151 Startup Battle in San Francisco, July 25 2019

LP in Blumberg Capital Fund III and a Managing Director at Golden Seeds. Marisa is a startup investor in 25 startups including RenovoRx, Merge, Namogoo, Kreditech Holding SSL GambH, FundBox Ltd, FeeX Wisdom of the Crowds, Inc. Trulioo Information Services Ltd., WunderCar Mobility Solutions GabH, Yotpo Ltd, Seek Mobile Ltd., Sqream Technologies Ltd., Seek Mobile Ltd., Roam Analytics, SimplyCredit Inc., Arcadia Data, BioCatch, Ltd, Zibby, Inc. Acquired startups are Cyvera by Palo Alto Networks and Zooz (acquired by PayU). She has an undergraduate degree in Microbiology, a law degree (member of the California State Bar) and a broker’s real estate license (licensed by the California Department of Real Estate).

Venture Partner at Network.VC; Partner at Quantum Wave Fund.

Venture Capitalist at Venture University. Involved with four startups, co-founded three of them. Work experience at Bain & Company, W.R. Hambrecht & Company, SynerAsia Venture Capital, Hewlett-Packard, Oracle and Infosys. Harvard (MBA) and Case Western Universities (Doctoral degree). Board of Directors, Harvard Business School Newspaper Author of Prentice-Hall Software Management book, Managing Software Reuse.

Senior Associate at Orrick. Brandon Sanders is a corporate associate in Orrick’s San Francisco office. He is a member of the Technology Companies Group. Brandon represents high-growth companies and venture capital and private equity firms involved in the technology and life sciences industries. His practice focuses on general corporate counseling, venture capital and growth equity financings, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and other strategic matters.

Associate of GS Capital, a tech investment bank based in the Bay Area. The team have long track records as entrepreneurs, investors, and investment bankers and have completed over $2B in transactions across 20 countries. Transactions range from growth capital to mergers and acquisitions. Prior to San Francisco, Marin has lived in 7 countries, from London, Berlin, to Paris, Prague, and Singapore.

Venture Partner at Grishin Robotics | Managing Partner, Founder at Strive Capital. Grishin Robotics is a series A and B Sand Hill firm focused on Smart Hardware with investments in companies such as Zume Pizza, Starship, Zipline, Spin, Yellow, Ring and others. He is also the Managing Partner & Founder of Strive Capital, the San Francisco Bay area's first quant micro-VC firm, now focused on "deep" AI and Blockchain, with investments in companies like AppAnnie, KeepSafe and Gusto. He has had a 22 year career in Tech as a Product Manager, Operator, Investor and Board member in the Bay area, Europe and Asia, and was previously a Senior Expert and member of the Asia-Pacific leadership team at McKinsey & Co, based in Beijing. He is a frequent speaker at some of the world’s top Technology and Internet events.

PhD | An investor, board member, adviser at 100+ startups with combined valuations of several billion dollars. Partner at TMT Investments, 2 unicorns, 14 profitable exits, close to 30% IRR. 25 years in American high-tech. Rated a top investor in numerous investor rankings (National Association of Business Angels, etc.) CEO of Epsylon Games, the largest gaming site on Microsoft WebTV in 1990s (70+ games). Co-founder of a large photo site Fotki (25M users in early 2000s). Sold vInternship.com system to Manhattan Institute of Management). Taught at UC Berkeley, New York University, and UCSF for 11 years. Helped to develop a Stanford graduate course, "Recreating Silicon Valley". Chaired startup accelerators and incubators (Happy Farm and Startup Nationa) in Europe and Asia. Consulted many top financial institutions and venture funds. Wrote a chapter in "Masters of Corporate Venture Capital" book. Numerous interviews and articles about venture capital and startup growth in Forbes, NBC, MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal, CIO Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, Wired, LA Times, Business Insider, etc. MBA from Boston University, PhD from the Russian Academy of Sciences, MA from Central European University in Budapest.

