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At Best Startup US we track over 1,000,000 US startups and over 3 million people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top San Francisco, California based Partner operating in the Finance space. If you think a Partner is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Lainy Painter
Partner of Craft Ventures
Elena is an associate in Battery Ventures’ Menlo Park office. At Battery, she focuses on venture and growth investments in the software and Internet sectors. Previously, Elena worked at Gainsight, a Battery Ventures portfolio company that offers customer success solutions to B2B companies. There, she helped lead business operations and strategy across the organization, including initiatives to grow services revenue and drive product adoption. Prior to that, Elena worked at Goldman Sachs on the technology, media and telecom investment banking team, advising companies including PayPal, LinkedIn, Zendesk and 2U. Elena graduated summa cum laude from The College of William and Mary. She received a BA in finance and a minor in economics.
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About Craft Ventures: Craft Ventures is an early-stage venture fund specializing in the craft of building great companies.
Bill Lee
Co-Founder and General Partner of Craft Ventures
Bill Lee was CEO and co-founder of Remarq, a Benchmark Capital-backed collaboration company. At Remarq, Bill guided the company in its development of a complete end-to-end Internet messaging and collaboration platform. Before its acquisition by Critical Path in March 2000, the company developed high-volume messaging platforms for sites such as eBay, Sun, Novell, and Amazon. The company raised over $43 million in venture and debt financing. Bill has been appointed by the Mayor of San Jose to the Redevelopment Committee of San Jose. Bill also graduated Beta Gamma Sigma from UC Berkeley with a B.S. in accounting/finance and received a JD/MBA from UCLA.
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About Craft Ventures, West Coast Holdings: Craft Ventures is an early-stage venture fund specializing in the craft of building great companies.
Brian Murray
Partner & COO of Craft Ventures
Brian leads Craft’s investment team. As one of the first employees at Craft, Brian built the infrastructure that powers the firm’s investment process and hired a talented team to expand Craft’s growing portfolio. Prior to joining Craft, Brian was the VP of Business Operations at Zenefits where he led many of the company’s largest, cross-functional initiatives. Brian spearheaded Zenefit’s transition to a pure SaaS business, established the company’s most important channel partnerships, and led the compliance overhaul of its benefits management product. Previously, Brian was the VP of Sales and Customer Success at Cotap (acquired by ServiceMax) where he led sales, marketing, and post-sales efforts.
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About Cabal, Craft Ventures: Craft Ventures is an early-stage venture fund specializing in the craft of building great companies.
Jeff Fluhr
Co-Founder and General Partner of Craft Ventures
Jeff is co-founder and general partner at Craft. He has been a successful tech entrepreneur and investor for two decades. While at Stanford Graduate School of Business, Fluhr entered the annual business plan competition with the idea of creating a trusted and transparent marketplace where fans could buy and sell tickets for sporting events and concerts. Fluhr dropped out of school and co-founded StubHub in March 2000. By 2007, StubHub had over 400 employees, more than $600 million of gross merchandise volume and partnerships with many professional and college sports teams. Fluhr served as CEO of StubHub until it was acquired by eBay for $310 million in 2007.
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About Craft Ventures: Craft Ventures is an early-stage venture fund specializing in the craft of building great companies.
Joe Cheung
Operating Partner – Talent of Craft Ventures
Joseph is currently the Talent Partner at Craft Ventures, previously Recruiting Talent Consultant@Sequoia Capital, @eero, @Greylock Partner’s Talent Team, lead recruiting efforts at Medium. He has also held the position of Director of Recruiting at the Yammer Division of Microsoft Office. During his time at Yammer he lead efforts in aggressively growing the organization from 55 to over 430 employees globally which led to the eventual acquisition by Microsoft for $1.2 billion dollars. Previous to Yammer, Joseph held recruiting positions at Google, Microsoft, Netflix and Salesforce.com where he supported teams such as Hotmail, Quality Engineering and Streaming Infrastructure Teams at Netflix, the entire Research and Development Organization at Salesforce.com, and Japanese Product Focused Teams as well as other confidential product teams at Google.
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About Craft Ventures: Craft Ventures is an early-stage venture fund specializing in the craft of building great companies.
Alexis Ohanian
Founder & General Partner of Seven Seven Six
Alexis Ohanian, born April 24, 1983, is an entrepreneur and investor in Brooklyn, NY, best known as the co-founder and executive chair of reddit, a platform for online communities to share links and have discussions. While he learned his earliest lessons in leadership and web design from his high school Quake 2 clan and Everquest guild, Alexis continued his official studies at the University of Virginia, where he met his future co-founder Steve Huffman during freshman year move-in day. This would lead to the founding of reddit, which he recounted along with many lessons for entrepreneurs, in his national bestseller, Without Their Permission. At UVA, Alexis majored in business and history with a minor in German. Though he had originally planned to become an immigration lawyer, he experienced an epiphany in his junior year (while sitting in a Waffle House) that led him to the realization that he didn’t want to practice law. Instead he convinced his best friend Steve to start a company with him. The pair traveled to Cambridge, MA during their senior year spring break to hear Paul Graham give a talk titled “How to Start a Startup.” After the lecture, Alexis invited Graham out for a drink so he and Steve could pitch Graham on their business idea. Graham agreed, loved the idea, and suggested they apply to a new seed stage venture firm he’d launched called Y Combinator. Alexis and Steve’s original plan was to build an infrastructure that would allow people to order food from their cell phones. Though the idea was rejected, Alexis and Steve were invited to join the first class of Y Combinator, on the condition that they’d come up with a new concept. The next idea they pitched to Graham would become reddit.com.
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About breadpig, Seven Seven Six: Seven Seven Six is a venture capital firm that primarily seeks to invest in seed rounds.
Katelin Holloway
Founding Partner of Seven Seven Six
Katelin is a founding partner at Alexis Ohanian’s venture capital firm Seven Seven Six. Having spent her early career at Pixar Animation Studios, she transferred her culture building skills from film to tech, dedicating over a decade to developing teams as a senior executive at some of the internet’s most influential startups, including Klout and Reddit. In early 2020, Katelin made the leap from operator to investor, helping entrepreneurs and the broader venture ecosystem evolve their diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging practices, creating new opportunities and access to wealth for people and products typically underrepresented in the tech industry. As an investor, she is passionate about funding and supporting the companies that will shape the future of work, life, sustainability, and the delicate balance that enables us to thrive. Throughout the course of her career, the one common denominator remains: enabling people through belonging to create beautiful, innovative products that move the world.
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About Seven Seven Six: Seven Seven Six is a venture capital firm that primarily seeks to invest in seed rounds.
Ronald Conway
Founder & Co-Managing Partner of SV Angel
Ronald Conway has been an active angel investor for over 15 years. He was the Founder and Managing Partner of the Angel Investors LP funds (1998-2005) whose investments included: Google, Ask Jeeves, Paypal, Good Technology, Opsware, and Brightmail. Ronald was previously with National Semiconductor Corporation in marketing positions from 1973-1979, and Altos Computer Systems as a co-founder, President and CEO from 1979-1990. He eventually took Altos public in 1982 and served as CEO of Personal Training Systems (PTS) from 1991-1995. PTS went on to be acquired by SmartForce/SkillSoft. Ronald has served/serves on Boards/Advisory Boards including: Twitter, Digg, Brightmail, Ask Jeeves, Rupture (acquired by EA), Associated Content (acquired by Yahoo!), Facebook, RockYou, ScanScout, Zappos, Trulia, StumbleUpon, Plaxo (acquired by Comcast), Photobucket (acquired by Fox), and Anchor Intelligence (co-founder). Ronald was recently named #6 in Forbes Magazine Midas list of top deal-makers in 2008 and is actively involved in numerous philanthropic endeavors. Ronald is Vice Chairman of the UCSF Medical Foundation in SF, Board Member of The Tiger Woods Foundation, and SF Homeless Connect, and on the Benefit Committee of Ronald McDonald House, College Track, and the Blacked Eyed Peas-PeaPod Academy Foundation. Ronald is also featured in Gary Rivlin’s book _The Godfather of Silicon Valley: Ronald Conway and the Fall of the Dot-coms, described as ‘the man who has placed more bets on Internet start-ups than anyone else in Silicon Valley.
