Austin’s first entrepreneurial endeavor was at age 5 where he built and resold his favorite toy, Legos, door to door to neighbors. Austin kept up the pace as he got older, joining a several hundred million dollar equity index fund at a global investment bank while still in high school. Austin later worked with hundreds of early to late-stage technology ventures and Fortune 500s including Coca-Cola, L’Oreal and Nestle brokering partnerships between the two. Most recently, Austin oversaw product and growth at Omni, a peer to peer marketplace with over $40M in funding.

Avisha Mehra is a Director of Executive Talent for Khosla Ventures, where she works closely with founding teams and executive leadership across Khosla’s diverse portfolio, strategically advising on talent strategy, and executive search. Prior to joining Khosla Ventures, Avisha was a Senior Associate at Korn Ferry, a leading organizational strategy and consulting firm. Here, she managed a variety of executive searches, building high caliber executive management and product teams for growth stage and multinational established organizations across the Global Digital and Technology markets practice. Avisha earned her bachelor’s degree from Stanford University, where she was heavily involved in undergraduate community life. She grew up in Mumbai, India, and in her free time enjoys practicing aerial yoga, skiing, traveling, reading, fostering puppies, and relaxing at the beach!

Ayanna is an Operations and Finance professional with over 5 years of experience working for Investment Banks. Prior to joining Precursor, Ayanna worked at Credit Suisse as a COO in the IT department and later as a COO within Prime Services. Ayanna, also, spent time working at Bank of Montreal in the Financial Sponsors Group. Ayanna graduated from Baruch College with a Bachelors in Finance.

Ayelet brings extensive experience facilitating strategic partnerships between global entities and strategic players and the Israeli innovation ecosystem. Prior to joining Pitango, Ayelet managed strategic partnerships at Start-Up Nation Central. In this role, she partnered with Global 1000 clients to identify their business challenges and growth engines and directs them to partners and solutions in the Israeli start-up and innovation ecosystem that will maximize their business potential. During her tenure she has facilitated hundreds of introductions between global entities and Israeli partners, leading to repeat visits, dozens of POCs, commercial agreements, and investments. Prior to joining Start-up Nation Central, Ayelet served as Global Corporate Communications Manager at Adama Agricultural Solutions, one of the worlds leading crop-protection companies. Having led communication projects and aspects of various business initiatives, she gained extensive experience in developing and executing external and internal communication strategies. Ayelet holds an International Executive MBA from Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and an MA in social psychology from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.

Previously, Ayumi was a top executive at two Japanese startups, helping them scale up their businesses. She earned an MBA from Columbia Business School and a B.A. from Columbia University Barnard College.

Bailey Hagen joined GGV Capital in 2018 as a part of the Platform Services team. Bailey supports founders as their companies scale and works to expand the Founders + Leaders development platform for training, mentorship, networking and more. Prior to joining GGV, Bailey built sales, marketing, and professional service teams at Medallia, a VC-funded software company and she also spent time at SPMB, a technology focused executive search firm. Bailey graduated from Colgate University with degrees in Economics and Environmental Studies.

I am a customer-focused leader offering a decade of success in managing program logistics and client relationships to fulfill collaborative strategic goals. After dedicating eight years to managing and promoting large-scale consumer events for the boating industry, I am bringing my expertise to the VC world as I plans critical events to facilitate collaboration between startups and corporate partners.

Becky Yang is a growth strategist, advisor, and currently a partner at The Fund, a seed stage VC in NY. She is the founder of Lin Lane, a consultancy where she advises and angel invests in social impact areas. Her background spans startups, VC, banking and impact investing, overseeing areas of growth, operations and business development at Summit, WeWork, Clinton Foundation and Citigroup. Becky serves on the board of the Rainforest Foundation, is a mentor for ERA and TechStars accelerators, is a founding pod leader at the women’s leadership group, Declare, an ultra-marathoner at Racing the Planet and certified yoga instructor. She is a native New Yorker and has lived and worked in five countries over three continents. Becky received a Bachelor’s of Science from Vanderbilt University Education and Engineering schools, and MBA from Columbia Business School. In her free time she enjoys being a mom of two son and furry puppy.

Belle is the Platform Manager at Factor[e] Ventures. Belle’s primary roles are designing and implementing Factor[e]’s post-investment support program to support each venture’s growth as well as manage Factor[e]’s professional service provider network. Prior to joining Factor[e] Ventures, Belle supported the growth of early-stage companies at a startup incubator by conducting in-depth market and access to capital research for founders in the fields of cleantech, medical device, agri-tech, and software/hardware. She has also been contracted by startup founders to assist with designing and executing on key projects such as customer discovery and communications. More recently she worked for the Energy and Resource Markets branch of the New Zealand government promoting investment into their energy markets. Belle has a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration with a concentration in Organization and Innovation Management from Colorado State University. She enjoys trying new Jamie Oliver recipes, going to museums, and spending time outside.

Healthcare and tech investor based in Los Angeles and investing globally. Experience building and launching products in consumer web, healthcare and government as a startup founder and software engineer. Enjoy working with founders to minimize toil https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/eliminating-toil/ and build enduring companies.

Preceding Homebrew, I spent 5+ years at Salesforce leading executive search, sales leadership, and sales growth/professional services recruiting teams. I joined Google in 2003 to build out the AdSense team and then spent 6 years hiring for business operations, corporate communications, corporate development, and various engineering teams, including new graduate PhDs. I am a proud graduate of The Colorado College with a BS in Psychology.

Bethany Crystal is the network General Manager for Union Square Ventures, where she works with the great teams within the portfolio to help empower all of their entrepreneurs to learn from each other and build better businesses. Prior to this role, she worked at Stack Overflow, where she held several different functions in sales and marketing. Bethany has a degree in journalism from Northwestern University and remains an active leader in the alumni community. She lives in New York City with her husband and cat.

I joined Piton Capital in 2014 and now responsible for portfolio support, legal and finance matters, investor relations, fundraising and fund management. Prior to this, I co-founded a start-up focusing on innovative application of communication antennas such as NFC. Graduated from the London of School of Economics in 2011. Enjoy adventures rock climbing, hiking, mountain biking and everything tech

As the Portfolio Manager at BCF Ventures, Bonnie leads the investment due diligence on startups and also provides support to the portfolio companies. With many years of experience working at one of the fastest growing fintech companies in Canada, she brings valuable experience in interim management and finance. Bonnie holds a B.Comm in Accountancy from Desautels Faculty of Management from McGill University and she is also a CPA, CMA. Outside of work, she has a passion to educate others about personal finance, to forge her own investment as an investor, and to promote entrepreneurship through volunteering.

