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

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

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

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