Investors focused on Consumer Health

Ali has more than 10 years of experience in various Product and Growth roles at companies like Zynga, RockYou, Agoda, Rappi, and most recently at PayClip (one of LatAm's fastest growing FinTech companies). An angel investor who has completed more than 200 deals.

In 2009, Bobak co-founded a strategy-led mobile agency, Prolific. Through 10 years, they worked on and launched over 100 products spanning iOS, Android, and Web, before the agency was acquired in 2019. While managing Prolific, Bobak discovered a passion to invest in a more equitable future, leading him to collaborate with Pilar on D&I initiatives, and eventually co-found Debut Capital.

Shamin Walsh has over 13+ years as an active angel investor who gained experience in the consumer space through her early investments in companies such as Sweetgreen, Flexport, and Sir Kensington’s. Prior to joining BAM Ventures as a managing director, she was a consumer-focused partner at an early-stage generalist firm with tangible assets in 3PL/fulfillment, cold storage/co-packing, and manufacturing, giving her a holistic perspective through which to evaluate emerging consumer businesses.

Ryan is an experienced entrepreneur and investor with a passion for building companies and communities. He launched K50 Ventures as a continuation of the K50 community which recognized mission-driven founders from around the globe who were pushing the world forward. Entrepreneurs who were part of the K50 community went on to build companies like Brex, Freenome, Fiscalnote, Casper, and OYO Rooms, raising over $5B in venture capital and inspiring thousands of founders to start their own companies.   Since launching K50 Ventures, Ryan has been an early investor in many notable companies including Mammoth Biosciences, Self, Frubana, Groww, Tul, and a founding partner of the leading venture studio, Kairos HQ which co-founded Cera, Rhino, Bilt, and Little Spoon.  Before founding K50 Ventures, Ryan founded two companies and held roles at Blumberg Capital, 1-Page (IPO: 1PG), and Jumptap (Acqd. by Millenial Media) in San Francisco.   

James Murphy is Forum’s General Partner, and was the Co-Founder of Robly, a marketing automation platform based in New York City. James is an active angel investor and advisor to numerous early stage SaaS startups.

David Ventzel is a part-time General Partner at Overkill Ventures and a part-time Geneeral Partner at Accelerace. He founded two startups before becoming an advisor and investor to startup founders.

Pocket Sun founded SoGal, one of world's largest communities of diverse entrepreneurs and investors with 10 chapters worldwide. She has extensive experience working with startups across the US, China, and Southeast Asia. She was on the cover of Forbes Asia as a 30 Under 30 in Venture Capital, a LinkedIn Top Voices in VC & Entrepreneurship,and was featured on BBC World News, CCTV, Inc., Harper's BAZAAR, etc. Pocket is bicultural and bilingual, and frequently gives speeches at top conferences around the world. She holds a Master of Science degree in Entrepreneurship and Innovation from University of Southern California, and a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from College of William & Mary.

Alexis founded HCVC in 2015 as a community-first venture firm to support hardtech founders. He's based in Paris and sits on the boards of Cowboy, Norbert Health, Twist and Remedee Labs.

Investing in and incubating early stage consumer companies.

Prior to starting Superangel, Ben was an angel investor in 30 companies, including, the first investor and founding advisor to quip (2014), Caraway (2018) & Arber (2020), before each had its name.

Ben personally experienced the complete life cycle of building a company: from identifying a problem/market opportunity, coming up with the “idea”, to painstakingly developing a business plan, product road-map and executing on it.

He strives to be one of the first checks (day 0) and leverage my network to bring in other strategic capital and resources in an advisory role. Ben is often described by founders as their company’s #1 fan, providing unwavering support and dedication for the short, medium, and long-term.

Prior to becoming a full time investor, he was the COO at a NYC-based real estate investment and property management firm.

Having spent her early career at Pixar Animation Studios, Katelin transferred her culture building skills from film to tech, dedicating over a decade to developing teams as a senior executive at some of the internet’s most influential startups, including Kloutand Reddit. In early 2020, Katelin made the leap from operator to investor, helping entrepreneurs and the broader venture ecosystem evolve their diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging practices, creating new opportunities and access to wealth for people and products typically underrepresented in the tech industry. As an investor, she is passionate about funding and supporting the companies that will shape the future of work, life, sustainability, and the delicate balance that enables us to thrive. Throughout the course of her career, the one common denominator remains: enabling people through belonging to create beautiful, innovative products that move the world.

Adriel invests in both the US and LATAM and leads our focus on Work & Learning. He’s led investments such as Worc, Shift One, Pallet, and Nirvana Health. Prior to K50, Adriel was on the investment team at Flybridge Capital Partners, a leading Boston and NYC Seed fund, sourcing and supporting partners on investments such as Imperfect Foods, Wethos and Narrator. Before Flybridge, he co-founded a consumer messaging app and held operational roles at Dreamit Ventures and venture-backed Offerpop. When he’s not working, Adriel is fostering the next generation of entrepreneurs in NYC, volunteering for organizations like Defy Ventures and New York on Tech. He received a B.S. in Entrepreneurship from Cornell University and splits his time between New York City, Mexico City and Istanbul.

