Gary Pinkus is chairman of North America. He was previously the managing partner for the firm in North America, and before that led McKinsey’s office for the Western United States. Gary is also the former global leader of McKinsey’s Private Equity & Principal Investors Practice, which he helped cofound more than two decades ago. He has been a long-time member of McKinsey's Shareholders Council (our global governance board), including historically chairing the Finance and Infrastructure C...
Feb 05, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Joe Reis is an Instructor of DeepLearning.AI DeepLearning.AI is making a world-class AI education accessible to people around the globe. DeepLearning.AI was founded by Andrew Ng, a global leader in AI. Joe is also the former CEO of Ternary Data. He also co-authored the wildly successful O’Reilly book, Fundamentals of Data Engineering. Topics: The Data Engineering Skills Gap The Future of Data Engineering Modern Data Architecture #DataEngineering #DataArchitecture #TechInvestor #VC...
Feb 04, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Lesley Young is the fractional CRO of Vimeo and Sourcegraph. She is an LP at Stage 2 Capital. Prior to that, she was the CRO of Gem and VP at Segment. She is a creative, visionary, and decisive leader with a track record of integrating and elevating go-to-market strategies that drive revenue and customer growth while steering through economic uncertainties and growth periods. Combines business and technical acumen to swiftly identify and execute pivotal priorities, fostering new customer acquisi...
Feb 01, 2025•1 hr 10 min
Damon Fletcher is the Founder & CEO of Caliper. Caliper transforms cloud cost and usage data into actionable insights with an intuitive analytics platform. Designed for Data Analysts, DevOps, FinOps, IT, and finance professionals, Caliper offers seamless control over cloud environment. Prior to Caliper, Damon was the CFO of DataRobot and Tableau. Topics: The Evolution of Cloud Economics Building Analytics Tools for Multiple Stakeholders The Future of Data Companies #CloudCosts #FinOps #Start...
Jan 31, 2025•1 hr
Anurag Chandra is a CIO at a Single Family Office. He has spent 20 years in Silicon Valley as both an investor and an operator. He has helped lead three venture capital funds, managing over $2B in aggregate. Anurag has been a senior executive in three enterprise technology startups, two of which were sold successfully to public companies. He was a partner with Fort Ross Ventures a traditional mid-stage VC firm with strategic ties to Sberbank (Europe’s largest bank). He is also a Trustee for the ...
Jan 30, 2025•1 hr 8 min
Josh Stein is a co-founder and Managing Partner of Threshold. He currently holds board responsibilities at ChangeEngine, Databook, Inscribe, LaunchDarkly, LendKey, Sanity, and Talkdesk. He is also actively involved with the firm's investments in AngelList, CloudZero, Doximity (NYSE: DOCS), Front, Imbue, and Rippling. His previous investments include Box (NYSE: BOX), Chartbeat (Cuadrilla Capital), Eventful (CBS Local), GoodGuide (UL), iList (IGN/News Corp), Periscope Data (Sisense), Polaris W...
Jan 30, 2025•1 hr 4 min
John McMahon is widely recognized as the person having been the CRO (Chief Revenue Officer) at five public, enterprise software companies, PTC, Geo-Tel, Ariba, BladeLogic and BMC. John’s expertise was formulated as a pre-IPO member of 4 of the 5 companies listed above. John serves/ served as a board member at public software companies Snowflake, MongoDB and private, pre-IPO companies Lacework, Sigma, Cybereason and Observe. In the past, John has been a board member or executive consultant to: Hu...
Jan 28, 2025•1 hr 1 min
As the Chief Marketing Officer for Eventbrite, Samantha Wu leads the strategic direction of the company’s marketing initiatives as it evolves into a consumer destination for event discovery. Prior to joining Eventbrite, she served as the CMO of Braintrust, the first decentralized talent network where she oversaw brand, product and growth marketing. With over 20 years of marketing experience, Wu has also held senior roles across Meta, Visa and American Express. At Meta/Facebook, she led the globa...
Jan 26, 2025•1 hr 3 min
EP160 StepStone Group Partner Seyonne Kang Seyonne Kang is a Partner at StepStone Group. As of September 30, 2024, StepStone was responsible for approximately $682 billion of total capital, including $176 billion of assets under management. She is a member of the private equity team, focusing on venture capital and growth equity investments. Prior to StepStone, Ms. Kang was a partner with Greenspring Associates, a venture capital and growth equity investment firm that merged with StepStone in 20...
Jan 23, 2025•55 min
Nikhil Sachdev joined Insight Partners in 2020 as a Managing Director. In his role, he works with companies in the software and fintech ecosystems starting at Series A and well beyond. He invests through a global lens, partnering with founders close to his homebase in California and stretching across the US into Europe, India, SE Asia and Latin America. He began his career advising technology companies at Goldman Sachs, where he was an investment banker focused on cloud and mobile. His start in ...
