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Dr. Toyin Ajayi is co-founder and CEO of Cityblock Health, a tech-enabled, value-based healthcare provider for Medicaid, dually-eligible and lower-income Medicare beneficiaries in underserved communities. Cityblock\u2019s model of care meets individuals where they are, delivering highly personalized medical care, behavioral health care, and social services to members in neighborhoods where it\u2019s needed most. Prior to Cityblock, Dr. Ajayi served as Chief Medical Officer of Commonwealth Care Alliance, a nationally renowned integrated health plan and care delivery system for individuals eligible for both Medicare and Medicaid. In this role, she led clinical operations, spearheaded care delivery innovations, and oversaw multi-disciplinary teams of clinicians, community health workers and administrators. Dr. Ajayi received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University, an MPhil from the University of Cambridge and her medical degree, with Distinction in Clinical Practice, from King\u2019s College London School of Medicine. Board certified in Family Medicine, Dr. Ajayi completed her residency training at Boston Medical Center and continues to practice primary care with a focus on patients with chronic, complex and end-of-life needs. She has published and spoken extensively about her work in caring for populations with complex needs, including at TEDMED, NCQA, and HLTH, and in journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine and the Journal of the American Medical Association.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Toyin-Adayi-1.jpg","company":"Cityblock Health","featured":0,"name":"Toyin Ajayi","uuid":"3c2cce826d18c28a90b55838d761a6591656005941","cb_tag":0,"position":"Co-founder & CEO","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/toyinajayidoc"}},{"bio":"

As a general partner at M25, Mike has managed over 100 investments in early-stage companies. Outside of his responsibilities at M25, Mike is a Kauffman Fellow (Class 24) and a national board member of BLCK VC, leading initiatives in the Midwest to connect, engage, empower, and advance Black venture investors. Prior to M25, Mike founded The Anvil, a co-working space and startup incubator on Purdue University's campus, where he helped launch the first Purdue startup to be accepted to Y Combinator, and many more that have gone on to raise venture capital and get acquired. Mike lives in Chicago with his wife, Erikka, and in his free time, he enjoys making wine, eating sushi, following Chicago sports, and traveling.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Mike-Asem.jpg","company":"M25","featured":0,"name":"Mike Asem","uuid":"e8a9d54fcb2a68aaaf99c5dba0c8e9e41649361901","cb_tag":0,"position":"General Partner","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dmikeasem?lang=en"}},{"bio":"

Michael J. Biercuk is the CEO and Founder of Q-CTRL, a quantum technology company focused on making quantum tech useful through quantum control infrastructure software. Q-CTRL is backed by global VCs including Airbus Ventures, InQTel, DCVC, Sierra Ventures, and Horizons Ventures, and works with leading quantum hardware providers including IBM and Rigetti. Michael is also a Professor of Quantum Physics and Quantum Technology at the University of Sydney and Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Engineered Quantum Systems. He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania, and his Masters and PhD from Harvard University. He held a research fellowship in the Ion Storage Group at NIST Boulder, and has served as a full-time technical consultant to DARPA, helping to steer government investments in quantum information and advanced computer architectures. Michael is a SXSW and TEDx speaking alumnus and a multi-time Australian Museum Eureka Prize nominee and winner.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Michael-Biercuk-1.jpeg","company":"Q-CTRL","featured":0,"name":"Michael Biercuk","uuid":"44cab472974203650177ecd8e08ac0ff1654792797","cb_tag":577026705,"position":"CEO & Founder","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MJBiercuk"}},{"bio":"

Niko Bonatsos is a managing director at the venture firm General Catalyst, partnering with founders from seed to growth stage and beyond to build companies that withstand the test of time. Niko focuses his investment strategy on finding first-time technology founders with strong product instincts, a robust appetite for learning, and a desire to create innovations with the potential to benefit millions. Niko is currently obsessed with partnering with technical Gen Z founders who are building products for themselves. Niko\u2019s portfolio of investments includes: Audius, Bounce, Celo, ClassDojo, Collective, Cover, Discord, Dubsmash (acquired by Reddit), Ecologi, Jadu, Hive, Livongo [acquired by Teladoc (NYSE: TDOC)], Medely, Microverse, Numerade, Paribus (acquired by CapitalOne), Remote, Saturn, Seafair, Sleeper, Snap (NYSE: SNAP), Superplay, Tempus Ex, Wag!, and ZestWorld, among others. Prior to joining General Catalyst, Niko attended Stanford University as a Fulbright Scholar earning an MS in Management Science and Engineering. He has studied in several countries, earning additional degrees in Manufacturing Engineering & Management and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science and worked as a part of the R&D team for Yokogawa Electric Corporation in Japan.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Niko-Bonatsos-1.jpg","company":"General Catalyst","featured":0,"name":"Niko Bonatsos","uuid":"2394e29f5943f3d5339ec2efc78a0c2a","cb_tag":285991723,"position":"Managing Director","links":{"crunchbase":"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/niko-bonatsos","twitter":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/bonatsos","linkedin":"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/bonatsos"}},{"bio":"

Peter Boyce II is an investor at General Catalyst, a venture capital firm headquartered in Cambridge, MA with offices in Palo Alto, SF and NYC.<\/p>\n\n

In addition to his work at GC, he also co-founded & manages Rough Draft Ventures: a program to support technology entrepreneurship on university campuses.<\/p>\n\n

Since joining General Catalyst in 2013 as one of the first two investment professionals based in their NYC office, he works closely with portfolio companies including: Cadre, Mark43, Outdoor Voices, Roman, Great Jones, Jet.com (acquired by Walmart), Rebag, Major League Hacking, Workflow (acquired by Apple), and Freebird.<\/p>\n\n

Through his work at the university level leading Rough Draft Ventures, he supports a community of 150+ early stage teams started out of universities including: Summer, FreeWill, Noken, Snackpass, Reverie Labs, Rocketvisor, Getaway, Cobalt Robotics, LogRocket, Instabase, Pavlov (acquired by Coinbase) and Legalist.<\/p>\n\n

Prior to his time at GC, he worked for online education marketplace Skillshare, helped launch GoGirl Finance (an online community for personal finance education), worked in media at Bad Boy Entertainment, and co-founded two students groups while a student at Harvard: Harvard Ventures & HackHarvard.<\/p>\n\n

Peter is a graduate of Harvard University, earning a B.A. in Applied Mathematics and a Secondary in Computer Science, with focus on Behavioral Economics & Network Theory. He grew up in New York City, where he graduated from Stuyvesant High School.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/gmc7tnygzt0ya1lnzcen.jpg","company":"General Catalyst","featured":0,"name":"Peter Boyce II","uuid":"8037cbc52d34d824f4a4b678eae19f0c","cb_tag":576785152,"position":"Partner","links":{"crunchbase":"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/peter-boyce-ii","twitter":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/badboyboyce","linkedin":"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/peterboyce2\/"}},{"bio":"

Brett is a Vancouver Island-based Threat Analyst with cybersecurity company Emsisoft. Emsisoft is a partner in Europol\u2019s No More Ransom project, has been involved in some of the most high profile ransomware incidents of recent years and has helped both companies and individuals avoid hundreds of millions of dollars in ransom demands.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Brett-Callow.jpg","company":"Emsisoft","featured":0,"name":"Brett Callow","uuid":"9d3caf92328ece57eace352fd33e42791655504921","cb_tag":0,"position":"Threat Analyst","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrettCallow"}},{"bio":"

Annie Case is a partner at Kleiner Perkins where she focuses on investments in consumer, healthcare and marketplaces. Before joining Kleiner Perkins, Annie worked in product and business operations roles at Uber. While at Uber, she supported the SVP of Operations and helped scale the UberEats business to new markets internationally. Annie started her career as a consultant at Bain & Company in San Francisco, where she worked with clients in the technology, private equity, and education practices. Annie graduated from Stanford University with a B.S. in Human Biology and an M.S. Management Science & Engineering. She was also a member of the Stanford Women's Soccer team.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Annie-Case.jpg","company":"Kleiner Perkins","featured":0,"name":"Annie Case","uuid":"d1ad3e34aa7a4ea1b582708993fd109b","cb_tag":576751661,"position":"Partner","links":{"crunchbase":"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/annie-case","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anniecase1","linkedin":"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/annie-case-044bb753\/"}},{"bio":"

