Venture with Grace

Oscar Höglund is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Epidemic Sound. Educated at the Stockholm School of Economics, Oscar has also studied at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, L’Institut Catholique de Paris, Södertörn University, and Stockholm University. Prior to Epidemic Sound, he was part of the management team at one of Sweden’s leading TV production companies, Zodiak...

Laura Kashiwase is a member of the executive talent team at Lightspeed Venture Partners, specializing in hiring for Product, Engineering, Data, and Design roles. Previously, she worked at Meta, where she led a team responsible for hiring Engineering Leadership positions globally for Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Reality Labs. She also has recruitment experience with Figma and Thumbta...

Emily is a Partner at Primary, leading new investments in fintech and enterprise software companies. She loves going deep into unsexy industries and partnering with determined founders who are challenging the status quo. Before Primary, Emily was at Redpoint Ventures investing across early and growth stage companies. She started her career as a hedge fund analyst at Point72 before helping build Po...

Rajive Keshup is a Partner at Cathay Innovation, based out of the Singapore office. Prior to joining Cathay, Rajive played instrumental roles in scaling a number of Southeast Asian startups. Before moving to Singapore, Rajive was a Managing Director at PwC Strategy (formerly Booz & Co.) in New York City where he led the TMT sector for the firm’s Private Equity practice. Rajive started his care...

Victor Yip is a global technology and interactive entertainment executive with over 20 years of business development and general management experience with Activision Blizzard, Disney, NBA, and 20th Century Fox in gaming, streaming video, and sports. Victor has been at the forefront of leveraging technology to enable new ways to consume entertainment and games, and has led large, global teams acro...

Jesse's venture career has been marked by a series of notable successes, a number of misses, and a deep commitment to supporting early-stage companies. After his tenure as a founding team member at WeWork, where he played a crucial role in the company's expansion, Jesse made a transition to venture capital. As a General Partner at Flybridge, a seed-stage venture capital firm for ambitious...

Travis Chen is a Gen Z change-maker dedicated to making an impact on this world. He was the co-founder of Sound Mind. SoundMind is a venture-backed music therapy platform designed for students and gen-z to support their mental health and well-being. Right now, there’s a lack of understanding of youth emotions in current products. SoundMind is here to change that. They recognize the unique challeng...

Lior is an investor, entrepreneur, and the Founder and Managing Partner of Eclipse Ventures. He is passionate about building groundbreaking technology companies. He’s an unlikely venture capitalist. Lior grew up on a kibbutz (ask him about banana farming) and spent many years in the Special Forces of the Israeli military. After he’d completed his military service, he did what he so often does – se...

Longtime investor and entrepreneur Ronald Diamond is the Founder and Chairman of Diamond Wealth. He invests alongside 100 Family Offices ranging in size from $250 million to $30 billion. Diamond Wealth invests in private markets (private equity, venture capital, real estate). In addition, Diamond Wealth has divisions that focus on philanthropy, wealth transfer, investment banking, social impact, a...

Collin Wallace has over 20 years of experience as an engineer, inventor, operator, and investor. Before joining Lobby Capital, he was the Managing Director for Techstars Silicon Valley, where he launched the first two Techstars accelerator programs in the Bay Area in partnership with JP Morgan and eBay. He started his career as the founder and CEO of FanGo Software Systems (TS S10), a leading comp...

Jason Fiedler is a Managing Partner at Left Lane Capital, a Venture Capital and Growth Equity firm focused on investing high-growth, digital-first consumer and internet technology businesses that are fundamental to the human condition and spirit. Prior to Left Lane, Jason was a principal at Red Sea Ventures, an early stage venture firm based in New York City. In two years at the firm, he’s worked...

Karthik Krishnan is the Founder/CEO of Concentric AI. He is a veteran of the security industry, having held leadership position for over 20 years at diverse cybersecurity companies such as Symantec, Juniper Networks, HPE, and PGP Corporation. He holds a Bachelors in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India and an MBA with distinction from the Kellogg School of Management,...

Jeetu Patel is Cisco’s Executive Vice President and General Manager of Security and Collaboration. He leverages a diverse set of capabilities to lead the strategy and development for these businesses and also owns P&L responsibility for this multibillion-dollar portfolio. Jeetu combines a bold vision, steeped in product design and development expertise, operational rigor and innate market unde...

