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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 United States based Associate operating in the Finance space. If you think a Associate is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.us.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Nicole Christa Cadman
Associate General Counsel of Y Combinator
Nicole Cadman is an Associate General Counsel. Previously she was a Managing Associate in Orrick’s Technology Companies Group, and she has a JD from Stanford Law School. Nicole ran both the Boston and Budapest marathons in 2016—the latter two days before starting at YC. She loves to swim.
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About Y Combinator: Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a wide range of startups twice a year.
Simon Lu
Associate, YC Continuity of Y Combinator
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About Y Combinator: Y Combinator is a startup accelerator that invests in a wide range of startups twice a year.
Zachary Schmid
Investment Associate of Casa Verde Capital
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About Casa Verde Capital: Casa Verde Capital is a venture capital firm specialized in seed investments.
Allie Denburg
Associate of Casa Verde Capital
Allie is an experienced operator and problem-solver assisting CVC across areas including deal sourcing, investment diligence, and market research. She was previously a Senior Operations Manager at Uber in the US and Asia Pacific. Allie holds a BA in Political Science and Philosophy, summa cum laude, from Duke University.
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About Casa Verde Capital: Casa Verde Capital is a venture capital firm specialized in seed investments.
Brian Hollins
Summer Investment Associate of Lightspeed Venture Partners
Brian is currently a student at Harvard Business School, where he was selected as a Rock Social Entrepreneurship Fellow for his work as the Founder of The Aspen Fellowship. He is a Founding Board Member of BLCKVC, a non-profit that focuses on building paths into venture capital for aspiring black investors. He is the founder of The Road Untraveled, a podcast that dives into real-time topics and trending sectors for the tech and VC community. Prior to HBS, he was a later stage venture capital investor at Goldman Sachs focused on enterprise SaaS and the productivity software suite. He was also a part of a small team that helped launch the Emerging Entrepreneurs Coverage group, an initiative to bring Goldman into the venture capital community by extending resources to early stage startups. Brian graduated from Stanford University with a BA in International Economics, and served on the Finance Committee of the San Francisco Education Fund, as well as the Leadership Council of Sponsors for Educational Opportunity (SEO Scholars). He is the proud older brother of Mack (wide-receiver for the Miami Dolphins) and Drew (Marine and current student at Columbia University). He is originally from Washington, DC.
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About Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pear VC: Lightspeed Venture Partners is a venture capital firm that engages in consumer, enterprise, technology, and cleantech markets.
Samuel Garcia
Senior Associate of Amplo
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About Amplo: Amplo is a global venture capital firm helping build companies that matter.
Luke Williams
Associate of Fifth Wall
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About Fifth Wall: Fifth Wall is a venture capital firm that focuses on technologies for the global real estate industry.
Natalie Soto-Wright
Advisory Associate of Fifth Wall
Natalie Soto-Wright currently works as the Advisory Associate for Fifth Wall. She previously worked at Barclays Investment Bank as an Investment Banking Analyst.
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About Fifth Wall: Fifth Wall is a venture capital firm that focuses on technologies for the global real estate industry.
Shannon Brady
Associate of Fifth Wall
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About Fifth Wall: Fifth Wall is a venture capital firm that focuses on technologies for the global real estate industry.
Remi Gai
Senior Investment Associate of 8 Decimal Capital
Remi is currently an Senior Investment Associate at 8 Decimal Capital, a venture capital firm based in San Francisco and Beijing, focused on Cryptocurrency and Blockchain. Prior, Remi was the Head of Research at Game Theory Crypto Group, an early-stage crypto asset investment & media firm and co-founded BitSystems, a blockchain development firm which focuses on building Dapps and Proof-of-Concepts for startups and Enterprises. Remi also worked as a product manager at InTeahouse, a venture capital service and investment firm, creating an online social and fundraising platform for cross country investment and partnerships.
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About 8 Decimal Capital: A multi-strategy investment firm focused on both token and equity investment
Paul Monaghan
Associate of SOSV
Paul joined SOSV as an Associate in 2020, for Food-X & dLab, reporting to General Partner Shawn Broderick. His responsibilities include monitoring the existing Food-X investment portfolio, assisting companies in their closing of additional rounds of financing, helping to facilitate the launch of the dLab program and performing general data analysis. Prior to SOSV, Paul was an Analyst at Bourne Park Capital, a London-based alternative investment manager. His role involved performing due diligence on potential investments and managing portfolio risk. Prior to that he was a Summer Analyst for Tigerlabs, a venture capital accelerator based in Princeton, focusing on the outbound sourcing of startups. Paul graduated from Fordham University with a B.A. in Economics. In his free time, he enjoys hiking, shooting B&W film and playing court tennis.
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About dlab, Food-X, SOSV: SOSV is a global VC firm with $1B AUM and 1,000+ investments, that operates HAX, IndieBio, Chinaccelerator, MOX, and dlab.
Musa Lone
Associate of Goldman Sachs
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Benjamin Cirlin
Associate – IBD – Fintech and Asset Management of Goldman Sachs
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About Goldman Sachs, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Christine Whalen
Technology Associate of Goldman Sachs
Christine is a Software Engineer on the SecDb Architecture team at Goldman Sachs. Her team is responsible for a platform that’s part in-house programming language, part IDE, part database, and part data science toolkit. Prior to her current role, she was on the Capital Measurement and Analytics team at Goldman, developing an application to track the flow of data during the annual stress test process (CCAR). She earned an MS and BS in Computer Science at Brown University. After graduation, she was very excited to discover that, unlike the Brown CS lab, most workplaces have windows. She currently lives in Manhattan with her girlfriend and two cats.
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Erwin Eichmann
Vice President & Associate General Counsel of Goldman Sachs
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Jon Hartley
Associate, Fixed Income Portfolio Construction and Risk Management of Goldman Sachs
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About Goldman Sachs: Goldman Sachs is a multinational financial services firm providing securities, investment banking, and management services.
