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Has helped found numerous companies, including Nithio and Fraym, where he serves as Chairman. Currently serves as Chairman of the Development Bank of Rwanda (BRD). Previously, he was Vice President of at the African Development Bank (AfDB), where he managed one of the largest portfolios in Africa, including more than $25 billion in active projects across 52 African countries. He served as the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for African Affairs in the White House from 2006 to 2009. He was the President's lead advisor on Africa issues as well as the President’s Africa Personal Representative (APR) to the G8.

Bocar sits at the intersection of investing and working 1:1 with portfolio founders through the early stages of building, including go-to-market, founder-led sales, and fundraising. As part of the founding team of the Enterprise product at Hootsuite, Bocar helped the business grow to over $150M+ and 2,000+ employees in under seven years.

Bogdan has been working in venture capital since 2013, with Springboard, 3TS Capital Partners, MVP Academy and Gecad Ventures. He is the founder of How to Web, one of Europe's top 10 startup conferences, and the founder of Conectoo (exited).

As one of the youngest-c-suite executives at a Fortune 50 Company, Bonin has worked for billion-dollar CPG brands including Mondelez and PepsiCo before starting Bonin Ventures a growth accelerator that helps businesses of all shapes and sizes achieve revenue growth faster than they ever believed possible. Bonin has been responsible for some of the most successful organization transformations, and the rapid growth of some of the world's most-loved billion-dollar brands including Oreo, Cadbury's, Pepsi, Gatorade and Frito-Lay. Most recently, as the Chief Growth Officer of SheaMoisture, he helped grow the business by close to 50% in 12 months leading to the company being acquired by Unilever for close to $1 billion dollars. He has been inducted into the Advertising Hall of Achievement. He can also be found in lists such as Fortune’s “40 under 40”, Fast Company’s 100 Most Creative People in Business, Ebony’s Power 100 and The Internationalist’s Internationalists of the Year.

Bonnie Watson joined the team in Telluride in December of 2018. She currently serves as the Capital and Transaction Advisor for the Southwest region of Colorado. Watson works directly with startup companies and small businesses in the region to create and coordinate new, as well as existing, sources of capital to help fund various business ventures.

Previously, Watson worked in the traditional financing industry as a portfolio lender and taught finance at Colorado Mesa University. Having lived on the Western Slope for the past 10 years and with her strong finance background, she and her husband have dedicated their lives to helping small businesses flourish. They are also co-owners of Factory (a co-working space) in Grand Junction, Colorado.

Focused on Marketplaces and B2B SaaS companies. Boris notably sits on the Boards of Cleeng, Everli, Refurbed and Trouva. He also monitors investments in Branded, Centrical, Duda, Lyst, Mixtiles, Riskfied and Via among others. Previously, Boris was Assistant Producer at Ubisoft, where he contributed to the successful launch of a AAA game, selling over 2.5 million copies worldwide. Before that, Boris was Assistant to the Vice President and General Manager of Apple Europe, Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA).

Brad Bolzon, Ph.D. is the leader of the firm, architect of its strategy, and oversees operations across North America and Europe. Brad combines 13 years of global pharmaceutical industry leadership experience and 18 years as a venture capitalist. His track record consists of a multitude of successful investments including Amira, Okairos, Speedel, Quanticel, Novira, Flexion, Crispr, BioTie, Jecure, BlueRock, Black Diamond, Northern Biologics, Monte Rosa and the firm’s Discovery Engines that have collectively generated close to $1.7 billion in returns for Versant stakeholders. Over his tenure, he has translated that experience into building and developing the current Versant investment team.

He started working in information technology with AT&T in 1979.

Brad is the Founder and CEO of Altimeter Capital. Brad has worked in the technology industry for over 25 years as a lawyer, investor, and four-time founder. He has made over 100 VC investments including early investments in Zillow, Snowflake, Mongo, Bytedance and DBT Labs. He has also participated in dozens of IPOs as a sponsor, anchor and investor. He is an active philanthropist and public speaker.

