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Startups and venture capital. Without the noise.
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Eric Tarczynski is the Founder and Managing Partner at Contrary, a venture fund that identifies and invests in the world’s top talent. They’ve backed some of the fastest-growing startups in the world including the likes of Ramp, Anduril and Zepto. Contrary’s LPs include the founders of Tesla, Reddit, Facebook, Airbnb, and many more iconic companies.
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Mario Gabriele is the founder of The Generalist, a modern media company. Since its founding in 2020, The Generalist has grown to more than 60,000 subscribers and is read by the most influential founders, investors, and operators across the tech world.
Mario also runs Generalist Capital, an early stage venture fund focused on helping founders create and capture narrative power. He contributes to Philosophical Foxes, an on-chain storytelling initiative.
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Patrick Ryan is the Co-Founder of Odin, an investment platform and community for people building the future. Odin are making it 10x cheaper and easier to launch and invest in syndicates, SPVs & funds.
Before Odin, Patrick was the Project Director of Corporate Venture Capital at Coca-Cola European Partners.
Prior to Coca-Cola, Patrick was Head of Inbound Equity Crowdfunding at Crowdcube. Patrick also built his own Vodka brand, Ishka, before selling in 2019.
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Zach Lloyd is the Founder and CEO of Warp who’s mission is to elevate developer productivity by building a blazingly fast terminal for the modern age. Warp is modernising the command line experience to make it more intuitive and collaborative for modern developers and teams, turning the terminal into a real platform to enable engineering workflows. To date they’ve raised $23 million across a $6 million Seed round, led by GV and a $17 million Series A, led by Dylan Field, the CEO of Figma.
Before Warp, Zach was the interim CTO at TIME after spending over 7 years as a Principal Engineer at Google for the Google Docs Suite.
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Vinay Iyengar is a Principal at Two Sigma Ventures, focusing on early-stage investments in enterprise software, machine learning, marketplaces, and infrastructure.
Prior to Two Sigma Ventures, Vinay was an Investor at Bessemer Venture Partners, having been an angel or co-invested with Bessemer in the likes of Canva, Discord, Zapier among others.
Before Bessemer, Vinay started his career as a Machine Learning Engineer at Intel Corporation before moving to Quantitative Trading at Goldman Sachs.
Vinay also holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science and economics from Harvard.
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Sieva Kozinsky is the Founder of Enduring Ventures, a long-term holding company dedicated to buying and building beautiful businesses, arming them with great leadership, and holding them forever.
Prior to Enduring Ventures, Sieva was Co-Founder and General Partner of The MBA Fund, a leading start-up ecosystem among university programs, providing founders with mentorship and seed-stage capital at the earliest stages of development.
Before The MBA Fund, Sieva was CEO of Study Soup, the largest peer-to-peer education marketplace for students in the US.
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Grade Isford is a Principal at Lux Capital, a venture capital firm with over $4B in AUM that invests in emerging science and technology ventures at the outermost edges of what's possible. Grace leads investments at the nexus of web3, data infrastructure, and applications of AI & ML from pre-seed to growth.
Before joining Lux, Grace was a principal at Canvas Ventures. While there, she sourced 10 investments, including open-source robotic process automation platform Robocorp and blockchain-powered, real-time data sharing platform Vendia.
Grace also holds a Masters of Science in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford, where she is also on the board of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program.
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Bilal Zaidi is the Founder and CEO of Creator Lab, a podcast and digital marketing consultancy. Each week Bilal interviews some of the best creators and business minds on this earth including the likes of GaryVee, Anthony Pompliano and Scott Harrison, the founder of Charity: Water.
Bilal is also 1/3 of the Not Investment Advice Podcast with co-hosts Jack Butcher and Trung Phan. Before going full time with the Creator Lab, Bilal was Director of Brand Partnerships at Charity: Water, after spending 7 1/2 years at Google helping brands grow their digital presence including Puma, ASOS and Under Armour.
Bilal also holds a degree in Applied Business Management from Imperial College London.
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Tim Suchanek is the Co-Founder and CTO of Stellate. Stellate's vision is to unlock the world's data by removing the inefficiencies of connecting poorly structured and documented APIs. To date they’ve raised $30 million across a $5 million Seed round, led by Boldstart Ventures and a $25 million Series A, led by Tiger Global.
Before Stellate, Tim was Technical Lead at Prisma. Tim also holds a bachelors degree in Computer Science.
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Evgenia Plotnikova is a General Partner at Dawn Capital where she leads on investing in exceptional SaaS companies from early stage to pre-IPO. She is particularly passionate about data, automation and cloud infrastructure. Some of her investments include Dataiku, Firebolt, Shoreline and Soldo. Dawn is Europe's leading specialist B2B software investor, having partnered with the likes of Mimecast, iZettle, Tink and Collibra amongst others.
Prior to Dawn, Evgenia was a VC at Atomico, spearheading its entry into France, and an investor at TPG Capital, having started her career at JP Morgan.
