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This list showcases the top United States based Associate operating in the Venture Capital space. If you think a Associate 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.
David James
Senior Associate of Manhattan Venture Partners
David currently works as a Senior Associate at Manhattan Venture Partners, a research driven merchant bank offering insights and access into mid to late stage private technology companies.
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About Manhattan Venture Partners: Principal investor and advisory solution to private venture backed technology companies and their shareholders.
Sean Kendall
Sr Associate, Chicago of ARCH Venture Partners
Sean Kendall is an Associate with ARCH, joining the company as an analyst in 2015. Mr. Kendall focuses on identifying and evaluating new technologies in life science, materials, energy, and electronics. He provides operating assistance to early-stage portfolio companies. Mr. Kendall was an early employee with LS9, Inc. (now REG Life Science), a synthetic biology company producing renewable chemicals. He next worked at Cobalt Technologies, another cleantech startup, bringing laboratory technology to the commercial scale. Mr. Kendall has contributed business efforts to NetEnergy, a Chicago-based energy storage startup, and Twist Bioscience, an ARCH portfolio company. Mr. Kendall holds an M.B.A. on the Dean’s Honor List from the University of Chicago, and a B.S. and M.S. in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University.
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About ARCH Venture Partners: ARCH is an early-stage venture firm that focuses on life science discoveries to prevent, detect, and cure disease.
Nilay Thakar
Associate of ARCH Venture Partners
Nilay Thakar is an associate at ARCH Venture Partners.
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About ARCH Venture Partners: ARCH is an early-stage venture firm that focuses on life science discoveries to prevent, detect, and cure disease.
Zachary Schmid
Investment Associate of Casa Verde Capital
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About Casa Verde Capital: Casa Verde Capital is a venture capital firm specialized in seed investments.
Allie Denburg
Associate of Casa Verde Capital
Allie is an experienced operator and problem-solver assisting CVC across areas including deal sourcing, investment diligence, and market research. She was previously a Senior Operations Manager at Uber in the US and Asia Pacific. Allie holds a BA in Political Science and Philosophy, summa cum laude, from Duke University.
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About Casa Verde Capital: Casa Verde Capital is a venture capital firm specialized in seed investments.
Daniel Tovbin
Associate of Initialized Capital
Daniel Tovbin currently works as the Associate forInitialized Capital. He previously worked at Vector Capital as a Private Equity Associate.
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About Initialized Capital: Initialized Capital is an early-stage VC firm focused on helping software engineers and designers with their first seed checks.
Alejandra Calvo
Associate of Initialized Capital
Alejandra Calvo currently works as the Associate for Initialized Capital. She previously worked at Goldman Sachs as an Associate.
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About Initialized Capital: Initialized Capital is an early-stage VC firm focused on helping software engineers and designers with their first seed checks.
Julianna Vitolo
Associate of Initialized Capital
Julianna Vitolo is the Venture Capital Associate at Initialized Capital.
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About Initialized Capital: Initialized Capital is an early-stage VC firm focused on helping software engineers and designers with their first seed checks.
Jonathan Kerstein
Investment Associate of Insight Partners
Jonathan Kerstein currently works as the Investment Associate for Insight Partners. He previously worked at Red Sea Ventures as an Analyst.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Julia Murphy
Senior Associate of Insight Partners
Julia Murphy currently works as the Senior Associate for Insight Partners. She previously worked at McKinsey & Company as a Business Analyst.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Benjamin Pruzan
Investment Associate of Insight Partners
Ben joined Insight in 2016. Prior to joining Insight, he worked at RRE Ventures investing in early-stage companies and PAI Partners in London focusing on leverage buyouts. Ben graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with a BA in Economics. During his time at Brown he led the Brown Entrepreneurship Program (Brown EP) and worked for Greycork, an e-commerce furniture startup. Outside of work he can be found cheering for the New York Rangers and Giants, and arguing that cats are better than dogs.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Veena Advani
Associate of Insight Partners
Veena Advani currently works as the Associate for Insight Partners. She previously worked at McKinsey & Company as a Business Analyst.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Evan Fisher
Investment Associate of Insight Partners
Evan Fisher currently works as the Investor for Insight Partners. He previously worked at Goldman Sachs as an Investment Banking.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Connor Guess
Investment Associate of Insight Partners
Connor Guess currently works as the Investment Associate for Insight Partners. He previously worked at IDEA Fund Partners as an Analyst.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
James Green
Investment Associate of Insight Partners
James Green joined Insight in 2016. Prior to joining Insight, James was one of the first employees at carwow, a UK online new car marketplace and he was later an analyst at Greenvault Partners, a search fund based out of Boston. James graduated from Harvard University receiving a degree in cognitive neuroscience and evolutionary psychology. Within his studies, James focused on group psychology and how biases can affect day to day business activities. Furthermore, while at Harvard, James helped co-found Andon Analytics, a manufacturing software solution for real time analytics on the factory floor. Additionally, James was also a letter winning four-year varsity athlete on the heavyweight crew team. Outside of work, he is an avid sports fan of all types and enjoys cooking, reading and exploring new countries.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Brooke Kiley