Serial Entrepreneur, Chief Digital Officer/Co-Founder Iterate.ai. Brian Sathianathan is a technology entrepreneur and investor well known in the industry. From 2001-2008, he worked at Apple there he became one of the early key members of Apple"s Secret Products working on the iPhone. After architecting and building their internal enterprise platforms and security applications, he moved into the consumer product area and led software development teams at Apple"s Secret Product (NPI) group for a few years. His team worked on the first iPhone"s security and provisioning system that outlasted against device unlock attacks. After leaving Apple, he was the Founder & President of Avot Media which enabled streaming video into a wide variety of mobile smartphones and tablets, there he oversaw both local and international revenue growth, Avot was sold to Smith Micro in 2010. In 2011, he joined Turner Broadcasting, and helped start its Media Camp, Turner"s startup incubator that focused on investing in and developing digital-media startups. During his tenure, the group engaged in the business side resulting in seed investments into media startups. In November 2013, he cofounded Iterate.ai (https://www.iterate.ai/), an innovation lab for emerging technologies. Iterate discovers and curates emerging technologies, then implements proof-of-concept tests (a.k.a. proof-of-value tests) for a global partner base. Close partners include a few dozen large companies representing beauty, media, accessories and apparel, DIY, and fashion representing$600 billion in revenue. For large companies, Iterate reduces the time, costs and risks associated with analyzing and deploying innovative startup technologies. At the same time, startups get special visibility and credibility.

Investment Director AlmazCapital

Partner at Tackett Bartlett LLP. Berkeley City Councilmember and Fmr. Vice Mayor Ben Bartlett is a nationally recognized policy leader. Since 2016, Ben has passed more than 60 measures focused on innovation, opportunity, and inclusion, including: - Prefabricated Housing for the Homeless; - Health Innovation Zone; - Electric Vehicle Infrastructure; - Telemedical adoption; - Unionized Jobs in Robotics and Automation. Ben is currently working to integrate government and Blockchain through public finance, currencies, and personal data markets. Ben authored Berkeley’s Tokenized Debt Offering (Berkeley ICO) using blockchain technology to issue bonds. He is author of the Smart Path Blockchain investment and policy thesis. Professionally, Ben is a partner in Tackett Bartlett LLP where he provides counsel for Blockchain entrepreneurs, governments, and venture funds.

Senior Director, KPMG’s Emerging Technology Practice. Jules leads the business development efforts for KPMG’s Emerging Technology Practice in the Bay area and Pacific Northwest, focusing on creating and expanding relationships with VC-backed technology companies. He works closely with early-stage startups as well as mature private companies approaching IPO. He has spent his 20+ year professional career in financial services working for companies such as Bank of America, Robert Half and Textron Financial. Most recently, Jules was a Principal with Ravix Group, providing finance/accounting and HR solutions for early-stage companies. He earned his Bachelor’s degree in Finance from the University of Connecticut and his MBA from Middlebury College.

Managing Director at Artiman Ventures. Artiman Ventures, a Silicon Valley based VC firm focused on early-stage technology and life science investments. He represents Artiman on the Board of Directors of CardioDx, CLICK, CORE, medECUBE, Aditazz and Terapore. Additionally, he serves on the Boards of Max Healthcare and Cadila Pharmaceuticals, and as a Senior Advisor to the Tata Trusts Cancer Care program. H also serves on the Board of Trustees of American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Foundation. In the past, he has served as the global President and CEO of Siemens Oncology. Subsequently, he was the CEO of BioImagene, a cancer diagnostics startup that was acquired by Roche. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of two Oncology focused companies – CORE Diagnostics based in India, and Sofie Biosciences, based in the US. He is also an Adjunct Professor in the School of Medicine at Stanford, where he splits his responsibilities between Oncology and Entrepreneurship. Ajit has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University with focus on Artificial Intelligence, a Master’s in Computer Engineering from Syracuse University and a bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering from Banaras Hindu University. He has published two books and five patents. His annual Top-10 Book Review is carried by various blogs and reading journals in December every year.

CEO & Co-Founder at Travonde | Angel Investor and Advisor at Astia. A 15 year Apple Alumnus managing global operations/supply chain launching Apple’s iconic products & services and co-created many groundbreaking Inclusion and Diversity initiatives such as the recently announced Apple Entrepreneur Camp. She is now the Founder of Travonde, a leisure and entertainment platform for baby boomers and their families powered by AI and machine learning. She also acts as an Astia Advisor and Astia Angel investing in women-led ventures targeting above-market investment returns.

Venture partner at F50 Elevate™, an early-stage program to accelerate growth for the most promising startups in deep-tech. He is also one of the founding member at OndaVia Inc, a cleantech scale-up company helping Fortune 100 industries improve safety, increase yields and reduce cost. He has over fifteen years of R&D experience. Prior to OndaVia, he worked with Jet Propulsion Laboratories (part of NASA) on an instrument for life exploration on Mars. Dr. Benhabib holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Mechanical Eng. from University of California, Berkeley and an engineering diploma from ParisTech, France. He is an expert in micro/nanotechnologies and has contributed to over forty peer-reviewed journals, articles, books, and patents.

