Nosu founder backgrounds: Audrey (CEO) won 20+ hackathons, engineering @ Intuit, Intel, NASA USRC, content creator with 68k following on instagram @jia.seed. Disclaimer: Grace is an investor in Nosu. Topics: How to Spot Successful Founders at Hackathons Content Creation and Community Building Authentically Building a Gen Z Engineering Community #hackathon #startups #womenintech #engineering #tech...
Martin Tobias is the founder of Incisive Ventures. Over decades of investing, he has identified seven meta themes and developed a screening process that successfully identified outlier companies and founders. Incisive Ventures is a Pre-Seed Fund in Seattle to invest in technology companies that reduce friction at scale, leveraging the partner's network built as an angel investor in 60+ companies in the sector, including 4 unicorns, that secured $2.5B+ in follow-on financing. He is a serial e...
Howard Wright is the VP of Startup Ecosystem at NVIDIA. Prior to that he was the VP of Global Head of Start Ups at Amazon Web Services. At NVIDIA, he leads their global Inception program, positioned at the epicenter of the generative AI revolution. His role focuses on democratizing access to NVIDIA's comprehensive AI platform while building strategic partnerships across the startup ecosystem. Working with over 19,000 innovative startups, leading VCs, and global technology partners, they'...
Aaron Jacobson is a Partner at NEA. He seeks to partner with founders building generational companies in AI, developer tools, cybersecurity, cloud infrastructure, and robotics. His current investments include Databricks, Second Front, Pulumi, Martian, Flox, Crowdbotics, Embrace, Deltastream, Rapid Robotics, Built Robotics, Outrider, Tigera, and ForAllSecure. Previous investments include Box (NYSE:BOX), NGINX (acq. by F5), Streamsets (acq. by Software AG), and Illusive Networks (acq. by Proofpoin...
Abbas Haider Ali is the Vice President of Customer Success at GitHub where he lead all post-sales teams with an org size of 550+, supporting a $2B+ ARR business serving over 150 million developers, including over 90% of the Fortune 100. Prior to GitHub, he was Vice President of Customer & Partner Success at Twilio, leading the Data & Growth business ($300M+ ARR) following Twilio's $3B+ acquisition of Segment. He's held executive leadership roles at industry-defining companies, in...
Mike Freedman is the co-founder and CTO of Timescale, as well as the Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University.Timescale is building the PostgreSQL database cloud for modern applications, supercharging real-time analytics, intelligence (AI), and transactional workloads. Thousands of global customers, $180M raised from leading VCs. Hiring globally @ timescale.com/careersMike's work broadly focuses on distributed systems, storage systems, networking, and security. He...
Sandy Kory founded Horizon in 2022 and has over 15 years of venture capital experience. He was an early investor in Palantir, Canva, BillionToOne, Flutterwave, Sendbird, and several other unicorns. Horizon is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in disruptive software.Topics: Evolution of Software Investing Bootstrapped vs. Billion-Dollar Rounds Inside Palantir & Canva's Early Days #SeedStage #StartupGrowth #VentureCapital #BootstrappedVsVC...
Eugene Lee is a Partner at OMERS Ventures. He is currently a board member at Postal (offline marketing automation), WorkRamp (learning engine), Klue (competitive enablement), Mosaic (strategic finance), Fonoa (tax automation), Quorso (co-pilot for retail operations), and an investor in Crunchbase (prospecting for private companies).Eugene is an experienced professional with a demonstrated ability in business, financial and sales operations, general management (GM), business development, growth, ...
Sarah Catanzaro is a General Partner at Amplify Partners. Amplify Partners investments include Intervenn Biosciences, RunwayML, Maze Design, Bayes (acquired by Airtable), OctoML, Einblick AI (acquired by Databricks), Hyperparam, Hex, Meroxa, Metaphor Data, Datafold, Modal, Eppo, Gantry, Datology, WarpStream among others. Prior to that she worked as an associate at Canvas Ventures and the head of data at Mattermark. Topics: The evolution of AI infrastructure investing Data tooling and the modern ...
Hansae Catlett is a Partner at HOF Capital where he invests across sectors and stages, with a particular focus on leading the firm's early stage investment strategy in applied AI, B2B application software (horizontal and vertical), dev tools & infra, and deep tech.Prior to joining HOF Capital, Hansae was a Vice President at Bessemer Venture Partners, helping to lead the firm's investments in cloud and AI. His investments and/or board positions included Guild, Jasper, Luxury Presence,...
Emilio Escobar is the Chief Information Security Officer of Datadog. With two decades of experience in Information Security and Compliance, Emilio Escobar has worked at large enterprises, medium-sized companies, and governmental organizations. Previously, Emilio served as the VP of Information Security for Hulu, where he played a pivotal role in setting up key security functions. Prior to that, Emilio worked for PlayStation, where he built and ran the software security teams. Emilio’s unique app...
Itamar Novick is the Founder & General Partner at Recursive Ventures where he invest in early stage technology companies. Supporting entrepreneurs since 2010 (100+ investment). Business insider Top 100 Global seed investor in 2021-2024.Previously Entrepreneur & Startup executive at Life360 and Gigya. Some of his portfolio companies including: Deel, Honeybook, Peerspace, Akash Network, SafeGraph among others. Topics: Journey from a Successful Investor to Fund Manager First-Time Fund Manag...
Andrew Bihl is the co-founder & CTO at Numeric. Numeric is an AI accounting automation platform, built to take manual work off accountants' plates so they can focus on what’s impactful. Numeric is currently used by hundreds of private and public companies to organize their close, automate reconciliations, and leverage AI for auto-drafted flux explanations and technical accounting research. Topics: The AI Revolution in Financial Software Building for Scale: The Enterprise Financial Stack ...
Tony Conrad is a Partner at True Ventures. He worked with amazingly talented founders, operating teams from companies like Automattic (WordPress), ZERO Longevity Science, Modern Animal, Blue Bottle Coffee, Sweetgreen, MakerBot, Voiceflow, Giftshop, Cast, Bumo, Typekit, Pluralsight, Connectifier & Holey Grail Donuts. He also co-founded about.me & Sphere, both acquired by AOL. Tony is a personal investor in Slack, Automattic, Lowercase Capital, Cygni, Ghia, Empirical Spirits, International...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
