Arjun Sethi is a co-founder and partner at Tribe Capital, a venture capital firm specializing in using data science to invest in and support disruptive technology companies. Before Tribe Capital, he was a partner at Social Capital, where he focused on technology investments. Arjun is also known for his entrepreneurial endeavors, including co-founding MessageMe, a messaging app that was acquired by Yahoo, and serving as the CEO of Lolapps, a social gaming company. He is also the co-founder of Ter...
Mar 02, 2024•1 hr 7 min
John Lin is an investor at F-Prime Capital, where he leads the west coast’s technology practice. Previously, he was a Principal at Trinity Ventures where he invested in companies like Squire, Baton, Side, Gatsby, Grow, Synapse, Branch and Harmonize. He was also an angel investor in Seated, Deepen, Relationship Hero, Apostrophe, Mureni, and Motion AI. Prior to joining Trinity Ventures, he founded Townhall, a messaging platform, where he led product and engineering . The company was acquired by Ro...
Mar 02, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Stanley joined CapitalG in 2022 as a Vice President on the growth team where he leads advisory efforts to help the firm’s fintech, Web3, and international portfolio companies scale their go-to-market operations and increase their top-line growth. He also leads the firm’s product and technology senior expert advisor networks that work with portfolio companies to enhance their product offerings and partnership opportunities. Before joining CapitalG, Stanley spent 7 years at Google, most recently l...
Feb 29, 2024•1 hr
Alvaro Rodriguez Arregui is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of IGNIA. IGNIA invests in world-class tech entrepreneurs solving problems faced by the emerging middle class in Latin America. Led investments in Rapyd, Tiendanube, Abra, Arcus, Credijusto, Lentesplus, ProducePay, UnDosTres and Sr. Pago. Former Chairman of the Board of Compartamos Banco (Gentera), the largest microfinance institution in the Americas. Former Chairman of the Board of Directors of ACCION International a 60 year US non...
Feb 27, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Jess Mah built her first 6-figure business while still in middle school and has since created three companies that are each valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Among the companies she’s founded are inDinero, a fintech company that helps businesses manage their accounting and taxes; Astonishing Labs, is a biotech firm focused on revolutionizing human health with groundbreaking innovations; and a litigation tech company that has empowered over a thousand individuals to pursue justice, o...
Feb 27, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Sandy Yang is the Head of Accounting at Plaid, a leading fintech company that enables applications to connect with users' bank accounts. Prior to joining Plaid, Sandy was the Director of Accounting at One Medical and held various accounting roles at different SaaS companies. With a strong background in accounting and finance, Sandy has extensive experience in managing financial operations, implementing accounting systems, and ensuring compliance with regulatory standards. Her expertise in st...
Feb 27, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Gina is a co-founder and COO at Latitud, a platform helping build the next generation of iconic tech startups in Latin America through digital products, a dedicated fellowship and fund.Previously, Gina led growth and marketing at Duolingo from 3 to 200 million users via organic strategies (PR, a/b testing, internationalization, partnerships) and was part of the executive team. She also worked on the Mike Bloomberg presidential campaign, helping oversee the creation of digital ad campaigns at a h...
Feb 27, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Linda Tong studies computer science at Stanford University. She has been a venture fellow at Pear VC, Floodgate Fund, 8VC, interned at Foothill Ventures, and freelanced for other early stage funds on university venture sourcing and diligence. At Pear, she evaluated investment opportunities for Pear Competition ($100K uncapped SAFE for student founders) and spearheaded university sourcing strategy and branding for the Stanford engineering community. Topics: - How VC firms can attract the best eng...
Feb 27, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Jordan Segall is a Partner at Redpoint Ventures partnering with devtool, security, and AI founders. He previously worked at 4 startups in engineering, product, and presales such as Palantir, RelateIQ, and C3.ai. Redpoint Ventures has partnered with some of the leading technology companies at the earliest stages for the past 20 years, including Snowflake, Stripe, Twilio, Hashicorp, CockroachDB, Looker, Ramp, SentinelOne, Netflix, NextDoor, PureStorage, and more. Topics: - Trends in Developer Tool...
Feb 19, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Ryan You is a Partner at Galaxy Interactive. Prior to join Galaxy Interactive, Ryan was Head of US at Aream & Co., a leading gaming investment bank, where he built the US franchise from ground up covering both the United States and Asia. He advised on a significant number of gaming M&A transactions, including the $750m sale of Unknown Worlds Entertainment to Krafton, the $525m sale of Starlark to Zynga, the $300m sale of Daybreak to EG7, and helped many other companies raise strategic ca...