Looks for pre-product market fit companies making the world suck less with founders who are customer domain experts with a formidable strategic understanding of, and an ambitious non-obvious take on, a fast-growing market.

Prior to starting Fifth Wall, Brad co-founded Invitation Homes (NYSE: INVH), a multi-billion dollar owner and operator of single-family rental properties originally backed by The Blackstone Group. As CTO, he positioned Invitation Homes as the dominant technology-forward brand in the single-family rental category. Brad started his career in investment banking at UBS in the real estate, lodging, and leisure group, where he tallied over $33 billion of M&A advisory work and $1 billion of debt and equity financing, including the sale of Hilton Hotels to The Blackstone Group for $26 billion—the largest hotel privatization in history. He then worked in real estate private equity at Tishman Speyer and Starwood Capital, where he executed over $30 billion of acquisitions, debt financing, and development projects.

Brad is an entrepreneur and seasoned business development executive with a passion for building companies and pushing the envelope of technological innovation. He has successfully helped incubate several companies out of the Scout office including Scout’s most successful investment to date, Unite US, as well as PortfolioWatch (exited) and Assurely. Brad also has deep experience developing concepts including co-authoring three patents in search, geo-tagging, and personalization. Brad was a distinguished honor graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and served as an Airborne Ranger in the United States Army for five years before retiring as Captain. He also graduated from MIT Sloan School of Management where he studied New Product and Venture Development. While attending MIT, Brad was fortunate enough to work with Endeca Technologies and PureTech Ventures to help launch a joint MIT-Harvard incubator.

Brad Lightcap is the COO of OpenAI and manager of the OpenAI Startup Fund

Corporate VC at UnitedHealth Group Healthcare investment banker

Partner and CFO at Merus Capital

Brad has been a venture investor since the waning moments of the Internet bubble in 2000, and ranked as #17 on Insider's Seed 100 list of the best early stage investors.

Bradley Tusk is a venture capitalist who protects startups from political risk. He is the CEO and founder of Tusk Ventures, the first venture capital fund dedicated to working with and investing in startups in regulated industries. His fund, Tusk Ventures, has now worked with and invested in dozens of startups like Bird, FanDuel, Lemonade, Circleand Ripple. Bradley previously served as Mayor Bloomberg’s campaign manager in New York City, Deputy Governor of Illinois, and Senator Chuck Schumer’s communications director.

Branden Rosenhan is the founder and Managing Partner of MedMountain Ventures and board-certified critical care physician leader with over a dozen years of clinical experience in internal medicine, pediatrics, emergency medicine, pulmonary and critical care medicine. He is an entrepreneur, bioengineer, and inventor with more than a dozen applications and issued patents listing him as an inventor. After his pulmonary/critical care fellowship at University of Utah, Branden worked a year at Intermountain, and then for more than five years as an ICU facility and regional medical director for HCA Healthcare. He was HCA’s premier intermountain and far west region ICU leader working in California, Nevada, and Utah and managing over 50 ICU physicians.

Has partnered with organizations such as the Pittsburgh Steelers and Players Coalition on various social justice initiatives. "Passionate about helping overlooked founders take their startups to the next level, we're not looking to just pick winners... we're looking to help make them." "With my experience as a bootstrapped tech founder, I look to share my experiences and insights with other overlooked founders so their startups can excel."

Brandon Bryant is Partner of Harlem Capital where he focuses on brand management. Brandon was featured on the 2019 Forbes 30 under 30 list, 2019 Inc. 30 under 30 list, and the 2018 Ebony Power 100 list. In addition, Brandon is the Creative Director of Wall Street Paper, a digital creative outlet that is focused on lifestyle and culture for the modern gentleman.