Brandon is a Program Manager at M13, an early-stage venture firm and brand studio based in Santa Monica. Previously, he was the chief of staff at Red Antler and First Round Capital.

Originally from Florida, I am passionate about next gen technologies and entrepreneurship. Went to University of Florida to receive my undergrad and grad Go Gators. I also enjoy traveling, the outdoors, and playing sports like golf, basketball, and softball.

Brian Dell is currently Head of Innovation Strategy for ConsenSys Labs, a leading venture studio home to 80+ blockchain startups. In that role, he supports developers and entrepreneurs around the world as they build decentralized applications, protocols, and successful ventures on the Ethereum platform. Previously he was head of strategy at Quartz, and a partner at GMD Studios, a media innovation and ventures firm. He currently lives in Brooklyn with his wife, dog, kumquat and fig trees.

Brian has held senior executive roles and been an internal and external legal and business advisor to technology companies and venture funds for the last twenty years with a particular emphasis on data privacy issues and cyber security solutions. Brian began his career working with early stage technology companies and venture funds in the Palo Alto office of Cooley and then moved in-house where he served as General Counsel, Chief Privacy Officer, and Chief Administration Officer for security and software companies in the San Francisco Bay Area, including PGP Corporation, Scale Eight, Reputation.com, OneID, Euclid Analytics, and Ionic Security. Most recently, Brian served as General Counsel for Techstars, overseeing the legal function for both Techstars’ operating business and Techstars Ventures, its venture capital arm. Brian built the systems, process, staffing and compliance infrastructure to enable Techstars to operate forty accelerator programs annually in twelve countries with investments in 1,500+ active portfolio company graduates. In addition to overseeing all compliance and legal issues while at Techstars, Brian was an active mentor and advisor within the Techstars ecosystem, providing guidance on legal issues and scalability challenges. Brian received his J.D. from UCLA School of Law and graduated cum laude from the University of Puget Sound. As recent transplants to Colorado, Brian and his wife are enjoying all the outdoor activities that the Rocky Mountains have to offer and are trying to their best to stay ahead of their two boys on the ski slopes.

Brian Smiga is the co-founding partner at Alpha Venture Partners, an innovative growth equity fund that invests capital in category-leading technology companies sourced from a network of 400+ early stage venture firms. Alpha shares economics with its source VCs in their best deals. Alpha Venture Partners collaborates with its private network of specialist VC firms to capitalize on their top performing growth companies. Alpha invests in tech category leaders that are doubling in revenue at scale with strong unit economics.

Brian has spent his career helping startups succeed and grow. With a business degree from Canisius College and passion for entrepreneurship, Brian helped launch 43North, a global startup competition and accelerator program. Over the last 6 years, Brian has focused on attracting startups to Buffalo, scaling them, and cultivating an active and impactful network of nationwide investors and partners. He designed, built out, and optimized the existing application process, and is the face and voice of 43North for investors and startups from around the world.

Bri leads cultural transformation programs designed to equip individuals, teams and the organisation to make sense of, innovate and transform in response to changing contexts and to develop the capability and conditions to foster new forms of value creation. She has committed over 15 years to leading people transformation programs, engaging at all levels of large multi-national organisations and operating as a start-up advisor and fast-growth leader in scale-up environments across Australia, North America and the UK.

Brianna leads the Stripes talent function and partners with our portfolio companies to design talent management and recruiting strategies based on their individual needs and that are reflective of their cultures. She provides Stripes companies direct access to our talent network, comprised of world class executives and operators, and is responsible for sourcing and connecting leaders in various functions to our investments, resulting in hundreds of candidates placed in high-impacts roles across the Stripes portfolio. Prior to joining Stripes in 2015, Brianna spent her early career as an executive recruiter at Daversa Partners, a premier headhunting firm for consumer and technology companies. She originally discovered her passion for recruiting as an intern for American Eagle Outfitters. A proud Nittany Lion, Brianna bleeds blue and white and holds a degree in Public Relations from The Pennsylvania State University.

After 5 years of splitting her time between being a SAHM and working for Stitch Fix as a Senior Stylist, Britta joined NGP in 2020 as an Executive Assistant in Palo Alto. She previously worked as a Marketing Coordinator for Growthpoint Technology Partners, a technology investment bank in Palo Alto, where she managed all marketing activities for the firm and prior to that she was an Executive Assistant for an insurance and financial services firm in South Carolina. At NGP, she will provide local support to our Europe based marketing team in addition to her role as EA to the partner team. Britta has a BA in Broadcast Journalism from USC and a master’s in Media Management from the University of Hamburg. She grew up just outside of Frankfurt and still heads back to Germany every summer. Shes fluent in German and speaks rudimentary French and Dutch. In her free time, you’ll find her at a barre3 class, or diving into the worlds of Minecraft with her son and dancing her way through Disney movies with her daughter.

Brittany Laughlin is a Partner at Lattice Ventures, an NYC seed fund focused on edge tech, network effects-driven companies built by teams with strong market expertise. She brings her experience as an investor and serial entrepreneur to help entrepreneurs successfully scale from seed to IPO. Investment areas include AI, the future of work, fintech, blockchain, and infrastructure. Prior she spent 3+ years at Union Square Ventures, a Series A stage venture capital firm with $1B+ under management. Some portfolio companies include Etsy, Twitter, SoundCloud, Tumblr, Lending Club, and Kickstarter. Her entrepreneurial endeavors include founding VetsinTech NYC, transitioning military veterans into technology jobs, and founding gtrot, a social travel recommendation engine sold to Groupon. She holds a B.S. in Marketing and International Business from NYU Stern. Laughlin writes about building great companies, venture investing, community-building, and blockchain.

Brook Bisrat is a Director of Impact Operations at Learn Capital. He previously worked as a Macro and Commodities Derivatives Assistant at Infinium Capital Management. During his tenure, he helped found the Macro Team, taught new and established traders technical analysis, and managed portfolios comprised of energy, grain, and soft commodities. Also during his tenure, Infinium had its largest trading revenues in history, producing $200M in profit in 2008. Brook also spent time as a Macro Futures Trader and Global Derivatives Technical Analyst at Yellowstone Capital Management and Raven Traders. While there, he established Macro Groups for both organizations and worked closely with multiple portfolio managers, focusing mainly on forecasting models for emerging trends and hedging strategies for internal portfolios. Most recently, he worked on the Sales Operations team at Oscar Health Insurance and Kindrid.

