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

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

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

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