As a child growing up in Paris, France, Mathilde was struck by how many people seemed to be dispassionate about their jobs. It felt normal for everybody to dread the next Monday, to complain about the long hours, and to resent their boss. It was at an early age that Mathilde committed herself to finding meaningful work\u2014for herself and for the people around her. It was this notion that led Mathilde to co-found Front with Laurent Perrin in 2013. Today, Mathilde is CEO of Front and has raised more than $138 million in venture capital funding. Front has more than 200 employees and has offices located in San Francisco, Chicago, Paris, and Dublin. Years later, their company mission remains the same: to help people everywhere work happier. Mathilde is known for her values-driven leadership style and for championing top-down radical transparency. Before founding Front and moving to San Francisco for Y Combinator in 2014, Mathilde received a Master\u2019s degree at HEC School of Management. Today she mentors aspiring entrepreneurs through All Raise\u2019s Female Founders Office Hours and the Pioneer Fund. She has been recognized in Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2019, Inc Magazine\u2019s Female Founders 100 2019, and Forbes 30 Under 30: Enterprise Tech 2017.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Mathilde-Collin.jpg","company":"Front","featured":1,"name":"Mathilde Collin","uuid":"c8e79ddbc636c67948586c76b538b77c1650571331","cb_tag":0,"position":"Co-founder & CEO","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/collinmathilde?lang=en"}},{"bio":"

Chris Dixon is a general partner and has been at Andreessen Horowitz since 2012. He founded and leads a16z Crypto, which invests in web3 technologies through three dedicated funds with more than $3 billion under management. Previously, Chris was the cofounder and CEO of two startups, SiteAdvisor and Hunch. SiteAdvisor was an internet security company that warned web users of security threats. The company was acquired by McAfee in 2006. Hunch was a recommendation technology company that was acquired by eBay in 2011. Chris has been a prolific seed investor, cofounding Founder Collective, a seed venture fund, and making a number of personal angel investments in various technology companies. Chris started programming as a kid, and was a professional programmer after college at the high-speed options trading firm, Arbitrade. He has a BA and MA in Philosophy from Columbia and an MBA from Harvard.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Chris-Dixon.jpg","company":"a16z crypto","featured":1,"name":"Chris Dixon","uuid":"d2f0fb7ceb4c2f473d13497a07856796","cb_tag":199833049,"position":"Founder & Managing Partner","links":{"crunchbase":"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/chris-dixon","twitter":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/cdixon"}},{"bio":"

Mandela is the CEO of All Raise, a non-profit on a mission to accelerate the success of female and nonbinary investors, founders, and operators in tech. Mandela\u2019s career in the tech industry began when she dropped out of her PhD program at the age of 25 to start her own company and became one of the first Black women to raise capital in Silicon Valley. Before All Raise, Mandela was the Founder and CEO of Founder Gym, the top training program teaching underrepresented founders how to raise venture capital. She was also the founding Portfolio Services Director at Kapor Capital and the Global Director of Startup Weekend Education (acq. by Techstars). Mandela is an active angel investor, limited partner, Sequoia Capital Scout, and an inaugural member of First Round Capital's Angel Track program. Mandela has appeared on more than 150 stages and in more than 100 publications and was recognized as one of Entrepreneur magazine\u2019s 100 Most Powerful Women, a Forbes 30 Under 30 awardee, and LinkedIn's Top 10 Voices in Venture Capital and Startups. She received a Bachelor's Degree in Intercultural Communications from Pepperdine University, a Masters Degree in Education and Administration & Policy, and was a PhD candidate in Urban Schooling at UCLA.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Mandela-Dixon-1.jpg","company":"All Raise","featured":0,"name":"Mandela Schumacher-Hodge Dixon","uuid":"fdcf8790ff40649fc61d65ab95fa851b1655937196","cb_tag":0,"position":"CEO","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mandelash?lang=en"}},{"bio":"

Nisha Dua is a Managing Partner at BBG Ventures, which she co-founded in 2014. BBGV is an NYC-based, early-stage fund leading investments in companies built by female and diverse founders that are solving the needs of consumers, workers and employers. BBGV invests in big categories that require new thinking such as Health & Wellbeing; The Future of Work & Ed; FinTech; Climate; and solutions for Overlooked Consumers. At BBGV Nisha has invested in over 100 female-led start-ups including Spring Health, Real, Fiveable, KiwiCo, Blueland and The Mom Project. Nisha has spent over a decade working in media, tech, strategy and law. She was the General Manager of AOL\u2019s millennial site, Cambio, which she grew 4X in less than a year. She founded BUILT BY GIRLS, a software platform which has connected over 20,000 girls or non-binary talent with professionals in technology. Nisha was previously Chief of Staff for the AOL Brand Group, working on strategy, operations and special projects. She cut her teeth as a management consultant for Bain & Company and an M&A lawyer at Australian law firm Blake Dawson.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Nisha-Dua.jpg","company":"BBG Ventures","featured":0,"name":"Nisha Dua","uuid":"a6b56be6cb6af5766e88ebb37479ee0e","cb_tag":576802584,"position":"Co-founder & Managing Partner","links":{"crunchbase":"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/nisha-dua","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nish67","linkedin":"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/nisha-dua-5aa87914"}},{"bio":"

Anu Duggal is the founding partner of Female Founders Fund, the pre-eminent early-stage fund investing in female-founded technology companies. Since its founding in 2014, Female Founders Fund has raised two funds (Fund I: $6 million and Fund II: $25 million) and invested in over 40 of the fastest growing female-led technology companies nationwide. These include category leaders like Zola, Tala, ELOQUII, Primary Kids, Bento Box, Kin Euphorics, Billie, Co--Star, Peanut, Thrive Global, WinkyLux, Rent The Runway and more. Anu has been honored in Fortune\u2019s \u201c40 Under 40\u201d list in 2018 and Crain\u2019s \u201cNotable Women in Tech\u201d list in 2019, as well as praised for her efforts in starting a movement to diversify venture capital with additional distinctions, such as Business Insider\u2019s \u201cUltimate List of Female Startup Investors\u201d and \u201cTop 4 Venture Firms Investing in Women.\u201d Anu and Female Founders Fund have been featured in leading media outlets including \u201cTODAY\u201d, TIME, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC Squawk Alley and Inc., and she is a regular co-host on Yahoo!\u2019s digital finance show, Midday Movers. Anu is a board observer for Maven Clinic, Landit, Billie, RadSwan and Co--Star, and a board member for WinkyLux. She holds an MBA from London Business School and a BA from Vassar College. Prior to starting Female Founders Fund, Anu co-founded Exclusively.in, a private-sale e-commerce company backed by Accel Partners and Tiger Global, which was acquired by Indian fashion e-commerce company Myntra in 2011.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Anu-Duggaljpg.jpg","company":"Female Founders Fund","featured":0,"name":"Anu Duggal","uuid":"e8e1900f60c48bd35b467d2cafacb0ba","cb_tag":327217905,"position":"Founding Partner","links":{"crunchbase":"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/anu-duggal","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anuduggalnyc","linkedin":"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pub\/anu-duggal\/0\/222\/568"}},{"bio":"

Amanda DoAmaral is an educator, activist, and co-founder of Fiveable - a social productivity platform for students. She spent a half a decade teaching high school history in Oakland, CA, where her passion for creating equitable educational opportunities was ignited. Amanda has been a vocal advocate for inclusive history curriculum and is active within the Milwaukee tech community.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Amanda-DoAmaral.jpg","company":"Fiveable","featured":0,"name":"Amanda DoAmaral","uuid":"b888125816a753a91bd87862c0aba3641648497228","cb_tag":0,"position":"Co-founder & CEO","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/amandadoamanda"}},{"bio":"

