Miguel Armaza is Co-Founder & General Partner of Gilgamesh Ventures, a seed-stage investment fund focused on fintech in the Americas. He also hosts the Fintech Leaders podcast, a weekly newsletter & podcast featuring exclusive interviews with unique leaders reshaping the global financial industry. - Emerging Trends in Fintech - Challenges and Opportunities in Seed-Stage Funding - Cross-Border Investments and Collaborations #Fintech #SeedStageInvesting #FinancialInclusion #DigitalBanking ...
Apr 26, 2024•58 min
Eric is the co-founder and CEO of Revere. Revere provides venture capital data and portfolio management solutions to asset allocators. Before starting Revere, Eric was Head of Institutional Capital at AngelList, the world's largest online venture capital investment platform that supports over $10B in assets and has financed over 190 "unicorn" companies. At AngelList, Eric worked closely with investors to curate early-stage fund and deal opportunities. He also developed systematic and data-driven...
Apr 25, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Emila Damjanovic is a Partner focused on Investor Relations at Lead Edge Capital. Lead Edge Capital is a $5 billion growth equity firm investing in software, internet, and tech-enabled businesses globally. The firm has invested in a number of major software and internet companies around the world, including Alibaba Group, Arrive Logistics, Asana, Azul Systems, Bazaarvoice, Benchling, Clearscore, Duo Security, Grafana, GrowthZone, Holistiplan, LeanStaffing, LiveView Technologies, Pacemate, Safese...
Apr 24, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Shomik is a Partner at boldstart and has over 6 years of venture investing in enterprise software. He’s experienced all the highs and lows of the entrepreneurial journey from IPOs and acquisitions to a failed startup. And is uniquely positioned to help pre-product enterprise startups. Prior to boldstart, Shomik worked as a growth stage investor at Top Tier Capital where he invested in companies like CircleCI, Anaplan, Area 1 Security, and Shape Security. His experience ranges from investment ban...
Apr 23, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Siqi is the founder and CEO of Runway, an a16z funded startup enabling operators to understand their business without needing a degree in finance. As an operator and founder: Siqi was CEO of Sandbox VR (a16z), VP of Product and Growth at Postmates (acquired by Uber), CEO of Hey, Inc (Google-funded, acquired by Postmates), Head of Product at Zynga (IPO 2011), CEO of Serious Business (funded by Lightspeed, acquired by Zynga) Siqi is an investor in nearly a hundred companies like Clubhouse, Amplitu...
Apr 21, 2024•59 min
Alex Edelson is the Founder and General Partner of Slipstream Investors. Before starting Slipstream, he worked at QED Investors, a top fintech-focused venture capital firm with $4.3 billion in assets under management. Alex joined as Nigel Morris's Chief of Staff and became the Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel. He previously worked at a fintech startup and spent seven years practicing law. Alex holds a J.D. and B.A. from the University of Michigan. You can learn more about: 1. How LPs ...
Apr 19, 2024•53 min
Brady Broadbent joined Sorenson in 2008. As an investment partner and entrepreneurial mentor, he collaborates with enterprise entrepreneurs developing and scaling application, analytics, and vertical SaaS applications. Brady graduated magna cum laude from Brigham Young University with a Bachelor of Science in business management and an emphasis in entrepreneurship. He took a break from Sorenson in 2010 to attend Harvard Business School. There, he became involved with the Entrepreneurship Club, P...
Apr 19, 2024•1 hr 6 min
Hooman Radfar is a computer scientist and founder dedicated to helping other founders. He's co-founder and CEO of Collective, Venture Partner at Expa, founder of 10e9, and co-founder of AddThis (acquired by Oracle). As CEO of Collective, he is responsible for the strategy, growth, and operations for the company. Collective's vision is to increase the number of financially successful businesses-of-one by enabling self-employed people to focus on their passion not their paperwork. As a founding pa...
Apr 17, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Nick Moran is the founder and General Partner of New Stack Ventures. Prior to New Stack, Nick spent time as both an investor and an operator. He worked in M&A for Danaher, a science and technology conglomerate. Subsequently, Nick developed one of the most successful products in the company’s history, a novel way of testing compounds in drinking water. New Stack Ventures is a pre-seed / seed stage fund invest in the exceptions. Our startups often don’t look like what’s commonly funded in Sili...
