ecosystem better. Find the people with that fire in their belly, that inextinguishable flame, the ones you fundamentally believe will make net positive change. Remove the barriers getting in their way. Amplify their strengths. Get out of the way when you need to. Make systematic impact. These are the people we’ve built Human Capital around. I fundamentally believe that the future belongs to those who can build it, and I love that I get to spend my days with engineers and founders are actually building it.

Barr Yaron is a Principal at Amplify Partners.

Barry focuses primarily on information technology infrastructure, with a specific interest in cloud computing, big data, storage, consumerization of IT, and networking. He has 15 years of venture capital experience, 10 years of operating experience and has been named to the Forbes Midas List of top 100investors multiple times. Barry works closely with Avi Networks, MapR Technologies, Nimble Storage, Pertino, and youwho. Prior to joining Lightspeed, Barry held executive roles in business development and general management at Cisco Systems from 1991-1997. While at Cisco, Barry established many of the company’s largest distribution channels across OEMs, Service Providers, Distributors, and VARs. He also developed Cisco’s initial M&A process and directed the first wave of acquisitions and integrations for the company.

Barry Givens is the Managing Partner of Collab Capital and Managing Director for the Techstars Social Impact Program. Barry graduated from Georgia Tech in 2008 with a BS in Mechanical Engineering. He was previously a design and manufacturing engineer with John Deere and held roles in project management and sales at Caterpillar. Barry also co-authored a motivational book with three friends titled “Plan B Sucks: Work on your dreams, not your boss’s”.

accomplished mentor and investor with over 10 years of experience working with startups on business strategy and transactions, angel and venture investments, mergers and acquisitions, and legal and IP issues.  ex-Corporate Development Manager for Mayo Clinic, where he focused on advancing the company’s venture investing initiatives.

Bart Stephens is a Founder and Managing Partner of Blockchain Capital, the General Partner of Crypto Currency Partners funds. Bart Stephens has also been a Managing Partner of Stephens Investment Management, LLC (SIM). Stephens Investment Management is a family owned and operated hedge fund and venture capital firm. Bart and his brother and Co-Founder Brad invented the term and pioneered “Nanocap” investing – venture capital style investing in the public markets focused on sub micro-cap equities.

an early investor in decacorn Miro, in market leaders Harver (sold to Rubicon PE), Chocofamily (Central Asia), Zakaz (sold to Glovo), Travelata, Piano (USA) etc. 7 exits

nationally recognized as an unmanned air systems (UAS) and AAM leader, consultant, and engineer with over 15 years of experience in aviation. He served as UAS Program Manager for NCDOT where he helped build an award winning program which enabled the first routine medical package delivery operations in the nation. VP of Hovecon Consulting, which provides subject matter expertise and program development for emerging aviation technologies. appointee to NASA’s Aeronautics Research and Technology Roundtable, the mission is to define and explore critical issues related to the nation’s aeronautics research agenda including UAS, eVTOL technology and Urban Air Mobility. 

Prior to co-founding NVP, Batchimeg led a successful career in marketing by managing global advertising campaigns and sponsorships on behalf of top brands including Airbnb, Allstate, Boeing, KraftHeinz, and Twitter.

Bedy oversees 500 Global’s ecosystem development programs including investor education courses (in partnership with top institutions such as Stanford, Berkeley and INSEAD), has helped launch strategic partnerships and accelerator programs across the globe, and leads 500 Global’s corporate startup innovation and consultancy. Bedy joined 500 Global in 2011 to pilot international investments before expanding her role to Managing Partner and ecosystems development. Previously, she founded +INNOVATORS, an organization that has become the epicenter and resource for Brazilian tech founders with a network of over 10,000 people. Prior to starting her career in tech, she worked with income generation for women in tribes in Brazil and Southwest China and consulted for global companies on go-to-market strategies for Brazil.