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Nikhil Basu Trivedi is the Co-Founder & General Partner at Footwork, an early-stage focused venture capital firm investing its first $175M fund. Footwork leads and co-leads Series A and Seed rounds, in companies with early signs of product-market fit, focusing on consumer technology and the consumerization of enterprise technology.
Before Footwork, Nikhil was Managing Director at Shasta Ventures, a boutique, early-stage venture capital firm in Silicon Valley investing in consumer and enterprise technology startups. Nikhil invested in the likes of Canva, Hinge and ClassDojo.
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Matei Psatta is the Co-Founder & CMO at Blindspot, making advertising on digital billboards easy. Blindspot are building the world's first interconnected network of digital indoor & outdoor screens for advertisers without having to spend millions of dollars. Matei has worked with brands including Samsung, Uber and Coca-Cola, operating with 300,000 screens across the globe.
Before Blindspot, Matei was Head of Marketing at Vola, Romania’s largest Online Travel Agency having helped the company increase YoY revenue by 24%.
Prior to Vola, Matei was Digital Strategy Director for Leo Burnett helping produce content, increase conversions and define strategy.
Matei also holds the most upvoted Reddit post of all time.
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Kyle Harrison is a General Partner at Contrary, a venture firm backing some of the boldest entrepreneurs of our time. Since inception in 2018, their portfolio includes the likes of Anduril, DoorDash, Ramp and Synthesis. Kyle joined Contrary in May this year to Co-Found Contrary’s later-stage practice.
Prior to Contrary, Kyle was a partner at Index Ventures, one of the leading venture firms of the last decade. Before Index, Kyle was a growth investor at TCV and then Coatue Management, investing in the likes of Gitlab, Snyk and Snowflake.
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Jamin Ball is a Partner at Altimeter Capital, an investment firm focused on technology investments across both public and private markets globally. The firm was founded in 2008 by Brad Gerstner with just $3 million from friends and family. Altimeter now manages over $15 billion in assets with notable venture investments in the likes of Snowflake, Roblox, Twilio and Uber.
Prior to Altimeter, Jamin was Vice President at Redpoint Ventures with investments in Workato, Monte Carlo, Cityblock Health and Root Insurance.
Jamin began his career working in investment banking for Bank of America and Morgan Stanley.
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Caitlin Bolnick is a Principal at CRV, one of the oldest early-stage venture capital firms with a history dating back to 1970 and a portfolio including the likes of Airtable, DoorDash and Dropbox. At CRV, Caitlin focuses on all things B2B.
Prior to CRV, Caitlin was an Investor at OpenView, focusing on expansion stage investing in the future of SaaS and product led growth.
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Hassan Bhatti is an entrepreneur with experience in building deep-tech companies in North America. He currently works as ProductBD at Snowflake, focusing on the healthcare & life sciences industry. Hassan is also an Investment Partner at The Community Fund, allocating capital at an early stage across community driven companies.
Prior to Snowflake, Hassan Co-Founded CryptoNumerics before being acquired by Snowflake in June of 2020. Before CryptoNumerics, Hassan was Head of Growth at Iris Automation, backed by the likes of Social Capital, Bessemer and GGV Capital.
Hassan also spent time at Toronto’s Creative Destruction Lab, investing in and supporting start-ups at the cutting edge of their respective fields: AI, quantum computing, healthcare, and blockchain. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Physics and Economics from the University of British Columbia.
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1Wes Kao is the Co-Founder of Maven, the world’s first digital platform for cohort-based courses. To date, they’ve raised over $25M from the likes of First Round Capital, Nitesh Banta and Andrew Chen at Andreessen Horowitz.
Previously, she was the Co-Founder of the altMBA with Seth Godin, growing the altMBA to thousands of alumni in 550 cities in 45 countries and creating the cohort-based course category. She has built courses for Professor Galloway, David Perell, Tiago Forte, Morning Brew, and more.
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Linda Lian is the Co-Founder and CEO of Common Room, a community growth platform for today’s fastest-growing companies. Linda founded Common Room in 2020 to help bring organisations of all sizes closer to their communities. To date, they’ve raised over $50M from the likes of Sarah Guo at Greylock, Danny Rimer at Index and Next Play Ventures.
Before Common Room, Linda led product marketing for serverless computing at Amazon Web Services. Prior to AWS, Linda was an Associate at Madrona Venture Group. Linda began her career as an investment banking Analyst at Morgan Stanley in New York.
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David McDonough is the Founder and CEO of Commonstock, a community platform that makes investing social by amplifying insights from top investors. In October last year they closed a $25M Series A round led by Coatue, including the likes of QED Investors, Floodgate and Bill Ackman.
Before Commonstock, David worked in product strategy and ventures at Google and was previously an Investment Analyst at Greenspring Associates.
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Gaby Goldberg is an investor at The Chernin Group (TCG) where she invests at an early stage in the intersection of consumer and crypto. In their latest round, TCG raised its $1 billion fund in June 2021. Before joining TCG, Gaby invested in early-stage consumer companies at both Bessemer Venture Partners and Chapter One. Gaby is also a prolific writer about web3 and digital culture on Mirror, Medium and Twitter.
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