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Mike Palank, Founding Partner MaC Venture Capital and Marlon Nichols, CoFounding Partner MaC Venture Capital: Adapting to Current Challenges in Legislation

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Michael Palank, General Partner MaC Venture Capital Michael Palank has been General Partner at MaC Venture Capital since its inception in January 2019. At MaC, Michael focuses on seed-stage consumer and enterprise startup investing across a number of sectors. Prior, he was General Partner at M Ventures, a Los Angeles and Bay Area based early-stage … Read more

Sydney Thomas, Founding Partner Symphonic Capital and Shruti Shah Partner Symphonic Capital: Pre Seed Capital and AI

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Sydney Thomas, Founding Partner Symphonic Capital Sydney Thomas is Founding General Partner Symphonic Capital – a venture capital firm that invests in companies making life better for the 99%. The launch of her fund was recently covered by TechCrunch. She has focused on this thesis for the past decade and has created a distributed network … Read more

Jennifer Savage, Partner Illuminate Ventures and Xuhui Shao, Managing Partner Foothill Ventures: Horizontal versus Vertical AI and Defensible AI Moats in B2B

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Jennifer Savage, Partner Illuminate Ventures Jennifer Savage is a Partner at Illuminate Ventures, a B2B Seed-stage venture capital firm behind early successes like Xactly, Coupang, BrightEdge, and Contentstack. She leads new investments, advises portfolio companies on strategy and operations, and serves on the boards of Brevity, TAZI AI, Pyze, and mpathic. A seasoned B2B software … Read more

Amit Patel Managing Director Owl Ventures and Rishi Taparia Pre-Seed Investor Garuda Ventures: AI B2B and Education

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Amit Patel Managing Director Owl Ventures Amit A. Patel is a Managing Director at Owl Ventures and deeply involved with a variety of firm building and investing activities since the firm’s founding. He served on the board and led investments in many of the world’s leading edtech companies, including Codecademy (acquired by Skillsoft), RaiseMe (acquired … Read more

Duncan Davidson, Founding Partner Bullpen Capital & Danny Brown, Partner MaC Venture Capital

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Duncan Davidson Founding Partner Bullpen Capital Bullpen Capital is the pioneer of Post Seed investing. Previously, two bubble era IPOs (InterTrust and Covad) and two other startups (SkyPilot and Xumii, the first mobile cloud app). Being the pitch person on one of them at the peak of the bubble, I learned firsthand that venture capital … Read more

Dave McClure, Founding Partner Practical Venture Capital and Ben Narasin, Founding Partner Tenacity Venture Capital: Secondary Markets

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Dave McClure, Founding Partner Practical Venture Capital Dave McClure is a seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneur, investor, and engineer with 30 years of experience. He is the founder of Practical Venture Capital, a firm specializing in secondary VC markets, and 500 Startups, a global VC firm managing over $2B in assets and investing in 3,000 companies, … Read more

David Blumberg, Founding Partner Blumberg Capital and Jay Eum, Founding Partner GFT Ventures: AI & DeepSeek

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David J. Blumberg, Founder/Managing Partner Blumberg Capital David is the founder and managing partner of Blumberg Capital, an early and growth stage venture capital firm that partners with visionary entrepreneurs from Seed stage through their growth journey. The firm was among the first investors in industry leaders including Addepar, Braze, DoubleVerify, Finaro, Fundbox, HootSuite, Nutanix, … Read more

Cindy Padnos, Illuminate Ventures and Itamar Novick Recursive Ventures: B2B AI Investing

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Cindy Padnos, Founder/Managing Partner Illuminate Ventures Cindy Padnos, Founder/Managing Partner Illuminate Ventures, a Seed-stage VC platform investing in “further-along” B2B software companies throughout North America. Across her 15-year investing career, Cindy has led or co-led Seed stage investments in nearly three dozen companies, many of which have gained strategic exits – including 2 successful IPOs … Read more