Zach DeWitt is a partner at Wing, bringing firsthand founder experience to the startups and founders he works with—most of which are product-led growth (PLG) SaaS, AI-powered applications, and Web3. Before joining the Wing team, he was the CEO and co-founder of Drop, Inc., where he and his team built two award-winning iPhone apps before selling the technology to Snapchat in 2016. He has worked in the tech, media, and telecommunications groups at TPG Capital and Goldman Sachs, playing a key role ...
Jun 20, 2024•56 min
With over 18 years of experience in the cybersecurity field, Nir Polak is a venture partner at SignalFire, a data-driven venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies. Nir is also an investor and board member at Dig Security, a cloud-based security platform that automates threat detection and response. Additionally, Nir is the co-founder and chairman of the board at Exabeam, a leading provider of user and entity behavior analytics solutions. Nir has multiple skills in sta...
Jun 20, 2024•58 min
Chris Harper is a VC at Torch Capital. Before Torch, Chris was an early-stage investor at Red Sea Ventures, a New York-based fund focused on consumer and consumerized B2B businesses. While at Columbia Business School, Chris was president of the VC Fellows program. As a fellow, he spent a year with General Catalyst developing a thesis on consumer services for the new millennial family. Chris was also a member of the New York investment team for Rough Draft Ventures, investing in pre-seed and seed...
Jun 20, 2024•1 hr 8 min
Han Shen is the Founding Partner of iFly. VC. Han’s career in venture capital started in 2009 and has spanned at VantagePoint and Formation 8, where he was the first hire on the investment team. He led and/or contributed to the investment in Motive Drilling (acquired by Helmerich & Payne), Lucid (acquired by Acuity), Comfy (acquired by Siemens), Oculus (acquired by Facebook), Taxon (acquired by DuPont), and AlertMe (acquired by British Gas). Earlier in his career, Han worked for Rohm and Haa...
Jun 14, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Amy Nauiokas is a transformational CEO, founder, governor and advocate who has spent three decades running and building purpose-led organizations at the intersection of access, equity, and innovation. She has dedicated her career to seeing around corners and leading teams to uncover what could be rather than accepting the status quo. After a rapid rise to the top of the global financial services industry, she pivoted from corporate CEO at Barclays Stockbrokers to fintech and media entrepreneur. ...
Jun 14, 2024•1 hr 1 min
When it comes to the business of women, Ali knows a golden opportunity when she sees it. As one of the very first employees at Refinery29 — a company that now has over 450 employees globally — Ali was tasked with building an ad and brand partnerships business from the ground up. She answered this challenge by assembling a world-class team that integrated custom collaboration with brands across every core business pillar— from editorial and design, to product and consumer marketing. Under her lea...
Jun 14, 2024•49 min
Charlotte Ross is a Partner of Inspired Capital. Prior to Inspired Capital, Charlotte was an Associate at New Enterprise Associates (NEA). At NEA, she led investments in The Wing, Mejuri, CoEdition and Choosy. Charlotte served on the Boards of those companies in addition to the Boards of Duolingo, Framebridge and Landit. Charlotte also spent three months working at Tamara Mellon, an NEA portfolio company, prior to their launch. Charlotte began her career as an Investment Banking analyst in the T...
Jun 12, 2024•59 min
Peter Walker runs the Insights team at Carta, focused on discovering key data and narratives across the private capital ecosystem. In a former life, he was a marketing executive for a media analytics startup and led the data visualization team at the Covid Tracking Project. Topics: - Data-Driven Insights in the Private Capital Ecosystem - Current Trends in Private Capital - Future of Data in Venture Capital #DataDriven #PrivateCapital #DataVisualization #VentureCapital #Insights...
Jun 11, 2024•1 hr
Prasad Kawthekar is the CEO & Co-founder of Dashworks. Dashworks is the personalized, all-in-one, and secure AI solution for organizations. Dashworks learns from existing knowledge scattered across siloed cloud applications to help employees find instant answers to all their questions at work. The company has raised funds from investors including Y Combinator, Point72 Ventures, and OVO Fund. Prasad was also featured on Forbes' 30 under 30 Enterprise Technology sector in 2024. - The Role ...
Jun 11, 2024•55 min
Evan J. Zimmerman is an entrepreneur, investor, and writer. He is the co-founder and CEO of Edge, a patent assistant startup backed by Y Combinator, for which he was recognized in Forbes 30 Under 30 2023. He invests through Jovono, his personal venture capital firm, and was Chairman of the Clinton Health Access Initiative technology council, which advises the technology of global public health in dozens of partner countries. Evan was inducted as the youngest member of the MAK Museum in Vienna...