Brandon Deer is a co-founder and General Partner at Crew Capital. He has been a prolific angel investor, supporting and advising dozens of businesses including Expensify, BetterUp, Cedar, Melio, VTS, Chainalysis, and Aiven, among others. He began his investing career at Openview Venture Partners, where he led their cloud infrastructure investment practice. Brandon currently serves as Chief Strategy Officer of UiPath, a leading provider of enterprise automation software. Brandon joined UiPath as an early employee, and helped to grow the business from $30M in revenue and a couple hundred employees to nearly $1B in revenue, 4K employees, and an initial public offering on the NYSE that valued the business at nearly $40B.

Prior to Xfund, he was an Investment Professional at DFJ focused on software investments helped build the 150-company portfolio at Rothenberg Ventures nearly from the beginning  spent time in sales operations and corporate development at Box focuses mainly on enterprise technologies; notably applied machine intelligence (computer vision, natural language processing, and machine learning), VR/AR, robotics, space, and autonomous vehicles.

Invests in startups that are changing the world with code in the fintech, e-commerce and frontier tech sectors. Built Canaan’s investment thesis in insurance and is passionate about companies that re-imagine how financial services products are purchased and sold. Holds an M.B.A. with distinction from NYU Stern School of Business, an M.S. in Computer Science from Brown University, and a B.A. in Political Science from Bowdoin College.

A former Region President of Verizon Wireless who drove Annual Recurring Revenue from $1 Billion to $2 Billion in six years.  An experienced technology executive with over 20 years’ experience in senior leadership roles in sales, distribution, go-to-market, business development, and strategy.  Previously Director of B2B Sales, Director of Consumer Sales, and Director of Wireless Data Sales at Verizon Wireless.  A Silicon Valley native named to the Top 40 Under 40 Business Leaders.

Brendan is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Sentenai, a Boston-based technology company which delivers autonomous data engineering solutions to organizations that need to make realtime decisions in dynamic, data-driven environments.

Based in Silicon Valley, Brennan brings 20 years of experience building technology businesses and scaling global teams.

As a partner in Frontline Growth, Brennan is focused on helping growth stages companies expand into Europe. Previously, he spent nearly a decade at Google, where he held multiple go-to-market leadership roles in the US and EMEA, building teams across both the Cloud and Ads businesses.

Leads investments in an array of healthcare companies, with a focus on biopharma and medtech. Prior to joining Canaan, Brent worked in both commercial and technical roles at General Surgical Innovations, Ethicon Endo-Surgery (J&J), and IAP Research.

Prior to joining Origin Ventures, Brent created and led the Central region sales organization for Twitter. Before Twitter, he led a sale organization for Google (Chicago). Brent joined Google after his previous company, FeedBurner, was acquired by Google in 2007.

Has built and led high-performance teams that have come together to create work that accelerated breakthrough growth.

Brenton leads AlleyCorp’s healthcare investments and incubations as managing partner of the AlleyCorp healthcare fund. Prior to AlleyCorp, Brenton was an executive at Flatiron Health. He worked previously at J.P. Morgan and Blue Cross & Blue Shield. He is a practicing physician, board certified in Internal Medicine. Brenton completed his residency at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, earning his MD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine and an MBA in Healthcare Management from the Wharton School.

Part creative problem-solver, part brand whisperer, Brentos has spent his career creating content-driven campaigns for consumer brands. He led brand and campaign development as Creative Director at Leo Burnett, Barkley and DDB advertising agencies. While at Listen, Brentos developed our brand process, helping entrepreneurs apply a brand lens to all aspects of their businesses.

Brett leads First Round's Platform team which focuses on transforming a collection of individuals companies into a hyper-connected community of entrepreneurs. In addition to building the platform team aggressively over the past 12 months, he has lead initiatives such as Network, the softwareplatform that connects the First Round community online, CEO & CTO Summits, as well as broader Platform strategy.

