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Kevin Hartz
Partner, Founders Fund ($3B under management); Co-Founder & Chairman, Eventbrite (funded by Sequoia Capital & Tiger Global, valuation $1B)
Tim Draper
Founder and a Managing Director, DFJ and Draper Associates
Navin Chaddha
Managing Director, Mayfield Fund ($2.7B under management)
Alexander Galitsky
Managing Partner, Almaz Capital Partners; Early Investor, Yandex, Qik (sold to Skype)
Aaref Hilaly
Partner, Sequoia Capital
Keith Rabois
Senior Investment Partner, Khosla Ventures; Board Member, Yelp, Xoom; early investor in YouTube, Yammer, Palantir, Lyft, AirBnB, Eventbrite and Quora; Senior Executive at PayPal
Hans Tung
Managing Partner, GGV Capital ($3.8B under management). Forbes Midas List (early investor: Alibaba, Xiaomi)
Andy Tsao
Managing Director, Global Gateway, Silicon Valley Bank
Ricardo Angel
Managing Director, GE Ventures
Jeff Clavier
Founder & Managing Partner, SoftTech VC
Devdutt Yellurkar
General Partner, Charles River Ventures (early investor, Zendesk, with Market Cap $1.7B)
Jon Callaghan
Founding Partner, True Ventures
Paul Holland
General Partner, Foundation Capital
Jonathan Heiliger
Partner, Vertex Ventures
Matt Ocko
Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Data Collective; investor in Facebook, Zynga, AngelList, Uber, Fortinet; Founder, Da Vinci Systems
Steve Jurvetson
Early-Stage Venture Capitalist, Co-Founder of DFJ and Future Ventures; Early VC investor in SpaceX, Tesla, Synthetic Genomics, Hotmail and D-Wave.
Amit Kumar
Partner at Accel
Alex Rosen
Managing Director, Ridge Ventures (formerly, IDG Ventures)
Alfred Lin
Partner, Sequoia Capital
George Zachary
Partner, Charles River Ventures
Byron Deeter
Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners
Geoffrey Baehr
General Partner, Almaz Capital
Tim Guleri
Managing Director, Sierra Ventures
Manu Kumar
Founding Partner, K9 Ventures
William Draper
CO-Chair, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Alex Shubat
Founder & CEO, Espresa
Ira Ehrenpreis
Managing Partner, DBL Partners; Early Investor & Board Member, Tesla (NASDAQ: TLSA) with $25B market cap
Steve Schlenker
DN Capital, Managing Partner
Mike Maples
Founding Partner, Floodgate
Salil Deshpande
Managing Director, Bain Capital Partners; Midas List. Early Investor, Lending Club (NASDAQ: LC) with $7.5B market cap
Bill Tai
Partner, Charles River Ventures
Saar Gur
Partner, Charles River Ventures
Mitchell Kapor
Partner, Kapor Capital
Vivek Mehra
General Partner, August Capital
Vinod Khosla
Founding Partner, Khosla Ventures
Maha Ibrahim
Partner, Canaan Partners
Brian Jacobs
Founding Partner, Emergence Capital
Max Levchin
Founder and CEO, Slide; co-founder and former CTO, PayPal
Aydin Senkut
Founding Partner, Felicis Ventures
Shawn Carolan
Managing Director, Menlo Ventures
Shanna Tellerman
Partner, Google Ventures
Jeffrey Crowe
Managing Partner, Norwest Venture Partners, Forbes Midas List, Board Member, Lending Club, investor, Spotify and Uber
Ping Li
General Partner, Accel Partners
Gili Raanan
General PArtner, Sequoia Capital (Israel)
Kittu Kolluri
General Partner, New Enterprise Associates
Ari Levy
Senior Technology Reporter, CNBC Digital
Gary Little
Co-founder and Partner, Canvas Ventures
Oren Zeev
Early investor, Board Member, Houzz; early investor, Chegg (IPO, $700M market cap)
Ken Elefant
Managing Director, Sorenson Capital
Ramneek Gupta
Managing Director, Co-Head of Venture Investing, Citi Ventures
Shripriya Mahesh
Partner, Spero Ventures
Theresia Gouw
Partner, Accel Partners
Ron Conway
Managing Director, SV Angels
Pitch Johnson
Founding Partner, Asset Management Company
Esther Dyson
Director, 23andMe
Charles Giancarlo
Managing Director, Silver Lake
Ann Winblad
Managing Partner, Hummer Winblad Venture Partners
Dan Avida
General Partner, Opus Capital
Michael Copeland
Partner, Andreessen Horowitz
Anna Dvornikova
CoFounder & CoChair, SVOD / Managing Partner, TEC Ventures
Dixon Doll
Founding Partner, DCM
Ross Hangebrauck
Managing Director, Almaz Capital
Eric Benhamou
Eric Benhamou, Founder, Benhamou Global Ventures, former chairman and CEO of 3Com and Palm, Inc.