Bruce is an experienced human resources leader with an international background, known for assisting organizational development, blending strategy into tactics and implementing diversity and talent management programs. As the Chief Human Capital Officer, Bruce focuses on advising and assisting portfolio company management on organizational development, recruiting, training and employing human capital best practices. He also assists Capital Partners’ investment teams in assessing management teams and human resource policies and procedures of potential acquisition opportunities. Previously, Bruce was Vice President Human Resources at Bigelow Tea, Human Resources Client Manager at Sikorsky Global Helicopters, Director of Human Resources at Pepperidge Farm and held various human resource leadership positions at Citizens Communications now Frontier.Before moving to the United States, he was recruited in the United Kingdom by Cadbury Schweppes to their Accelerated Management Development Program for Human Resources. Bruce has a Master of Science in Human Resources and Counseling from the University of Bridgeport and a Bachelor of Science in Biological Science from the University of Nottingham United Kingdom. He is also a Myers Briggs Certified Administrator and Training Facilitator and a Development Dimensions International DDI - Certified Trainer. He has previously spent many years with both the United Way and Junior Achievement organizations in Connecticut.

Venture Partner at Backstage Capital, a venture firm that invests exclusively in underrepresented founders. Co-founder of non-profit Project Cover. Designer, developer, and banjoist.

10+ years working across PR, media, content and executive communications. Most recently, Caitlin was Head of Communications at Eniac Ventures, a seed-stage firm. Previously, Caitlin has worked across a wide variety of B2B industries, including mobile, security e-commerce/payments, fintech. Most recently, at Uphold, she led global communications for the cross-border cryptocurrency startup and came out the other side a proud owner of bitcoin. At Fleishman-Hillard, she led the Visa Innovation team’s media launch of Visa Checkout, Apple Pay, and the One Market Innovation Center opening, as well as positioned Marketo in the business press prior to acquisition and led SAP’s CTO’s speaking platform. She is an avid reader, but podcasts are slowly taking over her life.

I first joined Startupbootcamp Global in London in April 2014 and then supported the launch of the IoT accelerator program in March 2016 with operations, events and marketing. Then, I joined Unbound in 2017 as an Innovation Project Manager in charge of Startup Challenges, recruiting startups and community partnerships. After traveling the world with Unbound festivals, I have settled in Paris and joined a VC fund CAP HORN in December 2018 to develop strategies to boost awareness of the fund and portfolio companies.

I started my career in banking and customer service but have since left that behind to join the exciting world of venture finance. At VFF, I manage VFF’s Founder’s Community, plan eccentric events, and various back office duties.

Candice was the first Head of Inclusion and Diversity at Pinterest, where she spent over four years leading strategy and programs to drive diverse talent, policy and product outcomes. Prior, Candice spent a decade honing her expertise in diversity strategy and practice at Catalyst, based on Wall Street and in Zurich, Switzerland. Her clients were F1000 global organizations across a range of industries from technology, professional and financial services to healthcare, oil and gas, and consumer goods. Candice was awarded Fast Company’s Most Creative People in Business and The Root’s 100 Most Influential African-Americans of 2017. A New York native and Stuyvesant alum, Candice holds a B.S. in Psychology and Business from Carnegie Mellon University, and a M.Sc. in Cross-Cultural Psychology from Brunel University in London.

With experience across all facets of the venture capital value chain, Candice has worked in domestic and global markets investing in and supporting startups for an accelerator, family office, impact fund, and tech venture firm. As an early team member at Village Capital, Candice sourced, trained, and invested in early stage companies participating in VilCap accelerator programs. She managed all deal flow with a pipeline of more than 10,000 companies sourced over fourteen months 2,000 of which were health tech companies, developed program content, hired and trained twenty associates and analysts, and sourced investors and corporate sponsors. At Endeavor, she aided in opening their second US-based office in Louisville, KY where she developed a mentor network of Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 CEOs, Executives, and Founders to support growth stage company founders. In one year at Endeavor, she sourced and supported three healthcare companies, one of which has since gone public NASDAQ: APLS. Candice worked for a family office impact investment fund, Radicle Capital, where she managed and deployed capital across multiple asset classes and supported a portfolio of twenty early to growth stage startups. Currently, she’s an Executive at Florida Funders where she supports their portfolio companies post investment as Director of Founder Success. With eight years in venture, Candice has evaluated nearly 20,000 startups globally for accelerator admittance and fund investment. In a family office 8 figure AUM, she invested in 20 startups and saw two successful exits, one of which was SoFi. In her first 120-days at Florida Funders, Candice sourced and qualified 80+ engaged, FL-based investor-advisor-SMEs. Candice attended the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey Bay, CA where she studied Impact Investing and Social Entrepreneurship Management. Additionally, she has two degrees in Biology and Communication with an emphasis in Corporate Marketing and Advertising from the University of Louisville.

Management consultant > 2x entrepreneur > VC.

Carmen is the VP of Endeavor’s Entrepreneur Selection and Growth ESG team. In this role, she leads a team across NY and SF which oversees the selection and services of Endeavor’s global portfolio of entrepreneurs across 8 different industry verticals and 34 markets. Since joining Endeavor in 2013, Carmen has been head of two regional portfolios the Middle East and Latin America/Europe, as well as the Retail and Consumer Tech industry portfolio globally; led Access to Talent partnerships and services for Endeavor Entrepreneurs worldwide; and played an active role in Endeavor’s expansion efforts into new markets, including most recently Ecuador and Puerto Rico. She was selected to be an Endeavor Fellow in 2016, and to attend Endeavor’s Innovation and Growth program at the Stanford Graduate School of Business 2015, Scaling Entrepreneurial Ventures program at Harvard Business School 2017, and Scaling Leadership at Insead 2019. Originally from the Dominican Republic and raised in New York, Carmen graduated from Harvard with a degree in History and language citations in both French and Modern Standard Arabic. She went on to earn her MA in Middle Eastern Studies from the American University of Beirut while living in Lebanon for a couple of years. Today, she lives in New York, enjoys traveling, keeping up with current and cultural affairs, and practicing yoga, which she is certified in.

Born in São Paulo to Swiss and Belgium/Portuguese parents, Carolina was raised in Portugal. While earning her BA in London in Business and International Relations, she worked at Swiss embassies in Paris, Madrid, Chicago and New York City. In 2012, Carolina graduated from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism with a Masters Degree in Digital Journalism. Carolina has built her career around tech; first by reporting on it for Al-Jazeera and Newsweek, and later by scaling community, marketing, and business development strategies at e-commerce and fintech startups in New York City. In 2016, Carolina joined Insight Venture Partners, where she led portfolio facing platform and community strategies as part of the Insight Onsite growth team. Carolina was a competitive surfer until the age of 18 and enjoys all things sports and outdoors. She is fluent in Portuguese and English, and conversational in German, French, and Spanish. In her spare time, you might find her at a Parity Partners meeting where she is proud to join multiple FSI and female tech leaders around the world to promote diversity in Venture Capital.

