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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 California based General Partner operating in the Finance space. If you think a General 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.
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.
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.
Ashton Kutcher
General Partner of Sound Ventures
Ashton Kutcher is an actor, investor, entrepreneur, producer and philanthropist. Kutcher has been named one of TIME magazine’s “100 Most Influential People in the World,” as well as being honored by Vanity Fair ‘s “New Establishment List,” which identifies the top 50 of an innovative new breed of buccaneering visionaries, engineering prodigies and entrepreneurs. Twice, Kutcher was named one of Forbes magazine’s “World’s Most Powerful Celebrities,” as well as one of Fast Company magazine’s “Most Creative People.” Kutcher has been investing in technology for over a decade, both as an angel investor and a founding partner of A-Grade Investments and Sound Ventures. His fund portfolio includes Airbnb, Uber, Flexport, Brex, Robinhood, Bird, Airtable and Affirm among others. Kutcher is also the co-founder of Thorn: Digital Defenders of Children (www.thorn.org). Thorn drives technology innovation to fight the sexual exploitation of children. Kutcher currently stars in the Netflix original series, The Ranch. He also serves as Executive Producer. Until 2015, Kutcher starred in the CBS comedy series Two and a Half Men. The show ranked as the second most-watched comedy on all of network television. Kutcher first gained recognition as Michael Kelso on the Fox series That 70’s Show, and went on to star in a variety of box office hits on the big screen – including What Happens In Vegas with Cameron Diaz, The Guardian with Kevin Costner, No Strings Attached with Natalie Portman and the cult hit Dude, Where’s My Car. Kutcher served as co-creator and producer of MTV’s hit series, “Punk’d,” and The CW’s reality series “Beauty and the Geek” and “True Beauty.” He has also produced films such as No Strings Attached, Killers and The Butterfly Effect. Additionally, Kutcher co-founded APlus, a digital media company devoted to spreading the message of positive journalism, a kind of storytelling that focuses on our shared humanity. In 2016, APlus was purchased by Chicken Soup for the Soul.
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About A Plus, A-Grade Investments, RechargeStore, Sound Ventures, Thorn: Sound Ventures is a venture capital firm that seeks to invest in the technology sector.
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.
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.
Calvin Broadus
General Partner and Founder of Casa Verde Capital
For more than two decades, multi-platinum entertainment icon Snoop Dogg has raised the bar as a global entertainer and innovator. With more than 35 million albums sold worldwide, Snoop Dogg continues to pave the way in the entertainment industry, serving as a mentor to new and established artists. From his YouTube original series “GGN News,” to his investments in tech companies like Secret, Reddit and Robinhood, to his philanthropic work with the Snoop Youth Football League, Snoop’s successful ventures within music, film, fashion, television and technology set him apart as a cultural icon.
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About Casa Verde Capital, MERRY JANE: Casa Verde Capital is a venture capital firm specialized in seed investments.
Ted Chung
General Partner of Casa Verde Capital
Ted Chung is media entrepreneur and visionary based in Los Angeles, CA. Chung is Snoop Dogg’s business partner and co-investor in technology, media, film and entertainment ventures. An industry veteran, Chung is the Founder of Cashmere Agency, a lifestyle-marketing company specializing in identifying trends in popular culture, with a focus on multicultural millennials, and Founder of Stampede Management, an artist and producer management company. Ted graduated from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania with a specialization in Entertainment Marketing. He is an avid traveler and enjoys collecting music memorabilia and hot sauces from around the world.
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About Casa Verde Capital, Cashmere Agency, MERRY JANE, Stampede Management: Casa Verde Capital is a venture capital firm specialized in seed investments.
Matt Mazzeo
General Partner of Coatue
Matthew Mazzeo is the General Partner at Coatue Management.
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About Coatue: Coatue invests in public and private equity markets focusing on the technology, media, and telecommunications industries.
Michael Gilroy
General Partner of Coatue
Michael invests in entrepreneurs building enterprise software and fintech companies. He is interested in talking to founders building the next generation enterprise tools and fintechs solving the structural issues in finance. Deeply passionate about building the entrepreneurial community in fintech, Michael launched Canaan’s FinTech Central in 2015, a quarterly event series covering trends in fintech. Previously, Michael advised technology companies with GCA Savvian and Matrix Capital. He received a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
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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.
Caryn Marooney
General Partner of Coatue
Caryn Marooney is General Partner at Coatue Management. She sits on the boards of Zendesk and Elastic. Prior to Coatue, Caryn spent over 8 years in operating roles at Facebook where she oversaw communications for Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus. Prior to Facebook, Caryn co-founded The OutCast Agency where she worked with companies of every size, from early stages onward, including Salesforce.com, Amazon, Netflix and VMware. Caryn is originally from New York City and holds a bachelor’s degree from Cornell University.
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About Coatue: Coatue invests in public and private equity markets focusing on the technology, media, and telecommunications industries.
Sebastian Duesterhoeft
General Partner of Coatue
Sebastian Duesterhoeft is working as a General Partner at Coatue.
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About Coatue, Coatue: Coatue invests in public and private equity markets focusing on the technology, media, and telecommunications industries.
David Schneider
General Partner of Coatue
David Schneider has served as ServiceNow’s Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Services since June 2011. Prior to joining ServiceNow, Schneider served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales of the backup recovery systems division of EMC from July 2009 to June 2011. From January 2004 to July 2009, Schneider held senior positions at Data Domain, most recently Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales. Prior to joining Data Domain, he served as Vice President of Alliances, Channel and OEM Sales for Borland Software from January 2003 to December 2003. From May 2002 to January 2003, Schneider served as Vice President of Western United States Sales for TogetherSoft Corporation (later acquired by Borland Software). From January 1999 to May 2002, he was Western Regional Manager at Iona Technologies, Inc., an infrastructure software company. Schneider holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Irvine.
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About Coatue: 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.
Ping Li
General Partner of Accel
Ping Li joined Accel in 2004 and focuses on investing in business software applications and cloud native technology platforms. He is the lead investor and board member at Jelly.ai, Split.io, Sysdig, Snyk and Trifacta. Ping is also active in cybersecurity as an investor at Code42, Illumio, Lookout Mobile Security, and Tenable Network Security (NASDAQ). He was responsible for numerous past investments with notable exits, including Arista (NASDAQ), Blue Jeans (acquired by Verizon), Cloudera (NYSE), Demisto (acquired by Palo Alto Networks), Heptio (acquired by VMware), Nimble Storage (NYSE), RelateIQ (acquired by Salesforce), Semmle (acquired by MSFT/GitHub), and Sumo Logic (NASDAQ). Prior to Accel, Ping served as product line manager and director of corporate development at Juniper Networks. He started his technology career in Asia working for Singapore Telecom and Goldman Sachs Asia’s technology practice. Ping advises the Accel Scholars program at Stanford University, where he works with Ph.D. students learning about entrepreneurship. Ping is from New Jersey and graduated from Harvard and the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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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.
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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About Accel, PagerDuty: Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.
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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About Accel: Accel is an early and growth-stage venture capital firm that helps a global community of entrepreneurs.
Ted Schlein
General Partner of Kleiner Perkins
Ted Schlein currently works as the General Partner for Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers He previously worked at Symantec as the Vice President, Enterprise Solutions.
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About Kleiner Perkins: Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early-stage, incubation, and growth companies.
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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About Kleiner Perkins, Westlake Village BioPartners: Kleiner Perkins is a venture capital firm that specializes in investing in early-stage, incubation, and growth companies.
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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About Ribbit Capital, Stripe: Ribbit Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies.
Nick Shalek
General Partner of Ribbit Capital
Prior to Ribbit, Nick served as Entrepreneur in Residence at Aspire Public Schools, where he incubated Schoolzilla, a cloud-based educational data management and analytics platform. Earlier in his career, Nick was a Director at Verne Global and a Senior Analyst at Yale Investments, where he contributed to over $800 million in new investment commitments across a diversity of asset classes, including U.S. public equities, venture capital, and natural resources. Extending his energy to service in the public sector, Nick was also elected to New Haven’s Board of Alderman —the city council— where he focused his efforts on the city’s economic development and education policy.
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About Ribbit Capital: Ribbit Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies.
Ben Paull
General Partner of Ribbit Capital
Ben Paull is a General Partner at Ribbit Capital.
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About Ribbit Capital: Ribbit Capital is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage companies.
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.
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.
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.
Gabe Greenbaum
General Partner at B Capital of B Capital Group
Gabe Greenbaum is the General Partner at B Capital Group.
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About B Capital Group, Cue, Spring Labs, Storeplacer: B Capital Group is a venture capital firm that backs global entrepreneurs in the field of information technology.