Investment Associate of Insight Partners
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Rachel Harkins
Associate of Insight Partners
Rachel Harkins currently works as the Associate for Insight Partners. She previously worked at J.P. Morgan as the Investment Banking Summer Analyst.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Nicholas Ellenoff
Onsite Associate of Insight Partners
Nicholas Ellenoff currently works as the Investor for Insight Partners.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Howard Xu
Investment Associate of Insight Partners
Howard Xu serves as an investment associate at Insight Partners, joining the company in 2018. Previously, he worked at Magic Leap, a Mixed Reality / AR startup and ZhenFund, the largest early-stage Chinese VC fund. He has also worked in investment banking and private equity. Howard graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a BS in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Economics. While at Hopkins, Howard was a VC Partner at A-Level Capital, founded a startup, and served as the President of the HKN Electrical Engineering Honor Society and Global China Connection.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Michael Shephard
Investment Associate of Insight Partners
Michael Shephard currently works as the Investor for Insight Partners.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Evan Hahn
Investment Associate of Insight Partners
Evan joined Insight in 2016. He previously worked on the business development & strategy team at Taboola implementing partnerships with marquee publishers, and in the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley. He graduated from Harvard with a degree in Economics, a minor in Computer Science, and a language citation in Mandarin Chinese. While at Harvard, he was a member of the Harvard Varsity Squash Team and the Harvard Investment Association. He also holds a black belt in Tae Kwon Do. In his spare time Evan enjoys playing squash, cooking, and traveling.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Madeline Child
Investment Associate of Insight Partners
Madeline Child currently works as the Investor for Insight Partners. She previously worked at GSVlabs as the Business Development.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Feyza Haskaraman
Onsite Associate of Insight Partners
Feyza Haskaraman currently works as the Investor for Menlo Ventures. She previously worked at Insight Partners as the Senior Associate.
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About Insight Partners, Menlo Ventures: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
AJ Nandi
Investment Associate of Insight Partners
AJ joined Insight in 2016. Prior to joining Insight, he worked at Middlemarch Partners, a technology focused merchant bank. He worked with clients in the e-commerce and data services space. He also spent time working with SmartyPal, a platform focused on tech-enabled early childhood education. AJ graduated from The Wharton School at The University of Pennsylvania with a BS in Economics with dual concentrations in Finance & Operations and Information Management, in addition to a minor in Computer Science. Outside of work, AJ enjoys playing and following basketball, hiking and music production.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Pirasteh Kamran
Associate of Insight Partners
Kamran Pirasteh currently works as the Associate for Insight Partners. He previously worked at McKinsey & Company as a Business Analyst.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Max Kennedy
Onsite Associate of Insight Partners
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Alex Glassman
Investment Associate of Insight Partners
Alex Glassman currently works as the Investment Associate for Insight Partners. He previously worked at William Blair as an Investment Banking Analyst.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Brad Fiedler
Investment Associate of Insight Partners
Brad Fiedler is an Investment Associate at Insight Partners.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Joe Farned
Onsite Associate of Insight Partners
Joe Farned currently works as the Investor for Insight Partners.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Matthew Immerso
Senior Associate of Insight Partners
Matthew Immerso currently works as the Senior Associate for Insight Partners. He previously worked at McKinsey & Company as a Business Analyst.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Isabelle Daly
Senior Associate of Insight Partners
Isabelle Daly currently works as the Senior Associate for Insight Partners. She previously worked at L Catterton as the Global Strategy Associate.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Alessandro Luciano
Associate of Insight Partners
Alessandro Luciano currently works as the Associate for Insight Partners. He previously worked at Havenly Treats as the Co-Founder and Board Member.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Kunal Jasty
Associate of Insight Partners
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About Insight Partners, Vetamer: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Danielle Feitler
Investment Associate of Insight Partners
Danielle Feitler currently works as the Investment Associate for Insight Partners. She previously worked at Goldman Sachs as an Investment Banking Analyst.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Sid Sapru
Senior Associate of Insight Partners
Sid Sapru is a Senior Associate at Insight Partners.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Jordan Nettuno
Business Intelligence and Technology Associate of Insight Partners
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Alexander Leibowitz
Associate of Insight Partners
Alexander Leibowitz currently works as the Associate for Insight Partners.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Andrew Kutscher
Associate of Insight Partners
Andrew Kutscher currently works as an Associate for Insight Partners. He previously worked at Evercore as an Investment Banking Analyst.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Sophie Beshar