Jan 23, 2025•55 min
Mo Islam is a Partner at Threshold Ventures. He focused on enterprise and frontier technologies. He sits on the boards of Benepass, EdgeQ, Elementary Robotics, Freeform, OpsLevel, Yellowbrick Data, and several stealth companies. He has also been involved with Threshold's investments in Atomwise, Imagen, Mythic, and Upside Foods. Mo was on the technology team at In-Q-Tel, where he conducted technical diligence on behalf of the CIA. Mo also held engineering roles at Lockheed Martin, the Nation...
Jan 21, 2025•1 hr
Ihar Mahaniok, Founder and Managing Partner, is an immigrant engineering leader turned investor. Ihar grew up in Belarus, where he studied Computer Science. He has over 20 years of experience building code, ML models and engineering teams for startups and conglomerates, including Google & Meta. As an angel investor, Ihar invested in 150+ startups. Companies he has backed at seed include unicorns such as Instacart, PandaDoc, People.ai, Airbyte, and Jeeves. Evaluates technical talent and engin...
Jan 20, 2025•1 hr 8 min
Benjamin Black is the Co-founder and Managing Director of Akkadian Ventures & Raise Global. Akkadian Ventures invests in growth stage technology companies. They provide alternative liquidity solutions for entrepreneurs, angel investors, venture capital funds and employees. Raise Global is the premier community for emerging fund managers and forward-thinking LPs. Topics: How to build relationships with LPs effectively Key challenges new fund managers face today Growth Stage Investment Strateg...
Jan 17, 2025•59 min
Meagen Eisenberg is the CMO of Samsara. Samsara is the pioneer of the Connected Operations™ Cloud, which is a platform that enables organizations that depend on physical operations to harness Internet of Things (IoT) data to develop actionable insights and improve their operations. Meagen is a transformational leader, advisor, and marketer managing customer acquisition to adoption and advocacy with experience at global businesses ranging from startups to mid-market to Fortune 500. 20 successful ...
Jan 17, 2025•56 min
Priscilla Guevara is a General Partner of Science. Founded in 2011, Science co-founds and invests in 8-10 consumer companies per year, thematically identifying opportunities ahead of where culture and consumers are moving. Science has co-founded 3 billion-dollar companies, Dollar Shave Club ($1B Exit), DogVacay/Rover ($2.4B Exit) and Liquid Death ($1.4B current). With a deep understanding of success across distinct business models, their differentiated approach to investing lies in the ability t...
Jan 17, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Jay Eum is Co-Founding Managing Partner of GFT Ventures. Jay brings over 20 years of extensive investment experience across both institutional and corporate venture capital firms. Jay co-founded TransLink Capital, a Palo Alto based early stage venture capital firm supporting entrepreneurs developing customer connections and partnerships in Asia. Jay was responsible for leading investments in AI, AR/VR, blockchain, cloud, and consumer technologies. Prior to TransLink, Jay was Managing Director of...
Jan 17, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Sandy Carter is the Chief Operating Officer of Unstoppable Domains. Prior to that she served as the Vice President of AWS. Distinguished career holding leadership positions as a Chief Operations Officer, Chief Marketing, Chief Sales, Channel Chief, and Chief Product Officer working for two Fortune 100 companies – AWS and IBM. Her background is unique since very few executives have experience working in all these different c-level roles. She's been a pioneer at the forefront of AI innovation. Wor...
Jan 11, 2025•1 hr 4 min
Eric Newcomer founded and runs the newsletter and events business Newcomer. He publishes scoops on startup deals, writes profiles of top venture capitalists, and chronicles the inner workings of Silicon Valley. He also hosts the top artificial intelligence conference the Cerebral Valley AI Summit and the financial technology conference the Newcomer Banking Summit. Topics: Insights from running the Cerebral Valley AI Summit Building a media business in the digital age Major AI deals and investmen...
Jan 11, 2025•1 hr 2 min
As a Wing partner, Jake’s interest and expertise centers around operationalizing AI. He is excited by the AI first transformation of businesses from infrastructure and foundation models to AI powered apps as well as tools and security software for technologists adopted in a PLG manner. Jake’s product leadership roles at Splunk and Cloudera give him an insider perspective on product-led growth and company building. He holds degrees in electrical computer engineering, computer science, and economi...
Jan 09, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Rashmi Gopinath is the Co-founder & Managing Partner of BAM Corner Point. Prior to that, she served as General Partner at B Capital Group and Managing Director at M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund. She is an experienced investing partner with a demonstrated history of investing in cutting-edge enterprise software startups as well as operating success leading business development and GTM roles for high-growth startups. Unique combination of strong technical skills, GTM acumen and venture investin...