Spearheads Flexport's global sales and go to market teams. In leadership roles before Flexport, Ben helped drive two high-growth companies to successful acquisitions: URX (acquired by Pinterest) and Heyzap (acquired by Fyber).

has been with Peterson Ventures since inception, raising over $300 million in capital and overseeing investments in over 100 deals in his 10+ years of experience including leading the firm's investments into 6 unicorns in the last 10 years Prior to joining Peterson Ventures, Ben was the first employee hired at an enterprise tech startup based in Northern Virginia and spent several years at Charles River Associates

Co-author (with Reid Hoffman) of two New York Times bestselling books: The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age, about how to recruit and retain entrepreneurial employees, and The Start-Up of You: Adapt to the Future, Invest in Yourself, and Transform Your Career, a career strategy guide translated into over 15 languages Prior to co-founding Village Global in 2017, Ben spent two years working on special projects at LinkedIn and Greylock Partners

Ben was a co-founder of Coverity, a software quality and security company birthed from his research as a PhD student at Stanford. Coverity attracted investment from the likes of Benchmark Capital and Foundation Capital, employed hundreds of people, and, in 2014, was acquired by Synopsys. Ben served as both COO and CTO, defining product strategy and working closely with customers and the press and analyst communities. He's been named to ComputerWorld's Top 40 under 40 Innovative IT Professionals and is in the Stanford Inventor Hall of Fame. Ben has lived every part of the entrepreneurial cycle and is passionate about sharing his knowledge and experience. As part of this work, Ben also heads up the Venture Lab at the nonprofit Praxis, helping serial entrepreneurs research and develop new organizations from the moment of inspiration to incorporation.

Joined Accel in 2016 and focuses on software, internet services, and mobile technology companies. Since joining, Ben has helped source and lead Accel's investments in Ada, BetterCloud, BrowserStack, Checkr, Galileo, Guru, Jellyfish, MessageBird, Opal, Podium, Webflow, World View, and UnitQ. Prior to Accel, Ben worked on Google's corporate development team, where he helped manage mergers, acquisitions, and investments. At Google, Ben led numerous transactions in a number of different verticals including, communications, collaboration software, vertical software, robotics, and developer tools. Prior to Google, Ben worked in finance and partnerships at Apple.

Ben is a co-founder and managing director of Pioneer Square Labs and PSL Ventures. He is also the co-host of the popular podcast, "Acquired," which tells the stories and strategies of great companies, and has been ranked the #1 Technology show on Apple Podcasts. Ben is a Board Director on PSL Portfolio companies Glow and Iteratively and also sits on the Board of the Pacific Northwest Anti Defamation League. He has a background in product management from Microsoft where he shipped the first version of Office for iPad and ran The Garage, the company’s grassroots innovation program. Ben was named the 2017 Young Entrepreneur of the Year by GeekWire and 40 Under 40 by Puget Sound Business Journal. He has a long history and passion for entrepreneurship beginning as a global facilitator of Startup Weekend during college. His first entrepreneurial venture was creating SeizeTheDay in 2008, an iPhone app which was used by over a million people. Ben is an Eagle Scout and holds a BS in Computer Science and Engineering from The Ohio State University.

Prior to a16z, Ben was cofounder and CEO of Opsware (formerly Loudcloud), which was acquired by Hewlett-Packard for $1.6 billion in 2007, and was appointed vice president and general manager of Business Technology Optimization for Software at HP. Earlier, he was vice president and general manager of America Online’s E-commerce Platform division, where he oversaw development of the company’s flagship Shop@AOL service. Previously, Ben ran several product divisions at Netscape Communications. He also served as vice president of Netscape’s widely acclaimed Directory and Security product line. Before joining Netscape in July 1995, he held various senior product marketing positions at Lotus Development Corporation. Ben serves on the board of Anyscale, Caffeine, Databricks, Mayvenn, Medium, NationBuilder, Okta ($OKTA), Sisu, Tanium, TripActions, and UnitedMasters.