Ashmeet Sidana
Managing Partner, Engineering Capital
Mood Rowghani
Partner, Digital Growth, KPCB (investor: Twitter, Indiegogo, Instacart, DocuSign, Slack, Waze)
James Currier
Managing Partner, NFX Guild. Co-Founder, Ooga Labs; Co-Founder, IronPearl (sold to PayPal); CEO, WonderHill (acquired by Kabam); CEO, Tickle (acquired by Monster for $100M+)
Prashant Shah
Managing Director, TiE LaunchPad
Ilya Sukhar
Part-time partner, Y Combinator
Edith Yeung
Founding Partner, Proof of Capital; Advisor, 500 Startups
Niko Bonatsos
Managing Director at General Catalyst
Ulrich Quay
Managing Partner, BMW i Ventures
Dan Luscher
Managing Director, ADAP
Dave McClure
Founder, 500StartUps
Matt Cohler
General Partner, Benchmark Capital
Khaled Nasr
Partner, InterWest Partners
Santi Subotovsky
General Partner at Emergence Capital
Cheryl Cheng
Partner at BlueRun Ventures
Jacques Benkoski
Partner at U.S. Venture Partners
Alexandra Suich
US Technology Editor, The Economist
Andy Page
President, 23andMe
Don Wood
Managing Director, Draper Fisher Jurvetson
Daniil Stolyarov
Investment Director, Almaz Capital
Ammar Hanafi
General Partner, Moment Ventures
Rob Theis
Partner, Scale Venture Partners
Scott Hartley
Partner, Mohr-Davidow Ventures
Roman Simonov
Managing Director, Siguler Guff
Oded Hermoni
Director (Silicon Valley), Rhodium Capital
Marcelo Manjon
Vice President, Stanford Angels & Entrepreneurs association
Sergio Monsalve
Partner, Norwest Venture Partners
Gary Lauder
Managing Director, Lauder Partners LLC
Emily Becher
SVP and Head of Samsung NEXT International
Steve Goldberg
Operating Partner, Venrock
Reza Malekzadeh
General Partner at Partech Ventures
Jeff Epstein
Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners
Anis Uzzaman
General Partner at Pegasus Tech Ventures
Michael Fertik
Managing Partner, Heroic Ventures
Stas Khirman
CoFOunder & CoChair, SVOD / Managing Partner, TEC Ventures
Louis Schreier
Vice President, Deutsche Telekom Laboratories
Chris Rust
Managing Partner, Clear Venture Partners; early investor, GoPro (IPO, market cap $3B)
Yasmin Lukatz
Executive Director, ICON - Israel Collaboration Network
Jeff Richards
Managing Partner, GGV Capital
Guy Kawasaki
Founding partner, Garage Technology Ventures
Jim Smith
Partner, Mohr Davidow Ventures
Carol Sands
Founder, The Angels' Forum
Vish Mishra
Managing Director, BlueVine Ventures
Rudy Burger
Managing Partner, Woodside Capital Partners
Gady Nemirovsky
General Partner, Inspiration Ventures
Raanan Bar-Cohen
General Partner, Resolute Ventures
Keval Desai
Partner, InterWest Partners
Eric Young
Partner and Co-Founder, Canaan Partners
Mark Boslet
Senior Editor, Venture Capital Journal
Viktoriya Tigipko
TA Ventures, Managing Director
Ben Shih
Icon Ventures, Partner
Esteban Sosnik
Partner, Reach Newschools Capital
Protected: Ekta Dang
Venture Capitalist at Intel Capital
Diana Moldavsky
Angel Investor
David Cao
Founder, F50 & F50 Ventures
David Wu
General Partner at Maveron
Xiao Wang
Managing General Partner of InnoSpring Seed Fund
John Dougery
Managing Director, Inventus Capital Partners
