Travis Chen is a Gen Z change-maker dedicated to making an impact on this world. He was the co-founder of Sound Mind. SoundMind is a venture-backed music therapy platform designed for students and gen-z to support their mental health and well-being. Right now, there’s a lack of understanding of youth emotions in current products. SoundMind is here to change that. They recognize the unique challenges students face in today's school environment, and believe that music therapy can be a powerful...
Apr 05, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Lior is an investor, entrepreneur, and the Founder and Managing Partner of Eclipse Ventures. He is passionate about building groundbreaking technology companies. He’s an unlikely venture capitalist. Lior grew up on a kibbutz (ask him about banana farming) and spent many years in the Special Forces of the Israeli military. After he’d completed his military service, he did what he so often does – set out to solve a big problem. In 2008, Lior joined his brother to help build Intucell, a pioneer in ...
Apr 05, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Longtime investor and entrepreneur Ronald Diamond is the Founder and Chairman of Diamond Wealth. He invests alongside 100 Family Offices ranging in size from $250 million to $30 billion. Diamond Wealth invests in private markets (private equity, venture capital, real estate). In addition, Diamond Wealth has divisions that focus on philanthropy, wealth transfer, investment banking, social impact, and governance. Ronald serves on the Advisory Board of 10 privately held companies and acts as Chairm...
Apr 05, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Collin Wallace has over 20 years of experience as an engineer, inventor, operator, and investor. Before joining Lobby Capital, he was the Managing Director for Techstars Silicon Valley, where he launched the first two Techstars accelerator programs in the Bay Area in partnership with JP Morgan and eBay. He started his career as the founder and CEO of FanGo Software Systems (TS S10), a leading company in restaurant mobile ordering. In 2011, FanGo was acquired by GrubHub, and Collin became the Hea...
Apr 05, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Jason Fiedler is a Managing Partner at Left Lane Capital, a Venture Capital and Growth Equity firm focused on investing high-growth, digital-first consumer and internet technology businesses that are fundamental to the human condition and spirit. Prior to Left Lane, Jason was a principal at Red Sea Ventures, an early stage venture firm based in New York City. In two years at the firm, he’s worked on fundraising and hiring for its second fund as well as with companies including Allbirds, Outdoor ...
Mar 30, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Karthik Krishnan is the Founder/CEO of Concentric AI. He is a veteran of the security industry, having held leadership position for over 20 years at diverse cybersecurity companies such as Symantec, Juniper Networks, HPE, and PGP Corporation. He holds a Bachelors in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India and an MBA with distinction from the Kellogg School of Management, where he was an F.C. Austin Scholar. He has been featured in articles from leading publications suc...
Mar 30, 2024•56 min
Jeetu Patel is Cisco’s Executive Vice President and General Manager of Security and Collaboration. He leverages a diverse set of capabilities to lead the strategy and development for these businesses and also owns P&L responsibility for this multibillion-dollar portfolio. Jeetu combines a bold vision, steeped in product design and development expertise, operational rigor and innate market understanding to create high growth Software as a Service (SaaS) businesses. A member of the Executive L...
Mar 28, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Kevin Novak is the founder of Rackhouse VC. Before that, he served as Uber’s first Head of Data Science, its first Head of Data Science Platform, and was one of the early members of a Uber Freight (Uber’s innovative freight marketplace). Kevin was the inventor of Uber’s dynamic pricing product, and holds several patents around GPS points processing, marketplace optimization products, and using data science to improve the mobile experience. He has also served as Chief Data Officer for Tala Financ...
Mar 27, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Dave Rhodes is the Chief Executive Officer of Sauce Labs, a leader in continuous testing and error reporting solutions that enable the development, delivery, and updating of high-quality code at speed. The Sauce Labs unified testing platform has conducted over four billion tests, making it the most comprehensive and trusted continuous testing solution in the world. It provides a 360-degree view of a customer's application experience, helping businesses improve their user experience by ensuri...
Mar 27, 2024•1 hr
Jenny Fielding is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Everywhere Ventures (The Fund). She was the Managing Director at Techstars for 7.5 years where she led investments into companies that now have a market cap of over $10B, prior to co-founding the global venture capital firm, Everywhere Ventures. Across these entities, Jenny has been the first-money into 300+ tech-enabled companies including: Chainalysis, Alloy, Latch, Tempo Automation, Headway, Contra, Particle Health, Pair Eyewear, Solo F...