Sara Du is CEO & cofounder of Alloy Automation, a no-code automation platform for ecommerce. Brands use Alloy to connect the different apps they use across marketing and logistics in order to move data and automate actions across their full tech stack. SaaS companies also leverage Alloy's white-labeled solution, Forge, to reduce repetitive integration work and get connected to the world of ecommerce data. Founded in 2019, Alloy is backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Bain Capital Ventures, Y Combinator, and a group of unicorn founders from the likes of Attentive, Klaviyo, Shippo, & more. Prior to starting Alloy, Sara spent on year of undergrad at Harvard before leaving to work at Snapchat as an engineer, and then at Wish as a designer. She is originally from Atlanta and currently resides in NYC. Outside of her primary work, she enjoys foreign films and angel invests in commerce and developer tools startups.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Sara-Du.jpg","company":"Alloy Automation","featured":0,"name":"Sara Du","uuid":"002f57b469d1e8109228caae830b52ea1648683436","cb_tag":0,"position":"Co-founder & CEO","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/saraduit?lang=en"}},{"bio":"

Henrique Dubugras is Co-Founder & CEO of Brex \u2014 the first of its kind corporate card for startups. A Brazilian entrepreneur, Henrique built payments company Pagar.me \u2014 the Stripe of Brazil \u2014 when he was sixteen years old. In just three years, Pagar.me grew to $1.5 billion in volume of transactions processed. In the fall of 2016, Henrique sold Pagar.me and enrolled at Stanford University. After eight months, he left school and founded Brex, which raised $215M in funding across three rounds in its first 22 months and was the fastest U.S. business-to-business company to be valued at over $1bn.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Henrique-Dubugras.jpg","company":"Brex","featured":0,"name":"Henrique Dubugras","uuid":"01e2fe56f24e3b7b9ad4e8476ec7cbad","cb_tag":576664616,"position":"Co-founder & CEO","links":{"crunchbase":"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/henrique-dubugras","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hdubugras","linkedin":"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/henriquedubugras"}},{"bio":"

Josh Fabian\u2019s vision for the future wasn\u2019t always so clear. At age 16, he dropped out of high school and moved out determined to make it on his own. To support his young family, Josh bootstrapped his way to a career as a web designer, eventually becoming Lead Designer at Groupon. He then founded Kitsu, an anime social curation community with over 1 million users. Like many with an entrepreneurial spirit, he didn\u2019t stop there. When his kids started playing Pok\u00e9mon competitively, Josh hired one of the best players in the world to coach them at a shockingly low rate of $20 per hour. After learning that this world-champion gamer also had to manage a full-time job to survive, the idea for Metafy was born. As the first platform built by gamers for gamers, Josh and his co-founder launched Metafy to enable the best players in the world to make a living doing what they love.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Josh-Fabian.jpg","company":"Metafy","featured":0,"name":"Josh Fabian","uuid":"d66f7598b573f86a1a6bdd50f5ae39e71651800580","cb_tag":0,"position":"Co-founder & CEO","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/joshfabian?lang=en"}},{"bio":"

Johanna is SVP\/General Manager of Activision Blizzard Call of Duty franchise, responsible for overseeing the direction of the mega-popular, multi-billion dollar blockbuster IP. Prior to joining Activision, Johanna spent 12 years working for the NFL.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Johanna-Faries.jpg","company":"Activision Blizzard","featured":0,"name":"Johanna Faries","uuid":"cda8e54000f1f0bbe841e9e9084c493e1655337259","cb_tag":0,"position":"SVP & General Manager, Call of Duty","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Activision?ref_src=twsrcgoogletwcampserptwgrauthor"}},{"bio":"

Dylan Field is the co-founder and CEO of Figma. Dylan studied computer science and mathematics at Brown University where he and his co-founder, Evan Wallace, first started experimenting with design tools built on (and for) the web. With funding from a Thiel fellowship, they began Figma. Prior to Figma, Dylan interned at O'Reilly Media, LinkedIn, and Flipboard.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Dylan-Field.jpg","company":"Figma","featured":0,"name":"Dylan Field","uuid":"54e6b91cbca34b9861f0d33bcd359a3e","cb_tag":209244008,"position":"Co-founder & CEO","links":{"crunchbase":"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/dylan-field","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/zoinkgames","linkedin":"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/dylanfield"}},{"bio":"

Eva Galperin is EFF's Director of Cybersecurity. Prior to 2007, when she came to work for EFF, Eva worked in security and IT in Silicon Valley and earned degrees in Political Science and International Relations from SFSU. Her work is primarily focused on providing privacy and security for vulnerable populations around the world. To that end, she has applied the combination of her political science and technical background to everything from organizing EFF's Tor Relay Challenge, to writing privacy and security training materials (including Surveillance Self Defense and the Digital First Aid Kit), and publishing research on malware in Syria, Vietnam, Lebanon, and Kazakhstan. Since 2018, she has worked on addressing the digital privacy and security needs of survivors or domestic abuse. She is also a co-founder of the Coalition Against Stalkerware.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Eva-Galperin1.jpg","company":"EFF","featured":0,"name":"Eva Galperin","uuid":"5ef9f592f9c2254ca58dd39f73a3bf0c1654620676","cb_tag":0,"position":"Director of Cybersecurity","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/evacide"}},{"bio":"

Amrapali (Ami) Gan is the CEO at OnlyFans, the subscription social platform revolutionizing creator and fan connections. Gan is responsible for day-to-day leadership responsibilities and work closely with the creator community to help them maximize control over their content. In her former role as Chief Marketing and Communications Officer, Gan has worked closely with OnlyFans to make it the platform that it is today. Prior to joining OnlyFans, Gan worked in rapid growth companies and fast-moving consumer industries. She was with unicorn Quest Nutrition as the Head of Brand Communications, where Ami helped them through a rapid growth period, and for Red Bull Media House focusing on Activation & Communications. Most recently, she served as Vice President of Marketing, helping launch and rebrand the first cannabis restaurant in the U.S.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Ami-Gan.jpg","company":"OnlyFans","featured":0,"name":"Ami Gan","uuid":"a8cfdb265e5127d616e66a6d326335071656006990","cb_tag":0,"position":"CEO","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/onlyfans"}},{"bio":"

Eric is the co-founder and CEO of Ramp (http:\/\/ramp.com), the only finance automation platform that helps businesses spend less time and money. He previously co-founded Paribus, a digital tool that automates price protection and shipping guarantees at online retailers (acq. in 2016 by Capital One). Eric is an active New York-based angel investor. He graduated from Harvard with a BA in Economics and East Asian Studies, and was raised in Las Vegas.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Eric-Glyman.jpg","company":"Ramp","featured":0,"name":"Eric Glyman","uuid":"f4051ca21320beb7cd19e513ab5aedd6","cb_tag":576794907,"position":"Co-founder & CEO","links":{"crunchbase":"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/eric-glyman","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eglyman","linkedin":"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/eglyman"}},{"bio":"

Combining a unique and unconventional blend of professional history and acquired investment experience, Kirsten launched San Francisco-based Forerunner in 2010. Kirsten has led efforts to raise over $2.3B from leading institutional investors and has invested in more than 100 companies. She currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of portfolio companies like Faire, Glossier, Ritual, The Yes, Prose, Hims & Hers, and Curated. She is also on the Board at Nordstrom, Inc (NYSE: JWN). Kirsten has been honored in Time\u2019s 100 Most Influential People, named a Top 20 Venture Capitalists by The New York Times in 2018 & 2017, included on Forbes' Midas List for the past 6 years, in addition to being named among the magazine\u2019s World\u2019s 100 Most Powerful Women.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Kirsten-Green.jpg","company":"Forerunner Ventures","featured":0,"name":"Kirsten Green","uuid":"67e02790aa901d3262d477fc91cb78d4","cb_tag":216734453,"position":"Founder & Managing Partner","links":{"crunchbase":"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/kirsten-green","twitter":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/kirstenagreen","linkedin":"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kirstengreen"}},{"bio":"