Investment Associate of Insight Partners
Sophie Beshar currently works as the Investment Associate for Insight Partners.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Nathaniel Drake
Associate, Capital Markets of Insight Partners
Nathaniel Drake currently works as the Associate for Insight Venture Partners. He previously worked at Bank of America Merrill Lynch as an Investment Banking Analyst.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Joshua Loria
Onsite Associate of Insight Partners
Joshua Loria currently works as the Associate for Insight Partners. He previously worked at Booz Allen Hamilton as a Management Consultant.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Kelly Zhou
Investment Associate of Insight Partners
Kelly Zhou currently works as the Investor for Insight Partners.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Bradford Jones
Investment Associate of Insight Partners
Bradford Jones currently works as the Investment Associate for Insight Partners.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Ali Dastjerdi
Investment Associate of Insight Partners
Ali Dastjerdi currently works as the Investment Associate for Insight Partners. He previously worked at Harvard Student Agencies as the President.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Kais Khimj
Investment Associate of Insight Partners
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Nick Vega
Associate of Insight Partners
Nick Vega currently works as the Associate for Insight Partners. He previously worked at Morgan Stanley as an Investment Banking Analyst.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Josh Rapperport
Investment Associate of Innovation Endeavors
Josh Rapperport currently works as the Investment Associate for Innovation Endeavors. He previously worked at Google as the Strategic Partner Development Manager.
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About Innovation Endeavors: Innovation Endeavors invests in visionary founders, transformational technology, and emergent ecosystems for a new world.
Nick Olsen
Investment Associate of Innovation Endeavors
Nick Olsen currently works as the Investment Associate for Innovation Endeavors. He previously worked at Tempus Labs as the Senior Manager.
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About Innovation Endeavors: Innovation Endeavors invests in visionary founders, transformational technology, and emergent ecosystems for a new world.
Brigitte Tondreau
Senior Associate of Oak HC/FT
Brigitte Tondreau (FT), a Senior Associate at Oak HC/FT, joined the firm in 2017 and focuses on growth equity and early-stage venture opportunities in FinTech. Prior to joining Oak HC/FT, Brigitte was an Analyst and M&A Strategy Consultant at Accenture where she focused on the financial services sector. Brigitte received a Bachelor of Science degree from The McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia, where she was an Echols Scholar.
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About Oak HC/FT: Oak HC/FT is a venture and growth equity investment firm that focuses on healthcare information services and financial service technology.
Ajani Smith-Washington
Investment Associate of Base10 Partners
Ajani Smith-Washington currently works as an Investment Associate at Base10 Partners.
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About Base10 Partners: Base10 is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in the automation of the real economy.
Joshua Lederman
Principal & Associate of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts
Josh Lederman is the Principal & Associate at KKR.
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About Kohlberg Kravis Roberts: Kohlberg Kravis Roberts is a global alternative asset manager focusing on private equity, fixed income, and capital markets.
Brian Cashin
Associate of Teamworthy Ventures
Brian Cashin is an Associate at Teamworthy Ventures.
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About Teamworthy Ventures: Teamworthy Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in consumer and enterprise software and software-enabled services businesses.
Danny Edman
Associate of Teamworthy Ventures
Danny Edman is an Associate at Teamworthy Ventures.
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About Teamworthy Ventures: Teamworthy Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in consumer and enterprise software and software-enabled services businesses.
Kyle Limpic
Associate of Teamworthy Ventures
Kyle Limpic is an Associate at Teamworthy Ventures.
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About Teamworthy Ventures: Teamworthy Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in consumer and enterprise software and software-enabled services businesses.
Harry Bound
Associate of Teamworthy Ventures
Harry Bound is an Associate at Teamworthy Ventures.
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About Teamworthy Ventures: Teamworthy Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in consumer and enterprise software and software-enabled services businesses.
Brian Hollins
Summer Investment Associate of Lightspeed Venture Partners
Brian is currently a student at Harvard Business School, where he was selected as a Rock Social Entrepreneurship Fellow for his work as the Founder of The Aspen Fellowship. He is a Founding Board Member of BLCKVC, a non-profit that focuses on building paths into venture capital for aspiring black investors. He is the founder of The Road Untraveled, a podcast that dives into real-time topics and trending sectors for the tech and VC community. Prior to HBS, he was a later stage venture capital investor at Goldman Sachs focused on enterprise SaaS and the productivity software suite. He was also a part of a small team that helped launch the Emerging Entrepreneurs Coverage group, an initiative to bring Goldman into the venture capital community by extending resources to early stage startups. Brian graduated from Stanford University with a BA in International Economics, and served on the Finance Committee of the San Francisco Education Fund, as well as the Leadership Council of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO Scholars). He is the proud older brother of Mack (wide-receiver for the Miami Dolphins) and Drew (Marine and current student at Columbia University). He is originally from Washington, DC.
