🚀 This episode is brought to you by LG NOVA. 🚀 Watch the latest Smart Venture Podcast episode. #156 Mark Rostick is a Vice President & Senior Managing Director located in Raleigh, NC. He is a voting member of Intel Capital’s investment committee. He joined Intel Capital in 1999. Mark also co-manages our Cloud domain investment activities and portfolio. He has deep investment experience in cloud applications, infrastructure hardware and software, as well as AI/ML. As a member of Intel Capit...
Sep 26, 2024•57 min
🚀 This episode is brought to you by LG NOVA. 🚀 Amit Vasudev is the Managing Partner of Earl Grey Capital. Earl Grey Capital is an early-stage venture fund run by Amit Vasudev, Alex MacCaw, and Matt Sornson. They were part of the founding team at Clearbit. Clearbit helps companies create, capture, and convert demand from ideal customers — all from one powerful and flexible go-to-market platform. It was acquired in 2023 by HubSpot (NYSE: HUBS). Earl Grey Capital invests in companies that make it...
Sep 25, 2024•1 hr
🚀 This episode is brought to you by LG NOVA. 🚀 Matthew Weinberg is a Partner at Max Ventures Partner. Matt joined Max Ventures in 2018 after serving several years as an Obama Administration White House appointee where he helped drive $6 billion in federal funding to early-stage technology startups and investment groups. Matt has led several key investments at Max and is the Co-founder of Elion Health. Topics: - Investing trends in the digital health space - New York City's startup ecosyste...
Sep 24, 2024•1 hr 5 min
🚀 This episode is brought to you by LG NOVA. 🚀 Rajeev Dham has been a Partner at Sapphire Ventures since 2013, splitting his time between applied AI companies across horizontal and vertical SaaS, as well as category-defining innovators in fintech and healthcare. For his work, he has been recognized as a Top 40 Under 40 Growth Investor by GrowthCap and most recently, the Silicon Valley Business Journal honored him in their annual 40 Under 40 list. Prior to Sapphire Ventures, Rajeev worked for S...
Sep 20, 2024•57 min
🚀 This episode is brought to you by LG NOVA. 🚀 Jason Yeh is the Co-Founder & General Partner of Patron Fund. Patron, an early-stage VC firm investing in the next generation of consumer startups announced the raise of a $100 million USD Fund II. The company's second fund has attracted significant institutional and individual support, anchored again by Horsley Bridge Partners and joined by new institutional investors including university endowments, sovereign wealth funds and institution...
Sep 20, 2024•58 min
🚀 This episode is brought to you by LG NOVA. 🚀 Giuseppe Stuto is the CO-Founder and Managing Partner of 186 Ventures. Giuseppe built his first software company, Fam, where he was the founder and CEO shortly after he graduated college. Fam built one of the largest group video communities ever by scaling to more than seven million users in about a year. Fam was acquired by DraftKings in 2018, and Giuseppe stayed on to serve in product & strategy roles leading up to the company’s successful I...
Sep 19, 2024•58 min
🚀 This episode is brought to you by LG NOVA. 🚀 Eric Zhu the co-founder of Aviato, which is the "Bloomberg Terminal" for private markets, and an Investor at Bachmanity Capital. Topics: - Content marketing strategies for a B2B startup - Leveraging social media and digital platforms to reach potential clients and investors - Leveraging unique Gen Z perspectives and skills in product development and company culture #TeenFounder #VCDisruptor #GenZEntrepreneur #StartupHustle #DataDriven 🚀...
Sep 18, 2024•1 hr 1 min
🚀 This episode is brought to you by LG NOVA. 🚀 Shira Eting is a Partner at Vintage Investment Partners. Prior to joining Vintage, Shira managed ‘Mechinat Bnei Zion,’ an NGO for non-formal education. Before that, Shira worked as a Strategic Consultant for McKinsey & Company, focusing on a wide range of industries. Shira was also a ‘Milken’ fellow in the Ministry of Economy, focusing on the export of Israel’s water technologies. Shira holds a BSc in Math and Computer Science from Ben Gurion ...
Sep 17, 2024•58 min
🚀 This episode is brought to you by LG NOVA. 🚀 Caroline Winnett is the Executive Director at Berkeley SkyDeck. Berkeley SkyDeck is UC Berkeley's startup accelerator and incubator. Through the Berkeley SkyDeck Fund, they invest $200,000 in each of their cohort startups, and provide the powerful resources and network of UC Berkeley to help cohort companies grow. The Berkeley SkyDeck Fund shares one-half of all fund profits with UC Berkeley. Formed as a partnership between the Haas School of ...
Sep 14, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Sponsor Spotlight:🚀 This episode is brought to you by LG NOVA. 🚀 Sokwoo Rhee is Corporate Executive Vice President for Innovation at LG Electronics and Head of LG NOVA, LG Electronics' Silicon Valley-based innovation center. He leads LG Electronics’ global innovation projects, new business creation, strategic partnerships, and ecosystem development. Prior to joining LG, Sokwoo served as Associate Director for Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) Innovation at the National Institute of Standards an...
