The 2022 EVC List: 50 emerging investors charting the industry’s future
This is a cohort worth watching. These investors’ distinguished track records have already earned them the recognition of their peers and of senior partners at the leading VC firms. From sourcing deals to conducting diligence, they are all deeply immersed in the day-to-day work that goes into identifying category-defining companies and supporting transformational founders.
see the finalists
In looking over the list, we are struck by the breadth of experiences, expertise, and background these investors bring to the table. The first annual edition of the EVC List spotlights a group of early- to mid-career investors whose professional arcs will shape a fast-changing industry for decades to come. We trust you’ll enjoy learning more about the finalists’ trajectories in the bios and profiles below.
About EVCA
The Emerging Venture Capitalists Association (EVCA) is the primary community for the emerging (pre-partner & junior partner) venture capital investor. Founded in 2017, our 1300+ investors come from a diverse assortment of backgrounds to share insights on industry verticals, co-investment opportunities, career planning, community service, and personal interests.
Behind the List
Produced in partnership with SVB and Terra Nova, the list is compiled after extensive quantitative and qualitative review of investment track record, reference calls, nominations submitted by founders and senior partners, and input from a panel of top senior investors from the leading VC firms.
Pre-Partner Finalists
Alex Sharata
Alex Sharata joined NEA in 2020 as an investor on the technology team focused on enterprise, fintech, and consumer companies. Alex has also played an integral role in developing NEA's investment theses within web3. Prior to joining NEA, Alex was an investor at Vista Equity Partners focused on enterprise software, data, tech-enabled services, and payments companies.
Alex studied Computer Science and Economics at Johns Hopkins University. While at Hopkins, Alex co-founded mobile app security company Fractal Technology (acquired) and was an investor at A-Level Capital, a venture fund backing Hopkins students, alumni, and faculty.
Brale (Observer), Clockwork, Courtyard, Datafold, DeltaStream (Observer), MoonPay, SeMI Technologies (Observer), Quotewell (Observer), Snowplow (Observer)
Asif Moosani
Asif is a Principal at Gradient Ventures where he leads early-stage investments in enterprise software applications, data infrastructure, and developer tooling.
He has led investments in and serves on the boards of Anvil, Astro, Contractbook, Gigs, Labelbox, Legal OS, Mage AI, Mural, Payload CMS, PopSQL, Sona, Syrup.Tech, Wise Systems, and Zowie. He is responsible for prior investments with notable exits, including Flowdash (acq. Notion), Fylamynt (acq. NetApp), and Plannuh (acq. Planful).
Prior to Gradient, Asif worked on mergers & acquisitions at Lazard Frères & Co where he advised leading technology majors including Google and IBM on strategic assessments and acquisitions. During his tenure, he participated in 14 transactions totaling $100+ billion of aggregate deal value. Prior to Lazard, Asif co-founded Evolutionary Technologies, where he provided predictive analytics software serving clients in education and real estate. Earlier, he was a software developer at IBM focused on cloud services products including Tivoli and WebSphere.
Asif is from Austin, Texas and graduated with a B.A. in Business Economics from the University of Texas; and an M.S. in Finance from the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas.
Contractbook, Fylamynt (Observer), MURAL, PopSQL (Observer), Sona, Syrup.tech, UnitQ, Zowie AI (Observer)
Brent Murri
Brent Murri is a Principal at M13 where he leads early-stage investments in consumer technology companies.
Brent joined M13 from Battery Ventures, where he focused on evaluating early and late stage software investments and executing growth strategies of Battery’s portfolio companies. Before Battery, Brent worked in strategy & business development for Samsung NEXT, where he developed and executed strategies around Samsung’s consumer software and services initiatives.
Brent began his career as an investment-banking analyst with Lazard Freres & Co., working on M&A transactions in the firm’s Technology group. He graduated from Brigham Young University with a BS in Business Strategy.
Brent’s M13 investments include: Passport, Doorvest, Interviewing.io, Umamicart, Bounty, Capsule, Emerge, Podz, Anycart and Clash.
Candace Richardson
Candace Richardson is a Principal at General Catalyst, a venture capital firm that partners with founders from seed through growth stages to build companies that withstand the test of time. Candace invests in tech-enabled healthcare services with a passion for government sponsored health care and health equity.
She partners with teams at Eleanor Health, Jasper Health, and Osmind as a board observer and at Homeward Health, Circulo, and Plume Health as a board director. She also supports teams at Cityblock Health, Maven Clinic, Uno Health and more.
Candace is also committed to the health of communities outside of her work at General Catalyst. As an Advisory Board Member for AIRync’s Community Health Workers, Candace meets people where they live to improve their health––connecting families to social care and building health equity at the individual, family, and community level. Candace is also a Fellow at United States of Care, a healthcare non-profit, where she uses her experience investing in and building companies in the private sector to consult on policy changes that could enable greater access to quality care.
Prior to joining General Catalyst, Candace served as a Vice President at Town Hall Ventures where she worked closely with companies that serve medically vulnerable and historically underserved patient populations. Before her career in venture, she conducted healthcare and pharma research as an Associate at Goldman Sachs.
Candace holds a BA in Economics-Philosophy & History from Columbia University.
Homeward Health (Director), Plume Health (Director), Circulo (Director), Eleanor Health (Observer), Quilted Health (Fmr. Observer), Jasper Health (Observer), Osmind (Observer), MDAlly (Observer), VillageMD, Cityblock Health, Equality Health, Maven Clinic, Uno Health and Foresight Mental Health
Chris Abshire
Chris Abshire is a senior associate at Toyota Ventures, responsible for sourcing startups, evaluating opportunities, negotiating, and closing investments. He is also the co-lead of the frontier tech vertical for EVCA.
