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Co-Founder and Managing Partner 01 Advisors
Founder and CEO Chef Robotics
Partner Harlem Capital
Co-Founder and Managing Partner 01 Advisors
Co-Founder and CPO Sentry
Co-Founder, President, and Partner Sapphire Ventures
General Partner Felicis
General Partner 01 Advisors
General Partner Andreessen Horowitz
Head of Operations & Talent 645 Ventures
Co-Founder and Chief Design Officer Runway
Co-Founder & Managing General Partner MaC Venture Capital
Founder & CEO Flexport
Captain of Moonshots X, The Moonshot Factory
Co-Founder Wonder Dynamics, an Autodesk company
Founder & CEO Waabi
Managing Partner VITALIZE Venture Capital
CEO, Founder Pulley
Partner IVP
Adam Bain is the co-founder and managing partner at 01 Advisors, a venture firm targeting companies who have found product-market fit and are looking for operating expertise as they scale. He also serves on the Board of Directors at Opendoor (NASDAQ: OPEN). Adam is the former Chief Operating Officer of Twitter, where he was responsible for the company’s business lines, including the go-to-market, product and operations teams for the advertising and data businesses. Previously, Adam was the President of the Audience Network at News Corp and ran Product teams at Fox Sports and The Los Angeles Times. In 2012, Adam ranked #1 in Ad Week’s annual listing of the top 50 indispensable talent. In 2013, Adam was inducted into The American Advertising Federation Hall of Achievement. In 2015, Adam was named one of the 30 United Nations Women “He for She” Impact Champions to help advance gender equality.
Rajat Bhageria is the Founder and CEO of Chef Robotics, a company based in San Francisco that designs and deploys AI-enabled robotics that help food companies flexibly automate their production, thereby helping them overcome the labor shortage, increase production volume, and keep production on-shore. He’s also the Founder and Managing Partner at Prototype Capital.
Gabby Cazeau is a Partner at Harlem Capital – where All Winners are Welcome. At the firm she invests in pre-seed and seed startups, primarily in Enterprise and Vertical software and Applied AI. Gabby sits on the VC Council of Startup:NYC. She has been featured in Business Insider, CNBC, and named to Crain’s NYC 40 Under 40. Gabby received her MBA from the Yale School of Management and holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Washington University in St. Louis
Dick Costolo is a co-founder and managing partner at 01 Advisors, an early growth venture firm leveraging our operating experience to help companies scale. Prior to co-founding 01 Advisors, he was CEO of Twitter from 2010 to 2015 and has been Founder and CEO of multiple startups, including FeedBurner, which was acquired by Google in 2007. The former improv comedian has been a consultant on HBO’s “Silicon Valley” and holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Michigan.
David Cramer is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Sentry, which helps developers find and fix bugs faster so they can get back to the fun parts of building. David started Sentry as an Open Source side project in 2012; today it’s used by over four million developers at over 100,000 organizations, including companies like Anthropic, Disney, Instacart, Duolingo, Slack, and Cursor. In his spare time, he builds projects to dogfood Sentry on and is an angel investor in Vercel, Laravel, Dandelion Chocolate, and dozens of other companies.
Jai is Co-Founder, President, and Partner at leading global software VC firm, Sapphire Ventures. His current investments include Glean, Netskope, Cohesity, Huntress, ThoughtSpot, Defense Unicorns, Clari, CircleCI, DataRobot, JumpCloud, Simpplr, Blockdaemon, and UJET. Fourteen of his investments have IPO’ed, including MuleSoft, Jfrog, Five9, Nutanix, Alteryx, Square, ExactTarget, Apigee, Box, and SumoLogic, while twenty-four of his investments have been acquired. Jai focuses primarily on enterprise tech trends, including AI as a platform shift and its impact on B2B SaaS, and the evolving VC landscape as it pertains to growth-stage companies.
Viviana is a General Partner at Felicis, bringing over 20 years of experience designing and building brand categories for successful cloud/SaaS and enterprise social companies. Her expertise includes scaling go-to-market SaaS teams, messaging and positioning, category creation, freemium product strategy, and sales enablement. An experienced angel investor, Viviana previously served as an operating partner and advisor at Emergence Capital. She held leadership positions in marketing at Yammer, Salesforce, Platfora, and Zenefits. After Yammer’s $1.2B acquisition by Microsoft, she became its head of marketing for enterprise social, which included Office 365, Skype, and Lync. She has a BS in Operations Management & Information Systems from Santa Clara University and enjoys spending time with her family and traveling internationally.