Caroline lifts and elevates the stories and perspectives from the byFounders Collective and portfolio companies, to ensure byFounders continues to add value and remain anchored across its key markets. She started her career working with world-renowned FMCG companies, like Starbucks and Microsoft, but pivoted into the Nordic startup ecosystem in 2017. Prior to joining byFounders, she supported startups in scaling by executing impactful marketing and PR campaigns in the UK and the US.

Caroline Haun is Director of Operations for 8VC. Prior to 8VC, Caroline managed operations for Formation 8. Prior to Formation 8, she worked at Highbridge Capital, in New York, as a Client Services professional specializing in loan focused funds. Caroline began her career at San Francisco based hedge fund, PFM, L.P. as a research assistant focused on the Healthcare sector. Caroline received her B.S. in Business Administration with a concentration in Finance from The University of the Pacific.

Caroline is excited to be joining Female Founders Fund as an Operations Associate following over four years living in the UK, where she graduated from the University of St. Andrews with top honors. There, she studied International Relations and Management while serving as two-year captain for the university soccer team. During this time, Caroline also assisted in managing leading comedians as a PR Intern at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Following her graduation, she worked in London as a Marketing Associate at software start-up FrontM and as a Campaign Operations Executive at CNBC International.

Casey is a data driven marketer with over 19 years experience creating digital programs and platforms. Prior to joining OV, Casey worked in marketing leadership roles at E*TRADE, eBay, PayPal, Virgin Mobile, and the NHLPA. Most recently he spent the last four years consulting with venture backed start-ups on marketing analytics and automation.

Casey Taylor is VP of Development at Digital Currency Group, the worlds leading investor in bitcoin and blockchain companies. Drawing from a career in venture capital and nonprofit tech advocacy, Casey provides support and strategy to 100+ portfolio companies and DCGs three wholly owned subsidiaries – Genesis Trading, Grayscale Investments, and Coindesk.

Cassandra Kanaki joined Accel London in 2019 as an intern and later progressed into an associate role to focus on strengthening the ecosystem and portfolio development efforts. Prior to Accel, Cassandra spent the summer next to the investment team at Balderton Capital, a leading early stage venture capital fund. In the past she has been the co-founder of a social enterprise on food waste and has a background in Psychology. Cassandra is Greek and holds an MSc in Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Management from Imperial College Business School.

Cassie is the Vice President of Talent at VMG Partners, a growth equity firm which invests in consumer branded products such as Daily Harvest, Pill Club, KIND Snacks, Justin’s, Ancient Nutrition, Quest Nutrition, Bare Snacks, Stone Brewing…and many others. Prior to her tenure at VMG Partners, she did executive search at SPMB and various Operations and Talent roles at Goldman Sachs. She’s originally from Arizona where she completed her Bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University in Mathematics and Business.

As Primarys Operating Partner focused on go-to-market strategy, Cassie partners closely with our founders and portfolio companies to help them build, scale and optimize their sales, marketing and customer operations. Before joining Primary in early 2020, Cassie was Chief Customer Officer for CM Group, an Insight-owned family of global marketing technology brands including Sailthru, Campaign Monitor, Delivra, Emma, Vuture and Liveclicker; Cassie assumed that role when CM Group acquired Sailthru in late 2018. In her post as Chief Customer Officer, she ran an end-to-end customer operations team of 200+ people around the globe while also working on general business strategy and MandA for CM Groups portfolio. Prior to the acquisition, she served as Sailthrus Chief Commercial Officer, where she led the companys transition into the enterprise market and was featured as 25 in The Saas Reports Top Women Leaders in SaaS in 2018. Cassie joined Sailthru from Gerson Lehrman Group where as VP Marketing and Analytics, she helped to lead GLGs intrapreneurship efforts. Prior to GLG, she served as VP Marketing for Savored acquired by Groupon in 2012. Previously, Cassie was an early employee at TheLadders.com, where she spent several years managing marketing and analytics for the companys subscription business. She began her career as a technology and media analyst at Citigroup Global Corporate and Investment Bank. Cassie graduated from Duke University and holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. She is also on the advisory board for Venture for America.

I am a people first investor and accidental work therapist. After a decade of operating in early stage startups and nearly five years of helping build capability, brand, and impact at Primary Ventures, I recently joined The Venture Collective TVC as an investment partner and founding team member. At TVC, we are focused on leveling the “pre-seed” playing field for underrepresented founders by giving them value-add infrastructure through our core team and a growing network of High-Net-Worth Individuals HNWIs and Family Offices FOs. We believe the combination of the two will vastly improve the likelihood that a company doesn’t fall susceptible to the infamous “Valley of Death”.

Cat Rauschuber engages, supports, and communicates with Cota Capitals investors and broader community of stakeholders. Prior to Cota, she worked in San Francisco government and politics, including most recently for San Francisco Board of Supervisors President David Chiu. She has crafted and implemented many complex policies and pieces of legislation, some of which became first-in-the-nation examples for local governments. Cat has held senior policy and analyst positions with the City and County of San Francisco’s Office of the Budget and Legislative Analyst, Department of the Environment, and Recreation and Park Department. She has served on a number of boards, including the San Francisco League of Conservation Voters and the National Womens Political Committee - San Francisco. Cat received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin and her Master of Public Policy from Harvard University John F. Kennedy School of Government, where she was a recipient of the Public Service Fellowship.

I lead Learning at Lightspeed where I work with companies on challenges ranging from Recruiting, HR, People Programs, Compensation Strategy, DandI, etc. Prior to Lightspeed, I was a technical recruiter at Google and led new-hire onboarding for global teams. In a previous life, I played D1 Softball at Santa Clara University.

As the Marketing and Community Manager at Hyde Park Angels, Cate drives and strengthens HPA’s internal and external communities by managing investor and partner relationships; spearheading all of HPA’s internal and external communications; and developing programming, education, and engagement initiatives. Prior to joining HPA, Cate worked at an experiential marketing agency, a PR agency and a start-up, which provided her with a diverse range of skills in marketing, writing, design and strategy. Cate graduated with honors from Elon University with a degree in Strategic Communications with minors in Human Services and Entrepreneurship.