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About Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pear VC: Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.
Samuel Garcia
Senior Associate of Amplo
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About Amplo: Amplo is a global venture capital firm helping build companies that matter.
Paul Monaghan
Associate of SOSV
Paul joined SOSV as an Associate in 2020, for Food-X & dLab, reporting to General Partner Shawn Broderick. His responsibilities include monitoring the existing Food-X investment portfolio, assisting companies in their closing of additional rounds of financing, helping to facilitate the launch of the dLab program and performing general data analysis. Prior to SOSV, Paul was an Analyst at Bourne Park Capital, a London-based alternative investment manager. His role involved performing due diligence on potential investments and managing portfolio risk. Prior to that he was a Summer Analyst for Tigerlabs, a venture capital accelerator based in Princeton, focusing on the outbound sourcing of startups. Paul graduated from Fordham University with a B.A. in Economics. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, shooting B&W film and playing court tennis.
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About dlab, Food-X, SOSV: SOSV is a global VC firm with $1B AUM and 1,000+ investments, that operates HAX, IndieBio, Chinaccelerator, MOX, and dlab.
Musa Lone
Associate of Goldman Sachs
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Benjamin Cirlin
Associate – IBD – Fintech and Asset Management of Goldman Sachs
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About Goldman Sachs, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Christine Whalen
Technology Associate of Goldman Sachs
Christine is a Software Engineer on the SecDb Architecture team at Goldman Sachs. Her team is responsible for a platform that’s part in-house programming language, part IDE, part database, and part data science toolkit. Prior to her current role, she was on the Capital Measurement and Analytics team at Goldman, developing an application to track the flow of data during the annual stress test process (CCAR). She earned an MS and BS in Computer Science at Brown University. After graduation, she was very excited to discover that, unlike the Brown CS lab, most workplaces have windows. She currently lives in Manhattan with her girlfriend and two cats.
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Erwin Eichmann
Vice President & Associate General Counsel of Goldman Sachs
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Jon Hartley
Associate, Fixed Income Portfolio Construction and Risk Management of Goldman Sachs
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Priscilla Tyler
Senior Associate of True Ventures
Priscilla joined the True Ventures team in 2015 as the first Priya Haji Fellow. During her fellowship, she worked with True portfolio company Ginger.io, a wellness platform for on-demand coaching and therapy. Following her fellowship, Priscilla joined True’s investment team first as an analyst and now as a senior associate. Priscilla has a bachelor’s degree in economics and French from Amherst College, where she was a member of the varsity women’s lacrosse team. Outside of the office, you’ll find Priscilla taking advantage of the Californian outdoors – mostly snowboarding, surfing, and cycling. When she’s not outside, she’s cooking, building reclaimed wood furniture, or enjoying time with her family on the East Coast. Ask her about her hot air balloon catastrophe. You won’t be disappointed.
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About All Raise, True Ventures, True Ventures: True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.
Priscilla Tyler
Senior Associate of True Ventures
Priscilla joined the True Ventures team in 2015 as the first Priya Haji Fellow. During her fellowship, she worked with True portfolio company Ginger.io, a wellness platform for on-demand coaching and therapy. Following her fellowship, Priscilla joined True’s investment team first as an analyst and now as a senior associate. Priscilla has a bachelor’s degree in economics and French from Amherst College, where she was a member of the varsity women’s lacrosse team. Outside of the office, you’ll find Priscilla taking advantage of the Californian outdoors – mostly snowboarding, surfing, and cycling. When she’s not outside, she’s cooking, building reclaimed wood furniture, or enjoying time with her family on the East Coast. Ask her about her hot air balloon catastrophe. You won’t be disappointed.
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About All Raise, True Ventures, True Ventures: True Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups.
Gary Tang
Senior Associate of Norwest Venture Partners
Gary focuses on growth equity investments across a wide range of sectors at Norwest including technology, business services, media and consumer. Prior to joining Norwest, Gary was an investment banking associate in the Technology and Services group at Robert W. Baird & Co. in Chicago. In this role, he advised companies on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and other strategic opportunities. Before that, Gary was a CPA with PricewaterhouseCoopers. Gary holds a master’s degree in accounting and a bachelor of science in finance, with a specialization in energy, from Tulane University.