Anu Hariharan is managing director of YC Continuity. She led Y Combinator's later-stage investments in Brex, Convoy, Faire, OpenSea, Groww, Gusto, Whatnot, Instacart, Monzo, Rappi, Boom and Vouch, and sits on the boards of Brex, Convoy, Faire, Groww, Gusto, Monzo, Vouch, RevenueCat, and Whatnot. Previously, she was an investment partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where she worked with the management teams of companies including Airbnb, Instacart, Medium, OfferUp, and Udacity. Before that, Anu was a principal in BCG\u2019s private equity practice, and a senior software engineer at Qualcomm. Anu has an MS in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech and an MBA from Wharton.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Anu-Hariharan.jpg","company":"Y Combinator","featured":0,"name":"Anu Hariharan","uuid":"d7fc9fa09881b1ecc910a67aa2290438","cb_tag":576765984,"position":"Managing Director, YC Continuity","links":{"crunchbase":"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/anu-hariharan","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/anuhariharan","linkedin":"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/anuhariharan"}},{"bio":"

Chris Herd is the Founder & CEO of Firstbase. Firstbase is an all-in-one provisioning platform for remote teams. Their platform lets companies set up, supply, maintain, manage and retrieve all the physical equipment remote workers need to do great work at home as a monthly subscription.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Chris-Herd.jpg","company":"Firstbase","featured":0,"name":"Chris Herd","uuid":"99b572f59825594254e0f1abef1dad7b1648575445","cb_tag":0,"position":"Founder & CEO","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chris_herd?ref_src=twsrcgoogletwcampserptwgrauthor"}},{"bio":"

Jomayra is a Partner at Reach Capital, a venture fund focused on early-stage education technology and future of work-related companies. She is currently a board director for Workwhile and a board observer for Outschool. Prior to Reach, Jomayra was a Principal at Cowboy Ventures, where she focused on investing in consumer internet and marketplace companies. She helped lead investments in companies like Contra, a Linkedin for freelancers, and Landing, a modern take on Pinterest. Before Cowboy, she was one of the first venture investors at Emerson Collective, Laurene Powell Jobs\u2019 family office. At Emerson, she worked across early- to growth-stage teams and championed investments in companies including Career Karma, Guild Education, and Handshake. Jomayra started her career as an operator at BloomBoard, a company focused on making educator professional development competency-based, where she focused on customer success, marketing, and special projects. Outside of work, Jomayra is passionate about improving Latinx representation in venture capital and sits on the board of directors of LatinxVC. Jomayra received her MA in Education and BA in Political Science with Honors from Stanford University.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Jomayra-Herrera.jpg","company":"Reach Capital","featured":0,"name":"Jomayra Herrera","uuid":"0bf0017410df4128bd9949ebf249d8ea","cb_tag":576779824,"position":"Partner","links":{"crunchbase":"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/jomayra-herrera","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jomayra_herrera","linkedin":"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jomayraherrera\/"}},{"bio":"

Arman Hezarkhani is the Founder and CEO of Parthean, the modern way to learn about and manage personal finances. Parthean personalizes learning by integrating with a user's financial accounts, building tools to help them manage those accounts, and delivering custom micro-courses right when the user needs them. Before Parthean, Arman founded Ahez Inc, a marketing agency that specialized in technical education campaigns. Ahez Inc worked with clients like Google Cloud, Android, and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) to teach over 1M people. He\u2019s also served as an Adjunct Professor at CMU, teaching a popular full-stack web development course, and an Engineering Intern at Google, where he gave one of the most popular tech talks in the company\u2019s history. Arman holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Arman-Hezarkhani.jpg","company":"Parthean","featured":0,"name":"Arman Hezarkhani","uuid":"2378cf9bc867f726c9268d1c7eaf46ca1649710045","cb_tag":0,"position":"Founder & CEO","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/armanhezarkhani?lang=en"}},{"bio":"

Jamison Hill joined Base10 as a partner to lead the Advancement Initiative after spending seven years at Bain Capital Ventures, leading growth investments into marketplace businesses Cameo and Wonolo and working with leading software companies, FourKites and ShipBob, and fintech companies, Finix and Flywire. Prior to Bain Capital Ventures, Jamison was an early employee at Bonobos, the first digitally native men\u2019s apparel brand, building out the brand\u2019s analytical capabilities across finance, retail, and marketing. Jamison started his career as a management consultant at Bain & Company in Boston, advising clients on growth strategy and digital transformation. Jamison graduated from Harvard with a degree in History and Literature and wrote his honors thesis on the representation of racial violence in early photography. He was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2016 and Venture Capital Journal\u2019s Rising Stars in 2021. He currently serves on the board of Hope In a Box, a program that supports educators in building LGBTQ-inclusive classrooms.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Jamison-Hill.jpg","company":"Base10 Partners","featured":0,"name":"Jamison Hill","uuid":"a60ad12a8b62c1f326d0cc7a0ecff8681653077586","cb_tag":0,"position":"Partner","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamisonh"}},{"bio":"

Katelin is passionate about helping founders build scalable, diverse, and inclusive cultures. First introduced to the notion of intentional cultural development at Pixar Animation Studios, she studied alongside some of the most brilliant creative business minds of this generation. From there, she spent a decade building teams as a senior executive at some of the internet\u2019s most influential startups, including Klout and Reddit. In early 2020, Katelin made the leap from operator to investor, supporting a new generation of leaders. Through the course of her career, the one common denominator remains: enabling people through belonging to create beautiful, innovative products that move the world. Katelin is currently a Founding Partner at Alexis Ohanian\u2019s venture capital firm Seven Seven Six, where she invests in people-first companies and manages the firm\u2019s programs, including the 2% Growth & Caregiving Commitment and Operator in Residence Program. She is deeply committed to helping founders and the broader venture ecosystem evolve their diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging practices, creating new opportunities and access to wealth for people and products typically underrepresented in the tech industry. As an investor, she is passionate about supporting the companies that will shape the future of work, life, sustainability, and the delicate balance that enables us to thrive.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Katelin-Holloway.jpg","company":"Seven Seven Six","featured":0,"name":"Katelin Holloway","uuid":"f702ccdd573e79b85b7f7f8c1a34f3301623185874","cb_tag":576890276,"position":"Founding Partner","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/katelin_cruse?ref_src=twsrcgoogletwcampserptwgrauthor"}},{"bio":"

Charles Hudson is the Managing Partner and Founder of Precursor Ventures, an early\u00adstage venture capital firm focused on investing in the first institutional round of investment for the most promising software and hardware companies. Prior to founding Precursor Ventures, Charles was a Partner at SoftTech VC. In this role, he focused on identifying investment opportunities in mobile infrastructure, mobile applications, and marketplaces. In addition to his investment activities, he supports SoftTech portfolio companies on business and corporate development matters. He was also the Co\u00adFounder and CEO of Bionic Panda Games, an Android\u00adfocused mobile games startup based in San Francisco, CA. Prior to joining SoftTech VC and co\u00adfounding Bionic Panda Games, Charles Hudson was the VP of Business Development for Serious Business until the company was acquired by Zynga in February 2010. Prior to Serious Business, he was the Sr. Director for Business Development at Gaia Interactive, an online hangout and virtual world for teens. Prior to Gaia, Charles worked in New Business Development at Google and focused on new partnership opportunities for early\u00adstage products in the advertising, mobile, and e\u00adcommerce markets. Prior to joining Google, he was a Product Manager for IronPort Systems, a leading provider of anti\u00adspam hardware appliances that was acquired by Cisco Systems for $830 million in 2007.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Charles-Hudson.jpg","company":"Precursor Ventures","featured":0,"name":"Charles E. Hudson","uuid":"c617cde6c84502437a66bb2701267757","cb_tag":211580334,"position":"Founder & Managing Partner","links":{"crunchbase":"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/charles-hudson","twitter":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/chudson","linkedin":"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/chudson"}},{"bio":"