Feb 19, 2024•1 hr 11 min
Abe Yokell is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Congruent Ventures, a leading early-stage venture firm focused on partnering with entrepreneurs to build companies addressing climate and sustainability challenges. Abe oversees Congruent’s investments in AMP Robotics, Amply Power, Blueprint Power, Camus Energy, Leap Energy, Evergrow, Omnidian, For Days, Hippo Harvest, Milk Run, Modumate, Optimoroute, Phase Genomics, Raptor Maps, Solidspac3, Span.IO, and Vector among others. He has over 18 years o...
Feb 19, 2024•1 hr 11 min
Zach Coelius is the Managing Partner at Coelius Capital. He has invested in companies such as Mercury, Cruise, and Hellosign. Some of his notable portfolio exits include Cruise by GM, Helloing by Dropbox, Loom.ai by Roblox, Trusted by Care.com, Jiobit by Life360, and Glide by Compass. Topics: * The Art of Early-Stage Investments * Navigating High-Profile Exits * The Future of Tech and Emerging Opportunities 🍎 Apple: http://apple.co/3d6bGea 🎤Spotify: http://bit.ly/gracegong 💻Website: http://sm...
Feb 19, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Ravi Viswanathan founded NewView Capital (NVC) in 2018 to provide entrepreneurs, venture capitalists, and investors with the freedom to drive continual innovation and sustainable growth. With over $2B under management, NVC invests in technology companies through both direct investments and curated portfolio acquisitions, pairing funding with significant operational support. NewView Capital focus primarily on growth-stage companies, with a thematic approach to investing earlier. The NVC portfolio...
Feb 19, 2024•1 hr 6 min
David Weisburd is the Co-Founder at 10X Capital, which founded 10X Capital Venture Capital Acquisition I (NASDAQ: VCVC), 10X Capital Venture Capital Acquisition II (NASDAQ: VCXA), 10X Capital Venture Capital Acquisition III (NASDAQ: VCXB) as well as co-sponsoring four additional SPAC's for a total of 7 10X affiliated SPAC's. In addition to it's SPAC franchise, 10X Capital has also invested into over 500 portfolio companies including 23andMe (Exit - IPO), Clubhouse, DraftKings (Exit -...
Feb 19, 2024•1 hr 21 min
Amber Illig, General Partner at The Council Fund, launched a $5 million debut fund targeting early-stage startups disrupting legacy industries. With a background in angel investing, Illig aims to leverage her experience in tech and venture to support companies in Vertical SaaS, Fintech, and Healthcare. Her career has spanned roles at influential tech companies and her fund emphasizes investment in founders with the resilience to transform complex sectors. The Council, an all-female operator grou...
Feb 13, 2024•1 hr
Elaine is the Co-Founder of Tofu, a generative AI platform for creating hyper-personalized, omnichannel campaigns at scale that converts leads for B2B marketing teams. She also serves as a Venture Partner at SignalFire where she first joined in 2018 to invest in seed stage enterprise SaaS companies. In her work as Venture Partner, she primarily focuses on GTM SaaS and generative AI applications. Prior to joining SignalFire, Elaine built and led the Growth and Product Marketing team at ConsenSy...
Feb 13, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Vijay Karunamurthy is the field Chief Technology Officer at Scale AI, where he works to democratize the capabilities of Generative AI and Large Language Models, partnering with large model providers, governments, and Fortune 500 companies. Prior to Scale, Vijay was a Director of Engineering at Apple and Google, where he worked on applications of AI for personalizing human interfaces. Vijay was an early employee at YouTube (prior to the acquisition by Google), and led Search and Discovery as well...
Feb 13, 2024•1 hr
Eric Bahn is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Hustle Fund, an early-stage venture capital firm based in San Francisco. Hustle Fund invests in software startups at the pre-seed and seed stages, backing founders who exhibit great execution and high velocity (aka, hustle). Previous to Hustle Fund, Eric was an angel investor and partner at 500Startups. And prior to becoming a professional investor, he spent over a decade as an operator (Facebook, Instagram) and entrepreneur (Beat The GMAT, The Hu...
Feb 13, 2024•1 hr
Bradley Tusk is a venture capitalist, political strategist, philanthropist, and writer. He is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Tusk Ventures, the world’s first venture capital fund that invests solely in early stage startups in highly regulated industries, and the founder of political consulting firm Tusk Strategies. Bradley’s family foundation is funding and leading the national campaign to bring mobile voting to all U.S. elections. Tusk Philanthropies also runs and funds anti-hunger camp...
Feb 13, 2024•1 hr
Jon Levy is a behavioral scientist and New York Times bestselling author known for his work in trust, human connection, belonging, and influence. Jon specializes in applying the latest research to transform the ways companies approach marketing, sales, consumer engagement, and culture. His clients range from Fortune 500 brands, like Microsoft, Google, AB-InBev, and Samsung, to startups. More than a decade ago, Jon founded The Influencers Dinner, a secret dining experience for industry leaders ra...