Phoebe Sonder
Administrative Associate of I2BF Global Ventures
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About I2BF Global Ventures: I2BF is a venture capital firm that focuses on early stage technology companies.
Megan Kelly
Associate of First Round Capital
Megan Kelly is an Associate at First Round Capital.
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About First Round Capital: First Round is a venture capital firm that specializes in providing seed-stage funding to technology companies.
Vikram Ramakrishnan
Associate of First Round Capital
Vikram Ramakrishnan is an Associate at First Round Capital.
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About First Round Capital: First Round is a venture capital firm that specializes in providing seed-stage funding to technology companies.
Jeffrey Akiki
Associate of Bolt
Jeffrey works on the investment team at Bolt. He has a Masters degree in Applied Analytics from Columbia University. Previously, he worked on the venture team at SeedInvest, and at PwC as an Assurance Associate. He’s interested in applying a data-driven approach to venture capital.
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About Bolt: Bolt is a pre-seed venture firm investing where the digital and physical world intersect.
Nathan Tien
Investment Associate of Goodwater Capital
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About Goodwater Capital: Goodwater Capital is a venture capital firm that focuses on consumer tech startups.
Nanae Uchida
Associate of East Ventures
In 2010, Nanae Uchida founded a startup in real estates. Within the real estate community, she linked up buyers with sellers and renovated houses and was able to sell her company after Q3. She traveled around Southeast Asia and decided to create a platform where foreigners can come together as one. Nanae went back into the startup scene in 2014. She then joined East Ventures in 2015 and ever since then she is deeply involved in the San Francisco startup scene.
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About East Ventures: East Ventures is an early stage venture fund focusing on SEA and Japan with 4 unicorns in its portfolio.
Tiffany Le
Senior Associate of New Enterprise Associates
Tiffany is an investor on the healthcare team and focuses on medtech / device investments. Most recently, she was at Kaiser Permanente Ventures where she focused on investments across healthcare services, enterprise SaaS, and medical devices, with a particular emphasis on A/I enabled technologies. Prior to KPV, she was a Senior Life Sciences Consultant at L.E.K. Consulting in their Los Angeles and London offices where she led more than 30 strategic projects with top biotech, medtech, and life sciences clients spanning M&A, launch and commercialization strategy, portfolio optimization, and product and geographic expansion. At L.E.K., she had particular expertise in the oncology, allergy/immunotherapy, and pulmonary disease areas as well as in precision medicine, diagnostics, and orphan indications. Tiffany has also collaborated on research leveraging brain organoid and synthetic biology models to interrogate Alzheimer’s Disease at MIT, held VC internships at GE Ventures and Bessemer Venture Partners, and worked at Amgen via externship within their Innovation and Customer Experience team. She serves on the Board of Mending Kids International, a non-profit providing surgical care to children in under-resourced communities, and is a national organizer of the community organization Frontline Foods. Tiffany received a BA in Business Economic Theory from the University of California, Los Angeles and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Emily Zhen
Associate of New Enterprise Associates
Emily joined NEA in 2020 as an Associate on the Med Team working across the healthcare services, biopharma and medical device sectors. Prior to joining NEA, Emily was a member of the healthcare investment banking team at Goldman Sachs in New York City, where she worked on M&A and equity and debt financing transactions. She has also worked at the U.S. Department of Treasury, PwC, and several digital health startups. Emily graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania’s Vagelos Program in Life Sciences & Management, where she earned a B.S. in Finance from Wharton, a B.A. in Biology, and a certificate in healthcare policy as a Public Policy Research Scholar. During her time at Penn, Emily engaged in research on Castleman Disease with Dr. David Fajgenbaum, served as a project leader for 180 Degrees Consulting, and conducted due diligence on healthcare startups as part of the Wharton Impact Investing Partners health & wellness team.
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About New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Justine Potemkin
Associate of New Enterprise Associates
Justine joined NEA in 2021 as an investor on the healthcare team. Prior to joining NEA, Justine was a member of the healthcare investment banking group at Goldman Sachs in New York City, where she worked on various equity financings and M&A across biotechnology and healthcare IT verticals. Prior to joining Goldman, Justine began her career conducting research in rare dermatology at Albert Einstein College of Medicine and then in infectious disease / OB-GYN at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. She previously held roles at Pfizer in clinical trial innovation and internationally at Guang’anmen Hospital in Beijing. Justine graduated from Brown University with a bachelor’s degree in Biology. At Brown, she served as President of Brown’s Biotechnology & Healthcare Investment Group.
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About New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Alex Sharata
Associate of New Enterprise Associates
Alex Sharata is a Managing Partner of A-Level Capital, a Baltimore-based venture capital firm investing in Johns Hopkins founders who are building capital-efficient, asset-light, scalable businesses. Through A-Level, Alex has worked with enterprise software, consumer, Internet, hardware, healthcare IT, biotech, and medical device startups across multiple stages from pre-seed through series A. To date, A-Level has made 27 investments and has had 2 portfolio monetizations. Alex is also a Co-Founder of Fractal Technology, a mobile application security and compliance automation startup, which was acquired in 2017. In addition to A-Level and Fractal, Alex has held positions in software engineering, venture capital, and investment banking. Alex is also an Ambassador for Sequoia Capital and a graduate of Johns Hopkins University where he studied computer science and economics.
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About New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Michael Li
Associate of New Enterprise Associates
Michael joined NEA in 2021 as an associate on the healthcare team. Previously, he was in the healthcare group at Court Square Capital, a middle market private equity firm based in New York. At Court Square, Michael worked on leveraged buyouts and M&A transactions across the healthcare services and healthcare technology sectors. Michael started his career at PJT Partners as a member of its inaugural analyst class following the firm’s spinoff from the Blackstone Group. At PJT, Michael focused on M&A across a variety of industries, including defense, telecommunications, media, technology, healthcare, and real estate. Michael graduated from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where he studied international relations and economics. He is a native of Nashville, TN and still enjoys country music. Michael loves all things entrepreneurial and is always up for a good debate on any topic.
