Venture with Grace

Laura Burkhauser is the CEO of Descript, leading the company in developing innovative AI-powered tools for audio and video creators. She is recognized for her expertise in product leadership, with previous senior roles at Twitter, Rent the Runway, and Le Tote. Laura holds an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and a Bachelor’s degree from the University of Chicago. As CEO, she is focuse...

Jon Callaghan is a founder, an investor, and a Managing Partner of True Ventures, a leading early-stage venture capital firm he co-founded in 2005. With a foundational mission to empower entrepreneurs at the initial stages of company creation, True has partnered with over 1,050 Founders across more than 500 companies. The firm’s 12 funds have been a part of seven IPOs and over 60 acquisitions. Und...

Ross Fubini is the Managing Partner at XYZ Venture Capital, which he founded in 2016 after a successful career as a founder and operator. A 2025 Midas List honoree (#88) and #8 on the Midas Seed List, Ross is recognized for early investments in Anduril, the defense technology company founded by Palmer Luckey, and cloud security leader Verkada. Under his leadership, XYZ has grown to over $1.2B AUM...

Natalie Dillon is a Partner at Maveron, a consumer-focused venture capital firm based in San Francisco. She joined Maveron in 2018 after working at Susa Ventures, where she helped source and diligence early-stage consumer investments. Prior to that, she was a financial analyst at Goldman Sachs and a research associate at Silicon Valley Bank, where her passion for consumer businesses and identifyin...

Manmeet Singh Bhasin is a technology entrepreneur and VC. He is currently the founder of a stealth-mode startup and was the founder and managing partner of PGV Fund 1 from January 2022 to March 2025, a venture capital fund investing in AI/ML and blockchain early-stage companies. Before that, he was the founder and CEO of Dataguise, a company focused on data privacy and security, which was acquired...

Conor Brennan-Burke is the founder of Hyperspell (YC F25), which builds memory and context infrastructure for AI agents. Before starting Hyperspell, he helped scale software products to over $50M in ARR and advised on more than $1B in private equity and M&A deals. He’s a repeat founder with experience across five countries and a focus on making AI systems more capable and useful in the real wo...

Lari Hamalainen is a Senior Partner at McKinsey. In the past he has led McKinsey Digital in Northern Europe and Northeast Asia and served as managing partner for McKinsey’s Finland office. Lari’s passion is to help companies build new businesses while renewing their existing business models. He comes from a family of entrepreneurs and has from a young age been involved in building technology busin...

Allen Wang is the cofounder and CEO of Ditto AI, a dating matchmaker built for college campuses that eliminates swiping and texting, using AI to get users to in-person dates without the usual app friction. After dropping out of UC Berkeley, Allen started Ditto AI with Eric Liu to help a roommate find a girlfriend before graduation—a story that quickly evolved into a VC-backed startup, raised from...

Mahi de Silva is the Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) of Higgsfield AI. Higgsfield is the AI-powered Cultural Engine for creators and marketers to amplify engagement and monetization In the new Attention Economy. Prior to that he was the Co founder and CEO of Amplify.ai. Amplify.ai is a global leader in Conversational AI, having delivered more than 10 billion interactions with more th...

Tony Conrad is a Partner at True Ventures. He worked with amazingly talented founders, operating teams from companies like Automattic (WordPress), ZERO Longevity Science, Modern Animal, Blue Bottle Coffee, Sweetgreen, MakerBot, Voiceflow, Giftshop, Cast, Bumo, Typekit, Pluralsight, Connectifier & Holey Grail Donuts. He also co-founded about.me & Sphere, both acquired by AOL. Tony is a pers...

Vivek Krishnamurthy is a Partner at Commerce Ventures. At Commerce Ventures, Vivek focuses on tech-first opportunities in FinTech & InsurTech – as well as where these two categories intersect with other verticals. He works closely with a number of CV companies, including Bureau, Canary Technologies, Flueid, Mudflap, Zeal and Zentist. Vivek was previously a member of the investment banking team...

Adam D’Augelli is a Partner at True Ventures, a leading early-stage venture capital firm founded in 2005. With a foundational mission to empower entrepreneurs at the initial stages of company creation, True has partnered with over 1,050 Founders across more than 500 companies. The firm’s 12 funds have been a part of seven IPOs and over 60 acquisitions. Adam joined True as an analyst in 2010, immed...