Managing Partner at BoomingStar Ventures (subsidiary fund of Bojiang Capital, which is an $1.5B fund. An investor of CloudMinds), Founder at AI recruiting firm TalentSeer.\r\n\r\nAlex is unique in the startup world. He’s an entrepreneur and a proactive investor in the AI space. In 2015, an interest in data science led him to start an AI-powered talent search firm, TalentSeer, which now represents one of the pioneering AI recruiting firms in the Bay Area. It helps more than 100 companies a year to build scientist teams in both AI enterprises and AI startups, Alex later joined a venture capital fund called BoomingStar Ventures (US fund of Bojiang Capital, a $1.5B fund focusing on AI, Robotics and Enterprise software) in 2016.\r\n\r\nPrior to his current role, Alex worked at Agilent Technologies and he has over 15 years of experience in marketing across Artificial Intelligence, enterprise software, telecommunication, and semiconductor sectors. In Alex’s words, talent is the biggest driver of success, so TalentSeer and BoomingStar aim to capture both the best talent and investment opportunities to boost the market share.

Principal at HACK Fund. Civil engineer and Commercial Diver from Venezuela. Relationship in business development in Latam for H/F. Developed my own 100k fund, Capital Kreation, in 2017. Focus in growing Startups Ecosystems in LATAM.

Partner at Andra Global. Roman has worked in technology capital markets for 20 years having started his career in technology M&A at Lehman Brothers, subsequently working at Banc of America Securities and Morgan Stanley before transitioning to venture capital. Roman was a Partner at Kernel Capital, a Silicon Valley venture fund focused on B2B enterprise software companies where he was responsible for leading 22 investments and scaling several of his portfolio companies from Seed through C rounds. Today Roman is a Partner at Andra Global, an SF based technology growth fund.

Investment Lead at Bay Angels

Program Manager at Microsoft, Digital Crimes Unit | Business Analytics | Data Science | Top Entrepreneur of the 2013 year (Global Entrepreneurship Week). FasterCapital VC and the Finalist of Seven different startup competitions. Full Presidential Scholarship (200 000 dollars). 15 Software Copyrights. Author of the book "Digital Transformation of Healthcare" (ISBN 978-613-9-46381-7) I am a leader with a passion for business, data, management, strategy, technology, and innovations. I love innovations, new products, technologies, statistics and specialist in Project and Product Management, Business Analytics, Data Mining, Text Mining, Digital Marketing, Predictive & Prescriptive Analytics, Regression Analysis, Social Media Analytics, Quantitative Analytics, Sentiment Analysis, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Modeling and various Machine Learning algorithms. Combining business and technical skills, allows me to solve business and technical tasks with ease. Serik is an official representative of the Startup Incubator FasterCapital out of Dubai in the United States. Faster Capital is looking for startups for the incubation. Additional information please see below. https://fastercapital.com/ Here is the short information about the services of the FasterCapital: Basically what we offer is to help through our incubation program. In our incubation program, we help startups by becoming the technical co-founder and developing the whole product from A to Z. We develop the product through our internal development team. We also invest 50% of the money needed for these startups. We have started this model at 2010 and back in 2015 the model was clear and we had 15 companies in our incubation program. Now we have more than 20 startups that have graduated from the incubation program and we have around 30 in our incubation program. The incubation program is ideal to the startup that are seeking a tech cofounder and funding. Once a startup is accepted, then we supply them with a letter of commitment whereby we guarantee that we will be investing 50% of the money needed and they can use this letter to raise the other 50%.

Vice-President of Business Development at TalentSeer - a specialized AI Talent Partner dedicated to building and nurturing AI teams for companies at various growth stages. In her role, Laffan is leading the development of new partnerships to accelerate the expansion of TalentSeer’s AI talent ecosystem. Additionally, Margaret is a Venture Partner with BoomingStart Ventures, a $1.5b fund focused on AI, Robotics and Autonomous Driving early-stage startup companies. Over the course of her expansive career, she has spent 9+ years at Software giant SAP culminating in her role driving Sales and Business Development for SAP\'s AI solutions. More recently Laffan was Client Executive at AllyO, an end-to-end AI recruiter with automated and conversational engagement platform. She holds a Master’s Degree in Political Science from the University of Dublin, and has 15+ years working in Industry, non-profit and start-up sector. Laffan is published on Forbes and contributes to other media.