Apr 17, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Alan Cohen is a General Partner at DCVC, focusing on an array of AI-enabled health tech, energy, security, and enterprise opportunities transforming industries. In addition to his board roles, he works across our portfolio on product/market fit, go-to-market strategy, and executive leadership development, and led DCVC’s successful exits at Element AI, Evolv (Nasdaq: EVLV), and Caption Health. Alan has been a successful entrepreneur, technology executive, and board member for over 25 years ...
Apr 17, 2024•1 hr 2 min
John Gannon is the founder of Venture5 Media & GoingVC. Over the last decade+, he bootstrapped a series of VC media and education products and businesses alongside his 20K+ subscriber VC newsletter and blog which gets 1 million+ page views per year. Subscribers to his newsletter hail from startups, enterprises, and VC firms including household names like Scale Venture Partners, Greylock, and Bessemer. He also co-founded the VC education program GoingVC, which has 500+ members and alumni worl...
Apr 17, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Mark Goldberger, Head of Enterprise Sales at Ramp, is a driving force behind the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment software in America. With Ramp recently being recognized as the Most Innovative Company in North America by Fast Company, Mark's expertise is invaluable. Prior to joining Ramp, he distinguished himself as the first enterprise representative at TripActions (now Navan), contributing to over $100 million in annual recurring revenue (ARR) and leading the sales team. - Buil...
Apr 13, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Oscar Höglund is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Epidemic Sound. Educated at the Stockholm School of Economics, Oscar has also studied at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, L’Institut Catholique de Paris, Södertörn University, and Stockholm University. Prior to Epidemic Sound, he was part of the management team at one of Sweden’s leading TV production companies, Zodiak Television, where he co-founded the subsidiary, 5th Element. Oscar also co-founded the number one m...
Apr 12, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Laura Kashiwase is a member of the executive talent team at Lightspeed Venture Partners, specializing in hiring for Product, Engineering, Data, and Design roles. Previously, she worked at Meta, where she led a team responsible for hiring Engineering Leadership positions globally for Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Reality Labs. She also has recruitment experience with Figma and Thumbtack. Topics: - Identifying top talent for your startup - Convincing talented individuals to join your...
Apr 12, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Emily is a Partner at Primary, leading new investments in fintech and enterprise software companies. She loves going deep into unsexy industries and partnering with determined founders who are challenging the status quo. Before Primary, Emily was at Redpoint Ventures investing across early and growth stage companies. She started her career as a hedge fund analyst at Point72 before helping build Point72 Ventures, the early stage venture practice. Emily earned her BA from Columbia University where...
Apr 11, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Rajive Keshup is a Partner at Cathay Innovation, based out of the Singapore office. Prior to joining Cathay, Rajive played instrumental roles in scaling a number of Southeast Asian startups. Before moving to Singapore, Rajive was a Managing Director at PwC Strategy (formerly Booz & Co.) in New York City where he led the TMT sector for the firm’s Private Equity practice. Rajive started his career at AT&T doing corporate strategy & development in Dallas, Texas. He is also a former-foun...
Apr 09, 2024•1 hr 7 min
Victor Yip is a global technology and interactive entertainment executive with over 20 years of business development and general management experience with Activision Blizzard, Disney, NBA, and 20th Century Fox in gaming, streaming video, and sports. Victor has been at the forefront of leveraging technology to enable new ways to consume entertainment and games, and has led large, global teams across diverse business models including free-to-play (F2P), licensing/co-development, ad-supported, and...
Apr 09, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Jesse's venture career has been marked by a series of notable successes, a number of misses, and a deep commitment to supporting early-stage companies. After his tenure as a founding team member at WeWork, where he played a crucial role in the company's expansion, Jesse made a transition to venture capital. As a General Partner at Flybridge, a seed-stage venture capital firm for ambitious founders leveraging the power of community, he has become a trusted investor and board member to numerous st...
Apr 05, 2024•1 hr 3 min
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 too...
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 ensuring t...
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