Prior to joining Toyota Ventures, Chris was on the investment team at Fenox Venture Capital, where he led the U.S. due diligence process and market research activities. He also was executive director of the firm’s Startup World Cup event, a platform that created pitch competitions for startup ecosystems around the world.
He received a bachelor’s degree in petroleum engineering from the University of Kansas, where he received the CPE Outstanding Academic Achievement Award for graduating at the top of his class.
Apex AI (Board Observer), Elementary Robotics, Joby Aviation, Parallel Domain, Pickle Robot, Revel, STOKE Space, Third Wave Automation, Atomic Industries
Corinne Marie Riley
Corinne Riley is an investor at Greylock who partners with entrepreneurs at seed and the earliest stages of company development in enterprise software, particularly in intelligent applications and AI. She helped source and drive investments in CommonRoom, Mystery, Co:Rise, and a number of early-stage investments in stealth.
Corinne also launched and leads Greylock's Scout initiative, a community through which a cohort of over two dozen angels deploy checks in early startups. The program brings together talented operators both experienced and new to investing.
CommonRoom, Mystery, Co:Rise
Demi Obayomi
Demi is a growth stage investor at Sapphire Ventures where he has worked on investments including yellow.ai, 6Sense, CaptivateIQ, FloQast, Gem, Paradox, and Qualified.
Previously, Demi was a venture capital investor in both San Francisco and New York City where he made investments across stages and in various sectors including B2B software, marketplaces, and healthcare.
Demi studied Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University where he graduated with Honors. He is passionate about entrepreneurship and continues to support the university’s ecosystem through various initiatives such as A-Level Capital, an angel investment group he co-founded.
Grace Isford
As a Principal at Lux Capital in the New York City office, Grace Isford invests in companies innovating at the nexus of the computational sciences – data, AI and ML infrastructure, network and compute infrastructure and cutting edge technological applications especially in healthcare and financial services.
Grace seeks to invest in companies that leverage breakthrough technology to improve individual efficiency and agency. She focuses on data and machine-learning startups that are hyper- personalizing user experiences and transforming legacy industries and fintech and blockchain
infrastructure companies building the next-gen developer stack and payment rails.
Before joining Lux, Grace was a principal at Canvas Ventures, where she started as a campus scout while attending Stanford University before becoming a full-time investor in 2019. While there, she sourced 10 investments, including open-source robotic process automation platform
Robocorp and blockchain-powered, real-time data sharing platform Vendia, which was co- founded by AWS Lambda inventor Tim Wagner and Shruthi Rao, who led Amazon Managed Blockchain.
Prior to Canvas, Grace worked on the LP side at the Stanford Management Company, in product at edtech startup Handshake, and in growth equity at Stripes Group. She earned a Bachelors of Science and a Masters of Science in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford, where she was a Mayfield Fellow and served as Co-President of Stanford Women in Business, the campus’s largest pre-professional organization for women. In addition, she is on the board of the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, the university’s entrepreneurship
center, and is an active member of All Raise, focused on accelerating the success of female and non-binary founders and funders.
Grace is originally from Connecticut, although has lived in Tokyo, Japan, and aspires to re-learn Japanese. She’s an avid runner and cyclist.
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Jake Storm
Jake Storm is currently a Deal Partner at Felicis, where he works closely with companies like Walnut, Komodor, Resourcely, Tines, and Dig Security.
Prior to joining Felicis, Jake was an investor at IVP where he partnered with companies ranging from Papaya Global in global payroll to Lyra Health and Whoop in digital health to CircleCI in infrastructure software.
Preceding IVP, Jake spent several years across investment banking at Jefferies and enterprise software sales at Qualtrics and Zuora pre-IPO. Jake received a Bachelor of Science degree in finance from Brigham Young University.
Tines, Walnut, Resourcely, Dig Security, Komodor
Jill Chase
Jill is an investor at CapitalG where she focuses on enterprise software, with an emphasis on data infrastructure and AI/ML.
Prior to joining CapitalG, Jill worked in senior startup operating roles, both as the CEO of a private equity-backed business and as the founder of a Y Combinator-backed startup.
Jill graduated magna cum laude from Williams College with a dual degree in Economics and Psychology and was captain of the women’s basketball team. She came out to the West Coast to earn an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, but she was born and raised in Boston where she had the opportunity to cheer on the most impressive era of professional sports a city has ever experienced (Go Patriots).
She lives in the Bay Area with her husband where they spend weekends doing as many outside activities as possible, such as pickleball, tennis, hiking and running.
Jillian Williams
Jillian Williams is a Principal at Cowboy Ventures, an early-stage venture fund focused on supporting extraordinary founders going from 0 to 1. Jillian specifically spends her time focused on fintech and enterprise SaaS.
Prior to joining Cowboy, Jillian was at Anthemis, an early-stage fintech-focused venture firm, across North America and Europe. Jillian played an active role in growing the firm’s footprint across North America. She also serves as the head of BLCK VC NYC, the NY arm of the BLCK VC.
She started her career at Barclays in the Financial Institutions Group and holds a BA in Economics from Yale University.
John Gianakopoulos
John joined Scale in 2018 and focuses on the firm's investments in fintech and broader enterprise SaaS with a particular focus on companies adding machine intelligence to business and vertical software. He has sourced and contributed to the firm's investments in Papaya Global, AppOmni, Spot AI, Socure, and Scout RFP (among others).
Before Scale, John was most recently a Product Manager at Personal Capital where he focused on customer engagement and growth. Previously, he was also a Product Manager at Intuit and launched the first iteration of their QuickBooks Capital lending product, which provided working capital loans to small business owners. During his time as a PM, John also started a payments-based advertising business focused on the film industry.
John holds dual degrees in both the business and liberal arts honors programs from the University of Texas at Austin. Outside of work, John is an avid runner in the Marin headlands and enjoys playing soccer (and watching the USMNT consistently underperform even his lowest expectations).