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About Norwest Venture Partners: Norwest is a global venture capital and growth equity investment firm that specializes in venture and growth equity companies.
Connor Pike
Senior Associate of Norwest Venture Partners
Connor focuses on growth equity investments across a wide range of sectors at Norwest including technology, business services, media and consumer. Prior to joining Norwest, Connor was an investment banking analyst in the Technology, Media & Telecom group at Guggenheim Partners in New York. In this role, he advised companies on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, and other strategic opportunities. Connor holds a bachelor of arts in economics from Vanderbilt University.
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About Norwest Venture Partners: Norwest is a global venture capital and growth equity investment firm that specializes in venture and growth equity companies.
Brian Moon
Senior Associate of Norwest Venture Partners
Brian Moon is an investor at Norwest Venture Partners doing seed, early and late stage venture investments in consumer internet companies.
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About Norwest Venture Partners: Norwest is a global venture capital and growth equity investment firm that specializes in venture and growth equity companies.
Rohit K. Singh
Senior Associate of Norwest Venture Partners
Rohit Singh is an associate at Norwest Venture Partners. He focuses on growth equity investments in healthcare, including healthcare services, pharma services, healthcare IT, medical devices, and digital health. Prior to Norwest, Rohit was an investment banking analyst in the global healthcare group at Deutsche Bank in San Francisco. In this role, he evaluated M&A, leveraged buyouts, equity and debt financings across pharmaceuticals, healthcare services, and medtech verticals. Prior to that, Rohit held positions at Spectrum Equity, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Laissez Faire Capital. Rohit obtained a bachelor of science degree in environmental economics and policy from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Deutsche Bank, Norwest Venture Partners: Norwest is a global venture capital and growth equity investment firm that specializes in venture and growth equity companies.
Megan Kelly
Associate of First Round Capital
Megan Kelly is an Associate at First Round Capital.
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About First Round Capital: First Round is a venture capital firm that specializes in providing seed-stage funding to technology companies.
Vikram Ramakrishnan
Associate of First Round Capital
Vikram Ramakrishnan is an Associate at First Round Capital.
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About First Round Capital: First Round is a venture capital firm that specializes in providing seed-stage funding to technology companies.
Jeffrey Akiki
Associate of Bolt
Jeffrey works on the investment team at Bolt. He has a Masters degree in Applied Analytics from Columbia University. Previously, he worked on the venture team at SeedInvest, and at PwC as an Assurance Associate. He’s interested in applying a data-driven approach to venture capital.
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About Bolt: Bolt is a pre-seed venture firm investing where the digital and physical world intersect.
Nathan Tien
Investment Associate of Goodwater Capital
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About Goodwater Capital: Goodwater Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on consumer tech startups.
Nanae Uchida
Associate of East Ventures
In 2010, Nanae Uchida founded a startup in real estates. Within the real estate community, she linked up buyers with sellers and renovated houses and was able to sell her company after Q3. She traveled around Southeast Asia and decided to create a platform where foreigners can come together as one. Nanae went back into the startup scene in 2014. She then joined East Ventures in 2015 and ever since then she is deeply involved in the San Francisco startup scene.
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About East Ventures: East Ventures is an early stage venture fund focusing on SEA and Japan with 4 unicorns in its portfolio.
Tiffany Le
Senior Associate of New Enterprise Associates
Tiffany is an investor on the healthcare team and focuses on medtech / device investments. Most recently, she was at Kaiser Permanente Ventures where she focused on investments across healthcare services, enterprise SaaS, and medical devices, with a particular emphasis on A/I enabled technologies. Prior to KPV, she was a Senior Life Sciences Consultant at L.E.K. Consulting in their Los Angeles and London offices where she led more than 30 strategic projects with top biotech, medtech, and life sciences clients spanning M&A, launch and commercialization strategy, portfolio optimization, and product and geographic expansion. At L.E.K., she had particular expertise in the oncology, allergy/immunotherapy, and pulmonary disease areas as well as in precision medicine, diagnostics, and orphan indications. Tiffany has also collaborated on research leveraging brain organoid and synthetic biology models to interrogate Alzheimer’s Disease at MIT, held VC internships at GE Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners, and worked at Amgen via externship within their Innovation and Customer Experience team. She serves on the Board of Mending Kids International, a non-profit providing surgical care to children in under-resourced communities, and is a national organizer of the community organization Frontline Foods. Tiffany received a BA in Business Economic Theory from the University of California, Los Angeles and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Emily Zhen
Associate of New Enterprise Associates
Emily joined NEA in 2020 as an Associate on the Med Team working across the healthcare services, biopharma and medical device sectors. Prior to joining NEA, Emily was a member of the healthcare investment banking team at Goldman Sachs in New York City, where she worked on M&A and equity and debt financing transactions. She has also worked at the U.S. Department of Treasury, PwC, and several digital health startups. Emily graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Vagelos Program in Life Sciences & Management, where she earned a B.S. in Finance from Wharton, a B.A. in Biology, and a certificate in healthcare policy as a Public Policy Research Scholar. During her time at Penn, Emily engaged in research on Castleman Disease with Dr. David Fajgenbaum, served as a project leader for 180 Degrees Consulting, and conducted due diligence on healthcare startups as part of the Wharton Impact Investing Partners health & wellness team.
