Venture with Grace

John Zeratsky (JZ) is a Co-Founder and General Partner at Character Capital, where he supports startup founders with capital and sprints. He’s a bestselling author of Sprint and Make Time, and has reached millions with articles in The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Harvard Business Review, Wired, Fast Company, and other outlets. JZ is a former Design Partner at GV (Google Ventures), where he developed...

Lisa Xu is a partner at Threshold. Based in New York, she is responsible for leading new investments and supporting Threshold’s portfolio companies. She serves on the board of directors of Suger and is actively involved with Threshold's investments in Motion, Numa, and VideaHealth. Before joining Threshold, Lisa was a principal at FirstMark Capital, where she focused on early-stage investments...

Jon Carr-Harris is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of CRED, which he founded and initially seeded. Previously, Jon was the Co-Founder and CEO of Swish Labs & Ventures, a technology consulting firm and venture group specializing in financial services and marketplace innovations. Under his leadership, Swish developed groundbreaking technology solutions for industry-leading organizations...

C.C. is a principal at Menlo Ventures focused on early-stage consumer tech and SaaS investments. Drawing on her extensive experience as a product leader and team builder, C.C. goes all in on supporting founders who optimize for impact. She believes that personalized AI will revolutionize the next generation of human-computer interaction and how humans live, work, and play. C.C. started her career...

Rick is Co-Founder and Managing Partner at Equal Ventures. Rick invests across Equal’s four verticals and serves on the boards of Threeflow, Leap, Smarthop, Ghost, Starday, David Energy, MVMNT, Odyssey Energy Solutions, vQuip and several others yet to be announced. Prior to co-founding Equal Ventures, Rick was an investor at Lightbank, an early-stage venture fund based in Chicago, where he led inv...

Gaurav Bhogale is a Principal at Mantis Venture Capital. Mantis VC, the venture capital firm co-founded by Alex Pall and Drew Taggart of the electronic DJ group The Chainsmokers, has raised $100 million in commitments for its third fund. Mantis VC is an early stage technology investment firm supporting the most innovative companies across enterprise software, AI / ML, cloud and data infrastructure...

Mason Lender is the CEO of Vantager. Disclosure: Grace is an investor in Vantager. Vantager is an AI-powered platform that supports LPs representing $100B+ in AUM internationally with their pre-trade diligence, analysis, and reporting processes. Vantager has processed thousands of private funds, and over 50,000 underlying investments. Topics: How AI is transforming LP due diligence workflows How t...

Arpit Mittal is a partner at Threshold. Based in the Bay Area, he is responsible for leading new investments in enterprise SaaS and B2B software companies and supporting Threshold’s existing portfolio. Arpit was named a 2024 Rising Star by the National Venture Capital Association (NVCA). Previously, Arpit was a principal with Google’s Gradient Ventures, where he helped lead investments in Gigs, Mu...

Tanay Jaipuria is a partner at Wing VC where he focuses on investments in AI-powered applications and data and AI infrastructure. He is passionate about supporting highly technical teams in the earliest stages building delightful experiences to tackle challenging problems. Prior to Wing, Tanay was a product manager at Meta, where he led teams building products to improve newsfeed ranking and ad ex...

Nancy Wang is a Venture Partner at Felicis, where she backs early-stage founders building in infrastructure, cybersecurity, and AI. As a product and engineering executive, Nancy brings a builder’s mindset to investing: helping startups refine their product-market fit, land their first enterprise customers, and scale production-grade systems. She complements this investor perspective with her opera...

Chris Protasewich and Mike Wystrach are the Co-Founders and General Partners of Cutting Horse, a growth equity firm for exceptional consumer companies. ~~~~~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 of...

Nait Jones is the founder and CEO of AdTwin.ai, a venture-backed generative AI platform that empowers marketers to create and launch high-performing audio ads in minutes. A three-time founder and former partner at Andreessen Horowitz, Nait brings a rare dual perspective as both operator and investor. At a16z, he led go-to-market and cultural partnership strategies and spearheaded the firm’s Talent...

Cody Coleman is the co-founder and CEO of Coactive AI. He is also a co-creator of DAWNBench and MLPerf, a founding member of MLCommons, and his work spans developing standards and benchmarks for high-performance deep learning to data-centric AI. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford and MEng and BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT.Topics: AI-Powered Search...

Jesse Marble is the Founder and General Partner of Wildwood 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 cap...

Ryan Breslow is the founder and CEO of Bolt, a one-click checkout company he launched to make fast, secure online purchasing accessible to retailers beyond Amazon. After leaving Stanford to pursue entrepreneurship full-time, he scaled Bolt to an $11B valuation and helped popularize “Conscious Culture,” a workplace philosophy that blends high performance with mindfulness and transparency. He’s also...

Lorraine K. Lee is a keynote speaker, best-selling author, and founder specializing in professional presence and personal branding. With over 324,000 followers on LinkedIn, she is recognized globally as a LinkedIn Top Voice and a go-to expert on virtual communication and executive presence. Previously a founding editor at LinkedIn and the first managing editor at Prezi, Lorraine has helped shape h...

Steven Lee is the Founder and General Partner of Seven Stars. ~~~~~ 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 ma...

Andrew Brackin is a Partner at Gradient 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 go...

Sid Trivedi is a Partner at Foundation 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...

Marc Silberman is a Partner at Comcast 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 goo...

Krish Ramineni is the Co-founder and CEO of Fireflies.ai, an AI voice assistant that automates meeting notes, action items, and workflows for millions of professionals worldwide. A Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree, Krish started Fireflies after working at Microsoft, where he focused on product and growth. Under his leadership, Fireflies scaled to support users across 100,000+ organizations, including te...

Phylicia Koh is a General Partner at Play Ventures. Phylicia is based in Singapore and leads new investments into game studios, tech, and plays into the intersection of gaming and lifestyle. She also leads Play's diversity and inclusion initiatives and is part of Play's ESG committee. Before joining Play as Employee #1, Phylicia spent 9 years in marketing and growth, working with the likes...

Jonathan Corbin is the Founder and CEO of Maven AGI. Most recently, he served as Global Vice President of Customer Success & Strategy at HubSpot. Prior to HubSpot, Jonathan spent over two decades building scalable customer success systems across multiple regions and industries. His vision for Maven was shaped by firsthand experience with the challenges of customer success, gained during his le...

Chris Koehler is the Chief Marketing Officer at Twilio. With over 25 years of experience in leading marketing, sales, and product teams across various domains and industries, Chris is a seasoned and versatile leader who thrives on growing and scaling new products and businesses. As the Chief Marketing Officer at Twilio, he is responsible for global marketing strategy, with a focus on expanding bra...

Shravan Narayen is a Partner at IVP, where he invests in founders who are deeply driven to solve meaningful customer problems. He has worked across every stage of a startup’s journey—from early product development to IPO—which helps him support teams with real operating experience. At Snowflake, he saw how big technical improvements can completely change how businesses operate. At Confluent, he le...