Catherine Benz is an Associate at Sidewalk Infrastructure. In addition to providing transaction support, she is responsible for Sidewalk Infrastructure’s Strategic Value Creation program, which provides its partners with a platform for programmatic engagement with industry leaders on high-impact topics. Previously, Catherine was an Associate on the Investments and Partnerships team at Sidewalk Labs. She has prior experience at Ibis Networks, a plug load energy management company, as well as at the World Resources Institute, where she was responsible for conducting analyses on U.S. energy infrastructure economics. More recently, she worked at a mobility startup, Zendrive, where she led and launched the company’s first large-scale data mapping project. Catherine graduated from Stanford University with a BS in Energy Strategy and Engineering and an MS in Sustainability Science and Practice. While at Stanford, Catherine was selected for the Mayfield Fellowship. Catherine is based in Sidewalk Infrastructure’s Silicon Valley office and lives in San Francisco, California.

Corporate and business development professional with experience working across industries software, venture capital, healthcare U.S. and global, pharma. Skilled in program and portfolio management, market research and analysis, strategic planning, relationship building, and transformative partnerships. Holds a BA and an MBA from the University of Washington.

Catherine is Head of Communications and Platform at Cherry Ventures, bringing several years of professional journalism experience to the team. Most recently, she was a freelance journalist reporting on German tech for Silicon Allee and Sifted, a Financial Times-backed news site. She moved to Berlin as a Fulbright scholar in 2018 to research art restitution after spending several years as CNN’s White House and Capitol Hill assignment editor. Catherine hails from the Washington, DC area and earned her bachelors degree with honors in English literature from Dartmouth College.

Cathryn Paine leads talent management and organizational development for Anzu Partners, providing counsel on recruiting, People ops, and business operations to its portfolio companies. Cathryn has spent the majority of her career working for software companies, most recently for Mapbox, a high growth start-up building mapping and location tools for developers. Cathryn led recruiting at Mapbox through its A and B funding rounds, quadrupling the size of the company. She was also instrumental in building and executing processes around HR, compensation, benefits, performance reviews, and employment policies. Previously, Cathryn ran operations for FrontlineSMS, a mobile messaging software company with offices in Washington, DC and Nairobi, Kenya

Engaged and motivated IR associate with 10 years of various experiences within venture capital. A resourceful and motivated self-starter seeking with extensive investor and finance knowledge.

Cecille Almeda is a Program Manager with the Innovation and Partnerships team at 500 Startups. She has led operations for its global programs and HQ events, including the SF PreMoney Investor Conference, Unity + Inclusion Summit, as well as Accelerator Program Demo Days in Miami, Singapore, Malaysia, and Japan. She continues to develop and manage programs worldwide, from startup selection, program design, mentor staffing, and community engagement.

10 years in distribution prior to coming to the Ventures team.

Ive been in Financial services for many years including stints at Citi and BNY Mellon, and specialize in the investment industry

Chang Xu is a Partner at Basis Set Ventures, where she focuses on investing in developer-led products. She previously was a Principal at Upfront Ventures, the oldest and largest SoCal-based early stage venture capital firm. Prior to investing, she was a founder and an operator. She was the first Product Manager at the Minerva Project. She co-founded and was the COO of Onion Math, an ed-tech startup in China that has raised $90M to-date. She started her career at BCG where she advised clients across technology, retail, healthcare and private equity. She holds an MBA and AB in Applied Math and Computer Science, both from Harvard.

Charles loves working with and supporting passionate entrepreneurs who are trying to change the status quo. Charles brings varied experience across investing and operations strategy and management to his role at Point72 Ventures.

I’m happiest when i’m working on challenging problems in a dynamic environment, and I figured out that being an investor isn’t for me after spending a few years in the front office in PE. I’m excited to be part of the broader VC community today, and I’m looking for a way to really make a difference in a concrete way for startups.

Investor and advisor for the last two decades

Charlotte is an experienced content strategist with an extensive background in developing branded content, marketing, and social strategies for startups. Charlotte currently creates and executes on a wide range of content and community projects for Expa and its studio companies. Expa is a startup studio designed for entrepreneurs to create and launch new companies, created by Uber co-founder Garrett Camp.

Charlotte joined Index in 2020 as Vice President of Growth. She is building out the next generation of talent for Index Ventures. Prior to Index, Charlotte was tenaciously building out the VP and C-Level teams for some of the fastest growing startups from San Francisco to London. She spent five years working directly for Paul Daversa at Daversa Partners partnering with top-tier VC and Growth Funds to bring in global talent. Her work included companies such as Atlasssian, Square, DocuSign, Uber, Doordash, Peloton, Deliveroo, AppDynamics, Airbnb.

Chase Martin leads creative and branding efforts for Glasswing Ventures and is responsible for the firms content creation and distribution across media and social channels. Over the past decade, he has created 350+ high-impact videos and written 200+ IoT news stories with a passion for innovation and a relentless curiosity for what’s next. In a prior life, he was also a sponsored athlete.

Chelsea orchestrates investment systems, processes, and new initiatives at Techstars, the worldwide network that helps entrepreneurs succeed. With mentorship-driven accelerator programs around the world, Techstars has a growing portfolio of 2000+ companies and is now making ~500 investments each year. Prior, Chelsea worked closely alongside Techstars founder and co-CEO David Brown, supporting strategic initiatives and executive communications across Techstars global staff and leadership team. Before relocating to Boulder from NYC and joining Techstars in 2016, Chelsea cut her teeth in a variety of client-facing and operational roles with startups in telemedicine, retail, and marketing, among others. When not connecting dots across her team and broader Techstars, Chelsea can be found on hikes with her two dogs, getting miles in ahead of her next marathon, making headway on home improvement projects, and - not often enough - exploring beginner-friendly mountain bike trails. She is also very active in dog rescue, fostering, and advocacy.

Im Chloe Cohen, working at Starquest Capital, a French VC fund based in Paris, investing in Seed and Serie A in European startups, which I joined in November 2018. Before joining Starquest, I worked as an analyst at Idinvest Partners/Eurazeo, a leading pan-European VC and PE firm. I also worked in the operational team at a London-based startup and as a business developer at a US startup. I graduated from a French engineering school, the Mines, as well as UC Berkeley, the Haas School of Business, in 2018. In my free time, I enjoy traveling, dancing and writing memes.

Chris Hillock is the Vice President of Business at Dell Technologies Capital Ventures. He is chartered with creating go to market partnerships for our portfolio companies within Dell Technologies business units, as well as fostering direct engagements with large enterprise and innovative customers interested in leading-edge technology solutions. For Chris, joining Dell Technologies Capital was a unique opportunity to work with such a talented team and group of companies building incredible technologies. Chris enjoys working with customers to identify solutions from the Dell Technologies portfolio that can assist in solving their pain points or business problems. Chris is a graduate of Fairfield University where he received my Bachelors in Marketing and Information Systems, the University of Connecticut where he received his MBA in Finance, and Executive Education in Entrepreneurial Studies from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Chris is taking care of Innovation Nests deal flow activities and making sure that people know about Innovation Nest. He runs an invite only event called SaaS Meetup which gathers together B2B SaaS Companies, Founders, Mentors and Investors. Previously he was taking care of marketing for a Board of European Students of Technology, addressing 32 countries and over 90 universities. Life is a challenge. How big is yours?