Between Intermix Media (MIX) and Adknowledge, I raised money from TCV, TPG, Redpoint, Vantage Point, JMI, Nokia and more… but I never even thought about raising from a venture firm based in LA. Based on that experience, it felt like there must be an opportunity to “plant the flag in LA” and become the “go-to” LA-based venture firm. By teaming up with Rick and Brian (2 very experienced venture capitalists who know the business well), we were able to launch our proof of concept fund in LA in 2008. We’ve never looked back!

I’ve been fortunate to spend most of my life in the startup world as both an entrepreneur and investor. Right now, I spend my days investing in and working with early stage founders as the founder and Managing Partner of The Syndicate Fund and the Managing Director of Techstars Farm to Fork Accelerator. As an investor, I’m interested in startups with great founders that I want to work with until they are done entrepreneuring. My core focus is companies solving problems throughout the world’s food system from robotics to kitchen tech to biotech to supply chain. I also like retail tech, marketing tech and founders that have big visions in the midwest. Prior to investing, I was an entrepreneur who built both venture backed and bootstrapped startups. I’ve led companies to acquisition and to failure.

Brett has co-founded two fintech startups, raised $10M+ in capital, was an early employee at Paytient, and has 4 years of early stage investing experience. He also holds a CPA/ABV and MBA.

Brett Davis is a Partner in New North Ventures, a venture capital firm focused on technologies that both provide solutions to our national security threats and help commercial interests create enterprise value. We leverage leading edge innovation to create partnerships with our portfolio companies to drive strategic value.

Brett manages the investment team and leads Initialized’s dev tools and crypto deals. Prior to joining Initialized, he cofounded the blog platforms Posthaven and Posterous (acquired by Twitter) and later wrote software for Y Combinator, building its essential internal software systems. He was also a founder of the social news platform Slinkset, which was funded by YC in 2008, and DrawHere, a browser drawing startup acquired by DeviantArt in 2006. He is fond of pinball.

Managing Partner at V1.VC. Early stage investor since 2006. Board member and formerly on the founding team and VP of Business Development at AVX Aircraft, a developer of VTOL aircraft; founder and CEO of Generation Think Tank, a digital marketing company, and an early employee at Crocs (NASDAQ: CROX).

Brett is also the cofounder Kumospace, the virtual HQ for distributed teams. He also serves as Adjunct Professor at Columbia Business School, where he teaches data analytics. 

Backing companies pioneering Product Tech, GTM Tech, the Future of Health, and the Future of Work

Brett deMarrais graduated from the Michigan Venture Fellows Program in 2015.  Brett deMarrais is currently a partner at Ludlow Ventures. Prior to joining Ludlow, Brett founded Wedit, a crowd sourced wedding video platform that reduced the cost of wedding videos and made them social. Within the first year of launching the company Wedit had won the top industry awards for customer satisfaction (Brides Choice 2012 and Best of the Knot 2012). Previously Brett worked at Out of the Blue Entertainment.

Experienced strategy and growth operator serving as the President of Activision Blizzard Media from 2017 to 2021.

Co-founder of Midori Health (novel fibers for animal nutrition and health), Kaleido Biosciences (a chemistry-driven approach to therapeutic microbiome control; NASDAQ:KLDO), Celexion (protein engineering and synthetic biology for biopharma and industrial applications; sold to Agenus), and Codon Devices (synthetic biology tools; sold to Gen9/Ginkgo Bioworks). Venture Partner with Flagship Pioneering, where he has served as an executive in early-stage ventures, on the funds’ investment committees, and on company boards in the healthcare and sustainability sectors. Previously he was an engineer at ExxonMobil and a Director in the MIT School of Chemical Engineering Practice at Mitsubishi Chemicals and General Mills. Holds a BChE from the University of Delaware and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from MIT.

Brian Brackeen is a General Partner at Lightship Capital, the $50 million dollar Cincinnati-based VC firm dedicated to backing underrepresented entrepreneurs in the Midwest. As General Partner, Brian oversees fund operations, leads the AI, Design & Engineering teams, and serves on the investment committee. Brian is a thought leader in the Artificial Intelligence space, having founded and led a globally recognized provider of face recognition technologies. Prior to becoming a tech entrepreneur, Brian served as a Senior Project Manager for Apple Inc. and as Senior Managing Consultant at IBM.