Benjamin Ling
Founder and General Partner of Bling Capital
Ben Ling is a founder and partner at Bling Capital. Previously he was an Investment Partner at Khosla Ventures, where he is focused on mobile and Internet, marketplace, consumer health and data businesses. He is an accomplished executive and angel investor, with senior operating roles at Google, YouTube, Facebook, and Badoo. His personal investments include Square, Palantir, Quora, and PracticeFusion, Fab, DogVacay, and he holds advisory roles at Pinterest and Pulse. Ben currently serves on the board of Wattpad, Tapingo, Academia.edu, TheHunt, Quantopian, and Pymetrics. At Google, he was Google’s Senior Director of Search Products and Local Business Products, including overseeing Images, Videos, Books, News and Finance. At YouTube, he was Senior Director of Partnerships and Platform, responsible for Music, Movies, Sports, News, as well as Mobile, TV, and API partnerships. In his first role at Google, Ben was the founder and GM of Google’s Commerce group, including Google Wallet and Shopping. At Facebook, Ben was Director of Facebook Platform overseeing the Facebook developer ecosystem, and led product, marketing, developer operations, partner solutions, and helped build Facebook Connect, which has helped Facebook grow across the web. Ben holds a Ph.D. and Master’s in Computer Science from Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering / Computer Science with a minor in Business Administration from UC Berkeley. Ben is a Department of Defense Fellow and recipient of UC Berkeley’s Bechtel Achievement Award (Top graduating senior in College of Engineering).
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About Bling Capital, HoneyBook, Remind, Udemy, Zenefits: Bling Capital primarily invests in consumer tech, internet, mobile, marketplace, data, fintech, SaaS, and automation sectors.
Chad Byers
Co-founder & General Partner of Susa Ventures
Chad Byers is co-founder & General Partner at Susa Ventures, where he focuses on investments in marketplaces, fintech, and healthcare. Chad led Susa’s investments in Robinhood, Andela, Newfront Insurance, Mux, Viz, Sundae Homes, and Stord. Raised in Silicon Valley, Chad was exposed to entrepreneurship and venture capital at an early age. He was named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 for VC in 2015. Prior to Susa Ventures, Chad was the senior director of platform at Integrate.com and held various marketing and product roles at Silver Spring Networks, Bloom Energy, and Electronic Arts. Chad chased his love for skiing, mountains, and the outdoors to Boulder, Colorado where he mostly did those things but also received a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science.
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About Susa Ventures: Susa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing primarily in seed rounds.
Leo Polovets
Co-founder & General Partner of Susa Ventures
Leo Polovets is co-founder and General Partner at Susa Ventures, where he focuses on enterprise software; developer tools and technical products; and logistics and supply chain. Leo led Susa’s investments in Outlier, Pex, Scalyr, and Stedi. Having been a software engineer for 10+ years, Leo approaches challenges with an engineering mindset and supports portfolio companies in vetting and hiring technical talent. Prior to Susa, Leo was the second engineering hire at Linkedin where he worked on the first versions of products like LinkedIn Jobs and LinkedIn Groups. Leo then worked on payment fraud detection algorithms at Google, and was also an early engineer at Factual, where he built data processing software.
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About Alchemist Accelerator, Susa Ventures: Susa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing primarily in seed rounds.
Seth Berman
Co-Founder & General Partner of Susa Ventures
“Seth Berman is co-founder and General Partner at Susa Ventures, where he focuses on investments in frontier tech, logistics, marketplaces & consumer. Seth led Susa’s investments in Flexport, Pericope Data and Expanse. Prior to Susa, Seth was an active angel investor. He has invested in 100+ seed stage companies in total, and his portfolio includes Nest, Optimizely, Wish, Omio and Docker. He also served as the VP of Strategic Marketing for The Richemont Group, a publicly traded company (CFR:VX) which owns brands and e-commerce sites Cartier, Net-A-Porter.com, Mr. Porter, Montblanc, and Chloe. Seth graduated from the University of Colorado Boulder with a bachelor’s degrees in Business and Finance.”
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About Susa Ventures: Susa Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm investing primarily in seed rounds.
Raymond Tonsing
Founder, Managing Director & General Partner of Caffeinated Capital
Raymond Tonsing is a San Francisco based venture capitalist and entrepreneur. He founded Caffeinated Capital, an early stage venture capital firm, and now serves as its managing director. Raymond holds a bachelor’s degree in Arts from University of Colorado Boulder.
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About Caffeinated Capital, SingleStore: Caffeinated Capital is a technology venture capital firm that partners with founders at the inception stage.
Jay Simons
General Partner of Bond
Jay Simons was the former president of Atlassian, an award-winning enterprise software company that helps teams collaborate, build software and serve their customers better. More than 43,000 large and small organizations – including some of the biggest names in media, manufacturing and technology such as Citigroup, eBay, Coca-Cola, Gilt Group, Proctor & Gamble, BMW and NASA – use Atlassian’s tracking, collaboration, communication, service management and development products to work smarter and deliver quality results on time. Jay joined the company in 2008 as vice president of sales and marketing to lead Atlassian’s pioneering efforts to develop a high-velocity, low-touch sales model. He’s overseen the company’s global expansion, introduction of its Starter License program (a disruptive approach to “freemium” where the company donates all proceeds to a charitable cause), and its growing worldwide customer community and programs. In 2011 Atlassian introduced its cloud-based offering Atlassian OnDemand, an evolution of its fast-growing SaaS platform. Jay has more than 15 years of experience in the software industry. He began his career at Plumtree Software where he held a variety of senior marketing and sales roles. Significantly, Jay oversaw the company’s expansion throughout Europe and Asia Pacific. When Plumtree was acquired by BEA Systems in 2005, Jay became vice president of marketing for BEA Systems, which was later acquired by Oracle in 2008. Jay holds a bachelor’s degree in political and environmental science from the University of Washington.
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About Bond: Bond is a venture capital firm that supports visionary founders throughout their life cycle of innovation and growth.
Juliet de Baubigny
General Partner of Bond
Juliet de Baubigny is a General Partner at Bond and focuses on emerging technology companies in the U.S. and Europe. She is actively involved with investments in Spotify, Omio, Brex, FabFitFun, and Spotahome. Prior to joining Bond, Juliet was a Senior Partner at Kleiner Perkins. Over an 18-year career she worked closely with a broad number of companies including Amazon, Google, Nest, Bloom Energy, Chegg, and Beyond Meat. She has advised founders and CEOs on company building, leadership development, and strategic partnerships. Juliet is a passionate champion of innovation and philanthropy. She is a member of the board of Product (RED) and most recently co-founded Beyond Type 1, an organization focused on finding a cure for Type 1 diabetes. Juliet holds a Bachelors degree in Business from the Newcastle Business School, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, England.
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About Bond: Bond is a venture capital firm that supports visionary founders throughout their life cycle of innovation and growth.
Noah Knauf
General Partner of Bond
Noah Knauf joined KPCB in 2016 and focuses on investments in the firm’s digital growth practice, targeting high-growth consumer and enterprise Internet companies that have achieved strong adoption and scale. Before joining KPCB, Noah worked for nine years at Warburg Pincus, where he led investments in technology-enabled businesses and helped deploy $1.8 billion of equity capital across 18 companies. His investments ranged from early-stage companies to large growing enterprises with thousands of employees. Noah also led the firm’s successful investments in Constitution Medical (acquired by Roche), Lutonix (acquired by Bard), and JHP Pharmaceuticals (acquired by Par). He recently led the formation of Helix, a partnership with Illumina to build a digital consumer genomics platform. Noah served on the boards of innovative companies such as Outset Medical, Specialists On Call, ComplexCare Solutions, Silk Road Medical, Accriva Diagnostics, and Singular Bio. Earlier in his career, Noah was an investor at Parthenon Capital and a consultant at Bain & Company. Noah received a B.S.B.A in Management Information Systems and Operations Management from the University of Arizona and an M.B.A. from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.
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About Bain & Company, Bond, Parthenon Capital Partners: Bond is a venture capital firm that supports visionary founders throughout their life cycle of innovation and growth.
Daegwon Chae
General Partner of Bond
Daegwon Chae joined Kleiner Perkins in 2016 and focuses on investments in high-growth consumer internet and software companies. Before joining Kleiner Perkins, Daegwon worked in the Special Situations Group at Goldman Sachs, where he invested in a variety of growth-stage companies as a member of the Private Capital Investing team. While at Goldman, his investment focus centered on companies in the technology, healthcare, and logistics industries. Daegwon graduated from Dartmouth College (AB) with a modified major in Economics and Computer Science, magna cum laude.