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About New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Justine Potemkin
Associate of New Enterprise Associates
Justine joined NEA in 2021 as an investor on the healthcare team. Prior to joining NEA, Justine was a member of the healthcare investment banking group at Goldman Sachs in New York City, where she worked on various equity financings and M&A across biotechnology and healthcare IT verticals. Prior to joining Goldman, Justine began her career conducting research in rare dermatology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and then in infectious disease / OB-GYN at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She previously held roles at Pfizer in clinical trial innovation and internationally at Guang’anmen Hospital in Beijing. Justine graduated from Brown University with a bachelor’s degree in Biology. At Brown, she served as President of Brown’s Biotechnology & Healthcare Investment Group.
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About New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Alex Sharata
Associate of New Enterprise Associates
Alex Sharata is a Managing Partner of A-Level Capital, a Baltimore-based venture capital firm investing in Johns Hopkins founders who are building capital-efficient, asset-light, scalable businesses. Through A-Level, Alex has worked with enterprise software, consumer, Internet, hardware, healthcare IT, biotech, and medical device startups across multiple stages from pre-seed through series A. To date, A-Level has made 27 investments and has had 2 portfolio monetizations. Alex is also a Co-Founder of Fractal Technology, a mobile application security and compliance automation startup, which was acquired in 2017. In addition to A-Level and Fractal, Alex has held positions in software engineering, venture capital, and investment banking. Alex is also an Ambassador for Sequoia Capital and a graduate of Johns Hopkins University where he studied computer science and economics.
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About New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Michael Li
Associate of New Enterprise Associates
Michael joined NEA in 2021 as an associate on the healthcare team. Previously, he was in the healthcare group at Court Square Capital, a middle market private equity firm based in New York. At Court Square, Michael worked on leveraged buyouts and M&A transactions across the healthcare services and healthcare technology sectors. Michael started his career at PJT Partners as a member of its inaugural analyst class following the firm’s spinoff from the Blackstone Group. At PJT, Michael focused on M&A across a variety of industries, including defense, telecommunications, media, technology, healthcare, and real estate. Michael graduated from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where he studied international relations and economics. He is a native of Nashville, TN and still enjoys country music. Michael loves all things entrepreneurial and is always up for a good debate on any topic.
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About New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Sai Abhishek
Associate of New Enterprise Associates
Sai joined NEA in 2020 as an Associate on the Healthcare Team focused on investments in biopharma, medical devices, and healthcare services. Prior to joining NEA, Sai was a member of Credit Suisse’s Biotechnology and Global Healthcare Investment Banking Groups in San Francisco and New York, where he worked on the IPOs of Avidity Biosciences, Stoke Therapeutics, and Satsuma Pharmaceuticals. He also helped execute several M&A transactions across the medical devices and healthcare services sectors, including 3M’s acquisition of Acelity, Danaher’s public spinout of Envista, and KKR’s buyout of Envision Healthcare. Sai graduated magna cum laude from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a B.S. in Economics with dual concentrations in Finance and Statistics as well as a minor in Biology. During his time at Penn, Sai conducted research in preventive cardiology at Penn Medicine and was a venture consultant for Apple Tree Partners, conducting diligence on late-stage life sciences investments. Sai hails from St. Louis, Missouri.
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About New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Jess Ou
Senior Associate of New Enterprise Associates
Jess joined NEA in 2018 as an investor focused on enterprise and consumer technology companies. Jess is a Board Observer for New Wave Foods, Smartcar, Outrider, Tulip, and Gen.G, and is also involved in NEA’s investments in EvidentID and Automation Anywhere. Prior to joining NEA, Jess spent two years at Morgan Stanley in their Global Technology Group in Menlo Park, covering companies across enterprise software, infrastructure, and consumer internet. At Morgan Stanley, Jess worked on various IPOs, financings, and M&A transactions for companies including Uber, Pivotal Software, Smartsheet, AppDynamics, FireEye, Aquantia, and Lulus, among others. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Jess spent time at Greylock Partners, Uber, and Euclid Analytics. Jess graduated from UC Berkeley, where she earned dual degrees in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business and Social Welfare. During her academic career, she conducted research around enterprise innovation and workforce impact for Stanford University with Timothy Bresnahan and also conducted research around crowdfunding for MIT with Christian Catalini.
