Tobias Citron serves as Partner at Primary Venture Partners, leading cybersecurity investments and incubating pre-seed startups in AI infra, data tools, and developer platforms like Etched AI, Cake AI, Stanza, and SparkAI (acquired by John Deere), building NYC's seed ecosystem since 2021. A Princeton public policy alum and Wharton MBA, he cut his teeth as founding GM at Prehype's Radicle venture studio, Deloitte strategy consulting, Citi investment banking, and Rough Draft Ventures fellow, drivi...
Jan 18, 2026•1 hr
Amir Haleem founded Nova Labs (formerly Helium) in 2013, pioneering the world's largest decentralized wireless network that powers IoT sensors and Helium Mobile—a blockchain-based phone service now integrated with AT&T, T-Mobile, and Google Fi, rewarding node operators with crypto for coverage. Ex-CTO of gaming startup Diversion and original Battlefield 1942 engineer at DICE, the esports champion co-founded esreality.com before pivoting from social gaming with Napster's Shawn Fanning to solv...
Jan 18, 2026•1 hr 9 min
Aaron Cannon is the co-founder and CEO of Outset, where he’s leading the development of the world’s first agent-led research platform powered by AI-moderated interviews. He brings over a decade of experience in product strategy and leadership from roles at Tesla, Triplebyte, and Deloitte, with a passion for building tools that bridge design, business, and user research. Aaron studied economics and entrepreneurial leadership at Tufts University and continues to mentor young innovators.Topics - AI...
Jan 15, 2026•58 min
Kylan Gibbs is the co-founder & CEO of Inworld AI, the core infrastructure for real-time, multimodal AI applications at global consumer scale.Inworld is a product-focused research lab delivering sub-500ms, high-QPS AI experiences via specialized models and streaming architectures that most teams can’t build in-house.Under Kylan’s leadership, Inworld has launched products including Inworld TTS (ranked #1 on major third-party benchmarks for latency, quality, and cost) and Inworld Runtime, a C+...
Jan 15, 2026•1 hr 7 min
Anand Chandrasekaran is the Managing Partner of Celesta. Prior to joining Celesta, Anand Chandrasekaran co-founded and was President of Crescendo, an AI-first contact center business, co-created and backed by General Catalyst (GC). He is a former Partner and Venture Advisor at GC. Earlier in his career he was CPO and a product leader for two decades at Five9, Meta (Messenger), Bharti Airtel, Snapdeal (FreeCharge), and Founder of Aeroprise (acquired by BMC Software). He was recognized as the #1 s...
Jan 15, 2026•1 hr 1 min
Nico Laqua is the CEO/CTO and Co-Founder of Corgi (YC S24), the first fully automated AI-native insurance carrier based in San Francisco, aiming to rebuild the $1T+ industry through compute-speed underwriting, claims processing, and modular coverage like D&O, Cyber, General Liability, and innovative AI Liability for tech glitches. Previously, he founded Basket Entertainment, scaling a gaming portfolio to 200M+ monthly active users—reaching 25-50% of teens in Western markets—after serving as ...
Jan 15, 2026•54 min
Mohit Aron is the founder of Cohesity and Nutanix and now he’s building Stealth AI startup. He is famous for being the founder of both. Mohit Aron built Cohesity into a multi-billion-dollar data protection unicorn backed by Sequoia, Nvidia, and others after co-founding and scaling Nutanix as CTO to public market leadership with hyper-converged infrastructure that redefined enterprise storage. A Rice University engineering alum and ex-Google File System architect, he pioneered secondary storage i...
Jan 14, 2026•1 hr 1 min
Joseph Ros is a Partner and General Manager at Entrepreneur First (EF), the pioneering global platform that invests in exceptional individuals before they have an idea or co-founder. Based in San Francisco, Joseph has backed early-stage technology companies across AI, biotech, robotics, hardware, and climate tech in markets including Singapore, India, Europe, and North America. At EF, he leads talent investing and follow-on capital while driving EF’s global pipeline that connects top technical t...
Jan 10, 2026•58 min
Vignesh Ravikumar is a Partner at Sierra Ventures. Vignesh Ravikumar joined Sierra Ventures in 2013 and focuses on investments in Enterprise SaaS, Vertical SaaS, and Digital Health/Healthcare IT. Vignesh has a background in M&A transactions for enterprise software companies, having worked at AGC Partners, a Boston-based investment bank. Vignesh holds a BS in Management Science (cum laude) and a Minor in Math from UC San Diego. Topics: Underwriting AI-heavy SaaS when infra, pricing, and compe...
Jan 10, 2026•1 hr 2 min
Allison Baum Gates is a General Partner at SemperVirens, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in healthcare, fintech, and enterprise SaaS. An experienced technology investor, author, and speaker, she has raised hundreds of millions of dollars from global LPs and backed more than 70 companies—with nine unicorns, 24 exits, and 10 board roles among them. Previously, she co-founded Fresco Capital, invested at Trinity Ventures, and was an early team member at General Assembly, acquired by Ad...