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About Applied Intuition, FWD.us, Personal Training Systems, Smart Tech Foundation, SV Angel: SV Angel is an angel firm that helps startups with business development, financing, M&A, and other strategic advice.
Robert Pollak
Partner of SV Angel
Robert Pollak is a General Partner at SV Angel. He joined in 2011 and is responsible for all aspects of running the firm. At SV Angel, Robert has originated investments in and works particularly closely with Fundbox, iCracked, Delighted and Dronebase. Prior to SV Angel, Robert worked for a multi-family office within Morgan Stanley, that focused on VCs, late-stage technology companies, and entrepreneurs. He also worked at Arnold & Porter LLP on large-scale M&A transactions in their anti-trust group. Robert graduated from the University of Virginia with a B.A. in Economics and Foreign Affairs.
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About SV Angel: SV Angel is an angel firm that helps startups with business development, financing, M&A, and other strategic advice.
Steven Lee
Partner of SV Angel
Steven was one of Twitter’s first employees focused on monetization analytics. During his 4+ years on Twitter’s Global Market Insight & Analytics team, he helped the group grow to 45+ people covering 11+ countries. Steven partnered with over 15 Fortune Global 500 companies like Samsung to analyze and optimize return on investment. He also worked on measuring Twitter’s platform usage for key real‐time events like the Super Bowl and World Cup. Steven graduated from New York University with a bachelor’s degree in economics. While at NYU, Steven was a four‐year member of the NCAA Fencing team and competed in national tournaments during the offseason. He was also a tutor for America Reads. Steven lives in San Francisco, and enjoys good eats, photography, reading, rooting for his hometown Los Angeles sports teams, and traveling.
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About SV Angel: SV Angel is an angel firm that helps startups with business development, financing, M&A, and other strategic advice.
Topher Conway
Co-Managing Partner of SV Angel
Topher Conway is a Co-Managing Partner of SV Angel. Topher joined SV Angel in 2009, coming from a background in Business Development and Sales at EQAL. At SV Angel, he works particularly close with Flexport, Dapper Labs, Stripe, BetterUp, Coinbase, DoorDash, and Deel. He was included in Forbes Magazine’s 30 Under 30 in 2015. Topher studied History at UCLA and is a member of the UCLA VC Fund, helping foster entrepreneurship at the University. Philanthropically, Topher is involved in a wide range of organizations including Family House, College Track, THORN Foundation, Giffords.org, TGR Foundation, and Team RWB.
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About SV Angel: SV Angel is an angel firm that helps startups with business development, financing, M&A, and other strategic advice.
Beth Turner
General Partner of SV Angel
Beth Turner is a General Partner at SV Angel. Prior to joining, Beth ran operations and invested with a family office focused on seed stage opportunities, investing in companies such as Clover Health, Flatiron Health, LifeLock, and Blue Apron. Prior to this, Beth was managing director of a consulting firm and worked with an international NGO with an operational focus in East Africa. Prior to this, Beth was an early employee at the ad-tech startup Adaptly and worked with one of Israel’s first startups, Netafim. She is a Siemens Westinghouse Scholar, has spoken at TEDx and The World Space Conference, the youngest person to ever record an asteroid occultation, and a musician (performing the national anthem for NBA/NFL, with the Houston Grand Opera, and on an album with Albany records). Beth graduated from MIT with a major in Civil and Environmental Engineering and minors in Physics and Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences (EAPS).
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About SV Angel: SV Angel is an angel firm that helps startups with business development, financing, M&A, and other strategic advice.
Michael Seibel
Managing Director and Partner of Y Combinator
Michael Seibel is a Partner at YC and CEO of YC’s startup accelerator. He was the cofounder and CEO Justin.tv and Socialcam. Socialcam sold to Autodesk in 2012 and under the leadership of Emmett Shear, Justin.tv became Twitch.tv and sold to Amazon in 2014. Before getting into startups, he spent a year as the finance director for a US Senate campaign and in 2005, Michael graduated from Yale University with a BA in political science.
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About Y Combinator: Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a wide range of startups twice a year.
Harjeet Taggar
Group Partner of Y Combinator
Harj Taggar is co-founder and CEO of Triplebyte, a platform for finding and hiring great technical talent. Triplebyte is used by hundreds of companies from large enterprises like Apple, Adobe and American Express through to Series A and later stage startups. They recently closed a $35 million Series B from YC Continuity and Founders Fund. Harj was previously the first partner brought on at Y Combinator since its founding, joining in 2010. He worked on scaling YC from funding tens of companies per year to hundreds. He has also angel invested in a number of startups including Instacart, Coinbase and Opendoor. He first moved to San Francisco from London after starting his first company, Auctomatic, while in college. Auctomatic was funded by Y Combinator in 2007 and acquired by Live Current Media.
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About Auctomatic, Omninos Solutions, Start Fund, Y Combinator: Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a wide range of startups twice a year.
Gustaf Alstromer
Group Partner of Y Combinator
Gustaf Alstromer is a partner at Y Combinator. Before joining Y Combinator he spent 4.5 years at Airbnb where he worked as a Product Lead on the Growth team, a team he helped start in 2012.
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About Tictail, Y Combinator: Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a wide range of startups twice a year.
Tim Brady
Partner of Y Combinator
Prior to Imagine, Tim was Board Member of QuestBridge, an educational startup company that helps bright low-income high school students gain admissions and financial aid to many of the nation’s best colleges. Previously to that, he spent eight years at Yahoo! Inc. during which time he held several positions, the last of which was as the company’s Chief Product Officer. After the two founders, Tim was Yahoo’s first employee. He played a key role in successfully managing all marketing, operation and business development to launch Yahoo! commercially, and to help make Yahoo! into one of the most recognized brands and successful businesses on the Internet. From writing the business plan that attracted the first venture capital financing to helping scale the business, he helped lead the company through multiple stages, challenges and opportunities. Prior to Yahoo!, Tim spent three years with Motorola in Tokyo. He holds an M.B.A. from Harvard University and a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University.
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About Imagine K12, Y Combinator: Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a wide range of startups twice a year.
Adora Cheung
Partner of Y Combinator
Adora Cheung is currently a partner at Y Combinator. She previously served as the CEO and Co-Founder of Homejoy Inc. and was on the Board of the Homejoy Foundation. Prior to Homejoy, Adora worked at Slide (acquired by Google) as a lead Product Manager where she had the opportunity to learn about startups. When Adora left Slide to start her own company she joined forces with her brother Aaron Cheung to form Pathjoy, a startup connecting life coaches to clients online. With Pathjoy the duo were accepted to the Y-Combinator, a prestigious incubator in Mountain View. After two years the duo founded Homejoy in July 2012 and since then Adora has successfully grown the Homejoy team from just her and her brother, to a team of over 120 employees and platform that serve hundreds of thousands of households in over 30 cities across the US, Canada, UK, and Germany. Adora holds a Master’s degree in Economics from the University of Rochester and Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Clemson University.
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About Y Combinator: Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a wide range of startups twice a year.
Trevor Blackwell
Partner of Y Combinator
Trevor Blackwell a partner at Y Combinator. He is the founder of Anybots, where he developed the first dynamically balancing biped robot. He has published papers on congestion control in high speed wide area networks, signaling protocol architecture, and file system performance. Together with Paul Graham, Robert Morris, and Jessica Livingston, he founded Y Combinator in 2005.
