🚀 This episode is brought to you by LG NOVA. 🚀 Christopher Gavigan is one of the co-founders of The Honest Company (NASDAQ: HNST). In January 2012, Chris, along with his business partners Jessica Alba and Brian Lee, co-founded The Honest Company. The Honest Company is a mission-driven, digitally-native brand focused on leading the clean lifestyle movement, creating a community for conscious consumers, and seeking to disrupt multiple consumer product categories. He is also the founder and CEO o...
Sep 13, 2024•56 min
🚀 This episode is brought to you by LG NOVA. 🚀 Chris Bach is Chief Strategy and Creative Officer and co-founder of Netlify, launched in 2015 and today is one of the most popular web development platforms. Chris is on the Board of the MACH Alliance, is an avid investor in the modern web ecosystem, and sits on a number of advisory boards. Before Netlify he spent 14 years in the agency world as a founder, CEO and Chief Digital Officer. He started Denmark’s first hybrid production agency and won 2...
Sep 07, 2024•1 hr 5 min
🚀 This episode is brought to you by LG NOVA. 🚀 Eric Anderson is a Partner at Scale Venture Partners, where he focuses on investments in cloud infrastructure and security. He is a Board member at Scale portfolio companies Datastax, Permin.io, and Upsolver, and a Board observer at AppOmni, BigID, Expel, Honeycomb, and Matillion. Before Scale, Eric led early Google Cloud and Amazon Web Services product teams. At Google, he was a Product Manager in the Data Analytics and Machine Learning group. He...
Sep 05, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Sonam is Partner at Convivialité Ventures India, based out of Mumbai. Sonam started her career in finance as an investment banker at Nomura. She spent 5 years advising clients in 2 geographies – Hong Kong and India. She helped execute M&A and capital market transactions in multiple sectors such as oil & gas, pharma, real-estate and financial services. After Nomura, Sonam joined RoundGlass Partners, a US-based health and wellbeing-focused corporate. As part of the founding team, she helpe...
Sep 03, 2024•1 hr 4 min
David Glick is the SVP of Enterprise Business Services at Walmart. His team is responsible for finance technology and shared services, People tech and services, Payments, Trust, and the Associate Digital Experience.Prior to joining Walmart, David served as the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Flexe. Flexe offers three main products: Flexible Fulfillment, Rapid Replenishment, and Inventory Overflow. These products are designed to be implemented without upfront fees or long-term contracts. Before...
Aug 25, 2024•59 min
Steve Sloane is a partner at Menlo Ventures focused on investments in Menlo’s Inflection Fund, which targets fast-growing Series B/C companies. He has made a number of supply chain technology investments, including Enable, Scout, 6 River Systems, ShipBob, CloudTrucks, and Parade. Steve joined the firm in 2015 as an associate, became a principal in 2017, and a partner in 2019. Prior to Menlo, Steve worked in growth-stage investing at Insight Venture Partners in New York and founded a YC-backed co...
Aug 22, 2024•1 hr
As Managing Partner and Co-Founder of 645, Nnamdi oversees the firm’s investment strategy and enjoys partnering with founders as an investor/board member to help them achieve their entrepreneurial dreams. You can check out Nnamdi discussing tech trends on CNBC: Nnamdi Okike on investing in tech’s ‘behavioral change economy’ and on Yahoo Finance: Nnamdi Okike discusses tech investing, SPACs, Web3 and the Metaverse. Nnamdi grew up in Massachusetts as the child of immigrants from Nigeria and German...
Aug 21, 2024•1 hr 1 min
Mike Droesch is a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners primarily focusing on AI applications, cybersecurity, supply chain software, and B2B marketplaces. He currently serves on the board of directors for Tackle, Curri, Raft, Cypress, Netography, Optimal Dynamics, and VendorPM. Previously, Mike worked with a few venture-backed startups in Boston, including two Bessemer portfolio companies, Fuze and InsightSquared, where he supported sales operations and analytics efforts. He started his career as...
