Venture with Grace

Simon is a Partner at Cathay Innovation. He leads the US investment efforts at Cathay Innovation, a global venture capital firm managing over $2.5B AUM. He focuses on software, fintech, digital healthcare, and consumer investments based in the US. Prior to joining Cathay Innovation, Simon spent four years at VMware as a Manager in the Strategy & Corporate Development team, focusing on investme...

Apoorva Pandhi is a Managing Director of Zetta Venture Partners. Apoorva loves the complexity and thrill of the 0 to 1 startup phase and feels fortunate to work with deeply technical and product-centric founders. He finds them tackling the hardest challenges in AI/ML, data infrastructure and cloud-native infra. As a Managing Director at Zetta, he is excited to partner with founders who are ready t...

Mike Mangini is a partner at SignalFire. Mike joined SignalFire in 2016 to lead the Executive and Technical Talent teams, focused on developing relationships inside and outside the portfolio, and improving SignalFire’s proprietary Talent Tools. Prior to SignalFire, Mike led special projects executive recruiting initiatives for Facebook (2015–16), partnering directly with the senior leadership team...

Somesh Dash is a General Partner at IVP. He has been an investor at IVP for 19 years, where he focuses primarily on growth investments in enterprise software, consumer and digital health companies. He led or actively participated in IVP's investments in Accompany Health, Aledade, Amplitude, Brex, Business Insider, Datadog, Discord, Expanse, H1, Hello Heart, Humu, Lime, Klout, Lyra Health, Perplexi...

Aseem Datar is a Vice President at Microsoft building the next generation computing business. Most recently he was a Partner at Madrona Venture Group investing in Enterprise companies. Aseem scales businesses and is a seasoned operator. Prior to Madrona, Aseem spent over 17 years at Microsoft, working in a wide variety of roles from a developer writing deep installer level code to building and cre...

Adeyemi (“Ade”) is co-founder & Managing Partner at Base10 Partners. Before Base10, Ade had a successful career as an entrepreneur and investor. Ade was the co-founder and CEO of Tuenti (The “Spanish Facebook” which was acquired by Telefonica in 2010 for $100M), co-founder and CEO of Identified (“AI for HR” acquired by Workday in 2014) and a founding investor of Cabify (the largest ridesharing...

HEMANT MOHAPATRA is a partner with Lightspeed Venture Partners India. He focuses on global SaaS, Enterprise Infrastructure, and frontier / deep tech areas such as crypto, space/satellite, AR/VR and more. Lightspeed has offices in Silicon Valley, India, China, Israel, Europe and South East Asia, with companies such as SnapChat, Byju's, OYO Rooms, Affirm, Docker, Nutanix, AppDynamics, Mulesoft and m...

Gary is a partner investing in technology and healthcare companies out of our San Francisco office. He represents Polaris on the boards of Quantcast, SimplyInsured, FloQast, Faro Health, Qstream, Foresight, and Livara, and he also works with Wellthy, Naked Poppy, Falkonry, and Novi. He previously served on the board of CliQr (Cisco) as well. Previously, Gary was the CEO of oDesk (now UpWork, NASDA...

Eliot is General Partner @ boldstart ventures, day one true believer for dev first crypto infra and saas founders. Eliot’s investments include Divide (acquired by Google), Replicated, Preact (sold to Spotify), SecurityScorecard, Rapportive (acquired by LinkedIn), Snyk, BigID, Front, Kustomer, Superhuman, Catalytic, Blaze (acq. by Akamai), Look.io (acquired by LivePerson), GoInstant (acquired by Sa...

David Booth is an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) & investor at Blackbird. That means he gets to both sit on the investments team in NZ — on the lookout for ambitious Kiwis doing their life's work, wherever in the world they may live today; and also build cool stuff... in his case communities, products you'll be seeing more of soon. He's a community builder at heart, and gets a kick out of mak...

Raghu Ravinutala is the CEO and Co-Founder of Yellow.ai, a global leader in generative AI-powered customer service automation. The entrepreneurial bug had been conceded deep inside him for long before he co-founded Yellow.ai in 2016, with a vision to make customer and enterprise interactions more effective and effortless. Since its inception, Raghu and his team have successfully expanded Yellow.ai...

Farooq Abbasi is the founder and sole general partner of Preface Ventures. Prior to founding Preface, Farooq was with Costanoa Ventures where he led investments in companies such as Alpha Health, Lively, Auterion, and Leap. Prior to Costanoa, he spent time with DN Capital and Mosaic Ventures on both sides of the Atlantic investing in enduring businesses such as Remitly (RELY) and Auto1 (A1G). He b...

