Clayton Bryan is a Partner at 500 Global. Clayton has spent time at some of the most innovative companies in Silicon Valley. He has built expansive online communities, scaled marketplace businesses, and facilitated million dollar deals. At Yahoo he worked on award winning products. Later, at Payvment, he helped a team pioneer a new set of tools that started the social commerce movement. With Diversity as a guiding principle, Clayton has spent the entirety of his career within venture capital focused on supporting underrepresented founders. In 2016, Clayton and four others launched a non-profit organization, Transparent Collective, tasked with coaching and connecting underrepresented founders with investors. Companies to have gone through Transparent Collective's program have raised tens of millions of dollars in early stage financings. Clayton has invested in over 40 companies, including Butlr, EMTECH, Public Goods, EcoCart, Printify, Silk+Sonder, and JusticeText,r. He Received a Bachelors of Arts in Political Economy from The University of California, Berkeley and his Masters of Business Administration from The Stern School of Business at New York University. Topics: Building a successful startup community Key lessons from scaling marketplace businesses Early-Stage Investment Trends Globally #VentureCapital #CommunityBuilding #500Global #StartupMentoring #FounderSuccess