Amit Shah
Partner, Artiman Ventures
Shankar Chandran
Head of Samsung Catalyst Fund
Lu Zhang
Managing Partner, Fusion Fund
Umesh Padval
Partner, Thomvest Ventures
Brent Ahrens
General Partner at Canaan Partners
Matthew Bigge
Partner at Crosslink Capital
Upal Basu
General Partner at NGP Capital
Don Butler
Partner at Thomvest Ventures
Aaron Jacobson
Partner at New Enterprise Associates
John Gardner
Partner at NGP Capital
Arvind Purushotham
Global Head of Venture Investing at Citi Ventures
Duncan Davidson
Managing Partner at Bullpen Capital
Matthew Davie
Managing Director, Financial Inclusion & Blockchain, Kiva
Zach Noorani
Partner at Foundation Capital
Paula Goldman
Senior Director, Global Lead for Impact Investing, Omidyar Network
Eric Buatois
General Partner, Benhamou Global Ventures
Benjamin Bayat
Investor, Illuminate Ventures
Spencer Tall
Managing Director, Allegis Capital
Cindy Padnos
Partner, Illuminate Ventures
Serge Plotkin
Venture Partner, Opus Capital
Ravi Mulugu
Partner, UL Ventures
Mary Jo Potter
Entrepreneur and Investor
Sanjit Dang
Intel Capital, Investment Director
Sue Xu
Partner, Amino Capital
Ping Wu
Founding Partner at SummitView Capital
Umair Akeel
Operating Partner at Bessemer Venture Partners
Lyon Wong
Managing Partner at Spectrum 28
Kent Ho
Founding General Partner at Spectrum 28
SC Moatti
Managing Director, The Angels' Forum
Adam Goldberg
Partner, Lightspeed Venture Partners
Pavel Korolev
Founding Partner at Pulsar Venture Capital
Gil Ben-Artzy
Founding Partner at UpWest Labs
Roy Glasberg
Global lead Google Accelerator & startup program
Angelo Del Priore
Partner at HP Tech Ventures
Susan Mason
General Partner at Aligned Partners
Alexander Lupachev
Director, SigulerGuff
Andrew Filev
CEO, Wrike
Dror Berman
Founding Partner, Innovation Endeavors
Vlad Pigin
Microsoft Ventures Fund
Kyle Lui
DCM Ventures, Principal
Ariel Tseitlin
Scale Venture Partners, Partner
Larry Kelly
Managing Director, Kelly Ventures
Christian Thaler-Wolski
International Venture Capitalist
John Yu
Founding Partner of Oriza Ventures
Alisa Yaffa
Founder and Managing Director, Step Up Funding
Alex Liang
Partner at Oriza Ventures
Ken Sobajima
Senior Director of Investments at KDDI
Kaz Shimizu
Manager of Investment at KDDI
Gregory Leproux
Vice President of Business Development, Swisscom
Minal Hasan
General Partner, K2 Global
Ajoy Mallik
Founding Managing Partner at Follow[the]seed
Cyril Ebersweiler
General Partner at SOSV
Yaniv Golan
General Partner at lool ventures
Aarti Chandna
Partner at Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund
Ilya Gelfenbeyn
Head of the Google Assistant Investments
Alex Niehenke
Principal, Scale Venture Partners
Igor Taber
Director, Intel Capital
Matt Carbonara
Senior Director at Cisco Investments
Raymond Liao
Samsung NEXT Ventures, Managing Director
Sonja Markova
Executive Director of the Band of Angels
Hugo Tam
Associate, Sand Hill Angels
Alexey Girin
General Partner, Starta Capital
Katya Dorozhkina
Managing Partner, Starta Capital
Richard Guha
Entrepreneur in Residence, Connecticut Innovations