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About New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Henry Magun
Associate of New Enterprise Associates
Henry Magun joined NEA in 2018 and is an Associate on the Tech Team in New York, where he focuses on enterprise and consumer technology investments. Prior to joining NEA, Henry worked as a product management intern for Nebia in San Francisco, focusing on ecommerce expansion, and as an intern on the growth team at WeWork. Henry graduated from Stanford University, where he earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. While at Stanford, Henry was a Mayfield Fellow, a student representative on the School of Engineering Undergraduate Council, and a member of the management team of Cardinal Ventures, Stanford’s student-run accelerator for Stanford-affiliated startups. Additionally, he was president and a founding member of the Stanford Bicycle Project, a volunteer organization providing bicycles to low-income students.
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About New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Zak Burns
Associate of New Enterprise Associates
Zak joined NEA in 2020 as an investor on the technology team, where he focuses on consumer and enterprise technology investments. Prior to joining NEA, Zak was a merchant banker at The Raine Group in New York where he worked on transformative M&A transactions and growth equity investments across the technology, media and entertainment landscapes. While at Raine, Zak worked on Sprint’s merger with T-Mobile, Pearl Abyss’ acquisition of CCP Games, Silver Lake Partners’ investment in City Football Group and Joe Tsai’s acquisition of the Barclays Center and Brooklyn Nets. Zak graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Political Science. While at Columbia, he was the President of the Economics Society and held leadership positions in the International Students Group and Delta Sigma Phi. Zak is proudly British.
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About New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Batul Joffrey
Associate of Kapor Capital
Batul Joffrey currently works as the Associate for Kapor Capital. She previously worked at Localwise as the Chief Of Staff.
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About Kapor Capital: Kapor Capital is an investment firm that invests in early-stage tech-enabled startups.
Greg Bennett
Senior Associate of Kapor Capital
Greg Bennett is a senior associate at Kapor Capital.
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About Kapor Capital: Kapor Capital is an investment firm that invests in early-stage tech-enabled startups.
Gregory Bennett
Senior Associate of Kapor Capital
Greg Bennett is the Investment Analyst for VilCap Investments, LLC, which is Village Capital’s affiliated for-profit investment fund. He joins the team with five years of experience across several industries and countries. Greg has worked in Amman, Jordan with various organizations in international education, human rights, and management consulting; in the US with World Book, Inc. in their International Products division; and as a project consultant for FINCA International. Greg was also an IDEX Fellow in Bangalore, India, where he worked with equity transactions, valuations, and deal sourcing in India and Indonesia. Previous to coming to Village Capital, he managed eCommerce at Samasource and developed a fund service at Toniic. Greg holds a B.A. in International Political Economy from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
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About Kapor Capital: Kapor Capital is an investment firm that invests in early-stage tech-enabled startups.
Dylan Weening
Senior Associate of Sway Ventures
As Senior Associate at Sway Ventures, Dylan Weening assists the investment committee with thesis development, deal sourcing, and underwriting. He also supports the management of the firm’s investor relations and strategic capital raising for portfolio companies. Prior to Sway, Dylan was a Business Development Manager for a global consulting firm focused on early to mid-stage software and hardware technologies. He co-developed the firm’s business development arm, leading to triple digit revenue growth during his tenure. Additionally, Dylan worked directly with startups conducting market research and developing go-to-market strategies.
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About Sway Ventures: Sway Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early to mid-stage technology companies.
Michael Burns
Associate of Sway Ventures
Michael Burns is an Associate at Sway Ventures.
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About Sway Ventures: Sway Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early to mid-stage technology companies.
Claire Zau
Associate and Project Manager of GSV Ventures
Claire Zau is an Associate and Project Manager of GSV Ventures.
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About GSV Ventures: GSV Ventures is a venture firm investing company.
Wenz Xing
Associate of Emergence
By the time he turned 21, Wenz had worked at four scrappy startups (including one he started), four VC firms, and launched a student-run venture firm dedicated to bridging the gap between student entrepreneurs and early stage investors. He was an Associate at Hyde Park Angels on the Digital Media & Technology team, and a student fellow at three other venture firms (including Chicago Ventures, Foundation Capital, and University of Chicago’s Innovation Fund) – wearing hats from sourcing to deep market due diligence. Wenz studied economics on a full-ride Questbridge scholarship at the University of Chicago. He was most recently on the Special Projects team at Cloudflare helping build a better Internet.