Kartik Gupta
Kartik is an investor at Salesforce Ventures where he focuses on early to late stage enterprise software investments globally.
Prior to SFVC, Kartik was with Industry Ventures where he looked at primary co-investment and secondary investment opportunities in consumer and software companies. Kartik graduated from UC Berkeley having studied Economics, Statistics and Computer Science.
Outside of work, he spends his time sailing and making art.
Kate Walker
Kate Walker is an investor at Bessemer Venture Partners based in San Francisco. She partners with early-stage consumer and enterprise software businesses with a particular focus on AI, vertical software, and consumer marketplaces. Kate currently serves as a board observer for Loveseat and supports portfolio companies Archy Dental, Beyond, Formally, House Rx, and Kindred.
Prior to joining Bessemer, Kate began her career at Goldman Sachs advising and investing in technology companies within the Investment Banking and Investment Management divisions. After Goldman, Kate was a Principal at Geodesic Capital where she sourced and/or conducted diligence on investments in CyCognito, Forethought, HashiCorp, Pilot, Snyk, Sourcegraph, and Vercel.
Kate earned her MBA with honors from Harvard Business School and her BA from Stanford University where she majored in Science, Technology, and Society with a concentration in computer science. She is an active member and volunteer for All Raise. Outside of work, you can find her at Hawk Hill or Aquatic Park training for her next triathlon.
Kathryn Weinmann
Kathryn Weinmann is a VP at Norwest Venture Partners, where she is a multi-stage investor across consumer tech and B2B SaaS. Some of her notable investments include Praxis Labs, UPSIDE Foods (fka Memphis Meats), Wyze, ActiveFence, and Velocity Global.
Prior to joining Norwest, Kathryn supported Business Operations at NerdWallet with a focus on small business lending. Kathryn is passionate about financial inclusion, serving for the past 7 years as co-chair of the Technology Advisory Counsel at Mission Asset Fund, a non-profit fintech organization in the Bay Area.
ActiveFence, Learn to Win (Observer), Praxis Labs (Observer), Senreve (Observer), Serena Ventures, Upside Foods, Velocity Global, Wyze (Observer)
Keith Bender
Keith is a Principal at Pear, where he focuses on vertical software, marketplace, and platform business models across industries, including enterprise, fintech, and consumer-facing sectors. He also leads Pear’s investments in Latin America across all industries.
Previously, Keith was an early-stage investor at Bessemer Venture Partners and a consultant at BCG, where he advised consumer and energy companies on growth, strategy, and M&A.
Keith is originally from Arizona and is based in Palo Alto. He holds a BA in English from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Chainpass, Inventa, Local Kitchens, Menta, Miter, Neura Health, Pomelo, Pahdo Labs, Skipper, Sudozi (Observer), Userclouds, Pearl Street
Kevin Lynch
Kevin is an investor on the MGV deal team and is primarily focused on investments in deep tech, consumer brands, insuretech, fintech and infrastructure spaces. Lynch has a background in mental health services, which led him to invest in Modern Health, and fintech, where he's backed ObserveAI and Origin. He also works with Glide and Leap for the early-stage, Bay Area-based firm. Working closely with Founders to solve huge problems is Kevin’s passion and he wakes up excited every day to help his Founders grow their businesses.
Prior to joining MGV, Kevin helped identify and analyze investment opportunities at Tuesday Capital (formerly CrunchFund) and graduated with a degree in quantitative economics from Claremont McKenna College. Growing up in Scottsdale, Arizona, Kevin is a ravenous reader, good-weather biker and an ever-improving cook.
Lisa Xu
Lisa is a Principal at FirstMark Capital, an early stage venture capital firm based in NYC, where she focuses on investments in consumer software and infrastructure, marketplaces, and Web3. Lisa joined FirstMark in 2018 and was involved with the firm's investments in Workit Health, Loop Returns, Alloy Automation, Archive, Simplist, CognitOps, HyperComply, Nivelo, Lido, Welcome (acquired by BambooHR), TextIQ (acquired by Relativity), Macro (acquired by mmhmm), and more. She continues to work closely with and support many of those portfolio companies as a Board Observer.
Prior to joining FirstMark, Lisa was a Product Manager at NYC-based venture-backed startups Handy (acquired by ANGI Homeservices) and Peloton (NASDAQ: PTON). Previously, Lisa was a Senior Associate Consultant at Bain & Company, where she performed due diligence for private equity firms and advised Fortune 500 companies on corporate strategy.
Lisa graduated summa cum laude from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania with a B.S. in Finance and Management. She serves as a Mentor for Techstars, NYU Entrepreneurship, and BLCK VC.
Alloy Automation, Archive, Lido, Loop Returns (Observer), Nivelo, Percs, CognitOps (Observer), Simplist (Observer), Text IQ (Observer), Workit Health (Observer)
Misha Gordon-Rowe
Misha joined Susa Ventures in 2020. As a Principal, Misha is responsible for leading new investments at both the seed and early growth stage. Misha invests across all sectors, with a particular focus on fintech, commerce, applied AI and enterprise SaaS. Prior to Susa, Misha was an early employee at Funding Circle US. Misha has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Dartmouth College.
Flock Homes (Observer), Higo, Nuvo Finance, Okra, Powered by People (Observer), Sumer (Observer), Multi (Observer)
Morgan Cheatham
Morgan Cheatham is a Vice President with Bessemer Venture Partners where he leads healthcare and life sciences investments from seed to growth stages. He focuses across the healthcare and life sciences value chain spanning services, software, diagnostics, and therapeutics, and specializes in applications of computation in improving patient care from bench to bedside. Several of Morgan’s early-stage investments have eclipsed multi-billion dollar valuations and have been honored as Time100 Most Influential Companies.
