Abe Murray is a General Partner leading Deep Tech & Robotics investments and incubations at AlleyCorp. Abe has more than 20 years of engineering experience, having spent time as a product and engineering leader in various roles at Alphabet, where he launched Play Books and Magazines at Android, built the Verily Life Science product teams and Boston office, and shipped several AI/ML and computer vision products across Google while building the Google Research product management team. Before that, he founded a Web 2.0 startup and worked on unmanned aerial vehicles in the defense industry. Topics: - Current trends in Deep Tech and Robotics investing - The intersection of Robotics and Climate - Consumer applications of AI and robotics #DeepTech #Robotics #AIInvesting #ClimateInnovation #VentureCapital

Sakib Dadi is a partner at Stage 2, spending most of his time investing in infrastructure software companies. Prior to Stage 2, Sakib was an investor at Bessemer Venture Partners for almost a decade where he partnered with companies including LaunchDarkly, Guild Education, Sila Nanotechnologies, Intercom, PagerDuty, Prefect, Basis Theory, Optimal Dynamics, Appwrite, Litify, Coder.com, Syndio, Arcion, Periscope Data (acq'd by Sisense), Okera (acq.d by Databricks), npm (acq'd by GitHub), .Sakib received his Bachelor’s degrees in Materials Science & Engineering and Economics, as well as a Master’s in Materials Science & Engineering, from the University of Pennsylvania. Topics: 1. Current and emerging trends in the infrastructure software space 2. The future of developer tools 3. Data infrastructure and analytics #InfrastructureSoftware #VCInsights #TechInvesting #DevTools #CloudTech

Buddy Arnheim is a Founding Partner at Lobby Capital. For more than 25 years, Buddy has been funding, building, and advising a panoply of early stage technology companies ranging from: consumer facing services like OpenTable, TicketsNow, Trulia, Quizlet, HotelTonight, and Mystery Science; to FinTech / InsureTech platforms like Hippo Insurance and Lively HSA; to enterprise solutions like Cloudera, Box, and SentinelOne; as well as hardware and deep tech businesses like Skydio, R-Zero Systems, Level Home and SpinLaunch. Buddy has been involved in the launch of dozens of ventures across the technology spectrum. Prior to Lobby Capital, Buddy founded and ran the Perkins Coie’s Emerging Company and Venture Capital Practice, managed Orthogonal Ventures, an early stage investment fund, and co-managed a late stage venture investment fund, Hut8 Ventures. Buddy has also been an operator and innovator in the robotics, computer vision and aerospace domains. He was the co-founder of solar-powered atmospheric satellite company, Titan Aerospace, which was acquired by Google in 2014, and an early advisor to SpinLaunch. Buddy holds a BS with a concentration in finance from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and a JD from the University of Illinois, where he teaches a course on entrepreneurship. Topics: 1. The intersection of law and venture capital in the tech industry. 2. The future of robotics and computer vision in various industries. 3. Insights on aerospace innovations and investments #VentureCapital #TechInnovation #StartupFunding #FinTech #DeepTech

Saaya Nath is a Partner at Jump Capital. She joined Jump Capital in 2020 and leads new venture capital investment opportunities. Prior to joining Jump, Saaya worked as a strategy consultant at Boston Consulting Group, where she spent time in the Private Equity practice and across a variety of strategy and operations projects. Saaya attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, earning a BS in Computer Engineering. Her areas of interest: Enterprise SaaS, AI Tooling, Workflow Automation, and Future of Work. Topics: 1. Trends in Enterprise SaaS 2. The evolution of AI tooling for businesses 3. Key factors in evaluating early-stage tech companies #VentureCapital #EnterpriseSaaS #AITooling #WorkflowAutomation #FutureOfWork

Saanya Ojha is a Partner at Bain Capital Ventures where she leads growth stage investments in cloud infrastructure, cyber security, and the developer ecosystem. Previously, she was a Partner at Coatue focused on growth investments after having started her career as a Hedge Fund analyst at Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, a long/short fundamental equity fund. A career investor, she is driven by the fundamental question of what makes a good business and has experience investing across stages, verticals, and geographies. Originally from India, she now lives in San Francisco but has lived and worked across New York, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Topics: - The evolution of cloud infrastructure and its impact on businesses - Current trends and future predictions in cybersecurity investments - The developer ecosystem: Key players and emerging opportunities #VentureCapital #TechInvesting #CloudInfrastructure #Cybersecurity #WomenInVC

