Adil Ajmal is the Chief Technology Officer at Fandom, the world’s largest fan platform in entertainment and gaming. With over two decades of leadership across high-growth startups and tech giants, he has led engineering, product, and data teams through multiple successful exits. Before Fandom, he served as CTO of LendingHome (now Kiavi), where he scaled its fintech infrastructure to support billions in mortgage volume. Earlier, Ajmal was Vice President of Engineering at Amazon following its acqu...
Jun 28, 2025•1 hr 9 min
Alan Du is a Partner at PayPal Ventures, where he leads investments in AI‑driven fintech, enterprise SaaS, cybersecurity, and e‑commerce infrastructure. Prior to that, he was a key investor at Revolution, a Washington‑based growth equity firm focused on scaling enterprise software and technology‑enabled services. With a global operating and investing mindset honed across markets, Du combines deep domain expertise in finance‑tech innovation and Go‑to‑Market strategy.Topics: Evaluating AI-first fi...
Jun 28, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Maria Zhang is the CEO and Co-Founder of Palona AI, a startup building emotionally intelligent AI agents to help consumer brands scale personalized customer experiences. She previously served as VP of Engineering at Google and Instagram, and led applied AI initiatives at Meta. Earlier in her career, she was CTO of Tinder, VP of Engineering at LinkedIn, and VP at Yahoo following the acquisition of her startup, Alike. With experience leading teams of over 1,000 engineers and building products used...
Jun 28, 2025•57 min
Max Marchione is the co-founder of Superpower, a digital health startup pioneering a proactive, personalized approach to longevity and preventive care. Backed by leading investors including Forerunner Ventures, Day One, and Susa, along with high-profile supporters like Vanessa Hudgens, Steve Aoki, and Logan Paul, Superpower raised $30M within two years of launch. The platform combines biomarker testing, wearable data, and AI-driven insights to give users a 360º view of their health and actionabl...
Jun 28, 2025•55 min
Dylan Itzikowitz is a Principal at South Park Commons (SPC) in New York City, where he focuses on early-stage investments across sectors such as cloud, fintech, biotech, and consumer products (CPG). He previously spent three years as a Principal at Expa in NYC, backing startups like KnockApp and Northflank and cultivating the local startup community through meet-ups and events reaching thousands of people. Earlier in his career, he was an investor at Founders Factory in London and co-founded The...
Jun 22, 2025•59 min
Evan Stites-Clayton is a General Partner at HF0, a venture fund and residency program built for repeat technical founders launching AI-native startups. He was previously the co-founder and CTO of Teespring, where he helped scale the platform to over $1B in sales, empowering millions of creators and raising $65M from top-tier firms like Andreessen Horowitz and Khosla Ventures. Recognized on Forbes 30 Under 30, Evan brings a rare blend of deep technical expertise and operator experience. Now as an...
Jun 22, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Rashida Hodge is Corporate Vice President of Azure Data & AI Customer Success at Microsoft, leading global efforts to scale AI-driven enterprise transformation and customer value. A 20-year veteran of IBM, she served as Global VP in Watson AI, launching commercial partnerships with firms like Salesforce and Workday. Today she brings that expertise to the board room as a director at Sonatype and Regal Rexnord, and supports deep‑tech startups as a Limited Partner at Neotribe and Operator Colle...
Jun 14, 2025•1 hr 4 min
Conrad Shang is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Ensemble VC. ~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed specifically for private capital markets. Say goodbye to manual reconciliation and repeated follow-ups - raise and deploy capital ...
Jun 13, 2025•1 hr 8 min
Bala Sathiamurthy is the former Chief Information Security Officer at Atlassian, where he led global cybersecurity strategy and built scalable security infrastructure for products like Jira and Confluence. Previously, he served as CISO and VP of Engineering at NerdWallet, overseeing security, infrastructure, and data engineering functions. With over 25 years of experience, Bala has held senior roles at companies like Yahoo!, Microsoft, Foursquare, and Jive Software, and currently serves as an ad...
Jun 11, 2025•1 hr
Brent Bellm is the former CEO and Board Chairman of BigCommerce, where he led the company from mid-market roots to a Nasdaq-listed leader in open SaaS and composable commerce. From 2015 to 2024, he scaled ARR from $45M to $346M, delivered 17 straight quarters of revenue beats, and helped land global enterprise customers like Nestlé, Sony, and NVIDIA. Before BigCommerce, he led HomeAway through its IPO and tripled revenue as CEO of PayPal Europe. With experience at McKinsey, a Stanford BA, and a ...
Jun 10, 2025•1 hr 6 min
Mark Jacobstein is General Partner at Near Horizon, a hands‑on venture studio in Palo Alto that co-founds and builds AI and health-tech startups from day zero. Drawing from over 30 years of entrepreneurial experience founding and scaling companies like Small World Sports (the first online fantasy platform), Digital Chocolate, iSkoot, Guardant Health (led efforts raising over $500 million pre-IPO), Immunai, and Jimini Health, he now combines operational expertise with capital to partner deeply wi...
Jun 10, 2025•56 min
Laura Hamilton is an Investor at Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital).~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed specifically for private capital markets. Say goodbye to manual reconciliation and repeated follow-ups - raise and deploy capi...
Jun 06, 2025•59 min
Henry Schuck is the founder and CEO of ZoomInfo, (NASDAQ:GTM) a Go-To-Market Intelligence Solution for more than 35,000 companies worldwide. The ZoomInfo platform empowers business-to-business sales, marketing, and recruiting professionals to hit their number by pairing best-in-class technology with unrivaled data coverage, accuracy, and depth of company and contact information. With integrations embedded into workflows and technology stacks, including the leading CRM, Sales Engagement, Marketin...
