Conversations not Manifestos
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 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 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 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, 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