Morgan is currently pursuing medical training at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University with a focus on bioinformatics. He also serves as a healthcare and life sciences advisor to Breyer Capital and is a Founding Limited Partner at First Close Partners.
Prior to Bessemer, Morgan worked in Healthcare Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs and began his career as a data scientist at Kyruus, a healthcare technology company focused on provider data solutions.
Morgan graduated magna cum laude from Brown University with a B.S. in neuroeconomics. He is an Associate Board Member at the Cancer Research Institute, Advisor to AcademyHealth, and serves on the Advisory Council for Entrepreneurship at Brown University. His work has been featured by Forbes, Business Insider, HLTH, Rock Health, MedCityNews, NIH, and more.
FOLX Health (Director), abridge (Observer), US Health Partners (Observer), Hinge Health, Headspace Health, Productboard, Turquoise Health, Thyme Care, Subtle Medical, Clearing, Ansible Health, Inductive Bio, Plenful, Aspen RxHealth
Murali Joshi
Murali Joshi is a Principal at ICONIQ Growth, an investment firm where he has worked since August 2018 and helps source, diligence and support ICONIQ Growth’s investments. He helped drive investments in Datadog, Procore, 1Password, Drata, Orca Security, Monte Carlo Data, Netskope, Fivetran, Calendly, Loom, Reify Health, Relativity, Axonius, Panther Labs and Automattic.
Prior to joining ICONIQ, Murali worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs’s Technology, Media and Telecom (TMT) group in San Francisco. He began his career as the co-founder of an advertising analytics startup called Switchboard Media and serving as the Business Development and Product Strategy lead at Little Labs.
Murali volunteers for Minds Matter San Francisco, University of Southern California's (USC) Career Advantage Program and AnnieCannons. He is also actively involved with ICONIQ's recruiting and Diversity, Equity & Inclusion efforts.
1Password (observer), Automattic, Axonius, Calendly, Datadog, Drata (observer) , Fivetran, Loom, Monte Carlo (observer), Netskope, Orca Security (observer), Panther Labs, Procore Technologies, ReCharge Payments, Reify Health, Relativity
Natasha Sharma
Natasha is a principal at True Ventures. She initially joined the True community through her role at portfolio company Helpshift, a SaaS startup that makes it easy for businesses to care for their customers. In 2017, she joined True’s investment team.
Having grown up in the Bay Area, Natasha has witnessed the burgeoning of Silicon Valley’s technology scene and now applies that lens in her role when investing in some of today’s most imaginative founders. She aims to bring curiosity to the VC-founder relationship and demonstrate a culture of conscious leadership among founders, teams, and boards.
During her more than five years with Team True, she’s volunteered with All Raise, an organization dedicated to accelerating the success of female founders and their investors to help foster a more gender-equitable future. She is also a co-chair of Female Funders, a group within the Emerging Venture Capital Association that highlights the stories of women in venture capital and the many pathways to success.
Natasha graduated with a bachelor’s degree in economics from Smith College, where she braved one too many New England winters before returning to San Francisco. For more than a decade, she has been a member of The Art of Living Foundation, an organization that encourages mindfulness through meditation.
Sherpa (Board Director), Mozza (Board Director), Gastronomical (Board Director)
Ronnie Martinez
Ronnie joined CEAS in 2018. She was and remains responsible for seeking out, analyzing and recommending new potential venture capital investments as well as follow-on investments. She leads her own early stage deals from sourcing, through due diligence, to close. She works closely with portfolio companies to provide support, particularly on fundraising strategy and tactics. She is a board observer for Marqii, Shabodi and Live Furnish.
Ronnie is a proud Canadian who earned her BBA in International Finance & Marketing and Entrepreneurship from the University of Miami where she captained the women's soccer team her senior year and was named to the All-ACC Academic team twice.
Basetwo, Grovara, Hello Divorce, Live Furnish (Observer), Marqii (Observer), Shabodi (Observer), SoLo Funds, Cognota, Ubicept, Goodfynd, Prescient.
Sai Senthilkumar
Sai Senthilkumar is a Principal at Redpoint focusing on growth-stage enterprise and infrastructure software investments. He has sourced or led investments into names like Cribl, Monte Carlo Data, Orca Security, Alchemy, Materialize, and Timescale Data, helping deploy ~$250M. He writes the popular newsletter 'Cloud Infrastructure.'
Sai was previously an investment banker at Morgan Stanley, working with clients like Datadog and MongoDB. He graduated with degrees in Management Science & Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford University.
Cribl (Observer), Materialize (Observer), Monte Carlo (Observer), Orca Security (Observer), Timescale (Observer), Alchemy
Vivian Cheng
Vivian has been an operator and an investor, both as a venture capitalist and as an angel. As a principal at CRV, she is an investor focused on how technology can transform consumer behavior.
At prior firms, Vivian invested in companies like Truebill, Current, Homeward, and more. She also spent four years as an operator at Uber, where she focused on global expansion and payments infrastructure.
Vivian graduated from the University of Southern California with a B.A. in Business Administration and is a recipient of the Presidential Scholarship.
Partner Finalists
Alex Fayette
Alex Fayette is a Partner at ACME. Alex is the team’s frontline expert in deep-tech and frontier technologies, and also selectively invests in other less technical areas. Alex currently serves as a board observer for Akash, AviaGames, Ever/Body, Petra, Quip, Replika, SoLo Funds, Time by Ping, Xwing, and numerous investments yet to be announced.
He previously served as a board observer for PillPack, which was acquired in July 2018 by Amazon, Astra (NASDAQ: ASTR), and IonQ (NYSE: IONQ). Prior to ACME, Alex was in the investment banking group at J.P. Morgan, initially on its insurance team in New York, and later on its Technology & Media team in San Francisco.