Kevin Novak is the founder of Rackhouse VC. Before that, he served as Uber’s first Head of Data Science, its first Head of Data Science Platform, and was one of the early members of a Uber Freight (Uber’s innovative freight marketplace). Kevin was the inventor of Uber’s dynamic pricing product, and holds several patents around GPS points processing, marketplace optimization products, and using dat...

Dave Rhodes is the Chief Executive Officer of Sauce Labs, a leader in continuous testing and error reporting solutions that enable the development, delivery, and updating of high-quality code at speed. The Sauce Labs unified testing platform has conducted over four billion tests, making it the most comprehensive and trusted continuous testing solution in the world. It provides a 360-degree view of...

Jenny Fielding is the Co-founder and Managing Partner of Everywhere Ventures (The Fund). She was the Managing Director at Techstars for 7.5 years where she led investments into companies that now have a market cap of over $10B, prior to co-founding the global venture capital firm, Everywhere Ventures. Across these entities, Jenny has been the first-money into 300+ tech-enabled companies including:...

Darian Shirazi is a General Partner at Gradient Ventures. Prior to Gradient, Darian founded Radius, a leading B2B Customer Data Platform, serving as the company’s CEO for 7+ years. He grew the company to over one hundred employees, raised more than $100MM in venture capital from top tier firms, and served dozens of Fortune 500 customers. He is an early investor in many companies including Lyft, Ud...

Qin En Looi is a Partner at Saison Capital. Saison Capital is an early stage fund with a focus on emerging markets. We back ambitious founders solving big problems, with deep fondness for web3, fintech and embedded finance - non-fintech companies expanding into fintech. Their team comes from an operating background, and we are unafraid to roll up our sleeves to support our founders. We are backed...

Ian Sigalow is the co-founder and managing partner of Greycroft, a multi-stage venture fund based in New York. Since co-founding the fund in 2006, Ian has helped grow AUM to more than $3B, having invested in companies like Venmo, Bumble, Shipt, and Scopely. Before founding Greycroft, Ian spent three years at a venture fund in Boston, before starting his own company called StrongData, which develop...

Inspired by Knight Rider and Star Trek, Shahin grew up with a passion to endow superpowers to humanity through feats of engineering. He learned BASIC on an IBM PC XT clone he built at his aunt’s computer store and used to dial into Bulletin Board Systems when he was in the 4th grade. He learned about engines by taking apart an Alfa Romeo at his Uncle’s repair shop a few years later. He aspired to...

Brian Zhan is an investor at CRV, where he focuses on investing in early-stage infrastructure software companies. Prior to that, he worked on product development at Facebook and Starburst. Brian joined the original Presto creators (who co-founded Starburst to offer fully managed Presto) to build Starburst's batch analytics product from scratch. He interviewed users to build the business propos...

Gabby Slome is the Co-founder and CEO of Cooper, a parenting mecca offering parents (and parents to be) with the tools and resources to build their parenting muscle and become the parents they want to be. Cooper offers on demand access to leading experts in child development and likeminded parents, 24/7. Group sessions, live events/workshops and “always on” one-on-one support are spearheaded by to...

Chris is a partner at Wing, where he works with founders building data infrastructure and AI-first infrastructure. His passion is improving the odds for founders at the earliest stages, particularly in finding product-market fit through introductions to potential customers and strategic partners. He strives to support founders in de-risking the beginning stages of building an enduring company. Bef...

Galia Beer-Gabel is a Partner at Team8 where she helps to build innovative fintech startups. Galia works closely with founders and supports them with the ideation, building, and scaling of their businesses. Prior to joining and building Team8’s fintech foundry, Galia spent 6 years at PayPal where she held multiple business development and sales leadership roles across sub-Saharan Africa, Israel, a...

Kendrick Nguyen is the Co-founder and CEO of Republic. Republic empowers everyone to invest in the future they believe in by providing access to startups, real estate, crypto, video game financing and more. Focused on creating a diverse, sustainable, connected world, Republic has facilitated over $700 million in investments from over one million global community members, with $1B+ in managed asset...