Sakib Dadi is a partner at Stage 2, spending most of his time investing in infrastructure software companies. Prior to Stage 2, Sakib was an investor at Bessemer Venture Partners for almost a decade where he partnered with companies including LaunchDarkly, Guild Education, Sila Nanotechnologies, Intercom, PagerDuty, Prefect, Basis Theory, Optimal Dynamics, Appwrite, Litify, Coder.com, Syndio, Arcion, Periscope Data (acq'd by Sisense), Okera (acq.d by Databricks), npm (acq'd by GitHub), .Sakib re...
Jul 17, 2024•1 hr
Buddy Arnheim is a Founding Partner at Lobby Capital. For more than 25 years, Buddy has been funding, building, and advising a panoply of early stage technology companies ranging from: consumer facing services like OpenTable, TicketsNow, Trulia, Quizlet, HotelTonight, and Mystery Science; to FinTech / InsureTech platforms like Hippo Insurance and Lively HSA; to enterprise solutions like Cloudera, Box, and SentinelOne; as well as hardware and deep tech businesses like Skydio, R-Zero Systems, Leve...
Jul 17, 2024•1 hr 11 min
Saaya Nath is a Partner at Jump Capital. She joined Jump Capital in 2020 and leads new venture capital investment opportunities. Prior to joining Jump, Saaya worked as a strategy consultant at Boston Consulting Group, where she spent time in the Private Equity practice and across a variety of strategy and operations projects. Saaya attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, earning a BS in Computer Engineering. Her areas of interest: Enterprise SaaS, AI Tooling, Workflow Automation...
Jul 13, 2024•1 hr
Saanya Ojha is a Partner at Bain Capital Ventures where she leads growth stage investments in cloud infrastructure, cyber security, and the developer ecosystem. Previously, she was a Partner at Coatue focused on growth investments after having started her career as a Hedge Fund analyst at Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, a long/short fundamental equity fund. A career investor, she is driven by the fundamental question of what makes a good business and has experience investing across stages, ve...
Jul 13, 2024•46 min
Brian D. Huber is a fund partner at Gunderson Dettmer. Brian supports venture capital and growth equity fund managers on all aspects of the fund lifecycle. Brian has significant experience advising fund managers on issues related to fundraising, GP management, and economics, including the tax and structuring aspects of fund formations and investments globally. He helps clients navigate complex issues in the evolving legal and regulatory landscape, such as the impact of recent tax reform on inves...
Jul 11, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Retired Amazon Vice President, LinkedIn Top Voice, 70+ patents; led global teams of 800+, now Executive Coach and course creator focused on helping leaders grow to true executives. Topics: 1. Strategies for effective global team management. 2. Adapting corporate experience to entrepreneurial ventures. 3. Building a personal brand after a high-profile corporate career. #ExecutiveLeadership #AmazonAlum #LinkedInInfluencer #PatentInnovator #TechToCoach...
Jul 11, 2024•1 hr 9 min
Ron Levin is a Managing Partner and Head of AV Super Angel Partner Program. He has spent his career in a variety of entrepreneurial, leadership, and business development roles. He has been an angel investor and advisor to over a dozen technology startups. Ron was Co-Founder and CEO of TravelPerk, a VC-backed travel management platform that is now a “unicorn” company with thousands of employees and customers across the globe. Prior to TravelPerk, he started the B2B division of Booking.com and bef...
Jul 11, 2024•1 hr 6 min
David Hornik is a Founding Partner with Lobby Capital. For more than 25 years, David has helped technology entrepreneurs build transformative businesses. Prior to founding Lobby Capital, he spent 20 years as a general partner at August Capital. David invests in a broad range of software companies, including enterprise application, infrastructure, and SaaS businesses (Splunk, Fastly, GitLab), financial technology companies (Bill.com, WePay, PayNearMe), and consumer services (Evite, Ebates, Remix ...
Jul 03, 2024•1 hr 9 min
Vivek Ramaswami is a Partner at Madrona. He joined Madrona in 2022. As part of the Madrona investment team based in California, Vivek partners with ambitious founders across enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, data tools, intelligent applications, and fintech. He focuses on helping founders who have achieved product-market fit scale to the next level. Vivek has spent his career investing in high-growth companies across software and fintech. Prior to Madrona, Vivek helped launch the ventur...