Ben joined Pelion’s investing team in 2015, and has been an integral part of both their culture and investing success. He has sourced, led, or co-led 16 investments since becoming an intern in the spring of 2014, including Owlet, Deserve, Omadi, and Neighbor. He currently sits on 6 portfolio company boards, including Neurala, Divvy, andFastData.io. Ben spends his time and efforts investing in Fintech, Marketplaces, Frontier Tech, and AI/ML, choosing to invest in special entrepreneurs that have disruptive businesses in large and underserved markets. Before Pelion, Ben worked for Jefferies Financial Group, Inc. (J.F.G.) in their strategy and operations group where he invested in and managed 4 operating companies (with over $10B in annual revenue), including their largest investment of $868M in to National Beef Packing (N.B.P.) in 2011. Since the investment, N.B.P. has returned over $1.6B.

Ben has spent the last 15 years working with early stage consumer brands, with experience as an investor and operator across a broad range of industries, from food and beverage to personal care, home goods, direct marketing, and e-commerce. He previously led CircleUp’s investing marketplace, which connected high-growth consumer companies with accredited investors.  Prior to CircleUp, Ben was an investor at JH Partners, a consumer-focused private equity firm. Ben received a BS in Physics from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.

Ben Lerer is a Managing Partner at Lerer Hippeau and the CEO of Group Nine Media, a digital media holding company consisting of Thrillist, NowThis, The Dodo, Seeker, and PopSugar. He is the co-founder and former CEO of Thrillist. He chairs the Board of Directors for Urban Upbound and is an Associate Member of the International Academy of DigitalArts & Sciences (IADAS). Ben sits on the Board of Directors for Casper and the Board of RaisedByUs. Ben previously worked at Group Nine Media as a Chief Executive Officer. He attended the University of Pennsylvania.

Prior to UP.Partners, Ben co-founded AirMap, the world’s leading airspace management platform. AirMap leads the industry in delivering technology solutions globally for Unmanned Aircraft Traffic Management (UTM) to enable advanced aerial mobility operations at scale. AirMap was acquired in November 2021. Additionally, with his UP.Partners co-founder and decades-long best friend Cyrus Sigari, the two co-founded jetAVIVA, the world’s leading broker of business jets. Ben is an FAA-certified Airline Transport Pilot and Flight Instructor with more than 4,500 hours of flight experience in more than 100 types of airplanes, seaplanes, gliders, and helicopters. Ben also serves on the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Aeronautics Research and Technology Roundtable.

Ben Mathias is a Managing Partner at Vertex Ventures SEA and India, based in Bangalore. Since joining Vertex in 2015, he has made several investments in the areas of Consumer Internet, Fintech and Enterprise Technology. Ben has currently or previously sat on the boards of FirstCry, XPressBees, CloudCherry, Hotelogix, Flutura, Synup, Active AI, Licious, GlowRoad, IVF Access and Kapiva. He also has overall responsibility for the firm’s investments in India. Prior to Vertex, Ben was a partner at New Enterprise Associates (NEA) where he launched their India presence and opened their Bangalore office. While at NEA, he led several investments in the Technology and Healthcare sectors.

I focus on fintech, mobile, marketplaces/e-commerce and new ideas that create investment focuses that don't exist yet. I also do freelance writing about wine, food, travel and entrepreneurship for print and write about venture and entrepreneurship online. 

Ben brings to Elementum a unique perspective and skill set forged in an array of experiences: making music for Universal Records, running IT and data infrastructure at Stanford University and the Stanford Cancer Institute, co-founding a company in media technology and operating a 38-employee SaaS startup. Today, some of the best minds in business rely on Ben’s perspective: he advises both the 1517 Fund and 10k Investments, the venture arm of the Coors family. Most recently, Ben was a Venture Partner with UP2398, a single-LP seed fund backed by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.