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Mood Rowghani
General Partner of Bond
Mood Rowghani joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers as a partner in 2011. He focuses on investments in the firm’s digital practice, targeting high-growth Internet companies that have achieved strong adoption and scale. Before joining KPCB, Mood worked for five years at Summit Partners, where he led the firm’s Internet and digital media practice in North America. Mood was actively involved across Summit’s Internet portfolio, including serving as a director at Announce Media, where he helped lead the take-private acquisition of Answers Corp. (Nasdaq: ANSW). Earlier in his career, Mood was with Highland Capital Partners, where he was actively involved with Vistaprint (Nasdaq: VPRT) and Coremetrics (acquired by IBM). He also spent two years at McKinsey & Co., where he served Global 1000 clients in the high-tech industry. Mood has a B.A. degree from the University of Texas and an M.B.A. from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business.
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Ullas Naik
Founder & General Partner of Streamlined Ventures
Ullas Naik is the Founder & General Partner at Streamlined Ventures.
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About Streamlined Ventures: Streamlined Ventures is a seed-stage investment firm focusing on Data Science, APIs, Blockchain/Web3, AI, and Software Automation.
Cyril Ebersweiler
General Partner of SOSV
Entrepreneur, venture capitalist. Cyril is a General Partner at SOSV and the founder/MD of HAX. He is a board member/advisor to a few startups including Formlabs, Collaborate (ACQ: CISCO), Hackster (ACQ: AVNET), Adoreme and Breather. He is one of the most experienced investor in the hardware space (260+) and has invested globally. Cyril wrote dozens of articles and publishes regularly on topics such as technology, robotics, health and crowdfunding, and has been featured in The Economist, Popular Mechanics, The New York Times, Bloomberg, Huffington Post, Wired, BBC and more.
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About AYLIEN, HAX, Kindara, SOSV: SOSV is a global VC firm with $1B AUM and 1,000+ investments, that operates HAX, IndieBio, Chinaccelerator, MOX, and dlab.
Jessica Verrilli
General Partner of GV
Jessica is an investor and operator who has built her career partnering with founders building hyper-growth startups. She is on the Board of Digits, Lambda School and The Wing. She is also a co-founder of #ANGELS, an investment collective she started with five other women who built their careers together at Twitter. Previously, Jessica spent nearly a decade at Twitter helping scale the company from 34 employees to several thousand. As the VP of Corporate Development and Strategy, she oversaw dozens of acquisitions and played a critical role in catalyzing Twitter’s new product, technology, and business initiatives. She brought dozens of executives into the company along with products like Vine, Periscope, TweetDeck and many more. Jessica is a Stanford University graduate, where she was a Mayfield Fellow and varsity lacrosse player. She is on the board of the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy and loves to trail run—including an occasional ultramarathon—in the Marin headlands. Jessica grew up in Seattle and currently lives in the Bay Area but is happy to get on a plane to meet entrepreneurs across the world.
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M.G. Siegler
General Partner of GV
M.G. Siegler is a general partner at Google Ventures, where he primarily focuses on early-stage investments. He has been deeply involved in the startup space since 2005, first as a web developer, then as a writer, and most recently as an investor and advisor. Having spent the past year in London helping to get Google Ventures’ European organization up and running, M.G. is now back in the Bay Area, working mainly out of Google Ventures’ San Francisco office. Before joining Google Ventures, M.G. was a founding partner of CrunchFund, an early-stage investment fund. Prior to that, he reported on the startup world as a writer for both TechCrunch and VentureBeat. M.G. still writes a column for TechCrunch on top of writing on his own sites and from time-to-time doing movie reviews in haiku. Originally from Ohio, M.G. graduated from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor before moving out west to work in Hollywood. One day, he will write that killer screenplay.
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Tyson Clark
General Partner of GV
Tyson is a general partner at GV. He spent his career in enterprise technology, focusing on companies in the SaaS application and data center infrastructure spaces. Prior to joining GV, Tyson was a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he was on the corporate development team and advised enterprise portfolio companies. He led acquisitions in the enterprise SaaS space for Oracle’s corporate development group, and worked as an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, where he oversaw IPO and M&A transactions for a variety of cloud companies. Tyson spent six years in the United States Navy, serving on submarines as both as a nuclear propulsion officer and Navy scuba diver. Tyson holds a B.S. in industrial engineering from Stanford (with honors) and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Andy Wheeler
General Partner of GV
Andy brings over a decade of startup experience to his role, most recently serving as chief technology officer of Adura, where he led the company’s development of energy management systems for commercial buildings. Prior to joining Adura, Andy served as chief technology officer for Tendril Networks, helping consumers better understand and manage their energy usage. He co-founded Ember Corporation, the leading provider of ZigBee network software and system-on-chip devices. Under Andy’s leadership, the company delivered multiple industry firsts, including shipping the first ZigBee system-on-chip, which is now in millions of the smart meters being deployed around the world. He began his startup career at Zipcar. Anyone who has used the car-sharing service has used the embedded wireless in-car technology that Andy developed. Andy got his start in wireless and embedded technologies at the MIT Media Lab where he deployed large scale sensor networks under a DARPA grant. He was selected for the Technology Review 100 Top Innovators Under 35 award in 2003, and has multiple granted and pending patents in the fields of wireless networking and energy management. Andy received a Bachelor of Science and Master of Engineering in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT.
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Karim Faris
General Partner of GV
Karim is a partner at Google Ventures. He initially joined Google’s corporate development team in 2008, the group responsible for all Mergers & Acquisitions. His primary areas of focus include Internet services, mobile and digital media. Prior to Google, Karim was a venture capitalist at Atlas Venture, where he worked on investments in software and Internet infrastructure. Previously, he was Director of New Ventures at Level 3 Communications, responsible for evaluating new business opportunities and has led product development for the company’s voice services. Earlier in his career, Karim held various product and marketing roles at Intel, initially on the i486â„¢, and later as product manager for the Pentium® Processor. He started his career at Siemens as a software engineer working on the first vehicle navigation system for BMW. Karim holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School, an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Michigan, and a BS in Computer Engineering from Brown University where he published several papers on Neural Networks.
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Dave Munichiello
General Partner of GV
Dave is a general partner at GV (formerly Google Ventures) who leads the team’s investments in data, platforms, and infrastructure. His investments include Slack, Segment, GitLab, Jet.com (sold to WMT), CoreOS (sold to RedHat), Lattice.io (sold to Apple), SambaNova Systems, and several others. Dave’s background prior to investing was in building and leading enterprise software sales and operations teams for highly-technical products, under pressure in rapidly-changing markets. As a senior executive at Kiva Systems, he helped grow the enterprise-enabling robotics and software platform to $120 million in annual revenue before it was purchased by Amazon. Dave’s career prior to Kiva included management consulting for The Boston Consulting Group and leading teams as a Captain in the U.S. military’s most elite units. His military leadership roles ranged from running a high-tech organization in Europe; to serving as an Aide de Camp to the Four Star General responsible for U.S. forces in Europe, Africa, and Afghanistan; to deploying with elite special operations teams worldwide, ensuring they were enabled by the world’s most advanced technologies. Dave is a combat veteran and former paratrooper who holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BS from Emory University in math and computer science.
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Pete Flint
General Partner of NFX
Pete Flint is a Managing Partner of NFX, an early stage Bay Area based Venture Capital fund, focused on Network Effects. Prior to NFX, Pete founded Trulia, a leading online real estate company. He was its CEO and Chairman from inception to acquisition by Zillow for $3.5B. Prior to Trulia, Pete was part of the founding team at lastminute.com, a leading European online travel company that was acquired for over $1Bn. He is a founding Board member of New Story Charity, a technology platform focused on building sustainable communities globally, and also a founding board member of GBx, the leading British technology community in Silicon Valley. He received a Master’s and First Class Degree from the University of Oxford, and MBA from Stanford GSB.
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About NFX: NFX operates as a pre-seed and seed stage VC that is transforming how true innovators are funded.
James Currier
General Partner of NFX
James Currier is one of Silicon Valley’s foremost experts in growth and network effects. James is a four-time CEO of VC backed companies, including Tickle (acq Monster), WonderHill (acq Kabam), Iron Pearl (acq PayPal) and Jiff (acq Castlight). James is a pioneer of user-generated models, viral marketing, A/B testing, crowdsourcing, and myriad other growth techniques that have since been adopted by nearly all technology companies, including LinkedIn and Facebook. In 2015, James co-founded NFX, a $425M early-stage venture capital firm focused on network effect businesses along with Pete Flint and Gigi Levy Weiss. You can read his world-leading analysis of network effects and growth at www.nfx.com/essays
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About Concept.io, NFX, NFX Bio, Ooga Labs: NFX operates as a pre-seed and seed stage VC that is transforming how true innovators are funded.