Jul 03, 2024•1 hr 5 min
John Simon is the Co-Founder and Board Chair of GreenLight Fund and Managing Director of Sigma Prime Ventures. John is an active entrepreneur, creator and investor in both the for-profit and nonprofit sectors. He is currently a managing director at Sigma Prime Ventures where he focuses on software-based businesses and disruptive technology businesses, often getting involved in businesses at their formation or earliest stages. Prior to joining Sigma Prime, John was a co-founder and managing direc...
Jul 02, 2024•1 hr
Megh Gautam if the Chief Product Officer at Crunchbase. Prior to that he was the head of product at Twilio, where he ran the Editions line of business for Twilio, owned P&L, roadmap and strategy working across the Communication businesses (SMS mostly) and Segment. Topics: - Challenges and opportunities in managing a data-centric product like Crunchbase - The role of AI and machine learning in modern product development - The future of business intelligence and data platforms #ProductLeadersh...
Jun 29, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Ian Wang is a dynamic product leader currently serving as the Vice President and Head of Product for Adobe Express. Adobe Express empowers everyone to create standout content, including social media posts, videos, images, flyers, logos, and more. - Building and leading high-performance product teams - Enhancing creativity through technology - Aligning product development with user needs #ProductLeadership #AdobeExpress #CreativityForAll #TechInnovation #AIinDesign...
Jun 28, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Sydney Paige Thomas is the Founding General Partner of Symphonic Capital, a venture capital fund focused on empowering early-stage entrepreneurs. As the leader of Symphonic, Sydney embraces a unique philosophy of leadership, likening her role to that of an orchestra conductor whose power lies not in making sound, but in amplifying the talents of others.With nearly 15 years of diverse industry experience, including a decade working closely with founders, Sydney specializes in nurturing Pre-Seed s...
Jun 28, 2024•51 min
Vivin Hegde is the Founding Partner at Zacua Ventures, which invests in the next generation of entrepreneurs shaping the Built World. The firm focuses on core themes of productivity, sustainability, and urbanization within the Built Environment and maintains a global presence. As a construction technologist and innovator, Vivin previously led the Trimble-Hilti JV, where he researched and developed new products and solutions in positioning technology, software integration, and field productivity....
Jun 27, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Ajay Prakash is the Co-Founder & CEO of Rinse, a company that is making trips to the dry cleaner and the washer / dryer obsolete while building the first national brand in dry cleaning and laundry. Prior to Rinse, Ajay was the COO and CFO of humble Brands, a consumer product startup in San Francisco. He also has experience at Bonobos, Berkshire Partners, the NBA, and Bain & Company. Ajay received his BA from Dartmouth College and his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Top...
Jun 26, 2024•1 hr 2 min
As the founder of Eeagli, James combines his passion for data visualization and investment writing to create compelling and engaging content for the financial industry. With over 15 years of experience in investment management, equities, and fixed income, James's mission is to transform complex data and insights into memorable stories that connect companies with their audience and communicate their brand story. Utilizing JavaScript and other tools, James designs and develops interactive and cust...
Jun 22, 2024•1 hr 3 min
James Joaquin is an early-stage investor in world positive startups building breakthrough technologies that move humanity forward. He is passionate about the responsible use of AI to solve the unsolvable across trillion-dollar industries. As a co-founder of Obvious, he has led investments for the firm that span advanced materials (Diamond Foundry), plant-based protein (Beyond Meat), and labor marketplaces (Incredible Health). With an experienced background as a startup operator, James served as ...
Jun 21, 2024•1 hr 6 min
Entrepreneur and personal branding expert, Casey Adams, kicked off his career at 17 with his acclaimed podcast, "The Casey Adams Show," now among the top 100 business podcasts worldwide. His dialogues with prominent figures like Larry King, Rick Ross, and Maye Musk, have enriched his listeners' perspectives. As Co-Founder of MediaKits, a game-changing SaaS platform for creator analytics, Casey was integral to its success, leading to its acquisition by Viral Nation in 2022. Casey continues to inn...
Jun 20, 2024•1 hr 5 min
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 of A...
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's ...
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