Nicole is Partner at Forerunner. She pays close attention to entrepreneurs with unbridled, around-the-clock passion for whatever they\u2019re building. Armed with a background in Psychology, she loves to dig into the consumer psyche to uncover why we do what we do, the way we interact with the world, and identify what drives consumer behavior. Nicole originally joined the Forerunner team late 2013 as an Investment Analyst and team member #3. Her investments include Calibrate, CoProcure, Dutch, N\u00e9cessaire, Neighborhood Goods, The Expert, Thingtesting, and Stadium Goods (exited). Prior to Forerunner, Nicole worked with SapientNitro, a leading brand and digital strategy consultancy where she supported Fortune 500 retailers on their global retail strategies. Nicole graduated cum laude from Princeton University and was named Forbes 30 under 30, Venture Capital in 2016.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Nicole-Johnson.jpg","company":"Forerunner Ventures","featured":0,"name":"Nicole Johnson","uuid":"75ba2a094981fdfe93fe0f7cc97ba4c71652136778","cb_tag":0,"position":"Partner","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nicoleahjohnson?lang=en"}},{"bio":"

Lindsay Kaplan is the Co-Founder of Chief, the private network built to drive more women into positions of power and keep them there. She is an award-winning startup marketer and brand strategist who previously served as VP of Communications and Brand at Casper. Lindsay was named a New YorkTimes DealBook Groundbreaker and one of Business Insider's Most Innovative CMOs in the World.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Lindsay-Kaplan-JPG.jpg","company":"Chief","featured":0,"name":"Lindsay Kaplan","uuid":"92661fe37f61be8c962a28f8a0c1b45b1654881546","cb_tag":0,"position":"Co-founder","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lindsaykap"}},{"bio":"

Jeff Kolovson is the co-founder and Chief Operations Officer of Faire. A founding partner of Faire, Jeff rejoined the company as COO after a period leading growth and operations at Opendoor. Prior to co-founding Faire, Jeff held various leadership roles at Square, where he worked in product, business development, marketing, analytics and business operations. In college, Jeff launched Evolving Vox, a furniture rental company, which he sold for a profit after two years of operations. He holds a B.A. in economics and political science from Dartmouth College.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Jeff-Kolovson.jpg","company":"Faire","featured":0,"name":"Jeff Kolovson","uuid":"d49f0d2cc8de6a9d3979cd2e80950ea51655510824","cb_tag":0,"position":"Co-founder & COO","links":{"crunchbase":""}},{"bio":"

Thejo realized he needed to move to the epicenter of the tech startup world after his first company's software thrived in India but ultimately failed to break through globally. So Thejo chose to pick himself up and go again and his decision to move to the United States, get a master's degree from UC Berkeley, then start another company in 2011 proved to be the right one. Automatic, which he co-founded, was sold to SiriusXM for $110 million. Thejo's experience at Automatic revealed that widespread inefficiencies of accounting and finance in small to midsize companies can actually curtail a company's growth. The most inefficient area he saw was non-payroll spend \u2013 no one had designed a fully articulated, consolidated software solution to fix this broken process. So he did; he started Airbase. Airbase was founded in 2017, and so far has raised $101 million in venture funding from leading VC firms including Menlo Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, First Round Capital - and from others, including the former CFO of Netsuite and co-founder of Okta, Airbase has gone on to become the world's leading spend management platform.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Thejo-Kote.jpg","company":"Airbase","featured":0,"name":"Thejo Kote","uuid":"e2338a9b7255732d58b96b4ec41482b3","cb_tag":576801997,"position":"Founder & CEO","links":{"crunchbase":"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/thejo-kote","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thejo","linkedin":"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/thejo"}},{"bio":"

Kanyi is a Managing Partner at Kindred Ventures, an early stage venture fund investing in mission-driven technology companies at the earliest stages. He focuses his investment and formation work in theme areas including fintech, health and wellness, e-commerce, supply-chain, and climate tech. Over the last 10 years in venture, has led and participated in over 50 investments including Cloudtrucks, Goldfinch, Tala, Upstart, Just, Outschool, Mural, Earnest, Kano (Stem Player), Hellosign and more. He previously served as a Partner at Collaborative Fund, where he served on boards including Spruce, True Link, Camino Financial, Hopscotch, and Buffer. As an entrepreneur and operator, Kanyi is a co-founder at Heartbeat Health, and early in his career before venture ran growth at One Block Off the Grid (acquired by $NRG) and was an early employee at Doostang (acquired by Universum Global). Kanyi has also served as a Lecturer and Adjunct at New York University Tisch School of the Arts, a curriculum adapted from his time as a student at Stanford University, where he studied Philosophy.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Kanyi-Maqubela1.jpg","company":"Kindred Ventures","featured":0,"name":"Kanyi Maqubela","uuid":"a9ff81c0a51df2a616f60b5ef05a6ca2","cb_tag":336464693,"position":"Managing Partner","links":{"crunchbase":"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/kanyi-maqubela","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/km","linkedin":"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/kanyi"}},{"bio":"

Nik Milanovi\u0107 is a fintech enthusiast. He is the founder and editor in chief of This Week in Fintech and general partner of The Fintech Fund. In a past life, he was Head of BD at Google Pay, VP of Strategy at Petal, and Director of Strategic Partnerships at Funding Circle.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Nik-Milanovic\u0301.jpg","company":"","featured":0,"name":"Nik Milanovic\u0301","uuid":"e0db519d18fc7649f7014b3b8b2d03951648684788","cb_tag":0,"position":"Founder, This Week in Fintech; General Partner, The Fintech Fund","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nikmilanovic"}},{"bio":"

Sheel is a co-founder of Better Tomorrow, a seed-stage venture capital fund investing in Fintech companies globally. His own startup experience includes 2 successful Fintech exits \u2014 a payments company and a high-stakes auction company \u2014 and he\u2019s GP of the 500 Fintech fund. He formerly worked as a financial services consultant at BCG and started his Fintech career at the non-profit p2p lender, Kiva.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Sheel-Mohnot.jpg","company":"Better Tomorrow Ventures","featured":0,"name":"Sheel Mohnot","uuid":"47ceb61a1dc6cafb481e0a9128aa0b7b","cb_tag":576700012,"position":"Co-founder & General Partner","links":{"crunchbase":"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/sheel-mohnot","twitter":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/pitdesi","linkedin":"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/smohnot"}},{"bio":"

With more than 20 years of professional cybersecurity experience, Katie Moussouris has a unique and unparalleled perspective on security research, incident response, vulnerability disclosure, and bug bounty programs. Katie currently serves as the founder and CEO of Luta Security. During her tenure with Microsoft, Katie\u2019s work included industry-leading initiatives such as starting Microsoft Vulnerability Research, which formalized multiparty vulnerability and supply chain vulnerability coordination across hardware and software as well as launching Microsoft\u2019s first bug bounty program. Katie is the co-author and co-editor of ISO 29147 (vulnerability disclosure) and ISO 30111 (vulnerability handling processes). Working with the U.S. Department of Defense, Katie led the launch of the U.S. government\u2019s first bug bounty program, \"Hack the Pentagon.\" She also worked with the State Department to help renegotiate the Wassenaar Arrangement, specifically changing the export control language to include technical exemptions for vulnerability disclosure and incident response. She serves in three advisory roles for the U.S. government as a member of the Cyber Safety Review Board, the Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board, and the Information Systems Technical Advisory Committee. Katie is also a cybersecurity fellow at New America and the National Security Institute.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Katie-Moussouris.jpg","company":"Luta Security","featured":0,"name":"Katie Moussouris","uuid":"38c7c253f04b56056e593cc1a1485e28","cb_tag":576858706,"position":"Founder & CEO","links":{"crunchbase":"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/katie-moussouris","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/k8em0?ref_src=twsrcgoogletwcampserptwgrauthor"}},{"bio":"

James Norman is a serial entrepreneur who at age 16 built his first online company. His current venture, Pilotly, is the first market research platform built for creative content, servicing Amazon, NBCUniversal and others. Outside of media, he\u2019s passionate about social equity, which led him to co-found Black Operator Ventures, the first seed fund for and by Black founders. James earned his BSE in Electrical Engineering from University of Michigan. He\u2019s a founding partner at Transparent Collective, the non-profit that accelerated the most Black tech founders to funding, and a Board Advisor at Zoo Labs music accelerator.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/James-Norman.jpg","company":"Black Operator Ventures","featured":0,"name":"James Norman","uuid":"decc4e0230aa30798c3968314447aa9a","cb_tag":576782070,"position":"General Partner","links":{"crunchbase":"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/james-norman","twitter":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/motownini","linkedin":"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/motown"}},{"bio":"

