Venture with Grace

Mark Jacobstein is General Partner at Near Horizon, a hands‑on venture studio in Palo Alto that co-founds and builds AI and health-tech startups from day zero. Drawing from over 30 years of entrepreneurial experience founding and scaling companies like Small World Sports (the first online fantasy platform), Digital Chocolate, iSkoot, Guardant Health (led efforts raising over $500 million pre-IPO),...

Laura Hamilton is an Investor at Notable Capital (formerly GGV Capital).~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed specifically for private c...

Henry Schuck is the founder and CEO of ZoomInfo, (NASDAQ:GTM) a Go-To-Market Intelligence Solution for more than 35,000 companies worldwide. The ZoomInfo platform empowers business-to-business sales, marketing, and recruiting professionals to hit their number by pairing best-in-class technology with unrivaled data coverage, accuracy, and depth of company and contact information. With integrations...

Aaron Perman is a Partner at S3 Ventures. ~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed specifically for private capital markets. Say goodbye to...

Ben Kus is the Chief Technology Officer at Box, where he oversees the company’s technology vision and leads global engineering and product teams. He joined Box in 2015 through its acquisition of Subspace, a startup he co-founded focused on enterprise security. Prior to that, he held leadership roles at IBM and BigFix, where he specialized in mobile and endpoint security. At Box, Ben has played a p...

Brad Harrison is the Founder and Managing Partner of Scout Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in advanced technologies across cybersecurity, aerospace, automation, and AI. A West Point graduate and former U.S. Army Airborne Ranger, Brad brings deep leadership and operational experience to venture. Prior to founding Scout, he launched multiple startups and held senior roles at...

Sharla Grass is a Partner at Serena Ventures, where she focuses on early-stage investments across sectors including health sports wellness, enterprise, fintech, ecomm, social and more. Prior to joining Serena Ventures, she was a Principal at Greycroft, where she played a key role in investments in companies such as Boulder Care, Knox, and ScriptDrop. Sharla began her career in strategy consulting...

Zach Finkelstein is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Class 5 Global, an early-stage venture fund launched in 2018 that invests in high-growth startups across emerging markets, including MENA, Southeast Asia, and Latin America. He began his career at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York before moving into investment banking at Citi. He later transitioned to venture capital, co-founding Lumia...

Steve Harrick is a General Partner at IVP, a premier later-stage venture capital firm focused on high-growth technology investments. With over 25 years of experience in venture capital, he has been instrumental in funding and scaling innovative companies across enterprise infrastructure, security, communications, and consumer technology sectors. His notable investments include AppDynamics (acquire...

Venkata Naga Sai Kumar Bysani (168k+ followers on LinkedIn) is the founder of The Data Hustle.~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed spec...

Sami Ghoche is the Co-founder and CEO of Forethought. ~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed specifically for private capital markets. Sa...

Arnav Sahu is a Partner at Peak XV Partners (fka Sequoia India). ~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed specifically for private capital...

Ben Sun is a Cofounder and General Partner at Primary. ~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed specifically for private capital markets. S...

Packy McCormick (208k+ on X) is the founder and creator of Not Boring (243k+ subs). ~~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed specifically...

Dan Cahana is an Investor at Notable Capital.~~~~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed specifically for private capital markets. Say good...

Josh Aharonoff, CPA, is the founder of Your CFO Guy (450k+ followers) and Mighty Digits.~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed specifical...

Tony Stubblebine is the CEO of Medium. ~~~~~This episode is brought to you by Verivend. If you’re a GP or LP looking to simplify the capital raising and deployment process, Verivend is here to help. Trusted by over 800 funds and managing more than $2 billion in transactions, Verivend offers a secure, streamlined payments platform designed specifically for private capital markets. Say goodbye to ma...

Prashanth Chandrasekar is the CEO and Board Member of Stack Overflow, the world's largest and most trusted community and platform for developers and technologists. With over 100 million global monthly visitors and market-leading, fast-growing collaboration and knowledge-sharing Enterprise SaaS and AI products, Stack Overflow enables the world to develop technology through collective knowledge....

Morgan Blumberg is a Principal at M13. Morgan spent five years in investment banking at Morgan Stanley. She worked on a presidential campaign, at Bloomberg Philanthropies and consulted for start-ups in the political media space. Topics: Healthcare and future of work Embedded AI, productivity tools, and infrastructure Frontier investing trends #AI #FrontierTech #VentureCapital #StartupInvesting

Manish Patel is the founder of Nava Ventures. He led teams that have designed, developed, and scaled products with global impact, from enterprise advertising systems like AdWords to consumer experiences like Google Maps. Prior to that, he was a GP at Highland Capital Partners. Highland has raised over $3B in committed capital and invested in more than 270 companies, resulting in category-defining...

Anna Sarnek leads Cyber Startup and Venture Capital Business Development at AWS, working at the intersection of investors, startups, and the CISO community. With 15+ years of experience and a technical background, she excels at identifying unique go-to-market opportunities in enterprise IT and cybersecurity. At SecurityScorecard, she single-handedly built the Cloud Partnership program, achieving 8...

Tim Shi is the Co-founder of Cresta (1.6B+ Valuation). Backed by top investors (sequoia, greylock & a16z), they are building AI agents to transform customer experiences. Tim dropped out of Stanford PhD program in 2017 to change the nature of work with AI, starting with copilots and expanded into a full platform of augmentation, automation and insights. In 2019, Cresta started deploying a GPT-2...

Deedy is a principal at Menlo Ventures focused on early-stage investments in AI/ML, next-generation infrastructure, and enterprise software. Having been an engineer and product leader at both a successful startup and large public companies, Deedy is well-equipped to help technical founders navigate how to build and scale enduring tech companies. Deedy has been a company builder for many years and...

Chungin "Roy" Lee and Neel Shanmugam are the founders behind Cluely AI, a startup that recently secured $5.3 million in seed funding to develop their "real-time coaching" technology that provides suggestions through a hidden overlay during professional interactions. Their project began at Columbia University where they created Interview Coder, which later evolved into Cluely—no...

Colton Dempsey is a Partner at Next47. Colton joined Next47 in 2018 and is a Partner on the Palo Alto investment team. He helped lead the firm’s investments in Halcyon and Harmonic Security, Noname Security, Armorblox, DataGrail, Brilliant, Software.com, and Pando, among others. His primary areas of focus are IT infrastructure, cybersecurity, robotics, and connected devices. Colton’s interest in B...