Alex received his B.A. from Yale University in Economics and is a former Yale Whiffenpoof. Alex lives in San Francisco.
Akash Systems (Observer), Astra (Observer), Aviagames (Observer), Boompop (Observer), Ever/Body (Observer), IonQ (Observer), Light Field Lab, Petra (Observer), PillPack (Observer), quip (Observer), Xwing (Observer), Replika (Observer), Solo Funds (Observer), Time by Ping (Observer)
Amy Cheetham
Amy Cheetham is Partner at Costanoa Ventures, where she leads early stage rounds in the next generation of great financial technology companies. Before joining Costanoa, Amy ran North American sales strategy and operations at Zuora, a public enterprise software company.
Prior to that, she spent three years investing in growth stage technology companies at Summit Partners, where her investments included Podium, InfoArmor (acq. AllState), and onXmaps.
She began her career on Wall Street, working at JP Morgan where she spent time as a technology investment banker and as an equities trader focused on financial services.
Cadana (Director), Craft (Director), Flexio (Director), Highline (Observer), Highnote, InfoArmor, Kevala (Director), Plug Pagamentos (Observer), Podium, Trully.ai (Director), Waivr
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Astasia Myers
Astasia is a Founding Partner on Quiet Capital's enterprise team leading investments in ML, data, open source, developer tools, infrastructure, and security. She focuses on early-stage investing including pre-seed, seed, and Series A.
Prior to joining Quiet, she was an investor on Redpoint Venture’s early stage enterprise team where she partnered with Dremio, LaunchDarkly, Solo.io, Hex, Preset, Gremlin, R2C.dev, among others. Before that, she worked at Cisco Investments, where she focused on cloud-infrastructure M&A and investments including Cohesity, Datos IO (acquired by Rubrik), Elastifile (acquired by Google), Guardicore (acquired by Akamai), Springpath (acquired by Cisco), as well as the funding of internal stealth projects.
Astasia is a graduate of Stanford and Cambridge University with honors and is an active blogger at medium.com/memory-leak and Twitter (@AstasiaMyers).
LaunchDarkly, Solo.io, Hex, Airbyte, Supabase
Casber Wang
Casber is a Partner at Sapphire Ventures where focuses primarily on security, enterprise infrastructure, and data & analytics. Casber is currently a member of the board (director or observer) at JumpCloud, StarTree, Tetrate, Upytcs, Verbit, and Zesty. Prior to Okta’s acquisition, he was also a board observer at Auth0. In addition, he works closely with the team at CircleCI, Cypress, Dremio, Privacera, Side, StackHawk, and Thoughtspot. And he has actively worked on investments in Exabeam, Moveworks, Pendo, Outreach, and OwnBackup. In 2020, Business Insider listed Casber as an Enterprise VC Rising Star Investor.
Prior to Sapphire, he was part of the technology investment banking group at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he worked on a number of high-profile IPO and M&A transactions. He also spent time at Wish, a leading mobile commerce platform in North America and Europe.
Casber graduated with honors from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor’s in business. While at Cal, he was actively involved with the startup scene and co-founded Etch.ai, a personal CRM company incubated at Berkeley Skydeck.
Auth0 (Observer), CircleCI, Dremio, Exabeam, JumpCloud (Observer), Moveworks, OwnBackup, Pendo, StarTree (Observer), Tetrate (Observer), Uptycs (Observer), Verbit (Observer), Zesty (Director)
Clarey Zhu
Clarey Zhu is a Partner with TCV, and she has been with the firm since 2018. Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, TCV partners with CEOs and founders of exceptional growth-stage technology companies globally. It manages over $24 billion in capital and has invested in more than 350 companies over 27+ years.
Clarey leads thesis development, deal origination, and company evaluation across global fintech, consumer internet, and digital health. She has also been active in multiple emerging markets. Clarey has invested more than $1.3B in a range of category leading internet and software companies including Nubank (NYSE: NU), ByteDance, Peloton (NASDAQ: PTON), Brex, Hinge Health, LegalZoom (NASDAQ: LZ), Hotmart, among others.
Prior to TCV, she was an investment banker at JP Morgan, where she focused on M&A advisory and financings for tech companies. Clarey received a BA in mathematics and economics from Yale University.
Colin Tobias
Colin is a Partner at SemperVirens, an early stage fund investing in healthcare tech, fintech, and workforce technology. Colin looks to invest in companies that are transforming the future of work as employers look to help their employees work, live, and earn better.
Prior to SemperVirens, Colin was an investor at Tenaya Capital, an early-growth stage fund with $2 billion under management. At Tenaya, Colin worked directly with Tenaya's managing partners to evaluate early-growth investments in consumer and enterprise sectors.
Colin graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of San Diego with degrees in finance and accounting.
Earnest Sweat
Earnest Sweat is a Venture Partner at GreatPoint Ventures. Since joining in 2019, Earnest has focused on investing in what he has called chaintech, startups improving productivity in supply and value chains of all assets. He has led investments in companies such as KlearNow, Bit.io, and BookOutdoors.
Before joining GreatPoint, Earnest’s venture capital career started as a founding team member at Prologis Ventures. Over his 5 years in the industry, Earnest has invested in 13 companies, of which three have become unicorns, including Flexport, Inception and Flexe. His entire portfolio has grown to a combined more than $13 billion in enterprise value and has increased on average 8.6x in post-money valuation, with six companies growing more than 10x.
Earnest is active in the community, serving on the leadership board of BLCK VC and sa Kauffman Fellow. He graduated from Columbia University and earned an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management.