Mar 27, 2024•56 min
Darian Shirazi is a General Partner at Gradient Ventures. Prior to Gradient, Darian founded Radius, a leading B2B Customer Data Platform, serving as the company’s CEO for 7+ years. He grew the company to over one hundred employees, raised more than $100MM in venture capital from top tier firms, and served dozens of Fortune 500 customers. He is an early investor in many companies including Lyft, Udemy, Carbon Health, Palantir, and serves on the Board of Directors at Gigs, Range, Spline, and Chili...
Mar 23, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Qin En Looi is a Partner at Saison Capital. Saison Capital is an early stage fund with a focus on emerging markets. We back ambitious founders solving big problems, with deep fondness for web3, fintech and embedded finance - non-fintech companies expanding into fintech. Their team comes from an operating background, and we are unafraid to roll up our sleeves to support our founders. We are backed by Credit Saison, a Tokyo-listed 30b AUM consumer finance company with extensive financial services ...
Mar 23, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Ian Sigalow is the co-founder and managing partner of Greycroft, a multi-stage venture fund based in New York. Since co-founding the fund in 2006, Ian has helped grow AUM to more than $3B, having invested in companies like Venmo, Bumble, Shipt, and Scopely. Before founding Greycroft, Ian spent three years at a venture fund in Boston, before starting his own company called StrongData, which developed smart card technology to prevent card-not-present fraud. * The State of VC in 2024 * Market predi...
Mar 21, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Inspired by Knight Rider and Star Trek, Shahin grew up with a passion to endow superpowers to humanity through feats of engineering. He learned BASIC on an IBM PC XT clone he built at his aunt’s computer store and used to dial into Bulletin Board Systems when he was in the 4th grade. He learned about engines by taking apart an Alfa Romeo at his Uncle’s repair shop a few years later. He aspired to design microchips, software, and systems that could someday amount to the fictional K.I.T.T., and bu...
Mar 20, 2024•33 min
Brian Zhan is an investor at CRV, where he focuses on investing in early-stage infrastructure software companies. Prior to that, he worked on product development at Facebook and Starburst. Brian joined the original Presto creators (who co-founded Starburst to offer fully managed Presto) to build Starburst's batch analytics product from scratch. He interviewed users to build the business proposal and roadmap, hired an engineering team, and led the go-to-market strategy. Building an active ope...
Mar 20, 2024•42 min
Gabby Slome is the Co-founder and CEO of Cooper, a parenting mecca offering parents (and parents to be) with the tools and resources to build their parenting muscle and become the parents they want to be. Cooper offers on demand access to leading experts in child development and likeminded parents, 24/7. Group sessions, live events/workshops and “always on” one-on-one support are spearheaded by top tier experts including PhD’s, educators and licensed clinical social workers with decades of exper...
Mar 20, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Chris is a partner at Wing, where he works with founders building data infrastructure and AI-first infrastructure. His passion is improving the odds for founders at the earliest stages, particularly in finding product-market fit through introductions to potential customers and strategic partners. He strives to support founders in de-risking the beginning stages of building an enduring company. Before joining Wing as a partner, he was a venture investor at Base10 Partners and a growth-stage inves...
Mar 16, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Galia Beer-Gabel is a Partner at Team8 where she helps to build innovative fintech startups. Galia works closely with founders and supports them with the ideation, building, and scaling of their businesses. Prior to joining and building Team8’s fintech foundry, Galia spent 6 years at PayPal where she held multiple business development and sales leadership roles across sub-Saharan Africa, Israel, and Eastern Europe. In addition to possessing deep fintech and eCommerce expertise, Galia has vast ex...
Mar 16, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Kendrick Nguyen is the Co-founder and CEO of Republic. Republic empowers everyone to invest in the future they believe in by providing access to startups, real estate, crypto, video game financing and more. Focused on creating a diverse, sustainable, connected world, Republic has facilitated over $700 million in investments from over one million global community members, with $1B+ in managed assets. - Building a Scalable Business Model - Market Entry and Expansion Strategies - Building and Manag...
Mar 16, 2024•56 min
Rishi Taparia is the Co-Founder and General Partner at Garuda Ventures. He is a seasoned tech executive and investor with over 15 years of experience in strategy, operations and finance. He was most recently the SVP of Strategy and Operations at Legion, an AI/ML powered HR tech company, where he helped launch a new product line, and raise $80M in capital across multiple rounds of funding. Prior to Legion, Rishi served as the VP of Business Operations at Poynt, a hardware and software company bui...
Mar 16, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Brent Murri is a Partner at M13 where he leads early-stage investments in software and marketplaces. Brent joined M13 from Battery Ventures where he focused on growth-stage enterprise software investments. Prior to Battery, he worked in strategy & business development for Samsung NEXT, where he developed and executed strategies around Samsung’s mobile software and services initiatives. Topics: - Investing in the Future of Commerce and AI - Founder Reference Check/Due Diligence - Mastering Po...