Morgan Beller
General Partner of NFX
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Jenny Lefcourt
General Partner of Freestyle
Jenny Lefcourt is a General Partner at Freestyle. Jenny earned her B.S. in economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and attended the Stanford Graduate School of Business. In 1998 she left Stanford to found Wedding Channel.com (sold: XOXO). In 2003 she co-founded Bella Pictures (sold: CPI). In 2014 Jenny joined Freestyle, and was promoted to GP in 2015. Some of Jenny’s notable investments include BetterUp, Crexi, Daily.co, Embark, Ridwell, Narvar and WELL Health. She is also a founding member and board member of All Raise. Jenny is an angel investor in Discord, MainStreetHub and Minted.
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About All Raise, BetterUp, Crexi, Discord, Freestyle, Narvar, Well Health: Freestyle is a venture capital firm that focuses on early-stage technology companies.
David Samuel
Founding General Partner of Freestyle
David Samuel is an experienced executive, serial entrepreneur, and Internet pioneer in software & media. Today, Dave is co-founder of Freestyle Capital, an early-stage Internet & technology venture capital firm, with investments in over 66 companies. Prior to Freestyle, Dave co-founded Crackle.com in 2004 (acquired by Sony Pictures Entertainment for $65 million in 2006) and founded Spinner.com in 1996 (acquired by AOL for $320 million in 1999). Dave graduated from MIT with a degree in Electrical Engineering, is an SF Giants fan, enjoys both wake boarding and snowboarding, and lives in Marin with his 4 children.
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Byron Alsberg
Founder and General Partner of Prefix Capital
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Richard Ling
General Partner of Rembrandt Venture Partners
Richard Ling is the Co-founder and CEO at Mpact. Richard is also a Founding General Partner of Rembrandt Venture Partners.
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About Amplii, Mpact, Rembrandt Venture Partners: Rembrandt Venture Partners is a team of entrepreneurs, company builders, and investors.
Douglas Schrier
General Partner of Rembrandt Venture Partners
Doug has invested approximately $215 million into 31 startups over the past 18 years with 21 realizations that have produced over a 5X return. After joining Rembrandt in late 2005 he successfully led Rembrandt’s efforts to establish a base of institutional investors to fund Rembrandt’s investments moving forward. Prior to joining Rembrandt Venture Partners, Doug was a Senior Partner at Argo Global Capital in Boston from 2001 to late 2005. Doug has been involved in funding, managing, and developing technology companies for over 20 years. His prior experience includes being SVP for Acquisitions and Strategic Ventures at SAIC, a Fortune 250 company in La Jolla, CA. Doug was Co-Founder, COO & CFO of Multum Information Services and President of Ceon Corporation where collectively he raised over $75 million in Venture Capital. Doug has also held positions at Salomon Brothers Inc., where he was an Associate in Venture Capital and at Prudential-Bache where he worked as an Associate in Corporate Finance. Doug has been a member of private and public boards including; Solect Technology Group (acquired by Amdocs), Multum Information Systems (acquired by Cerner Corporation), VocalData (acquired by Tekelec), Conita (acquired b y Avaya), ODS networks (ODSN/NASDAQ), Ceon, Narad Networks, Digital Bridges, World Wide Packets, Cosmocom, uReach, and Sylantro (acquired by Broadsoft. Doug was also a board observer for investments in Nuance Communications (NUAN/NASDAQ), Nuera Communications (acquired by Audio Codes (AUDC/NASDAQ) and Convio (CNVO/NASDAQ). Doug currently sits on the boards of Allegiance, Appcelerator, Coveroo, Electric Cloud, Netuitive, Needle and SmartRecruiters. Also, Doug currently mentors through Columbia’s Private Equity Mentorship Program. Doug received his MBA from Columbia Business School in 1990 and his undergraduate degree in Economics/Pre-Med from DePauw University in 1987.
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About Rembrandt Venture Partners: Rembrandt Venture Partners is a team of entrepreneurs, company builders, and investors.
Gerald S. Casilli
General Partner of Rembrandt Venture Partners
Jerry’s entrepreneurial and managerial expertise allows him to serve as both an investor and mentor to portfolio companies.
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About Rembrandt Venture Partners: Rembrandt Venture Partners is a team of entrepreneurs, company builders, and investors.
Rebecca Kaden
General Partner of Union Square Ventures
Rebecca Kaden is a Partner at Union Square Ventures. She began her career as a journalist and, prior to USV, was a Partner at Maveron, a consumer-focused early stage fund. Rebecca was born in New York City. She studied English and American Literature at Harvard and received her MBA from Stanford.
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About All Raise, Union Square Ventures: Union Square Ventures is a venture capital firm focused on early-stage, growth-capital, late stage, and startup financing.
Matthew Jacobson
General Partner of ICONIQ Capital
Matt Jacobson is a General Partner at ICONIQ Capital investing in ecommerce/mobile and enterprise software/SaaS companies. Prior to ICONIQ, Matt held operating roles at Groupon and investing roles at Battery Ventures and Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV). Matt’s investments include kCura, Pluralsight, Alibaba Group (NYSE: BABA), Uber, DocuSign, Flipkart, Honest Company, Red Ventures, Groupon (NASDAQ: GRPN), HomeAway (NASDAQ: AWAY), Warby Parker, Koudai, Automattic (WordPress), Campaign Monitor, VMTurbo, Greensky Financial, Apttus, Blackline Systems, Wayfair (NASDAQ: W), Everyday Health (NASDAQ: EVDY), Yesware and Smartling.
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Doug Pepper
General Partner of ICONIQ Capital
Doug Pepper has been with Shasta Ventures since 2016, investing in SaaS and mobile startups. Previously, Doug was with InterWest Partners for 15 years, rising from associate to General Partner.Doug was the first investor in Marketo (NASDAQ: MKTO) and served on the board of directors for 10 years. He also invested in Optimizely, Flurry, Spredfast, Tapjoy, INVIDI and Appboy. Prior to joining InterWest, Doug worked in business development at Amazon.com. Before Amazon.com, he was a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs in New York focusing primarily on technology and healthcare. In this role, he also spent time in Hong Kong, working with technology clients in China, India and Korea. Doug received his B.A. from Dartmouth College and M.B.A. from Stanford University.
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Yidrienne Lai
General Partner of ICONIQ Capital
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Gregory Stanger
General Partner of ICONIQ Capital
Greg Stanger Is The General Partner at ICONIQ.
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About Adyen, BambooHR, Chime, Coupa Software, Epic Games, Fetch Rewards, GoFundMe, GoodRx, Hippo Insurance, ICONIQ Capital, Komodo Health, Netskope, Pluralsight, Procore Technologies, Relativity, Snowlake tech, Sprinklr, The Honest Company, Uber, Unite Us, Wealthsimple, Yosemite Conservancy: ICONIQ Capital is a privately-held investment firm that serves some influential families and organizations.
Arvindh Kumar
General Partner of ICONIQ Capital
EDUCATION MBA, Harvard Business School BS, Economics, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania PRIOR EXPERIENCE Prospect Capital Management, New York, NY BC Partners, New York, NY Morgan Stanley, New York, NY REPRESENTATIVE INVESTMENTS SRS Software LLC (Board Member) Global Healthcare Exchange, Inc. (Board Member) Sparta Systems, Inc. (Board Member)
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About ICONIQ Capital: ICONIQ Capital is a privately-held investment firm that serves some influential families and organizations.
Scott Sandell
Managing General Partner of New Enterprise Associates
Scott Sandell is Managing General Partner at NEA. A General Partner since 2000, and Co-Managing General Partner from 2015 – 2017, Scott served as head of the firm’s technology investing practice for 10 years and has led NEA’s China investing activities for over a decade. Since joining the firm in 1996, he has personally led investments in industry-transforming companies like Bloom Energy, Data Domain, Fusion-io, Salesforce.com, Tableau Software, WebEx, and Workday. Scott is one of only four investors named to the Forbes Midas List every year since 2007, with 24 technology companies in his portfolio having successfully completed public offerings or mergers. Scott is currently a director of Bloom Energy (NYSE: BE) and a number of private companies including Automation Anywhere, Branch, Cloudflare, Coursera, Enigma, Expanse (fka Qadium), Hello Alfred, One Concern, Robinhood, Sentons, Transfix, and WaterBit. Other previous investments include Fusion-io (acquired by SanDisk), Neoteris (acquired by Juniper Networks), NetIQ (acquired by Attachmate Corporation), Playdom (acquired by Disney), and Spreadtrum Communications (acquired by Tsinghua Unigroup).