Soham Mazumdar is a serial entrepreneur and technology leader, currently the Co-Founder and CEO of WisdomAI, an AI-powered data insights platform that helps enterprises query their data using natural language. Previously, he co-founded Rubrik, where he served as Chief Architect and helped scale the company to IPO. Soham also co-founded Tagtile (acquired by Facebook), led core search infrastructure...

5Moritz Sudhof is the Co-founder and CEO of Bigspin. He additionally sits on the AI Task Force for the International Coaching Federation, specifically focused on the impact of artificial intelligence in coaching. Holding a BS and MS in Computer Science from Stanford, Moritz has authored influential research on emotion and politeness in language and collaborated on AI research with institutions suc...

Jamie Davidson is the Co-founder at Omni. Omni is a business intelligence and embedded analytics platform that empowers everyone—regardless of technical ability—to easily analyze data using SQL, spreadsheets, AI, or point-and-click interfaces. Prior to that he was the VP of product at Looker. He was also a Partner at Repoint Ventures. Before that he was the founder of PrimaTable which was acquired...

Connor Heggie is the co-founder and CTO of Unify, a San Francisco-based startup building an AI-driven “system of action” for go-to-market teams aimed at enabling companies to reach the right customer, at the right time, with the right message at scale. Prior to Unify, Connor worked at Scale AI as a Machine Learning Research Engineer and earlier at Helm.ai, developing unsupervised perception system...

Yash Sheth is the Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Galileo, an AI observability and evaluation platform that helps organizations build reliable, high-performing large language model (LLM) applications at scale. Before founding Galileo in 2021 with Vikram Chatterji and Atindriyo Sanyal, he spent nearly nine years at Google, where he led the Speech Recognition Platform team powering over 20...

Marc Boroditsky is the Chief Revenue Officer at Nebius and a seasoned tech executive with over 30 years of experience leading high-growth software companies. Previously, he served as CRO at Twilio, President of Revenue at Cloudflare, and VP at Oracle following the acquisition of Passlogix, one of several startups he founded and successfully exited to major acquirers including Cisco, Oracle, and Tw...

Aarti Borkar is the Corporate Vice President of Customer Success for Microsoft’s $20B+ Security business, where she oversees strategy, customer experience, and a global team of 1,000+. With over two decades in cybersecurity and AI, she has built and scaled billion-dollar businesses, led over a dozen acquisitions, and is a Limited Partner at Operator Collective supporting women-led innovation. Dipt...

Suhani Mohan is an impact investor and healthcare entrepreneur committed to advancing social and planetary well-being. She is the Director of Impact Investing at Silicon Valley Social Ventures (SV2), where she leads early-stage investments in climate, health, education, and economic empowerment. Before SV2, she co-founded Saral Designs, an award-winning social enterprise that revolutionized menstr...

Patti Degnan is a seasoned cybersecurity executive, venture investor, and operator. She recently joined Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) as a Partner (Operating Partner, CISO/CIO Advisor), where she oversees security-portfolio initiatives, engages with the CISO community, and forges strategic relationships across the industry. Prior to a16z, Patti served as the first Security hire and Chief Information...

Frederik Ebert is the Founder and CEO of Emancro Robotics, a company developing intelligent robots to automate critical logistics tasks in hospitals. He holds a Ph. D. in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, where he was advised by renowned AI researchers Sergey Levine and Chelsea Finn. During his time at the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab, Frederik focused on advancing robotic...

Denise Persson is the Chief Marketing Officer of Snowflake. Denise has 20 years of technology marketing experience at high-growth companies. Prior to joining Snowflake, she served as CMO for Apigee, an API platform company that went public in 2015 and Google acquired in 2016. She began her career at collaboration software company Genesys, where she built and led a global marketing organization. De...

Alexander Danilowicz is the Co-founder of Magic Patterns, a Y Combinator–backed AI design platform that enables teams to instantly turn text prompts, screenshots, and user stories into interactive, production-ready interfaces. A Dartmouth College graduate in Computer Science and Economics, Alexander previously worked as a software engineer at LiveRamp and Canopy before launching Magic Patterns in...

Ryan Gavin is the Chief Marketing Officer at Slack and a seasoned business leader with over 25 years of experience driving growth, innovation, and go-to-market excellence across the tech industry. Before joining Slack, Ryan was the Chief Growth Officer at Convoy, where he led a $650M+ digital freight marketplace, improving margins by over 2000 basis points while scaling customer engagement with to...