Sep 14, 2024•1 hr 6 min
🚀 This episode is brought to you by LG NOVA. 🚀 David Cohen is the Founder and CEO of Techstars, a pre-seed investor that provides access to capital, programming and connections to early-stage entrepreneurs. David is a lifelong entrepreneur, and has founded three companies, two of which had successful exits. Since founding Techstars in 2006, the company has invested in more than 4,400 startups through its 40+ accelerator programs worldwide. The company has invested in over 20 unicorns including...
Sep 14, 2024•59 min
🚀 This episode is brought to you by LG NOVA. 🚀 Yuri Lee is a partner at IVP who leads investments across Consumer Internet, Health, and Application Layer AI. She works closely with companies like Abridge, Clipboard Health (Board), Discord, LegalZoom, Papaya Global, and Accompany Health in the portfolio. Yuri was previously an indie game developer and globally ranked competitive gamer. She spent a few years working with enterprise software companies like Slack, SentinelOne, and Affirm at Morgan...
Sep 14, 2024•1 hr
🚀 This episode is brought to you by LG NOVA. 🚀 Elizabeth Jarvis-Shean is Vice President of Communications at DoorDash. Prior to that, she oversaw Airbnb's global public affairs and corporate communications teams. Elizabeth has managed strategic communications at pioneering companies including Tesla Motors, healthcare technology startup Nuna, and data science firm Civis Analytics. She helped shape and drive research, rapid response and messaging for both of Barack Obama’s presidential campa...
Sep 13, 2024•53 min
🚀 This episode is brought to you by LG NOVA. 🚀 Neil Sequeira is the Founder & Managing Director at Defy (defy.vc). Prior to Defy, he was a Managing Director at General Catalyst Partners for 12 years, where he joined in 2004, a couple of years after the firm’s founding. Some of the companies Neil worked with include: The Honest Company, Entropic Communications, Nautilus Biotech, Everyday Health, Virtue (Oracle), Elemental (Amazon AWS), HotPotato (Facebook), ThisTech (Comcast), Cozy (Costar)...
Sep 13, 2024•1 hr 11 min
🚀 This episode is brought to you by LG NOVA. 🚀 Christopher Gavigan is one of the co-founders of The Honest Company (NASDAQ: HNST). In January 2012, Chris, along with his business partners Jessica Alba and Brian Lee, co-founded The Honest Company. The Honest Company is a mission-driven, digitally-native brand focused on leading the clean lifestyle movement, creating a community for conscious consumers, and seeking to disrupt multiple consumer product categories. He is also the founder and CEO o...
Sep 13, 2024•56 min
🚀 This episode is brought to you by LG NOVA. 🚀 Chris Bach is Chief Strategy and Creative Officer and co-founder of Netlify, launched in 2015 and today is one of the most popular web development platforms. Chris is on the Board of the MACH Alliance, is an avid investor in the modern web ecosystem, and sits on a number of advisory boards. Before Netlify he spent 14 years in the agency world as a founder, CEO and Chief Digital Officer. He started Denmark’s first hybrid production agency and won 2...
Sep 07, 2024•1 hr 5 min
🚀 This episode is brought to you by LG NOVA. 🚀 Eric Anderson is a Partner at Scale Venture Partners, where he focuses on investments in cloud infrastructure and security. He is a Board member at Scale portfolio companies Datastax, Permin.io, and Upsolver, and a Board observer at AppOmni, BigID, Expel, Honeycomb, and Matillion. Before Scale, Eric led early Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services product teams. At Google, he was a Product Manager in the Data Analytics and Machine Learning group. He...
Sep 05, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Sonam is Partner at Convivialité Ventures India, based out of Mumbai. Sonam started her career in finance as an investment banker at Nomura. She spent 5 years advising clients in 2 geographies – Hong Kong and India. She helped execute M&A and capital market transactions in multiple sectors such as oil & gas, pharma, real-estate and financial services. After Nomura, Sonam joined RoundGlass Partners, a US-based health and wellbeing-focused corporate. As part of the founding team, she helpe...
Sep 03, 2024•1 hr 4 min
David Glick is the SVP of Enterprise Business Services at Walmart. His team is responsible for finance technology and shared services, People tech and services, Payments, Trust, and the Associate Digital Experience.Prior to joining Walmart, David served as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Flexe. Flexe offers three main products: Flexible Fulfillment, Rapid Replenishment, and Inventory Overflow. These products are designed to be implemented without upfront fees or long-term contracts. Before...
Aug 25, 2024•59 min
Steve Sloane is a partner at Menlo Ventures focused on investments in Menlo’s Inflection Fund, which targets fast-growing Series B/C companies. He has made a number of supply chain technology investments, including Enable, Scout, 6 River Systems, ShipBob, CloudTrucks, and Parade. Steve joined the firm in 2015 as an associate, became a principal in 2017, and a partner in 2019. Prior to Menlo, Steve worked in growth-stage investing at Insight Venture Partners in New York and founded a YC-backed co...