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About Anybots, Umbrella Research, Y Combinator, Yahoo! Store: Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a wide range of startups twice a year.
Jonathan Levy
Partner of Y Combinator
Jon Levy previously counseled public and private technology companies as an attorney for Wilson Sonsini Goodrich and Rosati. He also ran ThinkEquity’s private placement department and worked as a Managing Director at Merriman Curhan & Ford. Jon earned a J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School, and a B.A. in English Literature and Religious Studies from Wesleyan University.
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About Y Combinator: Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a wide range of startups twice a year.
Brad Flora
Group Partner of Y Combinator
Brad Flora is a Visiting Partner at Y Combinator. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Perfect Audience. Mr. Flora received a BA from Princeton University in English and an MS in Journalism from Northwestern.
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About Y Combinator: Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a wide range of startups twice a year.
Dalton Caldwell
Partner and Managing Director of Y Combinator
Dalton Caldwell is a Partner and the Head of Admissions at Y Combinator. He was the cofounder and CEO of imeem (acquired by MySpace in 2009), and the cofounder and CEO of App.net. He has a BS in Symbolic Systems and a BA in Psychology from Stanford University.
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About Mixed Media Labs, Y Combinator: Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a wide range of startups twice a year.
Geoff Ralston
President and Partner of Y Combinator
Geoff Ralston is the Founder & Partner of Imagine K 12. Geoff has been an Investor in, Board Member of, and Advisor to a variety of start-up companies, mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is also the President and Partner at Y Combinator. From 2002-2009 Geoff was the Chief Executive Officer of Lala Media, Inc., an innovative cloud music start-up in Palo Alto that was purchased by Apple in December of 2009. Geoff worked at Yahoo! from 1997-2005 after their 1997 acquisition of Four11 Corp. At Four11 Geoff was the VP of Engineering and led the creation of Yahoo! Mail’s predecessor, RocketMail. At Yahoo! Geoff was Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Communications Business Unit and then served as the company’s Chief Product Officer from 2003-2005. Prior to Four11, Geoff was the creator of the popular LookUP! Internet white pages and do-it-yourself home page service. Geoff holds a BA in Computer Science from Dartmouth College. An MS in Computer Science from Stanford University. An MBA from INSEAD, the European Institute of Business Administration.
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About Bix, Imagine K12, Y Combinator: Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a wide range of startups twice a year.
Kirsty Nathoo
Partner, CFO of Y Combinator
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About Y Combinator: Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a wide range of startups twice a year.
Surbhi Sarna
Group Partner of Y Combinator
When she was 13, Surbhi Sarna was a patient. It was then that she realised she wanted to fill the void in female-health innovation. Her start-up, nVision Medical, which addresses early detection of ovarian cancer, recently sold to Boston Scientific for $275m. Previous to the acquisition, Surbhi secured $17m in venture-led funding. Surbhi has authored numerous patents and has been an invited speaker at universities including UCSF and Harvard. She has been featured in publications such as Bloomberg, Entrepreneur magazine and Gigaom, and was named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for 2014.
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About Y Combinator: Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a wide range of startups twice a year.
Jared Friedman
Group Partner of Y Combinator
Jared Friedman is a partner at Y Combinator in San Francisco, where he invests in and helps startups. Previously, Jared was co-founder and CTO at Scribd, a top 100 web property. He studied computer science at Harvard University.
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About Y Combinator: Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a wide range of startups twice a year.
Aaron Epstein
Group Partner of Y Combinator
Aaron co-founded Creative Market in 2012 to help independent creators around the world make a living doing what they love. He has nearly two decades of experience founding and leading startups through bootstrapping, fundraising, Y Combinator, acquisition, spinout, and everything in between. He also supports other founders as a Part-time Partner at Y Combinator, and has a degree in Business from the University of Maryland.
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About Y Combinator: Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a wide range of startups twice a year.
Ralph Gootee
Visiting Partner of Y Combinator
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About Y Combinator: Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a wide range of startups twice a year.
Cyan Banister
Venture Partner, The Frontier of Long Journey Ventures
Cyan Banister is a partner at Founders Fund, where she invests across sectors and stages with a particular interest in augmented reality, fertility, heavily regulated industries and businesses that help people with basic skills find meaningful work. Prior to joining Founders Fund, Cyan was an active angel investor with a portfolio including Uber, Thumbtack, SpaceX, Postmates, EShares, Affirm and Niantic, creator of Pokémon GO. A self-taught engineer and entrepreneur, Cyan has held a number of technical leadership positions throughout her career. As an early employee at IronPort, which was acquired by Cisco, Cyan oversaw support infrastructure and performance for a global customer base. She has a passion for the arts and is a voracious film, documentary and media consumer.
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About Long Journey Ventures, Signal Media Project, Thankroll: Long Journey Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm focused on early and new investments.
Pascal Levy-Garboua
Venture Partner of Long Journey Ventures
Pascal Levy-Garboua is an angel investor, founder, and operator. He is currently VP. Business Development at Checkr, where he joined as their first executive and Employee #9. Previously, he was CEO/Cofounder at SixDoors, Cofounder at VirtuOz (acquired by Nuance Communications) and VP Product at IQ Engines (Acquired by Yahoo). He started his career at eBay in France. Pascal invested in 85+ Companies including Checkr, Wag, Womply, Origin, RealtyShares, and Caviar (Acquired by Square).
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About Long Journey Ventures: Long Journey Ventures is an early stage venture capital firm focused on early and new investments.
Saurabh Gupta
Managing Partner of DST Global
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About DST Global: DST Global is an investment firm that funds late-stage ventures in the internet industry.
Charlie Noyes
Investment Partner of Paradigm
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About Paradigm: Paradigm primarily invests in crypto-assets and businesses from the earliest stages of idea formation through to maturity.
Daniel Robinson
Research Partner of Paradigm
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About Paradigm: Paradigm primarily invests in crypto-assets and businesses from the earliest stages of idea formation through to maturity.
Arielle Zuckerberg
Partner of Coatue
Arielle Zuckerberg the youngest sister of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is joining Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in October 2015, in a bid by the firm to inject youth and diversity into its line-up of partners. (TechCrunch)
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About Coatue: Coatue invests in public and private equity markets focusing on the technology, media, and telecommunications industries.
Luca Schmid
General Partner of Coatue
Luca Schmid is the Partner at Coatue.
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About Coatue: Coatue invests in public and private equity markets focusing on the technology, media, and telecommunications industries.
Andy Chen
Partner of Coatue
Andy Chen is a Partner at Coatue Ventures, an early-stage venture fund within Coatue Management. He is an investor in Persona, Figma, Scale, Chime, Placement, and many others. Prior to Coatue, Andy was a partner at Kleiner Perkins and was responsible for driving the firm’s executive recruiting strategy. He advised their entrepreneurs around all areas of talent in order to recruit the best team and to build iconic companies. He was also responsible for the KPCB Fellows Program, an initiative aimed at developing and mentoring the next generations of leaders. Before joining KPCB, Andy was an analyst at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) covering science, technology and weapons. In this role, he provided intelligence to senior U.S. policymakers, including the president of the United States. Earlier in his career, Andy built and led the contingency recruiting practice at Riviera Partners, a leading recruiting firm that specializes in building teams for high-growth startups. Andy earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in mechanical engineering and applied plasma physics from the University of California, San Diego.
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About Coatue, Persona: Coatue invests in public and private equity markets focusing on the technology, media, and telecommunications industries.
Lucas Swisher
General Partner of Coatue
Lucas Swisher is the General Partner at Coatue Management.
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About Coatue, UiPath: Coatue invests in public and private equity markets focusing on the technology, media, and telecommunications industries.