GP at GV, investing across healthcare delivery and neuropsychiatric therapeutics. As a psychiatrist by background, Ben also leads GV’s investments in mental health-related companies, including Headway and Brightline. His investments include Aspire (acquired by Anthem), Rodin (acquired by Alkermes), Carebridge, Patina, Waltz Health, Nym, and Cerevance.

 responsible for all of Clocktower Group’s private market activities.  previously Director, Investment Associate Program for Bridgewater Associates, where he worked with the firm’s CIOs on strategic priorities, talent development, and research. co-founded Artivest fka Resonance Funds, an online issuer of actively-managed exchange-traded vehicles

Former Partner at SPO Partners; and former Analyst at Eton Park International LLP, The Blackstone Group, and Yale Investments Office.

An art collector and global consumer investor, he brings 20+ years of experience evaluating consumer-focused businesses across public and private markets, launching and growing investment funds and investing in brands globally. Prior to Elizabeth Street, he launched and was a Managing Partner at Vault Partners and co-founder at Javelin Partners began his career as a short seller at Rice Voelker, covering retail and consumer stocks. worked as a consumer analyst at Gilder Gagnon Howe

Ben's founder-first approach originates from having been one: He cofounded Community Connect in New York in the late '90s. The Forbes Midas List ranks him as one of the top 100 tech investors in the world.

Ben Yu is Managing Partner at Sierra Ventures and has been with the firm since 2000. Ben is an engineer and inventor by background. He is passionate about emerging sectors and breakthrough ideas. His investment philosophy is finding early-stage companies with great technologies that can truly make a difference and helping entrepreneurs turn ideas into market leaders. His current portfolio and selected past companies can be found below and on his LinkedIn profile. When he’s not working you can usually find him on the golf course.

Benedikt is one of the founding partners of Vsquared Ventures. He has more than 15 years of experience in the finance sector having worked in M&A with GCA Altium and at HgCapital, Europe‘s largest Software and Tech Investor before running Vsquared‘s predecessor fund Vito Ventures.

Ben is the Co-Founder of BootstrapLabs, a leading venture capital firm, based in Silicon Valley and focused on Applied Artificial Intelligence. Ben has been investing in Applied AI software technology startups for nearly a decade and is actively managing a venture portfolio whose companies’ aggregate enterprise value grew by nearly $2Bn (almost 10 x) in the last 5 years.

Has backed 19 unicorns ex-Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he focused on consumer, Internet, mobile, marketplace, SaaS and consumer health businesses

PhD Cell Biologist at UCSF.

Originally, he was a computer scientist and landed in the VC world via a diversion in the corporate finance sector. was a VC at Ringier Digital Ventures

Prior to co-founding A-Star, Bennett was a partner at Coatue and a private equity investor at Altamont Capital Partners.

Current CTO at Allbirds. Formerly founder & CEO of GoodApril (acquired by Intuit); Director of Technology and Product at TurboTax, and before that Software Engineer at ETrade. BS in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan, MBA from University of Chicago, and an MS in CS from Georgia Tech.

Cofounder and General Partner at Spark Capital. Spark currently manages over $4B across venture and venture growth funds. Led our investment in Twitter (NYSE: TWTR) in early 2008 and served on their board from 2008-2011. Also led the seed investment in Tumblr (acquired by Yahoo!) and served on their board of directors for the entire duration of the company. Other investments include: Stack Overflow (acquired by Prosus N.V.), Overtime, Crowdrise (acquired by GoFundMe), Trello (acquired by Atlassian), Sincerely (acquired by Liberty Interactive Corporation), RunKeeper (acquires by ASICS), Foursquare, Boxee (acquired by Samsung), OMGPOP (acquired by Zynga) and thePlatform (acquired by Comcast).

