Venture with Grace

Travis Skelly is a Partner at Pruven Capital, where he invests across fintech, proptech, ecommerce, and enterprise software at multi-stage scale. Prior to Pruven, he was a Director at Citi Ventures, leading more than 15 investments including Socure, Betterment, SmartAsset, HighRadius, and Clarity Money. Earlier, Travis was a founding team member at FinTech Collective, backing category-defining com...

Jeff Tatarchuk is Co-Founder & Chief Growth Officer at TensorWave, building next-generation AI compute infrastructure powered by best-in-class AMD GPUs for training and inference at hyperscale, following his exit as Co-Founder of VMAccel (FPGA cloud/edge leader) and Lets Rolo (acquired by LifeKey) where he drove business development. A 10-year startup advisor and angel investor via Fruition La...

Cecilia Ziniti is CEO and Co-Founder of GC AI, the AI platform trusted by in-house legal teams at 1,200+ companies. A three-time General Counsel and Chief Legal Officer, Cecilia has helped bring to market every major tech shift of the last 20 years. Her career began at Yahoo during the early internet boom, she launched Alexa at Amazon as a founding member of the team, she advised on autonomous veh...

Deepak Agarwal is Chief AI Officer at LinkedIn, where he leads company‑wide AI strategy, long‑horizon innovation, and the Core AI teams that power intelligence, personalization, and agents across a platform serving hundreds of millions of members. Previously, as Chief AI Officer and VP of Consumer and Trust Engineering at Pinterest, he scaled his organization from about 200 to roughly 1,000 engine...

Gloria Zhang is an investor at DCM Ventures, specializing in AI-enabled enterprise software, cloud/data infrastructure, and DevOps. She brings a rare blend of engineering, product, and go-to-market experience, having incubated and commercialized AI Cloud products at IBM HQ across strategy, ML engineering, product management, and sales. A Wharton MBA, Gloria advised Taichi Graphics (open-source 3D...

Kristin Torres Mowat is a healthcare and healthtech investor advising startups through growth, fundraising, and M&A, drawing from her SVP Corporate Development role at Castlight Health where she drove strategic partnerships, health plan relationships, and data operations to scale the transparency/engagement pioneer through IPO. Previously at Fortune 200 DaVita, she shaped corporate strategy, f...

Bryan Liu is a Principal at Alumni Ventures, where he invests in AI-native video, full-stack AI, autonomous companies, and blockchain infrastructure. He focuses on the future of storytelling and intelligent systems, backing breakout companies like Higgsfield—one of the fastest-growing AI companies ever to reach $100M ARR—along with Veda and RealRoots. Prior to venture, Bryan Liu led M&A and ve...

Yogi Goel is Co-Founder & CEO of Maxima, building agentic AI that automates accounting workflows for startups and scaleups, fresh off 7+ years as Senior Director of Finance & Accounting at Rubrik where he scaled ARR from $5M to $900M, managed 28 flawless quarterly closes, launched rolling forecasts/QBRs, and designed the Rubrik2K enterprise GTM motion that grew sales from 100 to 1,000+ whi...

Guy Kawasaki is Canva's Chief Evangelist—evangelizing design democratization for 170M+ users after originating the role at Apple where he marketed Macintosh to the masses—and host of the Remarkable People podcast featuring icons from Richard Branson to Gabor Maté. Author of 14 books including Wise Guy, The Art of the Start 2.0, and Enchantment, he's an Executive Fellow at UC Berkeley Haas,...

Priya Ramachandran is the Founder and Managing Partner of Foster Ventures, an early-stage venture capital firm with a focus on B2B Enterprise SaaS. As an Operator and a GTM expert, Priya works with cross-border companies, entrepreneurs with product market fit, international market entry advice and introductions. Prior to this role, Priya was with BoldCap, BetterCloud, Coupa, Intel Security and Log...

Rob Gelick is the General Manager of Yahoo Mail and an Emmy Award–winning C-level product leader who previously, as Chief Product Officer of Paramount, scaled Paramount+ from zero to more than 60 million global subscribers and billions in revenue. During his tenure at Paramount, Rob Gelick oversaw major streaming portfolios including Pluto TV, Pluto TV, Showtime, CBS, MTV, and Nickelodeon, leading...

David Zeng is Co-Founder and CTO of Beacons AI, the Y Combinator-backed all-in-one platform powering 9M+ creators with AI-native tools for link-in-bio pages, websites, email marketing, ecommerce, and monetization across Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, and more—helping solopreneurs turn brand deals, affiliates, and digital products into sustainable businesses without tech headaches. A Stanford PhD in s...