Brian was a founding member of a16z’s investment team, where he worked closely under Chris Dixon, sourcing deals like Oculus. Most recently, he was an executive at Riot Games, where he built the corporate and business development departments. Brian was recognized as one of the best upcoming investors by Forbes magazine’s 30 Under 30 in 2013 and 2014.

Brian Dixon is one of the first and youngest African-American Partners at a Silicon Valley venture capital firm. He is committed to making sure entrepreneurs of all backgrounds have access to advice and capital in order to make their business succeed. For the past ten years, he has worked his way up from intern to Managing Partner at Kapor Capital, a seed stage venture capital firm in Oakland, CA that has invested in over 130 tech startups, including Clever, Career Karma, Bitwise, Promise and Twilio. To-date, Brian has shared his investment experience on over 50 stages, including TechCrunch Disrupt, SXSW, and SOCAP. He has also been featured on NPR and has earned several recognitions, including being named one of Business Insider’s 46 Most Important African Americans in Technology.

Seasoned product development executive Extensive and successful product management background for both enterprise security and consumer product development Drove innovation around large data sets coming from network providers (i.e. 8bevents/day) and using machine learning to build predictive security models

Infinite patience and confidence in yourself. This is a tough career—one of the few where you can still question if you are any good at it after 18 years on the job. I try not to take each failure personally and stay focused on the collective body of work. There are great highs, and low lows, so you can’t live in a constant state of self-doubt. I try to stay focused on the quality of the relationships that I build with my entrepreneurs—both in success and in failure.

co-founder and Executive Chairperson of HubSpot was a Venture Partner at Longworth Ventures, was VP of Sales at Groove Networks (acquired by Microsoft) and a Senior VP of Sales at PTC senior lecturer at MIT's Sloan School Of Management where he teaches Course 15.392 called "Scaling Entrepreneurial Ventures."

Prior to starting Tribeca Venture Partners in 2011, Brian was the founder and Managing Director of the venture arm of Greenhill & Co (NYSE: GHL), a Principal at Sterling Partners, and a Vice President at ABN AMRO’s U.S. venture fund. In total, Brian has spent more than 24 years in the venture business. He has invested across a broad number of sectors during his career including fintech, enterprise and SMB SaaS, marketplaces, healthtech, martech, edtech and proptech. Brian was/is responsible for the following TVP investments: Actuate, ACV Auctions (Nasdaq: ACVA), AiCure, AlphaSense, Bakpax (acq. by Teachers Pay Teachers), Coinsetter (acq. by Kraken), CommonBond, Crafty, Cuebiq, Domio, Honeybook, Katapult (Nasdaq: KPLT), Lendio, Mighty, Ozobot, Procurated, ShopKeep (acq. by Nasdaq: LSPD), Suzy, Thinkful (acq. by Nasdaq: CHGG), TireTutor, Truveris, Visibly, and Vivvi.

Brian is a principal at Dropbox Ventures.

I am most content when I am thinking about and trying to solve ill-defined problems. I am abnormally enthusiastic about the research process that leads me to develop answers to such problems. I think of myself, first and foremost, as a research analyst who seeks solutions to problems; Solutions that can be implemented and scaled outside the lab. I am curious, open-minded, and adaptable. I have an obsession for cool mechanical pencils. I never say no to a cup of coffee. I am not afraid to be different, and I embrace uncertainty. I have only one goal on my mind: To become a trusted and well regarded investor for founders building innovative technology to refashion global supply chains.

Co-founder and former president of LegalZoom.com, co-founder and former CEO of ShoeDazzle.com, and co-founder and former CEO of The Honest Company. Formerly an attorney with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, Brian co-founded LegalZoom in 2001. LegalZoom has since become the nationwide leader in online legal services.