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About New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Sai Abhishek
Associate of New Enterprise Associates
Sai joined NEA in 2020 as an Associate on the Healthcare Team focused on investments in biopharma, medical devices, and healthcare services. Prior to joining NEA, Sai was a member of Credit Suisse’s Biotechnology and Global Healthcare Investment Banking Groups in San Francisco and New York, where he worked on the IPOs of Avidity Biosciences, Stoke Therapeutics, and Satsuma Pharmaceuticals. He also helped execute several M&A transactions across the medical devices and healthcare services sectors, including 3M’s acquisition of Acelity, Danaher’s public spinout of Envista, and KKR’s buyout of Envision Healthcare. Sai graduated magna cum laude from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he earned a B.S. in Economics with dual concentrations in Finance and Statistics as well as a minor in Biology. During his time at Penn, Sai conducted research in preventive cardiology at Penn Medicine and was a venture consultant for Apple Tree Partners, conducting diligence on late-stage life sciences investments. Sai hails from St. Louis, Missouri.
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About New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Jess Ou
Senior Associate of New Enterprise Associates
Jess joined NEA in 2018 as an investor focused on enterprise and consumer technology companies. Jess is a Board Observer for New Wave Foods, Smartcar, Outrider, Tulip, and Gen.G, and is also involved in NEA’s investments in EvidentID and Automation Anywhere. Prior to joining NEA, Jess spent two years at Morgan Stanley in their Global Technology Group in Menlo Park, covering companies across enterprise software, infrastructure, and consumer internet. At Morgan Stanley, Jess worked on various IPOs, financings, and M&A transactions for companies including Uber, Pivotal Software, Smartsheet, AppDynamics, FireEye, Aquantia, and Lulus, among others. Prior to Morgan Stanley, Jess spent time at Greylock Partners, Uber, and Euclid Analytics. Jess graduated from UC Berkeley, where she earned dual degrees in Business Administration from the Haas School of Business and Social Welfare. During her academic career, she conducted research around enterprise innovation and workforce impact for Stanford University with Timothy Bresnahan and also conducted research around crowdfunding for MIT with Christian Catalini.
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About New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Henry Magun
Associate of New Enterprise Associates
Henry Magun joined NEA in 2018 and is an Associate on the Tech Team in New York, where he focuses on enterprise and consumer technology investments. Prior to joining NEA, Henry worked as a product management intern for Nebia in San Francisco, focusing on ecommerce expansion, and as an intern on the growth team at WeWork. Henry graduated from Stanford University, where he earned a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. While at Stanford, Henry was a Mayfield Fellow, a student representative on the School of Engineering Undergraduate Council, and a member of the management team of Cardinal Ventures, Stanford’s student-run accelerator for Stanford-affiliated startups. Additionally, he was president and a founding member of the Stanford Bicycle Project, a volunteer organization providing bicycles to low-income students.
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About New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Zak Burns
Associate of New Enterprise Associates
Zak joined NEA in 2020 as an investor on the technology team, where he focuses on consumer and enterprise technology investments. Prior to joining NEA, Zak was a merchant banker at The Raine Group in New York where he worked on transformative M&A transactions and growth equity investments across the technology, media and entertainment landscapes. While at Raine, Zak worked on Sprint’s merger with T-Mobile, Pearl Abyss’ acquisition of CCP Games, Silver Lake Partners’ investment in City Football Group and Joe Tsai’s acquisition of the Barclays Center and Brooklyn Nets. Zak graduated from Columbia University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Political Science. While at Columbia, he was the President of the Economics Society and held leadership positions in the International Students Group and Delta Sigma Phi. Zak is proudly British.
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About New Enterprise Associates: New Enterprise Associates is a global venture capital firm investing in technology and healthcare.
Batul Joffrey
Associate of Kapor Capital
Batul Joffrey currently works as the Associate for Kapor Capital. She previously worked at Localwise as the Chief Of Staff.
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About Kapor Capital: Kapor Capital is an investment firm that invests in early-stage tech-enabled startups.
Greg Bennett
Senior Associate of Kapor Capital
Greg Bennett is a senior associate at Kapor Capital.
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About Kapor Capital: Kapor Capital is an investment firm that invests in early-stage tech-enabled startups.
Gregory Bennett
Senior Associate of Kapor Capital
Greg Bennett is the Investment Analyst for VilCap Investments, LLC, which is Village Capital’s affiliated for-profit investment fund. He joins the team with five years of experience across several industries and countries. Greg has worked in Amman, Jordan with various organizations in international education, human rights, and management consulting; in the US with World Book, Inc. in their International Products division; and as a project consultant for FINCA International. Greg was also an IDEX Fellow in Bangalore, India, where he worked with equity transactions, valuations, and deal sourcing in India and Indonesia. Previous to coming to Village Capital, he managed eCommerce at Samasource and developed a fund service at Toniic. Greg holds a B.A. in International Political Economy from the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.
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About Kapor Capital: Kapor Capital is an investment firm that invests in early-stage tech-enabled startups.
Dylan Weening
Senior Associate of Sway Ventures
As Senior Associate at Sway Ventures, Dylan Weening assists the investment committee with thesis development, deal sourcing, and underwriting. He also supports the management of the firm’s investor relations and strategic capital raising for portfolio companies. Prior to Sway, Dylan was a Business Development Manager for a global consulting firm focused on early to mid-stage software and hardware technologies. He co-developed the firm’s business development arm, leading to triple digit revenue growth during his tenure. Additionally, Dylan worked directly with startups conducting market research and developing go-to-market strategies.