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About New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Paul Walker
General Partner of New Enterprise Associates
Paul Walker joined NEA in 2008. He focuses on later-stage biotechnology and life sciences investments. Prior to joining NEA, Paul worked at MPM Capital as a General Partner with the MPM BioEquities Fund, where he specialized in public, PIPE and mezzanine-stage life sciences investing. Previously, he was a portfolio manager at Franklin Templeton Investments. Paul received a BS in Biochemistry and Cell Biology from the University of California at San Diego, and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation. He is a board member of TESARO and a board observer of Sunesis and manages a number of NEA’s other late-stage and public investments.
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Forest Baskett
General Partner of New Enterprise Associates
Forest joined NEA in 1999 as a Venture Partner and became a General Partner in 2004. Forest focuses on information and energy technology investments. He is the NEA representative on the boards of AstroWatt, Audience, Chelsio Communications, Serious Energy and SuVolta. He also assists Alta Devices, Azuray Technologies, Bandgap Engineering, Conviva, Firefly Green Technologies, Fusion-io (NYSE: FIO), Illumitex, Luxtera, NovaTorque, Solar Junction, Svaya Nanotechnologies, Tableau Software, Terrajoule and Tintri as either a board member, observer or advisor, usually in conjunction with another member of the NEA investing staff. In the past he has worked with, among others, Aeluros, Arch Rock, Atheros Communications, Data Domain, E2O, Fulcrum Microsystems, Nanochip, Newisys, RingCube Technologies, SiBEAM, Telegent Systems, and T-RAM Semiconductor. Forest also previously held advisory positions with FineGround, PolyServe, ReShape and SMIC. Prior to NEA, Forest was Senior Vice President of R&D and Chief Technology Officer of Silicon Graphics Inc. He founded and directed the Western Research Laboratory of Digital Equipment Corporation before joining SGI. Prior to that, he was a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Forest Baskett received a BA in Mathematics from Rice University, a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
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About New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Peter Sonsini
General Partner of New Enterprise Associates
Pete joined NEA in 2005 and focuses on early-stage enterprise software, services, and systems companies. He is the co-head of NEA’s enterprise software practice group, and serves on several boards for NEA portfolio companies. Past investments include Pentaho (acquired by Hitachi), Teracent (acquired by Google) and Xensource (acquired by Citrix Systems). Prior to NEA, Pete was Senior Director of Strategic Alliances at VMware where he struck the company’s initial OEM deals and grew annual sales through OEMs from $0 to $40 million in four years. Pete ran product management at Mirapoint and worked in sales and marketing at Hewlett-Packard, including Worldwide Product Manager for the mid-range server business. Pete began his career at Montgomery Securities in the Technology Corporate Finance group.Pete received his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and his BA in Political Economy from the University of California, Berkeley.
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Rick Yang
General Partner and Head of Consumer Technology Investing of New Enterprise Associates
Rick Yang joined NEA in 2007 and is focused on information technology and energy investments. He is currently on the board of Compass Labs, and was previously a director and is still active with One Block Off the Grid (acquired by Pure Energies Group). Rick also works closely with NEA’s investments in BloomReach, Boku, Boulder Wind Power, Braintree, Euclid, HelioVolt, SolFocus, Surf Air, SmartDrive, and Tabbedout. He was historically involved with Gaikai (acquired by Sony). Prior to joining NEA, Rick advised on and executed a number of strategic financing initiatives for leading public and private tech companies in the Credit Suisse Technology Group. Rick earned his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University, where he was also a varsity swimmer.
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Mohamad Makhzoumi
General Partner of New Enterprise Associates
Mohamad first joined NEA as an associate in 2000 and now co-heads the healthcare services and healthcare information technology investment practice. Mohamad is currently a Director of American Pathology Partners, DaVita NephroLife, DSI Renal, Elements Behavioral Health, Nova Medical Centers, Radiology Partners, SCI Solutions and Simplex Healthcare. He is a Board Observer of BENU, Vantage Oncology and Welltok. Mohamad’s past investments include Bravo Health, CHG Healthcare, Long Term Care Group and ppoNEXT. Previously, Mohamad focused on growth equity investments at Summit Partners prior to which he worked with UBS Investment Bank where he concentrated on leveraged finance and sponsor-led transactions. Mohamad received a bachelor’s degree, with distinction, from the University of Pennsylvania and is an active participant in the cancer community having been a founding board member of Livestrong’s Young Leadership Cancer Council.
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Ramtin Naimi
Founder & General Partner of Abstract Ventures
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About Abstract Ventures: Abstract Ventures is a sector agnostic venture investor in pre-seed, seed, and series A startup companies.
Alex Davidov
General Partner of Abstract Ventures
He is a General Partner of Abstract Ventures.
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About Abstract Ventures: Abstract Ventures is a sector agnostic venture investor in pre-seed, seed, and series A startup companies.
Julie Allegro
General Partner of Fyrfly Venture Partners
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Karl-Magnus Karlsson
General Partner of Sway Ventures
Karl Karlsson is a Venture Partner at Insight Venture Partners and joined the firm in 2015. Karl works with existing portfolio companies adding strategic and operational skill sets that augments managements ability to manage accelerated growth and optimize success. He provides support with acquisitions, mergers and exits. A serial entrepreneur Karl conceived the idea for his first technology startup Scoop Inc. while still in graduate school. He took this company from idea stage through to NASDAQ listing. He has subsequently been instrumental to the success of a large number of global tech companies’ both as a founding entrepreneur and as an investor. Success highlights include 3721.com sold to Yahoo and rolled in to Alibaba. Philanthropic ventures include conceiving of, co-organizing and participating in Prince Albert II of Monaco’s dog sledding expedition to the North Pole benefitting the World Wildlife Fund, having served as Chairman of Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Explorers and as Senior Expedition Advisor to Virgin Oceanic. He is a BP Fellow of the World Scout Foundation, member of Travelers Club and a Fellow of The Explorers Club. Mr. Karlsson holds an Masters of International Management from the American Graduate School of International Management, Glendale Arizona and a BA in communications from California State University, Fullerton California.
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About Sway Ventures, Sway Ventures: Sway Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early to mid-stage technology companies.
Bill Malloy
Founding General Partner of Sway Ventures
Bill Malloy is an innovative investor and technologist with a track record of successfully investing and building companies. He is currently focused on building and investing in engineering driven software companies as well as helping philanthropies that address the full life cycle of cancer diagnosis and treatment. Bill balances a number of philanthropic positions, currently serving the Malloy Foundation as well as co-founder of the PEERS Network. He previously served as a board member and treasurer for the Equinox Center. He holds a MBA from the University of Southern California and an undergraduate degree in Engineering from Clemson University.
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About Malloy & Company, Nex Cubed, Sway Ventures: Sway Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early to mid-stage technology companies.
Ken Denman
General Partner of Sway Ventures
Ken Denman, President and CEO of Emotient, is an experienced executive with a range of proven leadership skills. His specific executive roles have spanned large corporations, entrepreneurial startups, emerging markets ventures, turnarounds, and leading IPOs. Responsibilities and experiences have extended across the mobile, broadband, and software industries. Ken led iPass’ successful Initial Public Offering, and led the strategy work for monetizing Openwave’s patent portfolio and spinning off the operating units. He is an engaged angel investor and board member with both public and private board experience. At MediaOne International he drove the successful expansion of the company’s mobile push by leading multi-national JV’s that built the market leading mobile companies in many Central and Eastern European countries. Ken recently accepted an appointment to the Edward V. Fritzky Endowed Chair in Leadership at the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business, as a visiting professor.
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About Sway Ventures, University of Washington Michael G. Foster School of Business: Sway Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early to mid-stage technology companies.
Brian Nugent
Founding General Partner of Sway Ventures
Brian Nugent is a founding General Partner of Sway Ventures, as well as a seasoned technology industry executive, entrepreneur, and board director. As an investor, entrepreneur, operator and strategic advisor in over 150 technology ventures, Brian has built domain expertise and deep connections across the IT industry on five continents. Brian has a proven record of driving software, SaaS, hardware and IT Services companies to market leadership positions. As an entrepreneur and operating executive he ran both public and privately-held enterprise software companies. Previously Brian was a senior executive at Teros (acquired by Citrix), Atrica (acquired by Nokia-Siemens) and LuxN (acquired by Sorrento Networks). He currently serves on the Boards of Directors of ThreatSTOP, Liquid Grids, and CyberHive. Brian is a member of the ‘Alliance of CEOs’, the San Diego Venture Group, and is a frequent lecturer at CEO consortium’s such as the ‘CEO Total Access Series’. He is active in a variety of charitable organizations and is a Board Member of PEERS Network and is a member of the 2013 National Champion Sunset Water Polo Club. Brian holds a B.A. degree in Business Administration from California State University, Long Beach.