Aug 22, 2024•1 hr
As Managing Partner and Co-Founder of 645, Nnamdi oversees the firm’s investment strategy and enjoys partnering with founders as an investor/board member to help them achieve their entrepreneurial dreams. You can check out Nnamdi discussing tech trends on CNBC: Nnamdi Okike on investing in tech’s ‘behavioral change economy’ and on Yahoo Finance: Nnamdi Okike discusses tech investing, SPACs, Web3 and the Metaverse. Nnamdi grew up in Massachusetts as the child of immigrants from Nigeria and German...
Aug 21, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Mike Droesch is a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners primarily focusing on AI applications, cybersecurity, supply chain software, and B2B marketplaces. He currently serves on the board of directors for Tackle, Curri, Raft, Cypress, Netography, Optimal Dynamics, and VendorPM. Previously, Mike worked with a few venture-backed startups in Boston, including two Bessemer portfolio companies, Fuze and InsightSquared, where he supported sales operations and analytics efforts. He started his career as...
Aug 17, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Amber Atherton is a Partner at Patron, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in a future shaped by games. She is a former founder, whose Y Combinator backed start-up was acquired by Discord. She is the author of the best selling book ‘The Rise of Virtual Communities’ published by Apress. Born in Hong Kong, Atherton began coding as a kid. Building websites, mini-games and Neopets communities. At 16, she started a popular blog, which evolved into one of Europe’s largest online jewelry mark...
Aug 17, 2024•1 hr 1 min
As the inaugural Executive Director of VC Platform Global Community, Joshua Goodfield leads the largest dedicated collective of platform professionals in the venture capital industry, with over 2,000 members across 1,000 funds in 45 countries representing $2.6T+ in AUM. His mission is to create value for the VC ecosystem through community building and accelerating outstanding leaders. Topics: - Global trends in venture capital and startup ecosystems - The evolution of VC firm structures and oper...
Aug 17, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Medha Agarwal is a General Partner at Defy. Prior to Defy, she was a Partner at Redpoint Ventures for seven years focused on early stage investments across fintech, vertical saas, marketplaces, and healthcare. Medha started her career at Bain & Company and also started and built 2 companies, skedge.me & Roomidex, before starting her investing career at Bessemer Venture Partners. - Trends and opportunities in fintech, vertical SaaS, marketplaces, and healthcare startups - Early-stage inve...
Aug 14, 2024•56 min
TX Zhuo is a General Partner at Fika Ventures. An entrepreneur at heart, TX has been involved with startups since his college days where he started then successfully sold an online college textbook marketplace. After a stint at McKinsey where he was a core member of their financial services and consumer goods practices, he came back to his roots and served as the CFO for an electric vehicle startup, Lit Motors. Thereafter, he worked for Innovation Endeavors, a seed stage venture fund backed by E...
Aug 14, 2024•55 min
Chon Tang is the Founding & General Partner of Berkeley SkyDeck Fund. Chon is an experienced Silicon Valley engineer, entrepreneur and investor. He was formerly founding partner and Managing Director of Junzi Capital Engineering, a leading quantitative hedge fund investing in the commodity space. He has been actively investing in Silicon Valley startups for 12 years, and has personal investments in over 25 deals with multiple IPOs and exits. Chon is a proud Cal Bear (BS EECS), and also has a...
Aug 10, 2024•1 hr
Rob Biederman is the Managing Partner of Asymmetric. Prior to founding Asymmetric, Rob co-founded and served as co-CEO for eight years of Catalant Technologies, the market leader enabling companies to frictionlessly access and deploy talent, ranging from employees to over 70,000 elite independent consultants and 1,000 boutique firms. He is currently Chairman of Catalant. Rob is also co-author of a book titled, Reimagining Work: Strategies to Disrupt Talent, Lead Change, and Win with a Flexible W...
Aug 09, 2024•52 min
Jett Fein is a General Partner at Headline, where he invests in technology businesses globally. Jett joined Headline in 2014 and has led or co-led the firm’s early investments in Gopuff, Fancy (acquired by Gopuff), Honeycomb.io, gettacar, Playbook, Sprout Therapy, Air, Swell, Avoma, Candid Co., NomNomNow (acquired by Mars), Rocket.Chat, Tonebase, Copa90, and is involved in several other investments in the US and Europe, including Shopmonkey and GRIN. Prior to joining Headline, Jett was at Fung C...
Aug 08, 2024•1 hr
Ed Sim is the Founder of boldstart, partnering from Inception with developer first, infrastructure and SaaS founders. He loves working with engineering-driven founders with bold ideas and laser-sharp focus on product well before writing their first lines of code. Ed has been in the trenches with Snyk, Kustomer (sold to Meta), BigID, Blockdaemon, Superhuman, Security Scorecard, Front and so many more from inception. Ed also co-founded MState in 2017, an enterprise blockchain lab in partnership wi...
Aug 07, 2024•1 hr 5 min
