Zach Holman advises and invests in startups. He was one of the first engineers at GitHub, has founded two companies, and have advised and invested in companies like GitLab, StackShare, and WorkOS.
James & Amber are investors at Bloomberg Beta . Find their bios below. James Cham is a Partner at Bloomberg Beta, a firm focused on investing in the future of work. James invests in companies working on applying machine intelligence to businesses and society. He’s currently invested in companies like Orbital Insight (satellite imaging), Primer (analyst tools), Domino Data Labs (AI model management), and AppZen (expense management). James speaks and writes on the implications of AI for compan...
Katelyn's Bio Katelyn is an investor and entrepreneur. Katelyn is the founder and Managing Director of Avalanche VC , an early-stage venture firm investing early in companies enabling decentralization and empowerment, focusing on how people earn, learn, and own. She is also a founder and board member of Delivery Associates , the leading public sector advisory firm implementing technology and large-scale reform worldwide. Constantly curious, she has invested in and advised funds, companies, and e...
Amy Cheetham is a partner at Costanoa Ventures. Amy's Bio Before joining Costanoa, I ran North American sales strategy and operations at Zuora, a public enterprise software company. Prior to that, I spent three years investing in growth stage technology companies at Summit Partners, where my investments included Podium, InfoArmor (acq. AllState), and onXmaps. I began my career on Wall Street, working at JP Morgan where I spent time as a technology investment banker and as a cash equities trader ...
David Paul is the CEO and a founding member of DWP Capital . For more than seven years, Mr. Paul has been actively engaged in growth equity and venture capital investing, primarily in software and tech-enabled services. In 2016, he joined Canal Partners (2016-2020), a multi-family office specializing in growth capital opportunities, after working at seed-stage venture fund Tallwave Capital as an Associate (2015-2016). During his five-year tenure at Canal Partners, he was jointly responsible for ...
Graham & Walker were two unstoppable leaders that made history, and with us, exponentially more will do the same. In 1963, Katharine Graham was the first female CEO of a Fortune 500 company. And sixty years before, Madam C.J. Walker went from founder to the first-ever self-made female millionaire. Like our inspirations taught us: underrepresented doesn’t mean unworthy. It just means underestimated. Learn more here --> https://grahamwalker.com/...
Tyler Tringas is the GP and founder of The Calm Company Fund . He's building an ecosystem of founders and funders of profitable, sustainable, calm businesses.
Kojo Osei is a partner at Matrix Partners . A Little More On Kojo (from the Matrix website) I grew up in Accra, Ghana’s commercial capital known for its bustling street markets. My mother was an entrepreneur who ran a small retail business. She was the first entrepreneur I worked with. From her, I learned that doing what you love leads to persistence and ultimately, success. In college, I fell in love with math and computer science. I was drawn to programming as a way to turn imagination into re...
Danielle is a cofounder and general partner of 1517. She has worked with young entrepreneurs for about a decade. In 2010, during the founding of the Thiel Fellowship, Danielle joined to lead the design and operations. She's worked with some of the most prestigious founders like Vitalik Buterin and Ritesh Agarwal. Previous to her work with Peter Thiel, Danielle founded and directed Innovations Academy in San Diego, a K-8 charter school serving 400 students, with a focus on student-led project bas...
Zécca Lehn a GP at Responsibly Ventures. Their mission is to back remarkable teams focused on Venture Scale Positive Impacts.
Dave Goldblatt is the founding GP at Vibe Capital . Dave was employee 180 at Facebook in 2007, was there until 2017. Afterward, he started a company + started angel investing which led to Vibe Capital.
Andrew Gluck is the founder and GP of irrvrntVC . irrvrntVC has a tight thesis around DTC, AdTech, and NextGen Commerce. Generally, they invest $150k-$350k and are very comfortable committing without a lead in place and galvanizing the round.
About Chris McCann Chris McCann is a general partner at Race Capital , entrepreneur, and community builder. Prior, Chris founded and led the community program at Greylock Partners, a San Francisco based venture capital firm with $3.5 billion under management which led investments in Facebook, LinkedIn, Dropbox, and Coinbase, among others. Chris has an angel portfolio of over twenty investments within the fintech and blockchain verticals including: Binance, Solana, Serum, among others. Before he ...
About Elizabeth Yin: Elizabeth Yin is a co-founder and General Partner at Hustle Fund, a pre-seed fund for software entrepreneurs. Previously, Elizabeth was a partner at 500 Startups where she invested in seed stage companies and ran the Mountain View accelerator. In a prior life, Elizabeth co-founded and ran an adtech company called LaunchBit (acq 2014). Elizabeth has a BSEE from Stanford and an MBA from MIT Sloan. Elizabeth has reviewed over 20k startup pitches from around the world in the las...
About Zach: Zach Coelius is a four-time entrepreneur and now investor in early-stage technology companies. Learn more about his rolling fund here or follow him on Twitter here .
About Kirby Kirby Winfield is a seasoned startup operator and investor, and is currently the Founding General Partner at Ascend.vc, a pre-seed stage venture fund investing in marketplace, e-commerce/DTC, and B2B software startups in the Pacific Northwest.
