Venture with Grace

Kelli Fontaine is a Partner at Cendana Capital, where she focuses on investing in early-stage venture capital funds worldwide. Cendana’s portfolio includes notable funds such as Forerunner, Uncork, and Mucker Capital among many others. Topics: * Effective strategies for identifying and engaging with top emerging fund managers. * Insights and takeaways from her extensive experience in fund investme...

Dmitry Petrov is the Co-Founder & CEO at Iterative.ai. He is a former researcher turned startup founder. With a background in data management algorithms, including a PhD thesis, and industrial data science experience he has transitioned into the realm of developer cutting-edge data infrastructure for AI. - Challenges and Solutions in ML Data Versioning - The Role of Open Source in ML Data Vers...

Anubhav Maheshwari is a Partner at Stage 2 Capital. Anu started his career as an Analyst in Morgan Stanley's Global Technology Investment Banking group advising both private and public technology companies on M&A, IPOs and other capital markets financings. While always at the intersection of technology and finance, Anu has moved to progressively earlier stages with time. After Morgan Stanl...

Winter Mead is the founder and CEO at Coolwater. Most recently, he has worked in financial services for a decade at two SEC-registered investment firms and has invested approximately $1-billion across 80 private equity and venture capital firms as a Limited Partner, specializing in venture capital. Before becoming an investor, Winter Mead worked in the technology world at three different angel and...

Bill Sun is the founder and CEO of Generative Alpha. He was a successful quant portfolio manager with a billion-dollar AUM trading global equity in the Millennium fund. Bill graduated from Stanford Math/AI PhD and also worked at Citadel, Point72 Cubist as a Quant/AI researcher and Google Brain, where he participated in the discovery of transformer architecture. Topic: * Quant Trading and AI-Enhanc...

David Zhou is the Head of Investor Relations at Alchemist Accelerator, a startup accelerator focused on investing the first check into rockstar B2B companies, where we were the first investors in companies like LaunchDarkly, rigetti, moengage, Retail Zipline and more. Prior to Alchemist, David ran operations and community for On Deck Angels, a community of the world's most ambitious angels and...

John Kraski is the Co-Founder of Future Proof which is focused on helping brands build the future communities of tomorrow. Future Proof is your trusted partner in navigating the digital frontier of the future and a trusted partner of the world's #1 Roblox builder. He is the author of Amazon #1 bestseller, The Future of Community which is focused on how brands and creators can leverage Web3, AI...

Gobi Dasu, co-founder of LD Talent, exemplifies the modern tech landscape's focus on rapid learning and adaptability. Completing his Stanford CS degree in two years, becoming a digital nomad, and then pursuing a master's in HCI+AI, Gobi now leads LD Talent while working towards a PhD at Northwestern. LD Talent, a network of diverse, vetted developers at ldtalentwork.com, encourages continu...

David Teten founded Versatile VC, which backs early-stage companies that help investors generate alpha and succeed. He is Chair of PEVCtech, a community of family office, private equity, and VC funds making better investments through technology and analytics. He is a Venture Partner with Coolwater Capital, the "Y Combinator for emerging VCs". Topics: 1. How are VCs differentiating using...

Romain Paulus, a founding engineer at MetaMind, which Salesforce acquired in 2016, has an extensive background in AI and technology. His expertise in Natural Language Processing (NLP) was developed through his role as a research assistant at Stanford University. Paulus also contributed significantly as a founding engineer of You.com, a private search engine known for summarizing web content. Curre...

Arad Malhotra, the founder and CEO of Report To Earn, leads a Web3-based rewards system for reporting and validating useful information in the real world. Additionally, he co-founded Skyless Game Studios, a video game studio dedicated to creating games with social, educational, or philanthropic impacts. He also features on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. 🌐 The Evolution and Future of Web3 Technologi...

Georgi Koreli is the founder of Hinkal. Hinkal is a multi-chain privacy layer for blockchain transactions backed Draper Associates and other leading VCs. It raised $5.3m in 2023. He also founded the SV Icons, community connecting Stanford entrepreneurs with Silicon Valley icons through curating dinners. Past speakers include Sam Altman, Evan Spiegel, Aneel Bhusri and other iconic founders and VCs....

Meghana Dhar previously served as the Head of Partnerships for Instagram Shopping, Advisor to the CEO of eBay, and most recently, the Head of Global Partnerships for Snapchat. She now advises and consults with companies & venture firms full-time on Strategy, GTM, eCommerce, and Partnerships. She also speaks and angel invests in the space. Meghana graduated from Harvard Business School, was nam...

Unlock the secrets to sourcing the best companies as an angel investor with Michael Ma, Founding Partner at Liquid 2 Ventures. In this insightful discussion, learn from Michael's vast experience, having founded CreatorDao (backed by a16z and Initialized) and sold TalkBin to Google. As a seed investor behind 33 unicorns including GitLab, Rappi, Cloud9, and more, his expertise is unparalleled. S...

Paige Finn Doherty is the Founding Partner at Behind Genius Ventures. BGV invests in preseed and seed companies in the future of work and play. She is actively investing out of our Fund II, and they've made 39 investments to date, including Aviron, Beacons. AI, Aidaly, Pallet, and more. They're backed by Cendana Capital, GREE, and dozens of general partners, founders, and operators like Ar...