Yan-David Erlich
General Partner of Coatue
Yan-David Erlich is the Founder & CEO of Parsable (formerly known as Wearable Intelligence), a Silicon Valley based company transforming the lives, productivity, and safety for the 70% of the global workforce whose jobs aren’t performed at a desk. Parsable is replacing paper & walkie talkies with Sera: a collaboration app for industrial teams. With it, enterprises can digitize their procedures and have their mobile workforce collaboratively execute them for the first time. Parsable is backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, First Round Capital, Andreessen Horowitz, Google Ventures, Kleiner Perkins, Schlumberger Technology Corporation, Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures, and a handful of angels. Mr. Erlich is also a Managing Partner at Outlier Ventures (a micro seed fund), and a founding Venture Partner at MuckerLab, Los Angeles’ premier startup accelerator. Prior, Mr. Erlich was the Founder & CEO of ChoiceVendor, which was acquired by LinkedIn (LNKD) in 2010. He was also the Founder & CEO of Mogad, which was acquired by iSkoot (now a division of Qualcomm: QCOM) in 2008, and the Founder of Happiness Engines. Yan-David has been an Entrepreneur in Residence at Matrix Partners, Trinity Ventures, and Battery Ventures. He started his career with software engineering and product management roles at both Google and Microsoft and holds Bachelor of Science degrees in both Computer Science and Electrical & Computer Engineering from Rice University and an MBA from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business (class of ’05). Yan-David enjoys advising other entrepreneurs and counts himself fortunate to have been involved since the early stages with companies including Mixer Labs (acq Twitter), Thumbtack, MasterClass, CircleUp, Twenty20, and Vidme. Mr. Erlich has been featured in Forbes, Fortune, Fox, The Wall Street Journal, among other publications.
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About Coatue, MuckerLab, Outlier Ventures, Weights & Biases: Coatue invests in public and private equity markets focusing on the technology, media, and telecommunications industries.
Vas Natarajan
Partner of Accel
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About Accel: Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.
Ethan Choi
Partner of Accel
Ethan Choi joined Accel in 2018 and focuses on software, consumer internet, and online marketplace businesses. He represents Accel on the boards of 1Password and Invoca, and helped lead Accel’s investment in Bird. Prior to Accel, Ethan worked at Spectrum Equity, where he led investments in and served in board roles at Lucid Software and PicMonkey. He also worked on investments in Headspace, Jimdo, and Prezi, and was actively involved with lynda.com. Ethan also spent time at Domo Technologies and Dell EMC, helping with product development and strategy. Ethan is from Sydney, Australia and graduated from Brigham Young University.
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About Accel: Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.
Ryan Sweeney
General Partner of Accel
Ryan Sweeney joined Accel in 2009. He is the first outside investor and board member in a number of leading SaaS and enterprise software companies like Atlassian (TEAM), Qualtrics (acquired by SAP), Squarespace, PagerDuty, and Xero (XERO). Ryan is also active with innovative consumer startups like Bevy, GOAT, goPuff, and VSCO. He was also responsible for numerous investments with notable exits, including AirWatch (acquired by VMware), Braintree/Venmo (acquired by PayPal), Groupon (public), Lynda.com (acquired by LinkedIn), Lightspeed (acquired by CPqD), OzForex (public), and Simility (acquired by PayPal). Ryan grew up in South Jersey, trusts the process, and graduated from Notre Dame and Harvard Business School.
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About Accel, Responsory: Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.
Steve Loughlin
Partner of Accel
Steve joined Accel in 2016.
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About Accel: Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.
Jeff Rothschild
Consulting Partner of Accel
Jeff Rothschild joined Accel as an advisor and venture partner in 1999. Most notably, Jeff was the VP of Infrastructure Engineering at Facebook from 2005 to 2010. Jeff joined Facebook shortly after the Accel investment and focused on scaling, availability and performance of the site. He was Facebook’s first VP Engineering and established a number of functional organizations within the company including User Operations, Site Integrity, Data Analytics and Infrastructure Engineering. Before Facebook, Jeff was the cofounder of Veritas Software, which became the leading storage management software company with annual sales of more than $1.5B. He also cofounded the online gaming company Mpath/Hearme, and has contributed to the development of Accel portfolio companies including Walmart.com and Rhapsody Networks. Jeff started his career at Honeywell and Intel, where he worked on the development of the Intel 3805 mainframe storage system. After leaving Intel, he developed a consultancy focused on network storage technologies and worked with Locus Computing on the development of AT&T’s DOS-Merge and Sun’s PC-NFS redirector. Jeff has a BS in Psychology and a MS in Computer Science, both from Vanderbilt University.
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About Accel, FWD.us: Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.
Dinesh Katiyar
Partner of Accel
Board Member at MindTickle, ADLPartner & Zinier. Partner at Accel.
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About Accel, Simility: Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.
Andrew Braccia
General Partner of Accel
Andrew Braccia joined Accel in 2007 and focuses on consumer-oriented mobile and web services companies. He was an early investor and on the boards of Slack (public), lynda.com (acquired by LinkedIn), Squarespace, Vox Media, Cornershop (acquired by Uber), MyFitnessPal (acquired by Under Armour), Hotel Tonight (acquired by Airbnb), Cloudera (public), Anchor.fm (acquired by Spotify), Gametime, and UserTesting. He also works closely with the teams at Braintree (acquired by PayPal), Etsy (public), Xero (public), and PagerDuty (public). Prior to joining Accel, Andrew spent close to a decade in a variety of executive positions at Yahoo!. Andrew is from Santa Rosa, California and graduated from the University of Arizona.
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Amit Kumar
Partners of Accel
Amit Kumar joined Accel in 2016 and focuses on next-generation infrastructure, security, and enterprise software startups. He also helps lead Accel’s early-stage efforts around healthcare.
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Casey Aylward
Partner of Accel
Casey is an early-stage investor at Accel focused on infrastructure, developer tools, and security. Before investing, she was a software engineer at Pinterest. Casey worked on various engineering teams that built viral social features, our commerce platform and popular pin/board organization tools. Previously, she worked on both the engineering and business development teams at URX, a developer-focused mobile ad company that was acquired by Pinterest.
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Tracy Sedlock
Chief Operating Partner of Accel
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Richard Wong
General Partner of Accel
Rich Wong joined Accel as a partner in 2006. Rich led Accel’s investments and currently serves on the Boards of Atlassian (TEAM), Checkr, Instabug, Pyn, Qwilt, ServiceChannel, Tune and UiPath. Rich also serves on the National Venture Capital Association Board of Directors. Rich previously led Accel’s investments in AirWatch (acquired by VMware), Angry Birds/Rovio (ROVIO.HE), MoPub (acquired by Twitter), AdMob (acquired by Google), Dealer.com (acquired by Cox), Osmo (acquired by BYJUs), Parature (acquired by Microsoft), Sunrun (RUN), SwiftKey (acquired by Microsoft), and 3LM (acquired by Motorola). In non-profit and volunteer roles, Rich serves on The MIT Corporation Development Committee, the Corporation Visiting Committee for MIT’s Political Science Department, and the Advisory Board for the MIT Trust Center for Entrepreneurship. Rich previously worked as an operator as EVP/GM of Products for mobile pioneer, Openwave Systems and CMO of Covad Communications. Rich started his career as a brand manager at Procter & Gamble and at McKinsey. Rich grew up in Santa Rosa, California and has a Materials Science & Engineering degree and Masters in Management from MIT.