Jun 09, 2024•1 hr 6 min
Hyphen Capital was founded and led by Dave Lu. Dave is a Silicon Valley veteran and started his career in tech at Yahoo! in the late 90s. He sat around the corner from Jerry Yang, an entrepreneurial inspiration for many Asian Americans including himself. He went on to work at other iconic technology companies including Apple, eBay and Cisco before starting his first company Fanpop. After growing the company to 40 million users, he went on to start his second company Expo, backed by True Ventures...
Jun 09, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Samit Kalra is a Partner at 1984 Ventures, a San Francisco-based seed fund that backs technical founders using software to solve pressing market needs. The fund is currently investing out of its $75M Fund II. Samit joined the team in 2021, following a two-and-a-half-year tenure at Bain Capital Ventures, a prominent multi-stage fund that has backed iconic companies such as Docusign and LinkedIn. Before his time at Bain, he worked at AngelList, a startup dedicated to building tools for other start...
Jun 09, 2024•1 hr
Magnus Grimeland is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Antler, a global early-stage VC enabling and investing in the world's most exceptional people. He leads a global team across 6 continents, 30+ locations with the mission to fundamentally improve the world by supporting founders, who are building the defining companies of tomorrow. Antler has invested in, and helped build 1100+ portfolio companies worldwide and established the world’s largest early-stage investment platform, with ...
Jun 05, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Alex Freberg is the Founder & CEO of Analyst Builder and Alex Analytics LLC. He is also the creator of a highly popular YouTube channel, "Alex The Analyst," which has amassed over 780,000 subscribers. Alex's channel provides comprehensive content on everything you need to know to become a data analyst, making him a prominent figure in the data analytics community. Through his educational videos and expert insights, Alex has empowered countless individuals to pursue careers in d...
Jun 02, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Marshall Sandman is the Managing Partner of Animal Capital. Animal Capital is the first venture firm with access to 150M+ engaged consumers across the world. Animal Capital drives growth by leveraging proprietary marketing channels and increasing awareness around brands. Animal Capital provides all the services of a traditional venture fund combined with an unrivaled ability to influence a new generation of consumers. * Evolving Role of Social Media in VC Space * Impact of Emerging Trends on Con...
May 31, 2024•33 min
Renee Shah is a Partner at Amplify Partners. Amplify Partners is an early-stage venture capital fund. She is focused on security, infrastructure and dev tools. Prior to Amplify Partners, Renee worked at BCG (The Boston Consulting Group) focused on strategy for healthcare and private equity clients; Clinton Health Access Initiative, Inc. where she invested in new technology to improve healthcare in East Africa, and Emerging Products & Solutions / Waymo LiDAR team at Google. Renee holds an MBA...
May 30, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Jesse Draper is a mother of 3 boys, founding partner of Halogen Ventures and focused on early stage investing in consumer technology companies led by female and co-ed teams. Draper is a Kauffman Fellow and 4th generation venture capitalist. She is a fierce advocate for investing in women and the opportunity for using technology and innovation to solve some of the biggest issues facing women and families today. Among her 70+ portfolio companies, are the Skimm, ThirdLove, HopSkipDrive, The Flex Co...
May 30, 2024•1 hr
Stephanie Zufle Retcho has served as the Chief Marketing Officer for both KAYAK and Hungryroot. She has also held leadership positions at renowned agencies like McCann Erickson and TBWA\CHIAT\DAY, managing blue-chip accounts like Verizon Wireless and Sprint-Nextel. Throughout her career, Stephanie has driven growth through strategic marketing, resulting in increased revenue, profit, and market share. As a key member of executive leadership teams, she has built high-performing teams and led diver...
May 29, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Vanessa Larco joined NEA as a Partner in 2016 and focuses on enterprise and consumer investing. She has led investments in Assembled, Kindred, Rewind AI, Cleo, Evernow, Rocket.Chat, and Mejuri, among others. She is also a board observer at Forethought, SafeBase, Orby AI, Granica, Modyfi, and HEAVY.AI. She was a board observer at Robinhood until its IPO in 2021. Prior to Venture, she led product teams at Box, Twilio, Disney, and Xbox. Topics: - Current Trends in Enterprise and Consumer Investing ...
May 28, 2024•1 hr 9 min
Tikue Anazodo is the co-founder and CEO of Kudos Technologies, a company launched in 2022 that developed an AI-powered smart wallet to help consumers maximize credit card rewards and cash back for online purchases. Under his leadership, Kudos has grown rapidly, securing a recent Series A round led by QED Investors. Tikue, who previously worked at Google and Affirm, has driven Kudos to expand its user base from 1,000 beta testers to 200,000 registered users, while introducing innovative features ...