Kara is a Managing Partner at Upfront Ventures, the largest venture capital firm based in Los Angeles. Some of her notable investments include Parachute Home, Time by Ping, Endgame, Writer, Open Raven, Britive, and Fleetsmith (acquired by Apple in 2020). Before Upfront, Kara co-founded the children's e-commerce company Moonfrye and also spent seven years at IAC where she co-headed the M&A group and acted as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Urbanspoon and Citysearch. During her tenure at IAC she oversaw the initial investment in Tinder. Earlier in her career, she also spent time at Morgan Stanley, Microsoft, and Battery Ventures. She received her AB in Politics from Princeton University and her MBA from Stanford University. Kara is also a founding member of All Raise, a VC-led group dedicated to increased diversity in funders and founders and is a founder of LA\u2019s professional women\u2019s soccer team, Angel City Football Club. Kara resides in Los Angeles with her husband and three daughters.<\/p>","cbAvatar":false,"company":"Upfront Ventures","featured":0,"name":"Kara Nortman","uuid":"fd3a39c981decf26a92a6b1f3efe9001","cb_tag":576604378,"position":"Partner","links":{"crunchbase":"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/kara-nortman","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/karanortman","linkedin":"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/karanortman"}},{"bio":"

Joshua Ogundu is the CEO and Co-Founder of Heart To Heart which is an audio first dating app that lets people get to know people by the stories they tell and the conversations they have. Previously he was a product operations lead at TikTok, the world\u2019s leading destination for short-form mobile videos. He primarily worked on the Trust & Safety & Accessibility products which led to release and refinement of TikTok\u2019s Take A Break videos and their photosensitive epilepsy warning and toggle. Joshua got his start in tech by founding LykeMe which was an identity and interest based social network that he launched on iOS the week after graduating from college. He holds an economics degree from Michigan State and is a graduate of the Marshall School of Business at USC where he focused on entrepreneurship.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Josh-Ogundu.jpg","company":"Heart To Heart","featured":0,"name":"Joshua Ogundu","uuid":"06c6d7cd33dcfa4fe87a22d52a5a7d431648497513","cb_tag":0,"position":"Co-founder & CEO","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JoshuaOgundu?ref_src=twsrcgoogletwcampserptwgrauthor"}},{"bio":"

Uriridiakoghene \u201cUlili\u201d Onovakpuri is a Partner at Kapor Capital, an early stage, social impact venture capital firm that invests in gap-closing startups. At Kapor Capital, she leads healthcare and people operations practice as well as the firm\u2019s Summer Associate program.<\/p>\n\n

Prior to her role at Kapor, Ulili served as Director of Global Programs at Village Capital, a global accelerator program and venture capital firm. While at Village Capital she worked side by side with entrepreneurs from around the world helping them grow their ideas into marketable businesses.<\/p>\n\n

Ulili received her MBA with a concentration in Health Sector Management from Duke University\u2019s Fuqua School of Business. She is a native San Franciscan and a proud UC Berkeley Alum.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/d25n37xlrvbcjp2eeh07.jpg","company":"Kapor Capital","featured":0,"name":"Ulili Onovakpuri","uuid":"127cb85cca77dc9ba62e0f75d61cce58","cb_tag":576782103,"position":"Partner","links":{"crunchbase":"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/ulili-onovakpuri","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/unolil","linkedin":"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/uonovakpuri"}},{"bio":"

Deidre Paknad is the CEO and co-founder of WorkBoard, the leading Strategy Execution Platform powering the digital operating rhythm for companies around the globe. Deidre has founded and led three tech companies, a high-growth business as an executive at IBM, and has 17 patents granted\/pending in her name. She has been twice recognized with the Computer World Smithsonian Award. At WorkBoard, Deidre works with senior leadership at some of the world\u2019s largest companies, including AstraZeneca, Ford, Humana, Walmart, and Zendesk to clarify, align, and drive strategic priorities with greater speed and agility. WorkBoard ranked No.162 on the 2021 Deloitte Technology Fast 500\u2122 list and number 6 on the list of companies led by female CEOs.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Deidre-Paknad.jpg","company":"WorkBoard","featured":0,"name":"Deidre Paknad","uuid":"70afa12511389d3b1fcbd7704937c9531632184256","cb_tag":0,"position":"Co-founder & CEO","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/day_dree?lang=en"}},{"bio":"

Annie Pearl is the Chief Product Officer at Calendly, where she oversees the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Caledly's product. Annie is responsible for leading and scaling the product management and UX teams to deliver best-in-class scheduling experiences for users. Annie brings nearly 15 years of experience at startups and enterprise organizations, most recently as Chief Product Officer at Glassdoor overseeing the product, UX, and content moderation teams. Before that, she led Enterprise Product Management teams at Box both before and after the company\u2019s IPO. Earlier in her career, she was the VP of Product and a founding member of Xpert Financial. She is a Board Member of WorkRamp, Well Health, and holds several advisory roles. Annie has a Juris Doctor from Santa Clara University School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts from Claremont McKenna College. She is a recipient of the 2019 San Francisco Business Times Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Annie-Pearl.jpg","company":"Calendly","featured":0,"name":"Annie Pearl","uuid":"38496f4a1ffa7e92144cb58dc4afeb031655502851","cb_tag":0,"position":"Chief Product Officer","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Calendly"}},{"bio":"

Katie Rae is the founding CEO & Managing Partner of The Engine, a venture capital firm spun out of MIT with more than $670M assets under management. The Engine invests in early- stage companies solving the world\u2019s biggest problems through the convergence of breakthrough science, engineering and leadership. She has served in this role since March 2017. Katie serves as a Board Member at Commonwealth Fusion Systems, Form Energy, Via Separations, Lilac Solutions, Boston Metal, Sublime Systems and VEIR. She founded Project 11 Ventures in 2014 and served as Managing Director. Prior to that, Katie held leadership roles at Techstars Boston, serving as Managing Director from 2011-2014 and Chairman until 2016. She has advised hundreds of founders and invested in more than 100 companies at the earliest stages of formation. Key investments include Flywire, Pillpack (acquired by Amazon for $1 billion), Bevi, GrabCad, and Synack. Katie founded Equity Summit in 2018, an annual event bringing together female and underrepresented minority fund managers and world leading Limited Partners. She serves as the organization\u2019s President. In addition to her extensive investing career, Katie has more than fifteen years of experience in senior management and product positions at Microsoft, Eons, AltaVista, RagingBull, Zip2, and Mirror Worlds. She holds an MBA from Yale University and a BA in Biology from Oberlin College.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Katie-Rae-1-1.jpg","company":"The Engine","featured":0,"name":"Katie Rae","uuid":"298babe0705eeec7787cf37e924db0d9","cb_tag":576603165,"position":"CEO & Managing Partner","links":{"crunchbase":"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/katie-rae","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/enginexyz?lang=en","linkedin":"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/katierae"}},{"bio":"

Adriana Roche is the Chief People Officer at MURAL, a collaborative intelligence company employing a global team of 900+ working remotely across 29 countries. She leads a team responsible for recruiting, growth, and team member development as the company continues its strategic expansion plans. She most recently served as Vice President of People and Places at Segment in San Francisco where she led a team who, over the course of nearly five years, grew the company\u2019s headcount by 10x and earned multiple awards for best companies to work. Previously, Roche held recruiting positions at Google, Salesforce.com and Dropbox demonstrating her extensive experience in managing distributed SaaS teams undergoing a steep growth curve. She is fluent in English, Spanish and French and holds a Master\u2019s Degree in Organizational Psychology from NYU.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Adriana-Roche-1.jpg","company":"MURAL","featured":0,"name":"Adriana Roche","uuid":"685f47b417cebd2a9f3fa8807a280bd51651798364","cb_tag":0,"position":"Chief People Officer","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AdrianaMRoche"}},{"bio":"