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Joe Schoendorf
Partner of Accel
Joe Schoendorf has been active in high technology industries for nearly forty years. Joe is a member and strategic partner of the World Economic Forum and has served as a consultant to the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in Japan. He is able to help our portfolio management establish significant strategic global relationships in the US, Europe and Asia with a strong focus on China and Japan. Joe has participated as a Board member in industry pioneers such as Macromedia (Authorware). Joe joined Accel in 1988. Previously he was the Vice President of Marketing for Apple Computer. Before that he was Executive Vice President for Worldwide Sales and Marketing for Ungermann-Bass and a member of the Office of the President. Prior to that he was the CEO of Industrial Networking, a joint venture of Ungermann-Bass and General Electric. Joe came to Silicon Valley in 1966. During an eighteen year career at Hewlett Packard he held numerous computer marketing and sales positions including Group Marketing Manager, General Manager of Business Development and General Manager of the Corporate Account Division overseeing all worldwide large accounts. Joe holds a B.S.E.E. degree from Purdue University and has served on the Dean’s Advisory Council at Purdue’s Krannert School of Business. Joe and his wife Nancy, also a venture capitalist, live in Palo Alto with their daughter Megan. Their other daughter Kathryn is living in Washington, D.C. and works for NPR. Besides his family Joe’s passions are travel, long distance bike riding and wine collecting.
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Arun Mathew
Partner of Accel
Arun Mathew joined Accel in 2009 and leads growth investments in the enterprise, security, and infrastructure markets. Arun works closely with 1Password, BetterCloud, Code42, Dealer.com (acquired by DealerTrack), ForgeRock, G2 Crowd, PagerDuty, Qualtrics (acquired by SAP), ServiceChannel, Squarespace, Tenable (TENB), Webflow, XebiaLabs, and Yapstone. Arun also leads the firm’s Tech Council initiatives and spends time in India, where he is active with Accel’s investments in Flipkart, BookMyShow, Ola, and Freshworks. Arun is from Nashville, Tennessee and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Arthur Patterson
Founding Partner Emeritus of Accel
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John Locke
Partner of Accel
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Miles Clements
Principal and Partner of Accel
Miles Clements joined Accel in 2009 and helps lead the firm’s growth fund. He focuses on SaaS companies driving automation of core business processes, collaboration tools helping to reimagine workflows for the modern enterprise, and messaging platforms for the cloud-native workplace. He has helped lead Accel’s investments in Atlassian (TEAM), Bird, Bumble, DJI, Guru, Hudl, lynda.com (acquired by LinkedIn), MessageBird, Miro, Podium, SeatGeek, and UiPath. Previously Miles worked in product management at lynda.com. Miles is from New Orleans, Louisiana and graduated from the University of Virginia and Harvard Business School.
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Eric Wolford
Venture Partner of Accel
Eric Wolford Is The Venture Partner at Accel Partners.
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Jim Swartz
Founding Partner of Accel
Jim Swartz founded Accel with Arthur Patterson in 1983. Over 50 years in venture capital, Jim has been a lead director of more than 50 successful companies. He was instrumental as a founder/mentor of Accel London and in the founding of Meritech Capital. Before founding Accel, Jim was the founding general partner of Adler & Company, which he started with Fred Adler in 1978 after his tenure as a vice president of Citicorp Venture Capital. A long time industry leader, Jim is a former chairman of the National Venture Capital Association and the 2007 recipient of its Lifetime Achievement Award. He serves as Chairman of the Swartz Foundation and the Christian Center of Park City, director emeritus of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Foundation, Trustee of the Sundance Institute, Co-Chairman of MVYouth, and Chairman of the President’s Global Advisory Council of Carnegie Mellon University. Jim’s philanthropic initiatives include dozens of academic, arts, athletic, health, scholarship, and social impact programs including founding Impact Partners, the leading funder of social impact documentaries, and winning an Oscar for Producing the 2018 Best Documentary, Icarus. Jim grew up in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, graduated from Harvard in Engineering and has a M.S. in Industrial Administration and an Honorary Doctorate from Carnegie Mellon, where he sponsors the Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship.
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Amy Saper
Partner of Accel
Amy Saper joined Accel in 2019 and focuses on companies building delightful user experiences that target consumers, businesses, and developers. Previously, Amy spent time at Stripe. As the second marketing hire, she helped build and grow the Product Marketing team, leading global product launches across Stripe’s suite of products. Prior to Stripe, Amy launched products and countries at Twitter, as she helped the company scale from a pre-revenue startup to a public company over the course of four years. Amy works closely with the teams at Gem, Middesk, Deserve, and Radar. Prior to Accel, Amy was also an active angel investor, investing in and advising early stage companies in industries including e-commerce, health and wellness, and SaaS. Originally from Palo Alto, California, Amy graduated from Stanford University and Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Jim Flach
Venture Partner of Accel
Jim Flach has held a wide range of positions in the communications and software industries in which he has worked for over thirty years. A partner with Accel for ten years, he was formerly Chairman of Agile Networks (Lucent), Netlink (Cabletron), Sentient Networks (Cisco), Teleos Communications (Madge Networks), and Vivo Software. Jim has served as CEO of Terraspring, Teleos, Bandwidth9, Hybrid Networks, Redback Networks, and Sentient Networks. He also serves on the board of Bandwidth9, CenterBeam, GoDigital Telecommunications, Hybrid Networks, P-Cube, Primarion, Vertical Networks, and Terraspring. Previously, Jim was Vice President of Intel where he was General Manager of the Personal Computer Enhancement Division. He came to Intel in 1989 when Intel acquired his communications company, Jupiter Technology, where he had been CEO since 1986. Prior to joining Intel, Jim held numerous business and technical positions during a seventeen-year career at Xerox Corporation, including Vice President of Systems Engineering, and Vice President and General Manager of the Network Systems Business Unit, and was responsible for the worldwide P&L of the Xerox Network business. Jim holds a B.S. degree in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and an M.S. degree in Applied Mathematics from the Rochester Institute of Technology.
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Peter Clarke
Talent Partner of Accel
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Ilya Fushman
Partner of Kleiner Perkins
IIlya Fushman is a Partner and managing member at Kleiner Perkins. Ilya has been an early investor in and served on the boards of some of the most innovative software companies of recent times including Slack, Intercom, Optimizely, Cameo, KeepTruckin, CultureAmp, Loom, UiPath and Nova Credit. Prior to Kleiner Perkins, Ilya was a general partner at Index Ventures. Prior to Index, Fushman spent four years at Dropbox where he was one of the company’s first 75 employees. At Dropbox, he helped to build and run the company’s business and corporate development functions before taking on a product leadership role and building out the core Dropbox product, Dropbox for Business, and the developer platform. Previously, Fushman was a principal at Khosla Ventures and the Director of Technology at Solar Junction. He holds a Ph.D. in Applied Physics and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and a B.S. in Physics from Caltech.
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Beth Seidenberg
General Partner of Kleiner Perkins
Beth Seidenberg is a partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers focused on life science investing. She works with entrepreneurs to develop companies with breakthrough technology for treating patients and improving health. Since joining KPCB in 2005, Beth has incubated five companies and serves on the board of directors of 3-V Biosciences, Armo Biosciences, Atara, Auxogyn, Breathe Technologies, Epizyme, iPierian, Redbrick Health and TESARO. Before joining KPCB, Beth was senior vice president of development and chief medical officer of Amgen, Inc. Earlier in her career, she was a senior executive in research and development at Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Merck & Co., Inc. Under her leadership, 10 innovative products were developed and marketed globally and achieved more than 40 regulatory approvals. Beth received her B.S. degree from Barnard College and her M.D. from the University of Miami. She completed her post-graduate training at Johns Hopkins University, George Washington University and the National Institutes of Health.
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Jackie Xu
Head of Talent / Talent Partner of Kleiner Perkins
Jackie Xu currently works as the Head of Talent for Kleiner Perkins. She previously worked at Twitter as the Recruiting Manager.
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Joubin Mirzadegan
Go to Market Partner of Kleiner Perkins
Joubin Mirzadegan currently works as the Go to Market Partner for Kleiner Perkins. He previously worked at Palo Alto Networks as the Global District Sales Manager.
