FinTech Silicon Valley

Patricia Nakache invests in early-stage consumer and business tech startups with current investments including Bevi, EAT Club, Life House, Side, thredUP, and Turo, and previous investments in Care.com (CRCM), LoopNet (LOOP), PayScale (acq. Warburg Pincus), and Sabrix (acq. Thomson Reuters), among others. Patricia is a board member of the National Venture Capital Association and a Lecturer in Manag...

Tim Draper is a top global venture capitalist, having founded Draper Associates, DFJ and the Draper Venture Network, a global network of venture capital funds. He is a leading spokesperson for Bitcoin, Blockchain, ICOs and cryptocurrencies. In promoting entrepreneurship, he created Draper University of Heroes, a residential and online school based in San Mateo, Ca to help extraordinary people acco...

At Sorenson Ventures, Ken has partnered with entrepreneurs in market leading companies such as CyCognito (attack surface security), Openpath (access control), Octarine (cloud security), CloudKnox (authorization management),  NS8 (anti-fraud), Bridgecrew (codified cloud security), Kenna (risk management), Paperspace (machine learning) and SupportLogic (customer support platform). Before joinin...

Edith Yeung General Partner Race Capital She is author and creator of the China Internet Report, an annual report on China technology trends widely popular among investors and corporate executives and Silicon.news - weekly briefing on Silicon Valley funding, merger, and acquisition news.  She has invested in over 50 startups including Lightyear/Stellar (valued $1.2B), Silk Labs (acquired by A...

Ann Winblad Managing Director Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, a venture capital firm she co-founded in 1989. She is a well-known and respected software industry entrepreneur and technology leader. Her background and years of experience in the software industry have been chronicled in many national and international business publications.  Hummer Winblad Venture Partners was the first venture...

Ben Narasin is a prolific entrepreneur and early-stage investor with three decades of company-building expertise. His portfolio comprises of key early successes in fintech, digital marketplaces, mobile and connected devices. His seed investments include Dropcam, Lending Club, TellApart, Kabbage and Zenefits. Before NEA, Narasin most recently served as a General Partner at Canvas Ventures, and was...

Elizabeth Yin CoFounder/General Partner Hustle Fund which is a pre-seed fund for software entrepreneurs.  Previously, Elizabeth was a partner at 500 Startups where she invested in seed stage companies and ran the Mountain View accelerator.  In a prior life, Elizabeth co-founded and ran an adtech company called LaunchBit (acq 2014).  Elizabeth has a BSEE from Stanford and an MBA from...

Leyla Seka Partner Operative Collective Leyla is a veteran enterprise executive, nationally recognized advocate for gender equality, and reluctant venture capitalist. For more than 11 years, Leyla's work at Salesforce defined an industry. In multiple senior management roles she built and scaled iconic products including the AppExchange, Desk.com, and Salesforce Mobile. Leyla also pioneered Salesfo...

Duncan Davidson Founding Partner Bullpen Capital, the pioneer of Post Seed investing. Previously, two bubble era IPOs (InterTrust and Covad) and two other startups (SkyPilot and Xumii, the first mobile cloud app). Being the pitch person on one of them at the peak of the bubble, I learned firsthand that venture capital is a cyclical business. During the bubble, speed matters; during the downturn, &...

Susan Mason CoFounder/Partner Aligned Partners Susan has over 25 years of operating management and venture capital experience. Aligned Partners is an early stage venture capital firm focused on investing in capital efficient start-ups in the enterprise space. Prior to Aligned Partners, she was a General Partner with ONSET Ventures, an early stage venture capital firm. Susan specializes in investin...

Chip Hazard, Partner Flybridge Capital Chip's investment interests and experience broadly cover companies and technologies in the information technology sector. He is also an investment partner in XFactor Ventures, a Flybridge community fund focused on investing in female founders.  Before co-founding the firm in 2002, Chip was a General Partner with Greylock Partners, a leading venture capit...