Silicon Valley Venture Capital Investor, 6X Tech Entrepreneur, Serial Business Builder, Tech Visionary, Inventor, Public Speaker, Author for 19 plus years. Vince is High Impact Super Angel Investor based in Silicon Valley, Global Venture Mentor Maker, Enterprise Blockchain Product Design Development Expert, Enterprise Software Cloud Innovator, Social Enterprise Innovation for Purposeful Community, Tech Startup Hyperscale Advisor, Corporate Startup Scaleup Venture Mentor, Capital Markets, Investor Relations with Multibillions Dollar Funds, High Frequency Trader at Wall Street, Product Strategist, Visionary Design Thinker, Expertise in Innovative Scalable Business Models, Open Systems, Scaling Technology for Social Innovation, Non-profits focused on Social Good, Data Storytelling, and Pilanthropreneurologist. Vince is High Impact Venture Mentor Maker in Silicon Valley for Global StartUps and ScaleUps Ecosystem, SAP recognized and awarded SAP Mentor Award, and Vince Pioneered the first ever Corporate Mentorship Award a Highly Prestigious recognition by Enterprise Software Company, SAP, based in Palo Alto in the Heart of Silicon Valley. Vince is Silicon Valley Inventor of 'Problem Thinking' with proven understanding of Failing Fast vs. Exponential Failure working with Silicon Valley Accelerators, Incubators, Venture Builders, Venture Studios, Enterprise Companies, Corporate Innovation to Empower Corporate Entrepreneurs, and Global Corporate Venture Capital firms. After Extensive Experience working with Early Stage Founders, and Contributing his Time with Deep Silicon Valley Mentorship, Vince has achieved this Revolutionary Rapid Prototyping Investor Pitching Method termed as "Seven Second StartUp and ScaleUp Value Pitch". This New Inventive Transformative Capability is a very promising opportunity to conduct that mission in an affordable, and very scalable manner which courageously contributes to inclusivity for every Builder, Entrepreneur, Creators, Engineer’s, Business Owner, Early Stage Founder and Founders who have previously raised capital, in an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem. Specific to Very Early Stage Tech and Non Tech StartUp Founders Vince has invented 7 Second High Valuable Pitch, a Driving Power for Budding Very Early Stage Founders to Pitch with Investors, with an intelligent framework how Q of Q (Quality of Question) leads to P of P (Prototype to Product) to have a super powerful impatful question of why the StartUp would accelerate and succeed in a very long run and get the valuable return to the Investment. Vince is author of new book - Trillion Dollar Question. In 2016, Vince invented concept of Decentralized Thinking focused on the Blockchain Intelligence and helping venture backed Enterprise Blockchain companies in various verticals like MedTech, AgTech, FinTech, EnergyTech, EdTech, Patent Tech, and SpaceTech. Vince's all round international technology business experience as an execution architect with Accenture, SAP Expert Mentor, three times silicon valley tech founder, serial entrepreneur, social entrepreneurship coach, super angel investor, product designer and corporate strategist makes him a sought after startup business design advisor / mentor at YC (ycombinator.com), Google, Stanford University, Singularity, Launch, IBM, StartX, AngelHack, Google4StartUps, 500 StartUps, Innovation Catalyst at UCSF for digital health + hardware and software design for medical devices, corporate startup innovation at Honda Innovation, Samsung Tech Impact, Corporate Ventures with HP Ventures, and Samsung NEXT Ventures, Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Venture Lab - IE Business School, Plug and Play, Silicon Valley. Vince is StartUp Judge at NASA, Google, IBM, Stanford, StartX, Draper University, Founder Institute, Founders Space, California State University, UC Berkeley, and MIT. Vince has BS Information Science with CS major, and MBA from Top Business School in the US, with Investments and Securities at Harvard University. Vince Kohli is life “changing” coach on Big Mission to Impact Billion Entrepreneurs with Global Professional Business Venture Mentorship Maker, and has contributed Mentorship to the community of 5,663 (five thousand six hundred and sixty third team) Silicon Valley Mentoring Mentee Founder’s team at Stanford as on April 2020, and contributed Mentorship to the community totaling to 5,666 (five thousand six hundred and sixty six team) Silicon Valley Mentee Founder’s Team as of April 21, 2020. Vince’s Inspiring Initiative of Massive and Unstoppable Business Creation Platform termed as "Impact Billion Lives" is Silicon Valley High Impact Human Initiative with a Vision of World Impact and Intellectual Curiosity. Impact Billion Lives is a Silicon Valley High Impact Invite-only Mentorship Initiative with an Exponential Vision of World Entrepreneurial Exponential Impact to ScaleUp Entrepreneurial Thinking, Business Entrepreneurship, Corporate Entrepreneurial Thinking, Value Innovation, Impactful Invention, Accelerate Global Expansion for Startup Founders to promote an inclusive future, innovate for human needs, with deep understanding of the emerging dynamics in global markets, to serve ambitious community be able to thrive, and creating an empathetic blueprint for the future of sustainable business growth, with caring culture, to be built on core purpose.