About Hunter Walk Hunter Walk is a co-founder and Partner at Homebrew, which is an early-stage venture capital firm based in the Bay Area. Before Homebrew, I led consumer product management at YouTube, starting when it was acquired by Google. I originally joined Google in 2003, managing product and sales efforts for AdSense, Google‘s contextual advertising business. My first job in Silicon Valley was as the founding product and marketing guy at Linden Lab. Before graduate school, I was a managem...
Nikhil is the cofounder and GP of Footwork. Prior, Nikhil was Managing Director at Shasta Ventures, where he invested in Canva, ClassDojo, Frame.io, Imperfect Foods, Lattice, Literati, Pill Club, Tally, and The Farmer's Dog. He was previously at Insight Partners and on the founding team at Artsy. Nikhil found his footwork growing up in the UK, India, and the San Francisco Bay Area, playing cricket and tennis.
About Kathryn Finney (From LinkedIn) Named by Inc Magazine as one of the most influential women in tech, Kathryn Finney has made her mark as an entrepreneur, social media visionary, “women in” advocate, investor, and 3x published author. On the heels of the events of the Summer of 2020, Kathryn created Genius Guild, a business creation platform that uses the venture studio model (Lab & Venture Fund) to invest in Black entrepreneurs building scalable businesses that serve black communities an...
Jenny is the Managing Director of Techstars New York and Managing Partner at The Fund. According to her LinkedIn, she is a pre-seed investor into 140+ companies including: Latch (LTCH), Chainalysis, Alloy, Headway, Supergreat, Contra, Bloomscape, Simple Health, Particle Health, Pair Eyewear, Solo Funds, Halp, Minded, Talent Hack, Rupa Health, Morty, Wagmo, Smarthop, Solid, Remesh, Tempo and so many more! 🚀🚀🚀
About Gaurav (From LinkedIn) Co-founded Afore Capital, one of the largest venture funds ($124M) dedicated to super early stage investments. No investment is "too early" for Afore, and in fact, we prefer to get involved as early as possible and help the company get to the next stage where traditional VCs can get involved. If you think we could be a fit for your startup, please find a warm intro and we'd love to chat! Previously, I made 26 seed-stage investments including Cruise Automation (acq by...
Samara is the Founding Partner of an institutionally-backed pre-seed stage fund, Chingona Ventures , focusing on investing in technology and technology-enabled companies all over the U.S. Prior to this she was an early stage investor at MATH Venture Partners, an early-stage venture fund investing in technology start-ups with differentiated approaches to customer acquisition. In this capacity, she led new investment review, diligence and execution. Prior to venture capital, Samara worked at Goldm...
About Charlie O'donnell (From BBV Website) Charlie O'Donnell is the sole Partner and Founder at Brooklyn Bridge Ventures. The fund makes seed and pre-seed investments and was the first venture firm located in Brooklyn--where he was born and raised. Brooklyn Bridge invested in the first rounds of The Wing, Canary, Hungryroot, Ample Hills, Clubhouse, Imagen, and goTenna among others. Charlie has a reputation for being early to identifying important companies. Nick Bilton identifies him as an influ...
Delian Asparouhov is a principal at Founders Fund. Before joining Founders Fund , he was a principal at Khosla Ventures, head of growth at Teespring, and founder of a healthcare company called Nightingale. Delian is Bulgarian, attended MIT, and likes to ski and play soccer.
About Jeff Morris Jr. Jeff Morris is the founder and Managing Partner of Chapter One. He was previously the VP of Product, Revenue at Tinder. In the role, Tinder became the #1 top grossing app in the App Store and one of the top grossing products in mobile history. As a product leader, Morris is passionate about building high performing teams and creating profitable products that delight customers. At Tinder, Morris built the revenue team and led the creation of multiple blockbuster hits includi...
About Operator Collective Mallun and Leyla are partners at Operator Collective. Operator Collective was founded because we believe the power in venture capital is concentrated among a homogenous group that doesn’t represent where our industry is now or where it’s going. Despite the essential role operators play in Silicon Valley, they’ve been largely missing from the venture world. So we’ve created a new access point for operators from diverse backgrounds; they may not be household names, but th...
About Sheel: I'm co-founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures (BTV) in San Francisco, with Jake Gibson . We're a $75m fund that leads pre-seed and seed rounds in fintech companies globally, generally with a first check of $500k-$1.5m. We take a pretty broad view on fintech, and many vertical SaaS and marketplace businesses fit in our purview too. We invest for a better future and genuinely believe that our companies make the world better; fintech is a great way to improve people's lives. We like inves...
About Natty Zola (From Their Website) In 2008, I left a lucrative career to start a company, everlater.com . On my journey, I taught myself how to code, built the product, raised two rounds of venture financing, went through two significant pivots, hired and fired teams, thrived, stumbled, thrived again and ultimately sold the company to AOL. I get what it's like and what it takes to start and scale a company. In 2015, I joined Techstars as Managing Director for the accelerator in Boulder. In th...
About Caroline Kassie Caroline is a GP at Metrodora Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the health and education sector. Previously, Caroline was a Partner at Blockchange Ventures and the Executive Director of Beanstalk Labs, an innovation lab concentrated on the development of new business ideas for a New York-based venture fund that invests in early stage retail technology companies. Caroline was also an associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meager & Flom LLP where she ...
About Clara Clara is co-founder and Managing Partner of the Urban Innovation Fund, a venture capital firm that invests in 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.