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About Sway Ventures: Sway Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early to mid-stage technology companies.
Najib Khouri-Haddad
General Partner of Sway Ventures
Najib Khouri-Haddad is a General Partner at Sway Ventures with over 20 years of experience in business and corporate development, marketing and general management. With more than 30 equity transactions closed in M&A, spin-offs and venture investments valued at multi-billions of dollars, Najib served as Vice President of Business Development for 3Com as well as Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Vice President of Business Development for EFI, Inc., Vice President of Business Development and Product Manager for Systems Planning at ROLM, an IBM and Siemens Company. Najib holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Michigan, a Masters in Business and Engineering Management at Stanford University and a Bachelors in Electrical Engineering from the American University of Beirut in Lebanon. He is fluent in English, French, and Arabic.
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About Sway Ventures: Sway Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early to mid-stage technology companies.
Gene Frantz
General Partner of CapitalG
Gene Frantz is a Partner of Google Capital. Before joining Google Capital, Gene was a partner at TPG Capital, a global private equity fund. During his 13 years at TPG, Gene was responsible for multiple technology and telecom investments and represented TPG on multiple public and private company boards of directors. Prior to TPG Capital, Gene worked at Oracle Corporation leading its venture capital effort and previous to that in corporate development.Gene holds a BS from UC Berkeley and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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Derek Zanutto
General Partner of CapitalG
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Laela Sturdy
General Partner of CapitalG
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Jason Green
Founder & General Partner of Emergence
Jason has been an early investor in leading companies such as ServiceMax (acquired by GE), Box (BOX IPO), Yammer (acquired by MSFT), SteelBrick (acquired by CRM), SuccessFactors (IPO and acquired by SAP), Visual Networks (VNWK), DoubleClick (DLCK/Google), and aQuantive (AQNT/MSFT). Giving back has also been an important value for Jason. He is the founding chairman for the Kauffman Fellows Program, founding board member of Endeavor and served on the board of the National Venture Capital Association. Jason also served as chairman of the West Coast Research Center for Harvard Business School and on the advisory board of the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. He was named to the Forbes Top 100 Venture Capitalists Midas List 2017. Currently, Jason serves on the Boards of BetterWorks, Drishti, GroundTruth, Lotame, Replicon, SalesLoft, and Zinc, and is a board observer at Gusto. Before founding Emergence, he was a general partner with USVP and an associate and Kauffman Fellow with Venrock. Jason graduated cum laude with a B.A. in Economics from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Harvard with Distinction. He was awarded the Charles Williams Fellowship at Harvard Business School for post-graduate research in Entrepreneurship and Finance. He loves travel, tennis, and time with his family, and enjoys a great pinot noir. Fun fact: he’s a twin married to a twin!
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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.
Santi Subotovsky
General Partner of Emergence
Santi is a General Partner at Emergence Capital. Prior to joining Emergence, Santi founded, AXG Tecnonexo, a SaaS e-learning company in Latin America. He expanded the company to 150+ employees with operations across Latin America and the US. Santi is also a founding board member of Puente Labs, an organization that finds and selects the best founders of high potential growth companies from Latin America and helps them scale their businesses globally. Santi currently serves on the Boards of Civitas Learning, CrunchBase, High Alpha, Quasar, Restorando, Tophat, Xapo and Zoom. Santi received an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School and holds a BS in Economics from St. Andrew’s University in Argentina. He is Kauffman Fellow and an Endeavor Entrepreneur. Outside of work Santi is passionate about traveling internationally. He spent 6 months backpacking around the world and continues to work on a personal goal of visiting at least 50% of the world countries. He is an avid opera and classical music follower and, like almost every Argentine, he is passionate about soccer.
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About Emergence, Top Hat: Emergence is a venture capital firm, investing in early and growth-stage cloud and SaaS visionaries that change the way the world works.
Gordon Ritter
Founder & General Partner of Emergence
Gordon Ritter is a Founder and General Partner of Emergence Capital Partners. Prior to founding Emergence, he spent over 15 years founding and building companies which pioneered new markets including embedded web-based interfaces, server appliances, “On Demand” services for the SMB market and web-native application development. In 2003, Gordon led Emergence Capital’s first investment, in Salesforce.com. In 2008, Gordon invested in Industry Cloud pioneer Veeva Systems when the company had 25 employees and less than $2 million in revenue. He has played a key role in the company’s development (now a public company NYSE:VEEV) and he is currently Veeva’s Chairman. Gordon was named to the Forbes’ Midas List of the top venture capital investors in 2007, 2012, 2014 and 2015. Prior to founding Emergence, Gordon was co-Founder and CEO of Software As Service, a web services platform company he created with Marc Benioff, the Chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com. Software As Service is the origin of Salesforce.com’s Salesforce1 platform. Prior to founding Software As Service, he ran the $3 billion IBM Global Small Business division, created as a result of IBM’s acquisition of his company, Whistle Communications in 1999. He was responsible for IBM’s launch partnership with Salesforce.com. Prior to IBM, Gordon was co-Founder and President of Whistle, a pioneering Internet appliance and web services platform. Gordon also co-founded Tribe Communications, a networking infrastructure company, and he was a VP of Capital Markets at Credit Suisse First Boston in New York. Gordon has a B.A. in Economics from Princeton University, where he rowed on the heavyweight crew team. He lives in San Francisco with his wife and four children. He enjoys a range of endurance sports and recently summited both Denali and Aconcagua, and completed a 250-mile trail run across Switzerland.
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About Emergence, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy: Emergence is a venture capital firm, investing in early and growth-stage cloud and SaaS visionaries that change the way the world works.
Kevin Spain
General Partner of Emergence
Kevin is a General Partner at Emergence Capital Partners. His deep knowledge of the enterprise and consumer technology sectors comes from time spent at blue-chip software companies and from his experience as an entrepreneur. Prior to joining Emergence, Kevin was a senior member of Microsoft’s Corporate Development group. In this role, he shared responsibility for sourcing, structuring, and negotiating Microsoft’s acquisitions, strategic investments, and joint ventures. Under his leadership, Kevin’s team participated in transactions spanning all of Microsoft’s business groups. Prior to Microsoft, Kevin was with Electronic Arts, where he was a member of the team that launched EA’s online gaming business. Today, Electronic Arts operates several of the most popular online gaming destinations in the world. Later, Kevin served in Electronic Arts’ Corporate Development group, where he helped manage the Company’s acquisition and strategic investment efforts. Before Electronic Arts, Kevin was Co-Founder and CEO of atMadison.com, a business he started after winning the first annual Wharton Business Plan Competition. atMadison.com provided a hosted marketing management solution for small and medium sized companies.Kevin earned an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and a BBA from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a graduate of the Kauffman Fellows Program.
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About Blend, Emergence: Emergence is a venture capital firm, investing in early and growth-stage cloud and SaaS visionaries that change the way the world works.
Jake Saper
General Partner of Emergence
Jake still can’t believe he gets to do this for a living. Raised in Austin by parents who were serial co-founders, he got bit by the startup bug early. He thinks of serving entrepreneurs as his highest calling. His first venture focused on selling rocks door to door from his Radio Flyer wagon. Not one to shy away from a tough market, he moved on (20 years later) to help launch and grow a startup developing large solar power plants in India, Africa, and the Middle East. He’s developed a deep well of entrepreneurial empathy from being told no (and occasionally yes!) from investors and bureaucrats across the globe. Jake’s first job for which someone paid him was in management consulting, where he honed his deep, nerdy love of frameworks. He’s brought that passion for entrepreneurship and strategic thinking to venture. He got his start in venture at Kleiner Perkins, after which he joined Emergence, where he became a Kauffman Fellow. He’s passionate about using machine learning to help people do their jobs better and co-developed the firm’s Coaching Networks thesis. He serves on the boards of Textio, Guru, Ironclad, DroneDeploy, and Vymo. Jake earned his B.A., magna cum laude, from Yale and his MBA from Stanford, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar. Jake also earned an MS in Environment and Resources from Stanford. Jake is a singer and very mediocre guitar player, constantly in search of people to jam with. He once starred in a musical parody of tech and VC written by a former TechCrunch editor.
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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.