May 25, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Kyle Lui is a General Partner at Bling Capital. He has backed 7 “unicorn” companies across SaaS, consumer internet, digital health, and fintech. Previously, Kyle was a Partner at DCM where led early stage US investments including DocSend (acq. by Dropbox), TravelBank (acq. by US Bank), Wrike (acq. by Citrix), Hims & Hers (NYSE: HIMS), Shift (Nasdaq: SFT) and Tapingo (acq. by GrubHub). He also served as a board member or observer of SoFi (Nasdaq: SOFI), Matterport (Nasdaq: MTTR), BitTorrent (...
May 24, 2024•51 min
An entrepreneur at heart, Rami Rahal started Blue Cloud Ventures after having worked as a tech investment banker at Madison Park Group. Before that, he was an IT strategy consultant at Accenture. In 2016, he was named by Forbes to the Venture Capital "30Under30" list and by Inc. Magazine as one of "20 Young Entrepreneurs You Need to Know". In 2018, he was named by Crain New York Business Magazine to the "40 Under 40" list and received the "Distinguished Young A...
May 24, 2024•1 hr 8 min
Nick Singh is the Founder and CEO of DataLemur. Thousands of data scientists, data analysts, and BI professionals use DataLemur daily to prepare for their technical interviews and land their dream jobs in data. Previously, he worked at Facebook and Google. These days, he's the creator of the SQL interview platform DataLemur.com, the best-selling author of "Ace the Data Science Interview," and avidly writes data science and career tips for his audience of 166k+ followers on LinkedIn...
May 23, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Kanyi Maqubela serves as Managing Partner at Kindred Ventures. He focuses his investment and formation work in theme areas including frontier technology, digital health, e-commerce, financial technology, supply-chain/logistics. He currently serves a number of startups as a lead investor, including Adyton, Basis Theory, Faircraft, Cloudtrucks, Goldfinch, and Tala. He previously led or participated in the earliest stages of investments including Outschool, Just, Impossible Foods, Upstart (NASDAQ: ...
May 22, 2024•1 hr
David leads pre-seed investments at Roble Ventures, a future-of-work-focused fund that invests in technologies enabling people, teams, and organizations to achieve their most ambitious work. He looks for early-stage software companies that positively impact organizations and workers and can scale to be potential $1B+ unicorn companies. David served on a Fulbright Scholarship at the leading global accelerator Endeavor in Mexico City. Later, as an operator in two venture-backed startups, he saw fi...
May 21, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Brian Harwitt is a Partner at CoVenture where he focused on finding alternative lending platforms to partner with for both debt and equity financings. Prior to joining the CoVenture team, Brian was an investment banking analyst at Guggenheim Securities focusing on healthcare. Brian received a BS Summa Cum Laude from Cornell University. - Key trends and innovations in alternative lending - How startups can decide which financing route to take - Risk assessment and management in alternative lendin...
May 18, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Natasha is a partner at Silicon Legal Strategy. Her practice focuses on advising emerging growth and development stage companies on a variety of matters: pre-incorporation planning and entity formation, debt or equity financing and day-to-day business issues, and through the exit process. She also represents emerging technology investors. Prior to joining SLS, Natasha was a corporate associate at Kaye Scholer LLP and DLA Piper LLP (US) in Palo Alto and San Francisco, where she worked with emergi...
May 18, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Nir Eyal is an author, speaker, and expert in behavioral design, which combines psychology, technology, and business. He wrote the bestsellers Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products and Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life. Nir has taught as a Lecturer in Marketing at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Design School and has sold two tech companies since 2003. With a background in video gaming and advertising, he helps companies create positive user be...
May 18, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Tushar Roy is a Partner at Square Peg Capital, focusing on investing in venture and growth stage online and technology companies across Southeast Asia, Australia, and Israel. With almost a decade of experience in the region, he specializes in identifying and supporting tech founders to help them achieve their goals. Tushar’s current portfolio includes Chope, Cialfo, Doctor Anywhere, FinAccel, Kaodim, Neuron, Pluang, PropertyGuru, StashAway, Talon.One, and Timo. He has also worked closely with Am...
May 17, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Jack McClelland is an investor and engineer at Afore, a pre-seed focused venture capital fund managing approximately $300 million across three funds. He actively supports and invests in early-stage founders while also developing internal tools crucial for Afore's operations. Jack leads the Alpha Program, a pre-seed deal investing $1 million at $10 million (post) into promising tech startups globally, regardless of industry or traction, with a particular enthusiasm for young technical talent....
May 17, 2024•1 hr 8 min