Airspace Technologies (Observer), Flexe, Flexport, Inxeption (Observer), Platform Science (Observer), Wise Systems (Observer), Sendoso (Observer), Klearnow (Observer), Bit.io (Observer), BookOutdoors, CoolerScreens
Everett Randle
Everett is a Partner at Kleiner Perkins where he focuses on inflection-stage investments in enterprise software and financial services. Prior to joining Kleiner Perkins, Ev was at Founders Fund where he partnered with companies like Rippling, Stord, Wave, and Chronosphere.
Previously he held investor roles at Bond Capital and Vista Equity Partners. Originally from Colorado, Ev graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a degree from the Leeds School of Business. Outside of work, Ev likes to ski, golf, and read great fiction.
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Grace Chou
Grace brings more than a decade of experience as a builder and investor. She has been named to Forbes 30 Under 30, as well as Wall Street Journal’s 10 Women to Watch in Venture Capital. She is an early stage investor at Maveron where she partners with entrepreneurs building the next generation of iconic platforms reimagining the way we live, work, create, and thrive.
Prior to Maveron, Grace was a principal at Felicis Ventures, where she partnered closely with more than a dozen entrepreneurs. Before becoming an investor, Grace was a corp dev and strategy leader at Walmart eCommerce where she helped acquire and launch new brands and build consumer experiences. Grace knows what it takes to take ideas and products from incubation to massive scale. As an investor and partner, she loves working with entrepreneurs at the earliest stages to help take their businesses to incredible impact, from obscurity to ubiquity.
Grace was born and raised in Taiwan. She went to UC Berkeley where she studied Economics and Legal Studies.
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James Luo
James co-leads CapitalG’s investing efforts in infrastructure software and focuses primarily on cybersecurity, networking, and developer tools and platforms. Having studied both economics and computer science, he is passionate about supporting companies and entrepreneurs who introduce novel technical innovations to the world. At CapitalG he has played a leadership role in numerous investments including Expel, Orca Security, Armis, Dataiku and Newfold Digital. Prior to joining CapitalG, James invested in growth and scaled-technology companies at Advent International.
He started his career as a consultant at McKinsey & Company. He enjoys traveling and snowboarding, though he is also just as happy to be at home watching movies with his family and twice a day chasing his dog around the yard.
Salt Security (Director), Expel (Observer), Orca Security (Observer), Crowdstrike, Armis, Dataiku, Newfold Digital (Observer), Constant Contact (Observer)
Jennifer Li
Jennifer Li is a partner on the A16z Enterprise team focused on data and analytics, cloud infrastructure, developer tools and horizontal applications. She's passionate about user research, well thought-out products and solving go-to-market challenges. In her spare time, she loves taking care of green and furry lives.
John Cowgill
John is a Partner at Costanoa Ventures where he evaluates and leads investments in applied machine learning, marketplaces, security, and deep tech. He joined the firm in 2016 and has invested in companies across the entire enterprise technology spectrum--from software for car dealerships to satellites in space.
Prior to Costanoa, John was a consultant at McKinsey where he advised consumer and technology companies on strategy and operations projects. Before McKinsey, he worked in business development for Techweek, a nationwide technology conference company.
John obtained a B.S. in Learning and Organizational Change with a concentration in Marketing and Economics from Northwestern University
AppOmni, Cyberhaven, FOSSA, Kepler Communications, Novel (Observer), NumberAI, Parallel Domain, Rerun (Observer), Smile Identity
Kevin Zhang
Kevin Zhang partners at the inception stage with founders building the next generation of fintech and business software products. Key investment themes include financial services enablement (Column Tax, Finley), automation (Magical, Alloy Automation), and data infrastructure (Hightouch, Lightning AI).
Prior to BCV, Kevin led product as the first business hire at Fundera, a financial services marketplace. Fundera was acquired by Nerdwallet (NASDAQ: NRDS) in 2020.
Outside of work, Kevin is a board member of the Columbia College Alumni Association and an organizer of Columbia in Tech.
Alloy Automation (Observer), Column Tax (Director), Command E, Finley, Hightouch (Observer), Lightning AI (Observer), Magical, Vesta, Playbook (Director), Relay Financial (Director), Skip Protocol
Kira Noodleman
Kira is a Partner at Bee Partners. She has spent the past six years investing and growing startups with a focus on go-to-market and minimum viable product as a product manager in San Francisco and South America. Kira holds an undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University and a MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business.
Growing up in Silicon Valley, she was captivated by startup innovation, which has translated to focusing on Founders solving the unsolvable. For her, business is all about people. She co-organizes various female VC Communities such as Femme VC in Colorado and FemaleFunders in San Francisco. She’s active in her vision for Bee Partners to continue to provide the rails for building the most impactful empires at the center of human and machine convergence, fully acknowledging the responsibility and trust building required to do so.
Kira fine-tuned her ability to be nimble, adaptable, curious and creative to source top deal flow. She founded Bee Partners’ Denver office by pursuing the often overlooked burgeoning non-coastal innovation ecosystems. This move also reinforced the growing acceptance of remote/hybrid workforce which enables and integrates the vast global tech community.
DeepScribe, New Culture, Rapid Robotics, Synthesis AI (Observer), Pow.bio (Board Member), Future Fields (Board Member), Circe (Board Observer)
Lauren Stephanian
Lauren is a partner at Pantera Capital, one of the earliest institutional crypto funds, where she’s used her background in software engineering and finance to make investment decisions for close to five years.
Prior to joining Pantera, she worked in trading at Bank of America and before that, she started her career in software engineering, working at a trading platform.
She graduated with a degree in Computer Science from Columbia University. In her spare time she enjoys coding in Solidity and writing about data in the crypto space.
Lotti Siniscalco
Carlotta "Lotti" is a Partner at Emergence Capital. She joined the firm in 2018 as a Senior Associate and was named Principal in 2020. Less than a year later, Lotti was promoted to Partner as a result of the extraordinary impact she has had on the firm, the team, and the companies Emergence backs.