Jan 10, 2026•54 min
Jeremiah Owyang is a Silicon Valley–based General Partner at Blitzscaling Ventures, where he leads early-stage AI investing focused on startups that can rapidly scale by leveraging network effects and defensible distribution. A longtime tech analyst and operator since the dot-com era, he has anticipated and helped shape multiple innovation waves from Web 2.0 to today’s AI agent ecosystem, drawing on prior roles as an industry analyst, founder of technology research firms, and advisor to global b...
Jan 01, 2026•55 min
Lance Matthews is a partner at DTCP and is responsible for sourcing investment opportunities and making investment recommendations in the US. Lance’s DTCP investments include: Arctic wolf networks, Innovid (NYSE: CTV), StreetlightData (acquired by Jacobs), and Cohere. Lance joined from Touchdown Ventures, a SF based Corporate Venture firm, where he worked on company sourcing, investment analysis and diligence, and portfolio management. Prior to that, he spent time at Illuminate Ventures, a seed ...
Dec 25, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Paul serves as the Managing Partner at Depth Ventures, a pre-seed and seed-stage venture firm focused on backing B2B SaaS founders at the intersection of finance and AI operations, leveraging his extensive operator experience as former CFO of AI-powered accounting platform Pilot and VP of Corporate Finance & Strategy at Dropbox to guide teams in building scalable business models and data-driven operating rhythms. Prior to launching Depth Ventures, he was a Partner at Index Ventures, where he...
Dec 24, 2025•53 min
Ali Ansari is the Founder and CEO of micro1, an AI-powered recruitment platform he launched in 2022 to help companies vet and hire top global engineering and domain talent using advanced screening models. A Bay Area-based entrepreneur, he previously built a successful software development agency and other ventures, experiences that directly informed micro1’s focus on scalable, AI-led talent assessment. Ali studied computer science at the University of California, Berkeley, graduating in three ye...
Dec 24, 2025•48 min
Or Lenchner is the CEO of Bright Data, a market-leading web data collection platform he has led since 2018, where he has driven the company’s expansion and innovation to well over $300 million in annual revenue while serving thousands of customers, including Fortune 500 enterprises, leading businesses, universities, and public sector organizations. A former founder and operator of several web-based businesses, he first joined Bright Data on the product side before rising to CEO, a trajectory tha...
Dec 24, 2025•1 hr
Omar Haroun is the founder and CEO of Eudia, a next‑generation augmented intelligence platform for legal teams that has rapidly scaled into a nine‑figure venture‑backed business, attracting over $100M in capital from top‑tier investors on the back of triple‑digit annual growth and adoption across dozens of Fortune 500 legal departments. A second‑time legal‑AI founder, he previously co‑founded Text IQ, whose AI for e‑discovery and privacy was used by Global 2000 enterprises and ultimately acquire...
Dec 20, 2025•47 min
Bob Rosin is the Managing Partner at Antler US, a global early-stage venture capital firm with over $1B in assets under management and investments in more than 1,500 companies. A three-time startup founder who raised over $130M from top investors like Sequoia and Marc Andreessen, he led his third venture, Qik, to a $150M acquisition by Skype, followed by roles as VP of Business Development at Skype and VP & GM at Microsoft after its $8.5B sale. Rosin later drove partnerships at LinkedIn for ...
Dec 20, 2025•58 min
Hemal Shah is a seasoned product leader currently serving as Product lead at OpenAI, where he focuses on integrating ChatGPT into workplace tools like Slack and developing features such as company knowledge powered by GPT-5. Previously, he was VP of Product, Head of Growth, Monetization & Expansion at Atlassian, Chief Product Officer at Root Inc. (NASDAQ: ROOT), and held product roles at Instagram (co-creator of Threads and DMs), Meta (consumer wallet & identity), and Twitter (Developer ...
Dec 19, 2025•51 min
Jim Tananbaum is the founder and CEO of Foresite Capital, a U.S.-focused healthcare investment firm he launched in 2011 that manages approximately $3.5 billion in assets. With a career spanning three decades, Jim has partnered with some of the fastest-growing and most influential healthcare companies of their generation, including 10x Genomics, Amerigroup, and Jazz Pharmaceuticals. A lifelong student of both data science and medicine, his vision for Foresite Capital is to sit at the intersection...
Dec 17, 2025•54 min
Ashley Smith is the GP and Founder of Vermilion Cliffs Ventures, where she backs early-stage technical founders building in AI, developer tools, data, security, and infrastructure. Previously, she served as Global Vice President of Marketing at GitHub through its acquisition by Microsoft, Chief Marketing Officer at GitLab, and Venture Partner at OpenView. Her extensive go-to-market leadership at developer-first companies like Twilio and Facebook’s Parse team informs her focus on founder-led grow...