Brian Jacobs
Founder & General Partner of Emergence
Brian Jacobs is a Founder of Emergence Capital and the founder and Managing Partner of Moai Capital. Board Member at AASCEND, Eversight & InsideView.
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About Emergence, Moai Capital, Stanford Graduate School of Business: Emergence is a venture capital firm, investing in early and growth-stage cloud and SaaS visionaries that change the way the world works.
Joseph Floyd
General Partner of Emergence
Joe joins Emergence Capital Partners as a Senior Associate with more than 7 years of technology advisory and investing experience. Prior to joining Emergence, Joe was a Senior Associate in American Capital’s technology group where he focused on investing in fast growing internet and software companies. While at American Capital, Joe was involved with the team’s investments in HomeAway (Nasdaq: AWAY) and PeopleMedia (acquired by IAC). Joe was also an Associate at McKinsey & Co. in their corporate finance practice. Joe earned an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. While at Wharton, Joe won 1st place at the International Venture Capital Investment Competition. He is also a proud Cal Bear with a BA in Economics and BS in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.
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About Emergence, Kauffman Fellows: Emergence is a venture capital firm, investing in early and growth-stage cloud and SaaS visionaries that change the way the world works.
Dan Avida
General Partner of Opus Capital
A General Partner at Opus Capital, Dan Avida has 16 years experience building successful companies and guiding them through to profitable outcomes. Dan specializes in the developing systems, cloud and enterprise infrastructure and applications, solutions for the post-PC world, security, and next generation collaboration platforms. Most recently, Dan was President and CEO of Decru Inc., a pioneering storage security company that Dan co-founded in 2001. Decru was acquired for $272.5M by Network Appliance (NASDAQ: NTAP) in 2005. In 1989, Dan was a founding member of Electronics for Imaging (NASDAQ: EFII). Under Dan’s leadership, EFI experienced five years of dramatic, consecutive growth, placing the company on Business Week, Fortune and Forbes lists of fastest growing companies, and on the Nasdaq 100 index. Dan holds a B.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering from Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology, where he graduated summa cum laude. Dan has five granted patents.
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Jonathan Heiliger
General Partner of Vertex Ventures
I started rebelling against my parents when I was nine years old by staying up all night to game, hack, and program a new computer. A few years later, I taught myself 3D computer graphics and IP networking while working for EPRI and Stanford University, the local hub for the Internet’s precursor, the NSFNET. At 19, I helped start GlobalCenter, one of the first web hosting providers, with initial customers such as CNN, Netscape, Playboy, and Yahoo! More recently, I was a General Partner with North Bridge Venture Partners, from April 2012 to November 2014. During my tenure I started the seed practice and led investments in Lytro, Periscope.io, Quora, and Ravel Law, in addition to co-founding Coolan. Prior to NBVP, I worked at Facebook, where I led global infrastructure, site architecture, and internal systems as VP Infrastructure & Technical Operations, from 2007 until 2012. During that time Facebook grew from 35 million to over 800 million users. Facebook witnessed unprecedented scale and velocity, one of our most impactful decisions was defying the status quo and sharing our lessons learned in infrastructure with the world through 100+ open source projects, consequently, forming the Open Compute Project. Before that, I held executive engineering roles at Wal-Mart and Danger (acquired by Microsoft). I also spent several years as Chief Operating Officer for Loudcloud (which became Opsware and was later acquired by HP). Earlier in my career, I co-founded and was CTO of GlobalCenter, and later founded Global Crossing’s venture capital group. While scaling GlobalCenter, we saw an opportunity to build the world’s first native-optical IP network. When others were adopting ATM, we chose the path less traveled with a novel approach. I currently serve on the board of directors of Webmonsters, in addition to Vertex portfolio companies PerimeterX, CloudAcademy, and SpaceIQ. I have individually invested in and actively help several companies, including Cloudera, Coravin, Diffbot, Dropbox, Square, and ThousandEyes.
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Charles Moldow
General Partner of Foundation Capital
Charles joined Foundation Capital in 2005, with a background in general management, sales, marketing, product management, and business development. Before coming to Foundation Capital, he was part of two teams that successfully built companies from early start-up through greater than $100 million in sales and exits near or above a billion dollars. Charles has made thirteen investments since joining Foundation, of which four have been acquired: PowerSet to Microsoft; Xoopit to Yahoo!; Adwhirl to Google; and, Weblistic to Spot Runner. Charles works closely with his current portfolio, which includes: AdRoll, Bancbox, CloudOn, Copious, Everyday Health, Fanhood, LendingClub, Motif Investing, Pixazza, Refresh, RevelTouch, and SunRun. Prior to Foundation, Charles spent five years with Tellme Networks and was a member of the founding executive team. While there, he led Tellme in raising one of the largest private financing rounds in the country post-Internet bubble, adding $125 million in cash to the company balance sheet during tough market conditions in August, 2000. Tellme was acquired by Microsoft in 2007 for $760 million. Prior to Tellme, Charles was a member of the founding team of Internet access provider @Home Network. In 1996, he established the @Media division; and over the ensuing three years helped establish @Media as the leading broadband media provider. In 1997 the company went public. A year later, Charles assisted in the $7 billion acquisition of Excite Network. After the merger, he became General Manager of Matchlogic, the $80 million division focused on interactive advertising. Charles’ entrepreneurial penchant dates back to 1989 when he co-founded OnTime Guide which replaced the OAG Pocket Flight Guide as the must-have resource for frequent business travelers and PrimeTime Partners, which attempted to establish a new category of self liquidating promotions on behalf of advertisers and direct marketers. Prior to that, Charles spent three years in the Mergers and Acquisitions practice at Merrill Lynch. Charles holds a BS degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and received his MBA from Harvard University. He lives in the Bay Area with his wife and four children.
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About Foundation Capital: Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm made up of former entrepreneurs and helps companies and businesses grow.
Bill Elmore
General Partner and Founder of Foundation Capital
With a combinationof venture and operating experience that cultivated a deep understanding about the challenges an organization faces on a daily basis, Bill founded Foundation Capital in 1995 with the purpose of helping entrepreneurs build strong organizations from the ground up. He has always operated on the belief that substantial, sustainable companies are the result of matching insight—whether about technology or market opportunity—with the right entrepreneurand management team. Prior to Foundation, Bill spent eight years as a General Partner at Inman & Bowman. Previous roles include president of Visual Engineering, as well as a variety of marketing management positions, at Hewlett-Packard. As former director and past presidentof the Western Association for Venture Capitalists, and past director of the National Venture Capital Association, Bill continues to be actively involved in defining, serving, and representing the interests of the venture capital and private equity industries. Equally passionate about his philanthropy work, Bill serves on the Advisory Council at Stanford Business School and is a board member of the Eastside College Preparatory School. Bill currently sits on the board ofdirectors of Biz360, CloudShield, Helpstream, Quartics, SpringCM, TeaLeaf Technology, Venafi, and XMOS Semiconductor, and was previously on the boards of Atheros Communications and WindRiver Systems. Bill holds a BSEEand MSEE from Purdue University and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
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About Foundation Capital: Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm made up of former entrepreneurs and helps companies and businesses grow.
Joanne Chen
General Partner of Foundation Capital
Joanne Chen is a General Partner at Foundation Capital.
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About Foundation Capital, Quilt Data, Simppler: Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm made up of former entrepreneurs and helps companies and businesses grow.
Steve Vassallo
General Partner of Foundation Capital
In his wallet, Steve Vassallo carries around the business card from his childhood snow-blowing business, a constant reminder that entrepreneurship is about grasping opportunity where you find it, even if your hands get cold and numb in the process. Of more recent vintage is the business card that identifies Steve as a venture capitalist at Foundation Capital, where he works with companies in the areas of cleantech, consumer, and software & services. Steve serves on the board of directors of SunRun, Akiban, and Sentient Energy, and he is actively involved with eMeter, EnerNOC, and Serious Materials. Steve also serves on the board of the Nueva School and advises the Aquaya Institute, a nonprofit research and consulting firm focused on bringing safe water innovations to vulnerable populations. Before joining Foundation Capital in 2007, Steve helped launch Ning, a consumer Internet service where anyone can create their own social network for any passion, any cause, anything.Prior to Ning, Steve was Director of Mechanical Engineering at Immersion [IMMR], which pioneered the field of tactile feedback and human touch technology.Prior to Immersion, Steve was a project leader and design engineer at IDEO, where he developed more than a dozen successful products for market leading companies including Cisco, Nike, BMW, Steelcase, McDonalds, and Caterpillar. An entrepreneur who lives at the intersection of business, technology, and design, Steve’s innovations have won him over 28 patents and several design awards, including the Business Week Design of the Decade Award, red dot 2009, IDEA99 Gold and Bronze Awards, NeoCon Gold and Most Innovative New Product Awards.Steve earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University, and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.When Steve is able to break away from brainstorming the next big idea, he enjoys building Lego robots with his three children and bicycling through the Palo Alto foothills with his wife and best friend, Trae.