Scott Friend is former seed-to-exit founder of a successful retail analytics company, Scott is a trusted operational partner and advisor to founders building the next generation of commerce and marketing-tech successes.

Investments include Acorns, Allbirds, Atom Finance, Away, Bolt, Cardless, David Energy, Equipment Share, Fetch Rewards, Haus, Human Interest, Kargo, Maven Clinic, Moov, Oula Health, Petal, Real Therapy, Sundays for Dogs, Truebill, Workrise (formerly RigUp), Virta Health, Vise. In addition to his work at Great Oaks, Henry serves as a board member for Runway for Recovery, a non-profit working to direct vital funds to children and families who are affected by breast cancer to lessen the burden and obstacles of losing a caregiver to the disease.

Consumer Brand Builder and Investor. Early investor in Peloton, Harry's, Casper, Warby Parker, care/of, Sunday Lawn, Hu Chocolate, function of beauty, Bubble, Clare, NomNom, Omorpho and others.

Adina Davis is a former Venture Fellow at Rough Draft Ventures.

Zal is the solo partner at Refactor Capital, a seed-stage firm focused on climate, bio, and health investments. Previously, he helped launch the Bio Fund at a16z and prior to that, spent 10 years in product at Google, Netflix, and LinkedIn. He is an alumnus of the University of Pennsylvania.

Founder/General Partner at Civilization Ventures. Shahram's investments include Rewrite (acq. by Intellia), Foresight Diagnostics, Omada Health, Tacit Therapeutics, Replace Therapeutics, Lemonaid Health (acq. by 23andme), Singular Bio (acq. by Invitae), Rocket Pharma (Nasdaq), Billion-to-One, Evonetix, CatalogDNA, Palamedrix (acq. by SomaLogic), and other deep tech leaders.

Bill has led investments in companies including Looker, Flexport, Verkada, Superhuman, Airbase, Nova Credit, Legion, and Labelbox.

Tim Draper founded Draper Associates, DFJ and the Draper Venture Network, a global network of venture capital funds. He funded Baidu, Tesla, Skype, SpaceX, Twitch, Hotmail, Focus Media, Robinhood, Athenahealth, Box, Cruise Automation, Carta, Planet, PTC and 15 other unicorns at the seed stage. He is a supporter and global thoughtleader for entrepreneurs everywhere, and is a leading spokesperson for Bitcoin, Blockchain, ICOs and cryptocurrencies, invested in over 50 crypto companies, and led investments in Coinbase, Ledger, Tezos, and Bancor, among others. He has received various awards and honors including the World Entrepreneurship Forum’s “Entrepreneur of the World,” and is listed as one of the top 100 most powerful people in finance by Worth Magazine, the top 20 most influential people in Crypto by CryptoWeekly, #1 most networked VC by AlwaysOn, #7 on the Forbes Midas List, and #48 most influential Harvard Alum.

Ryan Freedman is an entrepreneur turned investor on a never-ending journey to bring efficiency and innovation to the real world. Prior to Alpaca, Ryan founded Corigin, a real estate investment firm with $600 million AUM. He led this firm with a lens towards innovation and has been at the forefront of analyzing and adopting real estate technology to enhance operations and investment decisions. To that end, Corigin was an early pioneer of the co-living concept, infusing experience and community into multi-family long before others thought to. In 2008, Ryan co-founded Coral Capital, a tech-enabled commercial finance operation that has provided over 1.5 billion in financing to small businesses. His obsession with technology and efficiency informed his natural progression from a real estate executive to a venture capitalist and PropTech investor.

Elizabeth Galbut is a venture capitalist and business designer. Prior to finishing business school, she founded A-Level Capital, the first student-led venture capital firm powered by Johns Hopkins students. Prior to graduate school, Elizabeth was a strategy & operations consultant at Deloitte Consulting focusing on large healthcare clients.Outside of her client-facing work, she contributed to business development efforts that led to over $200M of new work. Elizabeth holds a MBA/MA Design Leadership Dual degree from Johns Hopkins University and Maryland Institute college of Art. She is also a proud alumnus of Georgetown University and London School of Economics.

My background is in product management so I love to jam and brainstorm, but what underpins how I work with founders is authentic human connection, empathy, and trust. I believe that a big part of my role as a VC is to help remove barriers, open doors, and be a trusted partner throughout this incredible journey. Before joining LJV, I was at Coatue, where I helped build the strategy for our first early stage fund and get it off the ground. I’m also the co-founder of Lej, a clothing brand, as well as a part-time DJ.

Kevin Colleran is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Slow Ventures.

VC since 1991 and 3x founder. His first company was Mountain Bike Outfitters, Inc., which he created at age 18. Before founding True, Jon was a managing director at Globespan Capital Partners. recently the Chairman of the National Venture Capital Association.