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About Sway Ventures: Sway Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early to mid-stage technology companies.
Michael Burns
Associate of Sway Ventures
Michael Burns is an Associate at Sway Ventures.
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About Sway Ventures: Sway Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early to mid-stage technology companies.
Wenz Xing
Associate of Emergence
By the time he turned 21, Wenz had worked at four scrappy startups (including one he started), four VC firms, and launched a student-run venture firm dedicated to bridging the gap between student entrepreneurs and early stage investors. He was an Associate at Hyde Park Angels on the Digital Media & Technology team, and a student fellow at three other venture firms (including Chicago Ventures, Foundation Capital, and University of Chicago’s Innovation Fund) – wearing hats from sourcing to deep market due diligence. Wenz studied economics on a full-ride Questbridge scholarship at the University of Chicago. He was most recently on the Special Projects team at Cloudflare helping build a better Internet.
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About Emergence: Emergence is a venture capital firm, investing in early and growth-stage cloud and SaaS visionaries that change the way the world works.
Kiet Fong
Associate of Science
Kiet is an associate at Science Inc. As an equity derivatives trade for 5+ years, his working with science Blockchain was a natural fit. Since then, he has transitioned to a role within Science Inc., in which he support portfolio companies in the blockchain, mobile entertainment and consumer application sector. He’s also an M.B.A. candidate at the University of Southern Carlifornia and a holds a B.A in Business Economics from Cal. State University, Fullerton
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About Science: Science partners with founders to develop and fund disruptive tech-based companies.
Paul Farber
Associate, Vice President of TPG Growth
Mr. Farber is an Associate based in San Francisco. Mr. Farber joined TPG Growth in 2015. Previously, he worked at Lazard as an Investment Banking Analyst in the Global Power, Energy & Infrastructure Group.
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About TPG Growth: TPG Growth specializes in growth equity and middle-market buyout opportunities.
Josh Eiseman
Associate of TPG Growth
Mr. Eiseman is an Associate based in San Francisco. Mr. Eiseman joined TPG Growth in 2015. Previously, he worked at Morgan Stanley as an Investment Banking Analyst in the Financial Sponsors Group.
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About TPG Growth: TPG Growth specializes in growth equity and middle-market buyout opportunities.
Nick Mancini
Associate of TPG Growth
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About TPG Growth: TPG Growth specializes in growth equity and middle-market buyout opportunities.
Juliet Bailin
Associate Partner of Mosaic
Juliet is an Associate Partner at Mosaic Ventures, a silicon valley-style series A fund in London investing across Europe. At Mosaic, she works with investments across the healthtech landscape, from adaptive oncology to digital therapeutics, in addition to machine intelligence and enterprise SaaS. Prior to Mosaic, Juliet was an Investor at Insight Venture Partners in New York, an $18bn growth VC/PE fund focused on software. During her three years there, she invested across stages and industries, eventually doubling down on the fascinating products transforming healthcare. Juliet backed Hinge Health, Parachute Health, and Caremerge, as well as drove M&A for Virgin Pulse. She moved to London in August to join Mosaic’s vision of backing ambitious, gritty founders committed to reshaping global markets.
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About General Catalyst, Mosaic: We back founders who are reimagining the world. We invest $1-10m early, in those building daring adventures across Europe.
Rachel Star
Senior Associate of Unusual Ventures
Rachel is Senior Associate at Unusual helping to build and support the firm’s consumer investments. Rachel’s passion for business lies at the intersection of products and people. Rachel started her career as a consultant with McKinsey & Company with a focus on consumer brands, retailers, supply chain, and manufacturing. She then joined the Corporate Strategy team at Nordstrom Inc. Most recently, Rachel was an early-stage investor on the consumer team at Shasta Ventures.
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About Unusual Ventures: Unusual Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital offering hands-on support and expertise to startups on their early-stage journey.
Jordan Segall
Senior Associate of Unusual Ventures
Jordan is an Associate supporting Unusual’s Enterprise Team. Prior to Unusual, Jordan was a Forward Deployed Solutions Leader at C3.ai, where he led teams of engineers and data scientists on some of the largest production AI deployments in the world.
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About Unusual Ventures: Unusual Ventures is a seed-stage venture capital offering hands-on support and expertise to startups on their early-stage journey.
Chris Picardo
Senior Associate of Madrona Venture Group
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About Madrona Venture Group, Madrona Venture Group: Madrona Venture Group is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies.
Elisa La Cava
Senior Associate of Madrona Venture Group
Elisa La Cava serves as Senior Associate at Madrona Venture Group. Elisa focuses on sourcing and evaluating new investment opportunities that span the full breadth of Madrona’s investment themes, as well as working with portfolio companies to develop strategies for growth and success. Elisa is particularly interested in multi-sense interfaces, intelligent applications, and fintech.
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About Madrona Venture Group: Madrona Venture Group is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies.
Matthew Witt
Talent Associate of Madrona Venture Group
Matt joined Madrona in 2016 and works directly with Madrona’s portfolio companies to recruit talent and strengthen recruiting infrastructure. Matt is excited to help our diverse group of technology companies build strong teams with the best talent in the industry.
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About Madrona Venture Group: Madrona Venture Group is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies.
Ruben Leavitt
Manager – Supply Management – Marketing & Associate Travel Programs of TD Ameritrade
Ruben was born and raised in New York, NY, and received a BA from Colgate University with concentrations in English and Political Science. Before entering the workforce, he took two years to get his Master’s degree in Political Theory from the University of Oxford. After graduating, Ruben worked for five years at FROSCH, a boutique full-service travel agency, where he started as an Associate Account Manager in the corporate travel division, but quickly worked his way up the ranks to eventually oversee its Corporate Account Management department. Ruben then moved from the agency side to the buyer side of the business. For the past year, he has worked at TD Ameritrade administering the T&E program and managing the company’s relationships with travel and credit card vendors.