Adi Ruppin
Angel Investor
Vitaly Golomb
Managing Partner, GS Capital
Jinlin Wang
Managing Director of TEEC Angel Fund
Homan Yuen
Managing Partner, Fusion Fund
Bob Sanguedolce
Angel Investor
Eyal Shaked
Managing Director, Shaked Ventures
Semyon Dukach
Managing Director, Techstars
Guy Resheff
Partner, Grove Ventures
Peter Bell
Chairman, BCSV / Senior Advisor, Highland Capital Partner
Victor Orlovsky
Founder & Managing Partner of R136 Ventures
Pavan Nigam
Founding Partner of Inspovation Ventures
Ilana Golan
General Partner, Homrun
David Auerbach
Founding Partner at Inspovation Ventures
Yaron Kniajer
Managing Director at Rhodium
Ryan Gembala
Managing Director at Pathbreaker Ventures
George Arabian
Managing Partner at Steelhead Ventures
Patrick Guerra
Band of Angels / Co-founder of the Global Social Benefit Incubator
Dmitry Grishin
Founder, Grishin Robotics
Harry Feng
Venture Partner at Fusion Fund
Kamil Saeid
Associate, Aspect Ventures
Michael Minkevich
Angel Investor, Managing Partner at GTSaaS
Alex Scherbakovsky
General Partner AXA Venture Partners
Phin Upham
Managing Partner, Haymaker Capital
Tiemin Zhao
IPV Capital, Partner
Tirto Adji
General Partner, Palapa Ventures
Vitaly Polekhin
Managing Partner at Venture Angels
Gregory Shifrin
Managing Partner at Venture Angels
Jun Li
General Partner at Wisemont Capital
Christopher Hermanowicz
Principal at DOCOMO Innovations, Inc.
Andrei Ponomarev
CEO of Enter Capital
Asif Giga
Investor at Singtel Innov8 Ventures
Evgeny Medvednikov
Angel investor, Venture partner at Starta Accelerator
Masa Isono
Principal at DEFTA Partners
Tony Ng
Venture Capitalist at Mandra Capital
Pavel Tubin
Managing Partner, 3F Capital
Moshi Delgo
Angel Investor
Daniel Wirjoprawiro
Venture Partner at Trimantium
Bo Nam
Principal at Columbus Nova Technology Partners
Maya Vardi Shoshani
Director, West Coast Representative, BIRD Foundation
Vijay Reddy
Director, Intel Capital
Shuonan Chen
Managing Partner of Agile VC
Marco Marinucci
Managing Partner MTS Venture Partners
David Waxman
Managing Partner at TenOneTen Ventures
Rodrigo Sanchez Servitje
Managing Partner at B37 Ventures
Safa Rashtchy
Managing Director, Think+
Chris Chu
Managing Director at Samsung Catalyst Fund
Takashi Suzuki
CEO Docomo Innovations
Ryan Scott
CEO of Causecast
Matthew Le Merle
Managing Partner at Keiretsu Capital
Mason Ng
Angel Investor, Sand Hill Angels,
Niki Pezeshki
Vice President, Felicis Ventures
Crystal Huang
Principal at GGV Capital
Roman Glukhovsky
Partner at Andra Capital
Jonathan Mi
Principal Partner at Brightpath Capital Partners
Bill Reichert
Managing Director, Garage Technology Ventures
Igor Shoifot
Partner, TMT Investments
Artem Burachenok
Partner at Flint Capital
Bernard Slede
Partner at Sapien Ventures:
Dylan Gale
Associate at Airbus Ventures
Francis Shih
Principal at Arena Ventures
Albert Malikov
Angel Investor
Brandon Farwell
Partner at Rothenberg Ventures
Jun Deng
Investment Manager at TEEC Angel Fund
Andre Gueziec
Angel investor
Oleksiy Osnach
Associate at SCM Advisors
Jeff Chen
Angel Investor