Lotti’s strong investor acumen and long-term perspective are instrumental in uncovering compelling and unique investment opportunities, and in leading operational change. She has an outstanding ability to understand complex business structures and to apply that knowledge both in her diligence and at the board table.
At Emergence, Lotti invests in early stage enterprise software companies. She serves on the Board of Directors of Federato, Whistic and High Alpha, and is a Board Observer at Oyster and Talent Hack.
Being an immigrant herself (originally from Italy), she is passionate about helping immigrants and other underrepresented founders build iconic technology companies. She is also a fierce advocate for women in the Venture Capital industry.
Lotti brings to Emergence a deep understanding of fintech, where she spent several years both as an operator and as an investor. For three years, she was an investor in financial services and financial technology companies at Advent International, a large global private equity fund, where she was also an observer on board of the Transunion. She also spent time in the BizOps group at Nerdwallet and was an early stage investor at Ribbit Capital, a fintech-focused VC, where she led diligence on companies in the cyber insurance and 401K space.
Lotti began her career as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs. She received a Bachelor of Science from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she graduated cum laude, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
High Alpha, Oyster, Talent Hack, Whistic
Matthew Levinson
Matt Levinson is a Partner at B Capital Group where he focuses on financial technology, as well as blockchain technology and proptech. Matt brings over a decade of investing in and operating technology companies.
Matt was previously a VC at FinTech Collective, where he executed over 40 investments across 21 companies. Matt led the firm’s investments in Flutterwave, Ocrolus, Reserve Trust, Devron, Oyster, Runa HR, and others. Matt also helped execute early-stage investments in fintech unicorns such as NYDIG and MoneyLion. Prior to joining FinTech Collective, Matt co-founded NYC based drone technology startup Aerobo. Matt began his career in consulting (at L.E.K. Consulting) and private equity (at AEA Investors). He earned a B.A. from Yale University, where he studied sociology and economics.
Flutterwave (Director), Newfront (Observer), Remote (Observer)
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Michael Miao
Michael Miao joined IVP in January 2016. He focuses on identifying and evaluating later-stage enterprise software, Internet, and mobile investments. Michael led or worked on IVP’s investments in Aiven, Aledade, CrowdStrike (CRWD), Curology, Grammarly, H1, HashiCorp (HCP), Jasper, Motive, Nextdoor (KIND), Pigment, SEON, Wise (WISE), and Veriff.
Prior to joining IVP, Michael worked at Dropbox, an IVP portfolio company, in the Strategic Finance team where he led numerous cross-functional projects across corporate finance, corporate strategy, and product management. He also worked in the Technology Investment Banking group at Deutsche Bank, where he advised corporate clients in the software and Internet sector on a wide array of equity, debt, M&A, and capital structure considerations.
Michael graduated Magna Cum Laude from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, where he earned a B.S. in Business Administration.
Aiven (Observer), Aledade, Crowdstrike, Curology (Observer), Grammarly, H1 (Observer), HashiCorp, Motive (Observer), SEON (Director), Veriff (Observer)
Nnamdi Iregbulem
Nnamdi Iregbulem, Partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners, is a self-taught programmer and lifelong technology nerd. His mission is to increase total software output by supporting entrepreneurs building technical tools for technical people.
Nnamdi focuses on investments in technical enterprise software such as developer tools, application infrastructure, and machine learning. At Lightspeed, Nnamdi works with companies like Redpanda, Materialize, Snorkel, Voltron Data, and Matillion.
Prior to Lightspeed, Nnamdi was an investor at ICONIQ Capital, where he partnered with companies like GitLab, Fastly, Alteryx, and Epic Games.
Materialize (Observer), Matillion, Snorkel AI (Observer), vectorized.io (Observer), Voltron Data
Patrick Chase
Patrick is a Partner on Redpoint’s early stage enterprise team. Prior to Redpoint, Patrick worked as a senior software engineer on the machine learning team at LinkedIn where he built recommendations algorithms to serve news articles in the feed and designed models to rank search results.
Patrick earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Yale University where he graduated Magna Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa and was a 4-year member of the men’s varsity tennis team. In addition, Patrick holds an M.S. in Computer Science with a concentration on Artificial Intelligence and an M.B.A. from Stanford University.
Outside of work, Patrick enjoys surfing, skiing, CrossFit, and pretending he can still code by working on small side projects.
Hex Technologies (Observer), LiveKit, MotherDuck (Observer), Spot AI (Observer), Timescale, Transform (Director)
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Rayfe Gaspar-Asaoka
With engineering roots, Rayfe brings technical knowledge to Canaan, focusing on frontier tech investments in AI / ML, Robotics, and Space, as well as enterprise and infrastructure software focused on developers.
Rayfe previously worked as a Senior Associate on Cloud and IoT projects at Keystone Strategy. Prior to that, he worked at Wolverine Trading and Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems as an Engineer.
Rayfe earned an M.S. in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California.
Solomon Hailu
Solomon is a Partner at March Capital, a Santa Monica based venture capital firm with $1.5B+ in AUM. At March, Solomon spearheaded the firm’s investment thesis on the next wave of financial services innovation, with a particular focus on payments and B2B infrastructure. Solomon’s latest investments include the Series A Extension of payment orchestration platform, Gr4vy, and the Series B of virtual card platform Extend. Solomon participates on the board for both companies.
Prior to joining March, Solomon was a Principal at Tusk Venture Partners where he invested in early-stage technology companies. Companies Solomon partnered with include Lemonade (NYSE: LMND), Coinbase (NASDAQ: COIN), Circle (NYSE: CRCL), Bird (NYSE: BRDS), Care/of (acquired), FanDuel (acquired), Radar Relay (acquired), and Sunday.