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About Emergence: Emergence is a venture capital firm, investing in early and growth-stage cloud and SaaS visionaries that change the way the world works.
John R Staudinger
Associate of Riverstone Holdings
Mr. Staudinger is a Principal of Riverstone. He is based in New York. Mr. Staudinger joined Riverstone in 2006 as an Associate and returned to Riverstone in 2010 after earning his M.B.A.
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About Riverstone Holdings: River Stone is a private investment firm founded in 2000.
Charles Van Eerden
Associate of Riverstone Holdings
Charles Van Eerden is an Associate of Riverstone. He is based in New York. Prior to joining Riverstone in 2016, Mr. Van Eerden was an Analyst at Citigroup. While at Citigroup, he worked on M&A transactions and capital markets financings in the Global Industrials Group. Mr. Van Eerden graduated with a B.B.A. from the University of Michigan Ross School of Business, with a focus in Finance and Accounting.
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About Riverstone Holdings: River Stone is a private investment firm founded in 2000.
Drew Nicholas
Associate of Riverstone Holdings
Drew Nicholas is an Associate of Riverstone. He is based in New York. Prior to joining Riverstone in 2015, Mr. Nicholas was an Analyst in the Global Energy Investment Banking Group at Citigroup. While at Citigroup, Mr. Nicholas evaluated and executed M&A transactions and capital markets financings across the oil and gas sector. Mr. Nicholas graduated from Vanderbilt University with a B.A. in Economics and Spanish.
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About Riverstone Holdings: River Stone is a private investment firm founded in 2000.
Mark Springel
Associate of Vida Ventures
Mark grew up in southern New Jersey and received his bachelor’s degree from Williams College, where he studied biology and neuroscience. After graduation, he worked as a research assistant at Boston Children’s Hospital, and is currently a PhD student at Harvard Medical School with an interest in neurodevelopment. Having benefited from influential mentors throughout his education in science, Mark is particularly passionate about mentorship and outreach.
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About Vida Ventures: Vida Ventures is a next-generation life sciences investment firm .
Lauren Weston
Associate of Thomvest Ventures
Lauren Weston is an Associate at Thomvest Ventures.
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About Thomvest Ventures: Thomvest Ventures provides companies with cross-stage venture capital fund.
Kiet Fong
Associate of Science
Kiet is an associate at Science Inc. As an equity derivatives trade for 5+ years, his working with science Blockchain was a natural fit. Since then, he has transitioned to a role within Science Inc., in which he support portfolio companies in the blockchain, mobile entertainment and consumer application sector. He’s also an M.B.A. candidate at the University of Southern Carlifornia and a holds a B.A in Business Economics from Cal. State University, Fullerton
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About Science: Science partners with founders to develop and fund disruptive tech-based companies.
Paul Farber
Associate, Vice President of TPG Growth
Mr. Farber is an Associate based in San Francisco. Mr. Farber joined TPG Growth in 2015. Previously, he worked at Lazard as an Investment Banking Analyst in the Global Power, Energy & Infrastructure Group.
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About TPG Growth: TPG Growth specializes in growth equity and middle-market buyout opportunities.
Josh Eiseman
Associate of TPG Growth
Mr. Eiseman is an Associate based in San Francisco. Mr. Eiseman joined TPG Growth in 2015. Previously, he worked at Morgan Stanley as an Investment Banking Analyst in the Financial Sponsors Group.
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About TPG Growth: TPG Growth specializes in growth equity and middle-market buyout opportunities.
Nick Mancini
Associate of TPG Growth
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About TPG Growth: TPG Growth specializes in growth equity and middle-market buyout opportunities.
Juliet Bailin
Associate Partner of Mosaic
Juliet is an Associate Partner at Mosaic Ventures, a silicon valley-style series A fund in London investing across Europe. At Mosaic, she works with investments across the healthtech landscape, from adaptive oncology to digital therapeutics, in addition to machine intelligence and enterprise SaaS. Prior to Mosaic, Juliet was an Investor at Insight Venture Partners in New York, an $18bn growth VC/PE fund focused on software. During her three years there, she invested across stages and industries, eventually doubling down on the fascinating products transforming healthcare. Juliet backed Hinge Health, Parachute Health, and Caremerge, as well as drove M&A for Virgin Pulse. She moved to London in August to join Mosaic’s vision of backing ambitious, gritty founders committed to reshaping global markets.
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About General Catalyst, Mosaic: We back founders who are reimagining the world. We invest $1-10m early, in those building daring adventures across Europe.
Jameson Hartman
Associate of RET Ventures
Jameson Hartman serves as an associate at RET Ventures.
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About RET Ventures: RET Ventures is an industry backed early-stage VC helping build the real estate industry’s cutting edge technology providers.