Kate Ryder is the founder and CEO of Maven Clinic, the largest virtual clinic for women\u2019s and family health. Prior to founding Maven in 2014, Kate worked in venture capital and as a journalist, writing for The Economist from Southeast Asia, New York and London and for The New Yorker. In 2009, she worked with former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, helping him write his memoirs about the financial crisis. Kate has been named to Fortune\u2019s 40 Under 40 and to Fast Company\u2019s \u201cMost Creative People.\u201d Kate received her B.A. from the University of Michigan and her MSc from the London School of Economics. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and three children.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Kate-Ryder.jpg","company":"Maven Clinic","featured":0,"name":"Kate Ryder","uuid":"2c3f9627bd5301dbe09d52a8f40891ed1652130697","cb_tag":0,"position":"Founder & CEO","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/_kateryder https:\/\/twitter.com\/mavenclinic?lang=en"}},{"bio":"

RJ started Rivian to combine his love for cars with his desire to leave the world better for the generations who inherit it. He is unrelenting in his mission to build an organization focused on collaboration, products created with thoughtfulness and a future that is as exciting as it is carbon neutral. As founder and CEO, RJ began with no capital, no team, no partnerships and no roadmap. He has since led the company to develop its vertically integrated technology platforms, built a multi-program development organization, established key partnerships, and developed the strategic and tactical plans to establish market leadership in both the consumer and commercial markets. RJ graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute before obtaining his PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/RJ-Scavinge.jpg","company":"Rivian","featured":1,"name":"RJ Scaringe","uuid":"f3a3b8b701d00a9774ba5477eb924df11649708850","cb_tag":0,"position":"Founder & CEO","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rjscaringe?lang=en"}},{"bio":"

Aydin Senkut is the Founder and Managing Partner of Felicis. An original super angel turned multi-stage investor, he has been named on the Forbes Midas List for the past nine years (2014-2022) as well as the New York Times Top 20 Venture Capitalists list for four consecutive years (2016-2019). His recent focus areas include infrastructure, security, and future of health. He is well-known as an early backer of a number of iconic companies including Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), Credit Karma (Acquired by Intuit), Fitbit (NYSE:FIT), Guardant Health (NASDAQ:GH), Guideline, Notion, Opendoor (NASDAQ: OPEN), Pluralsight (NASDAQ:PS), Rovio (HEL:ROVIO), Shopify (NYSE:SHOP), and Soundhound (NASDAQ:SOUN). Prior to starting Felicis, Aydin was a Senior Manager at Google responsible for strategic partner development and account management in Asia Pacific, including Japan. Aydin joined Google in 1999 as its first Product Manager to launch Google\u2019s first 10 international sites, its first online search licensing products, and its first Safe Search. He then became the first International Sales Manager at Google, responsible for worldwide licensing deals. Before joining Google, Aydin was the Product Manager for Data Visualization and Data Mining software MineSet at SGI. He is well-known as an early backer of a number of iconic companies including Adyen (AMS: ADYEN), Credit Karma (Acquired by Intuit), Fitbit (NYSE:FIT), Guardant Health (NASDAQ:GH), Guideline, Notion, Opendoor (NASDAQ: OPEN), Pluralsight (NASDAQ:PS), Rovio (HEL:ROVIO), Shopify (NYSE:SHOP), and Soundhound (NASDAQ:SOUN). Prior to starting Felicis, Aydin was a Senior Manager at Google responsible for strategic partner development and account management in Asia Pacific, including Japan. Aydin joined Google in 1999 as its first Product Manager to launch Google\u2019s first 10 international sites, its first online search licensing products, and its first Safe Search. He then became the first International Sales Manager at Google, responsible for worldwide licensing deals. Before joining Google, Aydin was the Product Manager for Data Visualization and Data Mining software MineSet at SGI.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Aydin-Senkut.jpg","company":"Felicis","featured":0,"name":"Aydin Senkut","uuid":"5f09abcedad7f86e7771aef578c9e7e4","cb_tag":212019116,"position":"Founder & Managing Partner","links":{"crunchbase":"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/aydin-senkut","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/asenkut","linkedin":"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/aydins"}},{"bio":"

Deena Shakir is a Partner at Lux Capital, where she invests in transformative technologies improving lives and livelihoods. Her investments span stages and sectors, and include women's health (Maven Clinic, Alife, Gameto, Adyn), digital health infrastructure (SteadyMD, H1, AllStripes, Everly Health), health equity (Waymark, Galileo, Miga), foodtech (Shiru), and fintech (Mos, Ramp, Neo.tax). Above all, she seeks out extraordinary, mission-driven founders. Prior to Lux, Deena was a Partner at GV (formerly Google Ventures), led product partnerships at Google for health, search, and AI\/ML, and directed social impact investments at Google.org. Deena also served as a Presidential Management Fellow at The U.S. Department of State under Secretary Clinton, where she helped launch President Obama\u2019s first Global Entrepreneurship Summit. Deena self-funded her undergraduate degree at Harvard (Social Studies and Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations) and MA at Georgetown through a variety of merit scholarships and side hustles, including co-founding her first company while in college. She is currently a Lecturer in Management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, a Board Director for the National Venture Capital Association, a member of Fortune's Most Powerful Women, Kauffman Fellows, Aspen Finance Fellows, The Council on Foreign Relations, and All Raise. Deena is a frequent speaker and commentator and has been featured in print and television on Bloomberg, CNBC and NBC, in print in the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Forbes, Techcrunch, Marie Claire, STAT, and more, and has delivered keynote addresses at major industry conferences. She was named a \"Top 30 Under 40 in Healthcare\" by Business Insider, \"Top Senior Women to Watch in Venture Capital\" by the Wall Street Journal, and \"Top 50 in Digital Health\" by Rock Health.<\/p>","cbAvatar":false,"company":"Lux Capital","featured":0,"name":"Deena Shakir","uuid":"03c50843a005a93f00fe2f02a23dd329","cb_tag":576776273,"position":"Partner","links":{"crunchbase":"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/deena-shakir","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/deenashakir","linkedin":"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/deenashakir\/"}},{"bio":"

Emmalyn Shaw co-founded Flourish Ventures, a $500M global venture firm that invests in fintechs with purpose. She leads the US portfolio team and sits on Boards of Unit, Kin Insurance, SeedFi, Clerkie, Cushion, EarnUp and Steady. She led the firm\u2019s investments in and provided guidance to Brigit, Chime and Propel. An industry thought leader and advocate for transforming the U.S. financial system to help create better financial health, Emm speaks at industry conferences and is a sought-after media source. She is a strong believer in working with marginalized communities and leads her firm's DEIJ+ efforts. Emm serves in leadership roles at YPO and All Raise. Emm has more than 20 years of tech investing experience from her roles as a Partner at Omidyar Network and a Venture Partner with Oak Investment Partners. She started her career as a tech investment banker with Morgan Stanley. Emm holds an MBA degree from Wharton and a BA degree from UC-Berkeley where she graduated summa cum laude.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Emmalyn-Shaw.jpg","company":"Flourish Ventures","featured":0,"name":"Emmalyn Shaw","uuid":"9259f95dbe964f62517f74aae7f166ad1655499375","cb_tag":0,"position":"Co-founder & Managing Partner","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emmalynshaw?lang=en"}},{"bio":"

Gefen Skolnick is a first generation immigrant, proud queer woman, and coffee lover. She started Couplet in order to bring the love and joy of great-tasting, specialty coffee to the masses. Couplet\u2019s goal is to make more coffee fun and approachable by skipping the pretentiousness of specialty coffee and getting right to delicious coffee. Not only has Gefen worked as the co-director of technology for the largest women\u2019s hackathon in the U.S., but she also built her own apps and participated in multiple fellowship programs. She became a lead partner at a venture fund backed by the founders of Tesla, Reddit, and Twitch before creating her own coffee brand and locking in funding using just Twitter. And did we mention that she did all this by the age of 23! Gefen had planned to bootstrap her company - funding from Twitter was never in question. As fate would have it, however, her persistence to advocate for underrepresented minorities helped her grab the attention of not one but 30 angel investors pre launch. When the brand\u2019s first check came from Jen Rubio, it pushed Gefen to work on Couplet Coffee full-time directly after graduating college. Her passion for being an advocate stems from seeing first hand how community college graduates are extremely under-resourced. Through Twitter, Gefen built a community for underrepresented founders that reached 1,000 members in days, currently at almost 3,000.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Gefen-Skolnick.jpg","company":"Couplet Coffee","featured":0,"name":"Gefen Skolnick","uuid":"19adb407da4c48da6524c80ffd07a7b51648587306","cb_tag":0,"position":"Founder","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/chiefgayofficer?ref_src=twsrcgoogletwcampserptwgrauthor"}},{"bio":"