Dec 17, 2025•59 min
Philip Rathle is the Chief Technology Officer of Neo4j, where he has spent more than a decade helping transform the company from a niche on‑premise database into a leading global graph database and analytics platform used in modern AI and data-intensive applications. With over 25 years in enterprise data, he previously led Neo4j’s product organization, growing ARR from under seven figures to well into nine figures and expanding the portfolio into multiple cloud product lines, while building and ...
Dec 16, 2025•58 min
Igor Taber is the founder and General Partner of Cortical Ventures, an early-stage AI-focused venture fund launched in 2021 to invent, incubate, and invest in companies driving the AI revolution. Previously, he served as SVP of Corporate Development at DataRobot, where he shaped growth strategy, raised over $500 million in capital, and managed M&A and partnerships; before that, as Managing Director at Intel Capital, he led the AI and data investment practice, funding over 20 organizations an...
Dec 16, 2025•57 min
Dave Steer is Chief Marketing Officer at Webflow, where he leads global marketing to scale the company’s enterprise growth and AI-powered digital experience strategy. A veteran marketing leader, he brings two decades of experience across B2C, B2B, and developer marketing, with prior senior roles at GitLab, Cloudflare, Facebook, Twitter, PayPal, eBay, TRUSTe, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Known for unifying story, strategy, and go-to-market execution, he has led platform positioning, ma...
Dec 16, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Flaviu Radulescu and Ioana Hreninciuc are the co-founders of Runware, an AI infrastructure company focused on making high-performance generative media dramatically more affordable and accessible for developers and product teams worldwide. Drawing on over two decades of Flaviu’s experience building bare-metal data clusters and custom hardware, Runware designs its own GPU and networking systems plus the Sonic Inference Engine, enabling up to 10x cost savings and order‑of‑magnitude speedups for vis...
Dec 16, 2025•1 hr 14 min
Josh Sirota is the founder and CEO of Eragon, an AI operating system for work that connects to a company’s business apps and uses custom agents to provide unified, on-demand insights across everything from sales forecasts to product analytics. Based in San Francisco, he founded Eragon to help teams run their companies “from idea to IPO,” after earlier roles in enterprise software sales and go-to-market at Oracle and Salesforce. Under his leadership, Eragon has quickly grown to serve fast-scaling...
Dec 15, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Jack Raines is a Forward Deployed Personality Hire at Slow Ventures, where he scouts the bold, the obsessive, and the slightly unhinged founders building the next wave of breakout companies. Before VC, Jack built a 65,000-subscriber Substack that landed him a Penguin book deal, wrote 50,000 words in 14 days, and worked across Robinhood’s Sherwood News, Litquidity, and UPS. A creator turned investor, he blends storytelling with venture to back founders and influential creators who want to build r...
Dec 15, 2025•56 min
Denise Teng is a Partner at Gradient. Prior to joining Gradient, Denise spent six years as a product manager. Most recently, she was a PM on the Meta AI platform team where she built infrastructure tools for ML workflows. Denise previously spent time at Twitter as a senior PM where she launched products ranging from ad tech and social commerce to real-time data analytics. After grad school, she joined the Walmart e-commerce APM program where she scaled merchant-facing products for Walmart market...
Dec 10, 2025•55 min
Rob Ferguson is the CTO and Head of AI at Microsoft for Startups, where he helps high‑growth founders access GPUs, frontier models, and strategic partnerships to scale AI products. A veteran engineering leader with more than two decades in AI and infrastructure, he previously served as Global Head of AI/ML for Startups and VC at AWS and has been a three‑time startup CTO/VPE with over $100M in exits, including Automatic Labs’ acquisition by SiriusXM. He has scaled engineering teams from early see...
Dec 07, 2025•1 hr 1 min
Chappy Asel serves as Co-Founder and Executive Director of The AI Collective, the largest grassroots AI community in the US with over 25,000 members across major tech hubs, fostering in-person events and online forums for founders, researchers, operators, and investors to shape AI's future. A self-taught coder from age 12, he built and sold the world's #1 homework app with 338k installs before roles at Apple—contributing to Vision Pro prototypes, Apple Intelligence, App Intents, and AI/ML eye-tr...
Dec 05, 2025•50 min
Madison is a Partner at NEA investing in early-stage data, infrastructure, developer tools, data science, and AI and she also leads the data and AI initiative internally for data-driven investment decision-making. She has invested in and works with companies including Factory, Datafold, Metabase, Foresight Data, Delphina, Fixify, World Labs, Sakana and more. Prior to investing, Madison was Head of Data Science and Machine Learning at growth startup Thrasio, Head of Data Science at Greycroft, and...
Dec 05, 2025•1 hr 1 min