David Fischer is a General Partner at 01 Advisors, a venture firm targeting companies that have found product-market fit and are looking for operating expertise as they scale. David is the former Chief Revenue Officer of Facebook. He served at the company from 2010 to 2021, overseeing the advertising business and managing the sales and marketing teams worldwide. In that role, he led the growth of the company’s revenue from less than $1 billion a year to over $100 billion in 2021, while serving over 200 million businesses through the company’s products. Prior to joining Facebook in 2010, David was Vice President of Global Online Sales and Operations at Google. Starting in 2002, he built and directed Google’s online sales channel. David previously served as Deputy Chief of Staff of the U.S. Treasury Department in the late 1990’s. Prior to that, David was an Associate Editor at U.S. News & World Report, where he covered economics and business from Washington, DC.
David George is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where he leads the firm’s Growth investing team and has led many of the firm’s growth investments. Prior to joining a16z, David spent seven years at General Atlantic leading and partnering on numerous consumer internet and enterprise software growth investments, including Airbnb, AppDynamics, Opendoor, Slack, and Uber. Previously, he was an investment associate at FFL Partners and an investment banking analyst for William Blair & Company. David graduated summa cum laude from the University of Notre Dame and earned his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is a member of the Board of Trustees and Investment Committee of Sacred Heart Schools-Atherton and the Advisory Council of the IDEA Center at the University of Notre Dame, and sits on the board of the Foundation for Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford. David is a proud native of Kentucky, where he developed his love of basketball, bourbon, and horse racing.
Randi Jakubowitz is the Head of Operations & Talent at 645 Ventures. In this role, she partners with existing portfolio founders to build their teams and culture, create scalable talent-focused processes and leverages best practices to help evolve early-stage companies into rapidly-growing, growth stage category-leading businesses. She also leads the internal People/HR function for 645 Ventures. In addition, Randi is responsible for founder programming, the firm’s events & sponsorship strategies, community development for 645’s portfolio operators and aspects of the firms day-to-day operations across both NYC & SF. Prior to 645, Randi was a Senior People Leader at high-growth companies across a variety of industries including: Seamless/GrubHub (ecommerce), Toptal (tech/services marketplace), Paro (fintech/services marketplace) and Havas (advertising). Randi was a part of the operational leadership team that took Seamless through the GrubHub merger and later, the GRUB IPO. Randi is also a Professional Coach and she received a Bachelor of Business Administration from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School in Atlanta, Georgia.
Alejandro Matamala Ortiz is the Chief Design Officer and Co-founder of Runway. He previously was a research resident at New York University, exploring the interaction of AI and Creativity.
Marlon Nichols is the co-founder and managing general partner of MaC Venture Capital, a leading seed-stage firm renowned for backing visionary founders who redefine industries. Under his leadership, MaC has grown into one of North America’s largest seed-stage venture firms, surpassing $600 million in assets under management (AUM). In October 2024, the firm announced the closing of its third fund ($150 million), further solidifying its influence in the early-stage investment landscape. Marlon’s portfolio includes industry-defining companies such as Airspace, Blavity, FINESSE, Gimlet Media, MongoDB, Pipe, Purestream, Thrive Market, and Shekel Mobility, among others. His keen eye for transformative opportunities has earned him widespread recognition, including consecutive placements on Los Angeles Business Journal’s LA500 (2022–2024) and Business Insider’s Seed 100 (Top Early-Stage Investors) for three years. Additionally, he ranks 25th on the Kauffman Fellows Fund Returners Index and has been featured in PitchBook’s 25 Black Founders and VCs to Watch for six years. His expertise is frequently sought by top media outlets such as Axios, CNBC, Fortune, and more. A passionate advocate for diversity and inclusion, Marlon serves on the board of Kauffman Fellows, working to expand representation for underrepresented minorities in venture capital. With a unique blend of technology acumen and leadership principles shaped by his athletic background, he actively mentors CEOs, fosters strategic partnerships, and helps founders scale their businesses into market leaders.