Solomon was featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 for Venture Capital in 2021 and recognized on Business Insider’s 2022 Rising Stars list. He also serves as the LA Chapter lead for BLCK VC, an organization formed to connect, empower and advance black venture capitalists. Solomon received a B.S. in Commerce from the University of Virginia. Outside of work, he enjoys exploring new restaurants in Los Angeles and is an avid runner.
Tengbo Li
Tengbo is a Partner at ICONIQ Growth. He is a multi-stage investor working with talented entrepreneurs building companies from Series A to pre-IPO. His areas of focus include application software, vertical SaaS, infrastructure and cybersecurity. Prior to joining ICONIQ Growth in 2015, he was an investor at JMI Equity and a consultant at McKinsey & Company.
Tengbo holds an MBA from Stanford GSB and BA from Harvard.
Articulate (Observer), Aurora Solar (Observer), Calendly, CaptivateIQ, FreeWill (Director), InVision, Netskope, Panther, QGenda (Observer), ServiceTitan (Observer), Shopmonkey
Tess Hatch
Tess invests in technology and people who believe as strongly as she does that frontier technology will develop solutions for societal problems. She is a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners fostering entrepreneurship of frontier technology, specifically the commercialization of space, drones, autonomous vehicles, and agriculture and food technology.
Tess currently serves as a board director for DroneDeploy, Iris Automation, Phantom Auto, Spire Global, and as a board observer for Black Sheep Foods, Forever Oceans, Rocket Lab, and Velo3D. She was included in Forbes’ 30 Under 30 in Venture Capital. She speaks and is published regularly on Bloomberg, TechCrunch, and other publications on space and frontier technology.
Tess earned a Bachelor’s degree in aerospace engineering from the University of Michigan and a Master’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics engineering from Stanford. She went on to work for Boeing and then SpaceX where she worked with the government on integrating its payloads with the Falcon9 rocket. She remains close to her alma mater by co-teaching a class at Stanford, serving on the board of advisors for the Stanford Technology Ventures Program, and founding the Stanford Aero/Astro Alumni Association.
Tess is passionate about space exploration and imagines a future where we all travel to space. She hopes to one day take a trip herself.
Black Sheep Food (Observer), Boom Supersonic, Drone Deploy (Director), Forever Oceans (Observer), Iris Automation (Director), Lumachain (Director), Phantom Auto (Director)
Vignesh Ravikumar
Vignesh Ravikumar joined Sierra Ventures in 2013 and focuses on investments in Enterprise SaaS, Vertical SaaS, and Digital Health/Healthcare IT. Vignesh has a background in M&A transactions for enterprise software companies, having worked at AGC Partners, a Boston-based investment bank.
Vignesh holds a BS in Management Science (cum laude) and a Minor in Math from UC San Diego. Outside of work, he is an avid golfer and a big Golden State Warriors fan. Go Dubs!
Phenom People (Observer), Appcues (Observer), Reify Health (Observer), Lemonaid Health, Hammoq (Director)
Honorable Mentions - Partner
Honorable Mentions - Pre-Partner
Sherpa (Board Director), Mozza (Board Director), Gastronomical (Board Director)
Brale (Observer), Clockwork, Courtyard, Datafold, DeltaStream (Observer), MoonPay, SeMI Technologies (Observer), Quotewell (Observer), Snowplow (Observer)
Downstream, Digital Asset Research, Ender, Glide, HeyDoctor, Juniper, KarmaCheck, Kolors, Leap, Modern Health, Nimbus Health, Observe AI, Origin, Prodigal, Recora, Wardrobe
Apex AI (Board Observer), Elementary Robotics, Joby Aviation, Parallel Domain, Pickle Robot, Revel, STOKE Space, Third Wave Automation, Atomic Industries
Contractbook, Fylamynt (Observer), MURAL, PopSQL (Observer), Sona, Syrup.tech, UnitQ, Zowie AI (Observer)
Tines, Walnut, Resourcely, Dig Security, Komodor
FOLX Health (Director), abridge (Observer), US Health Partners (Observer), Hinge Health, Headspace Health, Productboard, Turquoise Health, Thyme Care, Subtle Medical, Clearing, Ansible Health, Inductive Bio, Plenful, Aspen RxHealth
ActiveFence, Learn to Win (Observer), Praxis Labs (Observer), Senreve (Observer), Serena Ventures, Upside Foods, Velocity Global, Wyze (Observer)
Cribl (Observer), Materialize (Observer), Monte Carlo (Observer), Orca Security (Observer), Timescale (Observer), Alchemy
Basetwo, Grovara, Hello Divorce, Live Furnish (Observer), Marqii (Observer), Shabodi (Observer), SoLo Funds, Cognota, Ubicept, Goodfynd, Prescient.
Alloy Automation, Archive, Lido, Loop Returns (Observer), Nivelo, Percs, CognitOps (Observer), Simplist (Observer), Text IQ (Observer), Workit Health (Observer)
Chainpass, Inventa, Local Kitchens, Menta, Miter, Neura Health, Pomelo, Pahdo Labs, Skipper, Sudozi (Observer), Userclouds, Pearl Street
Homeward Health (Director), Plume Health (Director), Circulo (Director), Eleanor Health (Observer), Quilted Health (Fmr. Observer), Jasper Health (Observer), Osmind (Observer), MDAlly (Observer), VillageMD, Cityblock Health, Equality Health, Maven Clinic, Uno Health and Foresight Mental Health
1Password (observer), Automattic, Axonius, Calendly, Datadog, Drata (observer) , Fivetran, Loom, Monte Carlo (observer), Netskope, Orca Security (observer), Panther Labs, Procore Technologies, ReCharge Payments, Reify Health, Relativity
Flock Homes (Observer), Higo, Nuvo Finance, Okra, Powered by People (Observer), Sumer (Observer), Multi (Observer)
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