Prior to joining Bessemer he worked as an Investment Associate at Trusted Insight, a fund of funds focused on backing emerging early stage VC fund managers. Previously, Chris served in a variety of operational roles including sales operations, partnerships and corporate development at Endgame, a Bessemer portfolio company. Chris graduated from Dartmouth College majoring in Government with a focus on International Relations. He remains actively involved on campus serving on the Alumni Council and helping facilitate the entrepreneurial ecosystem as a volunteer venture fellow at Green D Ventures.

Co-founder, MUD Geochemical. Acquired in 2016. 10+ investments while Partner at RealCo Long-Term Accelerator. 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30. Hook ’em Horns.

Chris Wu is a Senior Associate at Impact Engine, an impact investing firm that manages venture capital and private equity funds. He works on the ventures team, where he oversees all the post-investment support services for the portfolio companies and also helps identify and evaluate prospective investments. Prior to joining Impact Engine, Chris was an engineering consultant providing structural engineering services for the design and construction of municipal water infrastructure and green buildings, including the world’s first skyscraper to earn LEED Platinum certification. In 2013, he took a break from engineering to become owner and head baker of a small bakery. Chris earned a BS and MS in Structural Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.

Christiaan Ballard is a Talent Acquisition Manager at B Capital Group, based in Singapore. She partners with APAC portfolio companies to drive strategic talent initiatives. Prior to joining B Capital, Christiaan spent 7 years at HubSpot, where she most recently led their APAC recruiting team. During her time there she experienced HubSpot’s growth from early stages through IPO and understands the critical role that talent acquisition plays in the success of a business. Christiaan attended Northeastern University where she received a B.S. in Psychology and a minor in Business Administration.

Ten years at True and I wake up every day feeling like weve only barely scratched the surface.

Christian Garrett is Head of Platform at 137 Ventures. His responsibilities include supporting existing partner client? with our services, managing and expanding our platform, and business development. Previously he worked at Caerus Investment Advisors, setting up a single family office. Prior to that, he held roles across business development and strategy at startups in consumer electronics, VR, social networks, and architectural development. He holds his BS in Education from The University of Kansas, where he played basketball for all 4 years as a student-athlete, winning 4 Big 12 Championships and going to The Final Four in 2011. Christian holds the FINRA certification as a licensed investment advisor.

Christie is Partner + Chief of Staff of Backstage Capital. She is responsible for guiding our Crew to ensure Backstage runs smoothly towards its mission as well as joining Managing Partner, Arlan Hamilton, in making investment decisions aka signing Headliners! Christie has extensive experience creating valuable partnerships between startups and Fortune 500 top 20 corporations, and joins Backstage from her role as Venture Development Manager at Verizon Ventures. Christie holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from San Jose State University, and an MBA from University of Phoenix.

Christina has built a career focused on operations and partnership management. Before joining Modern Venture Partners as Partner and Managing Director of M-fusion at Modern Venture Partners, Christina served as Chief Operating Officer of biometric technology company Decatur Europe, Ltd. Previously, she was Senior Manager of Global Partnerships at Twitter, where she worked with the platforms biggest advertisers and content partners. As the first Program Manager on Twitter’s Brand Strategy team, Christina scaled operations and production from a 5-person outfit working in the U.S. to a global team delivering high-impact, bespoke programs. Most recently, Christina was a venture partner of Strawberry Creek Ventures and founded and built TotScene, a digital hospitality resource for parents. She serves as a board member for The Mom Economy, a 501c3 organization driving advocacy and raising awareness and financial support for parental leave initiatives in the U.S. Christina started her career in finance Thomas Weisel Partners and brand management The Clorox Company. Christina received her MBA from the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business and her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley at the Walter A. Haas School of Business.

As Director of Venture Development, Christina Ducruet focuses on optimizing place and community as a competitive advantage for Company’s residents. Her mission is to attract visionary builders to our hub by making Company the most compelling and resource rich venture platform in NYC. Christina honed her community innovation skills as Head of Member Experience at Chief, a private network for women executives. In less than a year, she designed and implemented the exclusive start-up’s critically acclaimed group coaching service during its explosive growth from 0 to 1000+ members. Prior to Chief, Christina led the development of new products, services and experiences for companies like Uber, Wells Fargo, Saks Fifth Avenue and Marriott as a Senior Consultant with Fahrenheit 212, a pioneering innovation strategy and design firm. She began her career at Bridgewater Associates where she worked with the CEO and CIOs on shaping key strategic communications and brand initiatives. Christina graduated from Brown University with a BA in Modern Culture and Media. Outside work, she brings her future-driven curiosity and strategic insight to bear as an angel investor in leading edge companies in emergent categories.

Christina joined the Insight Onsite Marketing team in 2017. As the Portfolio Engagement Marketing Manager, she focuses on providing Insights portfolio companies with knowledge, connections and resources. Prior to Insight, she developed innovative marketing campaigns and strategic partnerships for a variety of clients as an independent consultant. Before that, she spent three years creating marketing partnerships for General Assembly. While growing up in Boston, Christina co-founded a philanthropic venture and interned at iHeartMedia, Facebook, Breakaway Ventures, Hearst, Entrepreneur First and WeWork. These experiences inspired her to design an Individualized Field of Study in Entrepreneurship and become President of GW Entrepreneurs Club at George Washington University.

I believe storytelling is an engine for transformation. Storytelling builds trust, it builds brands, and its the force that unites teams and sparks movements. By trade, I traverse the switchbacks of owned and earned media. If its a good story, itll have an audience. And if it has an audience, its about finding the right home across digital, social, or other platforms that live out loud. Who I am: - I am a writer and analytical thinker. - I value honesty, work ethic, creative integrity, and prioritizing joy and forgiveness in life. - I believe in cultivating inclusive and diverse work environments. - I am a social justice advocate and believe businesses are more sustainable when theres a deep sense of empathy and compassion for their customers and team members. - For those interested: INFJ; Enneagram 4; Libra Sun, Libra Moon, Cancer Rising; Pitta-Kapha. As a former city hall reporter, I started my career in tech leading integrated communications strategy for enterprise tech businesses. Before joining Bessemer, I spent three years building content, customer, and community marketing programs at Mixpanel, a user analytics platform. I graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in English Literature and Creative Writing, Phi Beta Kappa, where I indulged in my love of Irish literature and American poetry.

