144 Startup Battle, San Francisco, 23 мая 2019

CEO at Network VC

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

New Ventures at BBVA. An engineer by academics found his muse in building, investing, monetizing, and scaling startup ventures via first principles thinking. In pursuit of my next adventure and identifying investable ventures that will have a profound impact on financial services, mobility, and gaming.

Angel Investor. James was named a top 50 Angel Investor by Forbes. As an entrepreneur, Investor and technology thought leader James frequently speaks about exponential technologies and startup investing at elite conferences most recently Private Wealth conference by Marcus Events. He has been featured online by the Huffington post , Forbes, Entrepreneur, fuel for startups, Thrive global and Equites Magazine. His writings have been published in ICO Crowd magazine and various crypto currency and blockchain publications. He was a mentor at Stanford for CS359B decentralized applications for the blockchain inaugural class. James is a pioneer in developing one of the first private opportunity PopUp VC syndicates for investors within the family office and High net worth community.

Investor at Venture University

Venture Partner at 500 Startups running the blockchain program, mentor/advisor for Cardinal Ventures, Stanford iFarm, and Stanford's Treehacks program as well as an executive advisor for over 15 funded startups, and previously held the position of Executive in Residence at Quest Venture Partners. Previously Robert was an executive for startups having founded or worked at eight companies with four exits. Robert was CEO for the last two venture-funded start-ups, also maintain a broad domain of expertise, having held leadership positions in products, marketing, and operations. Academic credentials include a BA, BS, MS, and MBA degree from Stanford, Wesleyan, and Santa Clara.

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.

Partner at 408 Ventures, Angel Investor

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.

CEO and Managing Partner of Act 5 Ventures LLC | Member and Angel Investor at Keiretsu Forum | Managing Director at Canard Sauvage LLC | Managing Partner at Perspectrum LLC

Investor. Investment Executive. Advisory Board Member at Main Management, LLC. Advisory Board Member at Cavendish Global. Experienced executive with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services and technology industries. Skilled in Capital Raising, Business Development, Angel Investing, Asset Management, and Hedge Funds. Strong entrepreneurship professional with a B.Eng focused in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Honors Degree from University of Surrey.

LP, Blumberg Capital Fund III and Golden Seeds Silicon Valley Alum

Partner at F50 Labs | Venture Partner at F50 Ventures

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.

Partner, CFO at Hone Capital. Purvi has over 20 years of experience in CFO roles in the international investment management industry, across Silicon Valley and Asia, along with startup company experience. Through her roles as CFO at H&Q Asia Pacific (spin-out from JP Morgan Chase), Taiyo Pacific and Allegis Capital, Purvi was involved in private equity, venture capital, public equities/hedge funds, and distressed assets. As CFO of healthcare informatics start-up MedVantage, she helped lead the company through a Series A round at a valuation of $30M, and scaled it from 12 to 60 employees prior to its acquisition by IMS. Beyond core CFO expertise, Purvi has in-depth experience in capital raising and operational expansion in Asia, and has served as a strategic advisor and board member to startups in the US and Asia. Purvi started her career at Deloitte and also worked at Charles Schwab. Purvi holds a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from UC Berkeley. She passed the CPA exam in the State of California.

Responsible for founding Plug and Play's global Supply Chain & Logistics vertical. The program is based in Silicon Valley, Northwest Arkansas, Hamburg, and Shanghai and is in partnership with 50+ industry leading corporate partners like Walmart, TJX, Tyson Foods, JB Hunt, Shell, DHL, FedEx, Japan Post, Yamato, Panasonic, Union Pacific Railroad, CMA CGM, Kansas City Southern Railroad, Ryder, Ryder, Prologis, BNSF Railway, ArcelorMittal, ExxonMobil, United States Postal Service, ArcelorMittal, Geodis, and the Canadian National Railway. This program is responsible accelerating and investing in startups in the areas of analytics, AI, machine learning, augmented reality, smart warehousing, blockchain for supply chain, customer support solutions, inventory management, IoT sensors, drones, last mile delivery, disruption of the freight brokerage model, end-to-end supply chain optimization, autonomous driving, predictive analytics for demand planning, and transportation management systems. Plug and Play is was a seed investor in companies like Dropbox, Lending Club, PayPal, Rappi, and over 1000 startups across all verticals.

