Deon Nicholas is the Co-Founder & CEO of Forethought, the first AI platform for customer support automation. Previously, Deon built products and infrastructure at Facebook, Palantir, Dropbox, and Pure Storage. Deon is a sought-after futurist and expert on generative AI, with appearances on CNBC, Bloomberg, and Yahoo Finance. He has authored several machine learning publications and holds numerous infrastructure patents. Deon was a World Finalist at the ACM International Collegiate Programmin...
Aug 06, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Tobi Coker is a Deal Partner on the Investment team at Felicis. He works with the investment team to source and evaluate investments, conduct diligence, and work with existing portfolio companies. Previously, Tobi was an investor at The Production Board (TPB), a Bay Area-based early-stage venture firm, where he helped found and seed six companies in life sciences and human health. Before TPB, Tobi started his career in the Investment Banking and Capital Markets division at Morgan Stanley, provid...
Aug 03, 2024•55 min
Dr. Charles Roberts is the Chief Investment Strategist of ARK Investment Management LLC (ARK Invest). As Chief Investment Strategist, Charles is responsible for providing inputs into research and strategies on both public and private markets, with a particular focus on AI and multiomics. In addition, Charles plays a key role in the strategy and execution of ARK’s venture capital efforts. Charles joined ARK in 2023. Prior to ARK, Charles's background is as a deep tech entrepreneur and serial ...
Aug 02, 2024•49 min
Ryan Floyd is a founding Managing Director of Storm Ventures. He focuses on early stage enterprise SaaS and has primarily invested in applications and cloud/infrastructure related companies. Ryan is active and works with Code2040, a nonprofit organization that creates pathways to educational, professional, and entrepreneurial success in technology for underrepresented minorities. Topics: - Key Metrics for Evaluating SaaS Startups - Cloud Infrastructure and SaaS Investment Trends - The Impact of ...
Aug 02, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Quaid Walker is the Co-Founder and CEO at Bezel, a 100% authenticated, tech-first marketplace for buying and selling luxury watches. Backed by BoxGroup, Courtside Ventures, Shrug Capital, Abstract Ventures, Operator Partners, Kevin Hart, John Legend, J Balvin, Michael Rubin, Kyle Kuzma, Michael Ovitz, Steve Aoki, and execs + investors from Google, Snapchat, Accel, A16Z, Index, Gradient, QED, and more. Previously, he was a design lead at Google and a founding member of the Google TV team. Topics:...
Jul 31, 2024•1 hr
Ullas Naik is the Founder and General Partner at Streamlined Ventures. At Streamlined, Ullas has led seed investments in almost 20 companies valued at over $1Bn, including iconic companies such as Doordash (IPO), Applovin (IPO), Rappi, Forge (IPO), EasyPost, OpenGov (acquisition), FLYR Labs, Rescale, Flip, Speechify, Medable, Bolt, and TubiTV (acquisition). Over the last 25 years, Ullas has seed/angel invested in nearly 150 companies. He is also an investor in numerous venture capital funds. Add...
Jul 31, 2024•57 min
Adam Coccari is the Managing Director of Intuit Ventures, Intuit’s Venture Capital team responsible for overseeing Intuit’s investment in startups around the world. Prior to Intuit, Adam spent 8 years at Microsoft where he was most recently a Partner at M12 – Microsoft’s Venture Fund. Topics: - The future of AI in financial services - Trends in B2B SaaS and SMB-focused technologies - AI-driven innovation strategy #VentureCapital #FinTech #AI #IntuitAssist #StartupInvesting #Innovation #SaaS...
Jul 27, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Rob Schutz is the co-founder of Ro, the DTC health company that was last valued at $7B, and employee #7 + former VP of Growth at Bark (box), where he helped grow the company from $0 to $100M in run rate. Now he is the founder of Snagged, where he helps entrepreneurs, startups, and established businesses acquire premium domain names. Topics: - Building billion-dollar companies: Insights from Ro and Bark - The role of growth strategies in scaling startups rapidly - The evolution of the domain name...
Jul 26, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Adam Besvinick is the Founder and Managing Partner at Looking Glass Capital, a pre-seed venture firm. Previously, he invested in Series A and later companies at Anchorage Capital Group, and before that, he was a pre-seed and seed investor at Deep Fork Capital. Prior to joining Deep Fork, Besvinick was the first business hire at Wanelo, leading partnership and monetization efforts. Before starting at Wanelo, he graduated from Harvard Business School, during which he worked part-time for Lowercase...
Jul 26, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Keith is a Partner at Pear. Previously, Keith was an early-stage investor at Bessemer Venture Partners and a consultant at BCG, where he advised B2B, consumer, and energy companies on growth, strategy, and M&A. At Pear, Keith focuses on B2B applications including vertical software, enterprise software, and marketplaces. Additionally, he leads Pear’s roadmap on emerging XR/AR/VR and spatial computing platforms. Keith is originally from Arizona and is based in Palo Alto. He holds a BA in Engli...
Jul 25, 2024•1 hr 8 min
Daniel Faierman is a partner at Habitat Partners, an early stage venture capital firm based in New York that focuses on Pre-Seed to Series A investments in consumer and software companies. After playing division one tennis at Yale, Daniel gained deep operating experience at multinational consumer brand enterprises such as PepsiCo and AB InBev across finance, brand strategy, and innovation. With a major passion for health and wellness, Daniel's VC journey commenced at Selva Ventures. He later...
Jul 18, 2024•54 min
Abe Murray is a General Partner leading Deep Tech & Robotics investments and incubations at AlleyCorp. Abe has more than 20 years of engineering experience, having spent time as a product and engineering leader in various roles at Alphabet, where he launched Play Books and Magazines at Android, built the Verily Life Science product teams and Boston office, and shipped several AI/ML and computer vision products across Google while building the Google Research product management team. Before t...
Jul 18, 2024•1 hr 3 min
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), ....
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 ...
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 co...
Jun 20, 2024•1 hr 5 min