Christine Lai is a cross-sector collaboration catalyst, connecting capital, ideas, opportunities, and people for positive social change. She currently serves as a Connector with Village Global, supporting the community and network. Previously, Christine served as Chief of Staff with Delivering Happiness, a coachsultancy [hybrid coaching + consulting] creating more successful, sustainable cultures with corporations, governments, universities, and other organizations. She also has prior experience in education, hospitality, and sports. Christine is a yes-mad [currently on the road 100%] and loves spending time enjoying good company, conversation, and cuisine. She is inspired and invigorated by bringing people together to do epic, generative things.

Chris Fisher is Operating Partner for Hong Kong based early stage venture capital firm, Click Ventures, where he invests in highly scalable tech ventures. Within the firm he focuses on helping portfolio companies form strategies, grow, acquire, sell, and IPO. Since 2004 he has been an active angel investor in the USA, China, and Hong Kong with interests primarily in advertising technology, clean energy and education. In 2015 he wrote the Taiwan chapter for Angel Financing in Asia Pacific. Chris holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and London Business School. He earned a bachelor in physics with honours from Case Western Reserve University

Cian Hughes is a Cambridge, UK based venture capitalist and technology entrepreneur with over 20 years operational experience in the areas of venture capital, accelerators, executive networks, software solutions, mobile platforms and supply chain operations. Previously Cian was an executive with Lotus Inc. now IBM, Intel Corporation and Palm Inc. as well as being Vice President of Operations for the San Francisco and San Jose, CA based Silicon Valley Global SVG Partners. In addition to venture capital and software executive positions, he also ran a solar manufacturing facility in Cardiff Wales and global smartphone repair, service and reverse logistics centers in the Czech Republic and the UK. Significant experience of building global business networks, deal flow origination and VC platform development with returns of up to 18X on investments. Cian holds a BSc in Mathematics and Physics from University College Dublin UCD and a post-graduate higher diploma in Business Management from Trinity College Dublin TCD.

Ciara is the People and Operations Manager at Kairos. She is responsible for all things related to employee experience and company culture. Prior to Kairos, Ciara worked at Grovo Learning, a micro-learning company that sold to Cornerstone OnDemand where she was a critical member of the acquisition team through year one. Ciara has a degree in English Education from Syracuse University. She spent her childhood on Long Island beaches with her family’s English Bulldog, Sir Winston.

Cissy helps manage partnerships for GV’s portfolio companies and works to support startups as they scale by connecting them with Fortune 500s and other corporations. Prior to GV, Cissy worked in fixed income product management at Wellington Management, partnering with the investment team to manage financial reserve assets and develop new products for insurance and pension clients. She also worked on Wellington’s sustainable fixed income efforts. Before joining Wellington, Cissy worked at Fidelity Investments, Bain Capital, John Hancock Manulife, and the Massachusetts State House. Cissy earned her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a dual concentration in finance and business law and a minor in political science from Boston University.

My role at Notion consists of all things marketing. Responsibilities are varied and include coordinating regular events and meetups, supporting our ‘Notion Insights’ thought-leadership programmes, managing Notion’s social media channels, analysing the marketing metrics, compiling content for the monthly newsletter and coordinating, uploading and sharing new blogs, podcasts and video content. I joined the Notion family in July 2018, to work with a diverse community of tech start-ups and engaging colleagues. I relish the opportunity to learn from an impressive team and to develop new skills everyday. Prior to joining Notion I worked predominantly in start-ups including onefinestay and Zipjet, focusing on areas such as recruitment and marketing. These experiences have afforded me invaluable insight into the day-to-day life of start-ups. Additionally, I hold a BA in German Studies from the University of Warwick and a Graduate Diploma in Law from the University of Law.

Found of innovation and entrepreneurship, I have been working on communication and influence issues for various players. Before being Head of Coms for a healthcare startup and after having internally experienced big corporates with IBM and Accenture, I have worked on different fields within dedicated and indepedent communication consulting agencies: Deloitte, Hyperloop TT, Visa, Mastercard, Gras Savoie Willis Towers Watson, Salesforce, Cloudera, Qatar Airways, etc.

Cliff Worley, Sr. Director of Portfolio Growth Marketing, supports our portfolio companies in all aspects of digital and growth marketing strategies. Cliff received his his B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley and MBA from W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College. After graduating from Babson, Cliff joined the Shark Group, a branding consultancy firm created by renowned entrepreneur Daymond John. As Chief Digital Officer, Cliff set the digital strategy for Daymond John and worked as a digital strategist for all of his Shark Tank investments. Prior to Kapor Capital, Cliff held the role of Co-Chief Communications Officer at the Kapor Center, where he managed the digital strategy to help make the technology industry and entrepreneurship more diverse, inclusive, and impactful. Cliff is also on the board of The NASDAQ Entrepreneurial Center, a non-profit designed to educate, innovate, and connect aspiring and current entrepreneurs.

After graduating from The Ohio State University in May 2020 with a bachelors degree in Strategic Communications and minors in German and Professional Writing, I joined Next Coast Ventures as Marketing Manager. In this role, I am in charge of executing all content creation, public relations, and branding initiatives. As one of the sole marketers on the team, I have learned to adapt quickly and take on any project needed at the time. Next Coast Ventures is an Austin-based venture capital firm that provides early-stage capital to high-growth startups in ‘Next Coast’ markets, using macro trends and themes to guide its investment strategy. Prior to Next Coast Ventures, I had experience in multiple communications and project management roles at The Ohio State University Office of Outreach and Engagement as well as Pelotonia, one of the largest fitness-focused nonprofits in the country.

Colleen leads marketing for M12, Microsoft’s venture fund, and serves on the board of Women@Microsoft. She has held several marketing and communications roles across Microsoft, most recently as the Executive Communications Manager for the head of Microsoft Azure. Colleen holds an MBA from the University of Washington Foster School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard College. She produces Microsoft’s Women in Business and Technology podcast and co-hosts Microsoft’s weekly YouTube series, Microsoft Unboxed. Colleen is on the board of Seattle nonprofit Reel Grrls, which empowers young women and gender nonconforming youth to share their stories through media production.

Colter has seen the startup space from every perspective: consultant, employee, operator, and VC. These days he leads Data and Analytics efforts internally at 500 Startups. Though he loves his maps and weather charts for backcountry adventures, these days data drives decision making here on the ground to help find, support, and champion great founders.