Managing Partner at Mighty Capital

Managing Partner at Switchboard Ventures.

Managing Partner at Bay Angels | Partner at Andra Capital. Jordan partners with startups and investors to grow, scale, fundraise and achieve their objectives through operations, fundraising, business development, product development, and team leadership. As an experienced leader and advisor, he assists or leads in business operations and development, market growth, org transformation, and customer management. As a Partner at Andra Capital, and Bay Angels’ Managing Partner, Jordan has a strong network of resources and SMEs along with a varied portfolio of startups companies. His engagements include VCs, Angels groups, Accelerators, and Corp VC in Silicon Valley, across USA, Korea, Dubai, Brazil, MENA region, and EC. With 20+ years’ hands-on and leadership experience, he is quite skilled in engineering, business, SW development, IT, Hi-Tech, customer management, AI, Big Data/Analytics, Industrial IoT, and manufacturing.

Co-Founder of Silicon Valley in Your Pocket; Founder of Global Kinetics; Founding Investor, Managing Partner and President at The Batchery.

Principal at UL Ventures

Head of Investments at HOF Capital

CEO GIMA Group, Inc. | Founder of California Blockchain Alliance

StartersHub US and Startupbootcamp Scale San Francisco Managing Director. Cigdem Toraman has significant experience in entrepreneurship, marketing, sales, technology, media, finance, retail and venture capital. She has consistently played leading roles in eight different corporate companies in her career of 30 years. Currently, Cigdem Toraman also has responsibilities as a business advisor to an executive board member of several startups (Monument, Segmentify, Cabture, Teleporter, Wisboo, Smart Mimic, Sixa, Eventbaxx, Meditopia, Thread In Motion, Poltio, Kimola). She teaches classes on marketing, e-commerce, digital and social media, business development, sales and entrepreneurship at several universities and corporate companies.

Investor at Fusion Fund

Angel Investor. Ashish has made angel investments in 40+ companies since 2014. - IntelliVision, acquired by Nortek. - Authy, acquired by Twilio. - Cirrosecure, acquired by Palo Alto Networks. - Minjar, acquired by Nutanix. - MakeLeaps, acquired by Ricoh. - Strikedeck acquired by Medallia. Ashish is part of Board of Advisors of Joveo, Replai, Wemby, Elucidate, and StyleWorks as a technical advisor. Ashish was a judge and a panelist at the pitching event at Venture Summit West 2019, Startup Battle 144, Startup Battle 152, Private Investor Summit 2019, and Pitch Global pitching events. He blogs about security, books, and programming at https://ashishb.net.

Principal at Omega Venture Partners

Venture Partner at F50

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.

Managing Partner at Simmons Goodspeed Ventures

CEO and Partner at Stealth Mode Fund. Founding Member at IdeaGist Blockchain Incubator.

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.

Founder at Pitch Global Network of Networks | Mentor at Alchemist Accelerator. Kaustav Chaudhuri (KC) is an author, speaker, advisor, and thought leader. He is the founder of Pitch Globally, with chapters in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and London. KC has a vast and profound knowledge of the ecosystem of startups. He has built a colossal network of key people that spans the entire value chain of startups in the heart of Silicon Valley. KC was part of a team of Silicon Valley experts who wrote “The First Mile” (John Wiley), a book on entrepreneurship commissioned by TIE, largest organization of entrepreneurs in the world. He is also the author of “Design Your Mindset” which is in the editing stage. Prior to the world of startups, he worked for large multinational companies like HCL Technologies, TCG Software ( outsourcing arm of PE& VC Fund affiliated to George Soros) etc. KC is also a long term Executive Committee Member of the Leukemia& Lymphoma Society. Currently he focusing on expanding Pitch Global’s training program and strengthening Pitch Global’s online presence to intensify bootcamp style training program, to streamline the seed/early stage investment process in a more organised manner.

Associate at Autotech Ventures

VP Programs and Partnerships at Draper University - Entrepreneurship Programs

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.