Zosia Ulatowski
Principal, Cornerstone Venture Partners
Ali Wasti
Principal at Azure Capital Partners
Andrew Romans
General Partner of Rubicon Venture Capital
Dan Raveh
Principal at Commerce Ventures
Brad McManus
Managing Director at Motorola Solutions Venture Capital
Carl Wu
Founding PM of UberCommute
Nancy Wang
Investments Director, California Technology Ventures
Keith Winter
Affiliate Investor at Inspovation Ventures
Henri Deshays
Partner at NewFund Capital
Loic Comolli
Co-CEO at NESsT
Terri Mead
Managing Partner of Class Bravo Ventures
Jeff Lee
Principal at DCM Ventures
Eyal Bilgrai
Managing Partner, Pomegranate Ventures
Andy Wong
Angel Investor at Kieretsu Forum
Sumeet Jain
Partner at LUMA Capital Partners
Ben Laufer
Angel and Impact Investor
Harsh Gokal
Angel Investor
Mark Lockareff
Managing Director, ClearPath Partners
Arun Penmetsa
Partner at Storm Ventures
Muddu Sudhakar
Angel Investor
Nathaniel Krasnoff
Investor at Wildcat Venture Partners
Brano Perkovich
Chief Investment Officer at San Francisco 49ers
Guy Horowitz
Partner, Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners
Jay Boddu
Vice President of New Products at Juniper Networks
Shelley Zhuang
Managing Partner at 11.2 Capital
Norm Gitis
Managing Partner at Lymo Ventures
Asad Khaliq
Investor at Aspect Ventures
Timo Kilp
Associate at Sony Innovation Fund
Cameron Turner
The Oxford Angel Fund
Lilia Shirman
Managing Director at Golden Seeds
Andriy Dovzhenko
Managing Partner, SMRK VC Fund
Rich Moore
Angel Investor, Band Of Angels
Andrew Karasev
Managing Partner at 3F Capital
Karl Schade
Managing Partner, Presidio Investors
Ryan Han Liu
Investor at IPV Capital
Phil Boyer
Principal at Crosslink Capital
Vignesh Ravikumar
Associate at Sierra Ventures
Firdavs Abdunazarov
Investor at Rothenberg Ventures
Sherry Chuang
Investor at Sand Hill Angels
Vibhor Rastogi
Partner at Symphony Incubator Fund
Diane Ding
Partner at Shenzhen Valley Ventures
Matt Bornstein
Principal at Blumberg Capital
Victor Masaya
Managing Director at Presidio Investors
Zhen Cao
Investment Manager of Outpost Capital
Chian Gong
Senior Associate at Reach Capital
Larry Wang
Associate at Lumia Capital
John Wong
Principal at NexStar Partners
Sagi Paz
Venture Partner at Entrée Capital
Bruce Ge
President at F50
Jordan Wahbeh
managing Director at Bay Angels
Ben Narasin
President, TriplePoint Ventures
Tim Young
Founding Partner, Eniac Ventures
Valery Didyaev
Angel Investor
Monali Jain
Angel Investor, Space Angel Network
Dušan Stojanović
Founder and Director, True Global Ventures
Yevgen Sysoyev
Managing Partner, AVentures Capital
Aymerik Renard
General Partner at Hardware Club
Roman Sidelnikov
Angel Investor
Farshad Nowshadi
VC/Mentor at Level39-London and VP of Saman Bank
Sergey Patsko
General Partner at PV Seed Fund I
Stuart Soffer
Angel Investor
Jennifer Cooper
Global Head, M&E and Broadcast Industry Growth & Marketing, Adobe
Ye Yuan
Investment Manager at Oriza Ventures
Lei Qi
Investor at SAIC Capital
Itzik Lerner
Angel Investor
Carmen Palafox
Partner at Make in LA
Farooq Abbasi