David Orban Founder/Managing Partner Network Society Ventures David is an investor, entrepreneur, author, blogger, keynote speaker, and thought leader of the global technology landscape. His entrepreneurial accomplishments span several companies founded and grown over more than twenty years. An early adopter of blockchain technologies and an active Bitcoin investor since 2010, he was the first to...

Fred Destin Founder Stride. VC, a seed-stage fund focused operating in London and Paris, which he started with Harry Stebbings (a.k.a. the Twenty Minute VC) and Pia d'Iribarne. Prior to Stride, Fred was a General Partner at Accel and Accomplice (f.k.a. Atlas Venture). Of 17 investments he led, 10 have exited and 4 are active value drivers, including 5 companies in excess of $1BN in value (includin...

David Hornik is a General Partner at August Capital where he invests in consumer and enterprise software and services. He has worked closely with startups for the last 20 years. Prior to joining August, David was a litigator at Cravath Swaine & Moore, and corporate and licensing attorney at Venture Law Group and Perkins Coie. David is the author of the first venture capital blog, VentureBlog,...

Chris McCann General Partner @Proof of Capital; Adam Carson Operating Partner @Point72 Ventures; Michelle Killoran Principal @OMERS Ventures; David Blumberg Founder/Managing Partner @Blumberg Capital

Manish Joshi VP Product Management @MoneyLion; Shreyas Kumar Chief Information Security Officer @Deserve; Steve Kirsch CEO @M10; Ken Kruszka CEO @Snapcheck; Sara Nofeliyan Sr Manager Product Management @Varo;   @Jason Kumpf Dir Partnerships @OFX 

Women speak out about Opportunities & Issues in Blockchain @Emi Yoshikawa Senior Director Global Operations @Ripple @Betsabe Botaitis CoFounder/CFO @AIKON @Brynly LLyr General Counsel @Celo @Olga V Mack CEO @Parley Pro 

@Alexandre Lazarow Director @Cathay Innovation @Alex Todorov Product Lead Risk & Support Teams @Chime @John Doppke General Manager Lending @Varo @Brian Hamilton COO/CoFounder @SafeCorp Technology 

State of Tokens @Joshua Rivera General Counsel @Blockchain Capital @Andrea Lo Head Bus Dev @Harbor @Tegan Kline Head Int Bus Dev @Orchid @Mike Zajko Head Sales

Whats Hot in FinTech Investments? @Michael Sidgmore Partner @Broadhaven Ventures @Matthew Murphy Partner @Montage Ventures  @Nuno Goncalves Pedro Partner @Strive Capital @Arjuna Costa Managing Partner @Flourish Ventures #fintechinvesting

Scaling the Blockchain @Wayne Vaughan CEO @Tierion @Rosario Ingargiola CEO @OTCXN @Christian Ferri President/CEO @BlockStar @Locke Brown CoFounder/CEO @NuID

Learn about Credit Innovation @David Blumberg Founder/Managing Partner @Blumberg Capital @Vilash Poovala CoFounder/CEO @Oyster Financial Inc @Ashish Gupta Chief Credit Officer @Prosper Marketplace 

Learn everything you need to know about Digital Identity & how to protect it! #digitalidentity @Kevin Trilli CTO @Onfido @Phillip Shoemaker Executive Director @Identity.com @Pierre-R. Wolff Senior VP Bus Dev @InCountry @Nuno Goncalves Pedro Founder/Managing Partner @Strive Capital @Mark Straub CEO/CoFounder @Smile Identity 

Jeremy Almond CEO PayStand, Shouhei Ichimiya Principal Global Brain Corporation, Rahul Raina CoFounder/CTO TRM, Miko Matsumura Founder Evercoin, Phil Jeudy Journalist

Learn how to Protect yourself from Sim Swaps inspired via @Sean Coonce 'The Most Expensive Lesson Of My Life: Details of SIM port hack'  http://bit.ly/2NeGh1n panelists @Guido Appenzeller CPO @Yubico @Lance Vick Security Researcher @Michael Terpin CEO @BitAngels NOTE: wins legal battle with AT&T for $24m https://fin.sv/2LYHCb6  #simswapprotection