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About TD Ameritrade: TD Ameritrade is a finance company in online stock trading.
David Jee
Associate of Tuesday Capital
David Jee is an associate at Tuesday Capital.
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About Tuesday Capital: Tuesday Capital (formerly known as CrunchFund) is a seed stage focused venture firm
Michael Notaro
Associate of Sapphire
Michael Notaro is an Associate at Sapphire Partners at Sapphire Ventures.
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About Sapphire: Sapphire is a venture capital firm that partners with visionary teams and venture funds to build companies.
Philipp Seifert
Senior Associate of Sapphire
Philipp joined Sapphire Ventures as a member of the growth investment team in the summer of 2017. On an ongoing basis, he analyzes and performs due diligence on new investments while assisting current portfolio companies. Philipp worked on Sapphire’s investments in DataRobot, InfluxData, Matillion, Phoenix Labs, project44 and Reonomy. Prior to joining Sapphire Ventures, Philipp was part of Goldman Sachs’ TMT investment banking division in San Francisco and worked on a number of high-profile IPO and M&A transactions. Philipp received a bachelor’s in mathematical economic analysis from Rice University and was team captain of the men’s varsity tennis team. Originally from Munich, Germany, Philipp is also fluent in German.
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About Sapphire: Sapphire is a venture capital firm that partners with visionary teams and venture funds to build companies.
Hillary Cook
Senior Associate of Sapphire
Hillary joined Sapphire Ventures in the summer of 2018 and focuses on the firm’s fund investments in the US and internationally. As part of the team, she helps conduct due diligence on current and potential investments for Sapphire Ventures’ fund portfolio. Prior to joining Sapphire Ventures, Hillary was an analyst at the Williams College Investment Office, underwriting investments across ten investment strategy asset classes for the college’s endowment. Originally from Boston, Hillary received a bachelor’s in economics from Williams College, where she played on the varsity lacrosse team.
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About Sapphire: Sapphire is a venture capital firm that partners with visionary teams and venture funds to build companies.
Hadi Tirmizi
Associate of Sapphire
Hadi Tirmizi is an Associate at Sapphire Ventures.
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About Sapphire: Sapphire is a venture capital firm that partners with visionary teams and venture funds to build companies.
Austin Liang
Associate of Sapphire
Austin Liang is an Associate at Sapphire Ventures.
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About Sapphire: Sapphire is a venture capital firm that partners with visionary teams and venture funds to build companies.
Eileen Qian
Associate of Sapphire
Eileen Qian is an Associate at Sapphire Ventures.
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About Sapphire: Sapphire is a venture capital firm that partners with visionary teams and venture funds to build companies.
Sam Procter
Associate of Sapphire
Sam Procter is an Associate at Sapphire Ventures.
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About Sapphire: Sapphire is a venture capital firm that partners with visionary teams and venture funds to build companies.
Adam Liu
Associate of Sapphire
Adam Liu is an Associate at Sapphire Ventures.
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About Sapphire: Sapphire is a venture capital firm that partners with visionary teams and venture funds to build companies.
Naayl Kazmi
Associate of Sapphire
Naayl Kazmi is an Associate at Sapphire.
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About Sapphire: Sapphire is a venture capital firm that partners with visionary teams and venture funds to build companies.
Andrew Vogeley
Associate of Sapphire
Andrew Vogeley is an Associate at Sapphire.
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About Sapphire: Sapphire is a venture capital firm that partners with visionary teams and venture funds to build companies.
Aditya Reddy
Associate of Sapphire
Aditya Reddy is an Associate at Sapphire.
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About Sapphire: Sapphire is a venture capital firm that partners with visionary teams and venture funds to build companies.
Iladro Sauls
Associate of Sapphire
Iladro Sauls is an Associate at Sapphire.
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About Sapphire: Sapphire is a venture capital firm that partners with visionary teams and venture funds to build companies.
Madeline Gasior
Senior Associate of Sapphire
Madeline Gasior is a Senior Associate at Sapphire.
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About Sapphire: Sapphire is a venture capital firm that partners with visionary teams and venture funds to build companies.
Max Leschak
Associate of WI Harper Group
Max Leschak is the Associate at WI Harper Group.
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About WI Harper Group: WI Harper Group is a venture capital firm that focuses on early and expansion investments in Mainland China, Taiwan and Silicon Valley.
Daniel Acheampong
Associate of Summit Partners
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About Summit Partners: Summit Partners is an investment firm that is currently investing in to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities.
Devin B. O’Malley
Senior Associate of Summit Partners
Devin O’Malley is the Vice President at Summit Partners
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About Summit Partners, Summit Partners: Summit Partners is an investment firm that is currently investing in to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities.
Matthew J. Delaney
Associate of Summit Partners
Matthew J. Delaney is based in Summit’s Boston office. He is active in the firm’s investment activities in North America and focuses primarily on the technology sector. Prior to Summit, Matthew worked for Barclays Capital. He holds a BBA in finance, magna cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame.
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About Summit Partners: Summit Partners is an investment firm that is currently investing in to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities.
Danielle Adams
Operations Associate of Rose Park Advisors
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About Rose Park Advisors: Rose Park Advisors is an investment firm focused on identifying investment opportunities by applying the framework of disruptive innovation.
Victoria Taylor
Associate of Medicxi Ventures
Victoria Taylor currently works as the Associate for Medicxi. She previously worked at C21Med as an Associate.
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About Medicxi Ventures: Medicxi is a life sciences-focused investment firm.