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About Abstract, Foundation Capital, Framer, Runtime, The Nueva School: Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm made up of former entrepreneurs and helps companies and businesses grow.
Paul Koontz
General Partner Emeritus of Foundation Capital
Paul Koontz is a General Partner, Emeritus having joined Foundation Capital as a partner in 1995. He currently serves on the boards of Financial Engines, where he has been chairman since 2004, and ForUsAll, a private company delivering turnkey 401(k) solutions. Paul is on the Smithsonian Institution National Board and has been Board Chair of Summit Charter High School, named by Newsweek as one of the 10 most transformative high schools in the country. Paul is also active in other community organizations. He occasionally lectures at Stanford and has degrees from Princeton and Stanford.
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About Foundation Capital: Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm made up of former entrepreneurs and helps companies and businesses grow.
Ashu Garg
General Partner of Foundation Capital
Ashu Garg is a General Partner at Foundation Capital, focusing on startups in Marketing Technology (MarTech), Analytics, and SaaS applications. Board Member at Skyflow, Fortanix & Cohesity.
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Mike Schuh
General Partner of Foundation Capital
Before joining Foundation Capital in 1998, Mike Schuh was CEO, co-founder, and chairman of the board of Intrinsa Corporation, a software applications company that was acquired by Microsoft. Mike helped to create and establish two leading software companies: Computervision in the CAD/CAM market, and Cadence in the EDA market.
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About Foundation Capital: Foundation Capital is a venture capital firm made up of former entrepreneurs and helps companies and businesses grow.
Mike Ghaffary
General Partner of Canvas Ventures
Mike Ghaffary is a General Partner of Canvas Ventures. Mike has invested in Strava, CloudKitchens, Superhuman, Flyhomes, Faire, Darwin Homes, Standard Cognition, Optimizely, Metromile, Pocket, Padlet and several other companies. Before Canvas, he was a Partner at Social Capital. He has over 10 years of operating experience as CEO of Eat24, VP Business and Corporate Development at Yelp, Director of Business Development at TrialPay, and co-founder of Stitcher and BarMax. Before that, Mike started his investing career at Summit Partners after completing his JD/MBA and BS in Computer Science. Mike received his MBA from Harvard Business School and JD from Harvard Law School. He also received his BS in Computer Science from the University of Southern California.
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About Canvas Ventures: Canvas Ventures is an early-stage investment firm that specializes on fintech, healthtech, marketplaces, and data infrastructure.
Paul Hsiao
Co-Founder & General Partner of Canvas Ventures
Paul joined forces with Rebecca Lynn and Gary Little as a founding member of Canvas Ventures in 2014, with the purpose of creating the type of boutique firm he would have liked to work with as an entrepreneur himself, one where every investment is meaningful and where he can spend his time working with his founders to scale their business. At Canvas, Paul’s investments include eporta, Fluxx Labs, Kidbox, MasonHub, Flowspace, Roofstock, Shoreline Software, Skyflow, Thrive Global, Transfix, and Zola. He has also pioneered the firm’s work in co-creation— helping start new companies by match-making domain experts with market opportunity in areas ripe for disruption. A former partner at NEA, Paul spent ten years helping companies scale from garage-scale startups to IPO and acquisition. Paul found that he loved the venture business, and he had an innate curiosity to learn about how others built meaningful companies. While at NEA, he worked alongside companies including Salesforce (CRM), Tableau Software, Coursera, Spreadtrum Communications, Workday (WDAY), Upwork, Gaikai (SNE), Boingo Wireless (WIFI), SMIC, and many others. Paul is an entrepreneur at heart. He immigrated with his parents from Taipei in junior high. Contrary to his parent’s wishes for him to become a doctor, he leveraged his mechanical and biomedical engineering degrees from MIT, where he launched startup in the medical device space tackling open-heart surgery, and his MBA from HBS, where he launched a startup in the network security space called Mazu Networks. Paul financed the early days of Mazu on credit cards, camped outside of customer prospects and venture firms in minivan rentals, and got his break when he attracted financing support from Greylock, Matrix and Benchmark Capital. Mazu was a pioneer in network security built from technology developed at MIT. Early adopters of Mazu’s proprietary DDoS-security platform, which was eventually acquired by Riverbed Technology, included Yahoo, eBay and CNN, and Paul is proud to say that the engineering team and underlying software paved the foundation later for Meraki
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About Canvas Ventures, Roofstock, Zola: Canvas Ventures is an early-stage investment firm that specializes on fintech, healthtech, marketplaces, and data infrastructure.
Gary Little
Co-Founder and General Partner of Canvas Ventures
Gary Little is a Partner at Canvas since September 2013 and led the firm’s investment in Totango. Based in Menlo Park, Gary focuses on innovative software and services investments. Twice in the past five years, Gary has been named to the Forbes Midas List which seeks to identify the venture capitalists that were instrumental in creating the most impactful and valuable companies of tomorrow. Gary joined Morgenthaler Ventures in 1997 and continues to serve on the boards Morgenthaler portfolio companies including Adara, Evernote, MuleSoft, and PeopleMatter. Gary also led the investment in Wize Commerce (previously NexTag). Gary serves, or served, as a board observer of Lending Club, Practice Fusion and Sonatype. Previously, Gary held several roles at Apple Computer, including Senior Vice President of Apple’s Power Macintosh Division, Vice President of Sales Americas and Senior Director of Marketing for Apple’s Pacific Division (China, Japan, Asia, Latin America, Canada). Prior to his time at Apple, Gary spent seven years at Sun Microsystems as Director of Product Marketing, Director of Asia Pacific Marketing (including a posting in Hong Kong), and as Group Manager of Industry Marketing. Before Sun Microsystems, Gary held sales and marketing positions at IBM. Gary began his career as an IC design Engineer for TRW’s microelectronics research labs. Gary earned an MBA from Harvard University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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About Canvas Ventures, Morgenthaler Ventures: Canvas Ventures is an early-stage investment firm that specializes on fintech, healthtech, marketplaces, and data infrastructure.
Rebecca Lynn
Co-founder & General Partner of Canvas Ventures
Rebecca co-founded Canvas Ventures in 2013, spinning the firm out of Morgenthaler Ventures. Named a Woman to Watch: Senior Deal Maker by the Wall Street Journal in 2021 and a Top Woman VC by the New York Times, Rebecca has also been ranked on the Forbes Midas List 5 years in a row. Rebecca has demonstrated early and consistent conviction around fintech, healthtech, and consumer products, and she brings unique operational expertise in marketing and recruiting to support her companies as a venture capitalist. Rebecca works with early-stage founders to refine their product market fit and expand their go-to-market strategy. She loves helping early stage companies discover new channels for growth and make critical hires to take the company to the next inflection point. Rebecca has been investing in digital health for over a decade; one of her early investments while a partner at Morgenthaler, Doximity (NYSE: DOCS), went public in June 2021 and, with a current market cap of $18B, stands as one of the largest IPOs of 2021. Rebecca’s very first entry into venture was leading an early-stage investment in Lending Club (LC), which turned into the largest US technology IPO of 2014 and the fourth largest US Internet IPO since 2001, behind Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Other recent exits from Rebecca’s early-stage investments include Luminar (NASDAQ: LAZR), Check (acquired by Intuit), FutureAdvisor (acquired by BlackRock), and Figure Eight (acquired by Appen). Rebecca has a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Missouri, and a JD/MBA from the University of California, Berkeley. She serves on the board of Skydeck, the University of California, Berkeley, incubator and is a frequent lecturer at Stanford and Berkeley.
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Andre Bliznyuk
General Partner of Runa Capital
5 years of investment banking experience: headed the Russia/CIS Equity Capital Markets Group for Goldman Sachs (2010-2011) and, prior to that, UBS Investment Bank (2006-2009), focusing on IPOs and other ECM transactions in Russia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan In 2003-2006, head of capital markets and investor relations at Sistema, leading Russian conglomerate, managing debt and equity financing deals for Sistema, MTS, Comstar, Sistema Hals and Sitronics; prior to that, worked in Wimm-Bill-Dann’s investor relations team (2001-2003). Graduated from MSU with a master’s degree in Cross-Cultural Communications; followed this with a graduate course in Economics/Management.
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