Bill is responsible for all Foundry activities related to venture creation and technology commercialization via startups. His previous roles at the Foundry include Entrepreneur in Residence, Program Manager, and Managing Director. Before joining the Foundry, Arnold served in multiple executive management roles, primarily in the financial services vertical. His most recent role was Chief Executive Officer at Member Support Services LLC, a startup in Cranbury NJ. His first startup was formed in 1995 and had a successful exit in 1997. 

also the Founder and Chairman of Rock Health Advisory which delivers a digital health focused membership program and strategy consulting services to Fortune 500 and enterprise-scale companies.   Prior to Rock Health, Bill was at Roche Diagnostics where he was a Senior Director responsible for launching Roche’s newly-formed oncology decision support business unit, Navify. held various leadership roles at Genentech, a biotechnology company.

Senator Bill Frist is a leading authority on healthcare and former U.S. Senate Majority Leader. As Co-founder and Partner at FCV, he resides on the fund’s Investment Committee and is responsible for acquisition, divestitures and providing unique value to the fund’s partnerships. Senator Frist served two terms as a United States Senator representing Tennessee, serving as Majority Leader from 2003 until his retirement in 2007. His leadership was instrumental in the passage of the 2003 Medicare Modernization Act and the historic PEPFAR legislation that provided life-saving treatment globally to over 20 million people. Prior to the Senate, he founded the Vanderbilt Multi-Organ Transplant Center and has performed more than 150 heart and lung transplant procedures.

Co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Founder of Breakthrough Energy. Co-founder of Microsoft.

During Bill’s more than twenty-year tenure investing in young and emerging healthcare technology companies, he has served on the Boards of numerous industry-leading companies and played a critical role, actively helping and working closely with founders and management. His current firm’s healthcare investments include Aetion, BeMe Health, Bright Health (NYSE: BHG), ClearDATA, Curisium (HealthVerity), HealthReveal (Accolade), Suki, Tausight, Valence Health (Evolent Health), and VisitPay (R1). Prior to Flare Capital, Bill was at North Bridge Venture Partners since its inception in 1994. Previously, Bill was a Partner at Hambro International Equity Partners. Prior to that, he was Chief Financial Officer at MathSoft, a science and engineering applications software start-up that went public on the NASDAQ and was later acquired by a leading design and product lifecycle software solutions company, and was a CPA at Arthur Andersen & Company.

Bill is a general Partner at Benchmark for over 20 years. Prior to Benchmark, partner with Hummer Winblad Venture Partners. Prior to that, Bill spent four years on Wall Street as a top-ranked research analyst, including three years at CS First Boston focusing on personal computer hardware and software. Research coverage included such companies as Dell, Compaq, and Microsoft, and he was the lead analyst on the Amazon IPO. In both 1995 and 1996, was a member of the Institutional Investor All-American Research Team. Prior to his investment career, was a design engineer at Compaq Computer, where he worked on products such as the 486/50 and Compaq’s first multi-processor server. For the past fifteen years, has authored the Above the Crowd blog which focuses on the evolution and economics of high technology businesses.

In his 30-year software career, Bill has gained extensive experience in executive, product, and marketing leadership roles with both start-ups and large technology companies. Before joining TechOperators, Bill was the founder and CEO of CollectorDASH, maker of a social engagement and eCommerce platform for enthusiast consumers and the brands that serve them. Bill was also CEO of Orderly, a food cost management solution for independent restaurants, where he grew the business by 150% over two years before its sale to Buyers Edge. As Air2Web's President and CMO, he led the company through a series of successful operational improvements, preparing it for its eventual sale.

Bill founded FirstMile Ventures in 2010. After building and investing in companies, primarily along the coasts, he began to notice more and more investment opportunities in his backyard in Colorado that were struggling to find capital.

Prior to his investing career, he was the CTO and co-founder of StorageNetworks, a Boston-based pioneer of the Infrastructure as a Service model before "the cloud" existed. He also co-founded solid state disk company CERAM and co-founded nonvolatile Ferroelectric RAM start-up Krysalis which was acquired by National Semiconductor. He also had a successful run as a storage systems sales executive.