Mar 16, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Fares Ksebati is Co-Founder and CEO of MySwimPro. MySwimPro helps people improve their performance and health through swimming. The company has over one million community members and works with some of the biggest brands in the world. MySwimPro was named by Apple as the Best App of the Year and has been featured in Sports Illustrated and numerous other global publications. He is the author of two books, and his work has been featured by Apple, Forbes, Men's Health, the New York Times, Crains...
Mar 16, 2024•1 hr
Ed Suh is the Founder and Managing Partner of Alpine Ventures, a San Francisco based technology venture capital firm. Ed previously led seed, early stage, and growth stage investments in Silicon Valley for nearly a decade across two prominent multi-stage venture firms: Goodwater Capital, a spin-out of Kleiner Perkins and Maverick Capital with over $3B of AUM, and Redpoint Ventures, a leading Silicon Valley venture firm with a 20+ year track record of leading consumer and enterprise software inve...
Mar 10, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Bryan leads Craft's New York office and is a partner on the investment team. Prior to joining Craft, Bryan built Reddit's New York office and revenue team, growing revenue over 10x to $100m+ in annualized revenue while managing sales, customer success, and creative strategy for the East Coast. During his time at Reddit, Bryan built partnerships with brands including Google, Microsoft, Target, Coca-Cola, P&G, and HBO. Bryan was an early member of Twitter's New York team, where he ...
Mar 10, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Ashmeet is the Chief Engineer of Engineering Capital (www.engineeringcapital.com). His experience includes managing venture capital funds, serving on multiple Boards of Directors, and helping build the industry leading products VMware ESX Server and Silicon Graphics WebFORCE. Before this last decade as a venture capitalist Ashmeet was an operating executive with hands-on operating experience as a CEO and Entrepreneur. Current investments include Prismo Systems, Menlo Security, Kentik, YotaScale,...
Mar 10, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Sophia Amoruso is the founder and managing partner of Trust Fund, an early-stage venture fund focused exclusively (yet broadly) on investing in tech-enabled products that help people start and build businesses. Trust fund’s investors include Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, David Sacks, Jason Calacanis, Ev Williams, Naomi Gleit, Andrew Chen, Jeff Jordan, Jesse Draper, Rob Hayes, and Phil Hellmuth. Some of their portfolios include Public, Liquid Death, and MoonPay, among others. She is also the foun...
Mar 10, 2024•45 min
Youngrok Kim is the Partner and Head of Investment at GREE LP Fund. Investing in 60+ venture capital funds from Japan, they invest in select venture capital funds ranging from micro VC to established funds worldwide to accelerate innovation on a global scale. Topics: - Global Innovation Through Fund-of-Funds Investment - The Role of Micro VC in the Investment Landscape - The Future of Venture Capital: Trends and Predictions #VentureCapital #Innovation #Investment #GlobalScale #FutureTrends...
Mar 10, 2024•1 hr 4 min
🎙️ Tomorrow on Venture with Grace (LIVE), join me for an inspiring conversation with Fiona Co Chan, the visionary founder of Youthforia, a brand that's revolutionizing the beauty industry with its skin-friendly makeup. Since securing a $400,000 investment from Mark Cuban on Shark Tank, Fiona's journey has been a testament to innovation and sustainability. In this episode, we'll discuss: 1️⃣ Eco-Friendly Innovation: How Youthforia is setting new standards in beauty with sustainable, ...
Mar 02, 2024•56 min
Christopher Gallant is the CEO of Chamberlain Coffee, a popular brand founded by renowned YouTube influencer Emma Chamberlain. With over 15 years of experience in launching, growing, and leading premium food, beverage, and consumer brands, Chris is an accomplished General Manager and strategist. As a passionate and dynamic leader, he is known for his focus on taking action. He has a proven track record of delivering results in both entrepreneurial and corporate environments. Topics: - Building a...
Mar 02, 2024•55 min
Michael Daugherty is the CTO and co-founder of Quill, a cutting-edge desktop client that leverages local AI to enhance productivity post-meeting, currently in private beta. Before Quill, Michael honed his skills in computer science at MIT and played a pivotal role as an early team member and Chief Strategy Officer at AngelList. There, he was instrumental in developing AngelList Syndicates and steering AngelList Venture to an impressive $1B+ in AUM. Topics: * How angel investors can transition in...
Mar 02, 2024•1 hr 8 min