Brian D. Huber is a fund partner at Gunderson Dettmer. Brian supports venture capital and growth equity fund managers on all aspects of the fund lifecycle. Brian has significant experience advising fund managers on issues related to fundraising, GP management, and economics, including the tax and structuring aspects of fund formations and investments globally. He helps clients navigate complex issues in the evolving legal and regulatory landscape, such as the impact of recent tax reform on investment and organizational decision-making. Mr. Huber also has significant experience advising fund managers and investors in connection with secondary purchases and sales of fund interests. Brian has spoken extensively on tax reform issues affecting the fund industry, including with regard to carried interest, the impact on tax exempt U.S. and non-US investors, and international tax structuring. He is an active member of the ABA Business Law Section’s Private Equity and Venture Capital Committee and previously served as co-chair of the board of directors for the Massachusetts LGBTQ Bar Association. Brian has also participated as a delegate at the National LGBT Bar Association’s Affiliates Congress Annual Meeting. Topics: 1. Key considerations for fund managers throughout the fund lifecycle 2. Key legal considerations for first-time fund managers 3. Lessons learned from complex fund formations and investments #VentureCapital #FundManagement #InvestorRelations #VCLaw #FundFormation

Retired Amazon Vice President, LinkedIn Top Voice, 70+ patents; led global teams of 800+, now Executive Coach and course creator focused on helping leaders grow to true executives. Topics: 1. Strategies for effective global team management. 2. Adapting corporate experience to entrepreneurial ventures. 3. Building a personal brand after a high-profile corporate career. #ExecutiveLeadership #AmazonAlum #LinkedInInfluencer #PatentInnovator #TechToCoach

Ron Levin is a Managing Partner and Head of AV Super Angel Partner Program. He has spent his career in a variety of entrepreneurial, leadership, and business development roles. He has been an angel investor and advisor to over a dozen technology startups. Ron was Co-Founder and CEO of TravelPerk, a VC-backed travel management platform that is now a “unicorn” company with thousands of employees and customers across the globe. Prior to TravelPerk, he started the B2B division of Booking.com and before that was a consultant with McKinsey & Co. Ron began his career at Lycos, one of the web’s pioneer search engine and web portals. Ron graduated from Babson College and received his MBA from Harvard Business School. He is the author of the impact-focused Higher Purpose Venture Capital Blog. Topics: 1. The evolution of travel tech 2. Building a unicorn company: Challenges and strategies 3. Identifying promising startups #VentureCapital #AngelInvesting #TechStartups #TravelTech #Entrepreneurship

David Hornik is a Founding Partner with Lobby Capital. For more than 25 years, David has helped technology entrepreneurs build transformative businesses. Prior to founding Lobby Capital, he spent 20 years as a general partner at August Capital. David invests in a broad range of software companies, including enterprise application, infrastructure, and SaaS businesses (Splunk, Fastly, GitLab), financial technology companies (Bill.com, WePay, PayNearMe), and consumer services (Evite, Ebates, Remix AI). David has spent the last two decades building technology communities – along with starting the first venture capital blog, VentureBlog, and the first venture capital podcast, VentureCast, David served as the Tech Curator for the TED Conference in Vancouver, co-created and hosted TEDxStanford, and founded and produces the Lobby Confrences. David received Deloitte’s Venture Capitalist of the Year award and has been honored by Forbes Magazine as a member of its Midas List of top Venture Capitalists. David has an eclectic educational background. He received a BA from Stanford in Computer Music, a Masters of Philosophy in Criminology from Cambridge University, and a JD from Harvard Law School. He teaches courses in entrepreneurship and venture capital at Stanford Business School and Harvard Law School, and serves as a VC Partner at the Harvard Business School. David lives in Palo Alto and Chelsea with his wife Pamela and their dog Teddy. He has four grown children. Along with serving on the board of GLAAD, a leading LGBTQ rights organization, David is a commissioner of the Smithsonian American Art Museum and is a member of the board of the Stanford Alumni Association. Topics: - Building a winning portfolio for long-term success - Insights from backing billion-dollar startups - Opportunities for entrepreneurs in enterprise software #VCInsights #StartupSuccess #TechInvesting #EntrepreneurshipTips #FintechFuture

Vivek Ramaswami is a Partner at Madrona. He joined Madrona in 2022. As part of the Madrona investment team based in California, Vivek partners with ambitious founders across enterprise software, cloud infrastructure, data tools, intelligent applications, and fintech. He focuses on helping founders who have achieved product-market fit scale to the next level. Vivek has spent his career investing in high-growth companies across software and fintech. Prior to Madrona, Vivek helped launch the venture capital arm of Steadfast Capital, where he led investments in Zapier, Klaviyo, Lucid, Forethought, Sendbird, Jumpcloud, Algolia, Wealthsimple, and other high-growth companies. Prior to Steadfast, Vivek was a Principal at Redpoint for five years, where he helped source or work on investments in SentinelOne, Nubank, Bright Health, Cockroach Labs, Hashicorp, and others. Vivek started his career in technology investment banking at Goldman Sachs, advising clients on M&A and IPO opportunities in the software and consumer internet sectors. Vivek was named to the Forbes’ 30 Under 30 for Venture Capital in 2021. Vivek is originally from Alberta, Canada, and holds a bachelor’s from the Ivey Business School at Western University. Topics: - Open Source Models and AI Development - Deepfakes and AI Ethics - Cross-Cloud Data Sharing #AI #OpenSource #GenerativeAI #Deepfakes #DataPrivacy