Feb 13, 2024•56 min
A graduate of Stanford’s Graduate School of Business, Ross Pomerantz is a multifaceted individual known for his role as Corporate Bro. He is not just a content creator but also an entrepreneur, angel investor, and a "chill dude." His work mainly revolves around satirical portrayals of corporate life, especially focusing on the life of a Silicon Valley software salesman. His content has garnered him a significant following, making him a modern-day equivalent of Dilbert but in video form...
Feb 13, 2024•48 min
Samir Kaji is the CEO and co-founder of Allocate, a platform that democratizes access to the best technology and life sciences private alternatives. Allocate removes the barriers of discovery, diligence, and access that prevent qualified investors from participating in this lucrative asset class. He also host Venture Unlocked, a podcast and blog that dives into the inner workings of venture capital. Samir share his insights and perspectives from working with over 700 private funds and venture-ba...
Feb 13, 2024•1 hr
Chris Douvos founded Ahoy Capital in 2018 to build an intentionally right-sized firm that could pursue investment excellence while prizing a spirit of partnership with all of its constituencies. A pioneering investor in the micro-VC movement, Chris has been a fixture in venture capital for nearly two decades. In addition to successfully identifying and catalyzing nascent funds, he bridges a gap between the providers of capital and the consumers of capital by creating platforms for transparent di...
Feb 13, 2024•1 hr
Crystal McKellar is a Harvard-trained lawyer. She learned to invest from Peter Thiel and began her venture career in 2012 at a growth-stage venture capital fund backed by Thiel. There, she held board positions at Neurable, Siren Care, DoubleDutch (acq. Cvent), and Fractyl Labs, and was instrumental in the fund's 2012 investment in Palantir Technologies.While working for Thiel, Crystal supported several frontier health tech startups, and from her work with Palantir developed a deep network in...
Feb 13, 2024•1 hr
Joey Primiani is the founder and designer at Superfuture. Superfuture is a creative venture studio and collective of artists, engineers and dreamers out to create magical consumer product experiences at the intersection of technology, arts and culture. Passionate and creative, his designs have been called “ingenious” by Fast Company, “charming ... incredibly unique” by Mashable, and “simple and brilliant” by TechCrunch. Named to Forbes list 2016's 30 Under 30 in the consumer technology categ...
Feb 13, 2024•46 min
Mike Duda is the Managing Partner at Bullish. Bullish is a Marketing Operating Partner focused on being in the growth business. One-part Creative Agency, one-part consumer investment Firm, they deploy capabilities from both worlds to help brands speed the transformation of opportunities into outcomes. Brand Agency campaigns for the likes of: Anheuser Busch, Walmart, GoDaddy, Pepsi, Nike, The Light Phone, TaylorMade. Capital investors in: Harry's, Casper (exited), Warby Parker , Peloton (exit...
Feb 13, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Rohit Dave is the Head of Corporate Development at Block. Prior to that he was the Head of Portfolio Capital Markets at Juxtapose and former VP and head of Corporate Development at WeWork and Corporate Development at Twilio and Samsung. Topic: * M&A strategy insights: deal evaluation frame work * Post-acquisition integration * Understanding your acquire’s perspective 🍎 Apple: http://apple.co/3d6bGea 🎤Spotify: http://bit.ly/gracegong 💻Website: http://smartventurepod.com 🍿YouTube: https://...
Feb 13, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Kelli Fontaine is a Partner at Cendana Capital, where she focuses on investing in early-stage venture capital funds worldwide. Cendana’s portfolio includes notable funds such as Forerunner, Uncork, and Mucker Capital among many others. Topics: * Effective strategies for identifying and engaging with top emerging fund managers. * Insights and takeaways from her extensive experience in fund investments. * Best practices in portfolio management for LPs. 🍎 Apple: http://apple.co/3d6bGea 🎤Spotify: ...
Feb 13, 2024•59 min
Dmitry Petrov is the Co-Founder & CEO at Iterative.ai. He is a former researcher turned startup founder. With a background in data management algorithms, including a PhD thesis, and industrial data science experience he has transitioned into the realm of developer cutting-edge data infrastructure for AI. - Challenges and Solutions in ML Data Versioning - The Role of Open Source in ML Data Versioning - Best Practices for Collaborative ML Projects 🍎 Apple: http://apple.co/3d6bGea 🎤Spotify: h...
Feb 13, 2024•36 min
Anubhav Maheshwari is a Partner at Stage 2 Capital. Anu started his career as an Analyst in Morgan Stanley's Global Technology Investment Banking group advising both private and public technology companies on M&A, IPOs and other capital markets financings. While always at the intersection of technology and finance, Anu has moved to progressively earlier stages with time. After Morgan Stanley, Anu was an investor at ICONIQ Growth where he focused on Series B and later growth investments i...
Feb 13, 2024•1 hr 1 min