Jun 06, 2025•58 min
Aaron Perman is a Partner at S3 Ventures. ~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed specifically for private capital markets. Say goodbye to manual reconciliation and repeated follow-ups - raise and deploy capital faster and with greater tr...
Jun 05, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Ben Kus is the Chief Technology Officer at Box, where he oversees the company’s technology vision and leads global engineering and product teams. He joined Box in 2015 through its acquisition of Subspace, a startup he co-founded focused on enterprise security. Prior to that, he held leadership roles at IBM and BigFix, where he specialized in mobile and endpoint security. At Box, Ben has played a pivotal role in transforming the company’s product into an AI-powered, secure content cloud platform ...
Jun 03, 2025•1 hr 8 min
Brad Harrison is the Founder and Managing Partner of Scout Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in advanced technologies across cybersecurity, aerospace, automation, and AI. A West Point graduate and former U.S. Army Airborne Ranger, Brad brings deep leadership and operational experience to venture. Prior to founding Scout, he launched multiple startups and held senior roles at companies like AOL. Under his leadership, Scout has backed high-performing startups like ID.me, Unit...
Jun 03, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Sharla Grass is a Partner at Serena Ventures, where she focuses on early-stage investments across sectors including health sports wellness, enterprise, fintech, ecomm, social and more. Prior to joining Serena Ventures, she was a Principal at Greycroft, where she played a key role in investments in companies such as Boulder Care, Knox, and ScriptDrop. Sharla began her career in strategy consulting at Altman Vilandrie & Company and later held business operations roles at Uber before transition...
Jun 02, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Zach Finkelstein is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Class 5 Global, an early-stage venture fund launched in 2018 that invests in high-growth startups across emerging markets, including MENA, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. He began his career at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York before moving into investment banking at Citi. He later transitioned to venture capital, co-founding Lumia Capital and leading investments in companies across under-invested regions. Zach also served as Vice...
Jun 02, 2025•1 hr 10 min
Steve Harrick is a General Partner at IVP, a premier later-stage venture capital firm focused on high-growth technology investments. With over 25 years of experience in venture capital, he has been instrumental in funding and scaling innovative companies across enterprise infrastructure, security, communications, and consumer technology sectors. His notable investments include AppDynamics (acquired by Cisco), LegalZoom, Pure Storage, MySQL (acquired by Oracle), CrowdStrike, Sumo Logic, Personal ...
Jun 02, 2025•52 min
Venkata Naga Sai Kumar Bysani (168k+ followers on LinkedIn) is the founder of The Data Hustle.~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed specifically for private capital markets. Say goodbye to manual reconciliation and repeated follow-ups -...
Jun 02, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Sami Ghoche is the Co-founder and CEO of Forethought. ~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed specifically for private capital markets. Say goodbye to manual reconciliation and repeated follow-ups - raise and deploy capital faster and wit...
May 28, 2025•57 min
Arnav Sahu is a Partner at Peak XV Partners (fka Sequoia India). ~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed specifically for private capital markets. Say goodbye to manual reconciliation and repeated follow-ups - raise and deploy capital fas...
May 25, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Ben Sun is a Cofounder and General Partner at Primary. ~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed specifically for private capital markets. Say goodbye to manual reconciliation and repeated follow-ups - raise and deploy capital faster and wi...
May 24, 2025•1 hr 11 min
Packy McCormick (208k+ on X) is the founder and creator of Not Boring (243k+ subs). ~~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed specifically for private capital markets. Say goodbye to manual reconciliation and repeated follow-ups - raise an...
May 24, 2025•32 min
Dan Cahana is an Investor at Notable Capital.~~~~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed specifically for private capital markets. Say goodbye to manual reconciliation and repeated follow-ups - raise and deploy capital faster and with grea...
May 24, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Josh Aharonoff, CPA, is the founder of Your CFO Guy (450k+ followers) and Mighty Digits.~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed specifically for private capital markets. Say goodbye to manual reconciliation and repeated follow-ups - raise...
May 21, 2025•51 min
Tony Stubblebine is the CEO of Medium. ~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed specifically for private capital markets. Say goodbye to manual reconciliation and repeated follow-ups - raise and deploy capital faster and with greater trans...
May 21, 2025•1 hr 4 min
Prashanth Chandrasekar is the CEO and Board Member of Stack Overflow, the world's largest and most trusted community and platform for developers and technologists. With over 100 million global monthly visitors and market-leading, fast-growing collaboration and knowledge-sharing Enterprise SaaS and AI products, Stack Overflow enables the world to develop technology through collective knowledge. In 2021, Stack Overflow was acquired by Prosus for $1.8Bn.Previously, he served as Senior Vice Presiden...
May 18, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Morgan Blumberg is a Principal at M13. Morgan spent five years in investment banking at Morgan Stanley. She worked on a presidential campaign, at Bloomberg Philanthropies and consulted for start-ups in the political media space.Topics: Healthcare and future of work Embedded AI, productivity tools, and infrastructure Frontier investing trends #AI #FrontierTech #VentureCapital #StartupInvesting...
May 18, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Manish Patel is the founder of Nava Ventures. He led teams that have designed, developed, and scaled products with global impact, from enterprise advertising systems like AdWords to consumer experiences like Google Maps. Prior to that, he was a GP at Highland Capital Partners. Highland has raised over $3B in committed capital and invested in more than 270 companies, resulting in category-defining businesses across consumer and enterprise technology. Investments include companies such as Rent the...
May 18, 2025•1 hr 2 min