Brian Matthews became known in tech for cofounding the fantasy-sports company CDM Sports in 1991, which Fun Technologies acquired in 2006 for about $10 million. Matthews, who left CDM in 2010, has run the early-stage fund Cultivation Capital since 2012 and is one of the most successful seed investors outside of coastal hubs like Silicon Valley or New York City. He led his fund’s investment in the hotel-management software startup Cloudbeds, which raised a $150 million round in November. Matthews said he looked for high-integrity founders when investing at the seed stage: “The most important characteristic in a founder is their Integrity. Integrity toward employees and investors.”

Prior to Ribbit Capital, Brian is the Managing Director of Jeffries focusing on Fintech. He also worked at RBS Greenwich Capital, Bear Sterns, and Credit Suisse.

General Partner at Cosmic Venture Partners

Brian (aka Bmur) leads Craft’s investment team. Since helping start the firm in 2017, Brian has built the infrastructure that powers the firm's investment process and has hired a talented team to expand Craft's growing portfolio. Prior to joining Craft, Brian held leadership roles at a number of B2B SaaS startups like Yammer and Zenefits. Brian is also the cofounder of Cabal, a tool that helps founders get more out of their investors and advisors.

ex-researcher at Social Innovation Ventures. experienced in Product, having held roles in companies such as Unite USs and Helix. Co-Founder of Vyrill, Inc.

Brian founded Bigfoot Capital in 2017. Prior, he is the founding CEO of Brandfolder, the employee #1 at an online travel business, and an investment banker.

co-founder and CEO of Pennington Partners & Co., a private investment and strategic advisory firm for like-minded founders and entrepreneurs active member of the Jewish Federation National Young Leadership Cabinet Previously, Brian was a financial advisor at Morgan Stanley and Merrill Lynch.

Brought up and educated in the U.S. but with most of his career spent in Israel's innovation ecosystem, Brian has extensive experience in working with Israel-based founding teams on their product-market fit, strategic partnership development, and the aggressive pursuit of traction in key North American markets.

Prior to Joule, Brian worked in Israel as the Director of Marketing for New York City-based venture fund 21Ventures, where he was responsible for developing and executing market entry and expansion strategies for the firm’s 45+ portfolio companies.

Brian is Director at Next Play Ventures and VP and Chief of Staff to the Executive Chairman at LinkedIn. For over six years Brian was Chief of Staff to the CEO, Jeff Weiner. Brian worked alongside the LinkedIn executive team to manage strategic initiatives and operational rhythm of the business, launch and scale new cross-functional programs, anddevelop leadership communications and company narratives. Brian also managed the overall joint integration program following Microsoft’s acquisition of LinkedIn in June 2016. He joined LinkedIn in 2012 on the Business Operations team, advising on growth strategies in B2B marketing and sales. Prior, Brian was a consultant at McKinsey & Company. Brian serves on the board of directors for the Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula and is a First Mover Fellow of the Aspen Institute.

Brian invests in early stage companies—particularly in the software infrastructure space—and experienced the power of Primary's approach firsthand back when the firm led the seed of his second startup.

Founded of Bonbos, the men's brand famous for better-fitting, better-looking pants Board member for multiple ecommerce/consumer/technology/food&beverage companies.

Brian is a former small business owner (car dealerships), entrepreneur (one of those 2001 tech boom stories), chef (CIA-trained), management consultant (also loved it, but glad to be out of it). Brian is currently CEO at Diligent (a fast-growing enterprise tech company you’ve never heard of).

Brian Sugar is the President at Group Nine Media. He is a Founder at Popsugar.

Brian Wallace is a Managing Director of Access Venture Partners, where he leads fundraising and LP relations and new media opportunities. Since 1992, Brian has worked extensively with early stage technology companies and in venture capital finance as an attorney, investor and venture capitalist. He has worked with the Access team since 1999, and joined Access Venture Partners in 2005.