Allison R. Schoeneck
Associate & Managing Director of Providence Equity Partners
Allison Schoeneck is an associate focused on portfolio operations and is based in our New York office. Prior to joining Providence in 2012, Ms. Schoeneck worked as a business analyst at McKinsey & Company, where she focused mostly on healthcare and organization projects. Allison received a Bachelors of Science degree from Columbia University.
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About Providence Equity Partners, Risalto Health: Providence Equity Partners is a private equity firm that focuses on media, entertainment, communications, and information investments.
Rajiv Shah
Private Equity Associate of Providence Equity Partners
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About Providence Equity Partners: Providence Equity Partners is a private equity firm that focuses on media, entertainment, communications, and information investments.
Deborah Conway
Investment Associate + Chief of Staff of ACME Capital
At ACME, Deborah is Scott Stanford’s investment associate and chief of staff. Prior to joining ACME, Deborah spent 3.5 years in a variety of different investment and innovation roles at Samsung NEXT, primarily focused on investments in consumer and media tech. Before joining Samsung NEXT, Deborah backpacked around the world for two years, worked in a BD and strategy role for a social media and mapping startup, Visor Inc., and for a real estate startup, StreetEasy (acquired by Zillow Group, 2013). She started her career in sales and trading for Knight Capital Group, a financial services firm. Deborah is a graduate of Harvard University, where she served as a member of the D1 Women’s Ice Hockey Team for four years. She is based in Chinatown New York.
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About ACME Capital: ACME Capital invests in breakthrough technologies that fuel platform shifts and disruptive business models that capitalize on new platforms.
Max Luo
Investment Associate and Chief of Staff of ACME Capital
Max Luo is an Investment Associate and Chief of Staff at ACME. Prior to ACME, Max was a Strategist at X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory, where his work ranged from shaping product vision for theoretical technologies to financing and valuation for later-stage projects. Previously, Max was a Senior Business Analyst at McKinsey & Company, focusing on growth and innovation strategy for technology and healthcare clients. Max has also worked with QL Ventures on incubating new consumer tech ideas. Max received his B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and lives in San Francisco.
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About ACME Capital: ACME Capital invests in breakthrough technologies that fuel platform shifts and disruptive business models that capitalize on new platforms.
Corinne Spears
Associate of University Ventures
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About University Ventures: University Ventures is higher education sector.
Cayetana Hurtado
Associate of Balderton
Cayetana Hurtado recently completed her MBA at Columbia Business School, where she focused on venture capital and entrepreneurship. Before Columbia, she worked in the Technology, Media and Telecommunications group (M&A division) of Goldman Sachs, London. Caye is a Fulbright Scholar, and has an MS in Law, Business Administration & Management from the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid, with a year at the Université Paris Nanterre. A fluent English, French and Spanish speaker, Caye will focus on investment activity in France and Spain.
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About Balderton: Balderton is a venture capital firm focused exclusively on backing European-founded startups.
Alex Pancoe
Associate Vice President, Financial Advisor, Portfolio Manager of Morgan Stanley
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About Morgan Stanley: Morgan Stanley is a financial services company that offers securities, asset management, and credit services.
Erica Weinstein
Senior Associate of Flagship Pioneering
Erica joined Flagship Pioneering in 2015 as an associate after completing the VentureLabs Fellows program. At Flagship, Erica works as part of a venture-creation team exploring innovative ideas and developing the science, intellectual property, and business strategy that form the foundation of breakthrough startups. Before joining Flagship, Erica earned her doctorate in biomedical sciences at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Completing her doctoral research in the lab of Dr. Konstantina Alexandropoulos, Erica studied the emerging role of the microbiome in autoimmune disease development. During her studies, Erica was the recipient of the Helmsley Charitable Trust Fellowship and the Levine Foundation Fellowship Awards. She is an author on numerous academic publications. Erica also earned a business certificate from the Dartmouth College Tuck Business Bridge Program. While a graduate student, Erica participated in a problem-based learning forum to explore healthcare-driven disruptive technologies through the Mount Sinai Institute of Technology. As the co-developer of a low technology, high impact prototype to reduce preterm mortality and morbidity in developing countries, Erica’s team partnered with a global non-profit organization to secure startup funding to increase access to this life saving intervention. Erica received her B.S. in biology and minor in global health, culture and society from Emory University. During her undergraduate work, Erica evaluated progress made to achieve access-to-medicine goals on the use of Emory developed HIV/AIDS drug, emtricitabine, in collaboration with the Emory University Office of Technology Transfer. She spent her summers conducting research and developing new technologies for flow cytometry under the mentorship of Dr. Jonni S. Moore at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting Resource Laboratory.
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About Flagship Pioneering, Ring Therapeutics: Flagship Pioneering is a venture capital firm that invests in life sciences and healthcare companies.
Nathan Stebbins
Senior Associate of Flagship Pioneering
Nathan Stebbins is an associate at Flagship Pioneering, where he works as part of a team of entrepreneurial scientists to conceive, create, resource and grow first-in-class, first-in-category scientific ventures. He joined the firm after completing the Flagship VentureLabs Fellows Program. Prior to joining Flagship, Nathan received his Ph.D. in biological engineering from MIT. He completed his graduate research in Professor Ram Sasisekharan’s lab where he studied the biological role of cell surface sugars in disease. Nathan’s thesis research spanned many diverse areas including: identifying and characterizing new therapeutic targets in breast cancer; discovering mutations in avian influenza that lead to human-to-human transmission; and development of therapeutics derived from complex, natural products. His work resulted in multiple patents and publications. In addition to his academic research, Nathan is also a co-founder of a start-up creating a novel cell-based therapeutics delivery platform. Nathan created and taught several innovative education programs at MIT, including a new biopharma internship program for MIT Ph.D. students and an MITx online course on biotechnologies for infectious disease. Nathan received a B.S. in biochemistry, cellular, and molecular biology from University of Tennessee in Knoxville. During his undergraduate work, Nathan was awarded the Goldwater Scholarship for his research on uncovering the mechanisms of DNA damage repair and cell-cycle regulation.