Jan 09, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Sakib Jamal is a Vice President on the investment team of Crossbeam Venture Partners. Sakib was the first employee at Crossbeam and as of January 2024 has represented the firm with over 15 founders as an investor, board observer and/or director. Prior to Crossbeam, he was an investment banking analyst at J.P. Morgan’s Industrials group, and received a BSc in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. In 2023, he was named on the Crain’s New York and Forbes 30 under 30 list. Topics: ...
Jan 07, 2025•57 min
Dipto Chakravarty is the Chief Product Officer of Cloudera where he leads Cloudera's product and technology delivery. Most recently, he served as the head of local data engineering in Amazon's generalized artificial intelligence group. Prior to that, he led AWS's fintech cloud practice. Before Amazon, Dipto held executive positions at CA/Broadcom, IBM, Novell, and Thomson-Reuters and founded/led three private equity-backed businesses with exits. He has 12 patents issued to date, has authored 2 b...
Jan 04, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Amy Cheetham is a Partner at Costanoa Ventures. Before joining Costanoa, she ran North American sales strategy and operations at Zuora, a public enterprise software company. Prior to that, she spent three years investing in growth stage technology companies at Summit Partners, where her investments included Podium, InfoArmor (acq. AllState), and onXmaps. She began her career on Wall Street, working at JP Morgan where she spent time as a technology investment banker and as a cash equities trader ...
Dec 31, 2024•1 hr
Thomas Jueng is a Managing Director at Samsung Ventures America. He joined Samsung Ventures in 2012 and focuses on investments in mobile platform, AI, IoT, digital media & content, and enterprise solution.Prior to joining Samsung Ventures, Thomas worked in Benex investment, a private equity in Korea. Before Benex investment, he worked at SK Telecom in global strategy planning team and investment team. Thomas led deals in the US, China, Vietnam, and Korea mainly focusing on mobile and interne...
Dec 26, 2024•1 hr 4 min
Dr. Matanya Horowitz is the founder and chief technology officer of AMP, a company he built with the objective of transforming the world’s waste from a liability to an asset for society. He developed and commercialized AMP’s breakthrough AI platform and robotics systems, which automate the identification and sorting of recyclables from mixed material streams, pioneering the use of AI in the waste industry and providing waste operators with a reliable source of sustainable diversion. EY named Hor...
Dec 21, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Andrew Van Nest is a Managing Partner and tenured early stage investor who focuses on B2B Enterprise SaaS, DevOps, Data Infrastructure and AI/ML. Prior to working with Exceptional Capital, Andrew co-founded Artisanal Ventures and was an investor at Blumberg Capital. He spent time at William Blair as an investment banker and as Director of Business Development at Crunchyroll. Andrew holds a bachelor’s degree from Harvard and a Master’s from Boston College. He played D1 basketball in college and o...
Dec 21, 2024•1 hr 5 min
Venky Veeraraghavan is the Chief Product Officer at DataRobot. Prior to that, he was the VP of Product Management at Microsoft. As Chief Product Officer at DataRobot, Venky Veeraraghavan drives the definition and delivery of the DataRobot Enterprise AI Suite. Venky has twenty-five years of experience focusing on big data and AI as a product leader and technical consultant at top technology companies (Microsoft) and early-stage startups (Trilogy). Topics: Product Leadership in AI Companies Enterp...
Dec 19, 2024•59 min
Elizabeth Yin is a co-founder and General Partner at Hustle Fund, a pre-seed fund for software entrepreneurs. Previously, Elizabeth was a partner at 500 Startups where she invested in seed stage companies and ran the Mountain View accelerator. In a prior life, Elizabeth co-founded and ran an adtech company called LaunchBit (acq 2014). Elizabeth has a BSEE from Stanford and an MBA from MIT Sloan. Elizabeth has reviewed over 20k startup pitches from around the world in the last few years and has h...
Dec 19, 2024•1 hr 2 min
Simon is a Partner at Cathay Innovation. He leads the US investment efforts at Cathay Innovation, a global venture capital firm managing over $2.5B AUM. He focuses on software, fintech, digital healthcare, and consumer investments based in the US. Prior to joining Cathay Innovation, Simon spent four years at VMware as a Manager in the Strategy & Corporate Development team, focusing on investments, M&A, and strategy. Before joining VMware, he was at UBS in the Investment Banking division ...
Dec 17, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Apoorva Pandhi is a Managing Director of Zetta Venture Partners. Apoorva loves the complexity and thrill of the 0 to 1 startup phase and feels fortunate to work with deeply technical and product-centric founders. He finds them tackling the hardest challenges in AI/ML, data infrastructure and cloud-native infra. As a Managing Director at Zetta, he is excited to partner with founders who are ready to push through and beyond the complex chaos of this early stage to unleash greater potential and mar...
Dec 13, 2024•1 hr 3 min