Scott Woody is Co-Founder and CEO of Metronome, the leading usage-based billing platform empowering SaaS companies to model flexible pricing strategies, iterate rapidly without engineering bottlenecks, and turn billing into a growth engine amid 2026's shift from seats to consumption models. With prior stints as CTO at Metronome since 2019 and Director of Engineering at Dropbox where he scaled...

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Ray Wu is a seasoned venture capitalist with over 20 years of investing experience across a wide range of industries and geographies. Before joining Alumni Ventures, Ray Wu was a partner and adviser at several global venture funds focusing on AI, Web3, FinTech and SaaS investment opportunities across the U.S. and Asia Pacific. Earlier, he spent more than 10 years in the corporate venture space: He...

Tobias Citron serves as Partner at Primary Venture Partners, leading cybersecurity investments and incubating pre-seed startups in AI infra, data tools, and developer platforms like Etched AI, Cake AI, Stanza, and SparkAI (acquired by John Deere), building NYC's seed ecosystem since 2021. A Princeton public policy alum and Wharton MBA, he cut his teeth as founding GM at Prehype's Radicle v...

Amir Haleem founded Nova Labs (formerly Helium) in 2013, pioneering the world's largest decentralized wireless network that powers IoT sensors and Helium Mobile—a blockchain-based phone service now integrated with AT&T, T-Mobile, and Google Fi, rewarding node operators with crypto for coverage. Ex-CTO of gaming startup Diversion and original Battlefield 1942 engineer at DICE, the esports c...

Aaron Cannon is the co-founder and CEO of Outset, where he’s leading the development of the world’s first agent-led research platform powered by AI-moderated interviews. He brings over a decade of experience in product strategy and leadership from roles at Tesla, Triplebyte, and Deloitte, with a passion for building tools that bridge design, business, and user research. Aaron studied economics and...

Kylan Gibbs is the co-founder & CEO of Inworld AI, the core infrastructure for real-time, multimodal AI applications at global consumer scale. Inworld is a product-focused research lab delivering sub-500ms, high-QPS AI experiences via specialized models and streaming architectures that most teams can’t build in-house. Under Kylan’s leadership, Inworld has launched products including Inworld TT...

Anand Chandrasekaran is the Managing Partner of Celesta. Prior to joining Celesta, Anand Chandrasekaran co-founded and was President of Crescendo, an AI-first contact center business, co-created and backed by General Catalyst (GC). He is a former Partner and Venture Advisor at GC. Earlier in his career he was CPO and a product leader for two decades at Five9, Meta (Messenger), Bharti Airtel, Snapd...

Nico Laqua is the CEO/CTO and Co-Founder of Corgi (YC S24), the first fully automated AI-native insurance carrier based in San Francisco, aiming to rebuild the $1T+ industry through compute-speed underwriting, claims processing, and modular coverage like D&O, Cyber, General Liability, and innovative AI Liability for tech glitches. Previously, he founded Basket Entertainment, scaling a gaming p...

Mohit Aron is the founder of Cohesity and Nutanix and now he’s building Stealth AI startup. He is famous for being the founder of both. Mohit Aron built Cohesity into a multi-billion-dollar data protection unicorn backed by Sequoia, Nvidia, and others after co-founding and scaling Nutanix as CTO to public market leadership with hyper-converged infrastructure that redefined enterprise storage. A Ri...

Joseph Ros is a Partner and General Manager at Entrepreneur First (EF), the pioneering global platform that invests in exceptional individuals before they have an idea or co-founder. Based in San Francisco, Joseph has backed early-stage technology companies across AI, biotech, robotics, hardware, and climate tech in markets including Singapore, India, Europe, and North America. At EF, he leads tal...

Vignesh Ravikumar is a Partner at Sierra Ventures. Vignesh Ravikumar joined Sierra Ventures in 2013 and focuses on investments in Enterprise SaaS, Vertical SaaS, and Digital Health/Healthcare IT. Vignesh has a background in M&A transactions for enterprise software companies, having worked at AGC Partners, a Boston-based investment bank. Vignesh holds a BS in Management Science (cum laude) and...

Allison Baum Gates is a General Partner at SemperVirens, an early-stage venture capital firm investing in healthcare, fintech, and enterprise SaaS. An experienced technology investor, author, and speaker, she has raised hundreds of millions of dollars from global LPs and backed more than 70 companies—with nine unicorns, 24 exits, and 10 board roles among them. Previously, she co-founded Fresco Cap...