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About Flagship Pioneering: Flagship Pioneering is a venture capital firm that invests in life sciences and healthcare companies.
Yiqun Bai
Senior Associate of Flagship Pioneering
Yiqun joined Flagship Pioneering as a senior associate in 2017 and focuses on evaluating venture investment opportunities, working with portfolio companies, and creating new ventures. Before joining Flagship, Yiqun was with the Boston office of Roland Berger Strategy Consultants, leading projects in strategy, scenario planning, strategic marketing and due diligence. Yiqun’s projects touched a variety of industries, including medical devices, sustainable energy, agriculture chemicals, basic chemicals and specialty chemicals. While at Roland Berger, Yiqun was selected for the Challenge Club, the company’s international leadership development program for global top performers. Yiqun has also worked for CombinatorRx, where she performed high-throughput experiments and data analysis on the synergistic effects of combination drug therapies. Yiqun received her Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the lab of Nicholas L. Abbott at University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she studied the intermolecular interactions of liquid crystals at biomolecular interfaces. Yiqun was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow and was selected to attend the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting in 2009. She also holds a B.S. in chemical-biological engineering from MIT. Her undergraduate research was conducted in the lab of Christine Ortiz and focused on developing novel material and mechanical designs for the endotracheal tube. In addition to research, Yiqun was involved in various education and sustainable development initiatives in China. She implemented a pilot project for MIT’s OpenCourseWare initiative in Qinghai University, teaching a biological engineering course and leading local communication. She also initiated a project for MIT’s D-lab initiative based on exploring sustainable development opportunities in high-altitude regions of China’s western provinces and produced a research report on distance education in China’s rural areas for the United Nations Industrial Development Organization in Beijing.
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About Flagship Pioneering: Flagship Pioneering is a venture capital firm that invests in life sciences and healthcare companies.
Anthony DeCamillo
Associate of Meritech Capital Partners
Anthony joined Meritech in 2019 and focuses on enterprise software, infrastructure and fintech. Prior to Meritech, Anthony spent three years at Allen & Company, where he focused on media, enterprise software and consumer internet companies. He advised clients on M&A and equity financings, including Workday, Intel, Spotify, Uber, Activision, Discovery, Scripps Networks and others. Anthony is a Cleveland, Ohio native and graduated magna cum laude from Villanova University with a B.S. in mechanical engineering. At Villanova, he was a wide receiver on the football team.
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About Meritech Capital Partners: Meritech Capital provides late-stage venture capital to technology companies.
Rob Toews
Senior Associate of Highland Capital Partners
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About Highland Capital Partners: Highland Capital Partners is a venture capital firm that offers seed, early, and growth-stage funding solutions.
Lucy Patten
Senior Finance Associate of Highland Capital Partners
Lucy joined Highland in 2016 as a Finance Associate and is responsible for fund accounting, reporting and analysis for the investment funds. Prior to Highland, Lucy worked as a financial analyst at Brown Brothers Harriman in alternative investments. She began her career in audit at Ernst & Young in the banking and capital markets practice. Lucy holds a M.S., Accounting and B.A., Economics from Boston College
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About Highland Capital Partners: Highland Capital Partners is a venture capital firm that offers seed, early, and growth-stage funding solutions.
Caty Rae
Senior Associate of Highland Capital Partners
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About Highland Capital Partners: Highland Capital Partners is a venture capital firm that offers seed, early, and growth-stage funding solutions.
Ilse Calderon
Senior Associate and Principal of OVO Fund
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About OVO Fund: OVO Fund is a venture capital firm specializing in seed investments in the Bay Area and Los Angeles.
Michael Tian
Associate of Next Coast Ventures
Michael Tian is an Associate at Next Coast Ventures.
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About Next Coast Ventures: Next Coast Ventures is a venture capital firm founded by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs in ‘Next Coast’ markets.
Tatiana Gaspar Mogren
Associate of Next Coast Ventures
Tatiana Gaspar Mogren, CFA, is an Associate at Next Coast Ventures.
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About Next Coast Ventures: Next Coast Ventures is a venture capital firm founded by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs in ‘Next Coast’ markets.
Kirk Manoogian
Senior Associate of YL Ventures
Kirk Manoogian is an Associate at YL Ventures, is a member of the investment team, focusing on business development, go-to-market strategy, and value-add activities for portfolio companies. Kirk is also heavily involved in evaluating new investment opportunities, conducting market and competitor research, and the continued expansion of the firm’s U.S. platform.
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About YL Ventures: YL Ventures funds and supports seed-stage entrepreneurs in the cybersecurity sector.
Kate Burkhardt
Associate of YL Ventures
Kate Burkhardt is an Associate at YL Ventures.
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About YL Ventures: YL Ventures funds and supports seed-stage entrepreneurs in the cybersecurity sector.
Chris Abshire
Senior Associate of Toyota Ventures
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About Toyota Ventures: Toyota Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in startups from around the world.
John Azubuike
Senior Associate of Owl Ventures
John is responsible for sourcing and analyzing new opportunities as well as managing the due diligence processes. Prior to joining KEC Ventures John was a systems engineer at the New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) where he built inventory management and incubation software to automate the cell reprogramming process. John holds a bachelor of science in Engineering Sciences from Harvard University where he specialized in Bioengineering. Prior to NYSCF, John held roles at Morgan Stanley and OC&C Strategy Consultants. A native New Yorker, John is an avid Giants, Nets, and Yankee fan.
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About Owl Ventures: Owl Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in education technology companies.