Prior to joining Access Venture Partners, Brian was a partner with the law firm Fairfield and Woods in Denver, Colorado, where he chaired the firm’s corporate department and specialized in working with early stage companies in corporate and securities law and venture capital financings. Prior to embarking on his path of eternal enlightenment as a lawyer, Brian worked in corporate finance and accounting with Electronic Data Systems in Dallas, Texas and Europe. Brian also had a brief stint in Washington, D.C., working on the Patent, Copyright and Trademark subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee for U.S. Senator Dennis DeConcinni from Arizona.

Focuses on the integration of hardware and software, as well as new forms of data capture and processing. Brian specializes in mobility investing, with an interest in everything that touches logistics and the transportation of people and goods.

Leveraging over 20 years of global industry expertise in culture, strategy, organisational design, leadership and innovation across public and private companies, she is a passionate advocate for building organisations to be more human, participative and resilient. Additionally, she is the Chief Operating Officer of Anthemis Digital Acquisitions, a 100% female-led and ESG-focused special purpose acquisition corporation (SPAC), is a member of the Fintech for All Steering Committee and was recognised under RealDeals Future 40 Diversity & Inclusion Leaders, Innovate Finance’s Women in FinTech Powerlist Stand out 45 and operates as a CultureTech advisor. Briana holds a bachelor’s in Commerce from Deakin University

Started Worklife with the vision of investing in companies that make work more flexible, creative, and human

ex-Associate at EY-Parthenon and ex-Fellow at Waterman Ventures. Founding Researcher at Venture Capital Inclusion Lab.

Co-Founded Social Capital and served as the COO prior to founding Fireworks Ventures. Earlier in her career, she was a sales executive at IBM and an Engineer at several Silicon Valley startups.  Active board member for CodeNow, a non-profit organization focused on teaching underrepresented youth to code.

Brinkley is a co-founder of Toba Capital and former executive at Quest Software and BMC Software. He holds board roles at portfolio companies Tebra and WSO2.

Brittany brings experience sourcing early-stage ventures for investment, conducting diligence, and managing an investment pipeline.

Brook joined Plymouth Growth as a Partner in 2017 where he is involved in all aspects of the firm’s investing activities.
Prior to Plymouth, Brook spent more than 10 years as a core member of BAML Capital Access Funds Management in Chicago, a specialty asset management firm focused on lower middle market private equity. Brook was heavily involved in all of the group’s activities, including sourcing and reviewing investment opportunities, designing and implementing investment structures, and interacting with current and prospective clients. In 2016, the firm was acquired by HarbourVest Partners, a Boston-based global private markets investments manager with more than $40 billion under management.

Previously, Brook was an Analyst with JPMorgan Chase & Co., where he performed valuation and transactional investment banking services for closely-held companies. Brook has also participated in the creation of a regionally focused, seed-stage venture fund and served as an analyst with a homeland security solutions startup.

Brooks is a Partner at SciFi VC. Prior to SciFi, he was the head of Affirm Ventures.

serves on the boards of the American Cancer Society, the Chicago Baseball Cancer Charities, and Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) Chicago and International Chapters. provides funding for the Origin Ventures Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the University of Illinois and the Jacki & Bruce Barron Cancer Research Scholars Program, a collaboration between ICRF and City of Hope. named a Crain’s Chicago Business Tech 50 member in 2013

Bruce Dunlevie is the General Partner at Benchmark. Additionally, Bruce Dunlevie has had 5 past jobs including Systems Designer & Programmer at Accenture. Bruce previously served as a member of the board of directors of Rambus Inc., a technology licensing company, from March 1990 to June 2011, and as a member of the board of directors of Palm,Inc., a provider of mobile products, from October 2003 to October 2007. Bruce holds a B.A. in History and English from Rice University and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Bruce Leak is a Founding Partner at Playground Global. From an early age, his intellectual curiosity led to a fascination with computers and emerging technology, and later informed his career path which took him from the frontier days of Apple and Microsoft to entrepreneurship, to his time at Playground investing in complex ideas with the potential to change the world. After founding several startups selling technology and services to mobile phone operators and automotive OEMs and traveling the world, Bruce co-founded Playground Global—the venture capital firm he wished existed when he was building his own company. From robotics to quantum computing to groundbreaking medical advancements, Playground’s true north is leaving a lasting impact for generations to come.