He leads Obvious’ investments that scale renewable energy adoption with Mosaic, Sighten (acquired), Inspire (acquired), and Enbala (acquired); positively transform and electrify transportation with Proterra (IPO), Lilium (IPO), LightshipRV, Forum Mobility, and Amply (acquired); elevate cities with Plant Prefab, RenoRun, and Canvas; and help companies decarbonize with SINAI Technologies.

Scott Barclay is a Managing Director at Insight Partners based in Palo Alto. His Computational Care thesis envisions the future of US and global healthcare built at the intersection of empathy and scalable technology.  Scott’s early career traversed capital markets with Banc of America Securities in Europe and the US, The Boston Consulting Group, and CVS Health. At CVS and then after, Scott helped create and scale the nation’s e-Prescribing ecosystem, running iScribe (acq Allscripts) and as Chief Strategy Officer of Surescripts.  Prior to Insight, Scott built his investing career as an healthcare angel investor and advisor (NaviHealth, Doximity, Elation) and, from 2015 – 2020, as a Partner at DCVC, a world-class early-stage deep tech venture capital firm, where he was a director or observer on the Boards of companies like Carbon Health, Freenome, SafelyYou, and many others. 

James has over twenty-five years of experience building and leading technology companies from early stage company ideation to global market leadership. He helped create entirely new categories such as online photography, web-based calendaring and the Personal Digital Assistant. James is the former CEO of Ofoto, Xoom, and Xmarks. James is the co-founder of Obvious Ventures, investing in #worldpositive startups that combine profit and purpose.

Brendan Wallace is a Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Fifth Wall, where he guides the firm’s strategic vision. Prior to starting Fifth Wall, Brendan co-founded Identified, a workforce optimization data and analytics company that raised $33 million of venture funding and was acquired by Workday (NYSE: WKDY) in 2014. He also co-founded Cabify, the largest ridesharing service in Latin America, and has been an active investor, leading more than 60 angel investments including Bonobos, Dollar Shave Club, Lyft, SpaceX, Clutter, and Philz Coffee. Brendan started his career at Goldman Sachs in the real estate, hospitality, and gaming group before joining The Blackstone Group’s real estate private equity practice. Brendan is from New York City and currently lives in Venice. He graduated from Princeton University, where he received his BA in political science and economics. He received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

backed 7 “unicorn” companies across SaaS, consumer internet, digital health, and fintech. ex-DCM where he led early-stage US investments. Founded ChoicePass (acquired by Salesforce) and Scanwell Health (acquired by BD)

Sundeep is a 3x founder-turned-investor who founded Climate Capital in 2018. He began working in climate in 2010 when he founded blissmo to introduce shoppers to sustainable products (acq by Garten). In 2014 he co-founded Silicon Climate, a non-profit climate accelerator. He’s also the author of HALINE ("Hunger Games meets climate change"), and exec producer of Last Glimpse (a visit to the Maldives which faces rising sea levels). He also has non-climate investments at Duro Capital.

Experienced VC. Prior to BoxGroup, adam served as the NYC Director for TechStars.

Lenny is the author of Lenny's Newsletter, the #1 business newsletter on Substack, where he talks about growth, products, startups, and more. He also interviews world-class product leaders and growth experts on his podcast.

Former adtech entrepreneur. Former accelerator manager. Mostly can help w/ fundraising strategy / networking / blurb + deck.

His recent focus areas include infrastructure, security, and future of health. An original super angel turned multi-stage investor. Early backer of a number of iconic companies including Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), Credit Karma (Acquired by Intuit), Fitbit (NYSE:FIT), Guardant Health (NASDAQ:GH), Guideline, Notion, Opendoor (NASDAQ: OPEN), Pluralsight (NASDAQ:PS), Rovio (HEL:ROVIO), Shopify (NYSE:SHOP), and Soundhound (NASDAQ:SOUN). Prior to starting Felicis, Aydin was a Senior Manager at Google responsible for strategic partner development and account management in Asia Pacific, including Japan. Aydin joined Google in 1999 as its first Product Manager to launch Google’s first 10 international sites, its first online search licensing products, and its first Safe Search. He then became the first International Sales Manager at Google, responsible for worldwide licensing deals.

Founder & Managing Partner at Collaborative Fund.

Micky Malka is focused on the utilization of technology to disrupt consumer financial services. Micky grew up in Venezuela where he learned the impact of devaluation and hyperinflation at a very young age. In 1998, Micky developed the online brokerage, Patagon by merging with Heptagon local operations. Patagon became Latin America’s first comprehensive Internet based financial services portal and dealer. The company expanded its online services to the United States and the rest of South America and was later acquired by the Spanish bank Banco Santander (NYSE: STD) for US$ 750 million.

Consumer-focused venture capital investor. Inspired by identifying evolving human needs, dedicated to supporting visionary founders who are innovating in every aspect of life.