Conor works with our Midwest corporate LPs to ensure Heartland’s portfolio aligns with their strategic and financial needs. As Head of Platform, he leverages his knowledge of the challenges facing Midwestern businesses, gleaned from his experience as a Consultant to many such firms. His history of overseeing the development and growth of new technology products and delivering them to legacy firms is similarly advantageous. A transplant to the Midwest, now going on 10 years, Conor is passionate about connecting the region’s unique businesses with technology being developed on the coasts. Conor is a graduate of Loyola University Maryland and the University of Notre Dame Law School.

Wharton undergrad and grad. Investment banking analyst, head of product at NYC startup, Ground Up Ventures founder and general partner.

Cristian is Global Knowledge Lead at BCG Digital Ventures in Manhattan Beach. He is responsible for reducing the friction in knowledge exchange across DVs cohorts, offices, and ventures. Prior to joining BCG DV, Cristian oversaw knowledge management at Siegel+Gale, a global branding firm based in New York, as Global Knowledge Manager. There, he introduced various collaboration technologies and advised leadership on effective strategies for improved cross-functional and cross-geographic collaboration. He strongly believes organizations and the people who compose them can work better through the strategic application of technology and process. But what matters most in any knowledge management practice is a relentless dedication to user-centered technology and process design.

Crystal joined SignalFire in 2017 to lead the development of SignalFires recruitment process and implementation program. Crystal works with founders, executives, and talent acquisition teams to devise comprehensive recruiting strategy, advise on systems development, and often rolls up her sleeves to do some good, old-fashioned recruiting and network building. Additionally, Crystal lends her culture-building skills to coordinate SignalFire’s team events, and develop programs that engage the team in meaningful volunteerism and philanthropic opportunities that service the community. Prior to SignalFire, Crystal led Recruiting at BetterWorks, where she successfully scaled the team from 6 to 90 people and implemented key talent and people operations initiatives, including the design and execution of customized recruitment plans, construction of internal interviewer training workshops, and implementation of a new employer branding. Crystal began her recruiting career at Riviera Partners, where for over 4 years she worked with a number of top venture-backed startups to build out their technical talent teams. Crystal held many key roles within the org, spanning full-desk technical recruiting, leading her to develop Rivieras first Recruitment Process Outsourcing RPO division/On-site deployment program, which gained tremendous traction in both pre-IPO and early-stage startups. Throughout her years of running successful RPO sprints, Crystal brought a consultative approach to advising teams, recruiting top talent, training and mentoring recruiters and executives on recruiting best practices. After the success in her previous roles at Riviera Partners, Crystal was hand-selected as project manager for RiviApps, Riviera’s internal and external suite of software tools. During this time she directed the project lifecycle for technology-driven initiatives from concept through rollout and contributed to the on-time release, change management, and integration of RiviApps solutions across 800+ client sites. Crystal earned her Bachelors from the University of San Diego in Mass Media and Communication while additionally focusing her studies on entrepreneurship. During her time at USD, she studied abroad in Spain, and during her free time she continues to travel and discover hidden gems around the world.

Cynthia van Sundert is Director, Community Development, Strategic Investments and Women in Tech Venture Fund. In this role, she manages and cultivates networks as well as develops outreach strategies helping build long lasting relationships with community partners to support early stage women-led tech companies. Cynthia has spent over a decade in technology innovation across various industries. Prior to joining BDC, she was the Executive Director at the A100 responsible for engaging community partners to contribute to the organization’s long-term mandate of supporting the next generation of tech entrepreneurs. She has also been ‘in the trenches’ with several early stage tech firms – experiencing the exhilaration of the startup world for which she has a deep passion. Cynthia holds a Master of Public Administration MPA from the University of Victoria and a Bachelor of Business Administration BBA from Mount Royal University. In addition, she was named as one of BetaKit’s “80 Women in Canada Worth Following” in 2019 and recognized as an Alberta SHEInnovator by SHEInnovatesAB – the first Canadian chapter of the UN Women initiative.

Dahlia is the Platform Manager at Village Capital, where she supports and delivers the best post-program resources as well as managing and cultivating the Village Capital Community Network. Prior to Village Capital, she was on the event team at Tech.Co formerly Tech Cocktail a media company and event organization for startups, entrepreneurs, and techies; where she supported their events and marketing team. Previously she was the Influencer and Social Media Lead at PopNod a marketing studio that champions women-led brands. Dahlia holds a MA from American University in Strategic Communications and a B.A from Mount Saint Mary’s University in Communications.

Spent 3 years at Rubrik, Inc. in business operations. Prior to that, I spent 3 years at BAMLs Tech IB team in Palo Alto. Studied MSandE at Stanford.

Daisy is Head of Network at Backed VC, and working hard to grow and systematise community-sourced deal flow, talent referrals and media content. Shes also an Advisor at Roam, Emerge, and sits on the board of global charity, Future Brilliance. Previously, she was in charge of inviting A-list speakers to Web Summit and its sister conferences. She co-founded Refugee Info Network a project around gathering EU asylum information to supply to refugee camps in Lesbos and Calais, and in 2017, joined the ranks of Sunday Business Post’s 30 under 30. She enjoys travel, pies, medium sarcasm, and facilitating connections to make things happen.

Dale is the Operating Partner at Scale. In his role, Dale is a resource for guidance on evolving go-to-market strategies as well as providing best practices and benchmarks across the portfolio. Previously, Dale was a Director at the Alexander Group; a consulting firm specialized in go-to-market strategy. At the Alexander Group, he was the leader of the Cloud practice and advised companies including Salesforce.com, LinkedIn, Box, Docusign, New Relic, Optimizely and MixPanel. Prior to his career in consulting, he worked in sales and sales operations roles at startups including Proofpoint and Jaspersoft.

Led FirstMarks Platform efforts since 2012.

Dan Moss joined Updata Partners in 2011 and is a Principal. Prior to joining Updata, Dan was an analyst in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Barclays Capital, where he provided strategic and MandA advisory services and participated in executing capital markets transactions with a concentration in the software and IT services sectors. Dan began his career as an analyst at America’s Growth Capital, a boutique investment banking firm where he provided advisory services to growth-stage companies across the technology industry. Dan graduated summa cum laude from Colby College with a double major in Mathematical Sciences and Economics with a Concentration in Financial Markets. He is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society.

Executive in Residence @ MaRS advising mid to late stage tech companies mostly Enterprise B2B Software. Diverse experience both the consulting and corporate in-house side with high growth companies as well as with mature multinationals Intel Corporation, Aviva. Top 25 Human Resource Award Winner 2017 and The HRD Reader’s Choice Award for Best Service Provider 2018.