Ryan Petersen is Founder and CEO of Flexport, a leader in global supply chain technology. Since its inception, more than 10,000 companies of all sizes – from emerging brands to Fortune 500s – have used Flexport’s logistics and technology to move more than $175 billion dollars in merchandise. Prior to starting Flexport, Ryan was the founder and CEO of ImportGenius, a premier provider of transaction data for the global trade industry. He earned a BA from UC Berkeley and an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Dr. Astro Teller currently oversees X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory for building breakthrough technologies and businesses designed to help tackle huge problems in the world. Before joining Google / Alphabet, Astro was the co-founding CEO of Cerebellum Capital, Inc, an investment management firm whose investments are continuously designed, executed, and improved by a software system based on techniques from statistical machine learning. Before his tenure as a business executive, Dr. Teller taught at Stanford University and was an engineer and researcher for Phoenix Laser Technologies, Stanford’s Center for Integrated Systems, and The Carnegie Group Incorporated. Dr. Teller holds a Bachelor of Science in computer science from Stanford University, Masters of Science in symbolic and heuristic computation, also from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence from Carnegie Mellon University, where he was a recipient of the Hertz fellowship.
Nikola Todorovic is the Co-Founder of Wonder Dynamics, an Autodesk Company. An entrepreneur, visual effects supervisor, and award-winning filmmaker, Nikola spent most of his career working at the intersection of film and technology. This ultimately led him to dream up Wonder Dynamics with fellow co-founder and actor/producer Tye Sheridan. Together, they created the company’s proprietary AI software, Autodesk Flow Studio (previously Wonder Studio), a cloud-based 3D animation, CGI and VFX platform that combines artificial intelligence (AI) with established tools, helping artists more easily animate, light, and compose 3D characters within live-action scenes. In 2024, Wonder Dynamics was acquired by Autodesk, giving even more creators access to the industry-leading technology.
Raquel Urtasun is Founder and CEO of Waabi, an AI company building the next generation of self-driving technology. Raquel is also a Full Professor at the University of Toronto and a co-founder of the Vector Institute for AI. Raquel earned her Ph.D. from the Computer Science department at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2006 and did her postdoc at MIT and UC Berkeley. In 2024, she was named a fellow of The Royal Society of Canada for her contributions to computer science and was included on the CNBC Changemakers: Women Transforming Business list. In 2023, she was named one of the TIME100 Most Influential People in AI, made Business Insider’s AI 100 list of Top People in AI, and was awarded the Ontario Chamber of Commerce’s Emerging Tech CEO Award and the Order of Ontario, the highest civilian honor in the province.
Gale Wilkinson is the founder and Managing Partner at VITALIZE, a seed stage venture capital fund investing in transformative WorkTech software. Previously, Wilkinson founded IrishAngels, one of the largest angel groups in the world. Gale has led nearly $80M in early-stage deals across 150+ portfolio companies, and she has made 50 personal angel investments. Her experience prior to VC includes founding two HR tech startups, consulting for new product launches with Nielsen, and data strategy with Orbitz. Wilkinson received a BBA with honors from Notre Dame and an MBA with honors from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She is a founding Board member of Chicago:Blend, an organization focused on increasing diversity in VC and startups in Chicago. Wilkinson enjoys public speaking, design, teaching, and connecting. Her inspirations include energy work, vintage and antique pieces, dogs, and nature. She is an avid dog rescuer and will be publishing her first book (on pet loss grief) very soon. You can find her on X @galeforceVC. She lives in Chicago and Nashville with her husband and two dogs.
Yin Wu is the co-founder and CEO of Pulley, the equity management platform empowering startups to take control of their cap tables with speed and transparency. A seasoned entrepreneur and engineer, Yin has founded four companies. Before Pulley, she built ventures ranging from door-to-door laundry service to computer vision technology for advertising. Her most notable early success, Echo, a customizable Android lock screen, amassed over five million downloads before being acquired by Microsoft in 2015, where it continues to live on as Microsoft Launcher. Yin is redefining how startups manage equity—one founder at a time.
Zeya Yang is a Partner at IVP, where he invests in AI-native companies transforming how we work and create. Zeya brings sharp product intuition and a thoughtful, founder-first mindset to every partnership, shaped by his experience as both an investor and a builder. Prior to IVP, he focused on early-stage SaaS and AI investing at a16z. Before his time in venture, Zeya led product for several teams at Plaid and was the founding PM of the Subscription Growth team at Dropbox. Zeya’s investing track record includes companies like Graphite, Macro, and Tennr. He’s become a trusted thought partner to technical teams navigating the path to product-market fit. A global citizen, he’s lived in China, Japan, and Canada and draws on that perspective to connect with founders. Zeya holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University, where he graduated second in his class, and an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he was a Baker Scholar.