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Meyer Malka
Managing Partner of Ribbit Capital
Micky Malka (born Meyer Malka Rais) is an entrepreneur by design and investor at heart, focused on the utilization of technology to disrupt consumer financial services. He is based in Palo Alto, California where he is the Managing Director of Ribbit Capital. Micky is also the CEO and a founding member of MECK Partners, an investment partnership focused on investing and building businesses in financial services, energy and agribusiness, and the Co-Founder and Chairman of Lemon, Inc. He currently serves on the Board of Wonga, a company transforming the credit market by offering small, short term loans with more transparency, speed, convenience and flexibility than banks, high street lenders and other websites. Micky also serves on the Board of Peixe Urbano, the first and largest Latin-American local commerce website. Micky grew up in Venezuela where he learned the impact of devaluation and hyperinflation at a very young age. Living with hyperinflation allowed him to develop a skill he is still well known for; accurately and quickly running numbers in his head. He also saw first hand how technology could transform businesses. In 1993, at the age of 19, Micky, co-founded Heptagon Group, a securities and investment broker dealer servicing the Venezuelan and US markets. In 1996, he graduated with a degree in Economics from the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela and was one of the founders of the Wendy’s Hamburger’s franchise for Venezuela. It was one of the fastest growing food businesses worldwide with over 70 new store locations in the first 3 years. In 1998, Micky developed the online brokerage, Patagon by merging with Heptagon local operations. Patagon became Latin America’s first comprehensive Internet based financial services portal and dealer. The company expanded its online services to the United States and the rest of South America and was later acquired by the Spanish bank Banco Santander (NYSE: STD) for US$ 750 million. In 2000 Micky was the interim CEO for Banco Patagon the leader for online banking in Spain and Germany. In 2002, he co-founded Banco Lemon, a Brazilian retail bank serving the underbanked population) which became the largest private microfinance institution in Brazil. In 2009 it was acquired by Banco do Brasil, Latin America’s largest bank. Micky was also involved with Classified Media Group, an online classified company focusing on Colombia, Venezuela and Central America. The group was acquired in 2007 by MercadoLibre (NASDAQ:MELI). In 2011 he co-founded Banco Bracce a Brazilian financial institution positioned as the merchant bank of choice for mid-cap companies in Brazil. In 2011 Meyer co-founded Lemon a service to help individuals keep track of their expenses.
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Jordan Angelos
General Partner of Ribbit Capital
Jordan Angelos is Head of M&A and Investment for Stripe. Previously, Angelos joined Accel in 2013 and focuses on software, security and consumer investments. Jordan helped lead Accel’s investments in BetterCloud, UserTesting, Campaign Monitor, QMC and WorldRemit. Before Accel, Jordan worked at Goldman Sachs in New York, covering technology. Jordan is from Columbus, Ohio and graduated from Brigham Young University.
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Nicholas Huber
Principal and Partner of Ribbit Capital
Nick Huber is a General Partner at Ribbit Capital.
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Cindy McAdam
Partner & General Counsel of Ribbit Capital
Cindy McAdam focuses on security, finance and legal matters. She served as General Counsel of Postini, negotiating its sale to Google for $643m. Most recently, she worked as COO and General Counsel of mobile payments companies Bling Nation and Lemon Wallet, which were acquired in 2013 for $50m
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Ben Paull
General Partner of Ribbit Capital
Ben Paull is a General Partner at Ribbit Capital.
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Lydia Jett
Partner of SoftBank Vision Fund
Jett focuses on investments in a variety of media and communications industry segments. Prior to joining M/C, Ms. Jett worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the Principal Investment Area (PIA) in New York where she completed investments across a number of sectors, including media and education. Previously, Ms. Jett worked at J.P. Morgan Securities in the Telecom, Media & Technology (TMT) group of the Leveraged Finance practice in New York. Ms. Jett also worked at Metro-Goldwyn-Meyer Inc. in Los Angeles and with Moxie Capital LLC in San Francisco. Ms. Jett received a B.A. in Economics and Government from Smith College and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About SoftBank Vision Fund: SoftBank Vision Fund specializes in growth capital and social impact investments.
Eric Chen
Partner, Asia of SoftBank Vision Fund
Eric Chen joined Silver Lake in 2008 and is a Managing Director. Prior to Silver Lake, Dr. Chen was a Senior Vice President and Executive Committee member of ASML, a global leader in semiconductor technology. Dr. Chen joined ASML following its acquisition of Brion Technologies in 2007, the company he co-founded in 2002 and served as the CEO since inception. He was formerly a Senior Vice President at J.P. Morgan, where he coordinated the global research effort in the electronics sector and conducted equity research for a number of technology segments. Earlier in his career, Dr. Chen conducted theoretical physics research at Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (“CERN”) and at the Advanced Product Research Development Laboratory and MOS-13 facility for Motorola. Dr. Chen is currently on the board of Allyes Online Media Holding and Hillstone Networks. Previously, he served on the boards of Nobao Renewable Energy Holdings Limited and Varian Semiconductor. Dr. Chen was born and raised in China and is bilingual in English and Chinese (Mandarin). He represented China in the International Physics Olympics in Germany, earning the Silver Medal. Dr. Chen studied Physics at Peking University and received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
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Eric Chen
Managing Partner of SoftBank Vision Fund
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About Silver Lake, SoftBank Vision Fund: SoftBank Vision Fund specializes in growth capital and social impact investments.
Vikas Parekh
Partner of SoftBank Vision Fund
Vikas is actively involved in evaluating investing opportunities in the semiconductor, software, big data/artificial intelligence, and Internet of things landscape. Since joining SoftBank Investment Advisers, he has worked with Arm, WeWork, OSIsoft, Grofers, Mapbox, Slack, Cohesity and Nauto, among other investments. (A full list of portfolio companies can be found here.) Prior to joining SoftBank Investment Advisers, Vikas was a principal in Boston Consulting Group’s San Francisco and Mumbai offices. He was a core member of BCG’s Corporate Development practice area and has extensive corporate strategy and mergers and acquisitions experience. He has advised clients in the semiconductor, consumer goods, and energy industries. Vikas also has worked at KKR, where he focused on strategic initiatives for portfolio companies in the technology and media sectors. Vikas has an MBA from the Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a George F. Baker Scholar and was awarded first- and second-year honors. He also has an MS in electrical and computer engineering, and a BS with highest honors in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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About SoftBank Vision Fund: SoftBank Vision Fund specializes in growth capital and social impact investments.
Arjun Sethi
Co-Founder & Partner of Tribe Capital
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About Applied Intuition, Instabase, Social Capital, Tribe Capital: Tribe Capital is an early stage venture capital firm focused on recognizing and amplifying early stage product-market fit.
Ted Maidenberg
Co-founder & General Partner of Tribe Capital
Ted Maidenberg joined Tribe Capital as Co-founder and General Partner in 2018.
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About Tribe Capital: Tribe Capital is an early stage venture capital firm focused on recognizing and amplifying early stage product-market fit.
Paul Lee
Partner of Tribe Capital
Paul Lee is a Partner at Tribe Capital.
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About Tribe Capital: Tribe Capital is an early stage venture capital firm focused on recognizing and amplifying early stage product-market fit.
Jake Ellowitz
Partner, Data Scientist of Tribe Capital
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Alex Chee
Partner, Product of Tribe Capital
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Brendan Moore
Partner, Data Scientist of Tribe Capital
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Nick Adams
Venture Partner of AME Cloud Ventures
Nick manages AME Cloud’s early stage investments. Prior to AME Cloud, Nick spent five years in China and India, where he lead business development for Cloud Valley and founded a web travel company and a software-services company. Nick earned his Masters in Engineering from Imperial College.