David Tisch is the Managing Partner of BoxGroup, an NYC-based seed stage venture capital firm that has invested in over 400 seed-stage startups, including Plaid, Ro, PillPack, Ramp, Amplitude, Airtable, Flatiron Health, Stripe, Warby Parker, Harry\u2019s, Oscar, Flexport, Classpass, Vine, GroupMe and more. David is the Chairman of GoodDog, a marketplace to find pets online. He is the co-founder of TechStars NYC and serves on the board of Friends of Hudson River Park. He is a Rock Fellow at Harvard Business School and on the Entrepreneur Board at New York University. David is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and New York University Law School. David lives in NYC with his wife Zara and three kids and three dogs.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/David-Tisch.jpg","company":"BoxGroup","featured":0,"name":"David Tisch","uuid":"2cbe1ecc7e4969719e69ddaa7a5ae4a7","cb_tag":210993558,"position":"Managing Partner","links":{"crunchbase":"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/david-tisch","twitter":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/davetisch","linkedin":"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/davetisch"}},{"bio":"

Rich Wong joined Accel as a partner in 2006. Rich led Accel's investments and currently serves on the Boards of Atlassian (TEAM), UiPath (PATH), Checkr, Instabug, Pyn, Process St, Middesk, and Qwilt. Rich also served on the National Venture Capital Association Board of Directors. Rich previously led Accel's investments in AirWatch (acquired by VMware), Angry Birds\/Rovio (ROVIO.HE), MoPub (acquired by Twitter), AdMob (acquired by Google), Dealer.com (acquired by Cox), Osmo (acquired by BYJUs), Parature (acquired by Microsoft), ServiceChannel (acquired by Fortive), Sunrun (RUN), SwiftKey (acquired by Microsoft), and 3LM (acquired by Motorola). Rich previously worked as an operator as EVP\/GM of Products for mobile pioneer, Openwave Systems and CMO of Covad Communications. Rich started his career as a brand manager at Procter & Gamble and at McKinsey.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Rich-Wong.jpg","company":"Accel","featured":0,"name":"Richard Wong","uuid":"d4e2a74553ff36e1996017270d5b7e8c","cb_tag":210518846,"position":"Partner","links":{"crunchbase":"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/richard-wong","twitter":"http:\/\/twitter.com\/rwong","linkedin":"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/richpwong"}},{"bio":"

Anatoly Yakovenko is the co-founder of Solana. He has almost two decades of experience building high-performance operating systems, including leading OS development at Qualcomm and holding engineering roles at Dropbox and Mesosphere. Yakovenko has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Anatoly-Yakovenko.jpg","company":"Solana","featured":0,"name":"Anatoly Yakovenko","uuid":"562e9d0f426c9c865c9f9f6246f05ce11650486936","cb_tag":0,"position":"Co-founder","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aeyakovenko"}},{"bio":"

Emil Yeargin is the vice president of talent at Gusto where he is working to transform the recruiting strategy and the candidate experience. Prior to joining Gusto, Emil served as the director of technical recruiting at Lyft. Before Lyft, Emil also led recruiting teams at Okta and Zenefits.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Emil-Yeargin.jpg","company":"Gusto","featured":0,"name":"Emil Yeargin","uuid":"b710946d20f4fc2b7ff3a161331dde221654634522","cb_tag":0,"position":"Vice President, Talent","links":{"crunchbase":"","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/emilyeargin"}},{"bio":"

Elizabeth Yin is a co-founder and General Partner at Hustle Fund, a pre-seed fund for software entrepreneurs.\u00a0\u00a0Previously, Elizabeth was a partner at 500 Startups where she invested in seed stage companies and ran the Mountain View accelerator.\u00a0\u00a0In a prior life, Elizabeth co-founded and ran an adtech company called LaunchBit (acq 2014).\u00a0\u00a0Elizabeth has a BSEE from Stanford and an MBA from MIT Sloan.<\/p>","cbAvatar":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/Elizabeth-Yin-1.jpg","company":"Hustle Fund","featured":0,"name":"Elizabeth Yin","uuid":"ef9589d2a67f389396277bcac70e8246","cb_tag":216533085,"position":"Co-founder & General Partner","links":{"crunchbase":"https:\/\/www.crunchbase.com\/person\/elizabeth-yin","twitter":"https:\/\/twitter.com\/dunkhippo33","linkedin":"http:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/elizabethyin"}}],"sponsorships":[{"name":"Platinum","level":"tier1","sponsors":[{"address":{"city":"","country":"","state":"","street1":"","street2":"","zip":""},"boothId":"","categories":[],"content":"Apollo GraphQL is the leader in open source and commercial GraphQL technologies. Apollo helps engineering teams build unified graphs to accelerate application development and deliver better, more cohesive experiences. Apollo's open-source GraphQL client, server, and gateway are downloaded more than 17M times per month and used in production by over 30% of the Fortune 500. Customers like Walmart, Expedia, Glassdoor, Audi, and PayPal, use the Apollo Graph Platform to unify their GraphQL efforts, collaborate on graph development, and safely iterate on their graphs. Based in San Francisco, Apollo is backed by Insight Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, and Trinity Ventures. Learn more at: https:\/\/www.apollographql.com.","email":"","id":2294189,"image":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/apollo-wordmark_base-indigo-3-1.png","link":"https:\/\/apollographql.com\/","name":"Apollo GraphQL","sanitized":"apollo-graphql"},{"address":{"city":"","country":"","state":"","street1":"","street2":"","zip":""},"boothId":"","categories":[],"content":"Connection, a Fortune 1000 Global Solutions Provider, drives customer growth by calming the confusion of IT, guiding the connection between people and technology. The Connection brand includes Connection Business Solutions, Connection Enterprise Solutions, and Connection Public Sector Solutions, which provide IT solutions and services to SMB, enterprise, and public sector markets.\r\n\r\nSince 1982, Connection\u2019s culture of simplifying technology for people has set new standards for customer service in IT, earning the industry's highest accolades. Connection holds hundreds of certifications with top vendors and offers expertise across multiple technology areas, including Data Center, Cloud Services, Workplace Transformation and Cyber Security.","email":"","id":2157479,"image":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/Connection-Corp-logo-wideR_4c-1.png","link":"https:\/\/www.connection.com\/content\/it-superhero-awards","name":"Connection","sanitized":"connection"},{"address":{"city":"","country":"","state":"","street1":"","street2":"","zip":""},"boothId":"","categories":[],"content":"Founded by legendary Silicon Valley venture capitalists, Young Sohn and Bill Tai, Extreme Tech Challenge (XTC) is the world's largest startup competition and ecosystem for founders with breakthrough tech innovations that radically improve the world, as inspired by the UN Sustainable Development Goals.\r\n\r\nThe Extreme Tech Challenge competition is supported by leading corporations, VCs, foundations, policymakers, universities and tech conferences to give exceptional startups the potential for global visibility, capital raising, networking with global leaders, and access to world-class mentorship. XTC attracts thousands of startup applications from 100+ countries across all 10 competition tech verticals.","email":"","id":1915245,"image":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/MAIN-XTCLogo_Color_SM_wht.jpg","link":"https:\/\/extremetechchallenge.org\/","name":"Extreme Tech Challenge","sanitized":"extreme-tech-challenge"},{"address":{"city":"","country":"","state":"","street1":"","street2":"","zip":""},"boothId":"","categories":[],"content":"