Principal at Costanoa Ventures
Dmitriy Kolchin
Angel Investor
Harry Dixon
Associate at Flint Capital
Eddy Lee
Principal, Fenox Venture Capital
Andrey Kolodyuk
Founder and Managing Partner, AVentures
Tim Wilson
General Partner , Artiman Ventures
Arkady Borkovsky
CTO, Yandex Labs
Andy Mattes
Senior Vice President and Chief Sales Officer, Technology Solutions Group, Hewlett-Packard Company
Isaac Fehrenbach
Principal, Greylock Partners
Nathan Low
Founder, Zion Tech Angels, Israel
Anne Lidgard
Director, VINNOVA Silicon Valley Office
Amy Rubin
Head of Brand Strategy, SanDisk Corporation
Sergei Burkov
Angel Investor
Val Babajov
Managing Director, Voivoda Ventures
Yusuke Otsubo
Managing Partner, UMJ Russia Fund
Dave Mosby
Exec. Dir., Keiretsu Forum Academy
Jack Leeney
US Head of Investing, Telefonica Ventures
Vadim Asadov
Angel Investor
Mircea Mihaescu
Managing Director, SBT Venture Capital
Patrick Suel
Venture Partner, Panasonic Venture Group
Michael Golomb
Angel Investor
Kyle Kling
Associate, Fenox VC
Jeremy Schneider
Principal, Webb Investment Network
Vito Bialla
Partner and Founder, Bialla Venture Partners fund LLC
David Uri
Board Member and Investment Advisor, Endurance Holdings, LLC
Ephraim Lindenbaum
Managing Director, Advance Ventures
Lauren Kolodny
Principal, Aspect Ventures
Steve Hoffman
Managing Director, FOUNDERS.VC
Thorsten Claus
Director at Northgate Capital
Matthew Fix
Torque Capital, Founding Partner
Yoav Andrew Leitersdorf
YL Ventures Managing Partner
Jonathan Lay
Macquarie Capital, Analyst
William Kim
Varsity Ventures, Founding Partner
Sol Zlotchenko
Select Venture Partners, Managing Partner
Ricky Wong
IWNA, Investments Manager
Ash Lilani
Managing Partner, Saama Capital
Najib Khouri-Haddad
AITV, general partner
Prateek Alsi
General Catalyst Partners, Principal
Rick Yang
NEA, Partner
Gerald Tan
Scrum Ventures, Analyst
Sergey Chernogorodskiy
Argo-Capital, Managing partner
Mikhail Kokorich
Investor
Chetan Puttagunta
NEA, Partner
David Koehn
Sand Hill Angels, Member & Founder, The Batchery
Ronald Weissman
Apax Partners, partner
Adam Draper
Boost, founder
Konstantin Tryapitsyn
FinEx+ Asset Management, Vice President
Sven Illing
iCapital Ltd, Managing Director
Neil Devani
Rothenberg Ventures, General Counsel and Investor
Ed Ruth
Verizon Ventures, Director
Randy Haykin
Haykin Capital, Chairman
Ivan Ogilchyn
Ogilchyn Capital Investment Bank, Chairman
Evgeny Zakharov
Ness Private Equity, Managing Partner
David Hite
Bridge 37, Managing Partner
Gopan Madathil
Investorfest Media, President
Paolo Rubatto
Start Capital, Founder
Shruti Gandhi
Array Ventures, Managing Partner
John Ricci
Managing Director at US Angel Investors
Glauce Endo
TOTVS, Business Development Executive Manager
Darryl Tan
Singtel Innov8, Associate
Raul Quino
LG Innovation Ventures, Investment Manager
Mohammad Islam
DFJ, Associate
Ronald A. Croen
TBA Ventures, Partner
Victor Tan
Investment Director at SGInnovate
Andre Bliznyuk
Runa Capital, Partner
Daniel Hoffer
Partner at Tandem Capital
Vishal Vasishth
Co-Founder & Managing Director, Obvious Ventures