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About AME Cloud Ventures, Cloud Valley: AME Cloud Ventures invests in seed to later-stage tech companies that build infrastructure and value chains around data.
Darian Shirazi
General Partner of Gradient Ventures
Darian is a Partner at Gradient Ventures. At the age of 15, he interned at eBay as a code tester working on the third version of Sell Your Item. In early 2005, he joined Facebook as a Software Engineer reporting to Mark Zuckerberg as one of the company’s first outside hires. At Facebook, he contributed to several components of the social network’s products and the early versions of its mobile products. After Facebook, Darian studied Philosophy and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley for nearly two years before dropping out to work full-time on startups. After leaving Berkeley, Darian began advising and investing in many startups including becoming the first investor in Udemy, the online education marketplace. He then founded Radius, the leading B2B Customer Data Platform, and served as the company’s CEO for more than seven years, growing the company to more than one hundred employees, raising more than $100MM of venture capital from top tier firms, and serving dozens of Fortune 500 customers. In addition to these accomplishments, Darian is an early investor in the following companies: Lyft, Lending Club, Carbon Health, Palantir, Osaro, Casetext, Alloy.ai, Loft, and many others. In 2012, he was recognized as one of Forbes’ top 30 entrepreneurs under 30 at the age of 24 and has been a guest of CNBC’s Squawk Box, Forbes’ Braintech at the Aspen Institute, Web Summit, and several other well-known conferences and events. Darian lives in San Francisco with his wife and two cats and enjoys skiing, kitesurfing, and Civilization VI.
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About Gradient Ventures: Gradient Ventures helps founders build transformational companies.
Wen-Wen Lam
Partner of Gradient Ventures
Wen-Wen Lam is the Partner at Gradient Ventures.
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Zachary Bratun-Glennon
Partner of Gradient Ventures
Zach is a Partner at Gradient Ventures. Previously, Zach led acquisitions and strategic investments as a member of Google’s Corporate Development team, with a focus on Google’s Cloud, Ads and Commerce businesses. Prior to Google, Zach advised software and internet companies as an investment banker, strategizing and executing IPO, M&A, investment and financing opportunities. Zach started his career at a leading energy trading hedge fund, managing trading algorithms as a quant and data scientist. Zach’s entrepreneurial efforts include co-founding a social media startup, as well as consulting a tech incubator’s portfolio startups on fundraising and legal issues. Zach received his JD from the UCLA School of Law, and his MBA from the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He received his BS in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics from the University of Virginia.
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About Gradient Ventures: Gradient Ventures helps founders build transformational companies.
Anna Patterson
Founder & Managing Partner of Gradient Ventures
Anna Patterson is the Founder and Managing Partner at Gradient Ventures.
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About Google, Google, Gradient Ventures, Washington University in St. Louis: Gradient Ventures helps founders build transformational companies.
Adam Bain
Co-Founder & Managing Partner of 01 Advisors
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About 01 Advisors, Goat Group: 01A is a venture firm founded by a team of operators to help entrepreneurs build great companies.
Dick Costolo
Managing Partner & Co-Founder of 01 Advisors
Since October 2010, Dick has been the Chief Executive Officer of Twitter, where he was responsible for the growth and management of the overall business. Previously, as Twitter’s Chief Operating Officer, he oversaw monetization and day to day operations. Before joining Twitter, Dick was co-founder and CEO of FeedBurner, a digital content syndication platform that was acquired by Google in 2007. While at Google, Dick was Group Product Manager on the Ads team responsible for social media ads. Previously, Dick lived and worked in Chicago, where he founded and ran two digital media companies: SpyOnIt, a web page monitoring service, and Burning Door Networked Media, a web design and development consulting company. Dick was also an improv performer with the acclaimed Annoyance Theater. He graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.S. in Computer Science.
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Karen (Appleton ) Page
General Partner of B Capital Group
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About B Capital Group, Forum Ventures: B Capital Group is a venture capital firm that backs global entrepreneurs in the field of information technology.
Robert Mittendorff
General Partner and Head of Healthcare of B Capital Group
Robert brings to NVP more than a decade of operational and medical experience. Based in NVP’s Palo Alto office, Robert focuses on investing capital in venture and growth opportunities in the healthcare sector. Prior to NVP, Robert was the Vice President of Marketing and Business Development at Hansen Medical Inc. (Nasdaq: HNSN). During his tenure, he launched multiple products, including the Magellan and Sensei X robotic systems, and was involved in leading products from concept to first commercial shipment. As a corporate officer, Robert also led the Company’s partnerships with GE, Siemens, Philips and St. Jude Medical and executed transactions totaling over $100M. He created the Scientific Advisory Board and participated in two public financings. Prior to Hansen Medical, Robert worked in the device, pharmaceutical and biotech industries with experience at a number of companies, working in strategic, business development and marketing capacities. Robert is also a board certified emergency physician who completed his residency training at Stanford. Robert received his M.D. from Harvard Medical School and his M.B.A. from Harvard Business School. He received his B.S. in biomedical engineering from Johns Hopkins University where he played on the soccer team. He has completed fellowships under the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (neuroscience), MIT Sloan School of Management, and Harvard Business School.
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About B Capital Group, Health Catalyst, Kaiser Permanente: B Capital Group is a venture capital firm that backs global entrepreneurs in the field of information technology.
Rashmi Gopinath
General Partner of B Capital Group
Rashmi is a General Partner at B Capital leading growth-stage enterprise investments. Previously, she was a Managing Director at M12, Microsoft’s Venture Fund and led investments for the fund globally in cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, devops, AI/ML, and enterprise SaaS. She brings a combination of strong venture capital and startup operating experience. Previously, Rashmi was an Investment Director at Intel Capital focused on investing in cloud infrastructure, and big data companies. She also led global business development for high-growth startups Couchbase and BlueData. Prior to that, she held product development positions at GE and Oracle. Rashmi has an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Mumbai in India.
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About B Capital Group: B Capital Group is a venture capital firm that backs global entrepreneurs in the field of information technology.
Neil Mehta
Founder, Managing Partner of Greenoaks
Neil Mehta is the founder and a managing partner of Greenoaks Capital. Greenoaks is a leading investment firm focused on internet and technology businesses. Greenoaks makes concentrated, long-term investments in enduring businesses globally.
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About Greenoaks: Greenoaks is a global investment firm specializing in technology companies.
Benny Peretz
Managing Partner of Greenoaks
Benny Peretz is a Managing Partner of Greenoaks Capital. Prior to Greenoaks Capital, Benny co-founded WRKSHP, a leading mobile gaming company. Benny previously invested in public and private businesses globally with D.E. Shaw & Co., L.P. Benny holds a BSc from the Wharton School and BAS from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.
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About Greenoaks: Greenoaks is a global investment firm specializing in technology companies.
Sheel Mohnot
Founding Partner of Better Tomorrow Ventures
Sheel is co-founder of Better Tomorrow Ventures and GP of 500Fintech, investing in pre-seed and seed stage fintech companies. His own startup experience includes 2 successful FinTech exits – a payments company and a high-stakes auction company.He also co-founded the startup podcast called The Pitch. He formerly worked as a financial services consultant at BCG and started his FinTech career at the non-profit p2p lender Kiva.
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About 500 Fintech, Better Tomorrow Ventures, Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), The Pitch, Thistle: Better Tomorrow Ventures (BTV) is an early stage fintech focused fund that leads rounds in pre-seed and seed-stage companies globally
Jacob Gibson
Founding Partner of Better Tomorrow Ventures
Co-founded NerdWallet. Without any outside funding, helped it grow from 2 guys into a world-class, mission-driven team, working to build the future of personal finance. I stepped down in early 2014 and am now using that experience to help other entrepreneurs and small businesses in any way I can.