Bruno also serves as the Co-Founder of Magna, a platform that makes it easy for crypto companies to distribute vesting tokens to their employees and investors. Prior to Magna and Alloy fund, Bruno served as the PM of Palantir's largest product team (Gaia) + AI Platform. Prior to that, he cofounded Synapse (acq. by Palantir). He was also an early SWE and PM at Kensho (acq. by S&P).

Bryan Baum is the Co-Founder of K5 Global. He attended University of Oxford.

Bryan Cressey is a pioneer in the field of private equity investing and co-founder of three of the largest private equity firms in the US. He has managed billions of dollars of private capital, spent his career investing in healthcare, is a co-founder of FCV and serves as a Senior Advisor to the firm. He is an acknowledged expert in healthcare, where he has invested over 30 years, and his firms are well known for their consistently strong investment returns. He has been featured in Time Magazine and Fortune Magazine and is asked to speak nationwide on healthcare and private equity investing. He served as Chairman of an NYSE company, Belden, and is a Director of several others, and has been elected to Chicago’s Entrepreneurial Hall of Fame and Chicago’s Business Hall of Fame. Bryan recently created an addiction treatment center called Above and Beyond, on Chicago’s Westside, providing life transformation opportunities, free to the homeless and poor.

Founder and Managing Partner of Friale.

Bryan Hale is an experienced investor and operator having worked for various startups throughout their career.

Bryan is the Founder/CEO of Kernel, OS Fund and (formerly) Braintree Venmo. Bryan believes that quantifying, exploring and understanding the human brain and mind is the most consequential opportunity in history. Prior to Kernel, Bryan built Braintree Venmo which I sold in 2013. After I wondered how we collectively thrive beyond what we can imagine.

Bryan is a partner at Craft Ventures, focused on building the firm's east coast presence. Prior to joining Craft, Bryan led Reddit's New York office and revenue team, cultivating partnerships with brands like Google, Microsoft, Coca-Cola, P&G, and HBO.

Bryan Wu is a partner based out of China and splits his time between Hong Kong, Beijing, and Shanghai. Prior to joining Bessemer, Bryan spent over a decade as a managing director at CPE, an alternative asset manager with an extensive presence in China. During his time at CPE, Bryan focused on investing in technology, software, and internet companies including Didi, JD Health, Ganji, Ele.me, WeBank, Bytedance, Jing-Jin Electric, AsiaInfo, Tencent Music, and many more. Bryan started his career at Startec Global Communications and has since held various positions at the intersection of technology and investing at companies like Globespan Capital Partners, McKinsey, and Legend Holdings.

General partner for Sequoia's Global Enti

Buck joined the Wavemaker team in July of 2018 and is focused on rapidly scaling up the operations of Wavemaker Labs. Buck has a diverse and unique background that drives his work in the venture space. Prior to Wavemaker, Buck was the founder and Managing Partner of Canyon Creek Capital a top LA-based early-stage fund. Prior to Canyon Creek Capital, Buck served as a Captain and Pilot in the California Army National Guard and held several command positions in which he was responsible for leading up to 120 personnel and supervising up to $400 million in assets and equipment. During his time in the National Guard he served as a tank commander, Blackhawk pilot, Commander and supply chain manager for a Blackhawk Battalion. Buck is a board member of Westside Children’s Center, an institution that provides thousands of at-risk children and their families with critical, high-quality early education programs.

Managing Partner at SteelSky Ventures