Jackson Dean
Associate of Cloud Apps Capital Partners
At Cloud Apps Capital Partners, Jackson leads the vertical markets strategy, sources new investments, works on new investment diligence, provides support for portfolio companies, and leads the firm’s cloud financial modeling and reserves processes. Prior to joining Cloud Apps Capital Partners, Jackson was an associate in the technology investment banking division of Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Palo Alto. He advised clients in the software and internet sectors on IPOs, mergers, acquisitions, and financings. Jackson also spent time in Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Equity Capital Markets division in New York, where he worked closely with companies helping them to raise over $15B+ in equity and equity-linked capital. Jackson has a BA in economics and engineering from Dartmouth College.
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About Cloud Apps Capital Partners: Market-Focused Venture Capital Firm leading Classic Series A Investments in Early Stage Cloud Business Application Companies.
Raquel Sizeland
Associate of TPG
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About TPG: TPG is a private investment firm that manages capital across a family of funds.
Victor Rusu
Associate of Apple Tree Partners
Victor Rusu, an associate at ATP, is focused on emerging targets and technologies, with specific experience and expertise in cell biology and functional genomics. Victor was a member of the biotech equity research team at Citigroup, and before that, he was one of the first scientists at Jnana Therapeutics, a biotechnology company focused on building a drug discovery platform to systematically target SLC transporters. Victor earned a PhD from Harvard University and completed his graduate school training at the Broad Institute. During his time at Harvard, Victor identified distinct molecular mechanisms through which coding and noncoding mutations in an uncharacterized transporter increase type 2 diabetes risk.
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About Apple Tree Partners: Apple Tree Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in pharmaceuticals, biotech, medtech, and healthcare services.
Max Liebeskind
Associate of Nyca Partners
Prior to joining Nyca, Max was a Research Associate at the JPMorgan Chase Institute, where he published research related to household finance and economic policy. Earlier in his career, Max was an Investment Analyst at Angel Ventures, a Mexican venture capital firm, as a Fulbright-Garcia Robles fellow. Max graduated from Harvard University with a degree in economics.
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About Nyca Partners: Nyca Partners is a venture capital and advisory firm that focuses on the fintech sector.
Greta Sacre
Associate of Nyca Partners
Prior to joining Nyca, Greta was a Senior Associate at KPMG in the Deal Advisory group, providing M&A financial due diligence advice to private equity and corporate clients. Prior to KPMG, Greta worked in public accounting in both New York and Montreal. Greta received her Bachelor of Commerce from Concordia University and is a CPA.
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About Nyca Partners: Nyca Partners is a venture capital and advisory firm that focuses on the fintech sector.
Michael Hoeksema
Associate of Battery Ventures
Michael joined Battery in 2017 as an associate and currently focuses on mobile, Internet and SaaS/ software investments. Previously, he worked as an analyst at JMI Equity in Baltimore, where he sourced software investments and performed due diligence. At JMI, he helped lead the firm’s research in software sectors including manufacturing, automotive and banking. Prior to that, Michael worked as a summer analyst at North Bridge Growth Equity, where he also sourced deals and performed investment and market research. Michael graduated from Amherst College with a BA in economics and played on the varsity soccer team.
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About Battery Ventures: Battery Ventures finances technology sector companies with venture capital, private equity, and debt financing investments.
Viraj Parmar
Associate of Battery Ventures
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About Battery Ventures: Battery Ventures finances technology sector companies with venture capital, private equity, and debt financing investments.
Dawit Workie
Associate of Battery Ventures
Dawit is an associate who currently focuses on growth equity and buyout stage investments in the enterprise-software sector. Previously he worked as an analyst at Century Equity Partners where he sourced investment opportunities, conducted due diligence, and prepared and presented industry reports. He also worked as a summer analyst at BlackRock. Dawit graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in mathematics and social science. He was co-captain of the Dartmouth College Men’s Rugby Team.
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About Battery Ventures: Battery Ventures finances technology sector companies with venture capital, private equity, and debt financing investments.
George Jaber
Associate of Thoma Bravo
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About Thoma Bravo: Thoma Bravo is a private equity firm with a focus on investing in software and technology companies.
Klaudyna Augler
Senior Associate of Partech
Klaudyna is Senior Associate at Partech, focusing on growth investments. She joined Partech in August 2020. Before joining Partech, Klaudyna worked in business operations for the fast growth insurtech company Lemonade in New York, as an investor for the Nordic Private Equity firm Procuritas in Stockholm and as a management consultant for the Boston Consulting Group covering projects across Europe. Klaudyna holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BSc in Finance and Economics from Stockholm School of Economics.
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About Partech: Partech is a technology venture firm that invests in seed, venture, and growth stages.
Kevin Chu
Senior Associate of F-Prime Capital
Kevin Chu is an Associate on the healthcare team at F-Prime Capital Partners. Prior to F-Prime Capital, Kevin was an Associate Consultant with IMS Consulting Group in New York, where he advised biopharmaceutical clients on development and commercial strategy across multiple therapeutic areas. Kevin currently works across the healthcare sub-sectors including therapeutics, med tech, and healthcare IT and services, and also works closely with Eight Roads Ventures China healthcare team to manage F-Prime’s existing and new investment efforts in China. Kevin received his B.S.E. in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania.
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About F-Prime Capital: F-Prime Capital is a venture capital firm investing in healthcare and technology.
Ben Gorman
Senior Associate of F-Prime Capital
Ben Gorman is an Associate at F-Prime Capital, where he focuses on early-stage investments in enterprise software. Prior to joining F-Prime Capital, he was a managing consultant at IBM, providing internal strategy and analytics consulting to IBM’s business units and geographies. The primary focus of his work was transforming the company’s go-to-market to better leverage data, analytics, and technology. Over the course of his tenure, he gained experience on the ground in 10 countries across 4 continents. Ben is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, where he received degrees in Economics and Statistics.
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About F-Prime Capital: F-Prime Capital is a venture capital firm investing in healthcare and technology.