As the Chairman and CEO of X-IO technologies, Bill has led a transformation of the company that has leveraged the company's unique intellectual property in storage technology to build the Axellio edge computing node that will handle high performance workloads where cloud resources are not responsive enough.

Prior to founding FirstMile, Bill was an active angel investor.

Bill grew up outside of Chicago and studied chemistry at the University of Illinois. He began his career as a semiconductor process engineer at Philips Signetics. He holds 12 U.S. patents covering inventions in integrated circuit fabrication, integrated circuit memory design, and data storage systems design.

Bill Pescatello is the General Partner at Lightbank. Bill previously worked at Evolv Ventures as a Founder and Managing Partner. He attended The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and Northwestern University.

26 years ago, Bill founded Presence Marketing, which has become the largest and most successful independent natural foods broker in the US. Over the course of the last 15 years, Bill has rolled up the strongest regional brokers in the country and today there is no competitor that comes close to the performance of his team. Due to his well-established reputation, Bill is the first call many natural foods companies make when looking for broker representation. As such, Bill’s relationships and industry expertise provide the fund a robust stream of deal flow, as well as innovation insights and industry help to our portfolio companies.

Bill Woodward is a serial entrepreneur, technology executive, and prolific venture capitalist with over 35 years of investing and operating experience. Bill is well known in the Southern California technology community for his deep involvement and influence with many successful technology ventures. Bill began his career in technology as the sole founder of Paracomp, a San Francisco based software publisher that was known for developing early desktop multimedia software applications, which he created in 1986.

Experienced operator & trader having built electronic trading businesses and exchanges. Also been an active investor in Fintech throughout his career.

Bing Chen is an impact founder, investor, and new world builder.
He is the Executive Chairman and Founder of AU Holdings: a family of companies that make dreams come true by incubating and investing in creators, companies, and communities that rebalance socioeconomic equity. He is also General Partner and Co-founder of Aum Group, a premier multicultural film fund;

Previously, he was YouTube's Global Head of Creator Development and Management, where he was one of the original and principal architects of the multi-billion dollar influencer ecosystem. He began his YouTube tenure as the company’s first Creator Marketing Manager where he established and standardized the industry’s use of “creator” and remains a trusted confidant to hundreds of creative artists around the world.

He is a Hollywood Reporter Next Gen Leader; a Hollywood Reporter Most Influential Agent of Change; American Advertising Federation Hall of Achievement and Jack Averett honoree; Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree; ABC News History Maker; ADCOLOR Catalyst Honoree; Asia Society Asia 21 Young Leader; Magic Johnson's 32 Under 32 Leader; Asian Chamber of Commerce Entrepreneur of the Year;

Prior to Ascend Vietnam Ventures, he was a General Partner for 500 Startups Vietnam  co-founded Klout, the Kleiner Perkins-backed social analytics company in San Francisco.

Blair Flicker joined Insight in 2001 and is a Managing Director and Insight’s General Counsel. He manages all legal activities of Insight, including those relating to structuring and execution of investments and divestitures in the US and overseas, fund formation, portfolio company management, intellectual property, real estate, and employment matters. Prior to joining Insight, Blair worked at Johnson & Johnson in New Brunswick, NJ for nine years, and before that was an associate at the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Blair received a BA in Economics from Tufts University, a JD from Columbia Law School, and an MBA from Columbia Business School.  

Blair has more than 20 years of experience innovating and scaling mass-market products Through his leadership, TELUS secured industry-first partnerships with Netflix and Amazon, enabling customers to experience new and emerging digital technology platforms. launched STORYHIVE, a funding and career acceleration platform designed to support and mentor local and emerging creators.

a 2018 World Champion with the French football team touching the end of his football career at Inter Miami and sees tech investments as his next big thing, together with the right team.