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About Better Tomorrow Ventures: Better Tomorrow Ventures (BTV) is an early stage fintech focused fund that leads rounds in pre-seed and seed-stage companies globally
Anu Hariharan
Partner of Y Combinator Continuity Fund
Anu Hariharan is a Partner with the YC Continuity Fund. Anu led YC Continuity’s investments in Brex, Gusto, Instacart, Convoy, and Boom, and sits on boards of Convoy, Brex, and others. Previously, Anu was an investment partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where she worked actively with the management teams of portfolio companies including Airbnb, Instacart, Medium, OfferUp, and Udacity. Prior, Anu was a leader at BCG’s Private Equity Practice, where she evaluated dozens of transactions for global growth investors. She spent several years as a senior software engineer at Qualcomm designing and commercializing multimedia applications, such as video streaming on several generations of Qualcomm’s 3G solutions. Anu is passionate about global technology investing and the convergence of great entrepreneurs between US, China, and India and has invested in a personal capacity in Jinri Toutiao. Anu holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech and an MBA from The Wharton School.
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About All Raise, Y Combinator Continuity Fund: Y Combinator Continuity is an investment fund dedicated to supporting founders as they scale their companies.
Nina Achadjian
Partner of Index Ventures
Nina joined Cota in 2015 as Principal. She is responsible for evaluating and sourcing private side deals and helping drive investment decisions. Prior to joining Cota, Nina held a Financial Analyst position at Google, where she was responsible for a $1.8 billion business. She worked on key strategic monetization deals with eCommerce and Search partners, including landmark deals with IAC, eBay and Amazon. Nina started her career as a High Yield bond trader at Citigroup, later transitioning to Emerging Market Credit. She has vast international experience, including London, New York, San Francisco, Dubai, and Istanbul. Nina also founded HIVE, the first Armenian tech incubator. Nina received her BA in Government, magna cum laude, from Harvard University, and was one of six recipients of the Michael C. Rockefeller Fellowship.
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About Index Ventures: Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that helps the entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.
Mike Volpi
Partner of Index Ventures
Mike joined Index Ventures in 2009 to help establish the firm’s San Francisco office with Danny Rimer. Mike invests primarily in infrastructure, open-source, and artificial intelligence companies. Within the Index portfolio, Mike is currently serving on the boards of Aurora,Cockroach Labs, Confluent, Elastic, Kong, Sonos, Wealthfront, and Zuora. He also serves on the board for Fiat Chrysler Automotive. Mike was previously a director of Blue Bottle Coffee, Hortonworks, and Pure Storage. Mike held several executive positions prior to Index, including Chief Strategy Officer and SVP/GM of Cisco’s routing business. Mike managed a P&L in excess of $10 billion in revenues, and his team was responsible for the acquisition of over 70 companies, some of which were multi-billion deals. Mike has a B.S in mechanical engineering and an M.S. in manufacturing systems engineering from Stanford, and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He currently serves on the Global Advisory Board of Stanford’s Knight Hennessy Scholars program.
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About Index Ventures, Sonos: Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that helps the entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.
Shardul Shah
Partner of Index Ventures
Shardul Shah is a Partner at Index Ventures. Shardul Shah joined Index in February 2008. He was first a Principal based in the San Francisco office interested in infrastructure and software investments. Prior to joining Index, Shardul worked with Summit Partners where he focused on healthcare and internet technologies. Previously, Shardul was a molecular biology research technician at the University of Chicago Hospitals. Shardul holds a B.A. in Economics, and B.A. in Biology with a specialization in Immunology from the University of Chicago.
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About Index Ventures, MinIO, Outbrain, Signal Sciences: Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that helps the entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.
Mark Goldberg
Partner of Index Ventures
Mark focuses on venture investments in financial services, insurance, real estate and enterprise software. Having both an operating and venture capital background, he is passionate about working with entrepreneurs to scale their businesses. Mark joined the Index team from Dropbox, where he ran Business Strategy and drove key initiatives in sales operations, partnerships, and growth. During his tenure at the company, Mark held various leadership positions across the finance and business organizations and helped the company grow from 250 to 1,500 people. Previously, Mark was an investment banker at Morgan Stanley. After working on the IPO for Tesla Motors, he joined a clean-tech focused venture capital fund, Hudson Clean Energy Partners, where he led investments in solar energy, energy efficiency and storage technologies. Mark graduated from Brown University with a B.A. in International Relations. He currently lives in San Francisco, where he enjoys surfing and playing tennis in his spare time.
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About Index Ventures: Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that helps the entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.
Sarah Cannon
Partner of Index Ventures
Sarah Cannon is the Partner at Index Ventures.
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About Index Ventures, Notion, Quill, The Council on Foreign Relations: Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that helps the entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.
Erik Kriessmann
Talent Partner of Index Ventures
Erik leads Human Capital for Index Ventures where he is largely focused on curating a community of exceptional people who love to solve hard problems and build great companies. He also partners closely with founders and executive leadership across the entire portfolio assisting and advising them on their most strategic talent initiatives. Prior to Index, Erik was the Director of Talent at Khosla Ventures, assisting entrepreneurs in attracting and retaining transformational talent. Before Khosla, Erik worked at the leading Bay Area executive search firm (SPMB) where he helped build leadership teams at some of the most successful companies in technology. Erik graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Legal Studies before joining a seed stage consumer company as employee #5. In addition to technology – music, fashion, nature, food, design, history, and sports are always top of mind. Play to win
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About Index Ventures: Index Ventures is a venture capital firm that helps the entrepreneurs turn bold ideas into global businesses.
Pat Burtis
Partner of Amadeus Capital Partners
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About Amadeus Capital Partners, Creditas, Descomplica: Amadeus Capital Partners caters to the technology sector with seed, early, and later stage venture, and private equity investments.
Amy Wu
Partner of Lightspeed Venture Partners
Amy Wu has enjoyed being on both sides of the table as investor and operator, joining Lightspeed in 2019 as an early member of the growth team to lead the reinvestment platform and invest in growth-stage consumer and enterprise businesses. Prior to Lightspeed, Amy was an executive for several years, most recently at Discovery, Inc, a global media company with 17 TV networks in 220 countries, and at NewsCred, a growth-stage marketing software company based in NYC, after starting her career at Insight Venture Partners. Amy’s breadth of experience – in early-stage and corporate, in consumer and enterprise businesses, and across the US, Europe, and Asia – has deeply shaped her passion for helping businesses scale globally. In the US, Amy helped raise over $60M for NewsCred, was group CFO of 4 US direct-to-consumer businesses at Discovery and was involved with Zumba, DrillingInfo, and other marketplace and SaaS investments while at Insight. In Europe, Amy was group CFO of Discovery Eurosport, the leading sports broadcaster across Europe, and DPlay, an on-demand video streaming platform, and led the acquisition of Playsports UK. Finally, Amy has lived and invested in Asia, where she was born in Beijing, was CFO and SVP of Commercial Operations for Discovery Asia based in Singapore, led the Scripps Networks Asia integration efforts, and was a board observer with JD.com while at Insight. “As a former operator, what I love most about investing is getting in the trenches with CEOs and their teams.” Amy finds balance in her life in the outdoors. Having grown up in Oregon, Amy loves skiing on and off-piste, rock climbing, and has summited over 12 alpine peaks over 10,000 ft high. “Mountaineering is the most humbling experience. It gives me real perspective in life and keeps me calm when helping my team and companies through good and hard times.”
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About Lightspeed Venture Partners: Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.
John Thompson
Venture Partner of Lightspeed Venture Partners
John Thompson currently works as the Venture Partner for Lightspeed Venture Partners. He previously worked at Riverwood Capital Management as the Executive Advisor.
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About Lightspeed Venture Partners: Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.