Aug 17, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Amber Atherton is a Partner at Patron, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in a future shaped by games. She is a former founder, whose Y Combinator backed start-up was acquired by Discord. She is the author of the best selling book ‘The Rise of Virtual Communities’ published by Apress. Born in Hong Kong, Atherton began coding as a kid. Building websites, mini-games and Neopets communities. At 16, she started a popular blog, which evolved into one of Europe’s largest online jewelry mark...
Aug 17, 2024•1 hr 1 min
As the inaugural Executive Director of VC Platform Global Community, Joshua Goodfield leads the largest dedicated collective of platform professionals in the venture capital industry, with over 2,000 members across 1,000 funds in 45 countries representing $2.6T+ in AUM. His mission is to create value for the VC ecosystem through community building and accelerating outstanding leaders. Topics: - Global trends in venture capital and startup ecosystems - The evolution of VC firm structures and oper...
Aug 17, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Medha Agarwal is a General Partner at Defy. Prior to Defy, she was a Partner at Redpoint Ventures for seven years focused on early stage investments across fintech, vertical saas, marketplaces, and healthcare. Medha started her career at Bain & Company and also started and built 2 companies, skedge.me & Roomidex, before starting her investing career at Bessemer Venture Partners. - Trends and opportunities in fintech, vertical SaaS, marketplaces, and healthcare startups - Early-stage inve...
Aug 14, 2024•56 min
TX Zhuo is a General Partner at Fika Ventures. An entrepreneur at heart, TX has been involved with startups since his college days where he started then successfully sold an online college textbook marketplace. After a stint at McKinsey where he was a core member of their financial services and consumer goods practices, he came back to his roots and served as the CFO for an electric vehicle startup, Lit Motors. Thereafter, he worked for Innovation Endeavors, a seed stage venture fund backed by E...
Aug 14, 2024•55 min
Chon Tang is the Founding & General Partner of Berkeley SkyDeck Fund. Chon is an experienced Silicon Valley engineer, entrepreneur and investor. He was formerly founding partner and Managing Director of Junzi Capital Engineering, a leading quantitative hedge fund investing in the commodity space. He has been actively investing in Silicon Valley startups for 12 years, and has personal investments in over 25 deals with multiple IPOs and exits. Chon is a proud Cal Bear (BS EECS), and also has a...
Aug 10, 2024•1 hr
Rob Biederman is the Managing Partner of Asymmetric. Prior to founding Asymmetric, Rob co-founded and served as co-CEO for eight years of Catalant Technologies, the market leader enabling companies to frictionlessly access and deploy talent, ranging from employees to over 70,000 elite independent consultants and 1,000 boutique firms. He is currently Chairman of Catalant. Rob is also co-author of a book titled, Reimagining Work: Strategies to Disrupt Talent, Lead Change, and Win with a Flexible W...
Aug 09, 2024•52 min
Jett Fein is a General Partner at Headline, where he invests in technology businesses globally. Jett joined Headline in 2014 and has led or co-led the firm’s early investments in Gopuff, Fancy (acquired by Gopuff), Honeycomb.io, gettacar, Playbook, Sprout Therapy, Air, Swell, Avoma, Candid Co., NomNomNow (acquired by Mars), Rocket.Chat, Tonebase, Copa90, and is involved in several other investments in the US and Europe, including Shopmonkey and GRIN. Prior to joining Headline, Jett was at Fung C...
Aug 08, 2024•1 hr
Ed Sim is the Founder of boldstart, partnering from Inception with developer first, infrastructure and SaaS founders. He loves working with engineering-driven founders with bold ideas and laser-sharp focus on product well before writing their first lines of code. Ed has been in the trenches with Snyk, Kustomer (sold to Meta), BigID, Blockdaemon, Superhuman, Security Scorecard, Front and so many more from inception. Ed also co-founded MState in 2017, an enterprise blockchain lab in partnership wi...
Aug 07, 2024•1 hr 5 min
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