Blake Modersitzki joined Pelion Venture Partners in 2002 after 13 years as an executive with Novell and WordPerfect Corporation. Blake has deep industry operating experience as well as a long, successful investment track record. Blake’s current investments and board affiliations are M-Factor, Fusion-io, Soasta and Infopia. Blake previously served on the boards of Riverbed Technology (IPO), Red Hat Software (IPO), Confluent Software (acquired by Oblix/Oracle), Bowstreet (acquired by IBM), Business Layers (acquired by Netegrity), Caldera Systems (IPO), Digital Cement (acquired by Pitney Bowes), enCommerce (acquired by Entrust), GlobalCast (acquired by Talarian), Indus River Networks (acquired by Enterasys), NetPro (acquired by Quest Software), Netfish Technologies (acquired by IONA), NetObjects (IPO), Orbital Software (IPO), TurboLinux (IPO), and WR Hambrecht & Co.

Bo Feng is the Managing Partner at Dragonfly Capital Partners.

Bob Goodman is a partner in the New York office where he has been a leading investor in companies for over 20 years. In that time he has helped over 15 companies reach successful M&A and IPO exits. Before becoming an investor, he founded two successful telecommunications companies. While building his second company, Celcore, Bob raised his Series A from Bessemer in 1994. After Celcore was acquired by Alcatel through the acquisition of DSC in 1997, Bob decided to join the firm as the first partner in New York City. Prior to Celcore Bob founded Boatphone, a group of cellular operating companies in the Caribbean. Having served as CEO of both companies, Bob offers a dynamic combination of entrepreneurial, operating, and investment expertise to his portfolio companies. He holds a B.A. from Brown University and an M.B.A. from Columbia University.

Bob has been a venture capitalist since the late 1980's. He has invested in all stages of venture capital across several industry sectors. His investments include BounceX, Covr, Dstillery, Fevo, Pathgather, Punchbowl, Radius Networks, Scripta, Simpli.fi, Slice, Source3, SwapDrive, Syndio and Voxy.

Robert Kagle came to Benchmark after 12 years at Technology Venture Investors, where he led the firm's investments in Viasoft, Synopsys, and Avant.

Bob is a co-founder of Blu Venture Investors, the CEO, board member, and an investor of Link Labs, Inc., and a board member and first investor of Reify Health Inc. Prior, he served as global head of Marketing reporting to the chairman and CEO of the Corporate Executive Board. He has over 10 years of experience as a senior executive in public companies, including line, staff, and IPO leadership positions. He has led teams that won corporate-wide awards for Best Business Breakthrough, Managerial Excellence, and Spirit of Generosity.

Bob Saunders is a General Partner on the Digital Health investing team. Bob sits on the boards of various portfolio companies, including Verisim Life, eBlu Solutions, Progentec, mPulse Mobile, PursueCare, Biotia, iPill, and Moving Analytics. He is also Co-Founder and Chairman of XLerateHealth, a healthcare accelerator in Louisville, KY. Prior to joining OCA Ventures, Bob was a Senior Managing Director and General Partner at Chrysalis Ventures in Louisville from 1997 to 2009 and served as a Senior Advisor to Chrysalis from 2009-2010. He was also co-founder of Saunders Murdock and Associates, a life science “super-angel” investor, and a Senior Managing Director at Providian Capital Management from 1993-1997. He began his career in business strategy consulting and worked with both The Boston Consulting Group and Bain & Co.

Bobby Cho is the global head of trading at Cumberland, an arm of DRW, and one of the largest liquidity providers in cryptoassets across the globe.

angel investor in Coinbase, Envoy, Linear, and over 40 startups started his career at Facebook as their first designer on User Growth in 2008. Later he was lead designer for Facebook Photos, one of the most used products on the internet.

Co-founder of McDonald-Pelz

He has over 40 years experience marketing and commercializing conventional and organic grains, oilseeds, and renewable energy.

Bobby founded Trailhead Capital in 2017 as the venture arm of his family office in order to invest in higher growth and sustainable segments of the Food & Ag economy.

He has a BA in environmental sciences from Hamilton College, while subsequently attending Cornell University graduate school program