Cody Ng is an investor at 01 Advisors, a growth stage (Series A-C) vc firm founded by operators for operators, focusing on AI, devOps/infrastructure, and vertical SaaS companies. 01A is founded and led by Dick Costolo (ex-Twitter CEO), Adam Bain (ex-Twitter COO), and David Fischer (ex-Meta CRO). As a team, they’ve scaled high-growth companies like Twitter, Meta, Airtable, Yahoo, Benchling, etc. fr...

David Cheng is a Partner at DCM. He focuses on opportunities in Vertical SaaS, Marketplaces, Consumer Applications, Fintech and Digital Health. David's investments include Brigit, EvenUp, LARQ, Lighthouse, Metafy.gg, Musely, OpenArt, Plenty, and Tempo. Previous portfolio companies include AVA (acq. by DSM), Bill.com (NYSE: BILL), Musical.ly (acq. by Bytedance), SoFi (NASDAQ: SOFI), Weekend Health/...

Demi Obayomi is a Vice President at Sapphire Ventures where he invests in application layer software. He is a Board observer at Yellow.ai, Simpplr, Qualified and Rewst and has also worked on additional investments in GTM Software, Finance/CFO Software, HR Software, and Vertical SaaS. Demi has been recognized for his work in the industry, most recently by the Emerging Venture Capitalists Associatio...

Brett Perlmutter is the founder of Bulletpitch. Bulletpitch is on a mission to redefine venture through media. Their flagship product is a publication that highlights and performs high-level diligence on top-tier startups each week. The publication has become a staple for thousands of founders and investors, with hundreds of companies that apply per month, and many of these featured companies goin...

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Phil Boyer is a Partner at Crosslink Capital. Phil brings over a decade of venture capital experience with a primary focus on themes within AI, data, developer tools, and deep tech in enterprise and vertical markets. He is passionate about serving as a partner with early-stage founding teams, with an eye towards helping strong technical teams build category-defining companies. At Crosslink, Phil’s...

Bob Muglia was formerly the Chief Executive Officer of Snowflake Computing SNOW (NYSE), a data warehousing company. Bob is known for managing divisions at Microsoft that supported the Microsoft Office Suite, Windows Server and MSN Network product families. He was one of four presidents that reported directly to Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Bob held several executive positions at Microsoft before r...

David Shim is the Co-Founder and CEO of Read AI. Read AI empowers you to enhance the effectiveness of your meetings. By applying AI and analytics to video conferencing, Read analyzes, prescribes, and prevents bad meetings. Experience the ultimate app for hybrid meetings with Read available on Zoom as part of Essential Apps. Prior to Read AI, David was the CEO of Foursquare.  Topics: Leveraging AI...

Aditi Maliwal is a partner at Upfront Ventures, investing in early stage companies across financial technology and enterprise software. Aditi partners with founders at their earliest stages of inception and supports them throughout the stages of company building. While at Upfront, she has partnered deeply in this way with Arcade, Clair, Renew, Stem, WriterAI and ZestAI amongst others. Before joini...

Paul is a Managing General Partner at Bullpen Capital. Paul is the founder of eight companies including Ahpah Software (a computer security firm acquired by InterTrust);Tribe (one of the world’s first social networks), and Aggregate Knowledge (a big data advertising attribution company acquired in 2014 by Neustar). Paul’s early online gaming innovations in multi-player user experience from over 30...

Pablo Casilimas is the Managing Partner at OneSixOne Ventures. Christopher Kennamer is a Venture Partner at OneSixOne Ventures. A VC fund investing in US-based pre-seed startups with a focus on dual-use tech and infrastructure for cloud & AI. Topics: Building a national VC network Remote Deal Evaluation Best Practices Early-stage investment trends outside Silicon Valley #VCNetwork #CrossCountr...

Clayton Bryan is a Partner at 500 Global. Clayton has spent time at some of the most innovative companies in Silicon Valley. He has built expansive online communities, scaled marketplace businesses, and facilitated million dollar deals. At Yahoo he worked on award winning products. Later, at Payvment, he helped a team pioneer a new set of tools that started the social commerce movement. With Diver...

James Mumma is a Founding Partner Nomad Ventures. Nomad Ventures is an early stage venture fund focused on strong network effect businesses and marketplace solutions including Fintech, peer-to-peer economy, and the transformation of archaic industries. Investments include: Alt, Autopilot, Minoan, Cameo, Lunch Payments, Ink, Zoe Financial, Returnmates, Aquifer Motion, Packsmith, Bezel, Thermal, Bea...